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The 5-Step Expert Guide To Choosing Project Management Software

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Since my book Collaboration Tools for Project Managers came out, one of the things I’m asked frequently is ‘how do I choose the right collaboration tool for my team?’. I’m delighted to be partnering with Genius Project today to bring you The 5 Step Expert Guide To Choosing Project Management Collaboration Tools. It’s everything you ever wanted to know about how to pick a project management tool for your team!

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Marketing Implementation 101: How to Implement Your Marketing Plan

ProjectManager.com

You’ve made the product or developed a great service, now you need to create a marketing plan. Your marketing plan defines the strategies that your organization will use to reach target customers, outperform competitors and position your brand. There are many ways to approach marketing your product or service, but they all share one thing in common— they need an implementation plan.

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Should I take CAPM or PRINCE2?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Recently I was contacted by someone who wanted advice about which project management certification scheme to pursue. She asked whether she should take the Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM®) or the PRINCE2 Foundation. Is it possible to take CAPM and then PRINCE2 Practitioner or are the standards different, she asked? And are the Project Management Professional (PMP® ) and PRINCE2 seen as equivalent by employers in the UK?

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Your Daily Scrum: How Do You Increase the Velocity of a Scrum Team?

Scrum.org

On a recent episode of Your Daily Scrum , Professional Scrum Trainers Todd Miller and Ryan Ripley address a very popular question in Scrum circles: How Do You Increase the Velocity of a Scrum Team? During their discussion, Ryan and Todd discuss the tendency for organizations and teams to fail to adapt. Check out the video, leave a comment and let them know what you think.

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Understand Digital Debt, Form a Team, Set Goals, and Plan Roadmap for Transformation

Understanding digital debt is crucial before digital transformation. Assemble a team to assess internal operations, market pressures, and digital debt's impact. Define future digital vision with measurable goals. Refine hypotheses and conduct market analysis. Develop a roadmap for transformation with defined projects, cost estimates, and governance.

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Management Basics: The 5 Principles of the Kaizen Philosophy

Inloox

Kaizen is a life and work philosophy that originated in Japanese manufacturing technology, particularly in the post-war automotive industry. Today, this way of thinking is also considered an important pillar of long-term competitive strategies in the Western business world. In English, the concept has been adopted under the term Continuous Improvement Process (CIP) and is an essential component of innovation and quality management.

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What Is Cronograma and Why Is It Important for your Project(s)?

nTask

A project has multiple moving parts and individuals. It is a complex process to complete and deliver what can be seen as a successful project. Therefore, many elements can help you and your team reach this outcome. One such thing is the project cronograma. The project cronograma helps organize the events of the project in light of the project completion date.

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10 Best Online Project Management Software for Startups [Including Free]

GanttPRO Project Management

If you are a part of a startup or a small business, every minute and dollar is precious for you. Therefore you need intuitive, cost-effective, and secure project management software […]. The post 10 Best Online Project Management Software for Startups [Including Free] first appeared on GanttPRO.

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Event Project Management – Your Ultimate Guide to Organizing Successful Events In 2021

nTask

Event planning is an exhausting process, you have to pay attention to the tiniest details to make sure everything goes according to the plan on the D-day. Even with acute planning and careful deliberation every step of the way, you cannot overrule the possibility of a setback so you have to be ever ready to tackle such a situation. Event management and project management are quite similar when it comes to the fundamentals.

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Roles Clarity in the Product Management

Agilemania

Straightforwardly if I have to explain the Product Management, then I would say, “The activities performed throughout the Product Lifecycle is the Product Management.” and the Product Manager is accountable for those activities.Let’s dive into understanding a few roles that have created a few confusions in Agile Product Management.

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Strategic Project Finance Essentials: A Project Manager’s Guide to Financial Metrics

Speaker: Ketan Jahagirdar - Sopheon’s Director of Product Management

Empower yourself as a project manager with insights that directly influence the financial landscape and strategic direction of your organization! Join us for a deep dive into the world of financial strategy, as we dissect key metrics that drive CFOs and business leaders’ investment decisions. This session will equip you with the necessary tools to craft compelling business cases as well as a comprehensive understanding of the crucial distinction between capital expenditure and operational expend

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The Consolidation Endgame Curve of Industry Development

The Strategic Project Manager

Nature, industries, and companies go through stages of evolution. Many of these stages are captured in life cycles , natural processes in business development , or the increasingly agile stages of development. This post examines an interesting framework for stages of industry development, and it was built upon a mountain of empirical data. Consolidation Endgame Curve Basics.

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10 Best Online Project Management Software for Startups [Including Free]

GanttPRO Project Management

If you are a part of a startup or a small business, every minute and dollar is precious for you. Therefore you need intuitive, cost-effective, and secure project management software […]. The post 10 Best Online Project Management Software for Startups [Including Free] first appeared on GanttPRO.

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Struggling, juggling, drowning

Lynne Cazaly

The struggling, juggling and drowning experiences of overwhelm can become a frequent or familiar part of our life. Yes, the world can be an overwhelming place. - We might have an EMOTIONAL experience of being overwhelmed; - We can experience the ‘too much on’ of WORKLOAD that’s overwhelming, too much to do and not enough time in which to do it; or - We might feel like we’re submerged under an endless pile of INFORMATION, reports, books and reading.

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Episode 21 PART ONE: A CONVERSATION WITH RICHARD E. BOYATZIS

Clint Padgett – Project Success

Episode 21 PART ONE: A CONVERSATION WITH RICHARD E. BOYATZIS. The post Episode 21 PART ONE: A CONVERSATION WITH RICHARD E. BOYATZIS appeared first on Project Success.

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Acclaim Projects Helps Deliver Innovation Projects on Time and on Budget

This large intercity transportation company for people and freight employs 100+ IT employees and contractors across North America and Europe and spends $10MM annually for approximately 50 inflight projects. The company needed the right financial tools to budget for innovation initiatives and real-time information on spending and forecasting. This transportation company turned to Acclaim Projects by Sopheon to help deliver projects on time and within budget.

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The liminal pickle of the middle

Lynne Cazaly

There are plenty of challenges in this hybrid world of work for middle managers. Often lumbered with things from above and below, middle managers deserve and need ongoing invested support and development for what I’d call the ‘liminal pickle’ they can find themselves in. Liminal because it is between two worlds, potentially in the transition from one to another.

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Remote Leadership at Tumblr, with Lance Willett

PM for the Masses

Lance Willett, Chief Product & Technology Officer at social media platform Tumblr shares his leadership philosophy, his views on project and product management, and distributed work at Tumblr. Lance Willett, Chief Product & Technology Officer at social media platform Tumblr shares his leadership philosophy, his views on project and product management, and distributed work at Tumblr.

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Too much to deal with

Lynne Cazaly

I’ve been reading, researching and thinking a lot about overwhelm. Overwhelm means to bury or drown beneath a huge mass of something. And frequently. it’s our work and responsibilities! When you see the usage of a word over time, it’s interesting to note when it started, peaked and what it is doing today. Overwhelm as a word was at its peak in the 1800s.

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A Guide to Scoro for Marketing Agencies: C-Suite Edition

Scoro

Most senior managers are not project managers, which means there’s often a disconnect between how operations and projects are run. Despite this, the management style of your C-suite executives will still have a major impact on the performance of a project. Some senior executives want to know every detail of their projects – the dreaded and debilitating micromanagement that can be incredibly frustrating for project managers.

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.

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The One Secret Your Project Teams Need to Succeed

Proggio

The one secret your project teams need to succeed is project team alignment. Project team alignment is when everyone on your team is focused on the same objectives that ultimately serve the greater good of the company’s strategy and goals. When you have project team alignment, you gain exceptional communication and engagement, and an improved performance to deliver.