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How to Ask for a Raise (and Get One)

ProjectManager.com

With an ever expanding global workforce and a recent emphasis on bigger checks for upper management, raises for reliable employees can be hard to come by, but that doesn’t mean people aren’t getting them. They’re just not handed out as freely. But the cost of living continues to rise, and if your salary isn’t following in kind, then you’re losing money.

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Project Risk Management: 10 Surprisingly Brilliant Tactics to Reduce Risk

Workamajig

Every project has some risk of failure. Identifying and planning ahead to avoid these points of failure is one of your top responsibilities. This guide on project risk management will help you understand and manage risks better. If there is one thing you can be certain about in project management, it's this: Every project carries some risk. A critical resource might drop out.

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3 Steps to Bringing Order and Teamwork to Your Next Project

LiquidPlanner

Any project manager worth their salary will tell you that order and teamwork doesn’t just happen on a project. To get either one requires hard work. That works starts in the initiation stage and continues all the way through close out. It is never a once-and-done action. Instead, it’s an evolutionary activity requiring the project manager to read the internal and external environment and apply their emotional intelligence skills.

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Work and Resource Management: Benefits to Bypass the Competition

Planview

Thus far in this blog series based on the Ventana Research whitepaper, “ Five Ways to Increase Efficiency and Innovate Faster ,” we have defined work and resource management (WRM), reviewed how your organization can overcome possible hurdles, identified how to assess your current capabilities, and looked into some specific advantages of WRM applications.

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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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Project Portfolio Management: Simplify the Selection Process

Velociteach

Many organizations struggle with project portfolio management (PPM). On the face of it, portfolio management should be easy. We want to align our fiunding decisions to the organization’s strategic objectives. Since budgets are limited, this becomes a constrained optimization problem, which most easily performed in the classroom. Investment portfolio management is often used as an […] The post Project Portfolio Management: Simplify the Selection Process appeared first on PMP Certificatio

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Avengers, ACemble!

ActiveCollab

“You know what we need?” Tony turned to face them, his synthesized voice broadcast loud for the entire team to hear. Even through all the audio filters and layers of paper-thin circuitry, Steve could discern the lack of usual playboy swagger. “ We need a system. ” Tony concluded before anyone else could speak up. “Tony, sweetie, you are our system.” Natasha chimed in.

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The Alpha Project: The First Step in Priority Matrix

Appfluence

Where to Start? Priority Matrix gives you the power to create hundreds of different projects using different configurations. This ensures that your workflow will never outgrow the platform no matter how complicated it becomes. Still, because of this the first step can also be daunting. When starting out, you don’t need dozens of separate projects; just one perfect one, the ‘alpha project.’ So, where should you start?

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5 Best Capacity Planning Reports of the Future

The Digital Project Manager

As a project manager, you’re sure to have had more than your fair share of. The post 5 Best Capacity Planning Reports of the Future appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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6 Personas of a Successful Creative Agency: Owners

Function Point

Here at Function Point, we are constantly working with creative firms, advertising agencies and digital agencies to better define internal processes and workflow using our software. In doing this, we have come up with 6 personas that interact within the typical creative agency. Helping these people work more efficiently and effectively together will help the agency become more profitable.

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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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Build a CI/CD Pipeline in the Cloud: Part Three

Leading Agile

This is Part 3 of a four-part series of posts that walks you through setting up a working continuous delivery pipeline in the cloud. In Part 1 we set the stage for our project and you received a homework assignment to sign up for several online services. In Part 2 we configured our version control, dependency management, and run management facilities and started to get familiar with our development environment.

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12 Inspiring Project Management Quotes

TimeCamp

In work of a Project Manager, there are many difficulties. No wonder it’s not a.

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How to Make a Timeline for Your Next Product Launch

Teamweek

Congratulations! You just scored another project. You’ve worked hard as a project manager and it’s really paying off. Now you just have to iron out a few details in order to make this thing really work. Your first step? You need to figure out how to make a timeline that works for your team, while staying on budget and on deadline. Preplanning is the life vest in this pool of project management.

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INVEST, Scrum and Enterprise IT

Herding Cats

The term INVEST is an acronym for good User Stories. I ndependent (of all others). N egotiable (not a specific contract for features). V aluable (to the business or the project). E stimable (to a good approximation). S mall (so as to fit within an iteration). T estable (in principle, even if there isn't a test for it yet). While this is one of those platitudes, it's also good practice, and in principle a good idea.

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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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INVEST, Scrum and Enterprise IT

Herding Cats

The term INVEST is an acronym for good User Stories. I ndependent (of all others). N egotiable (not a specific contract for features). V aluable (to the business or the project). E stimable (to a good approximation). S mall (so as to fit within an iteration). T estable (in principle, even if there isn't a test for it yet). While this is one of those platitudes, it's also good practice, and in principle a good idea.