Project-Management.pm

JULY 4, 2017

Organizations believe a focus group on their PMO that is used to boost its effectiveness and also to trigger more projects. But sometimes a focus group has a negative impact on PMO for many reasons such as time issues, budget, and it can cause office politics to rear its ugly head. Before anything else, you need to understand that focus groups are entirely different from brainstorming—the two are only similar in terms of its participants that are usually grouped together.

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Ganttic

JULY 4, 2017

Harley Levine has defined project portfolio management (PPM) as the management of the project portfolio so as to maximize the contribution of projects to the overall welfare and success of the enterprise. Although some say that PPM doesn’t actually involve running the projects but only choosing the projects, it still seems that many managers have to plan resources for that are selected for completely wrong reasons.

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Celoxis

JULY 4, 2017

Handling workload is both an art and science. A good project manager understands this well. Assigning too many tasks would overwhelm and overwork team members while assigning too little is a waste of time and resources. Ensuring a good balance is key to good team member morale and project success.

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ActiveCollab

JULY 4, 2017

Increasing productivity seems straightforward: encourage communication, define team roles, determine adequate processes, delegate tasks accordingly, and motivate your employees through financial incentives and training. Easy, right? Except, that doesn’t really work in real life. It turns out, everyone is already aware WHAT should be done. The question is: HOW?

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GanttPRO Project Management

JULY 4, 2017

GanttPRO was just granted not one, but two industry accolades, thanks to one of the leading B2B software review platforms. FinancesOnline recognized our project management software with the 2017 Great […].

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TimeCamp

JULY 4, 2017

As promised yesterday, we are going to share some interesting tips and tricks that will help you keep your working place in order and, in the result, boost your productivity. Let us begin with the most obvious and simplest ones, and get to those more specific later on. First of all, you have to be aware of your habits. Our previous post can be of some help here, read it and try to establish your personality and approach towards the state in which you keep your office.

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GanttPRO Project Management

JULY 4, 2017

GanttPRO was just granted not one, but two industry accolades, thanks to one of the leading B2B software review platforms.

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Herding Cats

JULY 4, 2017

For those who have served, the term freedom and patriotism has special meaning, well beyond Flags, Marching Bands, and public speeches. Willingness to puts one's safety, and at times one's life, at risk for comrades and colleagues is the basis of patriotism not always shared by the speach makers.

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Brightwork

JULY 4, 2017

One of the most difficult parts of the job for a new project manager is managing the relationships and expectations with senior executives and project sponsors. For a variety of reasons, project updates are often inaccurate and not provided to them in a timely manner. As a result, sponsors and senior executives don’t participate in the project to the fullest extent possible.

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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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ActiveCollab

JULY 4, 2017

Extreme project management is the art and science of facilitating and managing the flow of thoughts, emotions, and interactions in a way that produces valued outcomes under turbulent and complex conditions: those that feature high speed, high change, high uncertainty, and high stress. - Doug DeCarlo, author of eXtreme Project Management. From development of new technologies and shift in customer needs, to economic conditions or some new groundbreaking ideas, a number of project requirements can

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