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What Is Continuous Improvement and How Can It Help Your Team?

Teamweek

There was a point in my career as a project manager when I was ready to give up. I had a reputation for being a “stand by your project” type girl. It didn’t matter how ambitious the deliverable or deadline was: I found a way to make it work, even if I stayed later than the janitor and made teams cringe when they were assigned to me. The problem was that this approach to project management was as inefficient as it was successful.

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5 tips for resource forecasting in project management

Resource Guru

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Lessons Learned in Project Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In my experience, most project managers feel that they could ‘do’ lessons learned better. We all know that capturing lessons learned is an essential part of making sure that future projects go well, but capturing and sharing them seems to be something that we don’t feel we do particularly effectively. And it isn’t surprising – managing lessons learned is hard to do well on a project.

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Five Things to Start and Five Things to Stop in Requirements Management

Project Risk Coach

According to PMI, "47% of unsuccessful projects fail to meet goals due to poor requirements management." Wow! Requirements are a pretty big deal. Let's look at five things to start and five things to stop in requirements management. 5 Things to Start Identify and engage appropriate stakeholders. Project managers who work in a matrix environment should seek resource approval from stakeholder's managers early in the project.

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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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How To Calculate The Cost of Project Management In Your Project Estimate?

The Digital Project Manager

The post How To Calculate The Cost of Project Management In Your Project Estimate? appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Pollution – Why we replaced horses with automobiles

Green Project Management

Henry Ford never said people wanted faster horses, “what they wanted was less horseshit” (Flowers, 2014). It was a little more complicated than that, but you get the general point. The lesson of this post is that too much of anything can be bad, and we need to look at the whole asset life-cycle system […]. The post Pollution – Why we replaced horses with automobiles appeared first on Delivering a better world, one project at a time.

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The Best Real-Time Location Tracking Apps

TimeCamp

Real-time location tracking apps are on the rise. Many employee monitoring tools already have.

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Motherhood and Leadership

Scrum.org

My mother was the first person who showed me unconditional love. My mother gave me direction and supported me along whatever journey or passion I was chasing. She picked me up when I fell. Celebrated with me in all my accomplishments. She put me in my place when I got cocky. She gave me room to make my own decisions. My mom did all the unpleasant things and made the sacrifices necessary for me to have the best life possible.

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9 Ways To Increase Blog Traffic By Updating Your Content

Boost by Brightpod

Believe it or not, your old posts can be the answer to your blog's traffic. If you know how to bring them back to life, you’ll be expecting a significant boost in your blog’s number of daily visitors real soon.

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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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Beware the thieves of clarity

Lynne Cazaly

Are you tuned in to what steals clarity in your team, unit or organisation? Is it meetings? Lengthy reports? Status updates? Decks and presentations with complicated models, too much text, too many chevrons, arrows and ‘pillars’ or icebergs? ??. The race is on for meaning and understanding. The sooner we understand, the sooner we can make decisions, get into action and get feedback and insights on that action.

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PM Experts on Why Projects Fail – Epicflow Research Part 1

Epicflow Blog

Why do so many projects still fail? Epicflow has investigated common reasons for project failure. Discussions in LinkedIn PM communities helped us accumulate over 200 ideas, and we believe these insights might help you make your projects more successful. In this article, we share some of the main reasons for failure according to project leaders at IBM, Microsoft, GE Oil & Gas, Bühler Group, ExxonMobil, PMI, and other organizations.