Thu.Oct 04, 2018

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25 of the Best Planning Quotes

ProjectManager.com

It seems that people have been writing about planning for as long as people have been writing. No surprise there. No enterprise, whether it’s assembling the space shuttle or getting dinner on the table, is done well without a plan. Every project manager, team leader or successful person for that matter, knows the importance of planning. Just try executing a project without it.

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Introducing Project Management Rebels (Mentoring Done Differently)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Have you ever thought about where your career is going as a project manager, or why some people seem to be on the fast-track while others struggle to advance their careers? Getting on in project management can feel difficult, especially when you realise that the training course you did hasn’t given the answers for managing a project successfully in real life.

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Trouble in Scrum City

Leading Agile

Disclaimer: This is not a critique of Scrum. Instead of designing a thing, we need to design a way of doing, and this way of doing must make some choices now but leave other choices to a later time. – Guy Steele, 1998 ACM OOPSLA keynote, “Growing a Language” (video). If you’ve attended many Agile conferences and/or user group meetings, then you’ve probably played or heard of a game designed to teach the elements of Scrum by having participants iteratively design and

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How to Create a Project Outline Using Free Software

Teamweek

One of the most important jobs of a project manager is creating a great project outline. If you jump into a project with a killer project outline, then you can breathe a little easier knowing that you’ve done everything you can to prepare your team before hand. A good project outline is vital to the overall success of your project. Luckily, you can use the free software at Teamweek to help you create your project outline.

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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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SoundNotes Live: Agile Q&Awith Mike Cottmeyer vol. 1

Leading Agile

Back in September, Mike and Dave got together for our first ever live Q&A. The conversation was streamed on Facebook, so they were able to answer some viewer questions, as well as questions Dave had been collecting, beforehand, in his CSM and CSPO classes. We’re planning on making the live Q&A a recurring event, so make sure you’re on the lookout for the next one.

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Quote of the Day

Herding Cats

I am not much given to regret, so I puzzled over this one a while. Should have taken much more statistics in college, I think - Max Levchin, Paypal Co-Founder. Probability and statistics is the basis of all decision making in the presence of uncertainty. Since all project work operates in the presence of uncertainty, we need to apply probability and statistics to those decisions.

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GanttPRO Named FrontRunner for Project Management Software by Software Advice

GanttPRO Project Management

In September 2018 report by Software Advice, GanttPRO was named a FrontRunner for Project Management Software category. FrontRunners is designed to help small businesses to identify the top software in […].

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7 Essential Time Management Strategies

LiquidPlanner

Get the right things done in less time. To get ahead in your career, deliver your projects successfully and to get a promotion or a pay rise, you must learn to consistently focus on the activities that add the most benefit to your projects and your clients. The better you are at maintaining focus and managing your time , the more you will achieve, and the easier it will be for you to leave the office on time.

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Improved Attachment Navigation

ActiveCollab

An intuitive, user-friendly interface is one of the cornerstones of every good app. It is a direct link between the design intent of its creator(s) and the users themselves, and, as such, it has to be clear and understandable. Many of our users have to deal with a large number of attachments in ActiveCollab on a daily basis. In order to do that, they previously had to click on the first attached file, close it, open the other one, close it again, and so on.

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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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Scrum vs Kanban vs Agile vs Waterfall – A side-by-side comparison

nTask

Multiple efficient project management frameworks and methodologies have been introduced over the years to ensure effective team management and collaboration in a workplace. Beginning from the Waterfall model, today multiple approaches are used by software development teams all over the world for more streamlined work with more control of the project flow and deliverables.

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GanttPRO Named FrontRunner for Project Management Software by Software Advice

GanttPRO Project Management

In September 2018 report by Software Advice, GanttPRO was named a FrontRunner for Project Management Software category.

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Project Management Software to Boost Your PMO into Hyper-Speed [Webinar]

Planview

In the first workshop of this series, we covered how your organization’s current annual planning and demand management processes can act as starting points in your journey toward continuous planning. Part two allowed us to analyze how you can best fuel your decisions with data. Now, let’s explore how the right project management software can advance your organization and connect teams, regardless of where and how they work.

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