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How Risk Management is Crucial to Project Management

Planview

The following content is based on the whitepaper, “Bigger Than a Breadbox: 10 Tips for Better Project Estimates, Part 2,” written by Jerry Manas. For your reading convenience, we’ve decided to give it everlasting life here on the blog. It is impossible to talk about project management without talking about risk. After all, projects are, by design, meant to undertake an endeavor that has a certain degree of variability and uncertainty.

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Mentoring My Younger Self (with a Little Help from Back to the Future)

LiquidPlanner

If you knew then what you know now, I’m sure you’d make all the right decisions. If I had a time-traveling DeLorean, I could advise my younger self and avoid all those project management mishaps. Assuming Marty McFly pulled up in my driveway with a fully charged flux capacitor, here are a few key lessons I wish my younger self would’ve known before starting my project management career.

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How Philomena Aced Her PMP Exam

ExamsPM

I passed my PMP exam on 1/12/19 through God’s divine intervention and a lot of hard work but I’m sure your students are only interested in the ‘hard work’ part of it so here goes… My journey began on Jan 15th, 2018 and ended on Jan 12th, 2019. (I do NOT recommend this time-frame for anyone) but mine took longer because I slacked during the year and life got in the way.

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Top Project Management Conferences of 2019

ProjectManager.com

New year, new opportunities to advance your project management career. There’s always room to better oneself, make connections and get a picture of the industry: all good reasons to take time to visit one of the many project management conferences held in 2019. Whether you’re looking to enhance your education, keep your certification updated, learn new methodologies, play with new project management tools or socialize with your peers, project management conferences offer a wide variety of experi

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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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Agile Estimation A SoundNotes Tutorial

Leading Agile

Estimating work in Agile is something many people struggle to understand. It’s not that it’s an especially complicated thing, but there is often confusion about things like why many people prefer to use story points instead of hours, why some people feel compelled to try and convert story points to hours (and why some of us find that so frightening), how t-shirt sizing works, and the eternal question of how do I get my teams to estimate accurately.

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Managing Big Data Projects in an Agile Way

Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

Like Agile wasn’t big enough as a buzz word, let’s mix it with big data. Joke aside, doing Agile when engaged in big data projects is almost a must. Of course, other options are also available but Agile practices and techniques are much more suitable for these sorts of projects. We’re going to focus here on two sides of the story: why doing Agile is the right thing and what are the challenges in doing Agile in Big Data projects.

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Romain Tower partners with Sitetracker to scale their quickly growing business

Sitetracker

Originally posted via PR Newswire. Sitetracker, the project and asset management standard for innovative infrastructure owners and operators like Verizon, Nokia, Alphabet, and Panasonic, is proud to announce their partnership with Romain Tower to help the company scale their business as demand from their large carrier customers grows. Romain Tower will be using the Sitetracker Platform to more efficiently manage tower projects, enabling the 5G revolution.

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How Tobi Passed His PMP in 2 Months

ExamsPM

My PMP Journey. My PMP journey started last year Jan 2018. I had assumed that I could read up the materials I had acquired quickly just like I had read for my CAPM some years ago. I also wanted to take the exam before the exam update. I used a well-known guide to study, concluded my reading, took the exam and failed woefully. I was very devastated by this and scheduled a re-seat for January 2019.

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Customer Satisfaction is a Myth!

The IIL Blog

By J. LeRoy Ward, PMP, PgMP, PfMP, CSM, CSPO | Executive Vice President – Enterprise Solutions, IIL. The other day I was scrolling through my LinkedIn feed and saw that someone had posted a picture of one of those business/inspirational quotes, attributed to no one in particular, in an attempt to gain a lot of likes or some agreeable comments. It read: “A SATISFIED CUSTOMER IS THE BEST BUSINESS STRATEGY OF ALL”.

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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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Create and edit bookings in the Schedule beta

Resource Guru

The new Schedule is really starting to take shape. There’s very little that can’t now be achieved in the blisteringly fast Schedule beta compared to the old Schedule. Create, edit, delete – it’s all in there now. Why not take it for a spin and see for yourself! In terms of functionality, not much is different to the old Schedule. However, when it comes to user experience, it’s a different beast.

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TimeCamp Is Changing for You – Export Your Reports to Google Spreadsheet

TimeCamp

Export Reports to Google Spreadsheet At TimeCamp, we never stop working. No matter what.

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How Product Owners prevent value delivery

Scrum.org

Why would Product Owners prevent value delivery, you ask? They shouldn’t, and don’t want to, but yet I see them do it every day. And usually, it’s without them even knowing they’re doing it. Here’s four observations of how Product Owners prevent value delivery, and suggestions to improve. 1. The Sprint Backlog is the Development Team’s plan. One of the biggest mistake you could make as a Product Owner is to focus too much on what’s on the Sprint Backlog.