Project Risk Coach
MAY 22, 2017
As a project manager, you will sometimes be asked to make presentations to a board, to a senior leader team, an external vendor, or to your organization. Here are opportunities to help your stakeholders understand your projects. With every presentation, you can try new things and learn to improve your presentations. Improve Your Presentations. 1. Plan your presentations.
Moira Alexander
MAY 2, 2017
To align business goals with project management (PM), leaders from the enterprise project management office (EMPO) or project management office (PMO) need to be involved in strategic planning sessions alongside senior-level management. The foundation for overall business success and project initiatives starts here, making it imperative for executive sponsors to be in sync with project leadership out of the gate.
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Rebel’s Guide to PM
MAY 22, 2017
This article by Jaime Capitel of ITM Platform reviews 5 key considerations and knowledge areas under which the main criteria for managing a project portfolio can be grouped. You'll also like: Software review: Project Portfolio Office General information Name: Project Portfolio Office Vendor: Project Portfolio Office Hosting options: Web hosted only Cost and plans: Up to 10 users for $49 (£32).
Project Bliss
MAY 10, 2017
Everybody’s talking about agile software development these days: project managers, software developers, IT directors, small startups and big corporations. You know it’s a hot topic and if you haven’t started exploring it, you may be feeling left behind. To get you a bit caught up on the topic, I’ve pulled together an introduction to give you an overview of the background and philosophy, along with a few of the most popular styles of Agile.
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The Digital Project Manager
MAY 12, 2017
Agile is good and everything, but sometimes, just sometimes, it’s a good plan just to stick with the plan, and not get hurt. The post When a project is running along swimmingly and then you decide you better tweak things just a bit appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.
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Project Risk Coach
MAY 8, 2017
Communication is the vehicle for successful projects. From the beginning to the end of a project, the project manager and team must plan, execute, and deliver the required products and services while interacting with stakeholders. What are you doing to improve your project communication? Project managers are not lone rangers. Projects involve interdependent relationships such as the sponsor and other leaders, the project manager and the project team, and users interacting with the systems.
Ron Rosenhead
MAY 10, 2017
It’s a key strategic objective. The very success of this project will ensure that the company steals an estimated 12 months on the competition and give you huge competitive advantage. It’s been in research phase (for 8 months) and now, after a successful business case has been developed you are given the project to deliver. This is your first involvement with the project.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
MAY 10, 2017
Why rate your meeting productivity? Easy: To stop doing what doesn’t work and to start making your meetings awesome. Boosting productivity makes a difference in being able to achieve your overall strategy. Meetings are a big part of that. Today I’m reviewing Gord Sheppard’s online training course about rating your meeting productivity. It’s a taster for some of his other products and it’s free.
Kiron Bondale
MAY 7, 2017
“ Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose ” Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr’s warning reminds us that it is very easy to ignore the Manifesto for Agile Software Development’s value statements. We might have done away with heavy project governance, premature or excessive planning, and documentation for documentation’s sake, but if we don’t remind ourselves why our team performs specific agile ceremonies, we are no better than our brethren toiling under the b
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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
The Digital Project Manager
MAY 16, 2017
Every digital agency I’ve come across seems to claim they’re they’re doing agency agile in some shape or form. The challenge today is what do. The post Agency Agile: 10 Agile Methods For Agencies appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.
Project-Management.pm
MAY 31, 2017
What is Portfolio Management? It’s one of those questions that can be really complicated when someone is not really that familiar with project or portfolio management. To understand something is always the first step. And what is project portfolio management being one of the questions that needs further understanding. Projects are the motherboard of an organization.
Project Risk Coach
MAY 1, 2017
How do you communicate risks? Some project managers rarely mention risks; others bore people to tears with too much information. Ninety percent of a project manager’s job is communication. And one of the most important things to communicate is your risks. Where is the uncertainty greatest and what are you and the team doing about it? The communication process can be challenging.
Ron Rosenhead
MAY 31, 2017
Yes, there is a skills shortage in the UK. CIPD talks about ‘The troublesome job of replacing EU workers’. The Telegraph ‘UK firms from engineers to banks struggle to fill skills shortage’. City A.M. ’UK employers expect to face a shortage of skilled workers in 2017, and one in three will be under “severe pressure” to find suitable employees’.
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You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
MAY 17, 2017
I spent some time using this online project management software and here is my ITM Platform software review. Find out what I thought and if it might be right for you. You'll also like: Software Review: Roadmap Planner [2017] Roadmap Planner is a simple app designed for creating strategic plans. It’s suitable for portfolio managers or programme managers on large programmes who have lots.
Kiron Bondale
MAY 21, 2017
When designing project delivery methodologies, we are faced with the decision of whether information should be housed in standalone documents or in online repositories. While there are those who view this as a binary choice, I would advocate a hybrid approach. Assuming we have or can procure or build underlying tooling support we can then choose to host some information centrally and utilize standalone documents for the rest.
Musings on Project Management
MAY 26, 2017
I've never been too keen on the typical book answer to "what is project management?" It seems it misses a more realistic statement of properties. So, I'm all about narrative, backlog, WIP etc, whereas the conventional definition is about initiating, executing, conrolling, etc. I made the comparison in this table. You can judge for yourself.
Zen Project Management
MAY 22, 2017
I was flying home from a client visit last week at the airport getting ready to board the plane when the gate agent announced that the flight was gonna be delayed by ten minutes due to some unspecified mechanical issue. Ten minutes later they announcement another ten minute delay. They did this two more times. So what was going on? Did the airlines not want to admit upfront that they had a 40 minute delay so they fed the delays to us ten minutes at a time?
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Project Risk Coach
MAY 15, 2017
Project managers spend a large part of each day communicating—facilitating meetings, emailing stakeholders, responding to texts, writing reports, and having one-on-one conversations. We are so busy, we rarely take the time to think about the effectiveness of our communication. How can we become a better communicator? Here are five practical ways. Pick one or two and work on improving your communication this week.
Inloox
MAY 8, 2017
The implementation of a PMO is just like any other project. This means that you have to plan it carefully. Before you start the project, you should analyze your organization’s current situation and based on these insights create a concept for your PMO. If it is the first PMO implementation in the organization, it’s particularly important that the PMO is aligned with the organization’s requirements and frameworks.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
MAY 14, 2017
Kate Morris, MSP, MoP, CSM, is a practising project manager and an Inspiring Women in Project Management. She is the Conference Convener for PMI Australia Conference 2017. I spoke to Kate about her current role and what it means to be taking the stage in front of such a significant audience. You'll also like: Ellen Maynes: Inspiring Women in Project Management Today's interview with Ellen Maynes shows that project management can be more than just building an IT system.
The Digital Project Manager
MAY 31, 2017
Time to Inspect About “The Agile Model” Agile has been around for a very long time now. In this time, we have experienced and continue. The post Is There A Perfect Agile Model? What You Should Know About Agnostic Agile appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.
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Musings on Project Management
MAY 17, 2017
Mike Cohn, the guru at Mountain Goat Software, recently gave a webinar presentation to a bunch of PMI folks entitled "Agile and the Seven Deadly Sins of Project Management" [just click on the link for a free copy of the charts from Mountain Goat] Overall, an informing presentation In an explanation of how agile fights information opaqueness, Mike presented a slide with a bar chart of team.
Project-Management.pm
MAY 25, 2017
New project managers are basically fledglings of the organization: they’re still learning the trade and are still a little lost in keeping up with their tasks. If you are a new project manager, you must definitely learn how to survive in the business industry. How To Survive Your First Week As A New Project Manager ? Besides the usual grind of your work that will eventually pile up your desk and schedule, there are people that you need to deal with and a team to manage ; easy?
LiquidPlanner
MAY 11, 2017
In manufacturing, time is money. Every delay, machinery breakdown, and defective product adds up and, ultimately, hurts the bottom line. But following structured project management methods can help companies reduce delays, stay on budget, and deliver quality products. To better understand how manufacturers practice project management, we surveyed more than 100 executives, engineers, and project managers, resulting in the 2017 State of Project Management in Manufacturing report.
Inloox
MAY 24, 2017
The last part of our PMO blog series will try and answer this question. Implementing ‘new’ agile methods such as Scrum or Kanban will have a significant impact on the PMO, as it’s the project management center of the organization. So it is important that the PMO reacts to these new developments in project management as soon as possible. Agile is the trend “Agile” is one of the biggest buzzwords in project management and other industries at the moment.
Speaker: Erika R. Bales, Esq.
When we talk about “compliance and security," most companies want to ensure that steps are being taken to protect what they value most – people, data, real or personal property, intellectual property, digital assets, or any other number of other things - and it’s more important than ever that safeguards are in place. Let’s step back and focus on the idea that no matter how complicated the compliance and security regime, it should be able to be distilled down to a checklist.
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