Rebel’s Guide to PM
OCTOBER 5, 2016
Tomorrow is National Poetry Day and I’m delighted to have probably the world’s greatest project management poet here with us today! Robert Prol’s haiku’s have been making me laugh for a long time. Here are 5 of his recent and most profound works for your enjoyment! Check out these other haiku that Robert shared with us last year.
Project Risk Coach
OCTOBER 3, 2016
Some organizations lack clarity about who approves the project change requests. On one project, the sponsor tells the project manager to make the decisions. On other projects, the sponsor makes the decisions. And yet, in other cases, senior management gets involved. Image courtesy of Adobe Stock. Your project may morph into a two-headed monster without an integrated change control process, resulting in adverse impacts to schedule, cost, and scope.
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Musings on Project Management
OCTOBER 24, 2016
Can anyone image doing serious risk management without a checklist? (The answer, of course, is No) Actually, any procedural management can benefit from a checklist. There's been whole books written about checklists. In fact, one of the more prominent books -- "The Checklist Manefesto" by Dr. A. Gawande -- entitles Chapter 1: "The Problem of Extreme Complexity", recognizing the.
The Digital Project Manager
OCTOBER 10, 2016
Posted in Features General How-to Guides. Rapid prototyping can be a helpful tool for us as digital project managers to help clients who ask the question; ‘But will this work?’ and ‘How will this work?’ Often the simple, but frustrating answer is simply, ‘We don’t know yet – but let us help you work it out.’ A great way of working it out, and one that’s becoming increasingly popular with agencies and clients is by rapid prototyping -investing
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Kiron Bondale
OCTOBER 30, 2016
Wikipedia defines a denial-of-service attack as “ a cyber-attack where the perpetrator seeks to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users, such as to temporarily or indefinitely interrupt or suspend services of a host connected to the Internet. Denial of service is typically accomplished by flooding the targeted machine or resource with superfluous requests in an attempt to overload systems and prevent some or all legitimate requests from being fulfilled.”
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Rebel’s Guide to PM
OCTOBER 3, 2016
‘Business acumen’ is one of those skills that you see on role profiles for jobs. It’s also something mentioned in the standards for professional project management bodies. Apparently, business acumen is something that project managers should have. I believe that my success at working with senior stakeholders and on difficult projects is to do with business acumen.
Project Risk Coach
OCTOBER 27, 2016
How to Connect Emerging Risks, Strategies, and Project Management. Is your organization identifying and managing emerging risks? Photo courtesy of Adobe Stock. In Florida, citrus is so important, oranges are on the state’s license plates. However, a large portion of the state’s orange groves has turned into ghost orchards due to a tree-killing bacteria carried by the Asian psyllid.
The Lazy Project Manager
OCTOBER 14, 2016
OK, so this morning the postman arrived. Well, I hear you say, what is so unusual about that Peter, surely it happens every day doesn’t it? And yes, you are right, it does. But today was different – it wasn’t the usual selection of bills to be paid and advertising rubbish – oh no, today I received two very conflicting messages about my life. Let me explain.
Musings on Project Management
OCTOBER 1, 2016
Running a database project? Want to be agile and try different stuff quickly? Here's some stuff you can use, and it only takes 6 minutes to learn a few things It's all about sorting "big data", to wit: millions of records. We've all sorted data on a spreadsheet -- a few thousand records at most -- but that happens at the blink of an eye. Big data takes a bit longer.
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
Kiron Bondale
OCTOBER 16, 2016
Through their Lean Startup work, Steve Blank and Eric Ries have popularized the idea of focusing on delivering a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) which will meet a customer’s core needs while minimize investment and providing opportunities for learning, refinement and the ability to fail fast. Organizations have latched on to MVP principles and reworked development approaches as a means to avoid gold-plating and to achieve time to market and early ROI benefits.
Moira Alexander
OCTOBER 24, 2016
The right tool for the right job goes the old adage, but knowing exactly what criteria you should consider and how to go about evaluating each of the project management (PM) tools at your disposal can be time-consuming and even frustrating. So we've taken some of the legwork out of it by offering some key considerations, broken down into three primary categories that should be included in your evaluation.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
OCTOBER 7, 2016
Last month’s giveaway was a copy of Project Management for Supplier Organizations * – a book about what it’s like to be providing project management services to others. Congratulations to Shaylei from Clevedon, Ohio, USA who was drawn as the winner. Well done, Shaylei! Your book is in the post. * That’s an affiliate link, in case any of you who were unsuccessful want to buy a copy.
Project Risk Coach
OCTOBER 17, 2016
The Project Plan Checklist Have you left anything out of your project plan? Check out this project plan checklist to help you identify the baselines and plans that will be most helpful to each of your projects. I like to keep my project plans as simple as possible. For many project plans, I will only have three or four of the items in this checklist.
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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.
The Lazy Project Manager
OCTOBER 11, 2016
What: A Social event exploring everything you need to know to collaborate effectively as a project team. When: Thursday December 1 2016 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM. Where: The Yacht London is a permanently moored 1927 luxury steam yacht with a fabulous history, situated on the North Bank of the Thames, between Embankment and Temple, in what is known as “The Mayfair of the River”, just a short distance from the Houses of Parliament it boasts magnificent views of the Thames and Southbank.
Ron Rosenhead
OCTOBER 24, 2016
This Blog is brought to you courtesy of Dr Mike Clayton. It covers the very important topic of project governance. Projects are all about getting stuff done, I was once told. And this wonderfully simple view is very appealing, isn’t it? So the last thing we need, is someone getting in the way. Project Governance is often seen as getting in the Way. Too many project managers see the role of Project Sponsor, or their Project Board as somehow getting in the way of progress.
Zen Project Management
OCTOBER 11, 2016
Agile is about delivering value, so it is important to understand the value you are delivering within an iteration or release. However, I seen many teams that focus on how many story points they deliver but not really thinking about the value of those story points. So are there ways to measure value? The answer is, of course there is. One way would be to use the Planning Poker approach, but instead of estimating the effort for each story you can estimate the value of the story.
Moira Alexander
OCTOBER 17, 2016
Managing projects is a demanding job, and it's more seem challenging when you add in the fact that you're doing it remotely. But it doesn't have to be. After identifying all the possible barriers to remote project management, as well as some of the possible solutions, your business should further analyze and document the readiness of your teams, processes and technologies.
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Rebel’s Guide to PM
OCTOBER 26, 2016
This is a guest article by Dr Mike Clayton, who is the well-known author and trainer behind Online PM Courses.*. It was about 17 years ago. I sat opposite the new project manager. What to tell her? The First Meeting. I remember sitting down with a new project manager over coffee. Don’t get me wrong: she had lots of good experience, but was off to manage her first project for a client the next day….
Project Risk Coach
OCTOBER 10, 2016
How Bring All the Pieces Together If you were asked to describe project managers with one word, what would it be? Planner? Leader? Organizer? These are all great descriptors, but I’d like to offer my favorite — Integrator. Photo courtesy of Adobe Stock (edited in Canva). The word “integrate” means to “combine (one thing) with another so that they become a whole.” Like a child putting Lego pieces together to build a house, project managers put the project piece
LiquidPlanner
OCTOBER 3, 2016
Lean manufacturing has become a popular way to eliminate waste, reduce costs and improve efficiencies. This philosophy originated, largely, at Toyota and is used to better align customer needs with manufacturing operations. The challenge with lean is that, despite its attraction to many executives who want to cut costs and increase productivity , a lean process doesn’t happen overnight.
Kiron Bondale
OCTOBER 23, 2016
When we read about the rationale for an agile approach to project delivery, the focus is often on the benefits realized by the company or by their customers. While we can’t marginalize the benefits of early and frequent realization of business value there is a compelling case to be made about higher levels of job satisfaction and engagement for the team members working on successful agile projects when compared with their counterparts on equally successful traditional projects.
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The Digital Project Manager
OCTOBER 21, 2016
Posted in Tools. [link]. Make the web better with Hex Naw, a color accessibility testing tool that uses the power of Colorable to help designers and developers test entire color systems for contrast and accessibility. Plug in your palette or color system and let Hex Naw do the rest. The post Hex Naw appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.
Ganttic
OCTOBER 16, 2016
Do you know that short story or a thinking exercise where a CFO asks, “What happens if we train them and they leave?”, and then the CEO answers, “What happens if we don’t and they stay?”? It’s a bit of a cliche start but hear me out anyway. You might be using resource planning software like Ganttic or project management tool like Jira but there is no software that will actually do the thinking for you.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
OCTOBER 24, 2016
I haven’t done one of these posts for a while, and there has actually been a shift in my reading habits, which is a good thing! I’m reading more on the train commuting and doing less busywork like Facebook, other social media and emails. And I’m feeling better for it. Disclaimer by Renée Knight was haunting and didn’t pan out the way I was expecting.
Project Risk Coach
OCTOBER 24, 2016
Have you ever experienced surprise TKO (Technical Knockout) project? You never saw it coming. There was no countdown. Bam! Your project was over. Photo courtesy of Adobe Stock (edited in Canva). Imagine a marketing project. You and the team had been charged with implementing a fresh marketing program for a long-time product. Furthermore, you’ve been asked to deliver the program in record time.
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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