April, 2018

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What’s your project management personal best?

Kiron Bondale

Outside of professional arenas, in sports such as weight-lifting, our competition is from within and not without. Committed gym rats are keenly aware of how much weight they can lift, push or pull for each of the muscle groups in their workout rotation. Even though their overall goal might be to maintain their fitness level, they will try to add more weight.

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The Role of the Project Coordinator

ProjectManager.com

Sometimes functional leads or project managers need help managing projects. That’s where project coordinators come in. Jennifer Bridges, PMP, explains their role further. Here’s a shot of the whiteboard for your reference! In Review – the Role of the Project Coordinator: Jennifer began with acknowledging that she has already spoken a lot about project managers and their various roles and responsibilities.

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Four Essential Tools for a Good Project Manager

Entry

Artist's have their brush and paint. Journalist's have their pen and paper. Carpenter's have their hammer and nails. What do project managers have? The post Four Essential Tools for a Good Project Manager appeared first on Entry Software Corporation.

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How To Close A Project Effectively [Infographic]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

We tend to spend lots of time talking about project set up, having a fully-thought through business case, or all the stuff you have to do while the project work is being done. But there’s another area that is arguably as important, if not more so than those: how to close a project. If you don’t finalise and hand over the project to the operational teams effectively, you risk: Support and operational teams not knowing what they are supposed to be doing with what your project has delivered.

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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 Identify Scope Risks

Project Risk Coach

8 ways to identify scope risks Some project managers struggle to identify scope risks. Why? Image courtesy of Adobe Stock. First, individuals may lack a concrete understanding of scope; scope seems to be a nebulous concept. WHAT exactly is scope? Second, individuals may not know HOW to identify scope risks. Either way, the failure to identify (and manage) scope risks can be costly.

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Does your company do project management eLearning?

Ron Rosenhead

That was a question posed by a caller recently. Yes we do! I went on to explain that we have a partnership with OnLinePMCourses where we offer a wide range of project management eLearning. I referred the caller to the page with all the details- [link] and they were impressed. One comment struck me: the caller said: “Why don’t you publicise this bit more?

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How to Become an IT Project Manager

ProjectManager.com

If you’re looking to become an IT project manager, Jennifer Bridges, PMP, explains the job description, skills, qualifications, path and training involved. Here’s a screenshot of the whiteboard for your reference! In Review – How to Become an IT Project Manager: If you want to become an IT project manager, Jennifer said she’s happy to hear that because that means you are motivated and have a specific goal.

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Benefits of Connecting Through One Software App

Entry

The amount of responsibility a business owners job holds can generate a significant amount of stress from the countless tasks they deal with on a daily basis. The to-do list is almost never-ending and consists of keeping clients happy, tracking your employees, payments to make, sales to close and many, many more. Having software from […]. The post Benefits of Connecting Through One Software App appeared first on Entry Software Corporation.

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How to Surface The Right Lessons Learned with CornerThought Software

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The world of project management knowledge sharing is changing. I’m delighted to be partnering with CornerThought lessons learned software for this article. It is hard to capture lessons learned in project management. Actually, it’s not. It’s very easy to capture lessons learned. It’s very difficult to find helpful lessons that you can apply to your projects right now.

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Strategic Finance Essentials: A Project Manager’s Guide to Financial Impact

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 expendi

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The What, Why, and How of Project Requirements

Project Risk Coach

Learn technical skills to accelerate your projects through requirements development How big of a deal are project requirements? The Project Management Institute says, “47% of unsuccessful projects fail to meet goals due to poor requirements management.” – Requirements Management, A Core Competency for Project and Program Success. In his book — Just Enough Requirements Management — Alan Davis shares, “Various studies suggest that errors introduced during requir

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Project Management Basic Steps: the Minimum Viable Project Management

Project Bliss

You’ve just been tagged as the team’s project manager. And while some people might be excited about the role, it’s not something you’d planned on. You didn’t sign up for this. You’ve never studied even the basic project management steps. And despite the fact that many people are struggling to move into project management, you weren’t even trying.

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Friction -- a consequence of debt

Musings on Project Management

And, so now we've all come to the point in the art and science of project management that not only do we have a myriad of biases that have been listed and explained and examined over the past 30 years, but now we have debts. The new one (for me) is social debt, as described by Philippe Kruchten He tells us: Damian Tamburri, from VU in Amsterdam, has introduced the notion of social debt, as a.

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5 Project Management Goals to Boost Your Career

ProjectManager.com

Presently, the economic climate is ideal for both project managers who are looking to advance in their careers, and for those who have their sights on entering the field. There are great opportunities out there, and room for advancement. However, these opportunities won’t just fall in your lap. Enabling career growth can be considered a project of sorts, and therefore requires the same techniques, project management tools and dedication to schedules that would be involved when managing any

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

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.

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Going With the Flow: Using Flowcharts in Your Business

Entry

A flow chart is a visual representation of a plan or a process. They show steps, represented through boxes about a process that should be taken. Whether we realize it or not, flowcharts are used all around us, most commonly in the form of an algorithm. An algorithm is the more complicated version of a […]. The post Going With the Flow: Using Flowcharts in Your Business appeared first on Entry Software Corporation.

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10 GDPR Questions to Ask Before Starting a New Project

Rebel’s Guide to PM

GDPR is a once-in-a-generation update of our data protection regulations. And it has huge implications for people managing projects that store, capture or process personal data. GDPR projects abound at the moment; you might be involved in one yourself. But beyond the setting up of GDPR principles in your business, what does GDPR look like for project management?

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Why Project Managers Need Business Analysts for Project Success

Project Risk Coach

Overcome three of the biggest factors in challenged and failed projects The Standish Group says three of the biggest factors that lead to failed and challenged projects are: Lack of user input. Incomplete requirements. Changing requirements. We should attack these threats with a vengeance. How can we do this? We add skilled requirements analysts to our teams.

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9 Great Reasons to Choose a Project Management Career

Project Bliss

A. You may be wondering if a project management career is a right choice for you. You’ve likely heard a good bit about it – it’s getting more attention in recent years. But maybe you’re not quite sure if it would be a good fit. Or you may not yet know much about project management at this point. If so, don’t feel left out. I’ve been a project manager for 15 years but at first, I didn’t even know I wanted to be one.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Have you rotated your project’s tires?

Kiron Bondale

A standard semi-annual ritual for many who live in cold climates is swapping all season to winter tires on our cars and back again. This exercise also presents a good opportunity to catch up on any other outstanding preventative maintenance for our vehicles. For those of us who live in places which observe daylight savings time, we are reminded to change the batteries in our smoke alarms whenever our clocks spring forward or fall back.

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How to Nail Your Performance Review

ProjectManager.com

Nearly everybody dreads a performance review, and for good reason. Those employees that still have to endure them find that they’re daunting to prepare for and difficult to execute. Due to the unpopularity, and sometimes inefficacy, of the performance review, many companies have abandoned that nervy review process in favor of always-on, real-time dashboards that show managers how team members are doing every minute of every day.

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Four Essential Tools for a Good Project Manager

Entry

Artist’s have their brush and paint. Journalist’s have their pen and paper. Carpenter’s have their hammer and nails. What do all of these have in common? The tools associated with the profession are the golden standards for their practice. Although they are not required, (i.e an artist using a pencil or a carpenter using a drill) they are often used because of their effectiveness and reliability.

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5 Common Roadblocks on Projects (And What To Do About Them)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Getting a project over the line and delivering what you set out to do – it’s a journey! Even experienced project managers will tell you that there are a number of project roadblocks that can stop them from doing their best work and completing initiatives on time and on budget. Below I’ve called out 5 common project roadblocks. I’ve also added some tips on how to address them, so if you notice that the situations sound familiar, you can take action now to ensure that you are dealing with the chal

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Here Are the Simple Mistakes You May Be Making With Requirements

Project Risk Coach

How often have you neared a project implementation date, only to find new requirements? Or perhaps your team said they had gathered the requirements, but in reality, the team had hastily rushed through the requirement process resulting in rework, missed deadlines, and another blown budget. If you want to improve your chance for project success, focus on improving your requirement processes.

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Uncertainty is non-negotiable

Musings on Project Management

"Uncertainty is an essential and nonnegotiable part of a forecast. sometimes an honest and accurate expression of the uncertainty is what has the potential to save [big things]. However, there is another reason to quantify the uncertainty carefully and explicitly. It is essential to scientific progress, especially under Bayes’s theorem." "The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many.

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The art and science of backlog prioritization

Kiron Bondale

A key responsibility of Product Owners is ensuring that the order of work items in a backlog best achieves the goals and vision for the product. Unlike project portfolios where selection or prioritization decisions are often made by a governance committee, with a product backlog the responsibility for the business success or failure of the product rests on the Product Owner’s shoulders.

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GetApp Honors ProjectManager.com With Another Pair of Top 5 Rankings

ProjectManager.com

Category Leaders and software rankings for the second quarter of 2018 were recently released by GetApp, the influential Gartner review site, and ProjectManager.com has continued its run of ranking in the top five for project management and project portfolio management apps. ProjectManager.com ranked in the top five for task management in Q1 as well, until the category was discontinued for Q2.

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From Complexity to Clarity: Strategies for Effective Compliance and Security Measures

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.