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Do NOT Resolve Project Risks for Good Career Growth

MPUG

Having been a project manager for all of my working life and now a teacher of project management skills for more than a decade, I always tell my students to follow sound project management principles and to manage risks proactively. Proactive project risk management is integral part of project management. In fact, I think good risk management is half of project management.

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What are Project Assumptions?

Project Risk Coach

There may be inherent risks when we make project assumptions. We assume certain things to be true when in fact, they may not be. Consequently, we fail to challenge assumptions and continue planning and executing based on false notions. This can be costly. An Example of Wrong Assumptions So, how does this happen? In her book—Thinking in Bets—author Annie Duke shares an illustration: Suppose someone says, "I flipped a coin and it landed heads four times in a row.

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Agile Project Management Principles

Binfire

In the project management and software development fields, Agile project management principles realized and practiced. . Companies are making huge investments in Agile and DevOps tools and training. The benefits of Agile are well known. Agile helps with speedy roll-outs, continuous improvement, flexibility and reacting to market or customer changes.

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10 Tools for Better Project Management Results

Online PM Courses

Do your projects over-run, go over budget, or fail to delight your clients? You can get rapid Project Management results, with my top ten PM tools. The post 10 Tools for Better Project Management Results appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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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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What Is a Project Sponsor? Defining This PM Role

ProjectManager.com

Project personnel, such as a project sponsor, are given specific titles and responsibilities and exist in a bureaucratic structure. Projects would quickly spin out of control without a bureaucratic structure to organize action and authorize change. A bureaucracy creates order and delivers efficiency through charting action and sharing knowledge. In that spirit, we’ll look at a critical role, one that’s near the top of the totem pole: the project sponsor.

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Why It Benefits Scrum Teams to Think Like a Millennial

Scrum.org

Agile and Scrum can help virtually any organization, from small startup tech businesses with mostly young employees to well established Fortune 2,000 companies with a much more experienced staff. However, since it is used with such a wide variety of people, the specifics of each Agile implementation needs to be slightly adjusted in order to deliver the maximum amount of value to the team members and other stakeholders.

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How to Write a Clear Opportunity Statement for Better Problem-Solving

Project Bliss

When you set out on a problem-solving effort, it’s important to be clear about the problem you’re going to solve. Even if the whole team knows there’s a problem, you can’t be sure you’re all focused on solving the same problem until everyone comes to an agreement on just what the problem is. Here’s an example of what I mean… Your team wants to undertake a problem-solving effort because they’re working long hours handling a large number of customer

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7 Secrets for Conveying Confidence as a Project Manager

ProjectManager.com

Influence and persuasion start with confidence. If the people around you don’t detect that you are confident in yourself and what you are saying, then neither will they be. This means conveying confidence is an essential trait for a project manager because a large part of our work is in winning over team members, stakeholders, and clients to our point of view.

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InLoox now! Enterprise for Students: Organize your Studies now for Free with InLoox

Inloox

Organize your studies with the InLoox Project Campus InLoox now! is our collaboration solution in the cloud with server locations in Frankfurt am Main and Magdeburg. With this flexible planning tool, you can quickly and easily coordinate all the challenges of your everyday university life: Course enrollment. Exam registration. Seminar and group work.

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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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Top 3 Principles to Ensure Great Customer Experience

Eylean

These days just creating a great tool is not enough. There are million competitors and alternatives on the market, meaning focusing solely on functionality will not cut it anymore. To make sure you truly stand out you need to think, and I mean really think, about the end user. What is it they want and … The post Top 3 Principles to Ensure Great Customer Experience appeared first on Agile Blog.

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Why a PMP Certification Is Important for Your Career

LiquidPlanner

The PMP, also known as project management professional certification, is unbiased proof of a person’s project management talents and expertise. It is accepted worldwide and gives better career opportunities, credibility, and increased income for those who have acquired it. As a PMP, an individual can work in virtually any industry or location. While you need to complete a few steps to acquire it, it can be a rather powerful tool.

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Product Update: New Templates & Imports in ProjectManager.com

ProjectManager.com

We are very excited to announce our August release for the new version of ProjectManager.com. In this release, we introduced easy-to-use project templates, improved our import functionality and added the ability to include tags on reports. We take customer feedback into careful consideration when designing new features, and this release was no exception.

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Does closeout vary between projects following an adaptive rather than a predictive life cycle?

Kiron Bondale

Completion of a project usually focuses on financial and administrative activities such as transitioning verified and accepted deliverables to customers, getting final sign off on the project, closing open contracts, recognizing team accomplishments, survey stakeholder satisfaction, archiving key project outputs and so on. But with an adaptive life cycle, the approach taken when performing certain activities might vary.

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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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New How-to Video: What is a Kick-off Meeting? Definition, Components & Tips for Planning

Inloox

We approached our first explanation video: We made a first short video about the very popular topic of the project kick-off. Kick-off Meetings briefly explained In project management, the kick-off event is usually regarded as the official start of the project. In the video you will learn more about the definition, the components and how to easily plan a project kick-off.

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5 Ways to Become Agile: A Summary

Planview

As we finalize our six-part blog series on how to become agile, let’s take a look back at the previous five blogs and provide you with a brief summary of their key points. Throughout this series, we’ve discussed the five ways to become agile, addressed the primary issues and roadblocks, as well as the critical steps required to transform the PMO, all based on the whitepaper, The Agile PMO: 5 Steps to Driving Agility at Scale.

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Improving the Sprint Review with Liberating Structures (Variant #1)

Scrum.org

In this series of posts, we share our favorite strings of Liberating Structures for Scrum Events. In this post, we share the design for a Sprint Review. All the strings are freely available on this board in Trello. For the sake of readability, we will focus this post on the flow and considerations behind the string. For detailed step-by-step instructions and timings, please take a look at the Trello-board.

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How to write an effective business case study?

nTask

Wanting to know how your business is going to turn out in the future, has become a mandated requirement these days. Although founding and starting a business has become more of a common ritual these day, very few people actually scucceed in the long run. The best way to do that is with the help of case studies. Business case studies have crucial importance in the development and functioning of a successful enterprise.

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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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Virtual Exhibitions: How to Plan Your Trade Fair Stand with InLoox

Inloox

The future of trade fairs In the B2B sector, trade fairs and congresses have always been an important instrument for image building and sales support. Depending on their size and duration, even recurring expo participations rank among the larger projects in companies. In addition, we often hear: "Before the fair is after the fair" Once the trade fair has been successfully completed, the planning and preparation for the next participation continues directly.

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7 Gantt Chart Tools to Test in 2019

Epicflow Blog

What Is Gantt Chart Software and Why Is It Significant for Project Management? Every project manager faces challenges of overload, time limitations, project slippage, and bottlenecks. These challenges can result in complete failure of a project. . To prevent this, you should use the proper tools – for example, Gantt chart software – to predict and solve problems your business might confront.

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Top 7 Time Saving Tools to Organize Work Efficiently

Proofhub

7 Time Saving Tools To Help You Work Efficiently Ever feel like you’ve bitten off more than you can chew at work? Struggling to complete things on time is highly stressful, and can lead to us feeling snowed under. Most of us are trying to do a hundred things at once, and particularly if you’re working in a small team or freelancing, you may feel like you’re spread too thin.

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Lessons for Change from Bungee Jumping

Green Project Management

I went bungee jumping over twenty years ago in Ottawa at the Great Canadian Bungee Jumping site at Wakefield, Chelsea Quebec. During that memorable experience I was reminded of several important lessons that I believe are valuable for change initiatives. For context, “Visualize an amphitheater of solid limestone, 200 ft. high, surrounding a 160 ft. […].

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Acclaim Projects Helps Deliver Innovation Projects on Time and on Budget

This large intercity transportation company for people and freight employs 100+ IT employees and contractors across North America and Europe and spends $10MM annually for approximately 50 inflight projects. The company needed the right financial tools to budget for innovation initiatives and real-time information on spending and forecasting. This transportation company turned to Acclaim Projects by Sopheon to help deliver projects on time and within budget.

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The 3 Biggest Mistakes to Avoid When Scaling Up Your Business

Teamweek

In economics, an economy of scale allows companies to lower costs by increasing their production. The idea behind scaling up is fairly simple. All you have to do is think back to the last time you made dinner for a bunch of people to see how it works. When you make a dinner for 30 people, you save money by buying in bulk. The average amount of time you spend preparing one meal is lower because you are making 30 meals at once.

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Using Troika Consulting to illustrate the difference between Coaching and Mentoring

Scrum.org

. . Being a Scrum Master requires to take many different stances and approaches when working together with teams and individuals. Two of them that are probably used most are “Coaching” and “Mentoring”. Choosing consciously between those stances is something that we cover in our PSM courses. But what are the differences between them and how can you illustrate those to people that aren’t yet familiar with them?

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11 attributes that can turn your team into a high-performance one

Proofhub

11 Attributes of a High-Performing Project Team Team leaders and managers keep striving to have high-quality team members on their team. But, sometimes they forget to understand the importance of their own contribution to turn their teams into high-performing teams. As a team leader, you can consolidate the attitude and potential of your team members to reap great outcomes.

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PMI Goes Agile

Project Management Essentials

The Project Management Institute (PMI) is making a bold pivot toward agile. As a project manager and an agilist, I am excited by these moves. At the same time, it is hard to envision both this transition and the future state. In this article, I share some of my thoughts about the upcoming changes to the Project Management Professional (PMP®) exam and PMBOK® Guide.

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From Concepts to Actionable Insights: Powering Digital Transformation Success

Speaker: Ketan Jahagirdar - Sopheon’s Director of Product Management

70% of most digital transformation projects fail. Learn how you can quickly improve that success rate. To be successful, digital transformation involves the strategic application of digitalization to improve a business’ entire system of production, procurement, sales, operations, human resources, and financial management. In short, to basically transform the way a company makes money and delivers value to customers.