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Why PMPs Should Actually Read the PMBOK 6th Edition

Project Risk Coach

Four Reasons to Read the PMBOK 6th Edition The Project Management Institute (PMI) released the PMBOK 6 th Edition on September 6 th , 2017. Some certified project managers may respond with, “Ho-hum. I’m glad I got my certification behind me.” However, I think PMPs and other certified project managers should actually read the PMBOK 6 th edition. Why?

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The Project Manager’s Little Book of Cheats [Book Review]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This article, The Project Manager’s Little Book of Cheats [Book Review] , first appeared on Girl's Guide to PM. “There’s no such thing as cheating in project management,” writes Beth Spriggs , “but if there were it would be this book.”. I’ve covered it in sticky notes. I love books that are practical and applicable, and this is both. It’s also funny and a quick read.

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Why Our Project Management Tools Don’t Matter

The Digital Project Manager

As project managers, it’s easy to fall in love with one tool and let it define the way we manage projects. Perhaps in the rush. The post Why Our Project Management Tools Don’t Matter appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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It’s time to introduce a selection process for project sponsors

Ron Rosenhead

In our book “Strategies for Project Sponsorship” (published by Management Concepts) we made the suggestion the company should be making every effort to interview for project sponsors. Not external candidates, but internal ones. Strategies for Project Sponsorship published by Management Concepts. Now as we suggested in the book, “if your company has a strong project management culture this idea is entirely plausible.

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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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Why PMPs Should Actually Read the PMBOK 6th Edition

Project Risk Coach

Four Reasons to Read the PMBOK 6th Edition The Project Management Institute (PMI) released the PMBOK 6 th Edition on September 6 th , 2017. Some certified project managers may respond with, “Ho-hum. I’m glad I got my certification behind me.” However, I think PMPs and other certified project managers should actually read the PMBOK 6 th edition. Why?

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6 Things You Can Do to Keep Challenging Personalities in Check

LiquidPlanner

It doesn’t matter what field you operate in, as soon as you bring in creative experts the potential for both personality and technical conflict increases. The why is understandable: truly creative designers and engineers who have established themselves as experts will tend to have a very strong mental model of what should happen on a project. Sometimes this vision of the future conflicts with the reality of the project scope, schedule and cost.

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So this is why project management is failing.

Ron Rosenhead

Donnie MacNicol posted a link to a great article that goes some way into explaining why leadership development is not working. The article ‘The “Dirty Fish Tank” training model and the modern method for developing leaders’ is by Craig Ross, Angie Paccione and Victoria Roberts. The article says that you have a fish tank that is yellow and cloudy so, you take out the fish and clean them.

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When Single-Project Success Doesn’t Equal Project Portfolio Level Success

Ganttic

Managing a project portfolio is all about balance. You have a number of projects that all compete for scarce resources. You must manage interfaces between projects, prioritize resources and balance responsibilities against corporate objectives. All that to maximize the value of the portfolio, link the portfolio to the strategy, and balance the portfolio.

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The Effective Way To Getting Better Lessons Learned

Project-Management.pm

Lessons learned are the set of learning acquired from the project from beginning to end. It is usually documented at the project’s closing stage, but it can be documented at any stage of the process. Lessons learned help project teams to be more aware of the risk and threats that undermine the project and also aid them in creating a course of action should the same issues or situations come back in the future projects.

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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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We Should All Be Learners

Leading Answers

“ Knowledge work is learning work.” That was the message delivered by Dianna Larson’s keynote presentation at the Agile on The Beach conference held in Falmouth, England earlier this Summer. Dianna explained that anyone involved in today’s collaborative, problem-solving projects such as new product development need to be learners. We all need to learn  how to learn  new topics effectively and get used to lifelong learning to stay useful and relevant.

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Breaking Down Silos with Enterprise Work Management Solutions

Leankor

Productivity, sharing, efficiency, best practices, continuous improvement, effective task management. We’ve heard all the terms. We’ve been empowered time and time again to imagine, make, incorporate, and implement better ways to do things. Sometimes they stick. Sometimes they are just the latest flavor of the month that some C-level thought up and decided to promote… only to have the enthusiasm and training and forward thinking and effective incorporation of behavioral and pro

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Why You Need Project Proposals if You're a Creative Professional

Workamajig

If you’re a creative professional, it would be safe to say that doing paperwork is pretty much at the bottom of your preferred tasks. And who can blame you? Time given over to filing and administrative work can be spent doing more imaginative and mentally-stimulating tasks instead. Despite this, proposal writing is probably one of the most important skills a creative professional needs to master.

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Building the "Perfect" Schedule

Herding Cats

I'm working on a presentation and discussion for the Joint Space Cost Council that is happening in September. Our topic is about the integration of multiple IPT (Integrated Product Teams) and how to coordinate all the work into an Integrated Master Schedule. This type of business structure is typical for large space and defense programs as well as large construction and infrastructure projects.

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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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We Should All Be Learners

Leading Answers

“ Knowledge work is learning work.” That was the message delivered by Dianna Larson’s keynote presentation at the Agile on The Beach conference held in Falmouth, England earlier this Summer. Dianna explained that anyone involved in today’s collaborative, problem-solving projects such as new product development need to be learners. We all need to learn  how to learn  new topics effectively and get used to lifelong learning to stay useful and relevant.

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TimeCamp’s New Tool Is Here – RemoteCamp!

TimeCamp

We are happy to announce that we created a new, sister tool of TimeCamp – RemoteCamp! Follow our today’s post and learn the great features of the app. What is RemoteCamp? RemoteCamp is a tool which tracks work hours of remote workers. It’s a tool based on TimeCamp’s functions. But more than that, it highlights some of these features.

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5 Simple Steps to Good Decision Making

Celoxis

An average adult makes about 35000 decisions a day. If one had to summarize a day at work, it would something like: Decisions, Decisions, and Decisions! In fact, a manager’s competency is measured by the quality of decisions made and the outcomes achieved. As you go higher up the ladder, decision making is all you do and every decision is crucial.

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Organizational Culture and Its Impact on Team Performance

ActiveCollab

What do you get when a rigidly structured enterprise hires a team of former digital nomads? In rare cases, the company would get a beacon of creative light and an inspirational idea how to secure its place on the market. More often, however, the team of former digital nomads who are used to freedom when it comes to creativity and decision-making gets overwhelmed by strict hierarchy and excessive bureaucracy.

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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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We Should All Be Learners

Leading Answers

“ Knowledge work is learning work.” That was the message delivered by Dianna Larson’s keynote presentation at the Agile on The Beach conference held in Falmouth, England earlier this Summer. Dianna explained that anyone involved in today’s collaborative, problem-solving projects such as new product development need to be learners. We all need to learn  how to learn  new topics effectively and get used to lifelong learning to stay useful and relevant.

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Case Study: How TimeCamp Helps Entrepreneurs Be More Productive? An Interview with Warwick Brown!

TimeCamp

We all know how hard is to overcome struggles of being an entrepreneur. They learn from the mistakes along the way, still trying to improve and be perfect in what they do, working hard to prove yourself. But today, thanks to the wide range of tools and apps designed to streamline the workflow, launching the business or being a manager is much easier and smarter!

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Principle Based Management

Herding Cats

It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is. If it disagrees with Principles, it’s wrong. - Richard Feynman. In that simple statement is the key to Principle Based Management of Other People’s money. †. Most business departments have a set of standard operating procedures or guidelines that govern how we should respond to standard and even some not-so-standard occurrences we face throughout our workday.

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A Brief Introduction to Project Portfolio Governance

Brightwork

Trying to run successful project management in an organization without knowing what projects are underway, what projects are planned, and who is doing which work is like flying blind. Inevitably, some projects are doomed from the start. An article in CIO Magazine shared two anecdotes (and I’m sure you can tell me more just like them!): A director of information services in one organization estimated that his department had 20 projects in flight.

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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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How Active Collab Simplified Our Content Marketing Process

ActiveCollab

Read how Izaak, a digital marketing executive from AppInstitute , uses Active Collab to keep content marketing processes running smooth. I’m Izaak, I work as a Digital Marketing Executive in the Marketing Department at AppInstitute, one of the leading app builders on the market. Our product allows users to build their own apps without coding. Content Marketing is what drives a huge amount of growth for our business.

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Rules for A.I.

Musings on Project Management

Developing A.I. stuff? Many are What about the rules of behavior for A.I. capabilities? Oren Etzioni has an opinion on this The A.I. system must be subject to the full gamut of laws that apply to its human operators and developer The A.I. system must clearly disclose that it is not human (*) The A.I.

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DPM Podcast: Artificial Intelligence in Project Management (with Dennis Kayser)

The Digital Project Manager

Will our jobs as project managers be taken over by artificial intelligent PM bots? Discover in this podcast with Dennis Kayser from Forecast.it and learn about how they're using artificial intelligence and machine learning to help project managers make better decisions and automate repetitive PM tasks. The post DPM Podcast: Artificial Intelligence in Project Management (with Dennis Kayser) appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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TimeCamp’s Top Articles for Freelancers!

TimeCamp

Today’s article is not really an article!

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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.