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7 Tips for Preventing Cost Overrun on Projects

ProjectManager.com

When managing a project there is always the triple constraint hanging over the project manager’s head like the Sword of Damocles. There’s more than just scope, schedule and cost that can go afoul in a project, but if they do, it’s a major concern. While all those constraints are important, let’s just focus on one for now: cost. Avoiding budget overrun is key to closing a successful project.

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5 Management Styles Every PM Should Know

The Digital Project Manager

The post 5 Management Styles Every PM Should Know appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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What are some of the underlying causes of ineffective project risk management?

Kiron Bondale

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Multi-Project Management: All You Should Know About

Epicflow Blog

As you multiply the success of your business and it gets bigger, you face the challenge of managing more than 1 project at a time. The more projects you have, the more complicated the process is. The ability to control all the projects in the company is called multi-project management. . Multi-Project Management Core. The essence of multi-project management is a multi-tasking environment.

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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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8 Tips to Rescue a Failing Team and Make it a Pro Team

Proofhub

Tips for Managers to Rescue a Failing Team All about the difference made by a great leader. You will hardly come across a great team that has a weak leader. Great leaders build the foundation of great teams. It takes a lot of thought and effort for making a team successful. But, taking over a failing team is a whole new struggle. If you are going through that phase in your career when you have been asked to rescue a failing team, this post is for you.

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Managing in Complex Project Environments

Rebel’s Guide to PM

How do you manage a project when it feels like walking through fog? When you don’t know what you don’t know, and the environment is shifting so much that it’s virtually impossible to keep track of all the moving parts? You focus on what you can control. You look at the one or two small things you can do to influence the issues you’ve got now.

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How to Facilitate the Nominal Group Technique

Project Risk Coach

How often have you elicited items such as problems, solutions, or implementation ideas from meeting participants? This sounds simple, but often, participants disagree. The meeting can turn into quicksand. Let's look at the Nominal Group Technique (NGT), a powerful technique for reaching consensus. Imagine that you are planning to facilitate a session to identify the strengths of your organization.

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How to handle Bikeshedding: Parkinson’s Law of Triviality

Project Bliss

Even if you don’t yet know the term bikeshedding, you’ve likely experienced it. Have you ever found yourself in a meeting discussing something relatively unimportant, yet the time and energy everyone poured into the topic seemed to go on and on? It seemed that everyone had an opinion and needed to have a say. And for this reason the discussion continued far past the time it should have taken.

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Critical Chain in Project Management: A Quick Guide

ProjectManager.com

Project managers love a good plan. It takes what might be an overwhelming project and structures it in such a way it can now be methodically executed. Everything is within control. It might sound boring, but stakeholders are not buying a ticket for an amusement park thrill-ride, they just want the job done right. With that mandate, project management includes methodologies designed to forge order from chaos.

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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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Remote Teams and Virtual Facilitation

Scrum.org

I have my own biases, having seen co-located teams work very well and having struggled with “dislocated” teams, I often recommend my clients to reconsider “dislocated” teams. And by “dislocation” I am not saying you cannot have teams ten time zones away. What I mean by a “dislocated” team is when three team members are in one time zone, but in different locations and other team members are in different locations and time zones.

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What Is Scrum Methodology? Complete Guide To All Things Scrum

The Digital Project Manager

If you’ve spent any time in digital project management, you’ve likely heard of Scrum methodology. The post What Is Scrum Methodology? Complete Guide To All Things Scrum appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Ask A PM: How to Convince My Team to Use Time Tracking

LiquidPlanner

Dear Elizabeth: I’m trying to implement time tracking with my team. The most difficult aspect is changing people’s perception and getting buy in to do the timesheets. In the past, managing and reporting time was never required, but our company has moved on in project management maturity and in the work we do. Now we need to know where time is being spent.

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Best Project Management Software of 2019

ProjectManager.com

Two of the keys to success in the modern workplace are organization and communication. Therefore, it makes sense why successful companies rely on project management software to keep them on track. Building a business foundation on project management software can be a very effective tactic; thus, making the right choice is extremely important. In order to help you sift through all of the best pm software platforms online, we’ve spent months doing research, testing different software, and putting

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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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Beyond Mechanical Scrum

Scrum.org

At a recent training class one of the delegates spoke about their present company, about how it was the most “Agile” place he had ever worked. The teams at his company had well established cadences for their Scrum events; well-oiled Daily Scrums that are done within 15 minutes and result in transparency of what the team will do for the next 24-hours.

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The 27 Most Annoying Business Buzzwords of 2019

TrustRadius Project Management

94% of professionals regularly hear (and probably use) annoying business jargon in their workday. It’s a plague upon businesses everywhere! According to a September 2019 survey run by TrustRadius, nearly 4 out of 10 people hear business jargon, cliches, and buzzwords often in a typical work day. On top of that more than 2 out of 10 said they hear buzzwords way too much.

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Prince2 Certification Guide for Misguided #ProjectManagers

nTask

Had I not made the mistake of accidentally deleting my Word doc file, this post would have gone live a week earlier. And gosh… I really put in some extra hours into it. Sadly, our team leader told us that we’re going to have to start again on the write-up because there’s no way to recover a deleted file that has also been emptied from the recycle bin.

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Agile Culture Isn’t the Problem

Leading Agile

Let’s assume you could flip the mindset of your organization overnight. What would you do next to ensure that you could predictably deliver product into the market, faster? If you don’t have an answer, perhaps it’s time to consider that culture isn’t the problem. Video Transcript. We all show up and we go, we want to change culture, right?

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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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How Can You As A Scrum Master Increase Your Awesomeness

Scrum.org

Just two months ago I was asked by a lady after a community meetup in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: "How can I become a more awesome Scrum Master?" I was surprised to receive such question since I never had anyone asked me that question. Since I never receive such question, I didn't think about my answer thoughtfully and can only gave her the obvious ones like: read more books, attend community meetups, or go to trainings.

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How to Use Forward and Backward Pass for Activity Assignments

MPUG

I’m sure you know that a good schedule is critical for the project success. However, did you know that network diagrams are extremely important for creating a good project schedule? In my experience, many senior project managers and project planners shun network diagrams. They just don’t see any value in creating or analyzing them. In fact, I have noticed that some experienced project managers don’t even know what a network diagram is.

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2019 Epicflow Multi-Project Management Features

Epicflow Blog

For about 10 year history of existence, Epicflow multi-project management software regularly gets updates and enhancements to make its users’ life easier and business more effective. We’ve prepared a list and description of new features released so far in 2019. Go on reading to find out why and in what way Epicflow has become an even better solution for you and your partners.

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Feedback Is A Gift with Sarah Smith

Leading Agile

Feedback is tricky. We all want it, we all need it, but sometimes getting it can be kinda tough. Giving feedback is challenging as well because it can be hard to tell when were are offering it from a place that is truly centered on helping the recipient grow, rather than just helping them be what we want them to be. In this episode of SoundNotes, LeadingAgile Staff Consultant, Sarah Smith, joins Dave Prior to dig into the idea of “Feedback Is A Gift.” During the podcast, they unpack

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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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5 Advantages of Systems Thinking and How to Make Full Use of It

Teamweek

Systems thinking is an entirely different way of managing your organization. A typical organization uses many different methods to market a product, buy merchandise, manage customer relationships, and so much more. By learning how to manage these procedures, you’ll be able to run your company more effectively. While business managers and entrepreneurs use this style of thinking, it is also quietly growing in popularity in fields like cybernetics, biology, and others.

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Updates to the CAPM® Exam

MPUG

Hand completing a multiple choice exam. Are you by any chance thinking about becoming a Certified Associate in Project Management? Well then you are in for a treat because the Project Management Institute (PMI)® the PMI is currently in the process of making a number of exciting changes to this exam. I’d like to invite you to review them with me by listening in on Episode 433 of The PM Podcast.

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Multi-Project Management: All You Should Know About

Epicflow Blog

As you multiply the success of your business and it gets bigger, you face the challenge of managing more than 1 project at a time. The more projects you have, the more complicated the process is. The ability to control all the projects in the company is called multi-project management. . Multi-Project Management Core. The essence of multi-project management is a multi-tasking environment.

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Bridge24 Software Review [2019]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Bridge24 provides advanced reporting and exporting capabilities for Asana, Trello, Basecamp and AceProject. This is a review of the product using my desktop and Firefox browser, in August 2019, with the Asana connector. Bridge24: Overview. Name: Bridge24. Vendor: Websystems, Inc. Hosting options: Online only + you need an Asana, Trello, Basecamp or AceProject account.

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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.