Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 29, 2018

This is a guest article by Melissa Lobo of Project Female. Teamwork: the act of bringing several individuals together in order to efficiently and effectively complete a project. Melissa Labo. Project managers know that cooperation boosts productivity and is beneficial in a team environment. Teamwork is an enabler for the smooth running of projects. It speeds up the achievement of targets and helps project professionals overcome obstacles.

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Project Risk Coach

AUGUST 27, 2018

A life well lived involves looking backward as well as thinking forward. The same is true of projects. In this article, we will look at how to conduct a risk audit to evaluate the effectiveness of your risk management. Additionally, we'll also talk about how to be more forward thinking through risk reviews. rocket. “Good Risk Management fosters vigilance in times of calm and instills discipline in times of crisis.

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LiquidPlanner

AUGUST 28, 2018

Once in my career, I was lucky enough to work with a true Excel spreadsheet master. Chris could make Excel do anything, except he never used spreadsheets to manage a project. He was a wise man. Since then I’ve come across too many project professionals, teams and organizations who stretch Microsoft Excel into a project management tool, and unsuccessfully so.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 29, 2018

Project design is a major first step towards a successful project. A project design is a strategic organization of ideas, materials and processes for the purpose of achieving a goal. Project managers rely on a good design to avoid pitfalls and provide parameters to maintain crucial aspects of the project, like the schedule and the budget. Some might rush through the preliminary stages of a project, such as the project design, but that would be a mistake.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 27, 2018

Today I’m interviewing Natalie Steck, President and CEO at software firm Viewpath. I don’t often get to talk to too many female CEOs so it was great to find out more about Natalie’s career to date and the thoughts she has about the future of project management software. Natalie, how did you get started in project management? Natalie Steck. I have been involved in project management my whole career (focused in the sales and marketing) but more specifically since 2012 when I needed to set up the U

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Project Bliss

AUGUST 31, 2018

You may feel like you don’t have the right to say “no” when your boss asks you to do something. But sometimes it can feel overwhelming or stressful, depending on the request. You want to be seen as a team player. You want to be a reliable employee and admired by both your boss and your peers. And you want to be seen as trustworthy and someone who’s considered for career growth.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 27, 2018

Don’t get overlooked for an ideal job because your project management resume isn’t tailored to your strengths. Jennifer Bridges, PMP, shows you how to make a great resume and advance your career in project management. Here’s a screenshot of the whiteboard for your reference! In Review – Secrets to a Great Project Management Resume. Landing a great project management position requires a great project management resume.

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Musings on Project Management

AUGUST 27, 2018

In one of my past Agile classes I facilitated this discussion re baselines: Student 1: "I have a new Operations Director, and he says once you've missed a date, you re-baseline, and the item is no longer indicative of a bad/out of date status. In previous positions, we didn't always or weren't allowed to do that, so that they could track the original dates vs. current progress.

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LiquidPlanner

AUGUST 30, 2018

Project teams love their methodologies. And for good reason. If you launch a project without structure, you’re setting yourself and the team up for failure. Teams typically choose a planning methodology that best fits the nature of their work; they then use that methodology to structure their work. For example, manufacturing typically goes with a Waterfall method; dev teams like Agile.

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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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Scrum.org

AUGUST 28, 2018

Liberating Structures are facilitation techniques that allow you to unleash and involve everyone in a group?—?from extroverted to introverted and from leaders to followers. In this series of posts, we show how Liberating Structures can be used with Scrum. . Our human minds aren’t very accustomed to the complex, technological world we live in. We employ stereotypes to judge others, we generalize based on small observations and we jump to conclusions without considering the facts.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 28, 2018

Thanks to the evolution of modern business practices, Agile , an iterative approach to planning and guiding the project process, is on the mind of nearly every manager. Agile has migrated from software development to touch just about every corner of the project management universe, and Scrum is one of the most popular frameworks for implementing it.

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Inloox

AUGUST 28, 2018

While taking stock of our office supplies here at the InLoox headquarters in Munich a couple of weeks ago, we discovered several laptops we no longer use. As they are still fully functional and it would have been a waste to just throw them away. So we did some research and came across a program that helps find new homes for technical devices which can no longer be used for their original purposes.

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Techno-PM

AUGUST 28, 2018

What is Requirement Traceability Matrix? Have you ever been in a situation where you no longer remember who asked for a certain requirement to be added to the project? Or even worse, when a key requirement to the project was missed by the supplier? Don’t be ashamed, we’ve all been there. Fortunately, there are tools you can use to prevent these misfortunes from happening.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 28, 2018

Every time a discussion is raised on Agile Product Development and more specifically on the software side, people complain about how fast they should be to achieve market goals and, in general, lots of "un"useful upfront planning is taken in for such detail level where most people believe are capable to predict. Fortunately, due to this market need and strong competition, companies are being forced to go to market earlier, deploy its product and get customer feedback earlier than ever.

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Scoro

AUGUST 28, 2018

Choosing the right business management software can feel like a daunting experience. At Scoro , we’ve advised thousands of users during the new software implementation process, and we’ve discovered that there are many recurring problems and questions that arise. The best business management software solutions return a long-term benefit and accelerate your company’s growth.

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Online PM Courses

AUGUST 27, 2018

I love doing a live Project Management course. The interaction with participants and the chance to take the course in whatever direction they choose isn’t just challenging; it’s fun. And, for the last 14 years, I’ve done more Project Management training than anything else. I’ve given over 500 project management courses and seminars, for over 6,000 new and experienced project managers.

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Redbooth

AUGUST 30, 2018

Gmail’s 2018 redesign is a large project that, for the most part, has been a resounding success. Positive press and happy users have welcomed the new UI with open arms. Security and task management features make it more appealing to enterprise customers, ensuring steady revenue growth. Source: Google. Finding ways to make meaningful changes to a product with a billion users and a sprawling product team aren’t easy; without institutional knowledge, it would be impossible.

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Proofhub

AUGUST 28, 2018

Gantt charts aren’t something new. Anyone who is even remotely related to the project management process knows or have at least heard about Gantt charts. In simple words, Gantt charts are a staple tool for project management, particularly in planning and scheduling projects. These are basically visual tools that help agile teams to keep track of projects and tasks against time.

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Teamweek

AUGUST 26, 2018

Teamweek’s Annual Plan Sale begins next week, and you don’t want to miss this chance to save money on your Teamweek subscription. During the sale, your team will save 20% when you sign up for an annual plan. Depending on the size of your team, you could save hundreds of dollars. Here’s how you and your team can prepare for the sale: Try Teamweek for Free.

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Planview

AUGUST 30, 2018

See if this sounds familiar: your organization’s strategic plan is constructed at the executive level, broken down into an annual plan that is led by finance, then operationalized by the PMO and other groups in the organization. Yet, as soon as you begin to figure out exactly how the plan is to be executed, change happens. I could say to always “expect the unexpected,” but change is inevitable—it’s expected.

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Redbooth

AUGUST 30, 2018

Gmail’s 2018 redesign is a large project that, for the most part, has been a resounding success. Positive press and happy users have welcomed the new UI with open arms. Security and task management features make it more appealing to enterprise customers, ensuring steady revenue growth. Source: Google. Finding ways to make meaningful changes to a product with a billion users and a sprawling product team aren’t easy; without institutional knowledge, it would be impossible.

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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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Leading Agile

AUGUST 30, 2018

? ? ? ?. Many organizations are struggling to apply the concepts of Agile because they view Agile as a new way of doing the same old thing. They believe that if the roles, ceremonies, and artifacts of Scrum are in place, they’ll reap the benefits of having become Agile. However, in our experience, leading a large-scale Agile Transformation isn’t about simply adopting a new set of attitudes, processes, and behaviors at the team level—it’s about building enabling structures, aligning the flow of w

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Teamweek

AUGUST 27, 2018

Let’s face it, if you’re not project tracking, you’re not being as productive as you thought. As a project manager, it’s your job to keep track of all the projects your team handles. There are many benefits to project tracking: Gives insight into the progress of the project. Allows you to better adjust budgets and schedules if needed. Helps keep track of hours worked on the project.

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ProProject Manager

AUGUST 27, 2018

What problem are you trying to solve? Project management is all about solving problems and delivering results. When your manager comes to you with a project proposal, it’s because there’s a business issue that needs resolution. Part of the job of a project manager is to define that problem so that it is solvable, then develop the plan, the schedules, and handle the deliverables.

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Redbooth

AUGUST 30, 2018

Gmail’s 2018 redesign is a large project that, for the most part, has been a resounding success. Positive press and happy users have welcomed the new UI with open arms. Security and task management features make it more appealing to enterprise customers, ensuring steady revenue growth. Source: Google. Finding ways to make meaningful changes to a product with a billion users and a sprawling product team aren’t easy; without institutional knowledge, it would be impossible.

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

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