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Post-Industrial Project Management

Leading Answers

Introduction. We know old concepts that govern agriculture do not apply to industry. Engineers do not consult the weather or growing seasons before designing machinery. Yet many project managers who work in the knowledge worker domain still apply project management approaches developed for the industrial era. This mismatch of approaches wastes effort and misses important new risks.

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How To Start Your Projects Right. A Complete Guide To Project Initiation

The Digital Project Manager

The beginning of a project: the calm before the storm or a manic rush to get things sorted ready for the core work to start? Whichever way it happens, the start of a project is critical to its future success. From estimating and scoping, to assigning resource, defining requirements, briefing in your team, the all important first meeting with the client—there’s a minefield of tasks out there which can shape how your project develops.

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How to Run a Really Great Project Meeting

Online PM Courses

Does it sometimes seem that your life is a constant trudge from one project meeting to the next. It’s as if there’s little time to do anything before the next one. And, if that’s not bad enough, how many of your project meetings are truly worthwhile? I know we say ‘good meeting’ at the end of them, but we don’t mean it.

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New Project Manager? Here?s Your Survival Guide

Eylean

Written by: Maria at Unito.io Whether you are new to a project management position, or have been tasked with managing a project without formal training, it’s not a far stretch to say that you’re in for a bumpy yet interesting ride. Managing a project is never easy, however you can easily set yourself up for … The post New Project Manager? Here’s Your Survival Guide appeared first on Eylean Blog.

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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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The Fallacy of #NoEstimates

Herding Cats

There is a Blog Video speaking the #NoEstimates that opens with the following. Let's look at the credibility of each of the statements below: Estimating can be an endemic problem in organisations these days because estimating is fundamentally guessing, yet these guesses are taken as promises / firm commitments (when that is not how they were intended).

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PMO Conference 2018: Video Diary

Rebel’s Guide to PM

On 13 June 2018 I went to the PMO Conference in London. It’s one of the few conferences that is specifically focused on PMO practices, process, tools and people. I don’t think of myself as really a PMO person so I wasn’t sure what I would get out of it. I was surprised – in a good way! It was brilliant, very well put together and very interesting.

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Top 5 Resource Management Lessons for England in the World Cup

Ganttic

As England launches its World Cup Campaign, we’d like to give manager Gareth Southgate and his coaching staff our top resource management lessons. After all, resource planning in a business, charity or organization can’t be all that different to the management of a World Cup team. Bear with us…. Managing resources in a World Cup team Southgate has a lot on his plate - dealing with the hopes, dreams, and fears of a young, inexperienced squad; managing a new(ish) formation; navigating group footba

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Cloverleaf + LiquidPlanner Webinar: The Power of People

LiquidPlanner

Once the project is defined, tasks are delegated, and deadlines are set, the real work can begin: managing the people part of a project. Managing your team, as well as their individual communication styles, skills, quirks, and motivations, can be a huge undertaking. It’s always nice to spend a little time on how to make that a smoother endeavor. That’s why LiquidPlanner recently partnered with Cloverleaf , a personal and team development tool, on a webinar to go over just that: the peo. ple par

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Full Time Scrum Master experiment part 2 ? Learning

Growing Agile

The first thing I had to do to prepare for this full time scrum master role was learn the crap out of it. Let’s be clear on something: I love to learn. I studied English literature, psychology and women’s studies in university. I love to learn about the way humans think, what motivates us, and if I learn something about myself along the way, that’s even better.

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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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Post-Industrial Project Management

Leading Answers

Introduction We know old concepts that govern agriculture do not apply to industry. Engineers do not consult the weather or growing seasons before designing machinery. Yet many project managers who work in the knowledge worker domain still apply project management.

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What is a Critical Chain? | Video

Online PM Courses

The Critical Path Method is well known. But, what is a Critical Chain? Dr Mike Clayton is founder of Online PM Courses.com. Here, he answers this question, in under 5 minutes. Project Management in Under 5. What is a Critical Chain? You may also like… What is the Critical Path Method (CPM)? What is a PERT Chart? Please: subscribe to our YouTube Channel by clicking here.

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Zapier Integration: How to Go from Requirements to Project Schedule in a Zap

LiquidPlanner

As a project manager, how often have you experienced these scenarios: You just walked out of a requirement gathering session and have an Excel list of new project requirements that need to be organized into a schedule. Your team has developed a user story backlog in JIRA but you need to represent the sprints and key dependencies in a project timeline.

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Full Time Scrum Master experiment part 2 ? Learning

Growing Agile

The first thing I had to do to prepare for this full time scrum master role was learn the crap out of it. Let’s be clear on something: I love to learn. I studied English literature, psychology and women’s studies in university. I love to learn about the way humans think, what motivates us, and if I learn something about myself along the way, that’s even better.

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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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5 Project Timeline Mistakes You?re Making Without Realizing

Teamweek

You know it’s important to create a timeline for all of your team’s projects. But simply creating a project timeline isn’t enough. You need to avoid the following project timeline mistakes if you want to make sure your project stays within budget and gets completed by the deadline. According to a 2015 study from the Project Management Institute , about 25% of organizations blame project failure on scheduling or timeline mistakes.

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Project Management Governance Model Template and Governance PMO

WorkOtter

Project Management Governance Model Template and Governance PMO The development of project management and the need for project governance As a discipline project management has come a long way since the early 1950s when the focus shifted from simply delivering technical specifications at cost to formalizing workflows. The Program Evaluation Review Technique (PERT) was developed […].

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Traditional and Agile Product Management with Meisterplan

Meisterplan

Agile processes and fixed deadlines can easily conflict with each other. We have this same basic problem in our company. I wrote about that in the article “ Product Management and Agile – Agile Misunderstood “ In terms of product management for Meisterplan, our software development is completely agile. There are other projects that are partly implemented using an agile approach and partly using a more traditional approach.

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Agile Testing Manifesto ? in Dutch!

Growing Agile

Our Agile Testing Manifesto has been translated by Pieter Versteijnen into Dutch! You can also find Pieter on twitter @pieter28 or here www.devon.nl. Here is the new image with the translation, feel free to use it and share. The post Agile Testing Manifesto – in Dutch! appeared first on Growing Agile.

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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 to pick the best time management apps for your work style

Teamweek

Before you start downloading all the time management apps in the app store, you need a strategy. Trying a gazillion time management apps won’t make you more productive, but finding the perfect app could. First, consider your work style and your goals. Do you want to prioritize better or eliminate distractions? Are you a multi-tasker or do you work better when you focus on one thing at a time?

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Five Things to Start and Five Things to Stop in Project Risk Management

Project Risk Coach

Risk management gets a lot of fanfare, but many project managers fail to cash in on the benefits. Here are some simple and practical project risk management tips that can aid project managers in getting better results. Five Things to Start 1 Start risk management early in your projects. 2 Start discussing the most significant risks each time you meet. 3 Start educating your team members on how to integrate risk management into other project management processes such as Schedule Management and Qu

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Transforming the Transformation w/ Mike Cottmeyer

Leading Agile

In this episode of SoundNotes, Mike Cottmeyer and Dave Prior discuss how organizational Transformation continues to evolve. The conversation offers a brief preview of some of the things Mike will be covering at his Agile 2018 session: “Agile Transformation Explained” [link]. During the interview, Mike and Dave discuss how the skill sets needed to lead and shepherd those Transformations have grown to include much more than what we would have expected from an Agile coach several years ago.

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Agile Testing Manifesto ? in Dutch!

Growing Agile

Our Agile Testing Manifesto has been translated by Pieter Versteijnen into Dutch! You can also find Pieter on twitter @pieter28 or here www.devon.nl. Here is the new image with the translation, feel free to use it and share. The post Agile Testing Manifesto – in Dutch! appeared first on Growing Agile.

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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 Fallacy of #NoEstimates

Herding Cats

There is a Blog Video speaking the #NoEstimates that opens with the following. Let's look at the credibility of each of the statements below: Estimating can be an endemic problem in organisations these days because estimating is fundamentally guessing, yet these guesses are taken as promises / firm commitments (when that is not how they were intended).

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SMART Goals Template for the Project Managers to set Smart goals and Objectives

Techno-PM

SMART Goals The SMART method describes how to set clear objectives for a goal, usually for project management or personal growth. It was first introduced in 1981 by George Doran, and the main advantage of using these types of goals is that it is easy to ascertain whether they have been achieved or not. Download this template SMART Goals Template What does the SMART in SMART Goals stand for?

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7 Best Time Tracking Software for IT Sector

TimeCamp

Why Should You Use Time Tracking for IT? Time tracking software is being widely used.

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Leadership the Admiral's way

Musings on Project Management

Nearly 10 years on, it doesn't get old -- or obsolete: In the November 2010 issue of the Harvard Business Review, there is an interview with Admiral Thad Allen, the retired Coast Guard commandant and the former "National Incident Commander" for the Gulf oil spill of 2010.

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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.