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Project Management Trends and Predictions for 2019

GoSkills

What is the future of project management? Our industry experts share the biggest project management trends for 2019.

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Is increasing agility a recurring resolution?

Kiron Bondale

As we kickoff the final week of 2018, many of us will be making New Year’s resolutions. While some of these resolutions might relate to achieving a specific goal or objective (e.g. I resolve to run a marathon this year), most relate to changing our behavior (e.g. I resolve to eat healthier this year). But for many of us it becomes a case of déjà vu as we end up making the same resolutions we had confidently made in previous years.

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How to Conduct a Feasibility Study

ProjectManager.com

What is a feasibility study and why is it so important for a project? Jennifer Bridges, PMP, explains what project managers need to know about feasibility studies in this short tutorial video. Here’s a screenshot of the whiteboard for your reference! In Review – How to Conduct a Feasibility Study. Jennifer began by clarifying what a feasibility study is.

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Agile and the V-and-V thing

Musings on Project Management

Have you thought much about this? Two of the conceptual conundrums of the hybrid methodology project are: How do you verify that which is incomplete and. How do you validate the efficacy of that which is yet to be conceived? Verification and validation (V-and-V) are traditionally held to be very important project practises that are difficult to map directly into the Agile domain.

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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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Guidelines in Scrum

Scrum.org

A few days back I did a Scrum Tapas Video explaining what are few of the rules within Scrum. Besides these rules, there are also certain guidelines which help the Scrum Teams to make the best possible use of Scrum framework to create maximum Business Impact. When I refer to rules, I mean those aspects which cannot be mended to fit a particular context.

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The 7 Best Blog Posts on Project Management in 2018

ProjectManager.com

Project management is thriving. People are coming to realize that most everything they do can be considered a project, no matter how big or small. We’re just happy to help people manage their projects with our project management software , blog posts and videos that offer practical solutions to things like time management, using resources more effectively and managing teams.

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LeCarre and project mangement

Musings on Project Management

As a former intelligence professional, John LeCarre is one of my favorite authors, to say nothing of the dry British wit and sparkling prose that supports some quite challenging plots. Nonetheless, I didn't expect to find this wisdom on the pages of "Our kind of traitor" In operational planning there are two opportunities only for flexibility: One, when you've drawn up your plan.

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Innovation in project management: Inspiration from Dubai

Susanne Madsen

I recently spoke at Dubai International Project Management Forum ( DIPMF ) and was struck by the innovative theme of the conference. Perhaps it shouldn’t have come as a surprise. Already when I prepared for my presentation the organisers said, “Innovation is a big thing down here”, and indeed it is. In 2016 the UAE government was named the second-most tech savvy government in the world by the World Economic Forum and the Dubai government has formulated a bold strategy to be the

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Portfolio and Resource Management Tips to Gift Your PMO This Holiday Season

Planview

It’s the holiday season! This can mean one of two things. 1) You’ve already checked out and are in “vacation mode” or 2) you’re absolutely slammed with work that always appears right at this time of the year. Whether you have ample free time or not nearly enough, you’ll still want to find time to learn new things. What better way than with a reading list filled with portfolio and resource management tips?

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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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The 7 Best Blog Posts on Office Culture in 2018

ProjectManager.com

Office culture is the set of standards you’re expected to hold when you walk into a work space. They are certainly not consistent, nor are they set in stone. Office culture at one time meant a suit and a tie or an equally formal attire for women. Then came business casual. Now, at some places of business, you’ll look out of place if you’re not in shorts and a T-shirt.

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The Rise of Digital Project Management

TrustRadius Project Management

We live in a digital age. Our digital world is filled with millions of talented people working on a diverse set of projects that power our online and offline lives. The people who design what we access on our screens are masters at planning, communicating, collaborating, and ultimately creating. These are the people who make up digital project management , and at the center of digital project management is, naturally, the digital project manager.

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Agile (What’s so funny about peace, love and future dreaming?)

Gunther Verheyen

The Agile Manifesto, and the movement that stemmed from it, has hugely improved the world. I believe in continuing the Agile dream and create an even better world (rather than focus on the inevitable downsides of the success). In February 2001, seventeen software development leaders gathered at the Snowbird ski resort in Utah (United States) to discuss their views on software development.

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Improving Employee Productivity: 10 Tips You’ll Wish You Knew Earlier

Teamweek

Are you running out of ideas when it comes to improving employee productivity? Well, you’re not the first manager in this situation, and you won’t be the last. There are so many different types of people in this world. Over 7.5 billion, in fact. Each of them have a different idea of what productivity is and how to be an efficient member of a team. As a manager, it falls to you to teach them what you expect and how they can mesh with your standards.

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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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What to Look for When Evaluating Design Project Management Tools

Wrike

Requests, drafts, revisions, status updates, deadlines, and never-ending feedback loops. Is your head spinning? Let’s face it — keeping all of your design projects organized presents a challenge. You know your current system isn’t working. You have files scattered throughout Google Drive and Dropbox. Important communication keeps getting buried in emails and instant messages.

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The Rise of Digital Project Management

TrustRadius Project Management

We live in a digital age. Our digital world is filled with millions of talented people working on a diverse set of projects that power our online and offline lives. The people who design what we access on our screens are masters at planning, communicating, collaborating, and ultimately creating. These are the people who make up digital project management , and at the center of digital project management is, naturally, the digital project manager.

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Make 2019 amazing

Gunther Verheyen

Dear compagnon, reader, follower, liker. As the end of 2018 approaches, I hope that it was as great as mine/ours was. Regardless, work hard to turn 2019 into an amazing year, of insightful experiences, challenging encounters and exciting adventures, both personal and professional. Look for the value in the Scrum Values , as I shared with the world at the request of my friends of ProAgile in Sweden.

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The Best Business Management Software for Creative Agencies

Teamweek

The Digital Age is the best thing to happen to creative agencies since the advertising boom of the 1950s and 60s. ( Mad Men is a great primer on that era.) The Internet has made borders and distance inconsequential, allowing agencies of all types to serve clients in real-time and recruit talent across multiple time zones. With so much opportunity out there, having the right business management software is essential for keeping your agency on track.

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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 Create a Kanban Board in Wrike Using Custom Statuses & Dashboard Widgets

Wrike

If you’ve ever worked with a task management tool and wanted to customize your workflow in the tool to closely resembles how your team actually works, then you know not every tool out there offers that functionality. Wrike does. Our Custom Statuses are unique features built into Wrike Enterprise that allow the creation of workflows tailor-made for your team.

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Merry Christmas and Thank You !

Hub Planner

Reading Time: 1 minute. Merry Christmas & Thank You ! Greetings from Hub Planner, As you know, we always welcome new suggestions and ideas to evolve Hub Planner into a bigger and better experience. We’ve had a super year designing and developing these new and exciting concepts and wish to thank you for being a part of our journey. We invite you to take a look back at what Hub Planner created this year with an abundance of new features and updates.

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Project Management Truths

Online PM Courses

This article is published on Christmas Eve, 2018. It seems a good time to focus on two things: project management truths and humor. So, I’d like to combine them in a short, light article. I know some of my readers take time off at this time of year. But others don’t. So, I hope you’ll […]. The post Project Management Truths appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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The 10 Best Project Planning Software Options

Teamweek

Have you been planning your projects using a basic Word document? Or even worse, in a spiral-bound notebook? It may be time to look into the best project planning software options available to you online. Each of these apps offer great functions that make the planning process much simpler and allow you and your team to communicate more efficiently. Take a look at these ten programs to see which one will best fit your team and throw that old notebook in the trash. 1.

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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 In-Depth Guide to Using Wrike’s Online Gantt Chart Maker

Wrike

We’ve created a lot of videos about our Gantt chart. They describe the different aspects of using our Gantt chart (aka, Timeline View ), including creating a new task right from the Timeline and linking dependent tasks. We also have our Help Center to give you a breakdown of the different functionalities. But none of these resources include best practices for using the Wrike Timeline, so we’re here to give you a few hints on how to get started in the most efficient, practical manner.

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WorkOtter - Untitled Article

WorkOtter

The post appeared first on SaaS Resource & Project Management Software | WorkOtter.

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How To Crack PMP In First Attempt And Be Successful?

PM by PM

Whilst preparing for the PMP exam, few questions frequently strike into our thoughts – Is it possible to crack the PMP exam in the first attempt? If yes, then what tips are required to follow for the preparation? If such questions are also in your head then today’s post is for you. As I believe, the […]. The post How To Crack PMP In First Attempt And Be Successful?

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5 Major Work Trends – What to Expect in 2019

TimeCamp

What to Expect in 2019? As December 2018 comes to an end, so do people’s annual.

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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.