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EVM and Agile – Can they work together?

Green Project Management

Context This post was modified from one I developed several years ago for the Mercure AACE 2013 program I took, called W15_PM_EVM-Agile-Considerations. My primary focus is split between sustainable organizational project, programme, portfolio and risk management improvement and organizational sustainable change delivery assessments. My project experience has been 30+ years in combining a series of […].

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Entrepreneurship & Project Management [Interview]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This article, Entrepreneurship & Project Management [Interview] , first appeared on Girl's Guide to PM. I used to work for someone who said, “We’ve all got the choice to buy a bucket and a brush.” He meant that if you weren’t happy at work for whatever reason, you could go and set up as a window cleaner and run your own business. Chris Cook.

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Professionalise Project Management

The Lazy Project Manager

The following is an extract from my new book ‘How to get Fired at the C-Level: Why mismanaging change is the biggest risk of all’ in association with my friends at Tailwind Project Solutions – the extracts follow a series of 5 Challenges that I think every organisation should consider, and consider very carefully – this is the final of the five challenges: Invest in great project management skills – not just project managers.

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A commentary on Agile

Musings on Project Management

I was looking back at some prior essays on Agile and came across the April 2012 PMNetwork magazine. Specifically I was attracted (again) to page 58 for an interview with some agilists on the state of the practice. Here are a couple of quotes from Jim Highsmith worth tucking away: Agile project management embraces both “doing” agile and “being” agile—and the latter is the hardest.

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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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EVM and Agile – Project Reporting

Green Project Management

Context This post was modified from one I developed several years ago for the Mercure AACE 2013 program I took, called W17_PM_EVM-KPI-Reporting. It is a follow on to a recent post “EVM and Agile – Can they work together?“ Once again, this post is not specifically about sustainable change delivery. It does provide useful considerations, […].

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What does project management mean to YOU?

Kiron Bondale

I’m not asking for your elevator pitch for the discipline , but rather what does it mean to you personally ? Being in the middle of changing roles, the thought process I went through to decide to make a change caused me to revisit a question which I’ve asked myself more than once over the past two decades. If you see your current work in project management as a stepping stone to a higher role such as a C-level business executive then it might just be a job.

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The Triple Constraints of Project Management

Entry

The post The Triple Constraints of Project Management appeared first on Entry Software Corporation.

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When You’re the Company’s First Project Manager

LiquidPlanner

In the beginning, project management was formless and empty, and darkness was over the work breakdown structure. The Founders looked over the face of the startup and said all is good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day (metaphorically). Then the company grew and its teams were fruitful and multiplied. Projects competed for resources, and everything was late.

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How To Build An Effective Project Portfolio Management ?

Project-Management.pm

Even an organization that thrives on successful projects, they sometimes encounter a dead-end. And often the cause of that is the lack of practice or standard or if there is one, they tend to be inconsistent. The foundation of a successful organization lies on how they embed a certain culture and practice in their system. Every company must know that constantly changing the existing processes and methods put more harm than good on their 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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Online Collaboration for remote teams

Binfire

Collaboration is the new weapon increasingly used by corporations to improve productivity and make teams more cohesive and responsive to change. Online collaboration for remote teams is even more critical to corporations’ bottom line due to globalization. What is online collaboration? Are video conferencing and online chat all you need for online collaboration ?

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The brief moment when you think you’ve just produced a perfect estimate

The Digital Project Manager

The post The brief moment when you think you’ve just produced a perfect estimate appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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How To Minimize Resource Planning/Scheduling Related Expenses Using Ganttic

Ganttic

I stumbled upon a research paper by Zohar Laslo titled Project portfolio management: An integrated method for resource planning and scheduling to minimize planning/scheduling-dependent expenses. Of course, I was intrigued and had to read it. How couldn’t you if it’s a paper on PPM and resource planning and it’s about keeping your projects in the budget.

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Why You Need to Project Portfolio Management Software Right Now ?

Project-Management.pm

Software tools and metrics play a big role in improving a project. They also make tasks easier and enable users to save budget and schedule, all the while delivering the product or service within the deadline. They are crucial attachments to a company’s success. Speaking of software, there are thousands of them cropping up in the market, catering to various needs of an organization.

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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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Announcing Android Native App

Binfire

I am extremely excited to announce the release of our first Android native application. Although we do have a great web application which is enhanced for mobile use for a long time, nothing works quite like a native app on Android and IOS devices. This application is the first of Native applications we are developing for Android and IOS market. Soon we will also release an IOS native application, followed by other applications with new functionality for both platforms.

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Agile in cycles

Musings on Project Management

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Real Estate Collaboration in Real Time

Redbooth

We’ve been talking with Amium users who are using the product to manage specific aspects of their jobs. From in-house designers, to marketing staff and freelance service providers, Amium helps them move forward on projects faster and more smoothly. In the fifth of our five-part series on Amium users, we talk to a marketing professional, “Marketing Mike.

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The Dangers of Tribalism with Project Methods

Green Project Management

Within the world of projects, the notion of tribes is prevalent. We often talk about organizational groups being stove-piped or siloed, but I believe a better descriptor is tribal. Tribes fighting other tribes within organizations for resources and recognition as opposed to working together for the common objectives. Apparently, this drive for belonging to tribes […].

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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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Tactics Marketing Agencies Can Use to Make Client Testimonials More Persuasive

Boost by Brightpod

Client testimonials are quickly becoming the number one tool for building the credibility of a brand. It’s not a secret that 88 percent of buyers trust onl.

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Fundamentals of Scientific Management

Herding Cats

It's popular in the agile community and especially in the #Noestimates community to denigrate Taylor for his Scientific Principles of Management. I first wonder of those making claims like. Taylor would turn in his grave if he saw how little his work ha (has) influenced the function where it matters the most: Management # Agile. have actually read Taylor?

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5 Most Common Mistakes in Managing Multiple Projects: Communication Breakdown (Part 5 of 5)

Wrike

As founder and CEO of Wrike, I’ve had the opportunity to hear many project war stories from customers, investors, and mentors. And this has been the driving force behind this 5-part series on common project management mistakes. The previous parts are here: part 1 , part 2 , part 3 , and part 4. Mistake #5: Poor Communication Within Your Team and With Stakeholders.

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Being Human in Agile

Stepping Into Project Management

Agile is one of the most-discussed subjects in any process domain. With commercialization and certification now so easily available to many, the approach has become easier to learn and implement, and with that has come the liability of seeing it as only a set of rules and practices. The "individual" who was the center of the process has now taken a back seat among the fancy tools and apps.

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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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Transparency and The Use of Project Management Tools

Project Insight

By George Pitagorsky | Follow on Twitter! It is widely thought that transparency is a good thing. One recent study* shows that transparency go.

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Quote of the Day

Herding Cats

Better have a plan to reduce technical and programmatic uncertainty (both of which have aleatory and epistemic behaviours respectively) at a planned rate, for a planned cost, on a planned time. Or plan on being late, over budget, and reduced probability of technical success, before you start. All Value is Cost and Time dependent. Knowing the probabilistic behaviours of all three of these random variables - Value, Time needed to produce the Value, and Cost to produce the Value is required for any

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7 Benefits of an Effective Knowledge Transfer Plan

Hydra

What is knowledge transfer?

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Owning or Owned

The Tao of Project Management

Rugby Sorry I haven't posted for a couple of weeks but my Fridays (posting day) have been very tied up. On the walking rugby front there was a meeting of the clubs who have got walking rugby going up at Bristol Rugby, which was very encouraging. Our numbers are steadily growing at Topsham and one of the Devon RFC committee is coming to join us next week.

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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.