Project Bliss

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Brainstorming is an approach that teams can use to generate many ideas quickly. The goal is to inspire more creative thoughts to generate many ideas quickly and often build from there. While it feels very relaxed and informal, there’s a structure you can apply to increase the productivity of your brainstorming session. Read on to learn how to have the most successful brainstorming sessions possible.

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Taskque

DECEMBER 10, 2018

You are a project manager who has to juggle multiple projects simultaneously without messing up any one of them. Despite that, the projects you oversee end up taking longer to complete and cost you much more than the original budget. This gives you sleepless nights and even when you sleep, you get nightmares. Does all this ring a bell? If yes, you need to think about the reasons why projects fail.

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ActiveCollab

DECEMBER 13, 2018

I won’t start this with a statement claiming that marketing is all about project management. But what happens when you’re a marketing expert that spends almost half of your day writing briefs, corresponding with subcontractors, and managing projects? Where is the line that separates a marketing strategist from a project manager? After all, almost every marketing activity can be viewed as a project - big or small - depending on the scope, budget, size of your team, and even ambition.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Project management conferences are a fantastic way to meet new people and improve your skills. I always come away feeling energised about where I am in my career and relieved having met people with similar problems to me. Many conferences have early bird pricing so it is worth checking out the events that interest you as soon as you can in case you need to get corporate funding to attend.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Want to become a senior project manager? First you must know how one differs from a typical project manager. Jennifer Bridges, PMP, explains and provides you with practical steps to achieve your career goals. Here’s a screenshot of the whiteboard for your reference! In Review – How to Become a Senior Project Manager. Jennifer said she often receives questions about how to become a senior manager.

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Kiron Bondale

DECEMBER 9, 2018

A project manager asked me this week whether I was aware of any studies which could be used to justify the assignment of a “real” project manager to manage a project as opposed to having this function performed by someone else within a team. While I’m sure PMI and other project management associations have researched this thoroughly, I felt this would be a good topic for an article.

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LiquidPlanner

DECEMBER 13, 2018

“The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.”—Babe Ruth ??. Among the many critical project success factors—detailed plans, accurate estimates, and clear communication—a strong, unified team is arguably one of the most important.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 11, 2018

A project isn’t successful just because it has been completed on time and within budget. There is one other factor that is critical to success: quality. No matter how quickly and cheaply a project is completed, stakeholders are not going to be happy if the quality of the product or service doesn’t meet their expectations. So, how can a manager track the quality of their project and make sure it meets the requirements of stakeholders?

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The Lazy Project Manager

DECEMBER 14, 2018

A new book for you and your team: How to become a more confident public speaker the ‘Lazy’ way – Available now on Amazon. Am I a public speaking expert? An interesting thought and hardly one that I could answer myself. I could say, with complete accuracy, that I have (at the time of writing this book) delivered 337 presentations of varying formats to a public audience of varying human formats, interests, locations and languages (to over 60,000 people in actual fact).

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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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Musings on Project Management

DECEMBER 9, 2018

Does software fail, or does it just have faults, or neither? Silly questions? Not really. I've heard them for years. Here 's the argument for "software doesn't fail": Software always works the way it is designed to work, even if designed incorrectly. It doesn't wear out, break (unless you count corrupted files), or otherwise not perform exactly as designed.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 9, 2018

By Chris Lukassen & Sjoerd Kranendonk. By now, most organisations are using Scrum, however, many of them feel like the agility of their organisation has degraded, and they might be right! Often, using Scrum starts out as a way to improve development efforts coordinated within an IT division or department, but that is not the most effective organization structure to potentially get maximum benefit from Scrum.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Every trade has its trade association, an organization that represents the industry and offers training or networking. Project management is no different. The Project Management Institute (PMI) is a nonprofit organization for those working in project management across the globe. If you have even a passing interest in the field, then you’ve bumped up against PMI.

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Inloox

DECEMBER 11, 2018

There was a lot going on at InLoox in 2018, which is also reflected on the InLoox blog. From all the posts on various topics around project management , time management , organizational agility , disruptive trends and professions in project management , you particularly liked these 10: #10: Digital Transformation Projects (2): Opportunities and Challenges of Digitalization Digital transformation breaks with tradition and replaces obsolete processes with newer and more efficient ones.

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The IIL Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2018

By Susan Parente | Risk Management Guru – Agile Generalist – Instructor and Consultant, IIL. “Can Agile practices be incorporated with traditional project management?” This is a very common question today, and the answer is yes! In this blog, I’ll cover two great Agile practices that teams have found to be valuable to incorporate on traditional projects, and which may help your team make the shift from traditional to Agile project management: A Daily Stand-up meeting and a Kanban boa

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Planio

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Sprints are the backbone of any good Agile development team. And the better prepared you are before a sprint, the more likely you are to hit your goals. Spring planning helps to refocus attention, minimize surprises, and (hopefully) guarantee better code gets shippied. But maybe more than that, sprint planning aligns the development team with the product owner.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 13, 2018

You’ve probably heard that nearly half of all new business fail, but it’s not that grim. According to the Small Business Association (SBA), that number is closer to 30 percent, and that’s over the course of their first two years in business. However, that number does jump to 50 percent during the business’ first five years and then over 10 years the percentage grows to 66.

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nTask

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Among hundreds of productivity apps and task management tools , Todoist stands as one of the best to-do list apps amongst millions of people. However, is a to-do list app enough? There are some areas where this tool can be a little uneasy to work with. To each their own, but in general, some of the most prominent areas where Todoist misses out include: No Issue Management.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 11, 2018

This is the truth. If we turn things upside down. organisations can't truly embrace Agility. I would be lying if I said that. we can improve our product delivery process even more. that we can further minimize our maintenance costs and that. Teams can be self-organised, professional, motivated and deliver value, I'm sure of this because of my experience in the field. bureaucracy, fear of change and securing job safety is in our nature.

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TeamGantt

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Planning a holiday event? You’ve got tons of details to keep up with! See how to plan your event in TeamGantt—with a little inspiration from the Griswolds.

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Proofhub

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Working as a designer is not an easy job, even when it is something you’re passionate about. There are times when you’ll be unorganized or in mess. Are you the one who spends more time clearing the clutter than actually designing? Are you struggling to keep up the things organized in your design process? The design process is no longer carried forward individually.

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Teamweek

DECEMBER 9, 2018

When you are running a business, keeping everything organized is crucial to ensuring your company has set procedures for employees to follow. Staying organized saves your business a great deal of time and money, allowing it to flourish and grow. If you are running a business, multiple tasks may need to be performed and assigned at the same time. Without proper organization tools, this can feel impossible.

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PM Basics

DECEMBER 11, 2018

There is a huge variety of skill levels of a Project Manager. So, you noticed that you need one or two years of relevant experience of a project manager. For an entry-level role of a project manager ! I get it. It’s frustrating. You want to get your first job as a PM. But they want you to that much some experience. In this article, I’ll share some thoughts and tricks on how to get that “relevant” experience.

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The IIL Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2018

By Judith W. Umlas | IIL Senior Vice President, Author, and Facilitator. When McGraw-Hill first decided to publish my second book (the first was The Power of Acknowledgment , published by IIL Publishing), I thought it should be called Leadership and The Power of Acknowledgment. It felt right due to all of the positive experiences and wonderful stories that emerged training leaders in this initiative. “What would you think of a different title — Grateful Leadership ?

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Eylean

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Written by: Tom Jager Every self-respecting professional has a small arsenal of tools that they help them to accomplish their routine tasks. For example, a project manager’s toolkit often includes task management apps, communication and collaboration software, task assignment apps, and writing tools. Among them, writing tools have a special importance.

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Teamweek

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Project managers around the world will agree, the most time consuming aspect of being a project manager is creating timelines. Time is a constantly evolving variable, so it’s always a good idea to look for ways to manage it well. What if it were possible to create a Gantt chart template in 10 minutes? Even better… What if it were free? Here, we’re going to go over exactly how that’s possible using Teamweek.

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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.

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