Project Risk Coach
JUNE 24, 2016
You get on the elevator with someone who asks you about your upcoming project. Can you clearly describe your project in 60 seconds? Photo courtesy of AdobeStock (edited in Canva). Perhaps you are on the way out of a meeting with senior leaders when a Vice President asks you about your project. She says, “I only have a minute, but could you give me a brief summary of the project?
Rebel’s Guide to PM
JUNE 22, 2016
Do you think that your project should have a ‘launch’ event? In this extract from The Science of Growth * , Sean Ammirati shows that a single, formal big launch isn’t always what kickstarts a company (or a project) into the big league. What really works might surprise you – it’s definitely something to work on when you are thinking about positive project risk!
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Musings on Project Management
JUNE 23, 2016
In 1711 Abraham De Moivre came up with the mathematical definition of risk as: The Risk of losing any sum is the reverse of Expectation; and the true measure of it is, the product of the Sum adventured multiplied by the Probability of the Loss. Abraham de Moivre, De Mensura Sortis, 1711 in the Ph. Trans. of the Royal Society I copied this quote from a well argued posting by Matthew.
LiquidPlanner
JUNE 22, 2016
When you select a great new piece of software for your team, it’s an exciting time. You’re anticipating a better way of working and all the long-awaited benefits. “Yeah, it’s here!” (“But now we have to learn to use it, gulp.”) When it comes to the implementation and rollout process, things can get tricky. As a Customer Success guru, I’ve seen some exceptional implementations of LiquidPlanner over the past six years.
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Kiron Bondale
JUNE 19, 2016
I’ve previously written about the importance of discussing and harvesting lessons regularly over the life of a project and how important it is for someone to be reviewing, distilling and sharing them. I’ve also recommended that incorporating lessons into standard practices is better than just consolidating them into a repository, no matter how easy it might be to search that knowledge base.
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The Digital Project Manager
JUNE 24, 2016
Posted in The PM life. The post When you spend months planning a project with a client only for them to cancel it at the last minute appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.
LiquidPlanner
JUNE 20, 2016
Does your team groan when you they hear the words “track time”? Is it an activity that everyone on your team tends to duck and dodge and you’re on a repeat loop every week reminding people do fill in their time sheets? It’s no secret that there’s a lot of resistance around tracking time among team members, and for a variety of reasons. But what happens when you’re managing a team who needs continual reminders?
Ganttic
JUNE 21, 2016
At Toptal, nothing about remote work is controversial. Over the last four years, we’ve lived and worked remotely in more than 30 countries. We’ve been running a 100% remote , 90-person strong, venture-funded company that grows hundreds of percent year over year—almost entirely from our laptops, phones, and tablets. Working remotely is a productive and efficient reality that we evangelize to our clients, while practicing what we preach.
Green Project Management
JUNE 20, 2016
Sustainable Development Goal #3 and Project Management, ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages. Installment #3 of our series in which we cover each sustainable development goal (SDG) and how projects and project management can contribute to them. This post focuses on SDG number 3, Good Health and Well-being. This goal […].
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
Herding Cats
JUNE 24, 2016
I've started reading Vasco's book #NoEstimates and will write a detailed deconstruction. I got the Kindle version, so I have a $10 investment at risk. Let's start with some graphs that have been around and their misinformation that forms the basis of the book. The Chaos Report graph. This graph is from old 2004 numbers. That's 12 year old numbers. Many times the books uses 12, 16, even 25 year old reports as the basis of the suggestion that Not Estimating fixes the problems in the reports.
Function Point
JUNE 24, 2016
Poor communication, sore backlogs, and increased stress-levels are all symptoms of workflow-enza. As prevailing as the common cold, workflow-enza is a pain in the butt that can render the productivity of a company bedridden. This happens because companies overlook their workflows. Consequently, they become overworked, inefficient, and make prospective clients think twice before shaking their hand.
Project Management Hacks
JUNE 23, 2016
Is ego your enemy? That’s a key question that author and strategist Ryan Holiday explores in his new book, “Ego Is The Enemy.” He shows how ego – irrational or delusional self-belief – has long been linked with success and striving for goals yet this same drive has a dark side. It’s an interesting challenge to navigate in the age of personal branding and social media.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
JUNE 20, 2016
Jo Cox’s murder, and knowing that her children – one the same age as one of mine – will grow up without their mother, has affected me greatly. And at the same time I’m aware that the depth of my feelings is nothing compared to her friends, family, colleagues and those who knew her personally. Today I was supposed to publish a book extract here on the blog.
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Herding Cats
JUNE 21, 2016
When riding a single track like this one behind our neighborhood, I came to an understand of the tradeoffs between stability and control. In our conference sessions, we speak about how the Wright Brothers learned this concept as well. Here's another trail being ridden by our son at Nationals in 2013. who's massively better than I will ever be. But same tradeoff between stability and control is needed to be ranked 33rd Cross Country and 23rd Short Track at DII in the nation, with team taking 2nd
Function Point
JUNE 24, 2016
Poor communication, sore backlogs, and increased stress-levels are all symptoms of workflow-enza. As prevailing as the common cold, workflow-enza is a pain in the butt that can render the productivity of a company bedridden. This happens because companies overlook their workflows. Consequently, they become overworked, inefficient, and make prospective clients think twice before shaking their hand.
The Lazy Project Manager
JUNE 24, 2016
There was a very famous (at least in the UK) advertisement for a type of beer that is brewed using bottom-fermenting yeast at lower temperatures and for longer durations than those typically used to brew ales – I of course mean lager. Now, for those of you who may never have seen this advertisement, then the ‘joke’ was that whilst it was not allowed to declare that the goods a company sold and promoted were the best this Danish brewer (and their ad agency) came up with the tagline that their lag
Project Risk Coach
JUNE 21, 2016
If you can’t see this video in your RSS reader or email, then click here. What steps do you take to reduce resistance to change in your projects? The post Overcoming Resistance to Change – Isn’t It Obvious? [Video] appeared first on.
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Herding Cats
JUNE 20, 2016
There's lots of misinformation going around again in the #NoEstimates community. We can't estimate things we've never done before - this is simply not true. There is not much that hasn't been done before in some form. If you truley haven't done the work before, you're probabiliy not the right person to be estimating for those wanting to pay you. . Estimates are guesses, because we don't know that the future is - this is a fundamental misunderstanding (either with intent or omission) on how estim
Musings on Project Management
JUNE 20, 2016
Patrick Weaver gave a talk at Primavera06 about the history of scheduling. His talk is captured in an interesting paper: "A brief history of scheduling: back to the future" Patrick is somewhat of a historian and prognosticator on matter such as these. He also has written: The Origins of Modern Project Management: www.mosaicprojects.com.au/Resources_Papers_050.html ‘Trends In Modern Project.
The Digital Project Manager
JUNE 22, 2016
Posted in General Ten Tops Tips. Projects running successfully are like cycling downhill, they have momentum, an energy of their own which exaggerates your strengths and covers a multitude of mistakes. When you’ve got momentum, clients are much more likely to say yes, and forgive minor irritations. But without momentum, every flaw is magnified and your client will forget none of your faults!
LiquidPlanner
JUNE 21, 2016
For the last couple of months, we’ve been writing about Dynamic Project Management —LiquidPlanner’s methodology that’s based on the philosophy that projects are living, evolving constructs. Today we’re pleased to announce the release of our new eBook: “ Introduction to Dynamic Project Management.”. In this eBook , we walk through the principles of Dynamic Project Management, the need for it and the common problems that it addresses.
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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.
Pawel Brodzinski
JUNE 20, 2016
There’s one observation that I pretty much always bring to the table when I discuss the rates for our work at Lunar Logic. The following is true whenever we are buying anything, but when it comes to buying services the effect is magnified. A discussion about the price in isolation is a wrong discussion to have. What we should be discussing instead is value for money.
TeamGantt
JUNE 19, 2016
At TeamGantt, we’re 100% remote. Get an up-close look at 10 useful apps we lean on to keep our team connected, informed, and productive.
Fix my Project Chaos
JUNE 19, 2016
Let’s explore innovation on projects In this podcast, Trish Sutter from Armada Consulting speaks to me about innovation on projects. The team at Armada focuses on maximising clients’ returns on enterprise project investments in performance and profitability improvement. They provide experts to assist in the design, development and delivery of results-focused enterprise performance management programs. […].
LiquidPlanner
JUNE 24, 2016
Every week we bring you the best of what we’re reading from around the web. This week’s stories center on speed, efficiency, working well with others and there’s an intriguing piece on how a Harvard Business School professor studied Pixar’s formula to rethink leadership and innovation. I hope these posts bring you a bit of joy and insight into getting the most out of your day.
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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