Sat.May 13, 2017 - Fri.May 19, 2017

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How to Become a Better Communicator

Project Risk Coach

Project managers spend a large part of each day communicating—facilitating meetings, emailing stakeholders, responding to texts, writing reports, and having one-on-one conversations. We are so busy, we rarely take the time to think about the effectiveness of our communication. How can we become a better communicator? Here are five practical ways. Pick one or two and work on improving your communication this week.

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Software Review: ITM Platform [2017]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I spent some time using this online project management software and here is my ITM Platform software review. Find out what I thought and if it might be right for you. You'll also like: Software Review: Roadmap Planner [2017] Roadmap Planner is a simple app designed for creating strategic plans. It’s suitable for portfolio managers or programme managers on large programmes who have lots.

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Agency Agile: 10 Agile Methods For Agencies

The Digital Project Manager

Every digital agency I’ve come across seems to claim they’re they’re doing agency agile in some shape or form. The challenge today is what do. The post Agency Agile: 10 Agile Methods For Agencies appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Agile and statistics!

Musings on Project Management

Mike Cohn, the guru at Mountain Goat Software, recently gave a webinar presentation to a bunch of PMI folks entitled "Agile and the Seven Deadly Sins of Project Management" [just click on the link for a free copy of the charts from Mountain Goat] Overall, an informing presentation In an explanation of how agile fights information opaqueness, Mike presented a slide with a bar chart of team.

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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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They are “Lessons to be Learned”, not “Lessons Learned”

Leading Answers

The suggestions, observations and ideas we capture at retrospectives are not Lessons Learned. That would imply we have already learned from them and will not make that mistake again. Instead, they are Lessons-to-be-Learned which is subtly different but stresses the most important part, which is we now need to learn something. Learning involves several steps.

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4 Strategies to Prepare for Industry 4.0

LiquidPlanner

Robots operating autonomously on factory lines, drones delivering packages to doorsteps, 3D printed organs working alongside our own. Just 15 years ago, these ideas may have sounded like plot lines out of a sci-fi novel. Today, they’re in the news. It’s evident that we’re on the precipice of something big. Industry 4.0, the term being used to describe these innovations in manufacturing, IT, and materials, will lead to sweeping changes.

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A quota of quotations

Musings on Project Management

Some of my favorites. I'll leave it to the student to fill in context Process Improvement: Instead of trying to make the trains run on time, it might be better to do away with the trains! Anonymous Get it right the first time: There is no undo button for our oceans of time.

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Waste not, want not: how projects can drive reductions in waste

Green Project Management

I recently watched the first episode in a three-part series on waste produced by the government broadcaster in Australia. The War on Waste (check it out here:) examining various aspects of waste and how Australia’s waste significant amounts of money and produce the fifth largest producer of municipal in the world, producing over 52 million […].

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How to Identify, Analyze and Eliminate Muda From Your Kanban System?

Digite

The main objectives of the Toyota Production system, which is one of the primary sources of inspiration for Kanban for knowledge work, were to get rid of overburden (muri) and inconsistency (mura), and eliminate waste (muda) from your system. Any system/ business process you are using to develop products or offer services will have a certain amount of waste generated.

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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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5 Time Tracking Myths Debunked

LiquidPlanner

Hello! You’re probably here because you don’t track time on your projects. I’d like to convince you that you should. I get why you don’t – I really do. For a long time, I resisted timesheets too. They took too long to fill in and weren’t accurate enough to use for any serious management information. We used spreadsheets. We don’t do it that way any longer.

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Five Immutable Principles of Project Success and Estimating

Herding Cats

Let's start with a fundamental principle of all project management. Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects - Tim Lister. All risk comes from Uncertainty - reducible uncertainty and irreducible uncertainty. [1] No uncertainty No Risk. . If you're not managing risks You're not managing the project. In order to manage risk - and act as an adult when spending other people's money - you must estimate many aspects of the project.

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Why is Project Management Important?

The Digital Project Manager

‘Why is project management important?’ is an interesting question that clients sometimes pose. They’ll ask; ‘Can’t we just brief the team doing the work and manage. The post Why is Project Management Important? appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Traditional Project Management

ActiveCollab

Traditional project management is a universal practice which includes a set of developed techniques used for planning, estimating, and controlling activities. The aim of those techniques is to reach a desired result on time, within budget, and in accordance with specifications. Traditional project management is mainly used on projects where activities are completed in a sequence and there are rarely any changes.

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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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4 Steps to Project Team Building and Team Member Loyalty

Leankor

When you are the project manager trying to get as much following and high performance and cooperation from your project team as possible, you know it can sometimes be those little things that count the most. You can ask or demand respect and loyalty from them team, but no one really gets true respect or loyalty by demanding it. How do you get it? You earn it through proper leadership, consistent behavior and by showing the project team the same loyalty and respect that you hope to get in return.

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Risk Management for Agile Software Development Projects

Herding Cats

It is popular to state that Agile IS Risk Management - but that is not correct. Agile software development is a software development process. Risk Management is a process as well. The two - agile and risk management - are well suited for each other. But Agile alone is not Risk Management. First some principles: All risk comes from uncertainty. Uncertainty comes in two flavors: Reducible - Epistemic uncertainty.

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INFOGRAPHIC: Email vs. Project Management Software

Celoxis

INFOGRAPHIC: Email vs. Project Management Software.

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Subtle Insight

The Tao of Project Management

Walking Rugby The games is starting to gather momentum! We had 10 of our walkers turned up last night for a coaching session and game run by Jason Luff (former Exeter Chiefs player and now Regional Development Officer for Devon RFU). Lots of pics taken for publicity and we should get a write up in the local paper and Estuary magazine. And we are going to keep on training and playing through the summer.

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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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Characteristics of a Productive Team

ActiveCollab

Did you know that a perfect, productive team has exactly 4.6 members, eats two pizzas for lunch, and consists of people that call themselves “the raiders” or “the oogie boogies”? How team size impacts team productivity. The larger the team, the less productive they are: Large-size teams encounter more problems of absenteeism and turnover, members are less satisfied with their work, they experience more negative emotions, and they have lower level of mental health.

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There is Little New Under the Sun

Herding Cats

It is popular to claim we've never done this before, so how can we possibly estimate the cost and schedule. If it truly hasn't been done before, then the software project is likely to be an inventing new physics project. Having worked in the particle physics domain, inventing new physics is something I'm familiar with. In that world, we still made estimates of the cost to design, build, and operate the experiment.

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While collocation is nice-to-have, meeting in person should be mandatory!

Kiron Bondale

Colocation is often considered an enabler if not a critical success factor for successful project delivery. While this makes sense for small teams, as we take on larger scale products and projects, it is not always practical to have everyone in the same room. Communication channels increase non-linearly as the size of a team grows and at some point it will be impossible from either a real estate or an effectiveness perspective.

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When your team starts having secret meetings without you

The Digital Project Manager

The post When your team starts having secret meetings without you appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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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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These 5 Simple Ideas Will Boost Your Productivity

Boost by Brightpod

Simple ideas can change your life. If you are anything like me, you are always looking for the next best thing. And often, the best ideas come from industrie.

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Quote of the Day

Herding Cats

Would you tell me please which way I ought to walk from here? asked Alice. That depends a good deal on where you want to get to, said the Cat. I don't much care where - said Alice. Then it doesn't matter which way to walk said the Cat - from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland . If you have no Plan, no Product Roadmap, no Release Plan, no assessment of what impediments you'll encounter along the way, no estimates of the effort and cost to reach your destination, no estimates of what performance

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Positive Leadership In Project Management

Fix my Project Chaos

In this podcast, Elise Stevens speaks with experienced project and program manager Kate Morris about the art of positive leadership. Kate is passionate about encouraging her peers to understand their own skillset and builds high performing teams based on the complementary strengths they share. Kate has been an active volunteer with PMI in Australia, having […].

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Project Management Poll – How Freelancers and Businesses Use Project Management?

TimeCamp

TimeCamp has conducted a survey concerning Project Management. We have sent invites to various companies around the globe, and 88 responded, providing us with some valuable information on the topic. Now, we can share the results with you. They should give you a helpful notion about the approach to project management, employees’ effectiveness, and productivity, […].

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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.