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Have you rotated your project’s tires?

Kiron Bondale

A standard semi-annual ritual for many who live in cold climates is swapping all season to winter tires on our cars and back again. This exercise also presents a good opportunity to catch up on any other outstanding preventative maintenance for our vehicles. For those of us who live in places which observe daylight savings time, we are reminded to change the batteries in our smoke alarms whenever our clocks spring forward or fall back.

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How To Keep Your Project On Track With Project Status Reports

The Digital Project Manager

A Project Status Report is just that. The current status of your project. It’s an. The post How To Keep Your Project On Track With Project Status Reports appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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The Project Manager’s Guide to Simple Risk Analysis

Online PM Courses

Risk analysis is both easy and hard at the same time. If that sounds confusing, read on, because we’ll make everything clear. But one thing is for sure. No project manager can get by without knowing how to analyze risk on your project. Risk is important, because it is baked into the nature of projects. They are time pressured, and need to deliver something new or even unfamiliar.

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Does your company do project management eLearning?

Ron Rosenhead

That was a question posed by a caller recently. Yes we do! I went on to explain that we have a partnership with OnLinePMCourses where we offer a wide range of project management eLearning. I referred the caller to the page with all the details- [link] and they were impressed. One comment struck me: the caller said: “Why don’t you publicise this bit more?

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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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GetApp Honors ProjectManager.com With Another Pair of Top 5 Rankings

ProjectManager.com

Category Leaders and software rankings for the second quarter of 2018 were recently released by GetApp, the influential Gartner review site, and ProjectManager.com has continued its run of ranking in the top five for project management and project portfolio management apps. ProjectManager.com ranked in the top five for task management in Q1 as well, until the category was discontinued for Q2.

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Where Did All the Project Managers Go?

Leading Answers

“ Software is eating the world ” claimed venture capitalist, Marc Andreessen in his 2011, New York Times article. Seven years on, the trend continues, and project managers are also on the menu. The next generation of project managers face new challenges but also new opportunities as organizations undergo a major transformation. Software is becoming omnipresent, it is embedded and integral to all industries.

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Managing Virtual Teams Successfully

The IIL Blog

By Dr. Willis H. Thomas, PMP, CPT . Virtual teams are becoming more of the norm for organizations as they strive to acquire the best talent from anywhere in the world, minimize overhead everywhere on the earth and stretch their global presence on a worldwide basis. Building High-Performance Teams necessitates that we utilize innovative tools and techniques to engage the audience.

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A Step-By-Step Guide To Write The Perfect Project Proposal

Project-Management.pm

The degree of success or failure of any project depends heavily on the quality of its proposal. You won’t be able to bag the project in the first place if the project proposal is not up to the mark. On the other hand, if you do win the project but the proposal didn’t clearly lay out the critical details of the project, you are in an even bigger trouble.

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Wrike Review- 10 facts you should know

Binfire

Wrike is a popular project management application. It is used in various industries and team sizes all over the world. Wrike was funded in 2006 by Andrew Filev and has locations in California, Ireland, and Russia. . In this article, we cover what is good about this application, what is bad, facts you need to know before purchasing it, and how it stacks up against the competition.

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Strategic Finance Essentials: A Project Manager’s Guide to Financial Impact

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 expendi

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Mining Bitcoins with Your InstantPot: Has Agile Popularity Gone Too Far?

Leading Answers

I am excited to be presenting at next week’s PMI-SAC Professional Development Conference on May 2 in Calgary. I am looking forward to seeing old friends and meeting new people at this new format conference. My session “ Mining Bitcoins with Your InstantPot: Has Agile Popularity Gone Too Far ?” examines the hype, realities and use of agile approaches.  Here is the presentation summary from the conference site: “The project world seems to have gone agile mad.

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The Right Tools for Remote Workers

LiquidPlanner

Working remotely can be a blessing and a curse, for employee and employer alike. Providing flexibility and work/life balance is critical to positioning your company as a great place to work and is a major deciding factor for talent. But, how can you ensure that productivity and effective collaboration are not impacted when a team is spread out over multiple locations?

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Symptoms of the Zombie PMO

Planview

Warning: The following is an emergency alert. There is an outbreak infecting businesses across the world, creating a condition termed the “Zombie PMO.” The name, coined from behaviors such as a languished state of existence and a narrow focus on projects, points to the reality that many PMOs are failing to be flexible and adaptable—two traits that are critical in today’s work environment.

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You’re Losing Money by Not Using Project Management Software

Proofhub

Is your project losing money? Are you always in the fear of losing too much? Do you have the right set of tool for managing the team and project? In the life of a project manager, these are some common fears. They are always susceptible to finding the potential bottlenecks in a project. As projects are added, it becomes important for a project manager to look at how their teams work as a whole.

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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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Mining Bitcoins with Your InstantPot: Has Agile Popularity Gone Too Far?

Leading Answers

I am excited to be presenting at next week’s PMI-SAC Professional Development Conference on May 2 in Calgary. I am looking forward to seeing old friends and meeting new people at this new format conference. My session “ Mining Bitcoins with Your InstantPot: Has Agile Popularity Gone Too Far ?” examines the hype, realities and use of agile approaches.  Here is the presentation summary from the conference site: “The project world seems to have gone agile mad.

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Software Development Life Cycle and Project Management

PM Basics

Have you noticed? Software Development Life Cycle is on every job description for a Project Manager. Everyone wants you to know how to develop software applications. That is true. Understanding of SDLC can make the whole process more efficient. But there is a real problem here: With so many different frameworks and project management approaches, life cycles are so confusing.

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Disposable Plastic Straws… What can we do?

Green Project Management

I went out recently with some friends and had a curious experience. And of all things it was around disposable plastic straws. What caught my attention was that each place we went to did not offer straws. More importantly though the establishments were proud and adamant about their no-straw policy. It opened up some interesting […]. The post Disposable Plastic Straws… What can we do?

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How I (Sort of) Stopped Being A Micromanager

LiquidPlanner

I’m the member of the group project who ends up doing the whole thing, because “it’s just easier.”. I’m the delegator who assigns a task, but chimes in at any moment to adjust steps, offer unsolicited direction, and/or generally hover over the entire process. I’m the one who starts sentences with phrases like “not to totally take over,” and ends them with a hasty “just a suggestion.”.

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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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Where Did All the Project Managers Go?

Leading Answers

“ Software is eating the world ” claimed venture capitalist, Marc Andreessen in his 2011, New York Times article. Seven years on, the trend continues, and project managers are also on the menu. The next generation of project managers face new challenges but also new opportunities as organizations undergo a major transformation. Software is becoming omnipresent, it is embedded and integral to all industries.

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Which Reports Help You Make Plans That Work?

Meisterplan

Reporting methods are receiving more and more attention, which is just as true for project portfolio management as it is for most other disciplines. I do not find this to be surprising (and I’m not only speaking as the Data Analyst at Meisterplan when I say that). We have realized the importance of reporting by talking to our users and, of course, by organizing our own data.

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5 Reasons to Use SCRUM in Your Team Management

GanttPRO Project Management

When you’re dealing with project management, you’ll become aware of the Scrum method sooner or later. It’s a system that’s revolutionizing the face of software development but is also bringing […].

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How Marketers Stay Productive: Ben Aston of The Digital Project Manager

Boost by Brightpod

This week we feature Ben Aston, Founder of The Digital Project Manager. The Digital Project Manager is the home of digital project management inspiration, how-to guides, tips, tricks, tools, funnies, and jobs.

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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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Where Did All the Project Managers Go?

Leading Answers

“Software is eating the world” claimed venture capitalist, Marc Andreessen in his 2011, New York Times article. Seven years on, the trend continues, and project managers are also on the menu. The next generation of project managers face new challenges.

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4 Questions to Help You Plan Your Annual Team Meetup | TeamGantt Blog

TeamGantt

Want to know how our annual meetups come together—and why they’re such an important part of our remote team culture? These simple questions can help you plan a meetup that keeps your remote team healthy and productive all year long.

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How we mastered the editing process with ActiveCollab

ActiveCollab

Hi! My name is Roman Davydov, and I’m a content writer at Kraftblick , a digital marketing agency for SaaS companies and startups. Our team consists of cool guys and gals who are also professional marketers and experts in their fields. Since our company provides a wide range of services (we do SEO, PPC, and content marketing), the choice of a convenient collaboration tool has always been very important for us.

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Efficient Staff Management Is the Key to Success: Here’s How | Guest Post

Celoxis

This impactful statement by the founder of Virgin Group truly highlights the importance of employee empowerment. When it comes to the success of a business, most business people tend to focus on their existing and potential customers. However, they often forget that the key to business growth is to take care of their employees.

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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.