Project Risk Coach

AUGUST 7, 2017

Practical Tips for Identifying, Analyzing, and Influencing Your Stakeholders Projects can be engaging and even enjoyable, or it can be a source of aggravation and stress. If you put some care and time into identifying, analyzing, and managing your project stakeholders, you’ll have a better project experience and improve your chance of success. Remember what Charles Schulz said through the character of Linus: “I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand!!

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Project Bliss

AUGUST 8, 2017

Having a great project sponsor can contribute to the success of your project. But what should you expect from the person serving in the project sponsor role? What can he do for you and your project? And how can the person in the project sponsor role help support your project’s success? You know the Project Manager role and responsibilities. But what about the Project Sponsor?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 9, 2017

This article, Book Review: Project Management for Humans , first appeared on Girl's Guide to PM. Sometimes I pick up a project management book and it’s like: “I have to read this, book reviews are part of my job, but at least with this one I’m going to get a nice nap at the end.”. Project Management for Humans isn’t like that. Brett Harned is a lovely guy – I met him at the Digital PM Summit in 2016 – and he’s a confident presenter, easily conveying his passion for the subject to a crowd.

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Inloox

AUGUST 8, 2017

Digital transformation is on everyone’s radar right now and a majority of industries and companies are working towards digitizing their organization. But what does it take to digitally transform an organization successfully? Hint: It’s not just about implementing fancy new tools. A company is not automatically “digital” just because they have digital tools at their disposal.

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Musings on Project Management

AUGUST 8, 2017

Among some comments to a posting on TechCrunchIT, is this snippet about Dilbert's run-in with Agile: Dilbert: We need 3 more programmers. Boss: Use agile programming methods. Dilbert: Agile programming does not mean doing more work with less people. Boss: Find me some words that do mean that and ask again Dilbert is a creation of Scott Adams Read in the library at Square Peg.

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Binfire

AUGUST 8, 2017

There is a lot of hype around Asana as a product and the company as a software provider. Asana has done a good job marketing its software. But is Asana really a project management application as the company claims or a glorified task list? There is a lot of confusion when it comes to project management software. Anything that deals with tasks or collaboration are pushed to the consumer as project management software.

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Ganttic

AUGUST 6, 2017

I’m going to be honest here. I would prefer a whiteboard over any software for planning anyday. Not because I don’t believe there is a software out there that is good enough for me. I know there is a lot of good planning tools out there whether you need something to create to do lists for yourself, need to make plans for a small team, manage a project portfolio or plan hundreds of resources.

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Leading Answers

AUGUST 6, 2017

I will be speaking at two presentations at the Agile 2017 Conference next week in Orlando. I am looking forward to catching up with old colleagues and meeting new practitioners, it looks set to be a great event. My first presentation is called “ Bridging Mindsets: Creating the PMI Agile Practice Guide ” and is an experience report that tells the story of creating the Agile Practice Guide.

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Hydra

AUGUST 9, 2017

Despite the complexities involved, it’s essential to do the very best with your project estimates. Here are our 3 tips for creating accurate project estimates.

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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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Boost by Brightpod

AUGUST 7, 2017

Online marketing has one huge advantage over the traditional forms of marketing: it engages the audience. Your audience interacts with your publications and.

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Green Project Management

AUGUST 8, 2017

I recently enjoyed a discussion on the key attribute of project managers. It stemmed out of a conversation of whether a project manager should just do what they were told, or if they should do their best to deliver the best value and benefits to the organization. I have a bias towards sustainable project management, […]. The post The Key Attribute of a Project Manager appeared first on Delivering a better world, one project at a time.

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GanttPRO Project Management

AUGUST 11, 2017

No project can be successfully accomplished without stakeholders and their management. It is a critical and integral part of any plan that has the only aim – to achieve results […].

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TimeCamp

AUGUST 7, 2017

To anyone who works on projects spending time in front of a computer is something very familiar. The more complicated our project is the more strategy, planning, and thinking it requires. And, of course, it also requires lots and lots of work. Whether we are a freelancer, an office worker, or a manager of an impressive team, we all need the same – a full control over our tasks, time, and work that both we and our team are doing.

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ActiveCollab

AUGUST 8, 2017

Big companies generally have a problem of being too slow, with too much WIP, and too many features in the backlog. Traditionally, big companies would need 6 months for gathering requirements, another 6 for development and testing, plus worry if they have an opening in their development schedule and capital for the feasibility study to get things going.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 9, 2017

We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object, and go mad in its pursuit; that millions of people become simultaneously impressed with one delusion, and run after it, till their attention is caught by some new folly more captivating than the first. – Charles Mackey, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds , 1852.

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Musings on Project Management

AUGUST 11, 2017

Good grief! Yet another model to learn about. Now we hear about the auteur model of innovation, an idea coined by John Kao, an innovation guru. Auteur: an innovator that has a distinctly personal style and maintains artistic control over all design and production aspects of his/her work [a definition adapted for projects from the film industry where the auteur model has been practiced for.

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TimeCamp

AUGUST 8, 2017

Yesterday we shared a few links to the most popular pages where you can find, read about, and even download project management software (link in the related posts section below.) However, we had to look for pages with reviews and links to the websites offering such tools and solutions, more than for those that offer the download. That’s because when it comes to Project Management Software it’s not always available for the download.

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Entry

AUGUST 7, 2017

What does it take to develop and integrate your project team effectively? As a project manager, what steps must you take to ensure team success? These five steps promote establishing and sustaining a winning project team. 1. Build a Project Team Prioritizing team development as an activity from the start of the project will help […]. The post 5 Basic Steps for Successful Project Team Management appeared first on Entry Software Corporation.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 11, 2017

“Things are seldom what they seem, skim milk masquerades as cream.” —W. S. Gilbert, in "HMS Pinafore". This little phrase from Pinafore, from Little Buttercup, who is just a bumboat woman, is telling in our world of toss off agile platitudes. We as listeners overlook, and even dismiss or sometimes even despise, truths that are in plain sight, especially when they seem to strike at cherished beliefs and habits.

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Musings on Project Management

AUGUST 5, 2017

You're doing something. Fair enough What if there's no obvious end-point? Like finding the "just-right" SME for the team. you never know when that is going to happen When should you stop looking at candidates? Actually, there's a computer science answer to this. Look no farther than the "optimal stopping" algorithm! As explained by authors Christian and Griffiths*, there are two ways to.

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GanttPRO Project Management

AUGUST 11, 2017

No project can be successfully accomplished without stakeholders and their management.

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Brightwork

AUGUST 10, 2017

Company Overview Universal Health Services, Inc. is one of the largest and most respected hospital management companies in the United States. Founded in 1978 the company operates through its subsidiaries more than 350 acute care hospitals, behavioral health facilities and ambulatory centers in the US, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands and the United Kingdom.

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The Digital Project Manager

AUGUST 7, 2017

Ben Aston chats with Joanna Leigh Simon, discovering her personal DPM story and chatting about the project management best practices that you should be doing each month. Covering the whole gamut of a monthly project reset, discover how to enhance your workflow, decrease the daily stress, and keep your projects running smoothly. The post DPM Podcast: Project Management Best Practices: What You Should Be Doing Each Month (with Joanna Leigh Simon) appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 7, 2017

This article, Project Forecasting 101 , first appeared on Girl's Guide to PM. Project managers forecast the future all the time: we forward-schedule tasks, plan how much money we’ll need in Quarter 4 and book resources for activities that haven’t happened yet. But how much do you really know about the business of predicting the future? I caught up with forecasting superhero William M.

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Boost by Brightpod

AUGUST 9, 2017

This week we feature Derwyn Harris, Co-founder and CMO at Talkoot. Talkoot is a collaborative, cloud-based content production system where small teams can co.

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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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