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Match Game: Project Risk Management

Project Risk Coach

How’s your project risk management knowledge? Some of you are a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) or as a Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP) so this test may be a good review for you. If you are preparing for the PMP or PMI-RMP exam, this exercise will certainly be helpful. For others, give it your best shot; see what you know and don’t know.

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The 5-Step Expert Guide To Choosing Collaboration Tools

Rebel’s Guide to PM

. Since my book Collaboration Tools for Project Managers came out, one of the things I’m asked frequently is ‘how do I choose the right collaboration tool for my team?’. I’m delighted to be partnering with Genius Project today to bring you The 5 Step Expert Guide To Choosing Collaboration Tools. It’s everything you ever wanted to know about how to pick a product for your team!

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Extreme risk management

Musings on Project Management

Extreme risks: ever been there; done that? Extreme risks are those for which the consequences are irreversible, and the impact is near-catastrophic. In most cases, the likelihood of the event is low. You're probably thinking: "Black Swan". But no, a black swan is unanticipated and not-thought of -- never happened before so, not on the radar. No, I'm thinking of the knowable, if not the.

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Run relevant retrospectives!

Kiron Bondale

I wrote a few weeks back that while retrospectives are commonly associated with agile projects they can also be equally useful on traditional ones. So what are some of the elements required to run a successful retrospective? Psychological safety. One of my key learnings from the Agile2016 conference was that psychological safety is the number one requirement for a high performance team and its criticality is evident in ceremonies like standups and retrospectives.

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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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Life or Laptop

The Lazy Project Manager

In my bestselling book ‘The Lazy Project Manager [1] ’ I have one chapter entitled ‘Breathe Normally’ where I describe the following situation: You are on yet another flight, either to or from your latest project engagement, somewhere in the world. Maybe you have been lucky, maybe the flight is on time and you know your luggage is safely stored in the overhead locker, you are not seated in the middle seat between two sumo wrestlers with body odour and this flight does offer complimentary in-flig

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Match Game: Project Risk Management [Video]

Project Risk Coach

If you can’t see this video in your RSS reader or email, then click here. Download the Match Game: Project Risk Management. The post Match Game: Project Risk Management [Video] appeared first on.

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Fred P. Brooks on Estimates

Musings on Project Management

Dr. Fred Brooks, Jr.'s "The Mythical Man-month" is still required reading, even if written decades ago. And, as these things go, it has a lot of humor, but also a lot of wit. There are dozens of quotes from this book floating about, but here's one worth writing down: "It is very difficult to make a vigorous, plausible, and job-risking defense of an estimate that is derived by no.

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How to Get Buy-In for a New Project Management Tool From Your Executive Team

LiquidPlanner

In business, change comes with a price. Even implementing a new tool or process that will benefit the bottom line comes with a price. That cost might be hard dollars and cents, or it might be the time needed to implement the change. But more likely, the cost of change is both money and time. And the broader the implementation is across the organization, the heftier those costs.

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SDG #5 Achieve Gender equality and empower all women and girls & project management.

Green Project Management

The latest in our series on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGS) focuses on #5 (of 17), Gender Equality. The following are the specific targets under this SDG. They are vital to to sustainable development. 5.1 End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere 5.2 Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and […].

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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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The Problems with Schedules

Herding Cats

Here's an article, recently referenced by a #NoEstimates twitter post. The headline is deceiving, the article DOES NOT suggest we don't need deadline, but that deadlines without credible assessment of their credibility are the source of many problems on large program. The Core Problem with Project Success. There are many core Root Causes of program problems.

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This Is How I work- Siddharta Govindaraj

Stepping Into Project Management

Siddharta Govindaraj is an agile transformation consultant who help leaders meet their business objectives by transforming the way their organisation delivers software. He also started Silver Stripe Software Pvt Ltd, to work further in the area of software delivery. He was nominated for the Brickell Key award in 2011, an award given by the Lean Software Systems Consortium for recognizing achievements in the lean-agile industry and also a Fellow of the Lean Systems Society.

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What We’re Reading: Winning Teams and Working Smarter

LiquidPlanner

This weekend marks a big milestone from the whole team here at LiquidPlanner – we’re gearing up to introduce a cool new product that we think will help small teams do big things. Check back in on the blog this Monday to find out! To celebrate and get inspired, here are some stories about teamwork and working smarter that we hope helps you achieve great things. 5 Attributes All Winning Teams Share – Entrepreneur.com. 8 Creative Onboarding Practices That Take Employees Outside – Fast Company

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Unleash Your Creativity With Killer Creative Briefs

Function Point

Life’s too short to churn out projects that miss the mark. For a creative brief to be the most effective, it should be completed at the beginning of a project so that it’s streamlining the timeline and not interfering with it. Like you with your morning coffee, tea, smoothie, run (you get the idea), a good creative brief helps set you up for a great rhythm by outlining: what you’re making. when it’s needed. who it’s for. how it’s going to get done. why you’re

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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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9 things great project leaders do every day

Moira Alexander

Great project leaders make waves Image by Thinkstock Making waves shouldn't be confused with making trouble or making problems, as it is often seen. Great change can only come about when project leaders remain in a constant and conscious state of continuous improvement. They make waves by performing the following tasks and services. Consistently identifying and discussing process improvements.

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What It Means To Balance Work And Family

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Last week I shared some of my thoughts on what it means to balance work and a young family, and why that’s meant I’ve felt like I’ve lost my way as a project manager. I got a lot of emails in response to that. It seems like everyone is struggling in their own way, although the challenges are common. This ‘mom who has been there’ said: My heart goes out to you.

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Try something!

Musings on Project Management

"It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit frankly and try another. But above all, try something." FDR "Try something!" Franklin Roosevelt said. In the scope of leadership styles, on many difficult and uncertain occasions, he was the supreme delegator. And, he was imprecise. In his broad-stroke envisioning, he was famous for his tolerance for ambiguity.

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Unleash Your Creativity With Killer Creative Briefs

Function Point

Life’s too short to churn out projects that miss the mark. For a creative brief to be the most effective, it should be completed at the beginning of a project so that it’s streamlining the timeline and not interfering with it. Like you with your morning coffee, tea, smoothie, run (you get the idea), a good creative brief helps set you up for a great rhythm by outlining: what you’re making. when it’s needed. who it’s for. how it’s going to get done. why you’re

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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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Struggling with the ITTOs for your PMP exam?

PM by PM

When you read the PMBOK for the first time, you might have been intimidated by all the process charts you saw. However, when you understand the story these charts are trying to tell, they become surprisingly simple to read. The ITTOs (short for Inputs, Tools and Techniques, Outputs) describe how to accomplish a process within a project. The […].

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The 2016 digital project manager salary survey results

The Digital Project Manager

Posted in General. How much do digital project managers really earn? And while we’re asking, what are the typical salaries for a senior project manager, project co-ordinator and project director too? Those are the questions are 2016 digital project manager salary survey were trying to answer – and we tried taking a global view to get insights on how much project managers make around the world.

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How Time Tracking Software Made Me More Productive | TeamGantt Blog

TeamGantt

Time tracking helps sharpen your habits and boost your productivity. Here’s what we learned by trying it for a month and why we integrate it into our workflow.

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Giveaway: Project Management 2.0

Stepping Into Project Management

Here's another Giveaway for you: Project Management 2.0 by Harold Kerzner To read the review of the book, click here The give away is applicable only in India (no international shipping for now). Here' what you have to do: Let me know you are interested to partcipate in the giveaway by adding a comment OR you can tweet about it and use the hashtag #SIPM Last date is Aug 30.

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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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5 Tips to Help You Pass PMP on Your First Try

PM by PM

1. Make it a game There is a lot of material you need to know for your PMP exam, and if you try to “hard memorize” all of the concepts, it may take you longer to remember everything you need to know. It is more effective to come up with rhythms or acronyms to help you remember […]. The post 5 Tips to Help You Pass PMP on Your First Try appeared first on PM-by-PM.

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More on Soft Leadership

The Tao of Project Management

Still on the subject of soft skills: p ushy project managers may think they are being effective but they can have a bad impact on the team. Better to be relaxed and go with the flow, for that way the team will be positive and motivated. That’s not to say that you can be incompetent and get away with it, for the team will soon find you out. Just be fair and honest with the team and they will respect it.

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Organize your Projects with Tags, and Add Context to Tasks & Files

Avaza

Use tags to organize, and add context, to your tasks. Sometimes you need to organize tasks by more than just section, and this is a great way to do that. Use Tags on Tasks and Files. Tagging tasks is simple. Click on any task and scroll to the Tags box to add a tag. You can add multiple tags for the same task, or color-coordinate them based on your need.

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How Contract Manufacturing Teams Keep Up With the Speed of Innovation: Dynamic Project Management

LiquidPlanner

While contract manufacturing is not a new concept, its reach continues to increase. Companies large and small across the Automotive, Aviation, Electronics, and Food sectors effectively use contract manufacturing to better serve their customers and gain competitive advantages. For small and mid-size companies, in particular, contract manufacturing provides the ability to compete in cases where they lack the necessary manufacturing economies of scale.

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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.