Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 23, 2017

This article, 7 Productivity Tools for Teams That You’ve Never Heard Of , first appeared on Girl's Guide to PM. I can’t be the only one who thinks that with better productivity tools for teams, we’d be more… productive. I want to spend more time doing what matters, and that means less time worrying about tools to do the work. Today I present to you 7 productivity tools for teams that you’ve never heard of (maybe – there are two on the list that you might have come across, but I couldn’t lea

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Project Bliss

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Photo credit @hengfilms. In your workplace, you communicate regularly with many people: stakeholders, customers, and other team members. You’ll encounter demands and excuses and deadlines. Schedules can be demanding, and workloads can be stressful. You need to be able to navigate the challenges with professionalism, confidence, and grace. Using assertive communication skills can help you express yourself professionally even in stressful or challenging situations.

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Project Risk Coach

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Improve your project presentation skills Project managers often give presentations to groups such as senior leaders, boards, and third-party vendors. The truth is most people are afraid of public speaking. After all, we may make a mistake and be criticized. Let’s discuss how to respond to difficult and sometimes unexpected presentation questions. . 8 Ways to Respond to Questions.

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The Digital Project Manager

OCTOBER 26, 2017

If you’re an open-minded project manager, and you’re looking for the best project management tool for your team, you may feel like you’re high on. The post Weighing Project Management Tools? Balance These Top 3 Criteria appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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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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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 25, 2017

This article, How to Manage a Team Member With A Negative Attitude , first appeared on Girl's Guide to PM. This article was inspired by Ben Snyder’s book, Everything’s a Project. “How can I deal with a project team member whose attitude sucks?”. That was what a reader got in touch to ask recently. It got me thinking about times that I have had to manage a team member with a negative attitude and fortunately there haven’t been that many.

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Project Risk Coach

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Improve your project presentation skills Project managers often give presentations to groups such as senior leaders, boards, and third-party vendors. The truth is most people are afraid of public speaking. After all, we may make a mistake and be criticized. Let’s discuss how to respond to difficult and sometimes unexpected presentation questions. . 8 Ways to Respond to Questions.

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The Digital Project Manager

OCTOBER 23, 2017

How you can make Scrum work in an agency, and how do you make any process change effectively? In this podcast, Ben Aston talks to Alexa Huston about her introduction of Scrum at the agency Crema and you can make process changes with your team and tools work for everyone. The post DPM Podcast: Making Process Change Work (With Alexa Huston) appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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LiquidPlanner

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Knowledge is power. However, for many project managers, maneuvering into this position of control can be a serious challenge that doesn’t go away just by being effective in managing email or being able to read a pivot table. The sheer quantity of data and information that is processed in a day on even a moderate sized project can be intimidating. Scale this up to a major program and the data flow can be simply overwhelming.

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Project-Management.pm

OCTOBER 26, 2017

The need for Project Portfolio Management (PPM) solutions is increasing, thanks to the business industries’ needs to effectively implement projects. Additionally, clients consider PPM solutions friendlier with their bank accounts and easier to distribute compared to the well-known traditional approaches. However, businesses are drowned in too complex components of PPM solution that they have difficulty understanding their main functions.

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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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ProProject Manager

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Here’s the latest in my series How Did I Get Here. These are interviews of current project management professionals intended to help folks see how others made project management a career. Welcome, David Lewis! When did you first decide to become a project manager? I was managing a Manufacturing Engineering department at Boeing and had just finished my MBA at Cal Poly, Pomona.

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The Squad Report

OCTOBER 25, 2017

There are so many choices today when selecting Project Management Software. There are Enterprise PPM solutions, Cloud based or desktop based choices. We can even select apps to use on our mobile devices. There are tools which specialize in communication, collaboration, task management, gantt charts and more. Are you needing a tool for yourself, a small team, small or mid-sized business or perhaps a large corporation.

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LiquidPlanner

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Monsters aren’t just for Halloween. The undead walk among us all year round. Only on Halloween do they show their true faces. If you know what to look for, you can recognize vampires, ghosts, zombies, and Frankenstein’s creation (he’s not really a monster, just misunderstood). In this article, I will teach you not only how to spot these undead creatures, but also how to vanquish those who haunt your nights and bring life back to those who suffered an untimely demise.

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GanttPRO Project Management

OCTOBER 25, 2017

How many of your project tasks and plans failed to meet deadlines? Possibly, a few of them. Then you are lucky. But the thing is in many cases tasks do […].

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Leading Answers

OCTOBER 23, 2017

I will be in Chicago this weekend for the PMI Global Conference. It’s going to be a busy couple of days with a presentation on Saturday chronicling project uncertainty and solutions. Then on Sunday a deep-dive workshop with Jesse Fewell into the new Agile Practice Guide. I’ll also be doing a couple of podcast interviews and helping at the PMI Poster session and the RMC booth.

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Taskque

OCTOBER 25, 2017

According to a global project management report , 97% of organizations believe that project management is crucial for organization success and business performance. Efficient project management plays a pivotal role in driving the business forward and helps it to grow and expand while adapting to the changing business dynamics. For hiring the right project manager for your business, it is important to understand different types of project managers.

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ActiveCollab

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Bad budget management can severely damage the quality and easily break the project. And, truth to be told, it’s the most common cause of a project failure. Will I be able to oversee all the risks and manage the expenses on projects? What kind of impact will it have on the project budget and team performance? What if a client’s additional requests leave me with no room to maneuver and eventually eat my entire project budget?

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 27, 2017

One of the platitudes of the agile community is trust. Asking to be trusted , asking to be allowed to self-organize and spend other people's money in the development of value. Many times asking to not be asked for an estimate, or to show progress to plan, or to not be held to a deadline, or to report on when they'll be done. Trust Requires a Track Record.

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Leading Answers

OCTOBER 23, 2017

I will be in Chicago this weekend for the PMI Global Conference. It’s going to be a busy couple of days with a presentation on Saturday chronicling project uncertainty and solutions. Then on Sunday a deep-dive workshop with Jesse Fewell into the new Agile Practice Guide. I’ll also be doing a couple of podcast interviews and helping at the PMI Poster session and the RMC booth.

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TimeCamp

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Why Is Self-Discipline Important In Project Management? Sometimes it’s not easy being a Project Manager. It requires a lot of engagement and hard work. But when there’s work overload and too much is happening, it’s easy to lose the spirits and start feeling demotivated. That’s why it’s important to keep self-discipline.

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Project Insight

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Effective communication is a critical project success factor. The Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) is a powerful tool for making sure that there is a common language for discussing and reporting on the work required to complete the project.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 26, 2017

This was the question asked at a Town Hall meeting that made the news here in Denver. When will the G-Line be ready for use? The answer was we don't know. This response reminds me of the notion conjectured by some in the agile community that deadlines are somehow evil. Or better yet, that we can't ever know when we'll be done. . This, of course, is pure nonsense, just like RTD's response to the citizens of Denver is nonsense.

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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.

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Leading Answers

OCTOBER 23, 2017

I will be in Chicago this weekend for the PMI Global Conference. It’s going to be a busy couple of days with a presentation on Saturday chronicling project uncertainty and solutions. Then on Sunday a deep-dive workshop with Jesse Fewell into the new Agile Practice Guide. I’ll also be doing a couple of podcast interviews and helping at the PMI Poster session and the RMC booth.

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Wrike

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Good Is No Longer Good Enough. There’s no doubt about it, we’re seeing a dramatic reshuffling of the corporate world-order as the pace of change is reaching all-time highs. Companies (whether start-ups or incumbents) mastering the digital transformation are upending the competitive landscape and even creating new markets. Meanwhile, other companies unable to move quickly are left behind and becoming irrelevant.

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Project Insight

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Effective communication is a critical project success factor. The Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) is a powerful tool for making sure that there is a common language for discussing and reporting on the work required to complete the project.

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Leankor

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Like most early-stage tech companies, Leankor needs to gain an edge on competitors while delivering break-through value propositions to its customers — the sooner we achieve these goals, the better. After extensive benchmarking and research, CEO & Founder, Emilio Bernabei came to the conclusion partnering with Salesforce was the only logical choice.

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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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