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How To Make 2018 A Successful Year for Your Projects

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This article, How To Make 2018 A Successful Year for Your Projects , first appeared on Girl's Guide to Project Management. Would you like to make 2018 a successful year for your projects? I’m sure you do. But what does it take to get there? I asked people two questions: What should people managing projects be aware of as we go into 2018 to make 2018 their most successful year ever?

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The necessity for Project Management skills: The transition to freelance and project work

Green Project Management

The Only Person that Likes Change is a Baby with a Wet Diaper. Anon By nature we hate change; seldom will we quit our old home till it has actually fallen around our ears. Thomas Carlyle(1795-1881) Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. James Baldwin(1924-1987) […]. The post The necessity for Project Management skills: The transition to freelance and project work appeared first on Delivering a better world, one project at a time.

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Project Management Trends: 2018 Topics to Watch

LiquidPlanner

As we move into the New Year, it’s the time for reflecting on what’s happened and what is to come. It feels to me like 2017 passed by in a flash. And yet, we had some significant shifts this year, most notably PMI releasing the sixth edition of “A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge” ( PMBOK® Guide ), alongside the Agile Practice Guide.

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Need To Create A Project Plan? We’ve Got You Covered With A Free Project Plan Template.

The Digital Project Manager

Find everything you need to know about project planning in our Definitive Guide To Project Planning. There are 10 simple steps covered in detail that will help you create perfect project plans. Plus, download your free copy of our ebook and get a free project plan template for Microsoft Project. The post <thrive_headline click tho-post-7044 tho-test-1>Need To Create A Project Plan?

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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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Lessons in customer service from my Xmas getaway

Kiron Bondale

My son and I just enjoyed a few days of sunshine, good food and great customer service at a Caribbean resort. Our journey home made for a jarring return to reality thanks to the more than fifty degree drop in outside temperature but also due to the poor customer service provided by the airline. For my last post of 2017, I thought I’d share one bouquet and two brickbats in the hopes of encouraging more of the former and a lot less of the latter in 2018.

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The 10 Common Project Management Mistakes and How To Avoid Them

Project-Management.pm

Every project manager or team encounters an almost infinite number of errors that impact projects and cause delays in the implementation process. These, in turn, trigger a project failure. Project management mistakes happen. Some mistakes are meant not to be made twice… or numerous times for that matter. Below are the most common project management mistakes and the ways on how to avoid them and save you and your team on another damaging blunder.

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Discover How You Can Create A Project Plan In 10 Simple Steps

The Digital Project Manager

Find everything you need to know about project planning in our Definitive Guide To Project Planning. There are 10 simple steps covered in detail that will help you create perfect project plans. Plus, download your free copy of our ebook and get a free project plan template for Microsoft Project. The post Discover How You Can Create A Project Plan In 10 Simple Steps appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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3 New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofit Professionals To Begin 2018 with Clarity

Celoxis

I wish you a very happy and healthy 2018! I used my holiday break as an opportunity for a brief digital detox and time for family, travel and fun. During the first week of January , I use the quiet time for three New Year’s rituals that help me prepare for the year ahead and identify professional growth areas. I’ve used these rituals for over a decade and found them helpful. 1) Review the Year: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a var

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Tips for Developing your Professional Skills in 2018

Online PM Courses

What will you do differently to enhance your Project Management practice in 2018? In this short New Year article, I’ll tell you what my New Year’s resolutions are, as a project manager. And I’ll also share my tips for developing your professional skills. So, Let’s Start with my New Year’s Resolutions… In 2018, I plan to refine different aspects of how I communicate with Online PM Courses.com customers.

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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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Principles of Cost and Schedule Estimating

Herding Cats

One of the 4 summary root causes of project performance failures is Unrealistic Cost and Schedule Estimates based on inadequate risk-adjusted growth models. This assessment comes from research at the Institute for Defense Analyses (www.ida.org), where I sometimes work as a contractor in support of the Office of Secretary of Defense Performance Assessment and Root Cause Analysis.

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The Best Project Management Conferences to Attend in 2018

Wrike

According to Reader’s Digest , “learning something new” is one of the ten most popular New Year’s Resolutions. And one of the best places to learn new things are at industry conferences. Conferences help you s tay up-to-speed on the latest industry developments, pick up tips from respected experts in the field, meet other project management professionals, and have some fun learning new tricks of the trade in a new city. .

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Google Classroom Tips

Project Risk Coach

Google Classroom is a free web service that makes it easy for learners and teachers to connect. It's used to communicate, share resources, distribute files, and collect assignments. Google Classroom may not have as many features as Edmodo or Schoology , but it does work incredibly well with the Google Docs, Slides, Sheets, and Drawings suite of free online software.

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Marketing predictions CMOs need to consider in 2018

TimeCamp

Marketers are always looking for new ways to create experiences that resonate with customers, and 2018 will be no different. And although fads come and go—think unicorn hair and frappuccinos—there are some trends that will stick in the coming year and affect how businesses interact with customers. For CMOs, it means staying on their toes, as their roles will change in several ways this year.

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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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IPMW Presentations

Herding Cats

EVM World is coming up in May of 2018. This is one of two conferences held during the year focused on Integrated Program Performance Management. Here are the presentations from last years November Conference. What are the Five Immutable Principles of Project Success? What is the definition of Done? The Integrated Master Plan tells us this in units of Effectiveness and Performance.

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5 New Year’s Resolutions for Project Managers

Wrike

It’s day two of 2018. Have you made any New Year ‘ s Resolutions? If you’re already struggling to come up with some, we’re here to help. As project managers, we’re constantly striving to improve ourselves and streamline our projects so that customers’ needs are met and budgets don’t balloon — so why not consider making resolutions that will help our careers?

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2 Mandatory Requirements To Gain Eligibility for The PMP Certification

PM by PM

I have written this post to discuss about PMP certification eligibility criteria. PMI has mandated 2 key pmp certification requirements to appear for the exam viz. minimum project management experience and 35 contact hours of formal project management education. I have described these in detail in this article. PMP certification is one of the most […].

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Stay On Top Of Your Work With Hitesh Bhasin! [PODCAST EPISODE #2]

TimeCamp

Stay On Top Of Your Work With Hitesh Bhasin Welcome back to the series of podcasts “Stay On Top Of Your Work” – a series based on the article TOP 83 PROJECT MANAGEMENT INFLUENCERS OF 2017. Our introductory interview was carried out with TimeCamp’s CEO – Kamil Rudnicki. Today, we are happy to introduce the first interview with one of the top project management influencers included in our list – Hitesh Bhasin.

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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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Book of the Month

Herding Cats

I got a book management application for Christmas from our daughter. Book Buddy. Going through the ~1,000 books in the house (I'm the son of a University Librarian) I came across this book. I got this book from my High School physics teacher in the mid 60's. She got us jobs as interns, doing office work on Project Nerva. I came across a DVD of that project at a Space Comm conference in Colorado Springs a few years ago, where the people in the NASA booth, where not even born when I was copying d

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Managing a Marketing Agency with ActiveCollab

ActiveCollab

Here at Spiralytics , we operate like a small business to encourage flexibility and creative freedom. So, it’s vital to us that we use a task management system that helps us standardize, organize, track, and measure, without putting restrictions on the artistic flair that makes us who we are. We started using ActiveCollab on a trial basis at the beginning of 2017, deploying it initially to our managers and client success team.

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The real problem?

Musings on Project Management

"I cannot define the real problem, therefore I suspect no real problem, but I'm not sure there's no real problem" Richard Feynman, Theoretical physicist Read in the library at Square Peg Consulting about these books I've written Buy them at any online book retailer!

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Focus on mind-set and behaviour as you set goals for 2018

Susanne Madsen

As we enter 2018 many of us naturally consider what we would like the New Year to bring and what we would like to do and achieve. For me it will be no different. But for the first time in many years I will have more mind-set-related and behavioural goals than external achievement goals. ​In recent years my goals have been related to writing project leadership books, starting my business, attracting clients and travelling to new exotic locations.

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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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Quote of the Day

Herding Cats

In physical science a first essential step in the direction of learning any subject is to find principles of numerical reckoning and practicable methods for measuring some quality connected with it. I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have s

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How to be a Sexy Beast.

LiquidPlanner

Oh hey there, man. I know you aren't trying to be sexy, but you are.

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Trust vis Acceptance

Musings on Project Management

As I've written elsewhere, there is not really -- and can not be -- trust between strangers because trust requires a transfer (or exchange) of power based on a mutually shared belief that interests are entangled. To wit: you can trust me on this because I accept some responsibility for our mutual success And, I'll only do that if I know you well enough to believe in your competence, your.

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Making the leap to cloud-based project management software

Hydra

If you’re still operating on-premises project management software then maybe this year is the time to think about making the leap to a cloud-based solution?

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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.