Project Risk Coach
DECEMBER 26, 2017
Successful project managers have a common trait – they identify and manage risks. Let’s look at seven tools and techniques to identify risks. Often project managers start with a splash. They get the team together, identify lots of risks, and enter them into an Excel spreadsheet. However, the risks are never discussed again. What happens when project managers and their team fail to identify risks in an iterative fashion?
Musings on Project Management
DECEMBER 28, 2017
8 Administrative Professional Conferences You Can’t Miss in 2018. Have you ever noticed the amazing ideas and inspiration that come from connecting with other like-minded people who have the same profession as you? We want administrative professionals to feel that invigorating spark again and again! That’s why we pulled together a list of can’t-miss administrative professional conferences for 2018.
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Kiron Bondale
DECEMBER 23, 2017
Risk identification is our first step towards converting unknown-unknowns to known-unknowns. It is neither possible nor advisable to identify all risks which could impact your project’s objectives – like any other project planning process, too much is as bad as too little. But how do we know that we’ve done enough risk identification?
Herding Cats
DECEMBER 29, 2017
A popular quote in the agile community is Wilo's Law. It's one that states hey it's not my fault no one understands me, Wilo's Law says. How all human communication fails, except by accident. Wilo claims human communication fails because of these items. Here are some corrective or preventative actions for these potential causes. Like nearly every observed problem, there is some underlying cause and Root Cause Analysis is the first step in assessing this undesirable condition to determine if
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Velociteach
DECEMBER 29, 2017
2017 has been one exciting year! Let’s take a look back on this year’s most popular Manage This Podcast episodes and The Savvy PM Blog posts. Velociteach’s Top Ten of 2017: Episode 25 — Alpha Project Managers Top 5 Lessons Learned from Andy Crowe on Velociteach’s 15th Birthday Episode 40—Fukushima Disaster – Part 1 Effective Communications = […] The post Velociteach’s Top Ten Posts appeared first on PMP Certification Exam Prep & Training - Velociteach.
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TimeCamp
DECEMBER 28, 2017
Personnel costs (often limited to wages) can be defined as human labor input necessary to manufacture a product or deliver a service in a given enterprise. Planned personnel costs are created by multiplying the amount of working time by rates of pay. In addition to labor expenditures directly related to the production of particular goods or delivering services, personnel costs also include labor expenditures on so-called “indirect personnel costs.” They consist of funds for rewards f
Herding Cats
DECEMBER 28, 2017
Estimation is pretentious rationalism, where rationalism does not serve us well (extremistan)(sic) Take only risks you can survive. Pretentious rationalism is defined as a type of ultimate explanation—announced at one time as final truth—which is termed a system. This is a term used by Taleb in the context of macroeconomic models. The use of estimating in software development project mandates those estimates be updated with actual performance data to have any credibility in the construction of
The Lazy Project Manager
DECEMBER 29, 2017
So here’s the thing – I have, as it turns out, two slightly unexpected weeks free (before I start a new and exciting job) and I thought ‘why not write a book?’ – and why not indeed. But that isn’t too long so I then decided a) I would write a book where I had a lot of the material already and b) I would go and get some help from all the ‘Lazy PM’ fans out there in the world (see, ‘productive laziness’ in action).
Brightwork
DECEMBER 26, 2017
The BrightWork webinar team were busy this year, running over 40 webinars covering a wide range of project management and SharePoint topics! Below are our top three webinars of 2017. Pull up a chair, settle in, and get ready for project management success in 2018. Improve Project Performance with Metrics and KPIs in SharePoint Easy access to data is key to project performance, helping to improve visibility, collaboration, and decision-making.
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
Musings on Project Management
DECEMBER 27, 2017
For years and years, PMs have been "little data" people. We plot data points, compute averages, look at 1-sigma, 2-sigma (and sometimes, 6-sigma) limits, ponder the Central Limit Theorem, and wonder about the law of large numbers Fair enough What then is "big data" if not simply more numbers, more data points? Andrew Gelman -- eminent authority in the statistical analysis field -- has this.
Herding Cats
DECEMBER 26, 2017
Uncertainty is the state where a decision-maker cannot accurately or precisely) predict the outcome of an event. Uncertainty is categorized into aleatory (random) and epistemic (probabilistic) processes. The first type is due to variability, which is an intrinsic property of natural phenomena or processes. The variability cannot be reduced unless the phenomena or process is changed.
TimeCamp
DECEMBER 25, 2017
As David James mentioned in his tweet here, the summery of 2017 for SCCM is 3 production releases (SCCM CB 1702, 1706, and 1710).12 Tech Preview releases of SCCM CB. 100s of new features, 14k code check-ins + bug fixes and now managing >100 million endpoints. In this post, we will see more about 2017 SCCM […]. The post 2017 SCCM ConfigMgr Intune Community Around Me appeared first on Anoops.
Online PM Courses
DECEMBER 25, 2017
It’s Christmas here. And, even Project Managers don’t work over Christmas in countries where it’s celebrated. Well, not most of us. But I didn’t want you to think I had forgotten you! So, if you celebrate Christmas, I wish you and your loved ones a peaceful holiday-time. And, if you don’t celebrate Christmas, I wish you and your loved ones a peaceful week.
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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.
Musings on Project Management
DECEMBER 23, 2017
You know, I wrote a book on quantitative methods in project management. But somehow I missed covering these equations! Read in the library at Square Peg Consulting about these books I've written Buy them at any online book retailer!
Herding Cats
DECEMBER 24, 2017
Forecasting ? Estimating. In the book on #NoEstimates, it is stated the difference between estimating and forecasting using a Merriam Webster dictionary. This book states estimating is "giving a general idea about the value, size, or cost of something". Forecasting, on the other hand, means "calculating or predicting some future event usually as a result of analysis of available pertinent data".
Celoxis
DECEMBER 27, 2017
“Sell good merchandise at reasonable profit; treat your customers like human being and they will always come back for more”- L.L. Bean The essence of good customer service and relation to the survival of any given business couldn’t have been better portrayed than as it was with the above statement by Bean.
Prince2
DECEMBER 28, 2017
Roll up roll up! We have recently added a great selection of classic games with a project management twist. Race around to collect jewels in Inca Treasure, or see who can make it to the end of the Snakes and Ladders board. These are free to play games where you can test your understanding of the PRINCE2 methodology, and play against your colleagues to see who reigns supreme in your PMO.
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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.
TimeCamp
DECEMBER 27, 2017
The ELD mandate went into effect last week, and based on comments from across the trucking industry , the new regulations have been disruptive for a lot of carriers. A lot of truckers also took time off before Christmas, which led to even tighter capacity on the spot market last week. Plus, there were way more loads than usual, including last-minute holiday gifts and food.
GanttPRO Project Management
DECEMBER 26, 2017
Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work. Stephen King Working on a project is a difficult challenge. Working on a […].
PM by PM
DECEMBER 28, 2017
What Is The Value Of PMP Certification? You might be contemplating about the benefits and advantages of PMP certification. You are thinking if it is worth the time and effort? Does it provide any value? Or are there enough good reasons to pursue this PMI credential? It is a well-known fact that PMP is not […]. The post 11 Awesome Benefits of PMP Certification That Give You Unfair Advantage appeared first on PM-by-PM.
PM for the Masses
DECEMBER 27, 2017
In this episode from our series on Self-Leadership, Cesar and Traci talk about how you can CREATE your purpose and start off the year motivated and inspired. We believe that you don’t FIND your purpose, you CREATE it. However, society has asked us questions that are confusing. When we were growing up we were asked […] In this episode from our series on Self-Leadership, Cesar and Traci talk about how you can CREATE your purpose and start off the year motivated and inspired.
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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.
TimeCamp
DECEMBER 27, 2017
Another week comes with the most popular from our roundups. Make yourself comfortable and read these 10 Most Inspiring Productivity Articles from past seven days, chosen by our team! Our blog is a place where we provide all the productivity and time management knowledge. We try to do that by writing and posting worth reading articles full of useful tips and life hacks.
GanttPRO Project Management
DECEMBER 26, 2017
Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work. Stephen King Working on a project is a difficult challenge.
Herding Cats
DECEMBER 24, 2017
I'll see it when I believe it - Slip of the tongue by psychologist Than Pittman.
Stepping Into Project Management
DECEMBER 24, 2017
Wishing you a wonderful Christmas ?? Thank you for reading my blog and continuing to inspire me.
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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