Sat.Aug 20, 2016 - Fri.Aug 26, 2016

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Understanding Agile

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This is a guest article by Isidora Roskic. Learning to successfully manage agile projects requires you to first familiarise yourself with the concept of Agile. What is the agile methodology? Where did it start? What does it truly encompass? If you know all of the answers then you’re off to a good start! If not then the following will help. Where It All Began.

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Reacting to threat: Game theory for the PMO

Musings on Project Management

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. —Theodore Roosevelt Actually, that's Teddy's version of cousin FDR's famous "Try something!" But what if it's all about a threat -- something external -- for which you have no experience? Call in your PMO team and brainstorm?

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Manage Your Energy, Not Just Your Time

Project Risk Coach

For years, I’ve sought ways to get more done in my work day. You know the time management mantra: capture, prioritize, and schedule, right? What doesn’t get scheduled doesn’t get done. Photo courtesy of Adobe Stock (edited in Canva). Need any apps? I’ve tried iPhone apps such as Fantastical, Pomodoro, and Evernote (which are all super). I’ve read every book and tried every tool known to man.

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Making the Inc. 5000: We’re Niche and We’re Proud of It

LiquidPlanner

Hi LiquidPlanner readers! We’ve got some exciting news to share this week. I’m thrilled to announce that we made the Inc. 5000 list of the fastest growing private companies in America! It’s an honor to be included as it’s one of, if not the most comprehensive look at the trajectory of thousands of innovative companies that don’t typically talk about financial performance.

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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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Are You Ready For The Social Tech Revolution?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

One day your project management status updates might self-destruct. In this article, Jerry Giltenane explains why. Of the 7.3 billion people on the planet, 31% or 2.3 billion people actively use social media to communicate, to share and to build a sense of community. In a parallel universe, some of the key drivers of project management are to communicate, to inform and to develop high performing teams.

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7+ Useful Conference Apps for Managing Productive Meetings

TeamGantt

Meetings are must-haves for remote teams to communicate. Discover some cool video conferencing tools you can use to host a productive meeting with your team.

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What We’re Reading: Christoph Waltz and the State of American Productivity

LiquidPlanner

Americans. Like it or not, we’re obsessed with productivity. So much so that Samsung, the South Korea-based electronics giant recently launched an amazingly funny, even if slightly backhanded video about the subject to promote their newest mobile device. The ad, which ran liberally during the Rio Olympic Games, is both funny and accurate—which is likely why I loved it.

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Addressable opportunity

Musings on Project Management

Value increases when the satisfaction of the customer’s need augments and the expenditure of resources diminishes. —Robert Tassinari Tassinari's quote may be a little stuffy, but the idea is simple: Value -- as seen by the business -- is the difference between the satisfaction of customer need, on the one hand, and the cost to meet that satisfaction, on the other hand.

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How online project management tools come handy for remote teams

PM by PM

Did you know that around 53 million Americans are freelancers? These are the stats according to an independent study commissioned by Freelancers Union and Elance-oDesk. The figure makes up around 34% of the entire working population. That too only in the United States. Let’s not forget the figures only talk about freelancers, and not the […]. The post How online project management tools come handy for remote teams appeared first on PM-by-PM.

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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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What will you be remembered for?

Ron Rosenhead

I have recently taken up Nordic Walking (many thanks to Saracens Rugby Club Sports Foundation for the taster session) and I am really enjoying it. I recently decided to go to Trent Park (in Enfield) ) for a long walk and while walking I stopped for a moment to absorb what was around me. It was breath taking – trees for miles all around me, fields and a lake.

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10 top tips for project success: Understand your client

The Digital Project Manager

Posted in General Ten Tops Tips. In the previous post in this series on project success, we explored the importance of understanding success and how it relates to clients and our agency, particularly with regards to business objectives. An important aspect worth diving deeper into is how this relates to our clients as individuals. We can lead into success by knowing the people we’re delivering to.

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The five failures of agile tools

Kiron Bondale

For organizations transforming their technology delivery from traditional to agile approaches, there’s a need to evolve team practices, tools, leadership behavior and stakeholder change appetites in parallel to avoid realizing the risks of being agile while standing in a waterfall. Owing to the popularity of the agile movement coupled with mainstream obsession with DevOps, legions of tool vendors stand ready to sell you snake oil solutions to satisfy all of your agile delivery needs.

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Festival of the PMO – Bringing Sexy Back to Your PMO

Fix my Project Chaos

Welcome to the Festival of the PMO Blogging Challenge, my blog is all about bringing sexy back to your PMO. My video blog is all about bringing sexy back to your PMO. Nobody likes a frumpy PMO – one where it is all about the documents. Instead we need a sexy PMO – one filed […]. The post Festival of the PMO – Bringing Sexy Back to Your PMO appeared first on Fix My Project Chaos.

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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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How Project Management Tackles Supply Chain Complexity

LiquidPlanner

Supply chains continue to increase in complexity. I’ve observed this firsthand from managing hundreds of projects in manufacturing organizations over the last 25 years, including navigating end-to-end supply chain. Being able to effectively manage this complexity is essential to achieve important business objectives–growth and profitability. For starters, you want to identify the factors that contribute to these complexities: the geographical spread of customers and suppliers; risk and sec

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12 Books To Kickstart Your Leadership Skills

Project Management Hacks

Looking for books to read this fall? Here are some highlights from my 2016 reading. Please take a look and enjoy! You’ll find insight on networking, how to learn valuable super skills, become more productive and find biographies of highly successful leaders. How Do You Read So Many Books? Reading books is a priority for me so I make time for it on a daily basis.

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Primal Virtue

The Tao of Project Management

A project manager has to do many things. Not taking sides or getting involved in squabbles, helping those involved to resolve the issues themselves is the correct approach. Leading the team without being possessive or dominating. Not taking the credit for the work of the team. The Way A poor project manager will try to dominate the team. This will grind them down and stifle their creativity.

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Festival of the PMO – My Journey to Work and the PMO

Fix my Project Chaos

I have driven the journey between home and work a thousand times. I know every corner, every traffic light, where the congestion will be, which lanes to be in…in fact I suspect my car could almost do the journey on autopilot itself. But then a funny thing happened last week. A motor accident occurred (not […]. The post Festival of the PMO – My Journey to Work and the PMO appeared first on Fix My Project Chaos.

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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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Avaza Launches New Project Summary Page

Avaza

One of the updates to the Project Management Module is the addition of a Project Summary page. Users have often asked if there was a way they could get a quick overview of one project, without having to run reports, and we hope this page will meet those requirements. The Project Summary page allows you to get a quick overview of task status for a particular project, as well as review the rate of tasks being completed versus the total tasks.

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Ellen Maynes: Inspiring Women in Project Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Do you think project management is all about building bridges or IT systems? What if I said project managers were getting involved in brokering world peace? Oh yes. Today’s interview is with Ellen Maynes, project management consultant, 2016 Global Peace Fellow, and one of the most interesting people I’ve ever spoken to. Ellen might just inspire you to take your project management to the next level.