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30 Team Building Activities

ProjectManager.com

Teams don’t just come together and click into well-oiled productivity machines, at least not always. There’s often a period of time when the team members have to get to know one another and develop a rapport. Even teams that have been working together for years might need a bit of team-building to reinforce their strengths and minimize their weaknesses.

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The 10 Risk Management Commandments You’re Breaking Every Day

Project Risk Coach

Do you live in fear of not getting results in your projects? Risk management is such an effective vehicle for climbing the tallest mountain or swimming the deepest sea. However, the risk management pitfalls are many, rendering us completely ineffective in our attempt to fulfill our dreams. I fear that many project managers live by the letter of the law and may fail to gain the true benefits of risk management.

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Tutorial: How to Create A Video With Lumen5

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Cisco predict that 80% of internet traffic will be video by 2020. YouTube is thought of as the second-largest search engine. Pinterest has exploded in recent years. Visual, easily-understood communication is what your project stakeholders are seeing everywhere else. It’s what they’d love from you, about your project too. I’ve talked in the past about how I’ve used video as a communication tool on projects.

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Lessons in agility from wine tasting…

Kiron Bondale

One of the benefits of living in the Greater Toronto Area is being less than an hour away from a large number of good wineries in the Niagara region. A few past colleagues of mine got together for a morning round of golf and followed that up with a wine tasting and a hearty lunch at Ridgepoint Wines ( thanks for the recommendation, Brendan! ). After enjoying a glass of their 2010 Reserve Meritage I came to the conclusion that wine tasting and agile have more in common than you might think.

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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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Top Planning Tools for Teams

ProjectManager.com

Collaborative planning with your team has many benefits. First of all, it engages your team. You depend on your team members to get the tasks done that lead to a successful project. Getting buy-in from them should be proof enough of the importance of planning with teams. But there’s more. Your plan will be better. When you get the whole team thinking together it provides ideas you might miss and a perspective you don’t have.

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5 Ways Cloud-Based Project Management Software Saves Save Time and Money

LiquidPlanner

It’s official: the cloud has gone mainstream. While early-adopters have been touting the benefits of cloud-based solutions for years, larger organizations, as well as those facing hurdles with new technology, have been slower to adapt. But, according to recent research from Gartner, Inc., that’s changing. Recently, more organizations, even large enterprises and slow adopters, have begun turning to the cloud.

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How To Develop A Contingency Plan ?

Project-Management.pm

A contingency plan isn’t just exclusively for calamities. Contingency planning , in general, is all about planning and preparing for certain occurrences such as loss or shortages of people, clients, data, budget, and other relevant factors that undermine its subjects. That’s why every existing project or business must have a contingency plan in order to have a smooth workflow and it will be easier tackling issues and threats that way.

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Allocating WIP Limits for a Kanban System

Digite

I have seen people focus a lot on what the WIP limit should be for a Value Stream stage of a Kanban system. However, once the WIP limit is known, I haven’t seen much thought going into where to put those WIP limits. Hence, this blog! Consider a simple value stream: ToDo -> Design -> Development -> Testing -> Done. Further, break the activity value stream stages, into “InProgress” and “Done”.

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The Idea Hackathon

Growing Agile

A week ago we held a 1 day event – The Idea Hackathon. It all started at Agile Testing Days in Germany in December. Matt Heusser chatted to us (Karen and Sam) and we roped in Carin Eaten (a South African tester). The idea was born and we set up an experiment to see what would happen. We wanted people from different communities and areas to mingle and muddle their ideas and come up with new amazing ones.

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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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Ask a Project Manager: School vs The Real World

LiquidPlanner

“Dear Elizabeth: I am a new project manager in my first internship. I’m out of my depth and overwhelmed with the new jargon. In particular, what I’m finding is that my work environment isn’t exactly like the theory I learned on my project management degree course. What tips do you have for me?”. Ah, are you finding out that real life isn’t like the textbooks?

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Sustainable Development Goal 15 “Life on Land” and Project Management

Green Project Management

This installment in our series on the SDGs focuses on #15 of 17, Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss”. This SDG has 9 targets which you can read in detail. The short version is to protect all life […].

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SwiftKanban/ SwiftESP for AKTs and KCPs

Digite

Last week, my colleague Navin and I had the pleasure and – indeed – the honor of meeting some of the best minds in Europe at the Kanban Leadership Retreat at Mayrhofen, Austria! Based on the announcement made there by Lean Kanban, Inc. (LKI), we are thrilled to announce the availability of SwiftKanban and SwiftESP for all Accredited Kanban Trainers (AKTs) and Kanban Coaching Professionals (KCPs)!

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Are you tinkering or transforming?

Lynne Cazaly

The need for change in organisations and sectors all over the world created a whole field of expertise and a category of employee - The Change Manager, the Change Leader, the Change Consultant. They live and breathe this stuff; they know what it’s about, how to do it and the impact a change initiative can have on people and the way organisations operate.

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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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Collaborative Project Management – A guide

Binfire

A guide to collaborative project management. For many of us who have been around for a while, changing culture is like boiling the ocean. In other words, it cannot be done easily. In my experience, if change is incremental and beneficial in the short-term, then it will be accepted by the team. Here are some ways that I have used to create a culture that supports Collaborative Project Management.

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What Are The Pros and Cons of Time Tracking?

TimeCamp

We tend to write a lot about time tracking on our blog. We have a list of Top 100 Time Tracking Software, we have created a Complete Guide to Time Tracking that is supposed to explain all its intricacies, but it also includes some of the most popular project management methodologies, and is packed with the time tracking and productivity tips. Here are some of the examples: Thoroughly described Project Management for Companies, including most popular project management methodologies, like Agile a

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JIRA as a Project Management Tool

GanttPRO Project Management

It is hard to meet anyone who works in IT-sphere and hasn’t heard a word about JIRA – specialized project management software. This very popular and highly customizable tool helps […].

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Principles of Project Success

Herding Cats

Projects produce products, services, solutions. Projects deliver capabilities that fulfill Missions and Vision, Projects are a vehicle to accomplish and outcome. Every project should have a goal, an objective, and outcome. Projects in various domains have different practices and processes. But each of those should be anchored on a set of Immutable Principles.

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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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28 Small Talk Conversation Starters For Those Awkward Moments

Rebel’s Guide to PM

You know when you’re at a networking event and you have to queue to get a coffee and you think you should say something to the person next to you but you don’t know what? Or you’re picking up a vendor from reception and you’ve got 3 minutes to fill before you reach the meeting room where the proper talk can begin? Those moments always used to catch me out too.

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Main Principles of Time Management – Planning, Checking, Organizing!

TimeCamp

It’s time to continue our previous post and present yet another three very important principles of Time Management. Learning and mastering these rules will turn us into a person with an active approach to time. It means, that you will be able to easily focus on your work, have your tasks under control, and plan everything in advance. So, without further introductions, let us discuss the remaining three of the six main principles of time management.

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How ActiveCollab Helped Us Increase Sales

ActiveCollab

Hi all! My name is Alejandro Esbozos , I’m Spanish, run Blocdeesbozos, a marketing consultancy company , and I’m a proud customer of Active Collab. I use Active Collab for task management, and it has improved communication and collaboration in my company a lot. Active Collab helps me to collaborate on all sorts of projects, like graphic design, social media, SEO, etc.

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JIRA as a Project Management Tool

GanttPRO Project Management

It is hard to meet anyone who works in IT-sphere and hasn’t heard a word about JIRA – specialized project management software.

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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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Dashboards scale!

Musings on Project Management

Here's news you can use: Dashboards scale! Does this look like the dashboard for a 3-star running a zillion-billion dollar defense program? That's Vice Admiral David Venlet in the photo, and that dashboard is the way he likes it: low tech, but informative. Unfortunately for the Admiral-program manager, good and useful and timely program information does not necessarily beget good and.

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Tips And Tools to Develop a Successful Marketing Strategy!

TimeCamp

Marketing communication is a particular kind of information flow between the sender and the recipient. We can understand it as an “action during which a company delivers to different groups of recipient’s information about itself and its market offer.” It has a strong character, and its desired effect is, in fact, to draw certain attitudes from people to whom the message is directed.

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Mind Mapping: What are you good at?

Stepping Into Project Management

If you belong to a certain domain or hold a fancy job title- does it mean that’s the only thing you are good at? Or that's your life calling for the next thirty years? Did you know that more than 70 % of the workforce is disengaged from the job they hold- this cannot be true if you are truly inspired by your profession. So, may be the job you have isn’t what you are interested in anymore because you figured they are other things you are better at.

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How To Successfully Start A New Project Management Job

The Digital Project Manager

Starting a new project management gig is as exciting as it is nerve-wracking. You’ve found a project management job, nailed the interview, and done the. The post How To Successfully Start A New Project Management Job appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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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.