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5 Tips (+ Bonus Tip) For Getting The Most Out Of Conferences

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I’m off to Barcelona at the weekend as I am part of a panel debate at the PMI Global Congress in Spain next week. My session is on collaboration tools and tech for project managers. Today I’ve got 5 tips (and a personal favourite bonus one at the end) about how to get the most out of attending a conference. You make a big investment in going to conferences so it helps to do a bit of thinking and planning about how to benefit while you’re there. 1.

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What Everybody Should Know About Controlling Risks

Project Risk Coach

Many project managers do a great job of identifying risks. Some even evaluate risks and develop response plans. However, project managers get busy as their projects progress and fail to control risks, resulting abandoned or wrecked projects. So, what does it mean to control risks? Photo courtesy of Adobe Stock (edited in Canva). Here’s the Merriam-Webster dictionary definition: control: to direct the behavior: to cause to do what you want.

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Sprint plan: common sense goes here

Musings on Project Management

Now, let's here it for common sense! More and more I see this asset creeping into the advice we get about Agile, and even more so about how to handle the various things that show up in a sprint. The latest: trying to "freeze" hard the sprint backlog may be impractical. It may be more slushy than a hard freeze. [Didn't we all know that all along?

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What they weren’t telling you when you took over that project…

Kiron Bondale

Lemon. When house hunting, savvy shoppers quickly learn the meaning of some seemingly innocent phrases found in listing descriptions. For example, lots of potential means that you will have to spend a lot of money to make the house livable. Quaint implies that no upgrades have been made since the house was originally built. When taking over a project from another project manager, similar rules apply.

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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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PMI Are some more equal than others?

The Lazy Project Manager

‘All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others’. That was a proclamation in the novel Animal Farm, by George Orwell and I offer up, not a proclamation but a declaration, followed by a disclaimer, but beginning with a statement – and that statement is ‘I am a worried man, no let me correct that, I am a worried project manager’. Worried that I am speaking too much, that others (like myself) are speaking too much, that we as a group might have become boring, irrelevant and pote

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Two doors and the risk manager

Musings on Project Management

A narrative* Imagine two doors to the same room: One labeled risk manager; the other labeled decision maker. Though the risk manager's door, entry is for the inductive thinker: facts looking for a generality or integrating narrative Through the decision maker's door, entry is for the deductive thinker: visionary with a need to connect specifics to the vision And, consider this: Pessimists.

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GPM Takes Root in Russia Amid Historic International Events

Green Project Management

April was a busy month for all of us at GPM. We have activity buzzing all over the globe which is exciting! In this post, which we would normally issue a press release for, I chose a blog format as I wanted to share some personal thoughts rather than a quote. On April 16th, I […]. The post GPM Takes Root in Russia Amid Historic International Events appeared first on Delivering a better world, one project at a time.

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Help! How to Get What You Need From LiquidPlanner Support

LiquidPlanner

Learning how to use a new tool can be hard. We’ve all been through it. That’s why, here at LiquidPlanner, we try to make the learning and onboarding process as easy as possible for you and your team. We might even sprinkle in a bit of fun in too! If getting help is a party, here’s the Who, What, Where, When, and Why from the invitation. Who. Who provides help to LiquidPlanner customers?

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Balancing positive and negative stress

Susanne Madsen

Stress is interesting. As the below stress curve shows, you do need some pressure in order to perform at your best, but too much pressure (or stress) leads to declining performance and potentially burnout. If you get close to burnout you may lose your energy, drive and proactiveness. You will feel overwhelmed and find it difficult to respond to external demands and it could take you a while to recover.

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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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Meet the new Gantt | Workflow Management Software

Function Point

Meet the New Gantt. We’re really excited to be releasing a new Gantt view this week. This is an initial step in our move towards a more visual approach to workflow management for creative agencies. Our goal is to ultimately make the planning process easier and faster, and adding the Gantt view is the newest enhancement to the scheduling and tasking module of Function Point.

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Effective Communication

The Tao of Project Management

I am indebted to Tom Hussey, who suggested I expand on the 'what we can do' section of my white paper on Why Projects Really Fail. So that's what I will be doing over the next few weeks. He also mentioned that poor communication has been a problem on many projects he has worked on so that's where I'll start. Poor Communication Communication is a basic leadership skill.

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Podcast 83 – Exploring Organisational Culture – A Primer for Project Managers

Fix my Project Chaos

Let’s explore organisational culture with Claire Walton In this podcast,I speak with Claire Walton from UK-based organisational change firm ‘Leaders Are Making A Difference’ about organisational culture tips and tools for project managers. Let’s explore organisational culture. Claire is an organisational architect and coach with an Executive Director background of many years in diverse sectors […].

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Quote of the Day

Herding Cats

Guess : a conjecture based on little or no evidence Estimate : a guess made by an expert ― Neandertal's Guide to Cost Estimating , Naval Aviation Systems . All project work is based on probabilities driven by statistical processes. All decisions made on projects for time, cost, and technical performance involve making decision in the presence of uncertanty.

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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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Meet the new Gantt | Workflow Management Software

Function Point

Meet the New Gantt. We’re really excited to be releasing a new Gantt view this week. This is an initial step in our move towards a more visual approach to workflow management for creative agencies. Our goal is to ultimately make the planning process easier and faster, and adding the Gantt view is the newest enhancement to the scheduling and tasking module of Function Point.

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8 challenges affecting software project management

Moira Alexander

Managing projects of all sizes and levels of complexities is part of business, regardless of what vertical industry you’re talking about. Software development is no different. New in-house software development and implementations, infrastructure related projects, enhancements or upgrades, and the increasing development of web-based solutions and mobile apps are a constant within the software industry.

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Overcoming Imposter Syndrome: The Video

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This is the video taken of me giving my Imposter Syndrome presentation at PMI Synergy. It’s about 16 minutes long, safe for work! If you enjoyed this video, check out my ebook, Overcoming Imposter Syndrome. If you have ever felt out place at work, then I can help! You'll also like: Overcoming Imposter Syndrome Overcoming Imposter Syndrome: Ten Strategies to Stop Feeling Like a Fraud at Work is an ebook designed for people who have ever felt as if.

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Quote of the Day

Herding Cats

Predictions are always difficult - especially about the future ― Niels Bohr ― Neandertal's Guide to Cost Estimating , Naval Aviation Systems. This is a quote often used by those conjecturing that estimating is a waste. The quote is true of course. Making predictions about the future is difficult. But that has nothing to do with the need for predictions and the estimates that support them.

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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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Fault and Root Cause Analysis

Musings on Project Management

FARCA -- Fault and Root Cause Analysis -- is what you do when you've got observations and symptoms of outcomes, but no real supporting explanation of the underlying causes and failure modes. Every PMO admonishes: Don't act on symptoms! Get to the 'facts'. Find out what's causing this And thus: deductive analysis*. When you've got the answer; now you must discover the question.

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What is one of your favorite project management books? [Question]

Project Risk Coach

What is one of your favorite project management books? Answer this question on my blog and join the discussion → The post What is one of your favorite project management books? [Question] appeared first on.

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Reflections from #APMConf

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The annual APM Conference was earlier this month. You can catch up by watching my video diary of the event. I wanted to tell you a bit more about what went on. David Waboso: 4 PM Imperatives. The APM President, David Waboso, took to the stage to tell us about the 4 imperatives that he is using to anchor his presidential year. They are: 1. Delivery. Project sponsors, David explained, want to know that a project will happen.

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Smarter Faster Better Book Review: 4 Lessons Learned

Project Management Hacks

In March, I met Charles Duhigg at the Rotman School of Management in Toronto when he spoke about his new book, “ Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business.” In this article, you will learn a few insights from the book. The book covers eight areas where we can increase performance (e.g. motivation, goals, team performance and others).

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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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The Exposure Triangle: Aperture

TeamGantt

Understanding the exposure triangle is crucial to capturing high quality and perfectly exposed footage for your project.

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Best Deals on Project Management Courses for May 2016

PM by PM

Discounts, Promotions, Offers and Announcements on Project Management Courses & Content You will find the best deals on Project Management courses in this post. The deals include discounts, promotions and offers for certification courses, certification preparation content, other project management courses and general project management content. You can start your preparation on PMP, PMI-ACP, CAPM, […].

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Four Quality Management Basics

PMStudent

Understand the basic components of quality management and then build on them.

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How to read a book?

Stepping Into Project Management

I love reading books, I have recently also moved to reading –eBooks and reading books online via i-pad. This post isn’t about that. It’s about finding the most effective way to read a book, remember the idea behind it and trigger the thought process. Not exactly the way you would read a novel. I’ll explain what I mean- I like reading books in combos.

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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.