Project Risk Coach
AUGUST 14, 2017
Project Stakeholder Management Last week, we looked at 15 awesome ways to manage your project stakeholders. Today, let’s explore the development and use of the stakeholder register. If you can’t see this video in your RSS reader or email, then click here. Stakeholder Register Benefits. Projects are dynamic and stakeholders make things interesting.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
AUGUST 16, 2017
This article, The 6 Principles of Stakeholder Engagement [Infographic] , first appeared on Girl's Guide to PM. In Stakeholder-led Project Management: Changing the Way We Manage Projects Louise M. Worsley sets out 6 principles for engaging project stakeholders. I thought they were tenets worth sharing, so here they are along with my explanation of what they each mean to me.
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Musings on Project Management
AUGUST 14, 2017
We all make estimates; and we all make estimates all the time. When I make the 20 mile trip each Tuesday to a client site, I estimate adjustments to a baseline based on weather and road construction and if I know about an accident. Really, no one sets out to do anything meaningful without some estimate in mind re time, or cost, or risk; usually we can also notionally estimate the scope.
LiquidPlanner
AUGUST 15, 2017
Here’s a lesson I’m thankful I learned early in my career: successful engineering projects rely more on non-technical skills than technical skills. It’s not that the technical skills aren’t important – they are. One can’t design a building without knowledgeable, skilled structural, MEP, and fire engineers. An airplane isn’t safe unless there are skilled aeronautical engineers involved.
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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.
Kiron Bondale
AUGUST 13, 2017
Teams leading agile transformations can encounter multiple challenges along their journey including changing the mindsets of senior and mid-level managers, transitioning from a focus on specialists to developing generalizing specialists, educating and effectively engaging delivery or control partners and reducing the time and effort required to deploy deliverables once they’ve been deemed production ready.
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Project-Management.pm
AUGUST 15, 2017
Way back in the world of business industries, different forms of management were similar to one another in terms of roles or tasks like schedules and deliveries. Business Process Management was not an essential tool for project management since the latter has a set of alternative factors that can work on its own. The new emergence of business techniques call for merging the two together: gone are the days where project management was an independent branch of the business organization—for t
Binfire
AUGUST 15, 2017
This article is a guide on how to obtain a project management certification and resources you need to do so. This is a live document and I will update it as we gather more information talking to people who take the certification exam. If you are planning to get a project management certification, this article is for you. There is a lot of studying and preparation involved to get your PM certification.
Digite
AUGUST 14, 2017
Competitiveness in the age of digital disruption requires businesses to achieve agility at scale – not in select projects and portfolios alone, but across functions, across the business. The approaches to achieving enterprise-wide agility are keenly debated. I caught up with Kanban pioneer David Anderson on the sidelines of Lean Kanban Central Europe and Lean Kanban India last year and asked him about his thoughts.
Inloox
AUGUST 14, 2017
Our latest blog series will cover the topic of benchmarking in project management. We’ll give you a quick overview of what “benchmarking” is in part 1, and the next two blog posts will delve deeper into the topic by explaining the difference between internal and external benchmarking. Definition of benchmarking Benchmarking is used to assess your own organization’s processes and performance compared to your company’s competitors or compared to the best companies in your industry.
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
TeamGantt
AUGUST 14, 2017
There are 5 crucial project lifecycle stages; initiation, planning, execution, performance control & closure. Learn more with this guide!
GanttPRO Project Management
AUGUST 15, 2017
A good project is something that unites plenty of details. It consists of a skilled manager and a team that performs tasks. It includes a circumspect plan that covers all […].
Green Project Management
AUGUST 14, 2017
I am blessed and cursed with never having had a boss. Despite the image above, I actually consider myself a capitalist and believe that it is vital to generate jobs and improve the overall economic well being of society. All of that said though, I do believe we need an overhaul because the existing US-based […]. The post A Mercenary Perspective on Sustainability appeared first on Delivering a better world, one project at a time.
Velociteach
AUGUST 18, 2017
How do you find the best training resource to develop your talent? The talent of your team? Your whole organization? If you’re in a training role, or responsible for training on a company-wide scale, you’re probably familiar with the Training Industry, Inc. which helps connect dedicated business professionals to the vast knowledge of […] The post Award-Winning Training At Your Fingertips appeared first on PMP Certification Exam Prep & Training - Velociteach.
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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.
TimeCamp
AUGUST 17, 2017
What are the best 100 tools for marketing industry? Today, marketing industry offers a wide range of tools essential in work of every marketer. It’s quite difficult to choose the finest from such an abundant offer. To make it easier, today we’re introducing 100 best tools for the marketing industry, taking into account different categories and areas of use.
Herding Cats
AUGUST 12, 2017
No matter the project domain or the technical development method, project success is dependent on knowing what Done looks like in units of measure meaningful to the decision maker. These measures are: Measures of Effectiveness (MOE) – are the operational measures of success that are closely related to the achievements of the mission or operational objectives evaluated in the operational environment, under a specific set of conditions.
ExamsPM
AUGUST 15, 2017
There are 10 knowledge areas in the PMP PMBOK 6 th edition. This is consistent with the PMBOK 5 th edition, which also has 10 knowledge areas. The 10 knowledge areas in the PMBOK guide are along with the study notes for each chapter. Integration Management. Scope Management. Time Management. Cost Management. Quality Management. Human Resources Management.
Brightwork
AUGUST 14, 2017
At BrightWork, we want to deliver a gorgeously simple project management software solution to make successful project portfolio management possible for every organization. In the coming weeks, the latest release of our solution for SharePoint will become available, offering better performance, enhanced charting, improved usability, and a training zone.
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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
AUGUST 16, 2017
Employees are more flexible than ever, and members of a team can now work on a project without being in an office and meeting in person. Online meeting tools can increase the productivity of a team, enhance the collaboration between its members, and make any project more feasible. And with the growing competition amongst developers, some have even decided to make their products completely free, so this won’t result in additional expenses.
Herding Cats
AUGUST 13, 2017
The beneficial result that I can hope for as a consequence of this work is that more attention will be paid to the precise statement of the alternatives involved in the questions being asked. – Theory of Probability , H. Jeffery, Cambridge University Press, 1939, p. vi. Since all project work operates in the presence of uncertainty, reducible and irreducible, estimates are always needed when the value at risk exceeds the level tolerable by management to make a decision without knowing the outcom
GanttPRO Project Management
AUGUST 15, 2017
A good project is something that unites plenty of details. It consists of a skilled manager and a team that performs tasks.
The Digital Project Manager
AUGUST 17, 2017
Transparency isn’t something project managers talk about often. In fact, it might even be a topic they avoid discussing. You should embrace transparency within your. The post The Value of Transparency in Project Management appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.
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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
AUGUST 12, 2017
How To Be a Good Product Manager? In 1931, during the times of the Great Depression in the United States, Neil McElroy wrote a 3-page memo for the Procter & Gamble Company. The memo included the principles of modern brand management. This gave the beginning to the product management and, in consequence, led to the creation of the product manager’s position.
Herding Cats
AUGUST 14, 2017
We have this terrible struggle to try to explain things to people who have no reason to want to know - Richard Feynman. Feynman spoke at our Student Physics Society, UC Irvine, on Quantum Chromo Dynamics (QCD), when that theory was first starting. It made complete sense, using his Feynman Diagrams to show the interactions of particles that had yet to be confirmed experimentally.
Musings on Project Management
AUGUST 17, 2017
Lord Beaverbrook, a genious in getting things done with big bureaucracy under the extreme pressure of war, had this philosophy Organization is the enemy of improvisation It is a long jump from knowing to doing Committees take the punch out of. [fill in the blank]. Lord Beaverbrook was a close advisor and confidant of Winston Churchill during WW II.
Celoxis
AUGUST 15, 2017
INFOGRAPHIC: Tips for Eliminating Procrastination Within Your Project team.
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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