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10 Essential Project Management Skills

ProjectManager.com

Project management is not an easy job. In fact, it’s several not-easy jobs, including the initiation, planning, executing, controlling, and closing of a project. Even more difficult, that project is delegated to a team of your choosing, given specific goals to achieve over a defined timeline for a determined budget. And you have to do all that successfully.

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Inspiring Women in Project Management: Pam Shergill

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In this installation of the occasional series of Inspiring Women in Project Management, I’m interviewing Pam Shergill, Director of PS Management Consultancy. Pam and I talk about how she got into project management by ultimately making herself redundant, and how she manages to get two months off a year. Pam has amazing energy and is the kind of person who grabs every opportunity.

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Four Practical Ways to Improve Project Procurements

Project Risk Coach

Discover the Power of Project Procurement Management As we initiate our projects, we may find that our organization lacks the skills and knowledge to create the project deliverables and meet the project objectives. In other cases, we may need products outside of our organization. Project managers use procurement management to secure these needed products and services.

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Hybrid principle

Musings on Project Management

Normal 0. false false false. EN-US X-NONE X-NONE. Doing a hybrid agile-traditional project? Many do; perhaps [gasp!] most real projects are hybrids. You can't really do Agile all the time everywhere on everything. And, so, inevitably, we.

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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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It’s time for RAID logs to evolve!

Kiron Bondale

When documents are used to track project information, a common approach is to create a consolidated workbook in MS Excel for tracking risks, actions, issues and decisions. This is usually referred to as a RAID log. The benefit of this approach beyond having the information in a convenient, centralized location is that there are logical relationships between these disparate elements which can be easily reflected if they are consolidated.

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PMI Report: Project Management Job Growth and Talent Gap 2017-2027

Inloox

Reasons for the widening gap The PMI has shown in his latest Pulse of the Profession Report that the project management maturity of organizations is increasing. Not only are they getting better at implementing PM processes and methods, they are also finally seeing the fruits of their labor. IT project success rates are finally improving after years of continual decline.

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The 20 Education Venues for Online Master of Project Management

Project-Management.pm

An online master of project management is one of the best investments one has in order to advance his or her certification levels or acquire one. Online education has been around for decades, catering to distance learning and for those who do not have access to extra education due to their location and schedule. Organizations need project managers who can juggle different operations and processes, all the while achieving the end result of the projects.

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DPM Podcast: Project Management Hacks (with Natalie Semczuk)

The Digital Project Manager

In this episode, Ben Aston chats with Natalie Semczuk about project management hacks, diving into the details of automation you can setup, tools you can use, techniques you can apply and philosophies to adopt that'll make your DPM life a whole lot easier. The post DPM Podcast: Project Management Hacks (with Natalie Semczuk) appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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5 Tips for Setting Up Agency Retainer Billing

Function Point

In service-based industries, retainers are becoming a popular way to build long-term relationships with your best clients, provide a higher level of service and ensure cash flow. Creative agencies and freelancers are understanding the benefits of providing their clients with retainer-based services, but it can be difficult to know how to get started if you’re new to this form of billing.

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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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Feedback: Be useful not polite

Growing Agile

We often talk about feedback, it is a crucial aspect of agile. Feedback on our behaviour as team mates, feedback on our product by users, feedback on our approach as leaders. Yet so often when we hear people give feedback or we get feedback ourselves we find people are too polite to be honest, and this ends up with feedback like: “It was great” and “There’s nothing you need to improve” This might make our ego’s feel great but it doesn’t actually help us

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Benefits of Project Portfolio Management : A Competitive Advantage

Project-Management.pm

Both the market and business industry are putting more pressure on organizations in terms of visibility and improvement. Organizations are struggling to make relevant and maintain the reputation that they have been safeguarding for the past years. It’s a jungle out there and everyone is bent on surviving. Putting more work for company growth isn’t always that favorable.

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Plan Every Detail of Your Tasks with The Best Task Planning Software!

TimeCamp

Task management is one of the key issues disconcerting those who wish to manage their business successfully, now and in the future. What should be done in the first instance, who ought to work on it and so on − those questions are just a few examples of tasks that one has to handle whether he likes it or not. A perfect solution to the question how to efficiently organize a project and, consequently, mitigate the risk of its failure is the Task Planning Software.

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5 Tips for Setting Up Agency Retainer Billing

Function Point

In service-based industries, retainers are becoming a popular way to build long-term relationships with your best clients, provide a higher level of service and ensure cash flow. Creative agencies and freelancers are understanding the benefits of providing their clients with retainer-based services, but it can be difficult to know how to get started if you’re new to this form of billing.

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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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The Trouble with Charts

Herding Cats

Today the Rally chart reappeared. This chart is from " The Impact of Agile Quantified.". This chart shows a performance index. But, a VERY critical caveat of the report is. The findings in this document are extracted by looking for correlations between decisions or behaviors (keeping teams stable, setting your team sizes to between five and nine, keeping your work in process— WiP—low, etc.) and outcomes as measured by the dimensions of the SDPI.

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Get Ready for These IT Project Management Interview Questions

Project-Management.pm

Effective and competent project managers have already shown what they are made of even before they do their roles and responsibilities. In this case, the first stage in determining if an individual is qualified to do the job is through an interview. And for project managers , it’s an opportunity to showcase what they got. Job interviews are meant to stimulate an applicant’s skill set, expertise, knowledge, as well as a reaction to particular questions that can be often nerve-wracking.

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Managing Agile and Waterfall Types of Projects in One Solution

Project Insight

Projects come in many shapes and sizes. Combining budget amount, scope, number of participants, subject area, degree of complexity and other attributes there are hundreds of variations. Yet, a project is a project. It requires initiation, pla.

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Project Resource Scheduling part 2: Manage Resources Effectively

Avaza

Over the last few years, the Avaza team has been helping you transform and streamline your business operations. We’ve taken another step to help you better manage your people resources, visualize team availability and deliver successful projects by launching Project Resource Scheduling. As you plan your projects, you will now be able to answer questions like this more accurately: Who is working on what, and when?

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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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Use and Misuse of Statistics of Process Improvement Studies

Herding Cats

There are several studies on how software development can be improved by applying various process. Some studies have very large data sets, with analysis of each process and the differences between the processes. Other studies have small data sets, no error bands on the data, and no real statistical analysis of this raw data. Here's a checklist for the steps needed to produce a credible answer to - Is there any difference between one process or another process for improving the outcomes of a pro

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How to Measure Project Management Success

Entry

The post How to Measure Project Management Success appeared first on Entry Software Corporation.

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Quantum physics drives the GDP

Musings on Project Management

35% of the US GDP depends on quantum physics Brian Greene Theoretical Physicist (TV Interview with Charlie Rose) Talk about a case for science at the most inquisitive level! There you have it. Quantum Physics wasn't really discovered until about 1920. Now, about 100 years later, it runs the world? Holly cow! I wonder how the business case and backlog looked for that project?

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10 Project Management Hacks To Boost Your Productivity

The Digital Project Manager

Did you know you’re wasting hours of time as a project manager? Not in the way you would expect—meetings, emails, and chats are all a. The post 10 Project Management Hacks To Boost Your Productivity appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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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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Quote of the Day

Herding Cats

In my career, I've worked for a lot of really good managers, and of course, Gene Kranz was on of the best. One of the things I really admired about Gene. is that of things didn't work out quite right in a project or in a ting that you were doing, Gene would often say, "Well, maybe I didn't explain as clearly as I should have what it was I needed you to do." - Mission Control Center ISS Project JSC.

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How to Measure Project Management Success

Entry

Is delivering a project on time and on-budget an adequate measurement of success? Yes, the primary goal of every project is to meet the deadline and stay within budget. However, whether or not the project delivered value to the business is also an excellent gauge for success. Measuring the success of a project once it has come to completion should be routine practice in every organization.

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INFOGRAPHIC: How to Stop Micromanaging Your Team

Celoxis

INFOGRAPHIC: How to Stop Micromanaging Your Team.

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DPM Podcast: Welcome To The DPM Podcast

The Digital Project Manager

In this inaugural Digital Project Manager podcast, Ben introduces the vision of the Digital Project Manager site, shares his story of becoming a DPM and gives an overview of what you can expect from this podcast. The post DPM Podcast: Welcome To The DPM Podcast 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.