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7 Ethics Tips For Project Managers

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This article, 7 Ethics Tips For Project Managers , first appeared on Girl's Guide to Project Management. A project manager approached me recently with a problem. She knew that some of the data that was being submitted in internal reports was – frankly – made up. It was made up with the best intentions from educated guesses and extrapolation. It’s probably fairer and less controversial to say that it was “estimated” rather than created totally randomly from scratch.

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How to Actually Define Risk Categories

Project Risk Coach

Tom is the program manager for a large, complex program comprised of eight projects. He thinks his project managers have identified most of their risks, but he’s not sure where to focus his attention. What areas have the highest risk exposure? Let’s look at how to actually define risk categories and how they can help Tom (and you). What are Risk Categories?

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The Advantages of Conflict in Projects

Green Project Management

“The absence of conflict is not harmony, it’s apathy” (Eisenhardt) “God does not play dice” (Einstein)… would God be so cruel to structure so much conflict if it could not be constructive (Tjosvold)? I come from a Canadian middle class family with a British lineage. At a young age we were taught to be quiet […]. The post The Advantages of Conflict in Projects appeared first on Delivering a better world, one project at a time.

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Project Manager Talent Gap: How to Make the Most of It

LiquidPlanner

Skill shortages are now a global phenomenon, impacting organisations in virtually every industry sector. In the field of project management, however, the skills gap is growing at a faster rate than was anticipated just a few years ago. The implications for organizations and project management professionals are highlighted in new research from the Project Management Institute (PMI).

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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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What Are The Dates for the 2018 PMI Exam Changes?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This article, What Are The Dates for the 2018 PMI Exam Changes? , first appeared on Girl's Guide to Project Management. If you’re interested in taking the PMP you’ll know that the PMP® exam is changing in 2018. Here’s an interview with project management trainer, author and certification expert Jeff Furman who explains what’s coming up and the deadines you need to be aware of.

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Generalizing specialists put the T back in teams!

Kiron Bondale

Whether your company is adopting agile delivery approaches or not, there are a number of benefits to encouraging your team members to become generalizing specialists. These include: Improved understanding and closer collaboration between roles which historically would have operated within siloes. Gaining first-hand experience with someone else’s job is a great way to increase empathy and break down barriers.

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Recruiters Reveal Their Favorite Project Manager Interview Questions

LiquidPlanner

You’ve memorized answers to the “Tell me about a time when…” questions. You’ve practiced your STAR stories. And if anyone asks about your spirit animal, you’ll be ready for that too. And so have the other candidates. If you want to stand out from the competition, you need to prepare for the curveballs and the PM-specific questions. We asked recruiters, hiring managers, and talent acquisition specialists for their go-to project manager interview questions.

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Some days things go to plan

The Digital Project Manager

The post Some days things go to plan appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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DIPMF Review

Leading Answers

I have just returned from the Dubai International Project Management Forum ( DIPMF ). It was a very enjoyable and impressive conference, focussed on innovation in project management. Mark Langley, president and CEO of the PMI, gave a keynote presentation on the importance of innovation. Mark explained he visits Dubai 3 or 4 times a year since it is where many of the major construction projects are occurring along with innovations in project management.

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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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4 Rookie Mistakes to Avoid When Choosing Ad Agency Software

Function Point

4 Rookie Mistakes to Avoid When Choosing Ad Agency Software. When it comes to building out a project management toolkit, selecting your project management software will be your crown jewel. A good ad agency software will help you with project planning and scheduling, resource management, budgeting and client communications, all while offering your managers and creatives a home base for all agency workflow.

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How to become a better coach

Susanne Madsen

Many project managers work with me one-on-one because they would like to become better coaches. They don’t have aspirations to become an executive coach like myself, but would simply like to get better at coaching their team members. I’m thrilled about this interest as it's likely that coaching will also make them better people and leaders.

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MY 8 MOST IMPORTANT PROJECT MANAGEMENT SOFT SKILLS

The Squad Report

Is there such a thing as Good vs Great Project Managers? Of course there is! Just as with any profession, some Project Managers are better than others. There are several items which can contribute to this differentiation such as; Consistency, Attitude, Experience, Background, Desire, Training and more. What I've found over the years is that the PM who has developed "soft skills" has an edge over PMs lacking these soft skills.

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DIPMF Review

Leading Answers

I have just returned from the Dubai International Project Management Forum (DIPMF). It was a very enjoyable and impressive conference, focussed on innovation in project management. Mark Langley, president and CEO of the PMI, gave a keynote presentation on the.

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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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4 Rookie Mistakes to Avoid When Choosing Ad Agency Software

Function Point

4 Rookie Mistakes to Avoid When Choosing Ad Agency Software. When it comes to building out a project management toolkit, selecting your project management software will be your crown jewel. A good ad agency software will help you with project planning and scheduling, resource management, budgeting and client communications, all while offering your managers and creatives a home base for all agency workflow.

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How the Creative Team at Safelite AutoGlass Ditched Spreadsheets and Boosted Productivity

Wrike

Requests were coming in through a chaotic system of emails, desk drivebys, and even sticky notes. Promising ideas were falling through the cracks. Senior team members were bombarded with questions because they were the only sources of key process knowledge. And multiple, out-of-sync spreadsheets brought project momentum to a crawl. This is what Perrie Howes of Safelite Autoglass inherited, and it’s a common scene at many companies.

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Big Batch, Small Batch, Right Sized Batch

Herding Cats

It is popular in the agile community to speak about small batches delivered rapidly. Ignoring for the moment the ability of the business to absorb these deliverables, and when they are not put to use their aging properties , I had an experience today with batch size. It's a beautiful day here in Colorado (Thanksgiving Weekend), 70 degrees. Time to get started on the Christmas lights.

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How to Run a Post-Mortem Meeting

Brett Harned

I've written about post-mortem meetings in the past, but this post explores the topic in more depth. It was first published on the TeamGantt blog on September 5, 2017. Check it out--and comment if you have any thoughts on better post-mortem practices. Also, yeah, I know people prefer different names for this meeting. I chose […].

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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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Interactions within Agile Teams- The SCARF Model

Stepping Into Project Management

“In a world of increasing interconnectedness and rapid change, there is a growing need to improve the way people work together. Understanding the true drivers of human social behavior is becoming ever more urgent in this environment.”- David Rock We talk about creating self-organizing team and encouraging team dynamics in Agile but what we forget to mention is how it should be done.

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Project Management Certification: A Complete Guide To Getting Qualified

The Digital Project Manager

One of the questions we frequently get asked at the Digital Project Manager is “Will a project management certification actually help my career?” Perhaps controversially. The post Project Management Certification: A Complete Guide To Getting Qualified appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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False Equivalence

Herding Cats

False Equivalence is a logical fallacy where there appears to be a logical equivalence (usually in quantity and quality of evidence) between two opposing arguments, but when in fact there is one side has substantially higher quality and quantity of evidence. However, there is no equivalence between the two sides when one is supported by evidence, and the other side with little or no evidence, of which most is of low quality.

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When PM meets SysEngr

Musings on Project Management

Project manager Here's your task Here's your budget Here's your schedule Keep your head down; focus on the task; don't get distracted System Engineer Here's your environment and context Here's your interface Consider the chaotic and integrating effects Keep your head up; look around you; be aware of other stuff going on Hello! Did I hear "keep your head down" and "keep your head up"?

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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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Why Priority Management is Important to Businesses

Appfluence

There are multiple reasons why businesses fail. For example, it is easy for managers and business owners to get side-tracked by the freedom that they have when running a company. Other times, companies spend their money on unnecessary resources that do not contribute to overall success. And then, there are those cases when managing multiple priorities becomes difficult due to poor priority management.

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SunPower Corp. deploys Leankor

Leankor

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. November 29, 2017. SunPower Corp. deploys Leankor. Solar power giant to use innovative SaaS solution to improve enterprise work management, optimizing customer delivery cycles and increasing project capacity. Leankor, the leading customer-centric enterprise work management solution, is proud to announce that SunPower Corp. (NASDAQ:SPWR) has selected and is beginning to deploy Leankor.

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Aleatory and Epistemic Uncertainty in Software Development Projects

Herding Cats

All software development projects operate in the presence of uncertainty. This uncertainty is unavoidable. The design and development of software must rely on estimation, forecasts, and predictions based on an idealized understanding of what is an unknown (but knowable) understanding of reality. If your reality is unknowable you've got a much bigger problem and are headed for failure.

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Systems thinking with Charlie Munger

Musings on Project Management

I was directed to this paper about "The Psychology of Human Misjudgment" by a posting on herdingcats. The author is Charlie Munger, a man who is decidedly not a system engineer or a project manager, but nonetheless understands some of the principles of the former.(*) He writes -- certainly as a systems thinker -- this way: I became so avid a collector instances of bad judgment that I paid.

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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.