ProjectManager.com
JUNE 20, 2017
Project scope is part of the planning process of any project. Like any other aspect of a project, you want to determine how scope will impact the schedule of your project and, of course, it’s outcome. So, naturally, scope is important. But before you jump into that project plan and begin to tackle the scope of your project, let’s review the basics.
Project Risk Coach
JUNE 19, 2017
Changes in project risks are inevitable. As a project progresses, the probability and impact of current risks change, new risks emerge, and residual risks may increase or decrease. How can project managers optimize their risk responses and get the results they are looking for? Allow me to introduce you to two project managers—Tom and Susan. Tom started his project with a risk identification exercise with several stakeholders resulting in a list of 77 risks.
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Rebel’s Guide to PM
JUNE 19, 2017
Training Company: Logical Model. Product reviewed: PRINCE2® Agile Bundle (includes exam fee, self-paced online training, support and mock exam). Other products offered by this training company: PRINCE2®, PMP Exam Prep, other online PM courses including How to Estimate, Recovery of Troubled Projects, Project Governance. See the whole list here. Trainer: Simon Harris.
The Lazy Project Manager
JUNE 22, 2017
The following is an extract from my new book ‘How to get Fired at the C-Level: Why mismanaging change is the biggest risk of all’ in association with my friends at Tailwind Project Solutions – the extracts follow a series of 5 Challenges that I think every organisation should consider, and consider very carefully: Challenge 3 – Invest in a Chief Projects Officer.
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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.
LiquidPlanner
JUNE 20, 2017
Technology has made our lives easier. If you don’t believe that, go watch a few episodes of the PBS series, The Frontier House. While technology and automation have lessened some of the strain, they’ve also stirred up a lot of fear. The Luddite movement in the early 1800s is one of history’s more famous examples of humans lashing out at automation. During a period of low wages and England’s war with France, English textile workers saw automation and textile machinery as a threat to their livelih
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Project-Management.pm
JUNE 23, 2017
As far as portfolio management processes go, portfolio management office is embedded in an organization in order to support a certain strategic objectives towards a successful result. Portfolio management office also serves as an additional support in terms of business goals and benefits from projects or programs. However, getting lost in the true purpose of portfolio management office can break the purpose you are expecting.
Digite
JUNE 23, 2017
When I first arrived in the US twenty years back I was “blown-away” by a few intense experiences that are still etched fresh in my mind. One such overwhelming experience was when I entered Wal-Mart for the first time. I had never seen or imagined anything like this before. For every item, there were so many brands, packages, and choices. Buying even insignificant stuff was a complex and stressful experience.
Ganttic
JUNE 20, 2017
We glorify being busy. We glorify having a lot on our plates. Managing time (and doing it effectively) is becoming a topic that’s being discussed more and more. People are time-blocking their every action to scare away the horrible waste of time that is procrastination. There are hundreds and maybe thousands apps for do-to lists. We desire to be a superhuman that beats our core instinct to be a lazy baked potato.
GanttPRO Project Management
JUNE 22, 2017
Software developers enjoy using JIRA software for their projects. It has a lot of advantages for creating and planning all steps of product development. But at the same time, there […].
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
Wrike
JUNE 23, 2017
Marketing agency VOCO Creative was struggling to communicate effectively with clients and internal team members using email as their primary tool. They had two locations and numerous clients spread out across cities. But with several client projects running simultaneously, the amount of emails they had to dig through for important information was daunting.
ActiveCollab
JUNE 21, 2017
Today, agile is such a buzzword that teams outside software development try to incorporate it into their workflow. But agile is not for everyone. For example, a marketing agency can never implement agile because clients don’t want to pay for a half-finished marketing campaign and iterate. There are revisions, but their number is clearly specified in the contract.
Digite
JUNE 23, 2017
When I first arrived in the US twenty years back I was “blown-away” by a few intense experiences that are still etched fresh in my mind. One such overwhelming experience was when I entered Wal-Mart for the first time. I had never seen or imagined anything like this before. For every item, there were so many brands, packages, and choices. Buying even insignificant stuff was a complex and stressful experience.
Function Point
JUNE 22, 2017
Scope creep is a supervillain that all agencies and their fearless project managers must face up against at some point. It starts usually small—offering to handle a few upgrades or throwing in a few additional hours to ensure a client is happy—and before you know it, these little favours become the expected, and your project is running way over budget.
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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.
Celoxis
JUNE 19, 2017
We live and work in the age of machines and artificial intelligence. With automation leading the narrative at the workplace, it is important for companies to not get too caught up in it and retain the core aspects of organizational fabric, namely leadership. Some say leaders are born not trained while others believe that there are enough frameworks and systems out there to make leaders out of people.
ActiveCollab
JUNE 20, 2017
Every Rolls Royce is a car, but not every car is Rolls Royce. Similarly, not every team is a high-performing team. To know what are high-performing teams, all we have to do is upgrade our team definition : Creating a high-performing team. Now that we know WHAT a high performing team should look like, the next question is HOW to make your team high-performing.
GanttPRO Project Management
JUNE 20, 2017
If you are a software developer, it is highly likely that you used or are using JIRA Software. As JIRA developers state, it is number 1 software development tool used […].
Function Point
JUNE 22, 2017
Scope creep is a supervillain that all agencies and their fearless project managers must face up against at some point. It starts usually small—offering to handle a few upgrades or throwing in a few additional hours to ensure a client is happy—and before you know it, these little favours become the expected, and your project is running way over budget.
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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.
Herding Cats
JUNE 18, 2017
There is a posted question at an agile conference. Can you make a decision without an estimate? Like many discussions in the domain of agile, the statement is made without any evidence that it is true, nor can even be true in principle. This type of fallacy is common. . First a principle. There are NO means of making a credible decision in the presence of uncertainty without estimating the outcome of that decision.
ActiveCollab
JUNE 20, 2017
Scrum is a project management framework that helps small, close-knit teams develop complex products incrementally. Scrum focuses on how people work instead of what they do. Scrum relies agile principles and is the most popular agile methodology out there. In Scrum, teams develop software in sprints and release what they’ve worked on every two weeks.
ExamsPM
JUNE 20, 2017
Project Communications Management is the process of planning, collecting, storing, and updating project information. This article is part of a PMP Study Guide that summarizes the Communications Management Knowledge Area. The Communications Management knowledge area that a project manager spends the most time on. In fact, over 90% of the project manager’s time is spent on communications.
The Lazy Project Manager
JUNE 20, 2017
. We all know that effective project management is a key contributor to a project’s success. Still, we often forget to think about the bigger consequences that project management can have on the rest of business. Working on your project management skills does a whole lot more than boost your resume, it has serious impact on your business’ bottom line.
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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.
Herding Cats
JUNE 19, 2017
The Cone of Uncertainty is a framing assumption used to model the needed reduction in some parameter of interest in domains ranging from software development to hurricane forecasting. This extended post covers. The framing assumptions of the Cone of Uncertainty. The Cone of Uncertainty as a Technical Performance Measure. Closed Loop Stochastic Adaptive control in the presence of Evolving Uncertainty.
ActiveCollab
JUNE 20, 2017
Today, agile is such a buzzword that teams outside software development try to incorporate it into their workflow. But agile is not for everyone. For example, a marketing agency can never implement agile because clients don’t want to pay for a half-finished marketing campaign and iterate. There are revisions, but their number is clearly specified in the contract.
GanttPRO Project Management
JUNE 22, 2017
Software developers enjoy using JIRA software for their projects. It has a lot of advantages for creating and planning all steps of product development.
Musings on Project Management
JUNE 20, 2017
It was famously said, in a paraphrase: lead people, manage things. I buy into this advice, so I'm always on the alert for something that. plays into it. In a recent posting, I read some advice on delivering constructive criticism that seem pretty sensible, given my own experience of being on both the receiving end and the delivering side of such encounters.
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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