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The Benefits of Agile Approach to Meetings

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Nobody wants to sit through a meeting and feel it was pointless, so why is up to half of the time attendees spend in meetings wasted? It demoralises your team and is unproductive. Putting some thought into the objectives and format of your meeting in advance will allow you to get the most out of your attendees’ time. Take this project as an example.

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Preventing Kickbacks to Those with the Power to Purchase

Project Risk Coach

Some vendors exploit the weaknesses of your employees This is a guest post by my twin brother Charles. He is a CPA and a Certified Fraud Examiner. He is a partner in the firm McNair, McLemore, and Middlebrooks & Co. Charles lives in Macon, Georgia, with his wife Kelley. He is the author of The Little Book of Local Government Fraud Prevention and Preparation of Financial Statements & Compilation Engagements.

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Avoiding groupthink on long-lived teams

Kiron Bondale

Long-lived teams are often presented as being superior to their temporary counterparts. The benefits of longevity include the avoidance of wasteful forming-storming-norming cycles, higher levels of trust and psychological safety within the team and a more accurate understanding of what someone means when they communicate with us. But there is a potential downside to persistent teams which can erode many of these benefits: groupthink.

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Your Basic Guide to IT Project Governance Framework

Project-Management.pm

Projects have since been a lifeline of an organization; everything is a project these days and these help companies keep up with the ever-growing changes happening around the market. However, a project just doesn’t function on its own. The process won’t even work unless there is manpower involved, as well as methodologies and standards implemented for projects to be delivered successfully.

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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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The Alternative To The Mad Mess Of Spreadsheets, Emails & Software In Website Design Projects

The Digital Project Manager

Content is so critical to the success of a website but all too often it gets pushed down the list of priorities during a website. The post The Alternative To The Mad Mess Of Spreadsheets, Emails & Software In Website Design Projects appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Low-Stress Ways to Keep Your Remote Team on Track

LiquidPlanner

Chances are, you’re reading this at work, but you’re not in the office. You may be on your way to a meeting, and you’re catching up with your favorite websites on the journey. Or you’re stuck at an airport. Or waiting in a coffee shop. Or you might be working, but not actually in the office. Remote work is most definitely a thing these days, and it’s not only for people who own their own business or work as contract project managers.

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The 5 Significant Agile Project Management Techniques For Your Organization

Project-Management.pm

Agile methods have created a significant impact on various businesses. Even it was orignally created for engineering, information technology, and software development, agile has expanded to different industries such as project management. The function of agile project management is focused on improvement, team effort, scope, and quality products and services.

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Using Google Drive

Binfire

Google drive is a great tool and it is free! You can store your work and personal documents, pictures and movies in the cloud and share it easily and safely. Google give you the peace of mind that your files are safe in their huge data centers. You can collaborate on files you have uploaded. An added benefit you can access your files from anywhere and from any device.

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Coaching Tools

Growing Agile

Recently we attended the SUGSA Coaching Day where we presented a session on Coaching Tools. In preparation for this we did a silent brainstorm. When we say ‘tools’ we mean anything that can help you be a better coach. We quickly came up with 33 tools that we think help us be better coaches. We ran the session as an informal sit in a circle and pick a card, then we explained the card and for topics some ran a quick activity for participants to practice.

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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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Remote Project Management: Low-Stress Ways to Keep Your Team on Track

LiquidPlanner

Chances are, you’re reading this at work, but you’re not in the office. You may be on your way to a meeting, and you’re catching up with your favorite websites on the journey. Or you’re stuck at an airport. Or waiting in a coffee shop. Or you might be working, but not actually in the office. Remote work is most definitely a thing these days, and it’s not only for people who own their own business or work as contract project managers.

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Stakeholder Management: PMP Study Guide for PMBOK 6th Ed.

ExamsPM

Project Stakeholder Management identifies people or organizations that may impact or be impacted by your project, and develops strategies to manage their expectations. This Knowledge Area contains four processes: Identify Stakeholder, Plan Stakeholder, Manage Stakeholder Engagement, and Control Stakeholder Engagement. The following article is a summary of Stakeholder Management for PMBOK 6 th Edition.

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3 Tips for Becoming an Effective Mentor

Celoxis

Seasoned project managers will tell you that people always come first in the mix. They focus on honing their leadership skills and develop an ability to bring a group of diverse people to come together and work towards a common goal or purpose. Over a period of time, they are not seen just as managers anymore, but as leaders, guides and mentors.

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5 Most Common Mistakes in Managing Multiple Projects: Project Schedules (Part 3 of 5)

Wrike

. Leading a company that offers project management software, I’ve had the opportunity to hear many project war stories from customers, investors, and mentors. I thought this would be a great opportunity to share them with you in the hopes that they help you improve your own management skills. This is part 3 in a series called the 5 Most Common Mistakes in Managing Multiple Projects.

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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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GAO Cost Estimating and Assessment Guide Applied to Agile

Herding Cats

The GAO Cost Estimating and Assessment Guide has 12 steps. These describe the increasing maturity of the project's artifacts. There are not specific to Agile Software Development. But here's how they are connected. Step . GAO. Agile. 1. Capture All Activities. Product Roadmap and Release Plan describe the needed capabilities to be delivered by the project.

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Why Do You Need Timesheets?

TimeCamp

When we were creating TimeCamp we focused on providing the best solution to both companies and freelancers. An app that would ease the hardship of everyday work, help its users with their time management, enhancing their productivity and efficiency. Therefore, we packed it with features that we knew every user would find useful. TimeCamp will track the time of your activity and you will receive a detailed graph from which you will learn what you or the member of your team were doing, how much ti

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INFOGRAPHIC: 5 Approaches to Managing Large-Scale Projects with PM Software

Celoxis

INFOGRAPHIC: 5 Approaches to Managing Large-Scale Projects with PM Software.

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Project Management Tools that Boost a Team’s Productivity

GanttPRO Project Management

Having to handle too much information is a problem of any project manager. An efficient control on what the employees are working on is crucial for on-time project delivery: an […].

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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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Why Johnny Still Cannot Estimate

Herding Cats

He doesn't know how - He doesn't understand how estimates fit into the process of business and managerial finance of product or service development. He looks for existing examples and just sees bad examples. . He doesn't understand why estimates are needed - He doesn't understand the impact on the business for not knowing how long, how much, and what will be produced for the time and money.

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Daily Habits of Successful Leaders: Examples and Lessons

ActiveCollab

The most successful people in the business have 5 things in common: They have laser focus; They are excellent short and long term organizers; They learn from their mistakes; They adapt easily; They take calculated risks. Also, they read a lot. But that is a story for another time. We have taken a look at daily habits leaders like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg, and analyzed some of their characteristics in order to find out the secrets behind their success.

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Small data

Musings on Project Management

I've written before that the PMO is the world of 1-sigma; 6-sigma need not apply. Why so? Not enough data, to wit: small data. Small data drives most projects; after all, we're not in a production environment. Small data is why we approximate, but approximation is not all bad. You can drive a lot of results from approximation. Sometimes small data is really small.

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Project Management Tools that Boost a Team’s Productivity

GanttPRO Project Management

Having to handle too much information is a problem of any 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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Three Leadership Tips from Jack Sparow

Herding Cats

Captain Jack Sparrow, started as a supporting character to Orlando Bloom’s Wil Turner. He then outshone the ostensible hero and became an archetype unto himself. Here are three Leadership Tips from an INCOSE presentation "We Need More Jack Sparrow, Savvy? A Swashbuckler’s Guide to System Modeling With SysML," given at the 2016 International Council on Systems Engineering Great Lakes Regional Conference.

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Cloud vs. Self-Hosting

ActiveCollab

Is it better to use self-hosted or cloud version of Active Collab? They both have the same features so in the end it depends on the structure of your company. Self-hosting is great if you plan on using Active Collab for more than a year and/or have a lot of team members - but, you need to make an upfront investment, and install and maintain it yourself (which is easy thanks to the instructions ).

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Is everything scheduled?

Musings on Project Management

Have you read the PMBok? Yes? Then you've got Henry Gantt's charts, the critical path, and precedence scheduling down tight. Correct? Read a bit about Taylor and "scientific management". Excellent, then you know that people doing defined tasks are just interchangeable parts, or they were in 1910. How about "The Critical Chain" by Goldratt? Do you understand buffers and milestone protection?

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4 Tips for Project Management Reporting

Brightwork

No matter what project management tool you are using, one of the most important capabilities you will have is the ability to quickly and easily report on project data and share that information with the relevant audiences in a format that works for them. Having accurate, up-to-date, and accessible project reports is critical to understanding how a project is progressing and helps the team to make better,more informed decisions.

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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.