Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 11, 2016

In case the hot topic of Southern rail strikes hasn’t made your local news, the train services here recently have been just awful. Official strikes, high levels of “sickness” (excuse me for being skeptical), accusations of management blocking overtime thus causing delays and cancellations on purpose… I don’t know what to believe. And throw in some freak storms and flooded tracks, plus trespassers and police shutting down the tracks… We’ve had total commuter chaos.

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Project Risk Coach

JULY 11, 2016

I often blog on random project management topics. Occasionally, I write a series of articles on a common theme, as I did on The Principles of Project Risk Management , earlier this year. I am excited to announce my second series — The Smart Stakeholder Management Series — smart changes that you can make today to dramatically improve your project results.

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Kiron Bondale

JULY 10, 2016

Retrospectives are a common, regularly practiced ceremony on projects managed using an agile delivery method. But why stop there? There’s no reason that retrospectives couldn’t be applied to traditional projects too, it’s just that some improvement ideas might not be immediately applicable in a non-iterative lifecycle. But won’t it cost a lot more effort to conduct regular retrospectives rather than waiting till we get to the end of our projects?

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Musings on Project Management

JULY 13, 2016

Spacecraft projects are pretty tricky risk management regimes. Consider: "If anything goes wrong there's no way for anyone to intercede" That's the feeling in the Juno project office about the injection procedure of the Juno project spacecraft into Jupiter's orbit, as reported in this essay.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 13, 2016

It’s time for another installment of Inspiring Women in Project Management and today I’m delighted to introduce you to Traci Duez, chemist turned project manager and now someone who inspires women herself. I can say that categorically because I first came across Traci when I attended a PMI Global Congress in Denver, my first one ever, and I went to her presentation.

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Agile Coach

JULY 15, 2016

I worked at an organization years ago that was almost put under by a postal strike. Let’s say at the time, cash flow was a problem. The owner had to put in a substantial chunk of his own savings to make payroll, all because of a 3-ish week strike. Let’s say the owner had a little more to worry about than ‘ being Agile ‘ I remember when the Agile Alliance did their first executive forum at the big annual Agile 20XX conference.

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LiquidPlanner

JULY 11, 2016

The LiquidPlanner summer release is here! You might have already noticed some navigational changes in your Project tab. But have you tried the Project and Resource Workload Reports yet? We’re going to run you through what’s new so you don’t miss a thing. Release Theme: Improving Resource Management. This release spotlights improvements to our resource management feature, with a focus on workload reports.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 15, 2016

It’s time for another giveaway ! Today I have a signed copy of my latest book, Collaboration Tools for Project Managers, to give away. This is perfect for you if you are using software at work to connect with your virtual team or simply to keep all your documents, tasks and plans in one place. This video (under a minute, safe for work) tells you more about the book and why it is awesome!

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Green Project Management

JULY 11, 2016

Yes, the image above represents the Star Trek M-5 Multitronic System from “The Ultimate Computer” (for you Trekkies). In this episode, a skeleton Enterprise crew are assigned to test a revolutionary computer system that is given total control of the ship that in time would replace even the Captain. Could this be the future of project […].

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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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Herding Cats

JULY 10, 2016

The question of the viability of #NoEstimates starts with a simple principles based notion. Can you make a non-trivial (NOT de minimis) decision in the presence of uncertainty without estimating? The #NoEstimates advocates didn’t start there. They started with “Estimates are a waste, stop doing them.” Those advocates also started with the notion that estimates are a waste for the developers.

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Project Risk Coach

JULY 12, 2016

This is a guest post by Colin Gautrey from Learn to Influence. Colin is an author, trainer and executive coach who has specialized in the field of power and influence for over ten years. He combines solid research with deep personal experience in corporate life to offer his audiences critical yet simple insights into how to achieve results with greater influence.

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Project Management Hacks

JULY 14, 2016

In project management, you are used to managing resources. You probably look at your calendar and project schedule dozens of times each day. You may also have a fine tuned approach to managing your project’s financials. Monitoring and controlling these resources is fundamental to keeping your project running smoothly. What about your own mental energy?

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Musings on Project Management

JULY 10, 2016

At "herding cats" there a good list of control elements in a posting I read, interesting enough that I offer the short version here: Short term feedback - what's happening right in front of me? What do I need to do NOW to maintain stability, to survive for the next 10 feet on the trail Long term feedback - I see things coming.[project managers are paid the big bucks to see around corners!

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The Digital Project Manager

JULY 15, 2016

Posted in General Ten Tops Tips. Just because your project is live, it doesn’t mean it’s over. One of the most overlooked parts of a project is post launch, after it’s gone live. In the euphoria and excitement (or just plain relief) of delivering a project, managing its closure should be considered a phase in its own right. Here are ten tips for digital project managers to help you manage your projects effectively in the post-live phase of the project lifecycle.

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Project Risk Coach

JULY 13, 2016

If you can’t see this video in your RSS reader or email, then click here. Want to interact with other project managers on the topic of Stakeholder Management? Well, you’re in the right place! I’ve created the Smart Stakeholder Management Facebook Group where I will share articles, polls, and questions. You may ask your own questions.

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TeamGantt

JULY 13, 2016

Good email habits are the cornerstone of any good productivity system. Learn how to tame your inbox and stay on task by checking out this infographic.

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LiquidPlanner

JULY 14, 2016

There’s no project management without people management. We don’t need to tell you about the disasters that ensue when projects and people are mismanaged—whether through over-assignment of responsibilities or work on the wrong task. After all, it’s no fun to walk into a status meeting to unwittingly discover that one of your team members is holding up an entire project—surprise!

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Stepping Into Project Management

JULY 13, 2016

Only 25 percent of job success is based upon IQ. Seventy-five percent is about how your brain believes your behavior matters, connects to other people, and manages stress. Click for more To work at your best nothing is more required than feeling fresh and inspired, ready to take on the day. But in today’s world, the stress, the complexity of our lives and the constant urge for more means life is about the rat race and less about being grateful and enjoying the NOW.

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EarthPM

JULY 9, 2016

The PMBOK(R) Guide is up for “Exposure Draft” review. There are many chances in this document where sustainability could be ‘threaded’ properly into our discipline. I implore you to take this chance to advance our profession. If you are a PMI member, you have only until 26-July to make comments. Please join me in this effort, within this window of time.

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Herding Cats

JULY 9, 2016

Sitting in our seats at last night's Rockie v. Phillies game and dawned on me the analogy between Moneyball strategy and good management of software development. In Moneyball , Billy Beane was faced with a limited budget for players. He hired a statistics guy and they figured out the getting on base was just as important as hitting a homerun and a hell of alot cheaper.

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The Tao of Project Management

JULY 15, 2016

Firstly let's say what the Way isn't. It isn't a methodology, it isn't a religion (although some people have tried to make it one), it isn't a how to do things and it isn't a set of project management guidelines. It is much more than any of that. This week I was discussing the role of methodology with Johnny Beirne for a future Podcast on his website.

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LiquidPlanner

JULY 13, 2016

It’s Monday morning. A project manager from the dev team has a meeting with partner marketing to see if his team can help the marketing group launch a new mobile app to corporate partners later that day. Two of the team’s developers hop onto a conference call with one of the company’s cloud hosting providers to discuss the new features they are pushing into production for a client-facing application.

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