ProjectManager.com

MARCH 2, 2020

If something bad is going to happen on a project, it’s likely related to time, cost or scope. Project managers are well aware of this and spend much of their time planning in order to avoid negative risk and its potential impact. There are many tools that can mitigate risk in a project, but it also takes skill in something called project controls. Like the name implies, project controls are about controlling the project and keeping it from exceeding budgets and deadlines.

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Leading Answers

MARCH 3, 2020

It’s easy to believe that work breakdown structures (WBS) have been around since the pyramids were built in Egypt, and that product backlogs are new inventions by youngsters in too much of a hurry to plan correctly. However, like most things, the truth is more complicated. In 1957, the Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) approach was created by the United States Department of Defense (DoD) and described organizing tasks into product-oriented categories.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 2, 2020

I decided to be a project manager. Admittedly, it wasn’t until I started working that I knew such a job existed, but when I realised I did, I knew it was for me. However, even though I thought I knew what I was letting myself in for there were still some things I didn’t know about being a project manager before throwing myself into the job. Here are 6 things I learned about being a project manager – things I didn’t know back in 2000 when I started out. 1.

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Workamajig

MARCH 5, 2020

Resource planning and management is crucial for project management success. Master this skill with these resource management tips. The first thing you’ll learn as a rookie project manager is this: Managing projects means managing resources. It doesn’t matter what kind of organization you work in - a factory, a construction firm, a marketing agency - your success will depend on people, i.e. your resources.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 5, 2020

This is a guest post from Varada Patwardhan from Xebrio. This is the story of my friend Angela, see if you relate. Angela always excelled at playing leader or manager at group projects growing up. She believed that she was destined to lead. College, a few odd jobs, and an internship later, she landed a job as a design engineer and got to work on some exciting and challenging projects.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 5, 2020

So many column inches, blog posts and books have been written about why there’s a gender pay gap. This book is my favourite, but frankly I’m bored of the ‘why’ already. I only have to look round my office to see the reasons why. What I’m interested in is how to eradicate it. And in our world of project delivery that starts with looking at what it means to take a senior project leadership job.

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MindGenius

MARCH 4, 2020

One thing I know from personal experience is that it’s never easy to be a leader. Whether you’re a managing a project, a group leader in a university project or even being captain of a sports team, being a leader is one of the most difficult and most accountable roles you could have, but also one of the most rewarding. That being said, natural leadership doesn’t always have to come from a position of management.

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Project Management Essentials

MARCH 2, 2020

Many organizations struggle with project governance, oversight, and control. The truth is that most projects are not successful. Over the past 25-years, only 30% of all projects are delivered on-time, on-budget, and with the desired scope. Traditional waterfall projects have phase gates that theoretically establish defined control and governance points.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 3, 2020

Microsoft has been the 800-pound gorilla in software for so long that it’s hard to think of the industry without it. While there have been challengers to its rule, and many who have surpassed it, Microsoft remains a giant. This is certainly true in project management software: a sector that has been growing steadily. No discussion of project management software would be complete without including Microsoft 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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Kiron Bondale

MARCH 1, 2020

Part of tailoring our approach to delivering a project needs to consider its relative level of uncertainty. While it is not the only determinant of complexity, uncertainty is certainly a key contributing factor. And while there are other dimensions which need to be evaluated when deciding whether to utilize a predictive or adaptive life cycle, higher uncertainty would be a supporting factor for the latter.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 2, 2020

A question that frequently comes up in my Scrum Training courses is how to define a product. Scrum was created to help small teams solve complex problems and deliver products of the highest possible value. Scrum is used well beyond software because many teams and organizations recognize their work is complex, and they need to be nimble, creative, and value-focused.

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LiquidPlanner

MARCH 5, 2020

“ Dear Elizabeth: Can you help me with starting right on an international project? I will be responsible for the delivery of 3 projects in Australia and New Zealand. I have a formal project management certification, but managing projects with international teams is new to me. Any tips?”. The principles of managing projects with international teams are the same as managing a project with a team all in your own country.

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Musings on Project Management

MARCH 4, 2020

The Siberian dilemma has been around a long time. The narrative goes like this: It's a seriously sub-zero day on a frozen lake You're walking across the lake and fall through a weak spot in the ice If you stay in the water, you'll die in 5 minutes; If you get out the water, you'll die in 2 minutes. The dilemma: stay in the water and live longer, or get out and die sooner?

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The Digital Project Manager

MARCH 5, 2020

This article will help you quickly compare and evaluate the best GoToMeeting alternatives and other. The post 10 Best GoToMeeting Alternatives + Pros & Cons appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Online PM Courses

MARCH 4, 2020

The spread of the Coronavirus infection COVID-19 is now global. It is starting to look like many countries could see massive disruption. The post COVID-19: A 7-Step Response Plan for Project Managers appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

Hello awesome people. I am sorry I have been away for a while since I've been busy with stuffs. Today's video is the continuation of my previous video. Just like my previous video, many of my future videos is going to refer back to this video. Other than the Definition of Done, the Sprint Goal is the other most important aspects of Scrum. It is interesting to see that many Scrum teams do not have any Sprint Goal, which makes their Sprint is no different to a mini-waterfall.

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MPUG

MARCH 2, 2020

There are certain questions that usually surface in almost every project regardless of the type, domain considered, technology used, complexities associated, or strategic significance. These questions are: When will the project be completed? What are the items you can deliver by the end of the project? What are the items the team can take for the forthcoming release or iteration?

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The Digital Project Manager

MARCH 2, 2020

Looking to grow your PM toolkit and improve processes and efficiency within projects? In today's episode, I'm joined with Sally Woolston where we discuss how we can develop more efficient processes, choose the right tools for our projects, and roll them out across the organization. The post How To Build Your PM Toolkit (With Sally Woolston) appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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ProProfs Project Management

MARCH 6, 2020

What do you think of leadership and management? . As project managers and even as team members of a project, we all know that leadership and management is a field on its own, even referred to as a scientific field. . Now wouldn’t it be correct to say that every project manager and every member of a team working on a particular project have the same goal, and that’s to carry out their tasks successfully and deliver expected results?

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Scrum.org

MARCH 2, 2020

. This Vlog looks at the topic of Emergence from its definition as a word and application in the natural environment. Emergence in Scrum is a key principle to delivery. Emergence as applied in Scrum. The Vlog considers how emergence is applied by Scrum in four fundamental ways. From the emergence of the Product as it is developed incrementally in Sprints.

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Epicflow Blog

MARCH 2, 2020

You can’t know too much about leadership. This quality is a mix of talent, knowledge, and skills that requires huge responsibility. If you want your people to follow, trust, and respect you, you should always be up-to-date and discover new opportunities that would help you do your best to become a reliable and trustworthy leader for your team. Let’s take a look at leadership tips that world experts prepared for you this winter.

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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.

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Binfire

MARCH 2, 2020

When you are managing multiple Agile projects , it is time-consuming to move from one board to another to get a complete view of all your projects. Here comes the portfolio Kanban board and it is an amazing productivity tool. If you are not familiar with the portfolio Kanban board, it is a Kanban board that lists tasks from all your projects on one board.

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Teamweek

MARCH 4, 2020

Illustration: Jo Zixuan Zhou. I used to work in finance. Not in a Wall Street firm where everyone wore double-breasted suits and the ghost of Bear Sterns hovered about, but definitely a place that prided itself on producing excellent research and returns for our clients. That culture of excellence meant that work tended to fill more hours than 9 to 5.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 3, 2020

Veremos cómo en Scrum se trata de entregar valor en equipo, no se trata de otra cosa. Porque todos pueden hacer su parte correctamente, pero el paciente aún puede morir en la mesa de operaciones si el equipo no mira la imagen completa. Lo sé que lo sé. Estamos hablando de un equipo Scrum , no de un equipo médico. Pero siga mi metáfora y piense en el paciente como el Incremento y Desarrollo como el equipo médico. .

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MPUG

MARCH 1, 2020

Life comes with its challenges, setbacks, and failures. We all expect that, and we know that the same goes for projects, as well. Even with the most qualified team members, the most supportive and understanding stakeholders, and most driven project manager, things are bound to get tough from time to time. No matter the industry, a project doesn’t reach its end goal without going through a period of difficulty (or a few!).

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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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