Moira Alexander
APRIL 24, 2017
Founded by Harvard University and MIT in 2012, edX is one of the biggest MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses) platforms available and offers many project management (PM) courses. You can take individual courses at no charge, and many of them can be accredited towards an edX credential. Here are just some of the PM courses available to students and professionals.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
APRIL 26, 2017
This is a guest article by Grace Windsor from BrightWork. Have you ever delivered a project on time and within budget only to discover that your client is unhappy with the final result? This often stems from mismatched expectations, and is quite unpleasant for both parties. I still remember feeling deflated and frustrated following a particularly difficult meeting with a client who made it very clear that the project was not delivering as expected.
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The Lazy Project Manager
APRIL 25, 2017
The following is a guest article from my friends at Tailwind Project Solutions: In his new book – How to get Fired at the C-Level: Why mismanaging change is the biggest risk of all – Peter Taylor challenges the foundations of organisational change, asking if the c-level executives out there are truly ready for change to be successful in their own businesses?
Kiron Bondale
APRIL 23, 2017
With the return of warmer temperatures to North America, Spring provides us with the opportunity to spend a few hours each week gardening. Gardening is a great way to beat stress and the returns from a visual and potentially culinary perspective are compelling. But it also provides us with a number of lessons which can be applied to developing and sustaining teams.
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Project Risk Coach
APRIL 24, 2017
Project managers, team members, and other stakeholders have disagreements, some heated, some not. What’s important is how you respond to project conflicts? Conflicts can be beneficial if handled in an open, transparent manner. Successful project managers do not run away from conflict; they run toward it. They call it out by name in a neutral and unoffending manner.
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Project Bliss
APRIL 25, 2017
On quite a few occasions I’ve encountered the question “How can I get into project management?”. People ask if they should start by pursuing certifications or going back to school. Yes, certifications and college degrees are valuable, but not a requirement for getting real project management experience to move you along that career path. So the answer I usually give to the question “How can I get into project management?
Musings on Project Management
APRIL 27, 2017
Peter Hyde has a great piece in Front Row Agile about the ever emerging linguistics of the Agilists. He has his "top 10" of anti-Agile words and phrases. Here are a few from his list that would make my list (by the way, Hyde is looking for more, so if you have a favorite, get in touch with him) Agile in Name Only, or AINO: Companies that have adopted agile frameworks and practises without.
Project-Management.pm
APRIL 26, 2017
Metrics are convenient and easy to use. They measure and estimate cost, project duration, and ensure that the projects are where they are supposed to be but it doesn’t guarantee that it will solve all your problems. These metrics are meant to assist managers and their teams to gain a chance of the project success or an expected ROI benefit. Everything still lies in human resources.
LiquidPlanner
APRIL 25, 2017
The Productivity Problem. If a project team is struggling, a common reaction is to host a daily stand-up meeting. The term “stand-up” has a wide interpretation. Many of the stand-ups I’ve attended have turned into sit-downs because the meeting lasted for an hour rather than a few minutes. In these stand-ups, project managers typically review a project schedule, assign tasks, and discuss an open list of issues.
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
Inloox
APRIL 27, 2017
A PMO has various functions and purposes: It’s responsible for establishing and maintaining standardized processes, methods and policies in the organization and to make sure that projects align with the organizational business strategy. The 3 Fundamental PMO types As we’ve already established, there is no one-size-fits-all PMO, each organization will define the role and responsibilities of their PMO depending on their business strategy, culture and history.
The Digital Project Manager
APRIL 28, 2017
The post Just when you think a project is going to plan appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.
Green Project Management
APRIL 23, 2017
This past week I was having a conversation with a colleague on what they should look for in a project manager. Out of curiosity, I did some digging across various organization’s standards at what they describe as the “role of a project manager”, here is what I found. First I looked in PMI’s PMBOK Guide Version 5 where […]. The post Hey Project Manager, are you a more of a Jedi or a Stormtrooper?
LiquidPlanner
APRIL 27, 2017
“This girl came to play,” Marchant Couick said as she motioned toward 14-year-old Zanaasha, who was furiously taking notes at the front of the LiquidPlanner lunch room. Zanaasha smiled. She continued to write as Couick explained her work as a renewal specialist to the roomful of eighth-graders. The five other panelists went down the line, telling the students from Seattle Girls’ School about their jobs.
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Eylean
APRIL 28, 2017
“Project management” is a well known concept that defines planning, organizing and managing the effort to accomplish a successful project. Simply put, project management is the job of overseeing a project to ensure it meets its goals, time line and budget. However, despite it’s wide use and knowledge, there are some myths about the practice … The post Most common project management myths appeared first on Eylean Blog.
GanttPRO Project Management
APRIL 28, 2017
Among the other things that should be remembered by successful project management team, there is the fact that sometimes there’s nobody who manages the manager. Thus, all taken decisions should […].
Project Management Hacks
APRIL 27, 2017
3 Project Management Traps To Guard Against From digital transformation to Elon Musk’s vision to travel to Mars, a lack of vision is no longer the problem for corporate executives. Today, the real problem is execution. In many cases, the execution burden falls on the shoulders of project managers. Unfortunately, many executives are unsure how to manage their projects and project managers effectively.
TimeCamp
APRIL 25, 2017
Project management software is kind of a life saver to both small and large businesses that continuously juggle a number of tasks, providing them with a solution that helps keep them organized. However which to choose? There is a bewildering number of such management tools on the Internet. Additionally, each software boasts its own set […].
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Herding Cats
APRIL 23, 2017
I belong to an invitation blog for military people. In a recent post, they had a post from the York Region District School Board D'Youville College, Aleksandr Noudelman about leadership. This post resonanted with me when I hear about simple and simple minded soultions to symptoms that involve bad management. Of course these solutions don't address the Root Cause, so they never get fixed .
Leankor
APRIL 26, 2017
Project management software has been around for years and has helped many companies keep their projects running smoothly and on time. But hosting Microsoft Project Management Software on a local server is old school. Using a SaaS project management solution in the cloud is far more effective in a number of different ways. Software as a Service, or Saas, solutions are hosted in the cloud, not on a local server.
ActiveCollab
APRIL 25, 2017
Project management is a big topic, ( there are 13,000 book on project management alone on Amazon ). With so many books, it’s difficult to decide what to read. We made a list of 12 most relevant project management books every project manager needs to read. To be a good project manager, you need more than the technical know-how (eg. know what’s Theory of Constraints, WBS, or user acceptance criteria).
Brightwork
APRIL 25, 2017
Managing a project is not only about meeting deadlines, but also fostering teamwork, and managing various stakeholders and the multiple communication channels that come with each task. Over half of all projects are generally thought to fail, and according to some estimates, even up to 70 or 80 percent. This is why it’s crucial to recognize early signs of project failure—here are some situations of which you may want to be cognizant.
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Herding Cats
APRIL 27, 2017
Organizational Effectiveness is a basis of rational management. The organization is one of mankind's all-time greatest inventions. An organization is intended to operate as one unit, with all its parts in efficient coordination. But all too often it does not. The parts operate as disparate levels of efficiency, or they overlap, or they work against others interests.
Musings on Project Management
APRIL 24, 2017
Donald Rumsfeld -- former Secretary of Defense -- was criticized widely for his statement: "You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want." Substitute "project" for 'war' and "project team" for 'army' in there and it might appear more familiar than many of us want to admit.
ActiveCollab
APRIL 23, 2017
When you take traditional project management and apply it to software development, you get Waterfall. As such, no one invented waterfall - instead, we gave it name once we realised that there are others ways to manage projects. The defining characteristic of waterfall projects is that you make a big plan upfront and then execute in linear fashion hoping there won’t be any changes in the plan.
The Digital Project Manager
APRIL 25, 2017
In Part 1 of our Ultimate Guide to Freelance Digital Project Management, we covered getting started as a freelance digital project manager by figuring out. The post The Ultimate Guide to Freelance Project Management – Part 2 appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.
Speaker: Ketan Jahagirdar - Sopheon’s Director of Product Management
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