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Stakeholder Management: How to Know Which Ones Matter

Project Risk Coach

Project Stakeholder Management Project stakeholders–individuals, groups, and organizations– may be impacted by or may have an impact on your projects. It’s critical to understand how people inside and outside your organization may affect your projects. Let’s explore stakeholder management power tools that can help you quickly identify which stakeholders matter.

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Communicating Change: A New Book From Elizabeth

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This article, Communicating Change: A New Book From Elizabeth , first appeared on Girl's Guide to PM. Have you ever wondered why some people’s projects just seem to gain traction in the business? Everyone’s heard of them. Everyone supports them – and not only the mandatory, top priority ones, either. I think that has a lot to do with how we get the message out about the work we do.

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So, you are about to start a project….?

Ron Rosenhead

The project started with a real bang. It was like watching the rush hour at a major London railway station. There was a massive amount of activity, people asking for data (sometime twice of the same person), people in the team doing the same work, lots of meetings and lots of ‘activity.’ To the outsider it looked as though this was a project going far.

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Improve Your Meetings with This One Simple Step

Project Bliss

The next time – or anytime – you’re planning a meeting, there’s one thing you must do to get the most out of it. Even after planning meetings for years I didn’t know this simple step – and wound up in a very uncomfortable situation. I had a project meeting that involved a director who was known for being intimidating. He had high expectations of his team, and his reputation was well-known.

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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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Finding the right retrospective rhythm

Kiron Bondale

What’s the appropriate frequency for conducting retrospectives? If you follow the Scrum methodology or a hybrid of it, you’ll likely say at the end of every sprint, once the sprint review, showcase or demo has taken place. For teams which are learning to be agile, that is the right answer. It takes a few sprints for a new team to develop the mutual trust and psychological safety required to have a productive retrospective.

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Asana Alternatives

Binfire

Asana is a popular to-do list. Even though it lacks some basic project management features it is heavily touted as a proper project management application. The good news is that there are several excellent Asana alternatives in the market today. At its core, Asana is a to-do list plus added functionality like team communication thrown in. It relies on third-party apps for all of the functionality.

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Portfolio Kanban for Enterprise Visibility

Digite

Solving the Insulation Challenge of Managed Transformation. With the digital disruption of business models and whole industries, business executives and process owners are faced with a variety of transformation challenges. The need and pressure to deliver and demonstrate improved performance metrics, transparency and collaboration are greater than ever.

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Benchmarking in Project Management (2): Internal Benchmarking

Inloox

Before we’re going to take a closer look at internal benchmarking in project management , here’s a quick reminder of the definition of benchmarking: ". Benchmarking is used to assess your own organization’s processes and performance compared to your company’s competitors or compared to the best companies in your industry. This method is used in project management to improve the organization’s project management methods and processes, or to compare internal projects to each other to identify what

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Becoming a Virtual Assistant is Easier Than You Think!

TimeCamp

We make a lot of posts concerning freelancing – after all, freelancers are TimeCamp’s main clients, and thousands of them use our time tracking software on a daily basis. However, freelancing is quite a vast term, consisting of many different professions. Today, we will discuss one of most popular – the job of a virtual assistant. The work of a virtual assistant (VA) can be varied.

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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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4 Ways a Mentor Helps Move Your Career Forward

LiquidPlanner

When you look at your resume, it’s easy to think of your experience in terms of years, title changes, pay increases―the substantial evidence of your career growth. But your growth as a professional is much more than just the numbers and titles changes. Our successes, failures, challenges, and even interpersonal relationships we build are the moments where actual growth occurs.

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PPM: Your Key to Success in the Business World: Guest Post by Sadia Maqsood

Celoxis

Project Portfolio Management (PPM) is a process which is engaged by Project Management Organizations (PMOs) to study the potential outcomes (return) while doing a project. Project Portfolio Manager goes through all the areas of data regarding the project and provides detailed business analysis for companies planning to invest in projects. .

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Going Above and Beyond with Human Resource Management

Project-Management.pm

Human resources are the most valued and crucial part of an organization. They are responsible for the company’s improvements, as well as project creation and coming up with innovative ways to keep the team and company going. Since employees are very important entities in a company, the human resource management is created in order to determine, identify and check the right person for a certain job.

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Concept of Operations

Herding Cats

One of the root causes of project failure is the failure to apply the first principle of the five principles of project success. What does done look like in units of measure meaningful to the decision maker? Those units must include Measures of Effectiveness and Measures of Performance. But where do these live? Where do they come from? The answer to that is the Concept of Operations (ConOps).

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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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Guest Blog Post: Free Visual Guides for Kanban and Scrum

Fix my Project Chaos

Take control with Kanban! A visual guide for beginners Kanban is an agile work management method. It was developed in the 1940’s by Toyota engineers to improve manufacturing efficiency. Unlike many traditional ways of working, Kanban is a “pull system”, as opposed to a “push system”. This means that work is only started by team […]. The post Guest Blog Post: Free Visual Guides for Kanban and Scrum appeared first on Fix My Project Chaos.

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INFOGRAPHIC: 5 Reasons Why You and Your Project Team Should Be Tracking Time

Celoxis

INFOGRAPHIC: 5 Reasons Why You and Your Project Team Should Be Tracking Time.

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Average is not always the answer

Musings on Project Management

Doesn't all data sets have an average? Actually, not Yes, data taken from a common distribution along a common scale has a parametric value* that emerges from a long run of repetitions The repetition-weighted sum we commonly call the average, even if it's not the most frequent outcome, and even if it's not an allowable outcome (the average of integers is often not an integrer, as the average.

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Pareto Charts and the 80/20 Rule

Deep Fried Brain

A Pareto Chart or Diagram, one of the Seven Basic Quality Tools, is a specific type of Histogram ordered by frequency of occurrence.

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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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How to Obtain Your PMP 35 Contact Hours of Education

ExamsPM

In order to obtain your certification, you need to obtain PMP 35 Contact Hours of project management education. In this post, we will define what they are, how you can obtain them, and dispel some common misconceptions. With the rise of project management education, how do you know if your education will contact towards for your PMP credentials or not?

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Dealing with Distractions at the Workplace

Celoxis

That the human race is battling with distractions is an understatement. A popular NYC restaurant reviewed their surveillance videos from 2004 and 2014 and found a staggering difference in the average time it takes to service a customer.

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[Infographic] BrightWork New Release – Charting, Performance and Usability

Brightwork

This week BrightWork released a new version of our project portfolio management solution for SharePoint. This release is all about improving reporting performance, ease-of-use, and facilitating the delivery of training to new users. The highlights of this release are outlined in the infographic below. Enjoy and remember you can try out the advancements and more in our 30 Day FREE trial!

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DPM Podcast: Building & Scaling Project Management Teams (with Brian Kessman)

The Digital Project Manager

Ben Aston chats with Brian Kessman about the best ways to build and scale a project management team, particularly within in agency. They cover everything from defining the purpose, getting the right people, establishing the right partnerships, setting in place the right processes and monitoring the PMO's performance. The post DPM Podcast: Building & Scaling Project Management Teams (with Brian Kessman) appeared first on The Digital 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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Your 5 Best Books on Product Management & Product Marketing

Wrike

We recently published our list of 25 must-read books for product managers and product marketers alike, but felt like there was something missing. Despite going through a lot of books as part of our commitment to self-learning, we realized that what we lacked was actual feedback from readers who were product managers and product marketers themselves.

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Analyze, optimize, etc

Musings on Project Management

According to Tom Friedman, author of "The World is Flat, "we’re in the middle of a change in the “climate” of technology." And.

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Six Sigma Methods and Project Management [Guest Post]

Brightwork

In the late 1980s, the Six Sigma method gained popularity amongst various project management systems across the globe. Six Sigma refers to a carefully designed set of tools and techniques that help to improve and enhance the performance of processes within an organization. It is a data driven approach to find and remove errors in an organization using various tools and techniques.

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When you get an email from the client telling you that they’re cancelling the project that you’ve spent a week writing

The Digital Project Manager

The post When you get an email from the client telling you that they’re cancelling the project that you’ve spent a week writing appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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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.