Wrike
JULY 21, 2014
. Today, Gantt charts are a staple tool in project management software. They show up in project binders, on boardroom walls, in project management plans — all because they are able to visually convey what would take paragraphs of boring text. But who invented them? What makes them beneficial for project planning? And what are the useful parts of every Gantt chart?
Velociteach
JULY 22, 2014
I shared salary data for project managers in a recent post, PMP Certification: Show Me the Money! The gap in median salary for those who hold the PMP certification was significant. $18,500. That was the difference in annual pay. PMPs earned on average nearly twenty grand more than their non-credentialed peers. Nice! Would you like to […] The post Who Wants an $18,500 Raise?
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quantmleap
JULY 24, 2014
T he four weeks or so that have now passes since the Agile 2014 Conference in Melbourne have given me the opportunity to reflect on the conference and consider some of the presentations and messages I have been exposed to. While the theme of the conference was Embracing Disruption, and while a number of the key note presentations were about Business Disruption, there was little in terms of providing hands-on, practical, implementable clues or ideas for ‘how to elicit disruption’.
Wrike
JULY 25, 2014
One of the biggest trends in project management in 2014 is the shift to virtual training. After all, online learning is often more time-efficient , allowing you to fit in coursework whenever you have free time and limiting the hours you need off work. They can be more cost-efficient by eliminating travel expenses. Some argue they’re even more effective , since you can learn at your own pace, without cramming three months’ worth of material into your head only to have most of it leak
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quantmleap
JULY 21, 2014
J ust finished reading David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants (note: affiliated link) by Malcolm Gladwell. The key premise of the book is that things are not what they seem to be. More specifically, using a number of real life examples, it demonstrates how situations they seem to be advantageous are really (in some circumstances) an indication of disadvantage and similarly, situations where the odds seem to be stacked against the main character result in a favori
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