Sat.Nov 28, 2015 - Fri.Dec 04, 2015

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What does it take to up-skill our project managers?

Susanne Madsen

​I was recently asked how a company can up-skill their project managers so that that they can take on more responsibility and deliver better projects. This is what I responded. The first step is to consider what your project managers are really good at and what they are not so good at. In other words, what are the symptoms you are experiencing and how do you know that you have a problem?

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Five Productivity Hacks that Any Manager Can Start Using

TeamGantt

Learn 5 productivity hacks savvy project managers use to streamline team planning, keep projects on budget, and maintain control over work schedules.

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Resource Planning Best Practices: Views

Ganttic

If you have used Ganttic or played around with the planner in your trial, you will notice this particular feature that resembles browser tabs on the top of the planner. These planner tabs are called ‘Views’. In this article, you will learn about how views can drastically transform your resource planning process for the better, how to add a view, how to open up a view, how to rename a view, how to save a view and how to delete a view.

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Plan your Stakeholder Engagement Campaign

Mike Clayton

You are a project manager. You care about getting things right. So you plan meticulously, identify threats and take steps to mitigate them. The only thing that can get in your way now is one thing: people.

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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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3 Best Practices For Your Creative Agency Estimates

Function Point

3 Best Practices For Your Creative Agency Estimates. Throwing in the extra effort at the estimating stage ensures that at the end of the project, all your agency’s time and expenses are paid for. On top of that, your client will be delighted to receive the project on time and on budget. That’s a win-win. We previously wrote about 3 common mistakes creative agencies make with their estimates.

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Peanut Butter, Jelly and Project Management

The Lazy Project Manager

One of the first things Marissa Mayer did on becoming Yahoo’s CEO and being tasked with rescuing the once mighty company was to launch an assault on unnecessary bureaucracy with the creation of ‘PB&J’ A play on the ‘peanut butter and jelly’ much loved in the U.S; she has cut away layers of red tape and instituted an internal online service called ‘PB&J’ which actually stands for ‘Process, Bureaucracy, and Jams’ This initiative allows

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Fresh Friday 04 December 2015 – What Caught My Attention This Week

Fix my Project Chaos

Here are the blog posts and articles that caught my attention this week: The post Fresh Friday 04 December 2015 – What Caught My Attention This Week appeared first on Fix My Project Chaos.

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3 Best Practices For Your Creative Agency Estimates

Function Point

3 Best Practices For Your Creative Agency Estimates. Throwing in the extra effort at the estimating stage ensures that at the end of the project, all your agency’s time and expenses are paid for. On top of that, your client will be delighted to receive the project on time and on budget. That’s a win-win. We previously wrote about 3 common mistakes creative agencies make with their estimates.

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The Anatomy of a Difficult Conversation

Brett Harned

We’ve all been there: Someone did or said something you or someone on your team does not agree with, and you’re the person who has to handle it. You actually don’t even want to handle it. Others know you don’t want to handle it. But it’s part of your job description to keep peace on […].

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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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A Seriously Challenged Project

The Tao of Project Management

Another one from the Why Do Projects Fail website: Edinburgh City Council: Tram Network (Sep 2003 to May 2014) When originally conceived the project was intended to reduce traffic congestion, reduce carbon emissions and help the city cope with the increased demand for public transport in the next decade. Today the project is regarded as a shambles and although Edinburgh does now have a tram, what they’ve ended up with falls far short of what was envisaged.

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Podcast 68 – How to Manage Your Remote Vendor

Fix my Project Chaos

About This Podcast: In today’s environment, managing vendors is an essential part of any project large or small. Ensuring that the vendor relationship is solid takes time and engagement by all parties. The big stick approach to ensuring that the vendor delivers, rarely works yet it seems to be one of the most common approaches. […]. The post Podcast 68 – How to Manage Your Remote Vendor appeared first on Fix My Project Chaos.

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Tales of an Expert Witness: Sex, Lies, and Video Tape (Part II)

Troubled and Failing Project

Trust relationships, certifications, and standards sound like such a safe harbor. These sound like such great words in a proposal or statement of work. How could you possibly go wrong building a trusted relationship with a customer by committing to follow a standard? In fact, this can burn you… in court. No one ever starts a project with the goal of ending up in court.