Sat.Mar 19, 2016 - Fri.Mar 25, 2016

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How 6 Real Managers Get A Work/Life Balance

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Work/life balance comes up time and time again when I speak to people. We’re all desperate for a bit more time in the day, either to fit in more work or to fit in more slippers-and-TV time or something inbetween. For me, an extra hour in the day would probably just mean more pushing Thomas trains around the wooden track. Read on to see the advice that 6 real project managers have for getting a meaningful work/life balance.

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What challenges will project managers face a decade from now?

Kiron Bondale

The hurdles which today’s project managers face are likely to be replaced by new threats over time. For example, when the profession first started to be formalized, the tools weren’t available to facilitate highly virtual projects and hence the advantages and disadvantages of those types of projects weren’t realized. Improvements in virtual reality technologies, near zero communication latency, increased global literary, self-serve professional development and crowdsourcing bec

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Leadership -- introverted

Musings on Project Management

The introverted leader: is this an oxymoron? In my experience: definitely not. And, my experience aligns well with Susan Cain's popular book Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking. And by introverted, we mean: Someone who gets more energy out of quiet time--loner time, even if in an open plan--than they do mixing in a group.

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Project Brief Definitions & Template: Download Now | TeamGantt

TeamGantt

Master how to write a project brief, review brief examples, & learn why it’s vital to include a brief in your project plan with TeamGantt.

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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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Most small to midsize businesses are still not using PM software

Paymo App

That’s the key finding of a recent report released by research and reviews firm Software Advice. The company receives hundreds of project management software consultation requests annually and has selected for this study a random sample of recent consultations to learn more about SMB buyers searching for cloud-based PM solutions. In this context PM software acquisition remains a top business priority.

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How Meena Dowlwani Delivers Career Results For New Canadians

Project Management Hacks

Meena Dowlwani​, CHRM. Moving to a new country is exciting. Immigration is often the result of months or years of planning, research and logistics. Unfortunately, many highly educated and capable new Canadians struggle to find rewarding professional opportunities. It doesn’t have to be that way. Enter Meena Dowlwani. Among other roles, she serves as a Humber College instructor who has achieved great career results since arriving in Canada in 1999.

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Find the Root Cause Before Assuming Your Fix Can Actually Fix Anything

Herding Cats

A burst of Tweets of No Estimates fixes these problems came across Twitter this morning. I won't repeat who they are attributed to, to protect the guilty. But here's a core concept that is totally missing from not only the No Estimates conjecture, but from most every discussion, where a solution is proposed before the problem has been actually defined.

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Content/Process Workshop

Brett Harned

If you work on any web design projects, you know that finding the right ways to account for content in the overall process can be difficult. You've got goals to meet, expectations to set, stakeholders to inform, a strategy to develop, and a whole mound of content to rewrite. How do you make it work? It's tough for even the best of us, but it can be untangled.

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How Wrike + Salesforce Helps Departments Work Together: Q&A With Axiometrics

Wrike

Axiometrics is the leader in apartment and student housing market research, providing market intelligence and trends analysis to developers, investors, owners, managers , and others. Founded in 1995, the company has experienced explosive growth in revenue, job creation, and innovation over the past five years. . We spoke to the Analytics team about how they use Wrike to align teams that use Salesforce to manage accounts.

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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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Podcast 77 – Great Risk Management with Carl Pritchard

Fix my Project Chaos

Great risk management with Carl Pritchard In this podcast US risk management expert Carl Pritchard speaks with Elise about great risk management. Carl Pritchard is the principal and founder of Pritchard Management Associates. He is recognized lecturer, author, researcher, and instructor. As a lecturer he is considered a leading authority on risk and communications management […].

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Deliver Fast or Deliver as Planned (Update)

Herding Cats

A popular mantra in Agile is deliver fast, deliver often. In some domains this may be applicable. Where we work and where agile is becoming the norm, we have another view. Deliver as planned. The Plan for the delivery of value is shown in the Product Roadmap and implemented in the Cadence Release Plan, or sometimes in the Capabilities Release plan. Fast is a term replaced by Planned.

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7 Ways To Be A Team Player

Project Management Hacks

Image Credit: Pixabay.com. Team work and serving as a team player comes up over and over again in the business world. Yet, this directive often lacks specific examples. Without such examples, it is difficult to put this important concept into action. That is going to change today. You will learn seven ways to become a team player and help those around you to win.

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Risk Management is All in YOUR Head

PMStudent

“Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate It.“ – Reid Hoffman No project is without risks. It is all in how you handle those risks. And the place to start is at the very beginning. The minute that a project idea is discussed […].

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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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Association Development Group | Task Management Software Spotlight 1

Function Point

Association Development Group | Task Management Software Spotlight 1. We’re proud to be our clients’ project management advisors and advocates. To acknowledge their contributions to the creative industry, we’ve launched a Spotlight Blog series. We want to celebrate their successes and share their experience using Function Point’s task management software.

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The Naive Notion that Agile Mitigates Risk

Herding Cats

The post Top 5 Ways Agile Mitigates Risk is one of those posts that's not wrong in what it says at the detail level - more or less, but is not right in principle. Agile Mitigates Risk - is not correct. Agile provides rapid identification of risk. That's all. First let's start with risk, risk management, and risk management frameworks. First all risk comes from uncertainty, Uncertainties are thing we cannot be certain about.

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12 questions project managers should be prepared for in a job interview

Moira Alexander

By itself, the title of project manager can be a bit misleading in terms of the responsibilities and level of accountability involved. Make no mistake about it, though, a PM is a leadership role, and as such project managers should think and act as leaders, always factoring in high level business goals and objectives. With this in mind, be prepared to answer a few broad, complex questions around business strategy, objectives and leadership.

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The Change Curve

Musings on Project Management

I ran into a blog item on change the other day, at a blog site called Rule of Thumb. The posting entitled "The Change Curve", depicts a project management adaption of the change model proposed by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross in her book "On Death and Dying" when she described the "Five Stages of Grief" Rule of Thumb proposes this adaptation for project management of the Five Stages into these six.

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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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Association Development Group | Task Management Software Spotlight 1

Function Point

Association Development Group | Task Management Software Spotlight 1. We’re proud to be our clients’ project management advisors and advocates. To acknowledge their contributions to the creative industry, we’ve launched a Spotlight Blog series. We want to celebrate their successes and share their experience using Function Point’s task management software.

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Forecasting versus Estimating - are they Different or are they the Same

Herding Cats

One of the escape clauses of #Noestimates is to re-label Forecasting as NOT Estimating , It is forecasting, based on empirical data. Ignoring for the moment the empirical data discussion since ALL data is empirical, otherwise you wouldn't have the data. . Empirical is defined as based on, concerned with, or verifiable by observation or experience rather than theory or pure logic.

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How to Effortlessly Plow through Your Entire To-Do List in the Morning

TeamGantt

How would it feel to finish all your tasks in the morning? Discover the productivity hacks that allow you to get stuff done when it matters most.

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Fresh Friday 25 March 2016 – 6 Interesting Articles on Influence and Leadership

Fix my Project Chaos

Here are 6 interesting articles on influence and the role it plays in leadership; The post Fresh Friday 25 March 2016 – 6 Interesting Articles on Influence and Leadership appeared first on Fix My Project Chaos.

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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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Leader Graphic Design | Advertising Agency Software Spotlight 3

Function Point

Our clients are some of the most driven people we know, using our advertising agency software to reach their goals. To show our appreciation, we are shining a light on them, their successes and their FP experience. Meet Susan Leader, President at Leader Graphic Design ! Don’t forget to check out the first part and second part of our interview.

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Content/Process Workshop

Brett Harned

If you work on any web design projects, you know that finding the right ways to account for content in the overall process can be difficult. You've got goals to meet, expectations to set, stakeholders to inform, a strategy to develop, and a whole mound of content to rewrite. How do you make it work? […].

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Leader Graphic Design | Advertising Agency Software Spotlight 3

Function Point

Our clients are some of the most driven people we know, using our advertising agency software to reach their goals. To show our appreciation, we are shining a light on them, their successes and their FP experience. Meet Susan Leader, President at Leader Graphic Design ! Don’t forget to check out the first part and second part of our interview.

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Profitable & Competitive Billing with Task Tracking Software

Function Point

Profitable & Competitive Billing with Task Tracking Software. We all have those days where every task and project seems urgent and time sensitive. You start your work day early, work through lunch, and watch longingly as colleagues begin to pack up their bags and head home for the day, their work complete. It is days like these when time seems to slip away and we lose track of how much of the day was devoted to which task.

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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.