Sat.Oct 03, 2015 - Fri.Oct 09, 2015

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We cannot communicate – it’s hopeless

Ron Rosenhead

Not my words but the words of someone on one of our project management courses. It sounds pretty desperate doesn’t it? Well for this person, it was and for the project team and the company. I will not go into the details of this particular project but will use it to highlight the ever growing issues that arise on our courses: poor project communications.

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SPM 027 | Setting Personal Goals of an Aspiring Project Manager

SensiblePM

Setting personal goals to become a project manager is an important step to realizing your aspiration to enter into the project management field. During this episode, Naomi Caietti and the Sensible Project Manager helps Jared Coffin, the Aspiring Project Manager, work on his goals to do just that…become a project manager. During the Podcast. I believe that setting personal goals are important to successfully accomplishing our life’s vision.

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Everyone’s a Project Manager, But Not Everyone Can Manage Projects (Infographic)

Wrike

You see a calendar alert for a meeting with your boss to review client deliverables. It’s 1 P.M. and the meeting is scheduled for 2 P.M. The deliverables aren’t ready yet. You search rapidly through your email looking for the latest version of the deliverable. You start pinging other teammates asking who made the latest edits. You spend the next 45 minutes looking for the file, editing the file, trying to request immediate feedback until… …your boss pushes the meeting to

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Larval Assumptions = Grown-up Threats

EarthPM

I have blogged several times on the subject of how assumptions are the larval form of risk (particularly threats). Whatever judgements you make about the scenario of your project (or for that matter, your business) are actually pre-statements of risk identification. For example, if you are managing a project that involves a lot of business between the USA and France, and you assume the value of the Euro to the dollar is stable, that is an assumption.

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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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Stories and Maps

Zen Project Management

I conducted a user story mapping session with my client last week and it proved to be a very effective way to help them see the big picture. The idea came from Jeff Patton. You can find more about it here. If you're not familiar with user story mapping, it is something like this: first you think about the high-level functions and features you're going to be delivering and you prioritize that horizontally from left to right.

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Podcast 62 – Stop Overthinking Your Life and Reduce Your Stress

Fix my Project Chaos

About This Podcast: Do you overthink things? Feel like you are trapped in a vortex of negativity? Is overthinking every decision leading to analysis paralysis? If thinking about the answers to these questions is making you break out in cold sweat of despair, then you are probably stressed. In this podcast, Dr John Hinwood from […]. The post Podcast 62 – Stop Overthinking Your Life and Reduce Your Stress appeared first on Fix My Project Chaos.

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Fresh Friday 09 October 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 09 October 2015 – What Caught My Attention This Week appeared first on Fix My Project Chaos.

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