Project Risk Coach
FEBRUARY 19, 2018
I fear that many project managers live by the letter of the law and may fail to gain the true benefits of risk management. These individuals are too concerned with checking boxes and making the risk management processes overly complex. Let’s look at some common mistakes and how to overcome them. 1. Thou shalt not make risk management complicated. Every project is different.
Project Bliss
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
. When my daughter was very little she came home from school one day and told me the saying about assumptions: When you assume, you make an ass out of you and me. Gasp! “Where did you hear that, honey?” “At school, Mommy. Our teacher told us.” Yes, you’ve heard that one. I just didn’t expect my little one to learn that saying so early in her life.
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Musings on Project Management
FEBRUARY 20, 2018
Somebody asked: can a virtual team do Agile? 15 years ago, the answer might have been no. Seven years ago, more less pre smart phone and smart-phone networking, the answer was probably yes, but with reservations. Now, the answer is "Of course", with some adjustments. Here are my thoughts on this. The communications channel: Virtual teams often begin by emulating the behavior and.
Ron Rosenhead
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
So let’s start with a definition or an understanding of the ‘Pareto Principle’? “The Pareto principle (also known as the 80/20 rule) states that 80% of the results come from 20% of the causes.”. Let me give you an example of how I used this many years ago. I was the training manager in a company that had a centralised typing pool (I did say it was many years ago).
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Kiron Bondale
FEBRUARY 18, 2018
Project managers need to be comfortable with different estimation techniques. Foundational project management courses will teach you about analogous, bottom-up, parametric and three-point estimating. Take a course covering agile delivery and you’ll learn about relative sizing techniques such as estimating poker or t-shirt sizing. But have you heard of RBS?
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Musings on Project Management
FEBRUARY 23, 2018
Barry Boehm on the C.R.A.C.K. Customer Dr. Barry Boehm, a noted software methodologist with a long and illustrative career at TRW, DARPA, and USC, and author of the COCOMO model and Sprial methodology, writes about the ideal customer for agile projects. They are: -- Collaborative: they will engage with their customer peers and with the development team -- Representative: they know the.
PM Basics
FEBRUARY 19, 2018
Eh? Scrum Master vs. Project Manager vs. Product Owner? Sound like comparing apples with oranges. However, in real life, project managers lead scrum teams. Scrum Masters do need project management tools and techniques. I’m asked this kind of questions so many times that I decided to create this in-depth article on roles in different project management frameworks.
LiquidPlanner
FEBRUARY 20, 2018
One of the by-products of being an engineer, a project manager, and having served over two decades in the military is that I tend to focus on what’s going wrong, or could go wrong, on a project instead of acknowledging project success. While this is a great mind-set for solving problems and performing risk management, in the realm of managing people it falls short.
Binfire
FEBRUARY 23, 2018
Wrike is a popular project management application used by many and in different market segments. It has a nice feature set which is more than just task management.This article is about Wrike and Wrike alternatives. Like all things in life, one size does not fit all and one application does not fit every project’s needs. Although Wrike might be well suited for some projects, it lacks features, ease of use or structure to support other projects.
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Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?
Digite
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
Transformation approach using the enterprise services view, balancing system demand with capability, planning and prioritization using a visual decision framework, using decision support analytics like probabilistic forecasting and cost of delay. This post extends further on the possibilities of Portfolio Kanban for Enterprise Transformation , building on your reading of the previous posts in this series.
Online PM Courses
FEBRUARY 22, 2018
The Critical Path Method (CPM) is one of the core planning and control methodologies that project managers use. So, what is the Critical Path Method? So, what is the Critical Path Method? And what is Critical Path Analysis (CPA)? Dr Mike Clayton is founder of Online PM Courses.com. Here, he answers this question, in under 5 minutes. Project Management in Under 5.
WorkOtter
FEBRUARY 20, 2018
10 Resource Allocation Tips for Managers Resource allocation can also be considered a plan, which you develop using the resources that are available at your disposal during a project. Resource allocation is a short-term goals road map. We have compiled a list of the top 10 tips to help managers to allocate resources effectively: 1. […]. The post Resource Allocation Project Management Software PPM Project Planning and Time Management Schedule Tools appeared first on SaaS Resource & Proj
Leading Answers
FEBRUARY 17, 2018
We have shifted to Knowledge Work, but how do we find, develop and retain knowledgeable workers? This post examines Talent Management from two perspectives. First, what works well for agile teams.
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Prince2
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
The Six Nations Championship is underway, which has us thinking about project management (of course). Dr Jeff Sutherland and Ken Schwaber actually invented a rugby-inspired management process named Scrum back in 1995. Like a rugby scrum, its short meetings offer a chance for project team members to reset and regroup. PRINCE2’s 2017 update and the PRINCE2 Agile course make it easier than ever to play PRINCE2 and Scrum on the same team.
Meisterplan
FEBRUARY 23, 2018
When people hear the term project portfolio management (PPM), many think that it is a process to manage IT projects and investments. This is not surprising considering Richard Nolan first applied the portfolio concept in relation to IT back in 1973 in an article in the Harvard Business Review. Using project portfolio management principles to manage IT investments has been working well for years.
GanttPRO Project Management
FEBRUARY 22, 2018
Professional spheres never stand on the same place. There are always new trends, development paths, and improvements. In some fields, changes take years while in others – quarters or even […].
Herding Cats
FEBRUARY 20, 2018
Every once in awhile a reasonably intelligent No Estimates advocate shows up in a Twitter discussion. Although the poster is filled with logical fallacies, like cherry picking personal anecdotes, inversion of economic concept (focus on value, with no consideration for the cost to produce that value), the notion that requesting or even requiring estimates is the source of management dysfunction.
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The Tao of Project Management
FEBRUARY 23, 2018
Well it seems like a long time since my last post but here I am back again. The Project As part of my succession planning, I've started working with an old friend and colleague Graham Moore on the next edition of Effective Project Management in easy steps. I did the same thing with my son David Morris on Agile Project Management and I plan to do the same on each of my books as they come up for a new edition, sharing royalties for that edition, then handing it over completely after that.
Resource Guru
FEBRUARY 23, 2018
Coding waits for no one! Hey, it’s been a while! How have you been? Did you miss us? We sure did miss writing these updates up for you! While we were away, we were busy keeping up with updates to our development tools and libraries, so here’s a summary of updates that went into production since we last posted: Improved API performance on GET requests by moving some of the API implementation from Rails to Go.
Techno-PM
FEBRUARY 22, 2018
What is an Issue Log? The issue log is a document which aims at capturing and documenting any issues which were brought forward during the lifecycle of the project. Managing a project is a complex process, which many liken to a tightrope act: the PM (Project Manager) must keep their balance while taking into consideration all the variables, tasks and the influence of all the team members and stakeholders.
Herding Cats
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
There is an article in the current edition of The Newyorker about a solitary journey across Antarctica, by Henry Worsley. I wrote a paper in 2005 for our Program Management Office Project Managers about Shackleton's ventures from the book Shackleton's Way. Here's the extract from that paper. In 1914 the explorer Earnest Shackleton boarded the Endurance with his team of seamen and scientists, intent on crossing the unexplored Antarctic continent.
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ActiveCollab
FEBRUARY 20, 2018
If you are a project manager and don’t know what a scope creep is, you are either new to the gig - or just extremely lucky. But don’t worry, it happens to the best of us. In theory, the scope creep is an uncontrollable expansion of project goals that was not previously agreed upon. It usually starts off small, but ends up in being more than you, your team, timeframe, and budget can handle.
Brightwork
FEBRUARY 22, 2018
Project Management, in layman’s terms, is how organizations or individuals solve problems. Project Management could essentially be renamed “Problem Solving”, and Project Managers, “Problem Solvers”. Therefore, it is not surprising two key stages in project management are Problem Definition and Solution Definition. In fact, these steps form part of our 5 success factors for project management improvement.
Planio
FEBRUARY 20, 2018
As far as changes to the way we work, few things have had as much of an impact as the rise of remote work. And why not? As our jobs shift from menial repeatable tasks to more independent, cognitively demanding roles the need to be constantly supervised has dropped dramatically. Add to that a plethora of powerful tools that make collaboration and communication easier than ever and it’s no wonder that remote work is seeing such high adoption.
Boost by Brightpod
FEBRUARY 20, 2018
Marketers need to figure out new ways to promote products and keep them aligned with the latest industry developments. In this article, we will show you 8 tips to improve brand value using IoT. Let’s check them out!
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