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Seven Project Management Influencers to Watch

Project Risk Coach

Up your game with new project management resources If you had to pick a few people who are helping you grow and mature as a project manager, who would those people be? Perhaps these individuals are influencing you through a blog, online videos, online courses, or books. Grab a cup of coffee as I share seven influencers that I follow. 1. Susanne Madsen.

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How to Juggle Work With Your PMP Study Plan

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This article, How to Juggle Work With Your PMP Study Plan , first appeared on Girl's Guide to PM. This is a guest post by Helena Liu. Helena Liu. Once you leave school and enter the workforce, trying to learn new things can be a challenge. Although you have good intentions, life often gets in the way since you have many more items competing for your attention.

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How do YOU define project failure?

Kiron Bondale

An early project management lesson learned is that it is a good practice to start with the end in mind, especially when it comes to defining what done looks like. Without working through this at some level of detail, project teams risk experiencing a similar pain to reaching the finish line at the end of a marathon only to have the judges move that line back by a mile.

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Slapping projects on top of the day job – what’s your solution?

Ron Rosenhead

Most of the articles written on this blog site come from a mix of research, working with clients and stories told to me. This one is a mix of working with clients and a story told. Let me set the scene. I was working with a long standing client and I asked the group what was the main project management problem they wanted to solve. There were a wide mix of issues raised and then one person said: “My problem is that I am very busy and then senior managers come along and slap a project on top of t

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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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Seven Project Management Influencers to Watch

Project Risk Coach

Up your game with new project management resources If you had to pick a few people who are helping you grow and mature as a project manager, who would those people be? Perhaps these individuals are influencing you through a blog, online videos, online courses, or books. Grab a cup of coffee as I share seven influencers that I follow. 1. Susanne Madsen.

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Jon Clay: PMI UK’s New President Explains What’s Next For The Chapter

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This article, Jon Clay: PMI UK’s New President Explains What’s Next For The Chapter , first appeared on Girl's Guide to PM. Professional organisations often rely on volunteers, and the PMI UK Chapter is no different. This year, the brilliant team are preparing for their flagship conference, Synergy and incoming President Jonathan Clay is keeping the wheels turning behind the scenes.

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What is Little Data? And Why Do Project Managers Need It?

LiquidPlanner

One of the fastest-growing technology trends today is Big Data, probably behind Internet of Things and ahead of Virtual Reality. For instance, a search on the job site Indeed for “Big Data” returned almost 20,000 entries. But what about Little Data (which only gets four hits on Indeed)? Big data is mining huge, heterogeneous data sets and pulling out subtle information that can inform all sorts of decisions.

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7 Critical Features Every Project Manager Want in a Project Management Software

Taskque

Project management has become an integral part of business lately. In fact, 83% top executives and managers consider project management as important part of their business as depicted by PMI research. When it comes to project management software, there are so many options available in the market that choosing the right one that fulfills all your needs can be difficult.

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Career Paths for Those Interested in Project Management

Green Project Management

“If you don’t know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.” Laurence J. Peter. 2011, The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong (p. 145) The Traditionally Perceived Project Manager Career Path There is a perception in our profession that the following graphic represents the traditional career path for project managers. […].

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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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Why We’re Not Afraid to Write Generic SEO Articles

ActiveCollab

Here at ActiveCollab, our marketing team is well aware of the long-term value of investing in proper SEO. By “proper”, we mean as organic as possible. And by “as organic as possible”, we mean guest posting all the time. Since there’s no way of being truly organic without potentially sacrificing a lot of good rankings, we wanted to seem as organic as possible.

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October Product Update: Focus on What’s Important with New Alerts

LiquidPlanner

When you see a column of bright red flames running alongside your project plans, it can be a bit unsettling. That’s why we’ve added more intuitive alerts to help you understand the severity of a risk. To learn more about these new alerts and what they mean for project plans, we talked to Nick Smith, Lead Product Manager at LiquidPlanner. With the October update, LiquidPlanner customers will see new colors and new alerts in their workspaces.

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5 Tips to Ensure Your Remote Team Meets Deadlines

TimeCamp

Time tracking is usually a challenging endeavor, and it becomes even more daunting if you are working with a remote team. With the tendencies in the world of employment, outsourcing is becoming a huge thing, and this means that the chances of you working with a remote team are rather significant. With this in mind, let’s take a look at some of the most useful tips for you to track the time management of your remote team and ensure that it meets the deadline. 5 Time Tracking Tips to Ensure Your R

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Most Effective Practices to Handle Digital Marketing Projects Successfully

GanttPRO Project Management

Are you planning for your next digital marketing campaign? If yes, then you already know that you need a well-developed strategy to make an impact on the market. To handle […].

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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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Quote of the Day

Herding Cats

How does it feel? To be on your own. With No Direction Home. Like a Complete Unknown. Like a Rolling Stone. — Robert Zimmerman (Born May 24th, 1941, professionally known as Bob Dylan). Without a Plan, a Roadmap, a Strategy, a description of Done in units of measure meaningful to the decision makers, all adjusted for uncertainty— both reducible and irreducible and no estimates of the impact of those risks on your project— you're proceeding into the complete unknown and likely don't even know it.

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Meet the People Behind TeamGantt + Project Planning Tips | TeamGantt Blog

TeamGantt

See a few of the friendly faces behind TeamGantt in our latest video update.

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How To Stay On Top Of Your Work?

TimeCamp

Marketing industry can be demanding when it comes to keeping up with work. And if you’re a product manager, you probably know the flaws better than anyone. Staying on top of your work requires following your inner rules and a lot of patience. In today’s post, TimeCamp presents ways to always be on top of your work. Stay On Top Of Your Work With Special Tools To always be ahead of your work it’s good to know your priorities and be able to have insight into the work.

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Most Effective Practices to Handle Digital Marketing Projects Successfully

GanttPRO Project Management

Are you planning for your next digital marketing campaign? If yes, then you already know that you need a well-developed strategy to make an impact on the market.

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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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Quote of the Day

Herding Cats

It is wiser to find out, than to suppose - Mark Twain. And how can we find out in the presence of uncertainty? We have to estimate, forecast, project - or some means of revealing possible future outcomes to some level of confidence, accuracy, and precision. Anyone suggesting that decisions can be made in the presence of uncertainty WITHOUT estimating, is supposing the outcomes they are working on will turn out well.

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5 Tips For Making Process Improvement Easier

The Digital Project Manager

When setting out to write this, I intended to focus on our agency’s slight (but important) shift to Scrum in recent months. This is happening. The post 5 Tips For Making Process Improvement Easier appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Do You Know How to Build a Stellar Project Team?

Brightwork

Successful project management relies on great teams to get the work done on time and as agreed. Unfortunately, with so much emphasis on planning, processes, and tools, it’s easy to overlook the people side of project management. Given the temporary nature of projects and a fast-paced business environment, project managers need the team to gel from Day 1 and work together in a collaborative and productive manner.

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Does it Pay to be Transparent?

Leankor

Full disclosure. Complete transparency. Effective and efficient collaboration with team and customer throughout the project. That third one sounds about right. But what about the first two? Full disclosure on everything to the team and customer? Team… probably without a doubt. To the customer… yes, but sometimes in due time depending on the issue.

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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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Not Even Wrong

Herding Cats

"This isn't right," "It's not even wrong." — Wolfgang Pauli said of a student's physics paper. This quote is coming back in the modern era of internet-based misinformation pundits in many domains, including project management and software development processes. Pauli's quote combines utter contempt on the one hand with philosophical profundity on the other.

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Confucius simplified

Musings on Project Management

Some of you read my recent posting on data quality and integrity, the discussion of which is anchored by a statement attributed to Confucius Fair enough But, the "publish" button was hardly pushed when this rolls in from herdingcats.

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When a project coordinator makes a wildly inacurate claim during a client meeting

The Digital Project Manager

The post When a project coordinator makes a wildly inacurate claim during a client meeting appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Servant Leadership – It Works

Project-Management.pm

The copier was out of toner. Anyone who understands copiers understands that toner is the ink that actually allows copies to be made. For teachers, who tend to copy reams of learning materials for their students, this can be a disaster. To make matter worse in this particular instance was the fact that the budget for the machine lease and supplies was at $0.00, and two weeks was left in the school year.

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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.