Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 11, 2017

If you are looking to attend a project management conference this year, chances are there is something close by that will appeal to you. I’ve compiled this extensive list of conferences both local to me in the UK and around the world. Use this quick link menu to jump to the relevant portion of the year. Make sure you sign up for the free 3-part mini-course on How to Get the Most Out of a Conference before you attend any of these events.

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Project Risk Coach

JANUARY 9, 2017

PMP Exam Series - Cost Management Think about it for a minute – what have you done in the last six months to improve your cost management? Review the projects you’ve completed in the last year. How many of those projects came in over budget? Consider John, a savvy project manager, who was asked to manage a project to replace a dated network system.

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Musings on Project Management

JANUARY 11, 2017

Point: Impulsive and unpredictable are some leader's styles. Such keeps managers -- who revere plans -- off guard and even defensive, but it wreaks havoc on strategy (ever changing) and metrics (rebaselining at every turn). Of course, your competitors may also be constantly off guard. In some businesses (start-ups, sports) and some military situations (See: General George Patton), "impulsive.

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Kiron Bondale

JANUARY 8, 2017

Demos, or showcases as they are sometimes called, are a critical ceremony when they are run effectively as they address multiple project delivery objectives in a single event including: Validating that what the team has completed to date is valuable from the perspective of their customer and other key stakeholders. Helping the team and stakeholders change or evolve their understanding of the desired solution.

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Speaker: Gareth Webb & Phil Selley, Founding Partners at Intouch Business

For many nonprofit organizations and NGOs, managing grants and monitoring projects with spreadsheets and manual processes feels familiar—but is it holding your organization back? As funding requirements become more complex and stakeholder expectations for transparency grow, relying on outdated methods can lead to inefficiencies, missed opportunities, and compliance risks.

Risk Management

Binfire

JANUARY 9, 2017

There are many project management methodologies in use today. All have different ways of managing projects and each fit certain projects based on size or complexity. They use different tools and methods to plan a project and track it during project life cycle. One tool every project manager should use regardless of the methodology used to manage the project, is the Gnatt Chart.

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Redbooth

JANUARY 13, 2017

Office space design has yo-yo’ed between closed-door offices, wide-open spaces, and everything in between since (are you ready?) The 1920s. Meanwhile, as closed and open offices fell in and out of favor, communication technologies proliferated from just a phone, to email, teleconferencing, instant messaging, and chat. Open offices are the de facto standard of today’s startups.

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Digite

JANUARY 10, 2017

It is not enough to Visualize. You need to be willing to See! A genuine fear lurks while putting final changes to this article a few weeks before the 45th President of the United States takes office. Becoming the most powerful man on the planet is a fine example of a huge and successful project and his phenomenal success flies in the face of some key takeaways in this article.

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Ganttic

JANUARY 8, 2017

Resource allocation is a good thing, right? You are managing multiple projects at once. On a Monday, after drafting up a general report, you find that while one of your resources is clearly overbooked for the week with tasks from 4 different projects, there is one resource with the same skillset, that doesn’t have any tasks until Thursday. You reallocate the second resource to the projects that the first one is working on and normalize the workload.

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TimeCamp

JANUARY 11, 2017

New year, new resolutions… We all know how hard is to stick to all the goals, especially when everything distracts us from achieving them. But the beginning of the year is a great moment to reconsider the habits and start planning the time wisely. That’s why we want to invite you to join the journey […].

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Speaker: Jady West, VP of Hospitality & Chris Bennett, Head of Sales & Engineering

The modern hotel room is no longer just a place to stay—it’s an experience to remember. Today’s guests expect seamless 5G connectivity, personalized comfort, and high-tech convenience. From AI-powered smart room controls to in-room entertainment and app-based services, technology is redefining hospitality from the inside out. In this new session featuring industry pros Jady West and Chris Bennett, we’ll explore how high-speed, high-bandwidth connectivity powers the innovations that are enabling

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Celoxis

JANUARY 9, 2017

Author: Ravindra Wankar, Co-Founder at Celoxis About Celoxis: Celoxis is an enterprise class project management and PPM tool that helps companies streamline management of projects, timesheets, expenses and business processes, specific to their organization. Over the last decade, Celoxis has specialized in delivering improved collaboration and increased efficiency for Enterprises globally, across Industry verticals.

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The Digital Project Manager

JANUARY 8, 2017

If you’ve started the year and committed to upping your project management skills to be a better project manager, what project management skills are the. The post 7 Essential Project Management Skills for 2017 appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 9, 2017

Risk is everywhere on projects. This risk comes from two types of uncertainty. Aleatory uncertainty, which is the naturally occurring yields variances in the underlying processes. This uncertainty is handled with cost, schedule, and technical performance margins. Epistemic uncertainty comes from probabilistic processes that can be addressed with handling responses.

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Wrike

JANUARY 9, 2017

In project management , timing is half the battle. Leaders have to keep all the members of the team on track, hitting their deadlines and constantly making progress toward their shared goals. Getting everything done on time and under budget calls for strategy and forethought, and that’s why you need to maintain a clear project plan calendar. There are many different ways to set up a project planning calendar template, and it’s important for every leader to find an approach that works for their t

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Speaker: Andrew Skoog, Founder of MachinistX & President of Hexis Representatives

Manufacturing is evolving, and the right technology can empower—not replace—your workforce. Smart automation and AI-driven software are revolutionizing decision-making, optimizing processes, and improving efficiency. But how do you implement these tools with confidence and ensure they complement human expertise rather than override it? Join industry expert Andrew Skoog as he explores how manufacturers can leverage automation to enhance operations, streamline workflows, and make smarter, data-dri

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Velociteach

JANUARY 11, 2017

Whoa, 2016 was a doozy! Many aspirants of the Project Management Professional (PMP)® Certification we spoke to throughout the year had a hard time making the PMP® certification exam a priority, as 2016 brought a lot of challenges and changes. Now that 2017 is here, it’s time to press the reset button and make this […] The post Make 2017 YOUR Year!

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Fix my Project Chaos

JANUARY 12, 2017

Lately on the blog I’ve been exploring the ten skills that employers want from project managers. Effective leadership is one of the key skill that employers expect from project managers. While managing the project (costs, risks, issues, scope etc.) is important, leading the team (including the extended team) to deliver the required outcome is essential.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 8, 2017

Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects - Tim Lister. Risk Management requires making estimates of many things. The uncertainties that create the risk - reducible (Epistemic) and irreducible (Aleatory), the impacts from the risks, the efficacy of the corrective actions, the residual reducible uncertainty, and any changes in the irreducible uncertainties.

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Wrike

JANUARY 12, 2017

If you’ve never heard of Gilmore Girls before, here’s the 5-second intro. It’s an American TV drama/comedy that started in 2000, lasted seven full seasons, generating 153 episodes, featuring strong female characters (girl power!), and creating stardom for its two main actors Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel. In those seven seasons, the show became well-known for its “walk-and-talks” (scenes where characters exchange important dialogue while walking), the non-stop pop culture references, the rapid

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Speaker: Jason Cottrell and Gireesh Sahukar

Retailers know the clock is ticking–legacy SAP Commerce support ends in 2026. Legacy platforms are becoming a liability burdened by complexity, rigidity, and mounting operational costs. But modernization isn’t just about swapping out systems, it’s about preparing for a future shaped by real-time interactions, AI powered buying assistants, and flexible commerce architecture.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 9, 2017

Today I have a great giveaway for you. When I met Scott Berkun in Texas for the Digital PM Summit last year, he kindly signed two copies of his book, The Myths of Innovation, for me to offer as giveaway prizes. Some of you might know that Scott’s first book, Making Things Happen , is one of my all time favourite project management books. The Myths of Innovation is not about project management, but it is a thought-provoking and excellently researched book about creativity and innovation tha

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Fix my Project Chaos

JANUARY 12, 2017

Lately on the blog I’ve been exploring the ten skills that employers want from project managers. Effective leadership is one of the key skill that employers expect from project managers. While managing the project (costs, risks, issues, scope etc.) is important, leading the team (including the extended team) to deliver the required outcome is essential.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 7, 2017

Making decisions in the presence of uncertainty with limited resources is the domain of Macro and Micro Economics. Making decisions in resource-limited situations at the national or global scale is macroeconomics. Macroeconomics is the study of how people make decisions influenced by tax rates, interest rates foreign policy, and trade policy. Microeconomics is the study of how people make decisions on a personal scale and treats decisions that individual and organizations make.

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The Tao of Project Management

JANUARY 13, 2017

Welcome to 2017 I trust you all have a happy and rewarding year. As usual I will be dripping in my thoughts, meditations and opinions as we go, with a little bit about life (or the continuous learning program as I like to think of it). Speaking of continuous learning, I was contacted by Emily of Master of Project, regarding their training courses. I promised to take a look and I did.

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Ron Rosenhead

JANUARY 12, 2017

The atmosphere in the room was tense so I decided to intervene and summarised as follows: this group is a mix of project managers and project sponsors. this sponsor workshop is focusing on clarifying roles – role of the project manager and role of the project sponsor alongside steering groups (project boards). it seems that roles are not at all clear – there is too much confusion as to who should be doing what and when.

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Musings on Project Management

JANUARY 8, 2017

If you're in the construction industry you probably know about and have experienced "design-build". Notice that there's a word missing after "design", to wit: competitive bidding. Ooops, a typo? No, there is a body of knowledge around this that says that it's faster-cheaper for the same quality to go "design-build" than "design-competitve bid-build".

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 13, 2017

The notion of the Cone of Uncertainty has been around for awhile. Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. Prentice-Hall, 1981. The poster below is from Steve McConnell's site and makes several things clear. The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates or any other project attribute. Estimates of cost, schedule, technical performance on the left have a lower probability of being precise and accurate than estimates on the right.

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Runrun.it

JANUARY 10, 2017

Through our lives both professionally and personal we constantly run into little hiccups that we did not see coming. Maybe you put off paying those toll tickets and years later, you get a letter in the mail for over a thousand dollars! Yikes! Alternatively, lets take a look at the IBM Mega Disaster when in […]. The post What is Risk Management: Staying on top of the Risks in your projects appeared first on For Managers | Personal Development Hacks.

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Speaker: Erroll Amacker

Automation is transforming finance but without strong financial oversight it can introduce more risk than reward. From missed discrepancies to strained vendor relationships, accounts payable automation needs a human touch to deliver lasting value. This session is your playbook to get automation right. We’ll explore how to balance speed with control, boost decision-making through human-machine collaboration, and unlock ROI with fewer errors, stronger fraud prevention, and smoother operations.

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TeamGantt

JANUARY 8, 2017

Can content marketing teams use TeamGantt to manage their editorial content? Here's a sneak peek at how we at TeamGantt manage our own PM blog.

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TimeCamp

JANUARY 10, 2017

As promised in this article from the previous week, we are continuing with the topic of case studies. Case Study is an analysis of a particular case usually performed inside the company that allows the researchers to draw conclusions about the employees’ performance, or market, technical, social, and cultural conditions (and more.) The purpose of conducting […].

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 11, 2017

Overheard on Twitter. The Start of a Project Is the Worst Time to Estimate Its Duration or Cost. This is only the case if those you've hired know nothing about what capabilities are needed to produce value the project, what Features are needed to produce that Value, when those Value-producing Features are needed to meet the time cost of value payback process, what risks there are for meeting those value producing outcomes, and how the work effort to produce that value are to be measured (physica

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