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The Key Aspects Of Project Management

Proofhub

Understanding The Many Aspects Of Project Management “What makes a project successful?” There’s one question with many possible answers. Some say, behind any successful project is a project manager with above and beyond management skills. For some, it is the team who works hard day and night to deliver every deliverable and deadlines within the project to make it successful.

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Please DON’T Wake Up At 4 AM – Addressing The Worst Productivity Tips

Teamweek

I paused at my front door and did a final once-over. Fully charged phone in case I needed to make an emergency call? Check. Shoelaces tied so I don’t trip on them if I have to run? Check. Pepper spray? Check. No, I wasn’t about to seek shelter during the apocalypse. I was an aspiring writer who had decided to be Haruki Murakami for a day. Murkami was, and still is, one of my favorite authors.

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10 Management Tips for Dealing with Difficult Employees

GanttPRO Project Management

Mostly, “dealing with difficult employees” means creating a comfortable work atmosphere for every employee in the company, including this very difficult one. Detect the unusual circumstances, if there are any, […].

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Remembering and Using Your Project Management Training

Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

You attend a training course, how do you make sure you’re doing everything you can to get the most out of what you are learning? How do you make sure that once the training is over and you head back to the office, that you’re still able to utilise what you have learnt? From as early as 1981 with Michalak’s research called ‘The Neglected Half of Training’, there has been problems highlighted about the transfer of learning.

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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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How to Create a Timeline for a Project (and Why They Matter)

GoSkills

Project management timelines track a project's progress – but they also boost motivation and improve communication. Anita Sambol outlines why that is, and more!

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5 Resource Planning Tips for Project Managers

LiquidPlanner

Anyone that manages a team knows that organization and an efficient workflow are critical to effectively allocating your talent, meeting deadlines, and getting everything done on time and under budget. The problem is that most employees and team members spend much of their time in meetings, answering emails, and getting stuck on various other distractions and interruptions that can strain their attention and focus, especially as different initiatives and interests fight for priority.

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Don’t be like a squirrel hiding nuts with project lessons!

Kiron Bondale

As weather gets colder, it is common to see squirrels digging holes to bury nuts and other food items to feed themselves when resources becomes scarce during winter time. But given the volume of nuts which are required to sustain squirrels through the long winter months and the large areas covered by an average squirrel, they often end up forgetting where they have buried all of their treats.

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Kanban vs Scrum vs Agile - Know the Differences

Techno-PM

The Detailed Comparison of Kanban vs Scrum vs Agile It can be difficult for project managers to keep up with the ever-evolving methodologies that can benefit their teams. It is also tricky sometimes to know what the differences are between them, and what will work best for their colleagues and themselves. Whilst the ultimate aim of each of these methods is to aid and enhance the process of completing projects, it is important to recognize that each method is distinct in its own right.

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How to Write a Scope of Work (Example Included)

ProjectManager.com

In this video, Jennifer Bridges, PMP, shows you how to write a scope of work for project management. Follow her steps to get started or use our project plan and scope document template! Here’s a shot of the whiteboard for your reference! In Review – How to Write a Scope of Work Document: A scope of work (SOW) document is an agreement on the work you’re going to perform on the project, Jennifer said. .

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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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How to Reduce Issues in Scope Management

Project Risk Coach

In this article, I will share three primary issues in scope management–not including all the work, gold plating, and poor alignment with objectives and goals. And, we'll look at solutions for each. First, let's examine what scope management includes. "Project Scope Management includes the processes to ensure that the project includes all the work required, and only the work required, to complete the project successfully.

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Are you living in a VUCA world?

The Lazy Project Manager

Do you recognise this? Is your business life ‘Volatile – Uncertain – Complex – Ambiguous’? Well don’t panic, you are certainly not alone, but you should accept that you are part the ‘VUCA’ world today! VUCA is an acronym originally used by the American Military. It was the response of the US Army War College to the collapse of the USSR in the early 1990s when, suddenly, there was no longer the only enemy, resulting in a need for new ways of seeing and reacting.

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The Importance of Creativity in Business and Work

Project Bliss

There are multiple reasons to consider the importance of creativity in business and your work. And I’m not just talking about your company’s creative department, or that PowerPoint you need to make for your boss. Creativity provides business value in important ways you may not have considered. You may be surprised. But once I explain, I think you’ll agree.

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5 Types Of Project Reports (Updated Nov. 2019)

ProjectManager.com

Reporting – it’s what a project manager does. No matter if you’re a journeyman or an apprentice in the field, you’ve made a report, either by hand or with reporting tools. However, you may not know that there are several different types of reports, or how to specifically address those reports to particular audiences. Here is an outline of five of the more common types of project reports, but are nonetheless crucial to the successful running of a project. 1.

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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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The Agile Manifesto And How To Really Apply It To Your Projects

The Digital Project Manager

The post The Agile Manifesto And How To Really Apply It To Your Projects appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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15 Sprint Review Anti-Patterns

Scrum.org

TL; DR: 15 Sprint Review Anti-Patterns. Are we still on the right track? Answering this question in a collaborative effort of the Scrum Team as well as internal (and external) stakeholders is the purpose of the Sprint Review. Given its importance, it is worthwhile to tackle the most common Sprint Review anti-patterns. The Purpose of Scrum’s Sprint Review.

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4 Tips to Keep Your Project Costs in Check

LiquidPlanner

Perhaps you’ve had those moments when you’re pulling together some budget information, and crunching some numbers from lots of Excel spreadsheets and emails, and your palms start to get a little sweaty. Which project costs did you miss? It’s been a while since you’ve gotten a progress report from the team – are there any unexpected costs that are going to sneak up on you?

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Understanding Critical Path in Project Management (Example Included)

ProjectManager.com

Projects are made up of tasks that have to adhere to a schedule in order to meet a deadline. It sounds simple, but without mapping the work it can quickly get out of hand and you’ll find your project off track. There are many techniques project managers use to schedule their project activities so that everything lands where it’s supposed to and the project fits the approved timeline.

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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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DPM Podcast: Scaling Agile (With Giovanni Asproni)

The Digital Project Manager

In this episode, we tackle the golden question: how do you scale agile teams and organizations? The post DPM Podcast: Scaling Agile (With Giovanni Asproni) appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Four Unbalanced Accountabilities that can hurt your Scrum Team

Scrum.org

Version Française. Scrum requires a self-organized team to deliver "done" increments at the end of each Sprint. This peculiarity sometimes raises criticisms and questions when it is discussed in trainings or when coaching the clients: how can a team work without a leader? How are we going to do our job, if no one tells us what or how to do it? The Scrum Guide states that: “Scrum Teams are self-organizing and cross-functional.

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Top 10 Project Management Conferences You Can Not Afford to Miss in 2020

Taskque

The momentum at which project management is evolving is making it tough for project managers to keep pace with it. New project management methodologies , tools, best practices and trends replace old ones. Project management conferences help you stay updated with all the latest developments in the project management industry. Moreover, it also enables you to hone your project management skills so you can manage projects more efficiently.

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5 Steps to Project Closure (Checklist Included)

ProjectManager.com

So much time and effort is put into the planning of a project, it is often forgotten that the end of a project is equally important. There’s a lot of work involved even once a project is technically complete. Our free project closure template is a great resource to help you remember what remains left to be done. For example, there are many tasks that you still must complete.

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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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Tool Overview: Mavenlink Software Platform For Modern Services Organizations

The Digital Project Manager

The post Tool Overview: Mavenlink Software Platform For Modern Services Organizations appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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The Need for an Innovative PMO

MPUG

Business transformation is the lifeblood of every enterprise today. Without a constant flow of innovation, no company can expect to prosper – or perhaps, even survive. How should an organization manage business transformation? Who should be responsible for it? How will the team responsible know what projects to work on? These are questions that businesses ponder during our times of rapid change.

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Bio-Diversity’s freefall can be mitigated through sustainable project management.

Green Project Management

This week, more than 11,000 researchers from around the world issued a report that spoke of the “untold suffering” that will be caused by climate change if humanity doesn’t change its ways. (Before anyone poo-poos this, think to yourself, how often do scientists like to agree? #funfact: The don’t.) Bio-Diversity as a whole is already in freefall. […].

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How to Create a Project Management Schedule (Example Included)

ProjectManager.com

Depending on the complexity and length of your project, your project management schedule can range from a simple chronological task list to a complex web of interrelated tasks and dependencies. Still, there are concrete steps you can take to develop a solid project schedule and ensure all aspects of your project are properly planned and accounted for.

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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.