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Requirements Analysis & Ensuring Stakeholder Satisfaction

ProjectManager.com

A project isn’t a success when it finishes on time and budget: the real test of its success or failure is stakeholder satisfaction. If the quality is not up to their standards, then no matter how efficiently the project was managed, it failed. This is a very important aspect of any project and not one that should wait until the last minute. Before the production of the final deliverable, it is critical to make sure you start in the right direction.

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Project Communications – Up, Down and Sideways

Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

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Kickoff Meeting: The Ultimate Guide to Starting Your Projects Right

nTask

New and ongoing projects are the backbone of a business’s entire operation and a kickoff meeting constitutes a crucial element of such projects. They are the necessary progressions that cement the significance of a company in the market. So, when the stakes are this high, then you have to be vigilant when starting new projects and build a proper foundation.

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How to Improve Problem Solving with Lessons Learned

Rebel’s Guide to PM

So you’ve got a problem. It’s on the issue log. You’ve pulled together the key subject matter experts who can help get the project over this hurdle. But how do you come up with the answer? Sometimes, the answer to a problem is staring you in the face. There is only one sensible solution to fixing an issue. You are confident that using that approach is going to get you where you need to be.

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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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Want Better Results in Software Projects? Try 3 Simple Questions

Project Risk Coach

Project managers crave successful software projects. They dream of crossing the finish line with a win. Project managers want to help their company and advance their career. Let's look at three powerful questions to help you identify lessons learned. Unfortunately, some project managers fall into a rut and fail to make progress. These individuals do the same things from one project to another project and expect a different result.

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3 Best Project Management Charts for Project Planning

ProjectManager.com

Communication is fundamental for most everything we do, and that goes doubly so for projects. Without a clear way to disseminate information and have it understood, missteps follow. To avoid a catastrophic misunderstanding that can delay or derail a project, project managers need a communication plan that informs every phase of the project—especially the planning phase.

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Software Development Process: How to Pick The Process That’s Right For You

Planio

There are lots of things in life that are better with a little spontaneity—relationships, weekend plans, tattoos. But software development isn’t one of them. Instead, as Benjamin Franklin so famously put it: “If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail.” – Benjamin Franklin. Every great piece of software starts with a plan and a clear process in place.

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The Best Project Management Tools To Transform Your Work In 2020

The Digital Project Manager

I’ve summed up my top 10 favorite PM tools that I consider to be the. The post The Best Project Management Tools To Transform Your Work In 2020 appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Excel is watching you!

Musings on Project Management

If you've ever managed a project with a really large data set, say the payroll for a bunch of 1099 developers, or the sales records that you're trying to translate and import to a spreadsheet, you may need to watch a couple of important cells to let you know what's really going on: Summary totals; error codes; record totals, etc.

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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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The Agile Workspace: The Undervalued Success Factor

Scrum.org

TL;DR: Agile Workspace Means Choice Among a Diversity of Spaces . If you want your organization to become agile, adding more whiteboards to the workspace will not suffice. You have to abandon the idea that the workspace is an assembly line for white-collar workers. You need to let go Taylorism. We are now in the age of the creative worker. To become agile – and reap its benefits such as becoming more innovative –, you need a diversity of workspaces to support all forms of creative work: focus,

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The Best Risk Management Tools & Techniques for PM Pros

ProjectManager.com

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The growing need for project leadership

Susanne Madsen

You are probably as familiar with the statistics of failing projects as I am. According to the PMI only 52 per cent of projects are delivered on time and 69 per cent meet their goals and business intent. The numbers vary by industry and region. In the UK the Infrastructure and Projects Authority, reports that less than half of their projects had a green or amber/green rating upon delivery.

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Team Building Activities to Enhance Your Company Culture

LiquidPlanner

Team building activities can be an enjoyable part of workplace culture. They can also build meaningful bonds that help teams excel even more in their collaborative projects. Here are some ideas that can help you grow your company culture with group activities. Mixing Fun and Purpose. Since the goal of team building activities is to build trust within your organization, it follows that your activities should be geared towards getting people to not only work together but to also believe that other

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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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Are technical skills required to be a Scrum Master?

Scrum.org

As part of the Scrum.org webinar “Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer - Martin Hinshelwood - Answering Your Most Pressing Scrum Questions” I was asked a number of questions. Since not only was I on the spot and live, I thought that I should answer each question that was asked again here, as well as those questions I did not get to. In case you missed it, here is the recording of yesterday's Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer webinar with Martin Hinshelwood!

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15 Fascinating Time Management Articles To Read Right Now (Link Roundup 2019)

Proofhub

Best Time Management Articles That Are Loved: Reviewed And Ranked Managing time is of utmost importance to be able to conduct projects effectively. We all have the same hours every day, the reason why others achieve more is not only because they work harder but they also manage their time better. One should make a promise to have effective time management strategies.

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Develop a Strategy to Embrace Change

Leading Agile

Strategic planning often falls short because it’s not as fluid as it needs to be. One thing we must consider is that there are—typically— a lot of assumptions being made about markets as well as the organization’s capacity to execute. Those assumptions often miss the mark when attempting to meet the ever-changing needs and expectations of shareholders and customers.

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How To Use Trello To Manage And Inspire Your Team

Trello

If you’re a manager, “busy” may be your unofficial middle name. There’s a lot to do and time is always scarce. You are running your team—jumping from meeting to meeting, making strategic decisions, organizing priorities, and planning projects are some of your top priorities.

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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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Project Planning Process – How to Build Effective Project Plans | Video

Online PM Courses

The project planning process can be as complex or as simple as you want. And you need only use the steps that are right for your project. The post Project Planning Process – How to Build Effective Project Plans | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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How to Efficiently Manage Budget with GanttPRO: Actual Cost and Improved Task Time Tracker

GanttPRO Project Management

GanttPRO online Gantt chart software comes with a new release! We continue working on improvements to make your project planning and management processes enjoyable and efficient. Our previous release took […]. The post How to Efficiently Manage Budget with GanttPRO: Actual Cost and Improved Task Time Tracker first appeared on GanttPRO.

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ElevateAgile with Mike Cottmeyer

Leading Agile

On October 7th, 2019 LeadingAgile will hold its first-ever conference—Elevate Agile. In this episode of SoundNotes, LeadingAgile CEO and Founder, Mike Cottmeyer explains why Elevate Agile exists and how we hope it will shape the conversation around business and organizational Agility moving forward. The event is sold out, but you can check out the live stream from the conference on Elevate Agile’s Facebook page: [link].

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The Complete Guide to Work Management Software

Teamweek

As a business owner or team manager, do you ever find yourself wishing you had four arms to streamline your daily efforts? Whether you’re running a business on your own or you have a group of employees to assist you, there always seems to be something that has to be done. And after you complete a scheduled task in one place, you often have to close that window and open a new app to do the next one.

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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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What is Your Project’s Competition?

Bridge the Gap Consulting

Competition is all around. Your business is competing for clients and market share. We compete against co-workers to be on a new team or get a promotion. Pro sports teams compete to be the best in their divisions. We may even encourage our kids to compete hard and win. Everything seems to be a competition. Even in the most collaborative of environments, some competition is prevalent.

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How to Efficiently Manage Budget with GanttPRO: Actual Cost and Improved Task Time Tracker

GanttPRO Project Management

GanttPRO online Gantt chart maker comes with a new release! We continue working on improvements to make your project planning and management processes enjoyable and efficient. Our previous release took […]. The post How to Efficiently Manage Budget with GanttPRO: Actual Cost and Improved Task Time Tracker first appeared on GanttPRO.

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11 Best Microsoft Project Alternatives

Celoxis

Today, if we were to run a poll among project managers, we would easily get 7 out of 10 people affirmative on using Microsoft Project for their project scheduling and planning. Microsoft Project is still the default tool when it comes to project management. But, is that still good enough?

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How to Use Workforce Optimization (WFO) to Get Ahead of Your Competition

Teamweek

As I write this blog, I’m recalling my very first corporate job. I had my own office, but it had no windows, the fluorescent lights clicked and buzzed nonstop, and every available surface was covered with piles of paperwork that probably made more sense to the previous occupant than it did to me. Toda, we’d probably call that space a supply closet. Company operations weren’t much better.

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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.