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How to connect business strategy with project management

Moira Alexander

To align business goals with project management (PM), leaders from the enterprise project management office (EMPO) or project management office (PMO) need to be involved in strategic planning sessions alongside senior-level management. The foundation for overall business success and project initiatives starts here, making it imperative for executive sponsors to be in sync with project leadership out of the gate.

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How to Communicate Risks

Project Risk Coach

How do you communicate risks? Some project managers rarely mention risks; others bore people to tears with too much information. Ninety percent of a project manager’s job is communication. And one of the most important things to communicate is your risks. Where is the uncertainty greatest and what are you and the team doing about it? The communication process can be challenging.

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Debt is not all bad

Musings on Project Management

Debt is not all bad; it's not living beyond you means if you have the means -- and commitment and discipline -- to pay it back. In fact, debt can be a source of leverage, a means of managing risk, and a means to bring the future closer to the present. And so it is in the metaphor of technical debt in a project. Technical debt has been around as long as there have been projects.

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7 Signs Your Project Management Tool is Working for You

LiquidPlanner

Imagine this. You walk into your Monday morning stand-up meeting. Everyone’s there, coffee in-hand, smiling. Why are they smiling, on a Monday no less? Because last week’s project was completed early and under budget. Smiles on a Monday morning is just one sign that your PM solution is working. Here are seven more: Your project schedule is up-to-date and reliable.

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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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13 Best Project Management Books for All Levels | TeamGantt

TeamGantt

From beginner to advanced project managers, TeamGantt shares the top books on project management to plan for success in your industry.

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Every reader is an individual

Musings on Project Management

Sometimes we lose sight of individuals in the never ending grasp for the big picture. So, it is nice to be able to thank Peter H. for his compliment. So often, the annual statement from the publisher is "lifeless" -- though the check is nice. I read your book Project Management the Agile Way : Making it Work in the Enterprise. It is great. Peter H. Project Manager in retail,store and.

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Importance of project management acumen in career progression

Celoxis

Career progression is one of the most important drivers of employee retention. 52% of millennials say opportunities for career progression is the most desirable quality in a workplace, competitive wages and financial incentives (44%), good training and development programs (35%) (PWC). There is a lot of ambiguity when it comes to career progression in organizations.

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GanttPRO as the Best Microsoft Project Alternative for Creating Gantt Charts

GanttPRO Project Management

Project managers are busy people. They have to do a bunch of various things, from planning till final accomplishment of a project. It’s challenging, no doubts. However, there are some […].

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How to Talk About Estimates

Herding Cats

What is an estimate? An estimate as a noun is an approximate calculation or judgment of the value, number, quantity, or extent of something. An estimate as a verb is to roughly calculate or judge the value, number, quantity, or extent of. But those estimates, nouns, and verbs themselves's have other attributes. They have precision and accuracy. We can't talk about estimates or estimate, without also talking about the precision and accuracy of the estimate (the noun) after we have performed the

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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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10 Killer Interview Questions for Hiring Project Managers + Free Interview Template

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Interviewing for project management jobs is something I have had to do but I don’t find it easy. How do you know what to ask? And how do you use what is normally a really short period of time to let the candidate show themselves in the best possible light? Added to that is the fact that it’s easy for candidates to come up with answers to many of the standard questions because there are so many books about recruiting and interviewing.

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Goal Setting For Project Managers

The Digital Project Manager

– “Would you tell me, please, where I ought to go from here?” – “That depends a good deal on where you want to get. The post Goal Setting For Project Managers appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Where's your project on the path of change

Lynne Cazaly

Many change and transformation projects are spoken about as a 'path', 'journey', 'ladder' or 'roadmap'. In short, we're here and we want to get to. there. Sometimes change and transformation can feel alot less safe than a simple path or road. It feels more like a gigantic cliff! And Jack Canfield's quote about 'making your parachute on the way down' or the entrepreneurial advice to 'grow wings as you're plummeting towards earth' (aka 'grow a pair!).

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Performance-Based Project Management®

Herding Cats

Performance–Based Project Management ® integrates five critical program management process areas with – Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Measures. The inclusion of Technical Performance Measures (TPM) separates this approach from conventional methods based solely on managing cost and schedule. In conventional approaches, the cost and schedule baseline and their variances generate the data for Earned Value variables that are used to make programmatic decisions.

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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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Best Mobile Time Tracking Software – The Time is On Your Side Wherever You Are!

TimeCamp

Monkeys did not climb down the tree and became hominids who spread around the world to stay in one place only. They got legs to use them. Innumerable ages have passed since that historic moment of ”coming down,” but not much has changed. We are constantly in motion like some clockwork mechanisms. This restlessness is […].

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GanttPRO as the Best Microsoft Project Alternative for Creating Gantt Charts

GanttPRO Project Management

Project managers are busy people. They have to do a bunch of various things, from planning till final accomplishment of a project. It’s challenging, no doubts.

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The 'death model' of change is done

Lynne Cazaly

If you don't like change, you are going to like irrelevant even less.’ - Eric Shinseki. Change and transformation are constant in organisations, and the reality is that leaders need to lead that change. And get used to leading it. It's through change that organizational culture is created, demonstrated and lived. Your capability as a leader is often measured by how well you lead change and transformation, and how well you’ve helped a team or organization shift from ‘here’

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Supercharge Your Project Reports with BrightWork

Brightwork

Everyone loves a project report – except the project manager! Trying to prepare different types of reports for stakeholders and the team from various sources is often a very manual and time consuming process. It’s especially troublesome when a report is urgently needed for a meeting; if your information sources are not up-to-date, you’re in for a long day!

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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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INFOGRAPHIC: Keeping Your Project team Engaged with PM Software

Celoxis

INFOGRAPHIC: Keeping Your Project team Engaged with PM Software.

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Save Time with Improved Section & Task Actions

Avaza

We’ve made working with Avaza Sections & Tasks even simpler! Copy an entire Section’s tasks from one Project to another, or move and copy independent tasks as needed. With our new update, you can now rename/delete sections and copy section tasks without navigating to a different page. You also now have task options, such as move, copy, or delete, accessible via a 3-dot control.

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Project Manager vs. Product Manager (and Other Jobs)

ActiveCollab

Many titles include project management in their job description. Does this mean that, for example, a product manager does the same job as a project manager? Well, yes and no: product managers do work with the same material as project managers (like time and resources), but they have different goals and work under different constraints. What’s a project manager’s job.

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4 Ways to Boost Team Performance

Brightwork

Picture this: the project is nearing completion, your stakeholders love your outputs, and the team is laser-focused on the deadlines. Suddenly, your star player starts to underperform. They stop contributing at meetings, are frequently late, and the quality of their work declines, forcing other team members to pick up the slack. The project is finished on time, but you are frustrated and unsure of what to do next.

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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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The 3 Steps to Take When Failure is Not an Option: Getting to Impeccable Business Execution

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This is a guest article by Joel “Thor” Neeb from Afterburner. In school, we were taught that 99% was an A+, and if you were the recipient of such a grade you would probably be accused of “blowing the curve” on the test for everyone else. Well, in today’s business world, 99% business execution is no longer good enough. In fact, it’s an “F”. Take, for instance, Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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When you accidentally on purpose steal someone’s resource and you’re waiting for them to find out…

The Digital Project Manager

When no one’s available on the resource schedule, we’ve tried going to the resource manager, and we’ve tried to beg, borrow and horse trade – The post When you accidentally on purpose steal someone’s resource and you’re waiting for them to find out… appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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13 Best Project Management Books for All Types of Project Managers

TeamGantt

There are a ton of resources out there to help any project manager level up their skills. One of the best resources is a great book, and there are a plethora of books on the subject of Project Management. How do you pick where to start? It helps to select books that are appropriate to […]. The post 13 Best Project Management Books for All Types of Project Managers appeared first on TeamGantt.

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Getting Ready for MarTech the Amium Way

Redbooth

The MarTech Conference is less than a week away! As someone that has been passionate about using technology to fuel marketing efficiency and performance my entire career I’m feeling pretty lucky to be an attendee and an exhibitor at this year’s conference! Every marketer’s dream – marketing to marketing people. They’re the best, am I right?! They are pretty great but they are also inundated with a plethora of new tech so this conference couldn’t be more needed.

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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.