Project Risk Coach
DECEMBER 4, 2017
Increase Your Risk Management IQ Every project manager deals with risks. We all face significant uncertainty. Allow me to share seven things you ought to know about identifying risks. Project managers must address unrealistic time frames where failure seems unavoidable, scope creep, ambiguous requirements, delays from third parties, and the lack of required skills, to name a few.
The Digital Project Manager
DECEMBER 5, 2017
Estimating successfully is all about getting the right amount of funding to enable you to successfully deliver a project. But creating a project budget that works – delivering worthwhile value for a client at a cost that’s still going to make a respectable profit for the agency is a tricky balance, so how do you do it right? The post How To Estimate Projects: The Complete Guide To Project Budget & Cost Estimation appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.
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The Lazy Project Manager
DECEMBER 6, 2017
The following is an extract from my new book ‘How to get Fired at the C-Level: Why mismanaging change is the biggest risk of all’ in association with my friends at Tailwind Project Solutions – previous extracts followed a series of 5 Challenges that I think every organisation should consider, and consider very carefully – and now we will look at the 5 tests of control: Challenge 4, if you remember, was all about investing in good analysis and in good reporting so that the precious portfolio of c
Project Bliss
DECEMBER 5, 2017
During the holidays and throughout the year you’re often at a loss for gift ideas. For this reason, I’ve put together a list of items that help with staying healthy, productive, and can make life a bit easier. Many of these are things I didn’t know how much I’d love until I received them as a gift myself. Some of the best gifts are things you’d never even consider buying and then you discover just how much you love them once you start using them.
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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.
Kiron Bondale
DECEMBER 3, 2017
Frequent readers of my blog will know how much I respect Scott Adams’s unique insights into the dysfunctions of corporate life. Let’s analyze the case study provided in today’s comic strip! Risk (mis)management. The pointy-haired boss who serves as a constant reminder of the validity of the Peter Principle expresses surprise about the bumpiness of their white-water team-building project.
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Binfire
DECEMBER 3, 2017
Do you like to use boards to create new tasks and view the status of all your task? Do you like the simplicity which list view provides for managing tasks and adding subtasks? Do you want to be able to switch between the board and list view at will? Unfortunately, most project management application s like Asana or Trello only give you the option to have the board view or list view, not both!
Zen Project Management
DECEMBER 5, 2017
I am speaking this week at the Projects to the Point (P2P) conference in Cairo, Egypt. The focus of the conference is the book "How Successful Organizations Implement Change" and the speakers (myself included) each wrote one of the chapters of the book by the same title. We have an interesting approach for implementing change where I'm working, a technique call Nemawashi.
TimeCamp
DECEMBER 5, 2017
Introduction Project management, which deals with various aspects of projects, such as techniques, and tools used to plan, control, monitor, and review such enterprises, is a crucial part of the business world. If a company wishes to be thriving, facilitate productivity of its employees, or increase profits, it needs to take certain measures. One of the most effective methods to achieve success in that matter is to invest in some professional software, for instance, TimeCamp or Podio.
LiquidPlanner
DECEMBER 5, 2017
With 2018 just around the corner, it’s easy to get caught up in the frenzy of resolutions and new year planning. But, before we say goodbye 2017, we’d like to take a moment to look back at our most popular blogs from the past year. 1. 5 Ways AI and Automation Will Change Project Management. Automation, big data, and the Internet of Things were hot topics in 2017.
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
Rebel’s Guide to PM
DECEMBER 6, 2017
This article, Importance of Networking , first appeared on Girl's Guide to Project Management. My inbox is full of invites to webinars, breakfast seminars and afternoon presentations, and that’s just from vendors. Add in the professional development events from the project management groups I belong to and I could be attending something every week.
Leading Answers
DECEMBER 5, 2017
Perhaps, like 500,000+ other people, you have some form of Certified Scrum Master (CSM) credential and are looking to distinguish yourself and continue your learning journey. Of course, learning is not tied to credentials, many people are anti-certification and that.
Pawel Brodzinski
DECEMBER 6, 2017
These days I speak extensively about how we designed Lunar Logic as an organization. After all, going through a transition from a traditional management model to a situation where company has no managers at all is quite an achievement. One of the pillars of managerless organizational design is autonomy. After all, decisions won’t just make themselves.
Wrike
DECEMBER 7, 2017
At the beginning of 2017, our then three-person content team here at Wrike was faced with a rather large problem. Because we proofread every bit of English text that goes out on a public-facing platform, we were getting deluged by requests from 400+ employees to both write and edit lead gen emails, UI/UX tooltips, landing page messages, sales enablement materials, and even job descriptions!
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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.
Function Point
DECEMBER 7, 2017
What’s Your Project Management Style? Every project manager has a different way they like to work. Some people are natural-born leaders, while others are budgeting wizards. There are many different ways to manage creatives effectively to end up with a successfully completed project, but your project management style can dictate where in your project you’re destined for success and where you may stumble.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
DECEMBER 4, 2017
This article, Fostering Knowledge Sharing in Project Management Communities [Video] , first appeared on Girl's Guide to Project Management. In this video I talk to Jonathan Norman from the Major Projects Knowledge Hub about how to successfully foster knowledge sharing in project management communities and build a supportive community of project managers.
Herding Cats
DECEMBER 4, 2017
"On spec" is open loop control on value. Project Controls are Management Actions, either preplanned to achieve the desired result, or taken as a corrective measure prompted by the monitoring process. Project controls are concerned with the metrics of the project – quantities, time, cost, and other resources and their measurable beneficial outcomes for the project.
Appfluence
DECEMBER 6, 2017
The ACE industry is a unique field because it consists of architects, engineers, and those in the construction industry; in other words, three separate industries that intertwine. In this rapidly evolving field, it is increasingly important to pursue further knowledge, not only about how to do your particular job better, but about what is going on in the industries in which you closely work with.
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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.
Function Point
DECEMBER 7, 2017
What’s Your Project Management Style? Every project manager has a different way they like to work. Some people are natural-born leaders, while others are budgeting wizards. There are many different ways to manage creatives effectively to end up with a successfully completed project, but your project management style can dictate where in your project you’re destined for success and where you may stumble.
The Lazy Project Manager
DECEMBER 7, 2017
Have you checked out my podcast? Peter Taylor The Lazy Project Manager Podcaster Speaker Author. Well episode 183 included two fascinating interviews with Cedric Waldburger (a man with no office and no home but with many enterprising initiatives going on in his life) and Parikshit Basrur – Executive | Academic | Researcher (another really interesting guy).
Herding Cats
DECEMBER 5, 2017
We're working on a White Paper for the Joint Space Cost Council which is an organization composed of government (NRO, NASA, USAF, and others) and industry representatives with an interest in space. Our topic is Increasing the Probability of Program Success Thorugh Continuous Risk Management. . The origins of this paper came about at a recent JSCC meeting here in Boulder, with local Aerospace contractors, the DCMA (Defense Contract Management Agency) and several government agencies (NRO and NASA
Musings on Project Management
DECEMBER 6, 2017
Many of us learned recently from Alistair Cockburn that he studied engineering in college and took a course in thermodynamics for which he received a passing grade. However, he declares: can't recall anything about thermodynamics. He asks: does that invalidate the worth of my degree? No, his degree shows a pathway (his word) of self improvement and education.
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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.
ActiveCollab
DECEMBER 3, 2017
No matter how efficient your team communication is, it won’t bring much value to the business unless there’s a written record of it. Help your team build a habit of using one centralised place to document what is said and done on regular basis. It has been almost a year and a half since I joined this company and besides skills and knowledge I gained there’s one thing I’ve also learned - you can’t have a happy and productive working environment without effective communication.
The Digital Project Manager
DECEMBER 7, 2017
Are you actually good at what do you do? Deep down, do you sometimes wonder if you're actually a project manager charlatan, or in the wrong career altogether? Ben Aston chats with Lina Calin to discuss how we can know if we're really doing a good job of this project management thing. The post DPM Podcast: Are You Really A Good Project Manager? (with Lina Calin) appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.
Herding Cats
DECEMBER 8, 2017
There seems to still be confusion about what the Cone of Uncertainty means for some in the #NoEstimates community. I work in a domain where the CoU is baked into the Integrated Program Performance Management (IPPM) processes flowed down from the buyer, in this case, the Federal Government. The CoU paradigm defines the needed reduction in uncertainty is some performance metric.
LiquidPlanner
DECEMBER 7, 2017
The title of this article, ‘Why Manufacturers are Switching to the Cloud’, can be unpacked into two questions: 1) Are manufacturers switching to the cloud? 2) And if so… why ? The answer to the first question is clearly, absolutely, and definitely yes —the 2017 State of Manufacturing Technology , an annual report, says that, “90% of respondents are using cloud-based productivity applications, double the number in 2016.
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.
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