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How To Start A Project As An Accidental Project Manager

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This article, How To Start A Project As An Accidental Project Manager , first appeared on Girl's Guide to PM. Help! I’m an accidental or new project manager. How do I get started? Simon Harris. That was one of the questions asked recently in Project Management Café, our Facebook Group (what, you’re not a member? Hop over and join us now! ). Simon Harris was our expert guest for the week, hosting the chat on the theme of ‘The Accidental PM’s Surgery’ and this is what he had to share about ho

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How to Develop a Successful Buyer-Seller Relationship

Project Risk Coach

Project Procurement Management For most of my career, I have served in financial service organizations. As a project and program manager and PMO director, I’ve had the responsibility of procuring the necessary products and services from sellers. In other words, I was a buyer. I recently left the corporate world to develop my LLC where I provide consulting services and teach courses to help project managers prepare for their PMP and PMI-RMP exams.

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The Lazy Project Manager - Untitled Article

The Lazy Project Manager

The following executive sponsorship development methodology has been designed and proven by Peter Taylor – find out more peter.b.taylor@btinternet.com. Critical to any project’s success is having a good project manager. We all know that, but then it is also pretty important to have a good project sponsor: but like the saying goes ‘you can pick your friends but you can’t pick you relatives’.

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My project sponsor does not understand project management!

Ron Rosenhead

This was the sentiment expressed by one person on a recent project management course. This person was not alone; many of the group agreed. We discussed whether the sponsor should understand project management and it was agreed that while they did not need to know every technique they should have ‘a very good overview.’. It raises an interesting issue – just how much does a project sponsor need to know and how do we ensure they have that knowledge?

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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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When Elizabeth Met Colin [Video]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This article, When Elizabeth Met Colin [Video] , first appeared on Girl's Guide to PM. In this interview I talk to Colin D. Ellis, author of The Project Rots from the Head (which you can get here ) about the changing face of project management leadership. The video is about 4 minutes long, safe for work, but if you’d rather read the transcript is below.

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Bug Tracking – better than Jira

Binfire

Jira is a popular bug tracking application developed by Atlassian and used by thousands of developers. It is used mostly by software developers and IT professionals for reporting and tracking of bugs in their projects. Because it was developed by software developers for software developers, most other professionals find Jira is difficult to use. This article is not a review of Jira, but to point to the advantage of having bug tracking as part of a complete project management application.

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Project Management for Humans

Brett Harned

I'm very pleased to announce that my book Project Management for Humans is now available for purchase. Its official release was on July 20, and it is available on Amazon and through Rosenfeld Media. You have no idea how great it felt to write that. As I am sure you've heard, writing a book is no easy feat. But it was one that I wanted to take on, and I was lucky enough to find a publisher who would support me in that endeavor.

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How Can You Value Your Freelancing Work?

TimeCamp

If you are planning to make a living by performing freelancing services, you may find it difficult to set the right price for your work, especially at the beginning of your career. It may be quite a difficult task, but there are some important rules that you should follow, and it will surely get you on the right tracks. Let’s take a look at them.

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PMP Study Notes PDF (PMBOK 6th Edition)

ExamsPM

In 2018, the PMBOK will switch from the 5 th edition to the new 6 th edition. We’ve put together the ultimate PMP Study Notes PDF to help you with the transition. The major change is that the PMBOK will include agile in all the knowledge areas. Additionally, a few processes have been added and a few processes will get their names changed. We have compiled together a series of study notes that will help you prepare for your upcoming PMP certifications.

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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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Using DropBox in Project management

Binfire

Dropbox is a wonderful file storage tool, you can save your documents and files in the cloud and access them from any location and from any device, be it your computer, phone or tablet. It also lets you share huge files that email programs like Gmail would not allow. Huge Movies and CAD files could be shared with family, colleagues and friends. Even though Binfire has its own cloud storage space, we felt strongly that we need to integrate it with our project management software for the benefi

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Developing Leadership Skills

Herding Cats

There is always some post about leadership, innovation, and personnel development around agile project management, Having deployed one of the early agile development programs (eXtreme Programming) in a mission critical IT organization, I was part of an approach that is known to work for building leadership and teams. The process focuses on the team and accomplishing the mission of the team.

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What is Project Management?

TimeCamp

Every project needs to be managed. Efficiency, perseverance and group work are only a few of the project management’s features. But what is project management and what does it comprise of? Let’s take a look. To provide the description of project management, it is important to begin with the definitions of words: “project” and “management”. So what’s a project?

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4 Basic Project Estimation Techniques

GanttPRO Project Management

It’s hard to estimate a project as you never find exactly the same ones to take examples and guess how much effort, time and budget it can take. What works […].

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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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A Message board better than Slack

Binfire

Slack is a very popular communication application using the familiar message board format. It lets colleagues and friends to communicate and brainstorm online. Slack is used by thousands of teams all over the world. Although it is a great application, is it good enough in an online project management environment ? Message board better than Slack. In every Binfire project you will find a message board similar to what Slack offers.

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Deconstructing The Cone of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

The paper on the Cone of Uncertainty is used by many in the No Estimates community as an example of why estimates are of little use. Let's deconstruct the essence of the paper. In this paper, there is data that does not follow the Cone of Uncertainty, in that the uncertainty of the estimates does not reduce as the project proceeds. Then there is some analysis.

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How To Become a Good Team Leader

ActiveCollab

To become a good team leader all you have to do is constantly communicate with your team, set clear tasks, give proper feedback and delegate. Also, you should listen to their needs and provide coach-like guidance when required. Simple, right? Well, not really…. The above-mentioned tips are just quick fixes that can improve the functioning of your team in the short run, but they have no effect on you becoming a better team leader.

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The TimeCamp’s Guide To Reports!

TimeCamp

Here’s our guide to reports! Last Friday we were discussing one of TimeCamp’s most important features, Timesheets. We’ve covered their origins, purpose, importance, and we even explained how to use TimeCamp’s Timesheets to their fullest, saving both money and time. The link to that article will be included in the Related Posts section, so make sure to check it out!

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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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5 Most Common Mistakes in Managing Multiple Projects: Software & Technology (Part 4 of 5)

Wrike

. Leading a company that offers project management software, I’ve had the opportunity to hear many project war stories from customers, investors, and mentors. I thought this would be a great opportunity to share them with you in the hopes that they help you improve your own management skills. This is part 4 (of 5) in a series called the 5 Most Common Mistakes in Managing Multiple Projects.

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Why Having a Dataset "may" be Necessary but is Far from Sufficient to Support a Position

Herding Cats

In the agile world, people have datasets from their projects, their friends projects, or made up projects. They use these datasets to support some position. Ranging from Story Points don't work, the Cone of Uncertainty is a hoax, all projects fail, or what ever their favorite cause celeb is for the month. A Story About Data, Models of Data, and Decision Making.

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4 Basic Project Estimation Techniques

GanttPRO Project Management

It’s hard to estimate a project as you never find exactly the same ones to take examples and guess how much effort, time and budget it can take.

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Automatically Create Timesheets from Scheduled Assignments

Avaza

Keeping the entire team focused on the right tasks can be a mammoth task. Our new Resource Scheduling feature (read about it here: Part 1 & Part 2 , here) has been launched to help you plan and deliver projects confidently. Scheduled assignments created for your scheduling users are now available on the Timesheets Day View, allowing your users to quickly create timesheets.

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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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Theory of Constraints

ActiveCollab

The Theory of Constraints is a methodology which helps you identify the crucial limiting factor (usually referred to as a constraint or a bottleneck), that stands in the way of achieving a goal. The main goal of theory of constraints is to improve that constraint to the point when it’s no longer the limiting factor. The origin of Theory of Constraints.

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An Incremental Paradigm

Herding Cats

We were speaking a Homeland Security yesterday on Agile development in the Federal Government and there was a senior director who brought up a paradigm that resonated with me. The infrastructure for enterprise IT has a critical impact on the operational aspects of projects. The notion of continuous delivery in an enterprise like Homeland Security is an interesting discussion.

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See when there is no light

Musings on Project Management

One idea -- among many -- on the qualities of leadership: "A leader hears when there is no sound and sees when there is no light." James Colvard Perhaps so. But that certainly leaves the rest of us 'in the dark', to say nothing of the 'sound of silence'. A leader with such extrasensory sight and sound better also be a good visionary translator and enunciator, because that leader will have.

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Stop the Burn Out

Stepping Into Project Management

How are you feeling lately? Energetic and jump out of bed, inspired to go to work? Or tired juggling too many things and exhausted. Yet, instead of stopping we just continue pushing, till we come to a dead halt. Till you can’t get out of bed anymore Till you feel so uninspired, you don’t know what to do Till you don’t find meaning in your work Till you are careless Till there’s no ambition Till you can’t push through the day anymore Stop, take a break and introspect.

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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.