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12 Reasons Why CRM Project Management Solutions Matter

nTask

Project planning can be a daunting task – but not if you use the right tools! In this blog, we're sharing our top picks for the best free online project planning tools, so that you can take on your project with confidence. Whether you're a beginner looking to get started with project management software, or […].

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Communication Plan in Project Management

ActiveCollab

Project managers have a lot on their plate, from keeping their team focused and creating achievable schedules, to dealing with deadlines [[link] needy stakeholders. This is one of the most challenging roles in an organization because it involves so many responsibilities. But do you know what makes a great project manager [[link] We'll tell you a little secret.

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Leading from the bottom of the funnel

Musings on Project Management

This is about funnels, but we start with the concept of an apex.In every book written about project management, the PMO is at the apex of a pyramid. Sometimes, as in Agile project methodology, the pyramid is flatter than most, but always there is an identifiable top figure. Fair enough. But Robert Gates, former Defense Secretary [and holder of many other government titles] writes that he often.

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How To Be A Leader During The Project Kickoff: Expert Tips & Process

The Digital Project Manager

If you don’t get started on the right foot, your project team and project success are already at risk. That could be this entire article, summed up in that one sentence. Kickoff meetings are essential. Kickoff meetings need to be done well. If not, you erode trust instantly and at the most vulnerable moment in […]. The post How To Be A Leader During The Project Kickoff: Expert Tips & Process appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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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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The project manager’s guide to dealing with burnout

Planio

It’s no longer a question of if you’ll suffer from burnout - but when. Nearly 75% of workers say they’ve experienced burnout during their career (with 40% of those saying they’ve experienced burnout specifically during the pandemic). But burnout in project management is, in many ways, a paradox. On the one hand, the speed, demand, and complexity of project work is the perfect breeding ground for burnout.

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HR Project Management: A Compact Guide

Tactical Project Management

For human resource (HR) departments, project management involves overseeing the screening and hiring process. This also includes the implementation and compliance of company policies, labor laws, and employment-related matters. The post HR Project Management: A Compact Guide appeared first on Tactical Project Management.

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How to Nail Your Preliminary Interviews and Get the Job

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Years ago I had a brief stint as someone who recruited for our call center, while I was on a graduate training scheme. If I remember rightly, we did phone interviews before bringing people in, because it was a quick way of screening out job candidates that would not be a good fit for the next step in the process and ultimately the role itself. The preliminary interview step is basically that: a quick screening.

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Strategizing for Project Threats and Opportunities in Risk Management

Management Yogi

Over a decade ago, I was put in charge of a group of projects. One of the. projects had been running for almost a year, but had never seen a single live release to the customer! I realized there were too many unresolved risks, and asked the concerned project manager to put risk management, a new concept in the organization, as a top priority.

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Agony Angels: Hitting Deadlines – with Andy Kaufman

Online PM Courses

'How can I make sure I don't miss my deadlines?' That's the question Andy Kaufman and I tackle, as we don the wings of two Agony Angels. The post Agony Angels: Hitting Deadlines – with Andy Kaufman appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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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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Resource Forecasting in Project Management: A Quick Guide

ProjectManager.com

Before you engage with a new project, there are certain things you have to know. Is the cost worth the return? Can you get it done properly by the deadline? Do you have the resources? Resource forecasting is how you can answer that last question. Resources are anything you need to execute the project plan. From your team to the tools they need, materials, equipment, software, office space and so on.

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Backfilling a Position: Everything You Need to Know

Rebel’s Guide to PM

When an employee steps out of their role for some reason, but their job still needs to be done, sometimes companies will backfill the position. This means that they will hire someone for a temporary period of time until the original employee is able to return to their role. This happens regularly on project teams where a subject matter expert is seconded to a project role on a full or part-time basis.

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Building pedestals worsens the effect of sunk cost fallacy

Kiron Bondale

I am midway through Annie Duke’s latest book Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away. If you are not already familiar with Annie’s background, she was a very successful professional poker player who applied the lessons she learned from playing poker to writing and consulting on improving how we make decisions. Her latest book tackles the challenges we face with knowing when it is the right time to quit.

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What Is A Workflow? Ultimate Guide, Examples, & Best Tools

The Digital Project Manager

If you look around any business, you’ll see a series of workflows working together in unison to deliver business results. The process your barista goes through to make your coffee in the morning? That’s a workflow. The email notification you receive from Netflix after they auto-charge your credit card? That’s a workflow too. The value […].

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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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Operational Strategy: A Quick Guide

ProjectManager.com

Companies have goals and the goods or services they produce must align with those goals. Everything has to work together, including resources and processes, to help achieve those goals as efficiently as possible to stay in business. Having an operational strategy helps companies meet those larger goals when planning their projects. But what is an operational strategy?

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What PRINCE2® certification should you get?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Are you looking at what PRINCE2 ® (PRojects IN a Controlled Environment) certificate you should get? There are a few options to consider, and it’s worth making the right choice, so you don’t waste time and money studying for something that isn’t going to help your career. I’ve taken the PRINCE2 Foundation and Practitioner exams in the past so let me share my experiences and research.

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Product Management Series: Different Types of Product Owners

Scrum.org

In Scrum, we have a product owner. It is an accountability, it’s no longer a role according to the 2020 Scrum guide. . There are different categories of Product Owner: scribe. proxy . business representative . sponsor. CEO of the product. . . The Scribe Product Owner. A scribe is like a really poor waiter in a restaurant. They take your order even though they know that you should not order what you are ordering.It’s probably the worst thing on the menu, and the chef does a terrible job of that

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AIOps for Small Businesses

TrustRadius Project Management

Did you know that 20% of businesses fail within their first year of operation, and 50% of businesses fail within the first five years? The reality is that people won’t continue to use a product or service that’s constantly struggling with downtimes or outages. With so many factors determining whether your business sinks or swims, it’s important to take action early!

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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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Back to Basics: What is the Difference between Process Groups and Phases?

MPUG

I got introduced to formal project management processes through Rational Unified Process (RUP) in the year 2000. RUP was developed by Rational Corporation which was later acquired by IBM. It is an iterative software development approach which divides the project lifecycle into four phases: Inception, Elaboration, Construction, and Transition. I had to learn about RUP because our company had adopted it to implement and manage projects.

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Infinity Review

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I’m often asked what tool I use or recommend for keeping tasks in order and managing projects, so I recorded a behind-the-scenes look at how I use Infinity. It’s the tool that runs my blog, membership community and personal tasks. Quick Infinity demo. See behind the scenes of how we use Infinity for project management and other work organization. Watch the video below.

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The importance of Done for your Developers ?? (76)

Scrum.org

We started this Scrum foundation series explaining we see four underlying concepts of the Scrum framework. In the past series of mails we covered the three pillars of Empiricism, the Scrum Values, and a Self-Managing and Cross-Functional Team. The concept Done is the fourth of these concepts. It needs a self-managing, and especially a cross-functional team, a team living the Scrum Values, to make it work in a way that it brings the needed transparency with regards to the quality of your soluti

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10 Best Digital Planner Apps in 2023

nTask

Are you looking for a digital planner app that will help you stay organized and on top of your to-do list? If so, you'll want to take a look at some of the best options out there. We will discuss some of the features that are important when choosing a digital planner app, and offer […].

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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 Extreme Programming Life Cycle and Strategic PM

The Strategic Project Manager

This post examines the agile method called Extreme Programming (XP). XP is uniquely designed to streamline the software development process – but it can be leveraged and used in other pursuits! This post looks at the XP life cycle, core values, team roles, and core practices, then turns to application for strategy and project management. Is the Extreme Programming Life Cycle Unique?

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Best of PMTimes: Top Project Risk Management Strategies And Practices

PM Times

Published on September 24, 2019 Every project is attached with a risk of failure. Hence, it should be your top responsibility to identify and plan ahead in order to avoid these points of failure. A risk can be a threat with a negative impact on the project principles or it can either be an […]. The post Best of PMTimes: Top Project Risk Management Strategies And Practices appeared first on Project Management Articles, Webinars, Templates and Jobs.

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What is an Agile Project Manager

Scrum.org

. If you Google "Agile Project Manager" you'll find a lot of stuff out there, much of which is inconsistent. There are job descriptions asking for one, there are classes to learn how to be one, but the definition is still not clear nor is it consistent with agile development ideas or the Scrum Framework. Watch this video with Professional Scrum Trainers Jason Malmstadt, Greg Crown, and Robert Pieper to find out more what is meant by the term "Agile Project Manager". .

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15 Best Free Online Project Planning Tools in 2023

nTask

In this blog, we're sharing our top picks for the best free online project planning tools, so that you can take on your project with confidence. Whether you're a beginner looking to get started with project management software, or an experienced professional who wants to improve your workflow, these tools will help you get ahead […].

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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.