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Why Projects Will Be The Drivers Of Change (& Always Have Been)

The Digital Project Manager

The post Why Projects Will Be The Drivers Of Change (& Always Have Been) appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Five Steps to Rapid Recovery of Failing Projects

Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

Project failure can occur for an infinite number of reasons. Sometimes it’s out of your control. Maybe a blizzard caused your group to miss a series of deadlines or fail to deliver necessary components for your project. Maybe you lost a key member of your project team or were given unrealistic deadlines. But sometimes it’s in your control.

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Horror movie lessons for managing project issues

Kiron Bondale

My formative years were the 1980’s which were the heyday for slasher film series such as Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street. With Halloween rapidly approaching I felt it might be timely to draw three parallels between the villains of horror movies and dealing with project problems. Never say “ It won’t happen to me !” A common method of identifying which characters in a horror film are likely to be eliminated early is to look for the most arrogant or overly opt

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How Machine Learning will Change the World of Project Management

EasyProjects

The Robots Are Taking Over. “81% of project professionals report their organizations are being impacted by AI technologies.”. When I was a kid, science fiction was one of my favourite book genres. It has since been replaced by fantasy (because magic is probably the next evolutionary stage for us – thought I’d get a head-start). All mirth aside, I loved the idea of a future where humans were able to be more and do more; a future where we are not tied down by work and the mundane aspects of

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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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How to Develop a Quality Management Plan

Project Risk Coach

Entering projects with little consideration to quality can be costly in numerous ways. Let's look at the cost of having no quality management plan. Then, we will explore how to develop a practical quality management plan. The Cost of Poor Quality First, we may not meet customer's needs and expectations. Second, the cost of corrective action and defect repair may be higher than expected.

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Need help with Monte Carlo analysis?

Musings on Project Management

For many years, I've preached the benefits of the Monte Carlo simulation (MCS). For many reasons, it's superior to other analysis paradigms. In network analysis, for instance, it handles the parallel join or 'gate' as no other method will. In fact, it's this very capability that renders the Monte Carlo superior to other risk adjusted ideas, like the PERT method in scheduling.

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The Stakeholder Management Workshop is now open!

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Project management is a people business. Projects get done through people. We need people on our teams to do what they say they are going to do, and we need to help them do that. That’s why stakeholder engagement is such an important skill. So what does it look like when stakeholders aren’t engaged? If you aren’t seeing the success you were hoping for in building relationships with your project stakeholders, then this will sound familiar: You can’t get time with your stakeholders You’re stressed

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The 10 Best Project Management Software For Mac in 2019

The Digital Project Manager

You're asking, "Are there any better alternatives for Microsoft Project out there?" Yes! We've reviewed the best Microsoft Project alternatives that are more powerful, easier to use and cheaper. Choose from this list of the best MS Project alternatives for creating Gantt charts, project plans, and other PM essentials. The post The 10 Best Project Management Software For Mac in 2019 appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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The Iceberg Phenomenon in Project Management: How to Make "Invisible" Efforts Visible

Inloox

Each project has a workload of clearly visible time expenditure that flows into previously defined activities and work packages. In most cases, however, there is an additional proportion of "invisible" time expenditure, where even project managers cannot say exactly which tasks this time has been allocated to. This "iceberg phenomenon" represents a major problem in many projects, precisely because many managers neither calculate these hidden time expenditures nor know how muc

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Strategic Finance Essentials: A Project Manager’s Guide to Financial Impact

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 expendi

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Agile down the ages

Musings on Project Management

In the beginning, there was pre-history Agile, almost prehistoric era: Before 2000 and the meeting in Utah that birthed modern Agile Rogue developers trying various "light weight" and "rapid" prototyping and coding practises. In the SEI world, a ghastly level 1 operation of different strokes for different folks Everyone else slaving to command and control -- SEI maturity model uber alles!

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How to Ask for Part-Time Hours

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I have negotiated going part-time twice in my career: once successfully and once not successfully. In this article I’ll share some tips on how I asked for part-time hours and how you can do the same. My switch from full-time to part-time hours (eventually). You might already know that before I started working for myself, I worked for my employer four days a week.

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Webinar: Risk Management Tips & Tools To Manage Risk Like A Pro

The Digital Project Manager

Join Ben Aston, Founder of the DPM, as he condenses what he has learned over. The post Webinar: Risk Management Tips & Tools To Manage Risk Like A Pro appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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The Iceberg Phenomenon in Projects: How to Make "Invisible" Efforts Visible

Inloox

Each project has a workload of clearly visible time expenditure that flows into previously defined activities and work packages. In most cases, however, there is an additional proportion of "invisible" time expenditure, where even project managers cannot say exactly which tasks this time has been allocated to. This "iceberg phenomenon" represents a major problem in many projects, precisely because many managers neither calculate these hidden time expenditures nor know how muc

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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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Top Tips for Keeping Your Workspace Tidy Going Into the New Year

LiquidPlanner

This article isn’t going to be a recommendation that you take on the same sort of endeavor as our S imple Tips for Refreshing Your Workspace blog. As we start hunkering down and getting ready for the winter, my recommendation is to take a more low-key approach to workplace hygiene. The following tips aren’t meant to be used for a full scrub of your workspace but are tools that you can use weekly throughout the next few months to keep things in order and hopefully make that big spring clean

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Management 3.0 Practices in Action

Scrum.org

Management 3.0 is not another framework; it’s a mindset, combined with an ever-changing collection of games, tools, and practices to help any worker manage the organization. It’s a way of looking at work systems. This post delves into how Management 3.0 practices could be used as an effective tool to bring change. Moving Motivators. As an enterprise coach, I used Moving Motivators to help my enterprise head understand the intrinsic motivational factors of his leadership team, which is compri

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12 Project Risk Management Strategies You Can Only Learn From Experience

The Digital Project Manager

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Useful Tips for Everyday Life: How to Improve the Efficiency of Your Employees

Inloox

Productivity tips are too rarely targeted at managers. But it is precisely at the top of the company that the leverage effect is greatest. Top-down you have the most opportunities to anchor a culture of productivity and efficiency in your company. On the one hand by setting a good example, on the other hand by giving employees the freedom to really work productively.

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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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Lessons Learned from Pilots … for Safe and Successful Projects

MPUG

Wheels up! Even though I’ve logged many more hours in Microsoft’s flight simulator than on anything that flies, I have come to appreciate a pilot’s habits and routines in my own day-to-day project work. Flights in the air and projects on the ground both follow a similar regimen when examined side-by-side. From aviation protocols and procedures, I’ve drafted up five “lessons learned” that I think can be applied to any project management workflow, or at least will be useful when planni

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Ask a Consultant: QAs in Scrum

Scrum.org

I thought this question from a recent Professional Scrum Master delegate highlighted some common issues facing Scrum teams. I've reproduced the question with their permission, and answered below. Hi Duncan, I took your Scrum Training class a couple of months back. You mentioned if we had any questions, we could email you and I have an interesting situation I found myself in regarding QA's in our Scrum teams.

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Work Hack: Leveraging Project Management Software to Improve Team Productivity

Proofhub

Are you a futurist? Ask yourself this before you read this article. The world is getting smarter. A lot of jobs or roles which were relevant a decade back might look redundant or too unnecessarily manual. Automation is becoming all-pervasive. Everywhere around the world, human intellect is given higher priorities, and machines are replacing repetitive and dull jobs.

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Dealing with Risks and Dependencies in Agile Transformation w/ Tom Furland

Leading Agile

When it comes to Agile Transformation, every organization struggles with managing risks and dealing with dependencies. Identifying the most critical dependencies and finding a way to break them can be challenging. But, depending on your organization’s goals for transformation, there may also be dependencies that just aren’t worth decoupling. In this episode of SoundNotes LeadingAgile Senior Consultant, Tom Furland, talks with Dave about how to handle Risks and Dependencies during Agile Transform

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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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Can you say ‘yes’? (10 questions about your Scrum)

Gunther Verheyen

I call myself a Scrum Caretaker. I aspire inspiring people using Scrum. I prefer showing that I care by sharing positive experiences and cases that demonstrate how amazing working with Scrum can be, what problems can be tackled and how to, the level of excellence we can build into our products, how Scrum can engage people. Ultimately I hope to help people employ Scrum to re-humanize their workplace.

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How to Align Your Product Strategy using the Product Strategy Canvas (pt 1)

Scrum.org

Hello awesome people. Back with me again with new learning from the trenches. Over the years working with Product Owners mainly who works in large corporations, I see common challenges. The Product Owners jump straight to solution/implementation without knowing the overarching business strategy from the Senior management. And when these Product Owners enter the Sprint Planning, they are struggling to come up with the Sprint Goal.

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Agile vs Waterfall: Which one is Right for Your Project?

Online PM Courses

Agile vs Waterfall. It's one of those classic line-ups, and we can't resist pitting two seemingly opposite contenders against one another. The post Agile vs Waterfall: Which one is Right for Your Project? appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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7 tips to build client trust and communication (how ProofHub ensures that)

Proofhub

7 Tips to Build Client Trust and Communication (How ProofHub Ensures That) In the business world, making new clients is essential for the growth of a business. But, this is not the only factor that decides the fate of your business. Rather, sustaining your present clients by building strong trust and communication is all the more important. If you can maintain a strong and transparent bond with your present clients, it will ensure repeat business.

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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.