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9 Great Reasons to Choose a Project Management Career

Project Bliss

A. You may be wondering if a project management career is a right choice for you. You’ve likely heard a good bit about it – it’s getting more attention in recent years. But maybe you’re not quite sure if it would be a good fit. Or you may not yet know much about project management at this point. If so, don’t feel left out. I’ve been a project manager for 15 years but at first, I didn’t even know I wanted to be one.

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RACI Made Simple. How To Create A Responsibility Assignment Matrix That Actually Works

The Digital Project Manager

You hear the term RACI, and inwardly groan. Far from the slightly exciting sounding acronym, The post RACI Made Simple. How To Create A Responsibility Assignment Matrix That Actually Works appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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5 Common Roadblocks on Projects (And What To Do About Them)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Getting a project over the line and delivering what you set out to do – it’s a journey! Even experienced project managers will tell you that there are a number of project roadblocks that can stop them from doing their best work and completing initiatives on time and on budget. Below I’ve called out 5 common project roadblocks. I’ve also added some tips on how to address them, so if you notice that the situations sound familiar, you can take action now to ensure that you are dealing with the chal

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How to Identify Scope Risks

Project Risk Coach

8 ways to identify scope risks Some project managers struggle to identify scope risks. Why? Image courtesy of Adobe Stock. First, individuals may lack a concrete understanding of scope; scope seems to be a nebulous concept. WHAT exactly is scope? Second, individuals may not know HOW to identify scope risks. Either way, the failure to identify (and manage) scope risks can be costly.

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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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Do you use a project management checklist?

Ron Rosenhead

In October 1931, the U.S. Army Air Corps held a flight competition for airplane manufacturers vying to build the army’s next-generation long-range bomber. The overwhelming favourite was the Boeing Model 299, which was dubbed “the flying fortress.”. But disaster struck; the plane crashed, killing two members of the flight crew, including the pilot, Major P.

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So, You Inherited a Failing Project…Here’s What to Do Next

LiquidPlanner

Dear Elizabeth: I’ve inherited a sinking ship of a project. I didn’t know things were so bad when I took it on, and now it looks like I have a turnaround situation on my hands. No one seems to know what we need to do, the schedule is totally unrealistic, the client is unhappy, and team morale has plummeted, even since I got involved. It feels like we’re in freefall!

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Scrum With Kanban WIP Limits

Digite

This article is the second in a series of “Kanban and Scrum – Stronger Together”. Inspired by Steve Porter’s efforts to bring process practitioners closer together and educate Scrum practitioners, I’m writing a shadow series of posts that will follow the Kanban and Scrum – Stronger Together series and continue my own efforts to clear up misconceptions between practitioners of these methods.

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The Complete Project Manager’s Guide to Project Deliverables

Workamajig

A project deliverable is any output created as the result of work done during a project. Defining, tracking, and managing project deliverables is one of the most important responsibilities of a project manager. This guide will help you understand project deliverables in more detail. What is a Project Deliverable? You might use the term “deliverable” casually at work every day.

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Uncertainty is non-negotiable

Musings on Project Management

"Uncertainty is an essential and nonnegotiable part of a forecast. sometimes an honest and accurate expression of the uncertainty is what has the potential to save [big things]. However, there is another reason to quantify the uncertainty carefully and explicitly. It is essential to scientific progress, especially under Bayes’s theorem." "The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many.

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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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The Only Tool Every Project Manager Needs

Redbooth

Managing multiple projects can quickly descend into chaos. Suddenly, you’re responsible for several due dates, task owners, and clients. You have to code-switch all the time as you move from team meetings to 1:1s to presentations to retrospectives. Deadlines change along the way, adding further complications. You alone are responsible for all of it happening perfectly and on time.

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Ten Ways to Win Team Commitment on Your Project

Online PM Courses

If you want to supercharge your project team, your first step is to win their commitment. But although team commitment is easy to define and spot, it is hard to create. Yet the best project leaders seem to do it with ease. So what are their secrets? In this article, we reveal all. I’ll list the top ten ways to win team commitment, and secure a supercharged project team, that will: Work hard.

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So, You Inherited a Failing Project…Here’s What to Do Next

LiquidPlanner

Dear Elizabeth: I’ve inherited a sinking ship of a project. I didn’t know things were so bad when I took it on, and now it looks like I have a turnaround situation on my hands. No one seems to know what we need to do, the schedule is totally unrealistic, the client is unhappy, and team morale has plummeted, even since I got involved. It feels like we’re in freefall!

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A Manager’s Guide to Planning Project Right

Proofhub

“If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail”?—?Benjamin Franklin Planning is something you need to do from the first day itself. Everyone in a business knows that it is important for project managers to have a solid plan to make the right project decisions. Plan the story of your project on an online planning tool. Switch to ProofHub. It’s important for everyone to know a lot about the project before they actually start working on it, to collectively make any important project decisions ahead

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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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5 steps to regaining control over your project

Hydra

5 steps to regaining control over your project. Optimising your client-facing, billable projects is key to your Business’ success. But what happens if your project is not progressing to plan and starting to go off-course, how do you go about regaining control over your project?

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What is Project Portfolio Management?

TrustRadius Project Management

Project portfolio management is the organization and management of all projects within an organization from a high-level perspective. Project portfolio management (PPM) can sometimes be confused with project management. However, they are very different. To point out the differences, we’ll briefly go over what project management is first. Then, we will continue with an in-depth explanation of project portfolio management.

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Starting a New Hotel Venture? Here are 5 Project Management Tips for Ensuring Success

Celoxis

The hotel business is quite different from other types of service businesses, as it is a more complex business model, which encompasses more than providing accommodation. A starred-hotel usually also offers food and beverage services —in the form of restaurants, cafes, catering, and room service— and other related services, like meeting facility, spa, salon, and fitness club.

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Scheduling Team Members According to Agile Practices

Eylean

Team member management and scheduling is one of the key components in project manager’s responsibilities. It is according to these efforts that your project faith relies in most cases. And finding the right balance between tight deadlines, most effective distribution and humanity can sometimes become quite a challenge. However, there are managers and practices out … The post Scheduling Team Members According to Agile Practices appeared first on Eylean Blog.

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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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Characteristics of a Sustainable Project Manager (1 of 9) “Benefits Focused”

Green Project Management

There are a countless number of blog posts, books, articles, and papers on project competence or the application of knowledge, skills, and abilities in order to achieve the desired results (See the IPMA ICB 4.0) and even more materials on the knowledge of technical practices that a project manager should possess. There isn’t much discussion […].

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What is Project Portfolio Management?

TrustRadius Project Management

Project portfolio management is the organization and management of all projects within an organization from a high-level perspective. Project portfolio management (PPM) can sometimes be confused with project management. However, they are very different. To point out the differences, we’ll briefly go over what project management is first. Then, we will continue with an in-depth explanation of project portfolio management.

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Radio Show Transcript - My Experience with Transformation Costa Rica - Recorded April 6, 2018

PM That Works

My Experience with Transformation Costa Rica - Recorded April 6, 2018 To get to the web page of the radio show, click here. To download the mp3 file, click here. To subscribe to the podcast on iTunes, click here. Please remember this is a transcript of a radio show that airs live every Friday and is also podcasted. Spelling and punctuation may be affected. 00:00:27;02 - 00:06:59;19 Rick A.

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5 Tips to improve Resource Management -  Tip #2 Effort vs Duration

The Squad Report

In our last post on Resource Management we showed you the Rule of 60s and how it is beneficial when planning resource allocation. That tool is primarily used for Planning and Managing your Portfolio rather than building project specific schedules. In our post today, I'll review the differences between using Effort vs Duration when building your Project Schedule.

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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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Quote of the Day - Uncertainty, Risk Management, Adult Behaviour

Herding Cats

"Uncertainty is an essential and non-negotiable part of a forecast. sometimes an honest and accurate expression of the uncertainty is what has the potential to save [big things]. However, there is another reason to quantify the uncertainty carefully and explicitly. It is essential to scientific progress, especially under Bayes’s theorem." - The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't, Nate Silver, from Musing on Project Management, John Goodpasture, author of Project

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10 TOP Time Recording Software for Architects

TimeCamp

Time Recording Software for Architects What would our world look like without architects? Thanks to.

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Modeling the Behavior - Part 2

PM That Works

I did a post earlier this week about modeling the behavior that you would want to see. It is a great way to bring positive change to corporate cultures and a cornerstone of our practice. I was at an event earlier today and making small talk and heard something that made me want to journal right away. I was talking with a gentleman who was telling me that he manages a group of engineers and that when one of them would get too into the weeds in explanation, he would ring a bell on his desk to sign

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Embracing Digital Transformation for Manufacturing Companies

Leankor

Embracing Digital Transformation for Manufacturing Companies. There are many challenges facing today’s manufacturing companies. When it comes to successfully delivering on time and on budget to their customers, this is especially evident. Ensuring efficiency, quality, output, and customer satisfaction across multiple locations, business units, and time zones can enlarge the margin of error in an industry where the margins are already razor-thin, because the balance owing is not paid until

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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.