Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

This article, Is the Classic Triple Constraint in Project Management Still Relevant? , first appeared on Girl's Guide to PM. This is a guest post by Michelle Symonds. Michelle Symonds. Projects always have certain constraints – there may be an urgency to complete a project because of external market factors, for example; or there may have to be tightly controlled costs because of a fixed or limited budget.

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Project Risk Coach

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Discover 10 ways to get more done in your meetings How often do you hear someone say, “We’re having too many meetings, lasting too long, and they are woefully mismanaged.” And yet, meetings can be the indispensable tool for getting work done. Let’s look at 10 ways to revitalize your project meetings and get more done. 10 Meeting Boosters. 1. Meet somewhere new.

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The Lazy Project Manager

SEPTEMBER 22, 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: We have already identified in an earlier article that knowing the true value of your investment in change, and the consequential

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Project Bliss

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

When you’re interviewing for that perfect project manager position, you need to be ready. You’re competing against multiple candidates, and you want to stand out as the best choice. Even if you’ve written the perfect resume and landed the perfect job interview, your preparation doesn’t stop there. You still need to ace the interview.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

This article, Inspiring Women in Project Management: Sofia Hess , first appeared on Girl's Guide to PM. Sofia Hess, Head of Marketing at Cerri. Today I’m interviewing Sofia Hess, Head of Marketing at Cerri. Who, you may ask, are Cerri, and what does a Head of Marketing have to do with project management? Well, Sofia works at the company behind Genius Project software who kindly sponsor my blog (although, in the interests of full transparency – I wasn’t paid for this interview).

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Musings on Project Management

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

I've often said the game of American football is a game of precision informed by inaccuracy. From sometimes 25 yards away, in the split of a second, among the tangle of potentially 20+ actors all scrambling, a referee makes a judgment (hypothesis) about where the tip of an oblong ball happened to be when the action stopped.

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Project-Management.pm

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Change is normal and sometimes constant in every organization. It’s a process to enhance the organization’s performance, as well as paving the road to numerous opportunities such as changes in job roles, structure, and work system. With these changes come a set of process or approaches to take into account to ensure that changes benefit the organization.

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Kiron Bondale

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Anyone who has read the PMBOK Guide or taken the PMP exam knows that project management is made up of an interconnected and iterative set of processes. Even a highly predictable project requires a team to iterate back to earlier executed processes when faced with a change request. So why is it that we tend to forget to re-execute certain key project management processes?

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Inloox

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

For working efficiently with InLoox 9 for Outlook, we have collected several useful tips. Our first InLoox Best Practice explains how to track the project progress and save the current state of your project planning with the snapshot feature. By using this InLoox feature you can always keep an eye on the progress of your projects. From time to time, you may make significant changes to the project plan.

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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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Musings on Project Management

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

"Doubt is unpleasant, but certainty is absurd" Voltaire Interested in quantitative risk management, understanding risk metrics, and risk management? This one may be for you: Matthew Squair is working on a new book, entitled "I wouldn't do that". He's made a draft of Chapter 1 available, at least for a short time. Why another book on risk management?

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Ganttic

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Although the best way to plan resources is with Gantt charts and a software that’s flexible enough for all the data you have, on an individual level, Google Calendar is the royalty of making plans. You can be as detailed as you want. You can schedule tasks like “Take a power nap” without it making to the project status report. In addition to the bigger tasks, you can draw up a daily to-do list.

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The Squad Report

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

We've all seen it. ​Hey John, can you please take on this project? Problem is, John isn't a Project Manager. We know how this is going to finish! Over and over again organizations ask employees to take on Project Manager responsibilities for critical projects. Usually the reasoning being the employee is a subject matter expert or has seniority in the department.

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

While it may be common for large companies to keep full-time project managers on staff, not every company has the benefit of an experienced PM onsite. There may not be enough staff to dedicate exclusively to managing projects. Or certain projects may need specific skills not present in your company. Or financial resources may simply be lacking. Sometimes you need to outsource a project manager to bring in the expertise necessary to bring a project to completion.

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TimeCamp

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

TimeCamp for Mac As TimeCamp team’s goal is to always keep you informed, in today’s article we’ll take a look at Mac. As a software for time tracking, we know that the market is full of varied options, applications, and tools. And that’s why we always go with the flow. We make sure that TimeCamp is always updated and provides our users with different features and integrations.

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Deep Fried Brain

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

PMBOK Guide, 6th Edition changes - 5 project management processes added, moved, or removed, 9 processes updated, greater focus on agile/adaptive methodologies, benefits management, and alignment with.

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Agile Coach

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

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Function Point

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

How to Hire a Great Project Manager. Finding and retaining top talent is crucial for the success of any agency, but it’s not always easy. If you’ve ever worked with a spectacular project manager, you’ll know they’re worth their weight in gold. They’re on top of every project and budget they’re assigned, performing as the pied piper of creatives. Sometimes they’ll have your agency’s projects running so smoothly that you almost won’t notice that they’re even there.

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TimeCamp

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

When asked about the “force” that will have the biggest global impact in the next decade, 85% of the interviewees voted for “Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning.” No surprise here, considering the rapid progress of technology in the recent years, we can only expect more. Huge minds, like Elon Musk, Bill Gates or Stephen Hawking are already warning about the potential risks of developing Artificial Intelligence to the point when it exceeds ours.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Thus Peirce conjectured that the world was not only ruled by the strict Newtonian laws, but that it was also at the same time ruled by laws of chance, or of randomness, or of disorder: by laws of statistical probability. This made the world an interlocking system of clouds and clocks, so that even the best clock would, in its molecular structure, show some degree of cloudiness.

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The Digital Project Manager

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Projects can teach many valuable lessons about teams and processes over time. Those insights can then be used to create process change, run more efficient. The post Why And How To Document Lessons Learned (With Bonus Lessons Learned Template) appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Function Point

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

How to Hire a Great Project Manager. Finding and retaining top talent is crucial for the success of any agency, but it’s not always easy. If you’ve ever worked with a spectacular project manager, you’ll know they’re worth their weight in gold. They’re on top of every project and budget they’re assigned, performing as the pied piper of creatives. Sometimes they’ll have your agency’s projects running so smoothly that you almost won’t notice that they’re even there.

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TimeCamp

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Why Do We Need Bonuses? Every company’s goal is to increase the sales and reach out to potential customers. And the best way to do it is to motivate the employees. They are the main reason the business functions and they contribute to the company’s success to a big extent. But in order to achieve the success, the employees need to stay motivated and satisfied.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

If you make serious allegations and don't have serious evidence, no one is going to take you seriously. When #Noestimates advocates make conjectures that decisions can be made in the presence of uncertainty without estimating the impact of that decision, and have no evidence in the form of principles of probabilistic microeconomics of decision-making, they can not be taken seriously.

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Ron Rosenhead

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

I was working with a group of project sponsors and this question came up early in the workshop. Let me set the scene for you. I had discussed the reason why project sponsorship was so important (the stats suggest any company that does not have active project sponsors is losing millions!), I had identified a range of activities a sponsor needed to carry out and people had self- scored themselves against the 15 identified areas and then came the question.

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Brightwork

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

In an increasingly competitive business environment, more organizations are turning to project portfolio management (PPM) to meet strategic goals and objectives. Providing organizations with a system to implement the right projects at the right time, effective PPM improves decision-making, optimizes resource management, and delivers better business value.

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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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