Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 23, 2018

This article, Project Management Training to Help You Achieve Certification This Year , first appeared on Girl's Guide to Project Management. Are you looking to do a project management training course or take a certificate course this year? You aren’t alone. The APM Salary and Market Survey 2017 (pdf) says that 53% of project professionals expect to have to take on new skills and training in the next 5 years.

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Project Bliss

JANUARY 24, 2018

You do everything right. You plan your project well and get stakeholder sign-off. You plan for risk. You follow your checklists and double check to be sure. But you’ve got a difficult team member who constantly causes trouble. You’ve got enough to worry about without this added to the mix. You need to know how to handle this and stay focused on your project, rather than worrying about these more challenging behavior problems.

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Project Risk Coach

JANUARY 22, 2018

Winston Churchill said, “True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation, uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.” In this article, I share 30 risk evaluation tips to help you tap into your genius. Enjoy! One of the top reasons for evaluating risks is to determine which risks are most significant. Always perform the qualitative risk assessment.

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Musings on Project Management

JANUARY 21, 2018

The introverted leader: is this an oxymoron? In my experience: definitely not. And, my experience aligns well with Susan Cain's popular book Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking. And by introverted, we mean: Someone who gets more energy out of quiet time--loner time, even if in an open plan--than they do mixing in a group.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 22, 2018

This article, 10 Things I Love About Managing Projects , first appeared on Girl's Guide to Project Management. 10 Things I Love About Managing Projects. These are the best bits about managing projects! I’ve been doing the job for some time, and it never fails to amaze me that I still love it, after all this time. Let’s dig into the things that I think are so brilliant about this job. #1.

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LiquidPlanner

JANUARY 25, 2018

Just over 325 years ago, Sir Isaac Newton explained to the world why planets orbit the way they do, while rocks stay put unless something moves them. When we look at that today it seems like common sense, but it was anything but “common” in the 1600s. Newton’s first law explained inertia and helped subsequent generations piece together how the universe works.

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Kiron Bondale

JANUARY 21, 2018

If your organization is in the midst of an agile transformation, ideally this change was justified through a business case which articulated expected benefits and the means by which those benefits would be measured. But we rarely live in an ideal world. So how could you assess whether the initiative is delivering value or not? You could look at a metric like average time to deliver scope but this has limitations.

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Digite

JANUARY 21, 2018

In a recent post on a technical forum, a Dev manager had the question (paraphrased here) – My organization wants to operate in a Kanban way but maintain the structure of sprints and burn down charts to keep track of progress. Is it ok to do? Is Scrumban the correct methodology? If so, what is the best way to implement it? This is a fairly common question a lot of Agile teams that are starting to look at Kanban have.

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The Digital Project Manager

JANUARY 25, 2018

Methods of monitoring teams allow all project tasks to be delivered within the agreed criteria and time limit. Sometimes though, you might have everything in. The post Work Happy With Paymo – Manage Your Time, Projects, And Accounting From One Place To Create Harmony At Work appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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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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Paymo App

JANUARY 25, 2018

A time tracker is a simple solution that can help you solve your employee productivity and time organization problems. You might have asked yourself the following questions before: Am I monitoring my time accurately? Can I track my time without too much hassle? Have my team members done any work on this task? Look no further for an answer as time trackers are the first tools that you should consider when it comes to improving work efficiency.

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Online PM Courses

JANUARY 22, 2018

A large part of your job as a Project Manager is communication; arguably the largest part. So, only focusing on technical skills will not serve you. It’s essential that you develop excellent communication skills. Luckily, there are many great books to help you. Increasingly, this is the area my training business is focussed on. My clients are learning the value of giving their project managers – and general managers – great communications skills.

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Binfire

JANUARY 21, 2018

In 2016 we did a very small study and surveyed around 100 project managers to find out more about where they work and other details about their work. We published our findings here. For 2018 we have done a much more comprehensive study of the project manager’s profession. Specifically, we wanted to know what PMs feel about their professions, their salaries and which methods they use at work, and what issues keep them awake at night.

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LiquidPlanner

JANUARY 23, 2018

“Dear Elizabeth, I work for a smallish web development company. We do our best to hit deadlines, but often when we fall behind it’s because of the client’s failure to do their part of the project on time. In particular, it’s getting access to creative materials like their brand fonts, or access to data or content that we require to move forward.

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Prince2

JANUARY 26, 2018

Not all projects are created equal. Some are fundamentally flawed, and they usually display at least one of these warning signs. If you can spot any of these five red flags early enough, you’ll be better prepared to stamp them out, or avoid managing a doomed project altogether. Losing sight of the outcome. It’s easy for project managers to fixate on the schedules, budget and resources.

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ActiveCollab

JANUARY 23, 2018

Guest post by Greg Digneo from TimeDoctor. Greg Digneo writes for TimeDoctor.com, a time monitoring and productivity monitoring software designed for tracking hours and productivity of remote teams. If you would like to see where you and your team are spending your time during work, then try TimeDoctor free for 30 days. Keeping track of your remote workers can be challenging.

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ProProject Manager

JANUARY 25, 2018

Welcome to Lee Lepkowski! Lee is the latest in our series “How Did I Get Here?” Lee is relatively new to the Denver area and hoping to get more involved in the Project Management community here. Here’s his story. When did you first decide to become a project manager? It was an evolution. When working for small software consulting firms, with virtually no budget or resources for project management tools or training, we frequently faced budget overages, schedule overruns, and scope issues.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 23, 2018

The goal of every program manager is to have a set of practices that connect all the programmatic planning, risk, and performance information in a single unified view needed to support the decisions that increase the probability of success of any project or program. If we look to other paradigms, successfully unifying information doesn't start with a reductionist approach.

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TimeCamp

JANUARY 22, 2018

A good Project Manager contributes to a large extent to company’s success. He makes sure that the final product is a result of hard and passionate work. He focuses on the team’s effectiveness and makes his best to reach the set goal. Project management is one of the key factors to success in any field of work. It is important for every company that deals with many tasks and projects.

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ActiveCollab

JANUARY 23, 2018

We relied on a free service called HARO to interview over 50 people and create 7 original posts last year. Here is what we learned. Creating and posting original content on your blog gets you visits. Greater number of visits gets you two things: Greater number of conversions; Better SERP position. But you already knew that. What you are here to find out is how we tried to combat unoriginal content internet is flooded with.

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Workzone

JANUARY 24, 2018

How personal are we talking here? We’re talking about being consultative and helpful and getting to root needs and pains, not getting into your grooming habits…unless you really want to! We are unique here at Workzone. We offer a ton of support – much more than others in the project management space – so we’ve come to really understand and decipher needs and pains our customers face.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2018

Strategy is a much overused, misused, and abused word. It's tossed around by those who are unfamiliar with Strategy Making roles in businesses. . Strategy is creating fit among a company's activities. The success of a strategy depends on doing many things well - not just a few. The things that are done well must operate within a close nit system. If there is no fit among the activities, there is no distinctive strategy and little to sustain the strategic deployment process.

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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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TimeCamp

JANUARY 24, 2018

Concerts, sporting events, charitable collections, festivals, industry conferences ? each and all can cause a headache, particularly those who are responsible for organizing such occurrences are at high risk. Everything can go wrong. Deadlines may be missed, the budget exceeded, resources pushed to the limits, helpers confused and not able to cooperate with each other.

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PM by PM

JANUARY 25, 2018

In this post I will talk about the major advantages of a PMP Bootcamp for the certification exam prep, why it is beneficial over an online training course for gaining 35 contact hours of project management education, and how exorbitant cost of a bootcamp is inconsequential in the long run. PMP Bootcamp is another name […]. The post How PMP Bootcamp Save More $$ Than An Online Training?

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Musings on Project Management

JANUARY 24, 2018

Patrick Weaver gave a talk at Primavera06 about the history of scheduling. His talk is captured in an interesting paper: "A brief history of scheduling: back to the future" Patrick is somewhat of a historian and prognosticator on matter such as these. He also has written: The Origins of Modern Project Management: www.mosaicprojects.com.au/Resources_Papers_050.html ‘Trends In Modern Project.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 20, 2018

Money comes in many colors. Green here in the United States. Much prettier colors around the world. There is a saying in the project management business that money comes in two colors - Green and Blue. Green money has an actual dead president on one side. Presidential faces are on our money. The presidents are always dead presidents. Blue money, is referred to as budget.

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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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