Rebel’s Guide to PM
OCTOBER 16, 2017
This article, Bridging the PM Competency Gap [Book Review] , first appeared on Girl's Guide to PM. How far do you think your company goes supporting project managers? Do you have all the skills you need to meet the challenges of your upcoming projects? Do your colleagues – especially the newer ones? In my experience many companies don’t invest in their project management people, at least not in the right areas.
Project Bliss
OCTOBER 16, 2017
When you think of using project management skills, there are some industries that come to mind first. Technology, construction, healthcare, financial services, and law are some of the top industries hiring project managers right now, according to this article. A. However, project management skills are used in many other areas, too. For example, this article explains how Project Management skills are used in the Food and Beverage Industry.
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Project Risk Coach
OCTOBER 15, 2017
John, Sally, and Bill just left a full-day project management workshop. John said, “Am I the only one who felt like I just wasted a day?” Sally replied, “The trainer lost me in the first thirty minutes. At least, I caught up on my email during the day.”. Are you responsible for project management workshops for a PMI Chapter, a Project Management Office (PMO), or your organization?
Kiron Bondale
OCTOBER 15, 2017
One of the more subtle changes in the Sixth Edition of the PMBOK Guide is the elimination of all references to Critical Chain Method (CCM). The rationale for this excision was not provided in Appendix X1 of the Guide which provides details of most of the Sixth Edition changes so I can only speculate that this might have resulted from the desire of the volunteer standards committee to cover commonly used tools and techniques for schedule development, and with the addition of agile release plannin
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Zen Project Management
OCTOBER 18, 2017
One of the things we talk about at work is eliminating group think and an approach to do this is using red teaming. For those not familiar with the term, red team comes from the military and originally stood for a team that represented the opposition. It has since expanded to include any team that might challenge the status quo.aka, group think. So how does this apply to the agile world?
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Project Risk Coach
OCTOBER 15, 2017
John, Sally, and Bill just left a full-day project management workshop. John said, “Am I the only one who felt like I just wasted a day?” Sally replied, “The trainer lost me in the first thirty minutes. At least, I caught up on my email during the day.”. Are you responsible for project management workshops for a PMI Chapter, a Project Management Office (PMO), or your organization?
Digite
OCTOBER 18, 2017
We are excited to announce the release of SwiftEASe in the recently concluded SAFe Summit in Texas, held from 2 – 6 October 2017. With this Digité launches a new, tightly integrated tool for planning and managing the entire software delivery process based on the SAFe framework. SwiftEASe provides end-to-end enterprise agile lifecycle management that enables teams at all levels– enterprise, portfolio, program, and team— to collaborate and deliver software faster.
Agile Coach
OCTOBER 16, 2017
I’ve been pouring through old posts for another purpose, and stumbled across a diary I wrote 8 years ago while working as an Agile Coach in a large organization. As I read through the posts, I realized that the experience I had at this organization shaped my coaching style, and is more-or-less the reason why I wrote Lean Change Management once I realized ‘Agile’ had very little to do with Agile.
The Digital Project Manager
OCTOBER 18, 2017
The relationship between a project manager and their development team can often be a tricky one - so how can we make it better? Kelly Suter joins Ben Aston to discuss techniques you can use to build a better dynamic with your development team and tools she's using to run projects. The post DPM Podcast: How To Get The Best From Your Development Team (with Kelly Suter) appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.
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
Function Point
OCTOBER 19, 2017
How to Hire a Great Traffic Manager. When you think about agency recruitment strategies, you’ll immediately visualize sifting through piles (well, digital piles) of portfolios looking for creative geniuses. But what goes into hiring agency talent within the project and account management departments? When running through what to look for when you’re sourcing your agency’s management talent.
Hydra
OCTOBER 18, 2017
Change management is a fundamental part of every project and, every day, companies face changes, such as launching a new product, or restructuring the organization.
Paymo App
OCTOBER 17, 2017
When we talk about the best project management software, there’s no such thing as “one size fits all” or “the ultimate project management software” The best project management software is the one that fits your workflow and really helps you getting the job done. If you own a small project-based business, you know by now that’s almost impossible to manage projects with only pen & paper or spreadsheets (if you can do it though, feel free to share your methodology
Herding Cats
OCTOBER 15, 2017
A popular toss off aphrase in some agile circles is process reduces agility. This is course is stated in the absence of any domain or context. I've been in the software development business for 30 years, mostly in the Software Intensive System of Systems world, where embedded systems are 100 times more prevalent than business, web and desktop systems.
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Function Point
OCTOBER 19, 2017
How to Hire a Great Traffic Manager. When you think about agency recruitment strategies, you’ll immediately visualize sifting through piles (well, digital piles) of portfolios looking for creative geniuses. But what goes into hiring agency talent within the project and account management departments? When running through what to look for when you’re sourcing your agency’s management talent.
ActiveCollab
OCTOBER 18, 2017
Bad workload management might be the cause behind your team missing deadlines and not finishing their work. It can affect one person, or even a whole team - in both cases, it’s a big problem. Despite your efforts to distribute the workload equally across the team, you’ve run into a tight schedule. Although your team members are aware of their responsibilities and the amount of time they will need to complete their tasks, they still miss their deadlines.
TimeCamp
OCTOBER 18, 2017
The use of software may cause problems. After all, we are not omniscient beings. To meet the needs and expectations of our users, we decided to collect frequently asked questions and answer them here: What is TimeCamp? TimeCamp is a program that aims at improving its users’ time management. The tool provides employees and managers with information on how much time they spent during the day on activities, projects, or processes, such as communication, work on documents, meetings, phone cal
Herding Cats
OCTOBER 16, 2017
When we see things happen, we attribute them to a reason. Not just basic observations in life, but observations on projects, and all the way down to the basics of ontology. If we observe certain things and those things behave in certain ways, we think there must be a reason why they do so. This is actually a mistake. The mistake has a name - the Principle of Sufficient Reason.
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The Digital Project Manager
OCTOBER 17, 2017
In the digital industry, project managers and development resources may be cut from the same cloth, but perhaps from opposite ends of the tapestry. Both. The post 4 Questions You Should Never Ask A Developer (And What To Ask Instead) appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.
Musings on Project Management
OCTOBER 14, 2017
Anything on a large scale requires strangers to work together effectively. No strangers? Probably not really a large scale. And so how does this work? I've always said: strangers don't trust each other. Why? There's no common basis for trust -- "I believe in you; you believe in me." is missing Nonetheless, here we are with complex projects -- some on a global scale -- with all manner of.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
OCTOBER 18, 2017
This article, Expert Tips on Lessons Learned [Video] , first appeared on Girl's Guide to PM. In this interview, major projects PM Karlene Agard and I talk about how to set up a project right and then discuss lessons learned. The first 1.30m are me padding while waiting to get Karlene into the discussion – she was ready, but Facebook was keeping us waiting – so feel free to skip that first 90 seconds!
Herding Cats
OCTOBER 17, 2017
Somebody someplace has already solved this problem (or one very similar to it.) Creativity is now finding that solution and adapting it to this particular problem. — The TRIZ Journal. So when you hear we've never done this before and we can't possibly estimate how long it will take , think of this quote and don't think for a minute that those using that excuse have any basis to stand on.
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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.
The Digital Project Manager
OCTOBER 19, 2017
I am ready to leave my job however, my husband was laid off 3.5 months ago. He has an MBA and was the breadwinner so I'm now supporting the family - but feel like I'm losing the fire inside me while staying in a stagnant role. How do I maintain who I am through this, both professionally and personally? Supporting my husband, financially and emotionally?
Musings on Project Management
OCTOBER 17, 2017
Can you imagine project management without the help and usefulness of the number 0? Indeed, could we do modern project management without 0? On the other hand, the Romans, and the Greeks and Egyptians before them, did pretty well in project management, and they had no 0; they didn't even have the concept of a number 0. Recall your Roman numerals: 10 = X; 20 = XX; 50 = L, and so forth.
Hydra
OCTOBER 17, 2017
Following on from our blog on managing remote project teams , we look at 7 project management pain points that remote project teams may face and offer some techniques and tips to ease these.
Boost by Brightpod
OCTOBER 16, 2017
We have this idea that if we work more hours we’ll be more productive. The thing is, research has revealed that is only true up to.
Speaker: Ketan Jahagirdar - Sopheon’s Director of Product Management
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