Ron Rosenhead

OCTOBER 24, 2016

This Blog is brought to you courtesy of Dr Mike Clayton. Too many project managers see the role of Project Sponsor, or their Project Board as somehow getting in the way of progress. Too many project managers see the role of Project Sponsor, or their Project Board as somehow getting in the way of progress. Dr Mike Clayton.

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Project Risk Coach

JULY 11, 2016

I often blog on random project management topics. Occasionally, I write a series of articles on a common theme, as I did on The Principles of Project Risk Management , earlier this year. Here’s a list of the articles we will provide: Welcome to the Smart Stakeholder Management Series (Harry).

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Ron Rosenhead

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Additionally, project managers also suggest that sponsor styles range from micro managing the project to the other end of the spectrum; taking no interest at all in the project and everything between. I mentioned to Bob that we have a survey of project managers which we use on internal project management courses.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

In the Inspiring Women in Project Management series, I normally interview people who have had a relatively long career already. Today I’m interviewing Erica Pepitone, PMP, a first year project manager living, working, and learning in New York City. Erica, you made the jump from project co-ordinator to project manager.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 6, 2016

I’ve been following Jerry Ihejirika’s project management blog for a while now, partly because he’s interesting and writes beautifully, partly because I like to know what’s happening in project management in the rest of the world. I was responding to comments on my blog and social media.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 8, 2016

The previous project manager might have moved on to do something else and you’ve got the project as part of an internal reshuffle of resources. You won’t know if the risk log is sound and the resource planning sensible until you investigate. First, establish the authority that the project manager (that’s now you) has on this project.

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Green Project Management

JANUARY 3, 2016

This post highlights the importance of portfolio management for sustainable change delivery. This blog post is part of a series that provides a foundation for understanding sustainable change delivery. It is not the strongest of species that survives, nor the most intelligent. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.

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Green Project Management

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

This post highlights the importance of incorporating value management into sustainable change delivery. This blog post is part of a series that provides a foundation for understanding sustainable change delivery. Drucker Management of Value (MoV) was the […].

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Susanne Madsen

APRIL 4, 2016

I often come across managers who say that they would like to develop their team members’ skills – but that they struggle to find the time to do so. Let’s say the topic is risk management. After you have decided on a schedule of topics, ask one of the team members to work on the first one.

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Hydra

DECEMBER 21, 2016

A large part of the successful delivery of any project is the ability to reduce, eliminate and account for the unknowns, otherwise known as 'risks'. {socialbuttons}.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 3, 2016

If you are a project manager, making tough calls and decisions is part of your everyday life. Regardless of how much project management experience you have, at a certain point you will still want or need to make a decision as a team. If you manage to find that 1-2 hour span, you want to make the best possible use of it.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 8, 2016

. Since my book Collaboration Tools for Project Managers came out, one of the things I’m asked frequently is ‘how do I choose the right collaboration tool for my team?’. If you were managing this as a project for a client, you’d expect user involvement, wouldn’t you? Step 2: Involve Users In Defining Requirements.

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Musings on Project Management

JUNE 2, 2016

If you follow this blog you've read several references to the project balance sheet. So, is this about accounting? Yes, and no: Yes, it's about a double entry tool to keep track of "mine" and "yours", but no, it's not the accountant's tool used in your father's accounting office. Take a look at this figure: What have we got here?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 13, 2016

It’s time for another installment of Inspiring Women in Project Management and today I’m delighted to introduce you to Traci Duez, chemist turned project manager and now someone who inspires women herself. Traci, how did you get into project management? ” And, “Her risk management plans were to die for.”?

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LiquidPlanner

JUNE 6, 2016

Here’s what makes LiquidPlanner different from other project management tools on our market: our scheduling engine. At a high level, it’s because uncertainty and risk is built into project schedules. This is the fourth blog in a 9-part video series featuring LiquidPlanner CTO and co-founder Jason Carlson. And why is that?

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LiquidPlanner

AUGUST 1, 2016

One of the big differentiators we’re proud of at LiquidPlanner is how effectively our project management tool captures uncertainty. Being able to manage and respond productively to risk is such an important part of projects and successful deliveries. This is important, really important. Hear it from the source!

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

I saw a blog post about the Top 5 Reasons Your Project Fails recently. Risk Management is how Adults Manage Projects - Tim Lister. What are the risk, what are their mitigations. Measuring Physical Percent Complete is the foundation of all good project management. The symptoms were: Priorities change.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 22, 2016

The post Top 5 Ways Agile Mitigates Risk is one of those posts that's not wrong in what it says at the detail level - more or less, but is not right in principle. Agile Mitigates Risk - is not correct. Agile provides rapid identification of risk. First let's start with risk, risk management, and risk management frameworks.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 28, 2016

As readers of this blog know, managing in the presence of uncertainty is how adults manage projects. This is called Risk Management. And as always in order to make decisions in the presence of the uncertainties that create risk, we need to make estimates. No Adult Management of risk.

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LiquidPlanner

MAY 23, 2016

This is the third blog in a 9-part video series featuring LiquidPlanner CTO and co-founder Jason Carlson. These short clips tell the story of creating LiquidPlanner and share Jason’s insider expertise on creating the only resource-driven scheduling engine on the market and what makes our unique Dynamic Project Management unique.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

But first, let's look at the motivation for a blog post like this one from Bono's admonition. So let's look at what's being said here about managing software development in the presence of uncertainty using other people's money. Uncertanity creates risk. Uncertainty is the source risk. Management is a verb.

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Paymo App

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

To manage projects from start to finish can be a daunting task, especially if you’re not a certified project management professional. You (really) need a plan to manage projects. If you don’t know this from the beginning there’s a big risk that a project can’t be finalized due to the lack of funds.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 28, 2016

In a recent Blog post titled Precision it is suggested Precision (or the implication thereof) is perhaps the root problem of most, if not all dysfunction related to estimation. . This is another example of Bad Management and Doing Stupid Things on Purpose. IT Risk Management. Yes, projects have uncertainty.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 12, 2016

Plans don't guarantee creative success - creative efforts operate in an economy - as system where people manage limited resources to maximize return and growth. Loss of control creates risk of failure. Compensate for cost variation by including risk reduction metrics. The Agile Cannon is composed of 5 elements. Forces on WIP .

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

The best project managers know how to balance stakeholder communications with preventing scope creep, watch out for risk, and clarify roles, responsibilities, and priorities within their team. Steal some of the secrets to their success by using these 10 best practices in project management. . Manage both risk and opportunity.

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Wrike

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Unless you’re a certified Project Manager, you’re probably wondering why all managers need to learn the basics of project management. Chances are, even though you may not be a Project Manager, you are probably already managing a project. We’re not saying go and become a certified Project Manager right now.

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Wrike

JANUARY 14, 2016

Project portfolio management (PPM) is a method used by organizations to plan schedules and allocate resources needed to bring a project portfolio to success. Project portfolios are, at their essence, project management on a larger scale, as it concerns groupings of projects bundled into work portfolios.

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Wrike

MARCH 10, 2016

While project management tools are crucial for organizations that want to accomplish work efficiently, there is still some resistance to the idea of cloud-based project management. There are many reasons for the all-too-common resistance to cloud-based project management software.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 4, 2016

It is wrong to suppose that if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it – a costly myth. They are for, all the reasons listed in the 100's of blog posts here and other places. IT Risk Management. The #NoEstimates advocates love to use a Deming quote. Related articles. Technical Performance Measures.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 14, 2016

Many blogs, tweets, books are spent of speaking about Value as the priority in agile software development. They identify technical risk. Systems Thinking, System Engineering, and Systems Management. For some reason the notion if value is a big mystery in the agile community. We focus on Value over cost. Related articles.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 26, 2016

The size of the “value at risk” is also the starting point for estimates. No matter the size of the project, from multi-million’s to smaller, it's actually determined by “value at risk,” and that is determine by those paying not by those consuming. So the fact we work on larger projects does not remove the principle of “value at risk.”

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Wrike

OCTOBER 20, 2016

The art of project management is strongly influenced by the line of work you’re in. In some companies, project management is a full-time job, overseeing large teams and multiple, complex projects. When it comes to managing creative wor k, the project manager is often also a team lead—and a team mediator.

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Project Management Hacks

AUGUST 4, 2016

Leigh Espy, FedEx Project Manager. What is like to work as a project manager? In today’s article, you will hear directly from Leigh Espy about her journey into project management success at FedEx. In 2003, I managed a project to set up a new customer at my company’s data center. The easy answer is “it depends.”

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Project Management Hacks

APRIL 28, 2016

On GovLoop, members learn and discuss best practices on key topics in governments through blogs, forums, free online trainings, and research guides. not taking enough risk). As a leader, you are often faced with unclear choices with limited data and you have to decide how to manage the process of decision-making (e.g.

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Herding Cats

JULY 10, 2016

The size of the “value at risk” is also the starting point for estimates. The decision is determined by “value at risk,” and that is determine by those paying NOT by those consuming. The decision is determined by “value at risk,” and that is determine by those paying NOT by those consuming.

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Wrike

JANUARY 5, 2016

Look no further than our list of top project management conferences for 2016. Stay up-to-speed on the latest industry developments, pick up tips from respected experts in the field, meet other project management professionals, and have some fun learning new tricks of the trade away from the office. Change Management Conference.

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LiquidPlanner

DECEMBER 7, 2016

They read blogs and trade magazines, attend conferences and trade shows and spend time with other teams who they might learn from and get inspired by. To learn more about how LiquidPlanner supports innovative teams, read our eBook, “ An Introduction to Dynamic Project Management Software.”.

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