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The Art of Mastering Project Surprises: Easy Strategies for Managing Unplanned Work

Traxidy

Sometimes you need to be listening very carefully to the words being used when asking your team members for an update on their work; “sort-of”, “almost”, “close enough”, “I didn’t realize”, “it’s going to take a little more time” are all hints that the work that’s underway, potentially has an issue. Read More.

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Topic Ideas and How to Succeed with Your Creative Agency Blog

Function Point

Now that you are hopefully convinced that it is worthwhile to start producing content online to highlight your expertise, we will present some key success factors that will help you develop a successful blogging strategy. Develop a content strategy: Make sure your content strategy aligns with your agency’s goals and values.

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#PMOT – Who are the Project Managers on Twitter to Follow?

Online PM Courses

Donnie’s Article at Online PM Courses: A Simple Way to Develop Interpersonal Skills for Project Managers. We make Agile teams become amazing, check out our free online masterclass: agilesumo.com. Developing Leaders. Exploring trends and developments in project management today. PMI’s blog team: @ PMvoices.

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How to Use the Six Thinking Hats Method for Problem Solving

Teamweek

The model we hired for our client’s magazine cover has developed an unexpected allergy to strawberries, and after snacking on the fruit platter, she bears an uncanny resemblance to a strawberry herself. The graphic design department sends a team email, exclaiming that the licensing fees for their Adobe software need renewing.

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When is growth not the best choice? Why we chose to build Planio as a sustainable business instead of drowning in VC dollars

Planio

Despite what every hustle hard, weekends-are-for-the-weak entrepreneur tells you, the only thing in this world that grows constantly is a cancer cell (and we all know what happens to those). Or do you want to build a sustainable company that supports you and your team for the long-term? Hire a larger support team.

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Smarter Faster Better Book Review: 4 Lessons Learned

Project Management Hacks

motivation, goals, team performance and others). Overall, I found the book to be an insightful discussion of new insights and methods to boost productivity, innovation and achievement. Setting and achieving goals is an important skill and practice for everyone to develop. In this review, I will highlight four areas.

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

Herding Cats

And the same process is applied to the Scrum development processes on those projects. . Numerical anchors and their strong effects on software development effort estimates,” Erik Løhrea, and Magne Jørgensen, Simula Research Laboratory, Oslo. The Future of Systems-and Software Development. Springer International Publishing, 2016.