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How to Hold People Accountable + More [Video]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Did you know that I do a weekly live Q&A over on Facebook on Fridays? In my regular Office Hours slot I respond to queries that people have asked in my Facebook group or on email, and share some good practices for managing your projects. Check out the video from last week. We talked about: How to make risk management more than a paper exercise. Whether your should take your PMP Exam now or wait for version 6 to come out.

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What are your sprint goals?

Kiron Bondale

Breaking projects into time boxes known as sprints or iterations is often associated with agile delivery approaches but can also be used to deliver on detailed requirements for an overall project’s scope following the (infamous) approach commonly termed “Water-scrum-fall” The benefit of this approach is that it helps to focus a delivery team on a small, achievable set of work items, providing stakeholders with frequent opportunities to provide feedback on completed work items w

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Agile is for Wimps. ?

Musings on Project Management

Here's an interesting video from a noted originalist of the Agile movement -- Alistair Cockburn Ooops! It's over an hour long, so you might want to schedule it for a lunch break. maybe more than one. He builds his talk around this graphic which is a metaphor for agile has become too complicated. lets get back to these common sense ideas Read in the library at Square Peg.

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The PMO Series (1): Definition and Function of a Project Management Office

Inloox

First off: The acronym “PMO” has many different meanings. Some use it to talk about the project management office, while others mean program management office or portfolio management office. In this blog series, however, we will use the acronym PMO to describe the project management office. Definition PMO The project management office is responsible for the overall project management controlling and for the maintenance of project management systems for the entire organization.

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Understand Digital Debt, Form a Team, Set Goals, and Plan Roadmap for Transformation

Understanding digital debt is crucial before digital transformation. Assemble a team to assess internal operations, market pressures, and digital debt's impact. Define future digital vision with measurable goals. Refine hypotheses and conduct market analysis. Develop a roadmap for transformation with defined projects, cost estimates, and governance.

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How to Hold People Accountable + More [Video]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Did you know that I do a weekly live Q&A over on Facebook on Fridays? In my regular Office Hours slot I respond to queries that people have asked in my Facebook group or on email, and share some good practices for managing your projects. Check out the video from last week. We talked about: How to make risk management more than a paper exercise. Whether your should take your PMP Exam now or wait for version 6 to come out.

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Some Things You Need to Understand About Employee Engagement

Project-Management.pm

Employee engagement is still one of the issues that need to be addressed. Lack of employee engagement is also one of the reasons why some organizations fail and do not last half year. Since manpower is the most critical resource in an organization, it should be taken care of. Employees are given a chance to grow and develop their skills and capabilities.

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Agile project management- A tutorial

Binfire

The Agile project management methodology has been used in the software development and IT industry for the past sixteen years, but recently it has gained wide acceptance by many number of industries and organizations. The reason for this surge in popularity is quite understandable, a majority of projects benefit when managed using lean concepts promoted by Agile project management methodology.

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What I’m Reading: April 2016

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The library is closing for refurbishment. I haven’t been for ages, but knowing that I can’t go makes me feel lost, somehow. The quiet haven for a quick but restorative break in the working day isn’t there at the moment. I’m looking forward to it opening again, even if I have been binging on things I bought in their bargain bucket sale and others I downloaded on NetGalley.

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I’m really effective. Are you?

Ron Rosenhead

Over the years I have seen many project managers working really hard. They work long hours, work weekends and really ‘go the extra mile’ to deliver that project. But, I have sometimes questioned this approach and asked groups on training courses or individuals the same question; how effective are you? I get a variety of responses from puzzlement to a clear statement that: “I’m really effective.”.

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Strategic Project Finance Essentials: A Project Manager’s Guide to Financial Metrics

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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How to Run an Effective Meeting: Lessons from Pixar, Apple, and Amazon

LiquidPlanner

Every day, millions of Americans lose precious minutes of their lives to meetings. Boring, unproductive meetings. Harvard Business School professor Nancy Koehn estimates that Americans attend 11 million formal meetings every day, about 4 billion meetings a year. And over half of the people her team surveyed said the meetings were unproductive. Ouch.

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Simplify the Project Management Experience with an Easier Solution

Redbooth

Isn’t the goal of project management to keep things as simple and organized as possible? Successful freelancers have their own “systems” or standard process for moving a project from the statement of work to completion. At the same time, they’re on the lookout for tools that will help them be more efficient. One would think that the most popular project management solutions on the market would be just the ticket.

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What I’m Reading: April 2017

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The library is closing for refurbishment. I haven’t been for ages, but knowing that I can’t go makes me feel lost, somehow. The quiet haven for a quick but restorative break in the working day isn’t there at the moment. I’m looking forward to it opening again, even if I have been binging on things I bought in their bargain bucket sale and others I downloaded on NetGalley.

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Six things you should do when kicking off a project

Susanne Madsen

​What do you do when you’ve just landed a new project? Do you start scheduling tasks straight away and get the team into gear? Here are six things you should strive to do as early as possible. 1. Validate business case One of the first things you should do as a project manager when a new project gets assigned to you is to find out why the project is important and to validate that it has an acceptable business case.

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.

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Setting Goals in a Creative Fashion

Project-Management.pm

Setting goals are one of the most sought-after developments in the organization, but they can be vague and hard to achieve. Sometimes they don even have a clear direction. Such things have been an organizational issue since setting goals are hardly being followed up. No one seems interested snough to even take a second look at it. If you have the steps, ways, and resources in setting goals, but they disorganized and confusing.

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Using Resource Planning As A Tool For Preventing Employee Burnout

Ganttic

Employee burnout seems to be one of the biggest problems for managers to handle theses days. While burning out at your job can be affected by many factors that you as a manager can't change, there are still few things that you can do. Since resource planning dictates the schedules your employees, it's a huge part of your team's day. The first step of using resource planning as a tool for preventing employee burnout is knowing the reasons behind burning out and noticing the tendencies in your tea

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Advice for Project Managers: Finding Mentors and Collecting Project Feedback

LiquidPlanner

Are you grappling with a stubborn project management work issue? Ask Elizabeth! Email your question to: marketing@liquidplanner.com. Anonymity included. “Dear Elizabeth: I’d like to find a mentor to help advance my project management career. Do you have advice on what I should be doing to find the right person?” — Searching for guidance. Dear Searching: Well done for deciding that you want to start a mentoring relationship.

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Project Manager Roles and Responsibilities

ActiveCollab

The strategic role of a project manager involves planning and organizing the resources and time necessary for successful completion of projects. “A project manager is like a doctor who leads the trauma team and decides the course of action for a patient - both at the same time. Without the right kind of authority to efficiently handle all the project management issues, development teams can easily get into trouble.” - Scott Berkun, the author of “Making Things Happen”.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Are you breaching the Code of Ethics by not being sustainable?

Green Project Management

At a recent presentation to a group of project managers in Australia I spoke about sustainable projects and sustainable project management. During the presentation I put forward the argument that if project management is to be considered a profession, then we collectively need to operate to a higher set of ethical standards. So what is […]. The post Are you breaching the Code of Ethics by not being sustainable?

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Velocity versus Speed

Herding Cats

Velocity is a speed in a specific direction. Velocity is Distance traveled divided by time in a specific direction. This is defined as a Vector. Speed and Direction. . The direction can be a compass heading. A compass heading of an aircraft - 270°. The aircraft can have a 2 nd dimension of measure - the compass heading and climbing or descending at a measure of feet per minute.

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eBook: How to Manage Chaos: Advice on Project Management and Workplace Conundrums

LiquidPlanner

Every month, project management expert Elizabeth Harrin fields readers’ questions about the challenges, risks, and rewards of project work on the LiquidPlanner blog. We’ve compiled our favorite columns in this eBook. Over 30 pages, you’ll get Elizabeth’s take on a range of project management and workplace topics, including: Ways to get more resources for your project.

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Getting the Work Done with Project Management

Gina Abudi PM

A Client Story. For the last three years, one of Abudi Consulting Group’s clients, a global pharmaceutical organization, has been working with us to provide training for their employees at all levels in how to use project management best practices to accomplish work. This workshop, entitled, Taking a Project Management Approach to Getting the Work [.].

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Acclaim Projects Helps Deliver Innovation Projects on Time and on Budget

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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What Does Enterprise Project Management Mean?

Leankor

In this day and age, more and more businesses are doing the majority of their work online. This means that they’ve shifted to digital resources above paper resources. With more businesses going paperless, it’s important to understand how to organize and collaborate effectively through digital media. Enterprise project management is a field of organizational development dedicated to just that.

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Systems Engineering

Herding Cats

For non-trivial problems in any domain, Systems Engineering provides a starting framework for identifying problems, assessing possible solutions, implementing those solutions, measuring the performance of the efforts to deliver the solutions and the effectiveness of those solutions. Here's the collective wisdom of Systems Engineering from Mitre. This book has many resources for a variety of problems in many domains, including agile development.

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Top 12 Most Relevant Project Management Books You Need to Read

ActiveCollab

Project management is a big topic, there are 13,000 book on project management alone on Amazon ). With so much books, it’s difficult to decide what to read. We made a list of 12 most relevant project management books every project manager needs to read. To be a good project manager, you need more than the technical know-how (eg. know what’s theory of constraints, WBS, or user acceptance criteria).

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REP: 3 Steps to Successful Collaborative Project Management

Brightwork

“The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that our aim is too low and we reach it.” – Michelangelo As you start a new month and a new quarter, it’s a good time to think about your goals and any changes you would like to make, both professional and personal. Is there a new skill you would like to learn, or a habit you wish to form?

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From Concepts to Actionable Insights: Powering Digital Transformation Success

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.