Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 13, 2024

I picked up a project from someone else not that long ago and I was three months into my management of it before I realized there wasn't a project charter. There were lots of other documents that all had a degree of overlap with a charter, but not an actual charter. That meant there were some key things missing from the project's paperwork and the most important thing missing was which budget was going to pay for it.

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 13, 2024

An ongoing goal in business is consistency in terms of labor assignments. The ability to spread the workload even across labor leads to greater productivity but also boosts morale, which in turn increases productivity. In manufacturing operations management, this is done through assembly line balancing. To employ a line balancing process in a factory, manufacturers first must understand what assembly line balancing is.

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Project Risk Coach

JUNE 13, 2024

Do you and your team members lose track of what you discussed in your project meetings? Who was to complete that action item? Who owns that risk? What did we decide to do? Sound familiar? Let's talk about how to master project meeting minutes.When I published my blog post entitled Four Meeting Problems, I received several […] The post How to Master Project Meeting Minutes appeared first on Project Risk Coach.

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Musings on Project Management

JUNE 13, 2024

".virtual collaboration is like evaporated milk with 60% of the water removed; safer; mostly up to the job, but a sterile version of face-to-face that leaves an unsatisfying aftertaste""Bartelby" columnist in the "Economist"Our columnist goes on:"There are downsides to being a clinically efficient worker. They include relinquishing the daily banter and complicity among colleagues.

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Speaker: Chris Townsend, VP of Product Marketing, Wellspring

Over the past decade, companies have embraced innovation with enthusiasm—Chief Innovation Officers have been hired, and in-house incubators, accelerators, and co-creation labs have been launched. CEOs have spoken with passion about “making everyone an innovator” and the need “to disrupt our own business.” But after years of experimentation, senior leaders are asking: Is this still just an experiment, or are we in it for the long haul?

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Leading Agile

JUNE 13, 2024

Many companies are moving to the cloud only to realize that they aren’t getting the cloud benefits. Not only are they not able to improve performance and scalability, but they’re also paying more than they were before. The reality is that the economic drivers pushing these companies into the cloud, inevitably lead to large lift and shifts where monolithic, legacy applications get moved to the cloud without the necessary modernization required to reap the rewards of cloud migration.

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Wrike

JUNE 13, 2024

I know that getting started with a new Marketo engagement program can be inspiring yet uneasy thanks to the vast custom setup options. With three years of marketing automation experience and a Marketo Certified Expert title, I wasn’t worried about setting up my first engagement program. But, despite my careful planning, I faced some unexpected challenges during the configuration and monitoring stages.

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