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 3, 2017
Have you ever wondered what career path could be next on the project manager career ladder? There are many possible options where you can apply the valuable skills you’ve honed as a project manager. A. I previously wrote about the different career paths that can lead to project management. And a project manager role can be fulfilling and interesting.
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Project Risk Coach
OCTOBER 30, 2017
One reason a project manager may have a bad reputation is bloated project plans. Too much sauce! While I’m a fan of planning, let’s use some common sense and right-size our risk management plans. Plans should vary in size, dependent on the size and scope of your projects. A risk management plan for the Mercedes-Benz Stadium will be much larger than a plan for a Southern Living Idea House.
Kiron Bondale
OCTOBER 8, 2017
An early project management lesson learned is that it is a good practice to start with the end in mind, especially when it comes to defining what done looks like. Without working through this at some level of detail, project teams risk experiencing a similar pain to reaching the finish line at the end of a marathon only to have the judges move that line back by a mile.
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Ron Rosenhead
OCTOBER 10, 2017
Most of the articles written on this blog site come from a mix of research, working with clients and stories told to me. This one is a mix of working with clients and a story told. Let me set the scene. I was working with a long standing client and I asked the group what was the main project management problem they wanted to solve. There were a wide mix of issues raised and then one person said: “My problem is that I am very busy and then senior managers come along and slap a project on top of t
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Rebel’s Guide to PM
OCTOBER 23, 2017
This article, 7 Productivity Tools for Teams That You’ve Never Heard Of , first appeared on Girl's Guide to PM. I can’t be the only one who thinks that with better productivity tools for teams, we’d be more… productive. I want to spend more time doing what matters, and that means less time worrying about tools to do the work. Today I present to you 7 productivity tools for teams that you’ve never heard of (maybe – there are two on the list that you might have come across, but I couldn’t lea
Project Bliss
OCTOBER 23, 2017
Photo credit @hengfilms. In your workplace, you communicate regularly with many people: stakeholders, customers, and other team members. You’ll encounter demands and excuses and deadlines. Schedules can be demanding, and workloads can be stressful. You need to be able to navigate the challenges with professionalism, confidence, and grace. Using assertive communication skills can help you express yourself professionally even in stressful or challenging situations.
Project Risk Coach
OCTOBER 30, 2017
One reason a project manager may have a bad reputation is bloated project plans. Too much sauce! While I’m a fan of planning, let’s use some common sense and right-size our risk management plans. Plans should vary in size, dependent on the size and scope of your projects. A risk management plan for the Mercedes-Benz Stadium will be much larger than a plan for a Southern Living Idea House.
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
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?
LiquidPlanner
OCTOBER 31, 2017
Dear Elizabeth: I have been working in project management across several industries for several years – although not formally as a ‘Project Manager’. My spouse (a soon-to-be-retired Army Officer) and I are going through the formal PMP® training now to complete the test by January. We would love to explore some NGO or other overseas work for a few years before coming back to the States and working part time.
Project-Management.pm
OCTOBER 13, 2017
It’s still an ongoing debate among business owners and organizational managers regarding the project management best practices. Some of them have implemented different regulations and protocols in terms of project accomplishments. On another note, clients and stakeholders believe that an organization that possesses project management best practices ensures that everyone is doing the same methodology, using the same metrics, and speaking the same jargon.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
OCTOBER 25, 2017
This article, How to Manage a Team Member With A Negative Attitude , first appeared on Girl's Guide to PM. This article was inspired by Ben Snyder’s book, Everything’s a Project. “How can I deal with a project team member whose attitude sucks?”. That was what a reader got in touch to ask recently. It got me thinking about times that I have had to manage a team member with a negative attitude and fortunately there haven’t been that many.
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.
Speaker: Dylan Secrest
Construction projects are high-stakes operations where even minor inefficiencies can lead to costly delays, safety concerns, and budget overruns. Managing risk in construction has always been a challenge, but as projects grow in complexity, traditional methods no longer cut it. Enter Digital Transformation - a game changer approach that replaces inefficiency with AI-powered analytics, real-time monitoring, and automated workflows to proactively manage risk.
Project Risk Coach
OCTOBER 2, 2017
When I teach project management, I often ask, “What are the top contributors to challenged or failed projects?” Without exception, I hear—poor communication. Project managers understand the importance. How can we improve? Let’s look at five bad communication habits to avoid and what to do about each. “The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”… Click To Tweet. 1.
Kiron Bondale
OCTOBER 29, 2017
I’ve found project risk management to be one of the weakest performed PMBOK knowledge areas in most organizations, even for those companies whose operational risk management practices are very mature. A part of this challenge is that we tend to identify obvious risks but miss key ones when we don’t engage sufficient stakeholders in the identification process or when we ignore lessons identified in past projects.
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?
Project-Management.pm
OCTOBER 4, 2017
A stable and sturdy project management is one of the crucial factors to make a project process work. In the corporate world, an organization needs more than just top-notch tools and up to date process to bring the project to its full potential—it also needs a strong manpower, a human resource that has a particular set of skills and capabilities that will greatly contribute the entire organization.
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Rebel’s Guide to PM
OCTOBER 11, 2017
This article, How to Juggle Work With Your PMP Study Plan , first appeared on Girl's Guide to PM. This is a guest post by Helena Liu. Helena Liu. Once you leave school and enter the workforce, trying to learn new things can be a challenge. Although you have good intentions, life often gets in the way since you have many more items competing for your attention.
Musings on Project Management
OCTOBER 4, 2017
In the early 21st century when the 4th edition to the PMBOK was being designed for publication in the first decade, there was debate about adding "data quality" to Chapter 11, Risk Management. The idea behind data quality being to evaluate risk in the presence of not only uncertainty, but also to look at the impact of making risk-informed decisions in the presence of lousy data.
Project Risk Coach
OCTOBER 2, 2017
When I teach project management, I often ask, “What are the top contributors to challenged or failed projects?” Without exception, I hear—poor communication. Project managers understand the importance. How can we improve? Let’s look at five bad communication habits to avoid and what to do about each. “The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”… Click To Tweet. 1.
Kiron Bondale
OCTOBER 22, 2017
Last week I wrote about the elimination of Critical Chain Method (CCM) by the PMBOK Guide Sixth Edition development team. Pareto Charts, which used to be called one of the Seven Basic Quality Tools in the Quality Management chapter of the previous edition have also been eliminated. Yes, there are still references to histograms as being a tool of the Manage Quality (formerly known as Control Quality) process, but Pareto Charts are not mentioned as being a special type of histogram.
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Binfire
OCTOBER 26, 2017
We have a huge announcement for startups. We are offering you a free plan to help you do things faster and better. If you are a startup, an agile work management software can be of great help. We are happy to help you manage your projects better. We have been in your shoes too and we know how hard startup’s life is and how tight your budget could be.
LiquidPlanner
OCTOBER 3, 2017
There is no escaping the big data revolution that is sweeping across all sectors of industry. Companies that embrace this revolution are on the road to achieving greater business efficiencies and higher profitability. Any organization with the ability to assimilate data to provide crucial insights into their operations can benefit. Sectors like financial services and healthcare have already embraced big data analytics to remarkable effect.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
OCTOBER 4, 2017
This article, How To Do Document Version Control , first appeared on Girl's Guide to PM. A reader got in touch recently and asked for more info on document version control. Version control is used for lots of different project management assets. You’ll come it across it in particular in coding, where developers need to keep meticulous logs of what’s been changed and what version is the current version of the code.
The Digital Project Manager
OCTOBER 26, 2017
If you’re an open-minded project manager, and you’re looking for the best project management tool for your team, you may feel like you’re high on. The post Weighing Project Management Tools? Balance These Top 3 Criteria appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.
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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?
Project-Management.pm
OCTOBER 26, 2017
The need for Project Portfolio Management (PPM) solutions is increasing, thanks to the business industries’ needs to effectively implement projects. Additionally, clients consider PPM solutions friendlier with their bank accounts and easier to distribute compared to the well-known traditional approaches. However, businesses are drowned in too complex components of PPM solution that they have difficulty understanding their main functions.
Binfire
OCTOBER 31, 2017
The market for project management software is rapidly expanding. More and more features are added to the PM applications, while more companies are offering PM applications. It seems “work management software” is a better name than project management software for some of these applications. There are hundreds of project management software comparison sites and project management tools from free to thousands of dollars in the monthly subscription.
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