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You do everything right. You plan your project well and get stakeholder sign-off. You plan for risk. You follow your checklists and double check to be sure. But you’ve got a difficult team member who constantly causes trouble. You’ve got enough to worry about without this added to the mix. You need to know how to handle this and stay focused on your project, rather than worrying about these more challenging behavior problems.
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Lately, it feels like things have been advancing so rapidly that it’s possible some new-fangled technology could disrupt our line of work before you finish this article. Okay, that might be a bit of an exaggeration, but you get the idea. Over the last decade, technology has been advancing so rapidly that many of us are breathlessly trying to keep pace so we don’t get left behind.
The Only Person that Likes Change is a Baby with a Wet Diaper. Anon By nature we hate change; seldom will we quit our old home till it has actually fallen around our ears. Thomas Carlyle(1795-1881) Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. James Baldwin(1924-1987) […]. The post The necessity for Project Management skills: The transition to freelance and project work appeared first on Delivering a better world, one project at a time.
Perhaps you are like me. You have lots of thoughts darting around in your mind. If you are looking for a way to sort and organize your thoughts, let’s look at the benefits of keeping a project journal. Project managers are busy people, often managing multiple projects. During the course of a day, you may encounter all kinds of things–schedule conflicts, people issues, poor leadership by your sponsors, too many meetings, and scope creep, to name a few.
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Photo by Green Chameleon on Unsplash. The Project Status report is a great way to provide lots of information about your project performance in a concise format. It includes updates on project progress, health, issues, and items that need attention. And using a project status report template will make it even easier. So I’m giving you one. A. After all, your boss expects you to know what’s going on with your project.
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Garbage in; garbage out. GIGO to the rest of us Re GIGO, this issue is raised frequently when I talk about Monte Carlo. simulation, and the GIGO thing is not without merit.
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Photo courtesy of iStockphoto.com. We all have biases; many are helpful. In projects, we have biases towards successful projects and motivated teams. If a project sponsor says that schedule is the top priority, the project team has a bias towards meeting the schedule. However, some biases are harmful. Stakeholders may attempt to sway project decisions in unfair ways.
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This article, 5 Easy Ways to Keep Tasks Out of Your Inbox , first appeared on Girl's Guide to Project Management. Thanks to Sendtask for sponsoring this article on email management tips! Are you guilty of using your email inbox as a To Do list? You get sent a message that needs actioning, but right now you’ve got to dash to a meeting or deal with a query.
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1 Frequency-impact: When you say "risk management" to most PMs, what jumps to mind is the quite orthodox conception of risk as the duality of an uncertain future event and the probability of that event happening. Around these two ideas -- impact and frequency -- we've discussed in this blog and elsewhere the conventional management approaches.
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Yikes! My backlog is blocked! How can this be? We're agile. or maybe we've become de-agiled. Can that happen? Ah yes, we're agile, but perhaps not everything in the portfolio is agile; indeed, perhaps not everything in the project is agile. In the event, coupling the culprit Coupling? Coupling is system engineering speak for transferring one effect onto another, or causing an effect by.
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