Green Project Management

JANUARY 15, 2018

The only certainty is that nothing is certain. Pliny the Elder, Roman scholar, 23-79 CE Our culture encodes a strong bias either to neglect or ignore variation. We tend to focus instead on measures of central tendency, and as a result we make some terrible mistakes, often with considerable practical import. Stephen Jay Gould, naturalist, […]. The post Sustainable Estimating appeared first on Delivering a better world, one project at a time.

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Project Risk Coach

JANUARY 15, 2018

Life is filled with risks. Some risks occur slowly. Others strike with little warning. Let’s look at how to evaluate risk velocity and why it matters. What is Risk Velocity? Risk velocity is the time to impact. Think of velocity as an estimate of the time frame within which a risk may occur. Why Risk Velocity Matters. When the velocity is low, we have more time to respond to the risks.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 19, 2018

This article, Slenke.com: How To Get Started [Software Review] , first appeared on Girl's Guide to Project Management. Slenke has been around since 2015, but you might not have heard of this Canadian-built project management software tool. There are two differentiators that the Slenke team pride themselves of from my research: the collaborative nature of the tool, and the comprehensive encryption offered for messages and files.

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Ron Rosenhead

JANUARY 15, 2018

I asked my wife, “what is this” holding up a canvas bag. “It’s for potatoes. It is to give them a longer life. You put the potatoes in the bag and they last longer and are in better condition than when you keep them in plastic bags.”. Great was my only comment. A few days later I opened the cupboard in which we keep the potatoes and sure enough, there was the canvas bag which contained the potatoes.

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Estimate Controlling 149

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?

Innovation

Green Project Management

JANUARY 15, 2018

This post was modified from one I developed several years ago for the Mercure AACE 2013 program I took, called W5_PM_PERT-Challenges. I am still surprised that with the number of project managers I meet who recommend this technique, which effectively puts the Flaw of Averages on steroids. This post is not specifically about sustainable change […].

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Kiron Bondale

JANUARY 14, 2018

Over time companies tend to take on projects with increasing levels of complexity. This happens either as a side benefit of a boost in organizational project management maturity, reactively when responding to regulatory or competitive pressures or organically as an outcome of strategic planning. Unlike many of my previous posts, the WHY behind this increase is not my focus but rather the HOW.

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Digite

JANUARY 14, 2018

It has been abundantly clear that in the last 3-4 years, the world of Agile has gradually come to be occupied by Kanban. While there has been a fair bit of the religious battle about Scrum vs. Kanban – which, while doing injustice to both Scrum and Kanban, has certainly helped to keep Kanban under the spotlight – the fact is that most consultants, coaches, and practitioners have been far more pragmatic and sanguine about it.

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Online PM Courses

JANUARY 15, 2018

Stakeholder engagement and management is one of the essential Project Management disciplines. But it is often taught in a simplistic manner. The standard ‘four-box’ approach to deriving stakeholder engagement strategies can easily leave newer project managers believing there are just four basic strategies they can use. But this is far from the truth.

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Consulting Influencer PMI Risk Management 89

Binfire

JANUARY 19, 2018

There is too much confusion when it comes to understanding the roles of product manager and project manager. They sound the same after all but are totally different job functions. . The product manager is responsible for every stage of a product like development, sales and marketing and customer support after the sale. He or she has P&L responsibility for the product and is measured by how much income is generated by the product.

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Budget Monitoring Controlling Agile 92

Speaker: Timothy Allsopp

Payment challenges often lead to delayed projects, financial bottlenecks, and strained relationships. With construction projects becoming more complex, outdated processes are no longer sustainable. By refining financial workflow, companies can improve cash flow, reduce error, and foster trust between stakeholders. Discover practical strategies for redesigning payment systems to overcome workflow challenges while creating a smoother, more reliable process for contractors and subcontractors alike.

Construction

The IIL Blog

JANUARY 16, 2018

Catch Christa Kirby’s presentation “Cultivating an Agile Mindset: Creativity, Trust, and a Plastic Toothbrush Case” at this year’s Agile & Scrum Conference! . By Christa Kirby, MA, LCAT, PMP, CSM, CSPO | Vice President, Global Learning Innovation and Global Practice Director, Leadership – International Institute for Learning (IIL) .

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LiquidPlanner

JANUARY 16, 2018

If you’re fresh out of Certified Scrum Master training, you are likely invigorated to start applying the Agile and SCRUM based techniques to your next project. Based on the classroom exercises, you’re excited to try new concepts and apply the magic cure-all that will solve all waterfall-based project problems. After all, your two-day training class and one online test later makes you a certified Scrum Master!

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Change Management Agile Consulting Development Team Review 74

Project-Management.pm

JANUARY 14, 2018

A leader must be aware of the best decisions for his or her organization’s improvement and development. Such decisions must steer the organization to the right direction. Organization decisions are the main stronghold of the market and more business industries ensure that all levels or departments in their organization are focused on making sound decisions for the sake of improvement and retaining its relevance.

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Initiating Planning Process 89

The Digital Project Manager

JANUARY 16, 2018

As project managers, if there’s one thing we all know for certain, it’s that nothing is certain. Managing changes and unexpected variables comes with the. The post 10 Questions A New Project Manager Must Ask Before Starting A Project appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Brightwork

JANUARY 18, 2018

Have you ever been part of a team that is implementing or using a new tool or methodology and one of your team members is super excited and supportive of the new tool or methodology? This person may even be you! They do not take ‘no’ for an answer, and they spend their time encouraging others and keeping everyone’s eyes on the prize. This person is the “Champion” and there may be more than one.

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LiquidPlanner

JANUARY 18, 2018

You have a great idea. You’re ready to implement it. But first, you need to get your boss’s approval. Here are five tips to getting to yes with your manager. First, define the need. And then translate it into your boss’s language. Before you walk into this meeting, you’ll need to do a little homework. Begin by really pinpointing what business need you are trying to address.

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Defining Planning 89

Paymo App

JANUARY 16, 2018

Some of our earliest users might still remember that Paymo initially started out as a free tool back in 2008, mainly used by the freelance community to track time. Years have passed and the software matured as well as the company and the team developing it. We grew in complexity, size, user-base, and over time the free version of the software was phased out.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 16, 2018

Performance, Cost, and Scheduling cannot be specified independently. At least one of the three must depend on the others. With few exceptions, schedule delays will be accepted grudgingly, cost overruns will not, and for good reason. The time to completion is proportional to the ratio of the time spent to the time planned to date. The greater the ratio, the longer the time to go. - The Art of Systems Architecting , Second Edition, Mark Maier and Eberhardt Rechtin. .

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Manufacturing Estimate Risk Management Risk 41

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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Celoxis

JANUARY 17, 2018

The year-end holidays are a good time to wind down and recharge your batteries. It’s always good to reflect on the year gone by and make plans for the new year. On the personal front, people make resolutions for better health and fitness, better control on finances, exotic vacations and so on.

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2018 Finance Controlling Planning 40

ActiveCollab

JANUARY 16, 2018

While too many tools can help you keep your project under control, they can also cause budget overruns. Stop spreading your energy and resources to multiple tools and go for a single project management tool. It will help you achieve much better value for money. Quality management of your project’s scope, technologies and costs will determine how successful your project will be.

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TimeCamp

JANUARY 18, 2018

Are you a startup owner or are planning to set it up? It may not be an easy enterprise. It takes much effort, perseverance, and is often a struggle. Not all startups managed to survive the battle with competition but the rest of them didn’t perish. They are successful and make their customers happy, as it is in the case of TimeCamp. The fight is real but it’s not that difficult to win.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 13, 2018

No plan survives contact with the enemy - Field Marshall Helmuth von Moltke (1800 - 1891). This quote is often used by those in the agile community as an excuse for not having a Plan. von Moltke's quote means in practice that The tactical result of an engagement forms the base for new strategic decisions because victory or defeat in a battle changes the situation to such a degree that no human is able to see beyond the first battle.

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Manufacturing Estimate Agile Defining 35

Speaker: Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions

Is your manufacturing operation reaching its efficiency potential? A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) could be the game-changer, helping you reduce waste, cut costs, and lower your carbon footprint. Join Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions, in this value-packed webinar as he breaks down how MES can drive operational excellence and sustainability.

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Project Bliss

JANUARY 15, 2018

?. Book Review for Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain. Spark by John Ratey will motivate you to get moving. Ratey goes in-depth with research and the science behind how exercise makes you smarter. . You might be wondering why I’m reviewing a book about exercise for a project management and leadership blog. After all, these books are usually found on fitness blogs.

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Workzone

JANUARY 16, 2018

Requests from every department. Quick deadlines. That was the situation for the marketing department of the Division of Extended Learning and Outreach (or affectionately called DELO) at Western Kentucky University. WKU is a public university with approximately 20,000 students. This division is the outreach arm of the WKU. Through partnerships with faculty, academic departments, businesses and organizations, DELO offers a wide variety of for-credit and non-credit programs to students of all ages,

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TimeCamp

JANUARY 19, 2018

There is no one else than Kamil Rudnicki, CEO of Time Solutions LLC and the developer of TimeCamp, a time management tool, who can boast of such a long usage of the software. During 10 years of TC maintenance, at first privately by the owner himself, then commercially by more than 70 thousand users, the CEO has tracked all his computer activity. Therefore, he is probably the only person in the world who is able to determine which of computer applications or processes he has used most often.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 18, 2018

A goal without a Plan is just a Wish - Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944). Plans are strategies, strategies are a hypothesis, a hypothesis requires tests to assess their validity. Without a Plan, you have no means of knowing what Done looks like, until you run out of time, money, or patience of those paying you to produce value. Since all projects operate in the presence of uncertainty (reducible and irreducible) estimates must be made for the decision necessary to follow the Plan needed to re

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