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How To Build Trust In Your Client & Business Relationships

The Digital Project Manager

What is the most valuable asset any professional, project manager, or agency can have? Trust. The post How To Build Trust In Your Client & Business Relationships appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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5 tips for resource forecasting in project management

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Five Things to Start and Five Things to Stop in Requirements Management

Project Risk Coach

According to PMI, "47% of unsuccessful projects fail to meet goals due to poor requirements management." Wow! Requirements are a pretty big deal. Let's look at five things to start and five things to stop in requirements management. 5 Things to Start Identify and engage appropriate stakeholders. Project managers who work in a matrix environment should seek resource approval from stakeholder's managers early in the project.

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Agile Practices: How to Run a Lean Coffee

Project Bliss

The term Lean Coffee doesn’t sound like a productive meeting session. But that’s EXACTLY what it’s intended to be. It’s structured in a way that allows participants to quickly talk through various topics they choose in a short amount of time. Sounds promising, you say? But then isn’t that what OFTEN happens in meetings with no structure? People just sit around and talk…and there’s often no value.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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11 Ways to Build the Strengths of Your Team Members

LiquidPlanner

To lead a top-performing team, you need to do more than direct and delegate work. Truly effective managers can recognize the unique strengths of each team member and optimize all those natural gifts. If you’re in a leadership position, this might sound like a daunting task, but it’s not. The first step is to identify each person’s strengths and then manage around those essential skills.

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GamePlan Project Management Software Review [2019]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This is a review of GamePlan software using Firefox browser and Safari on my iPad, in April 2019. General Information. Name: GamePlan. Vendor: GamePlan Global Solutions Inc. Hosting options: Cloud only. Languages: I didn’t see any options to change the software language. GamePlan Pricing: Free 7-day trial. The paid option is $19 per user per month (cheaper if you buy it annually).

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What does the Scrum Master do all day?

Scrum.org

. It was 8:59 am on Monday. It is another week which I think is going to be amazing. Last week our company just got another round of investment. The company is now strategizing to scale agility throughout the company. . As I was rushing to the office I met Ahmed at the front of the office as he was going to the pantry to get some coffee. Ahmed is our Chief Financial Officer. .

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How To Calculate The Cost of Project Management In Your Project Estimate?

The Digital Project Manager

The post How To Calculate The Cost of Project Management In Your Project Estimate? appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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The Importance of Data Governance for Business

ProjectManager.com

Much as a librarian is responsible for organizing a large collection of books, organizations must have a set protocol for managing the information they collect when doing business. Not being able to find or protect data makes for a dangerous precedent. While companies might hire someone with a library science degree to help them organize large amounts of data, that is only a part of what is needed.

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The 2nd Generation of Innovation Management: A Survival Guide

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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Lessons Learned in Project Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In my experience, most project managers feel that they could ‘do’ lessons learned better. We all know that capturing lessons learned is an essential part of making sure that future projects go well, but capturing and sharing them seems to be something that we don’t feel we do particularly effectively. And it isn’t surprising – managing lessons learned is hard to do well on a project.

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5 Critical Setbacks in Agile Transformation!

Scrum.org

We have been experiencing a radical change in terms of market dynamics and economic models for the last few decades. In fact, we are shifting from a world where giant companies are kings to a world where clients are kings, in other words, from a production-oriented world to a new service-based world. This radical and great change also affects the company structures and ways of doing business.

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Just because you have information radiators doesn’t mean senior stakeholders will review them!

Kiron Bondale

Information radiators are a great idea. After all, who wouldn’t want to reduce the effort involved in keeping stakeholders up-to-date about a product or project or increase the consistency in messaging to all stakeholders? But convincing executives to use information radiators as a primary means of staying current is not an easy task. Yes, there might be a few early adopters who are open to trying a different way but most are likely to prefer to receive these updates the way they’ve

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The first thing you do to reduce risk.

Musings on Project Management

The first thing you do to reduce risk. is: loosen the coupling between sources of effects. Create buffers; remove dependencies; install redundancy. This is a concept from System Engineering (buffers, dampers, redundancy; but also loose tolerances; fuses; barriers and walls.

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The Constructor's Digital Transformation Playbook: Reducing Risk With Technology

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.

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Pollution – Why we replaced horses with automobiles

Green Project Management

Henry Ford never said people wanted faster horses, “what they wanted was less horseshit” (Flowers, 2014). It was a little more complicated than that, but you get the general point. The lesson of this post is that too much of anything can be bad, and we need to look at the whole asset life-cycle system […]. The post Pollution – Why we replaced horses with automobiles appeared first on Delivering a better world, one project at a time.

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How Do 200+ Scrum Masters Deal With Problems Outside Of Their Control?

Scrum.org

Changing the way we work is extremely difficult?—?we all know this. It requires us to find novel solutions to wicked challenges, to deal with cultural baggage (‘the way we do things here’) and to bring along the people needed to make a change successful. And yet, this difficult challenge is a core responsibility of Scrum Masters: How can your organisation work effectively with Scrum if it is not considering the entire system?

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Artificial Intelligence In Project Management: Pros & Cons

ProProfs Project Management

The advent of artificial intelligence (AI) has raised various questions and theories among people. Right from “whether AI is ethical?” to “how exactly will it change the world?”, there are numerous questions that are yet to be unanswered. But, what about the questions we can answer? AI has already begun revolutionizing various aspects of our lives such as online shopping, and it definitely has brought in a change for the better.

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To simplify. or not?

Musings on Project Management

Shim Marom has interesting post on complexity wherein he says this: "A lack of an intellectual capacity to grasp a complex system is not a sufficient argument or drive for simplification. If you artificially simplify a complex system you end up with a different system that, while simpler, is fundamentally and conceptually different from the one you started with and thus, simplification.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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Why Your Project Timeline Is Inaccurate (and How to Fix It)

Wrike

You’ve heard everybody talk about how crucial a project timeline is, but if you’re being brutally honest, that’s hardly ever been your personal experience. Sure, you start each project by sketching out a rough schedule — mostly because you feel like you have to. But so far that step has felt like an unnecessary formality and even a colossal waste of time.

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Introduction to Creative Reframing

Scrum.org

Creative reframing is an excellent facilitation and professional coaching technique that allows you to explore problems from various, sometimes unusual and unexpected angles. In the next video , I will talk about some strategies that an agile coach can use with the creative reframing. Want to learn more about creative reframing and other facilitation techniques?

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Fixed Mindset vs. Growth Mindset – The Two Mindsets Explained

nTask

There are two types of mindsets in the world – a fixed mindset vs. growth mindset. Without a doubt, our minds are one of the most powerful things on Earth. The things that you grow up telling yourself will likely end up forming your personality in the long run. Which brings us to the two kinds of mindsets people generally have. Are you someone who loves challenges and don’t shy away from new experiments?

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Top Solutions to Project Failure – Epicflow Research Part 2

Epicflow Blog

We all dream of reaching maximum success with our teams and projects, even though project failure is common. We’ve surveyed members of LinkedIn PM communities to find out what leads to project failure. Over 200 PM experts from ExxonMobil, INEOS, DXC Technology, and other companies have shared their experience and proved that it’s a super hot topic. We’ve also received lots of great ideas on how to overcome the causes of project failure.

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The GTM Intelligence Era: ZoomInfo 2025 Customer Impact Report

ZoomInfo customers aren’t just selling — they’re winning. Revenue teams using our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform grew pipeline by 32%, increased deal sizes by 40%, and booked 55% more meetings. Download this report to see what 11,000+ customers say about our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform and how it impacts their bottom line. The data speaks for itself!

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Is your reactive mindset preventing you from being a project leader?

Susanne Madsen

I tend to refer to Project Leadership as the epitome of good project management – or as an extension of traditional project management. Project Leadership is the art and science of leading successful change, and ensuring that we add as much value as possible to our organization, teams and customers. Project leadership is as much about vision , innovation , engagement and people as it is about tasks, plans and resources.

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The Scrum Glossary and the Scrum Values are now also available in Belarusian and Vietnamese

Gunther Verheyen

Thanks to the hard work of Vasili Shymanski and Khoa Doan, the international versions of the Scrum Glossary and the Scrum Values have been expanded with Belarusian and Vietnamese. Download your PDF of the Scrum Glossary , your PDF of the Scrum Values and your poster of the international Scrum Values. Share and use them as you see fit. The descriptions are now available in more than 20 different languages.

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Search Engine Marketing Defined & Where SEO Fits In

ProjectManager.com

Over the past few years, there has been some confusion on what exactly is included under the search engine marketing (SEM) umbrella in terms of marketing tactics. One marketer may say that SEM covers the act of marketing a website via any search marketing activities, while another may say it only refers to paid search marketing activities. This is obviously a huge contradiction and is not only confusing for green marketers, but for seasoned clients seeking to profit from marketing projects.

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Top 7 Leadership Articles: Spring Edition

Epicflow Blog

There’s quite a lot of long-standing advice on how to be a good leader, yet times change and so should you. To be a good leader in our day and age, you need a different set of skills than were needed a decade or even a year ago. We’ve analyzed this spring’s leadership articles in top business publications including MIT Sloan Management Review, Inc., and Forbes and highlighted the most useful insights on how to be an empowering leader in 2019.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

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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25 Practical Project Team Development Practices

Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

Project managers don’t usually have a specific budget for team development, and yet, as the PMBoK says, teamwork is a critical factor for project success, and developing effective project tea ms is one of the primary responsibilities of the project manager. Of course, there are many dimensions to team leadership. However, this article looks at just one aspect of this – how to balance the competing imperatives of work delivery versus team development.

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How to Manage Multiple Projects Webinar

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In this webinar we discuss tips and strategies for managing multiple projects. The post How to Manage Multiple Projects Webinar appeared first on Girl's Guide to Project Management.

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Are You Speaking The Right Language for Team Recognition?

Proofhub

How to Say “Team Recognition” in 5 Different Languages. Try These Out at Your Workplace In 1995 Dr. Gary Chapman published a book called The Five Love Languages. It describes five ways to show and experience love mainly in the relationship with your mate. In his follow up book, The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace , Dr. Chapman and Paul White use the same concepts in the workplace.

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