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Project Controls: A Quick Guide

ProjectManager.com

If something bad is going to happen on a project, it’s likely related to time, cost or scope. Project managers are well aware of this and spend much of their time planning in order to avoid negative risk and its potential impact. There are many tools that can mitigate risk in a project, but it also takes skill in something called project controls. Like the name implies, project controls are about controlling the project and keeping it from exceeding budgets and deadlines.

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WBS and Product Backlog: Siblings or Distant Cousins?

Leading Answers

It’s easy to believe that work breakdown structures (WBS) have been around since the pyramids were built in Egypt, and that product backlogs are new inventions by youngsters in too much of a hurry to plan correctly. However, like most things, the truth is more complicated. In 1957, the Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) approach was created by the United States Department of Defense (DoD) and described organizing tasks into product-oriented categories.

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6 Things I didn’t know about being a project manager

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I decided to be a project manager. Admittedly, it wasn’t until I started working that I knew such a job existed, but when I realised I did, I knew it was for me. However, even though I thought I knew what I was letting myself in for there were still some things I didn’t know about being a project manager before throwing myself into the job. Here are 6 things I learned about being a project manager – things I didn’t know back in 2000 when I started out. 1.

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A Beginner's Guide to Resource Planning in Project Management

Workamajig

Resource planning and management is crucial for project management success. Master this skill with these resource management tips. The first thing you’ll learn as a rookie project manager is this: Managing projects means managing resources. It doesn’t matter what kind of organization you work in - a factory, a construction firm, a marketing agency - your success will depend on people, i.e. your resources.

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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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How Organisations Can Set up New Project Leaders for Success

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This is a guest post from Varada Patwardhan from Xebrio. This is the story of my friend Angela, see if you relate. Angela always excelled at playing leader or manager at group projects growing up. She believed that she was destined to lead. College, a few odd jobs, and an internship later, she landed a job as a design engineer and got to work on some exciting and challenging projects.

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3 Ways to Improve Life for Women in Project Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

So many column inches, blog posts and books have been written about why there’s a gender pay gap. This book is my favourite, but frankly I’m bored of the ‘why’ already. I only have to look round my office to see the reasons why. What I’m interested in is how to eradicate it. And in our world of project delivery that starts with looking at what it means to take a senior project leadership job.

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Learning Leadership: A Guide to Improving your Leadership Skills.

MindGenius

One thing I know from personal experience is that it’s never easy to be a leader. Whether you’re a managing a project, a group leader in a university project or even being captain of a sports team, being a leader is one of the most difficult and most accountable roles you could have, but also one of the most rewarding. That being said, natural leadership doesn’t always have to come from a position of management.

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Agile Project Governance: It Should be Easy

Project Management Essentials

Many organizations struggle with project governance, oversight, and control. The truth is that most projects are not successful. Over the past 25-years, only 30% of all projects are delivered on-time, on-budget, and with the desired scope. Traditional waterfall projects have phase gates that theoretically establish defined control and governance points.

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Come and join your Tribe at #ThePMTribe

The Lazy Project Manager

So, what is #ThePMTribe? It is a collaborative community with six of the brightest minds in Project Management leading discussions and sharing ideas to help you solve your challenges, increase your influence and accelerate your career! Who are the Faculty? Alana M. Hill – Alana has had a colorful career in project and program management spanning more than two decades, several functions and multiple continents.

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Breaking Ground on Better Payment Processes: Strategies for Construction Pros

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.

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Best Kanban Software of 2020

ProjectManager.com

Kanban, which means billboard or signboard in Japanese, is a work management system developed by Taiichi Ohno, an industrial engineer at Toyota. Kanban is executed with a board and a collection of cards that move across a series of columns, which indicate progress and state. While kanban boards can be literal boards with cards on them, the tool has migrated to the digital realm where its usefulness has grown exponentially in a range of industries.

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32 Scrum Stakeholder Anti-Patterns

Scrum.org

TL; DR: Scrum Stakeholder Anti-Patterns. Learn how individual incentives and outdated organizational structures — fostering personal agendas and local optimization efforts — manifest themselves in Scrum stakeholder anti-patterns which easily can impede any agile transition. Do you want to get this article in your inbox? You can sign up here and join 25k other subscribers.

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Brain Sensei: PMP Training Review [2020]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Product: Brain Sensei. Certification: Project Management Professional (PMP)®? Cost: $499.99 USD for 6 months access. Are you interested in gaining your PMP certification before the exam changes in the summer of 2020 ? Brain Sensei could be the perfect course for you. Let’s find out! Overview of Brain Sensei PMP Training. Brain Sensei is a PMP® Exam Prep Course , but it’s unlike other courses I’ve seen or taken because it is based in feudal Japan.

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Use uncertainty poker to increase alignment on delivery approaches

Kiron Bondale

Part of tailoring our approach to delivering a project needs to consider its relative level of uncertainty. While it is not the only determinant of complexity, uncertainty is certainly a key contributing factor. And while there are other dimensions which need to be evaluated when deciding whether to utilize a predictive or adaptive life cycle, higher uncertainty would be a supporting factor for the latter.

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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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What Is Microsoft Project? Uses, Features and Pricing

ProjectManager.com

Microsoft has been the 800-pound gorilla in software for so long that it’s hard to think of the industry without it. While there have been challengers to its rule, and many who have surpassed it, Microsoft remains a giant. This is certainly true in project management software: a sector that has been growing steadily. No discussion of project management software would be complete without including Microsoft Project.

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How to Define a Product

Scrum.org

A question that frequently comes up in my Scrum Training courses is how to define a product. Scrum was created to help small teams solve complex problems and deliver products of the highest possible value. Scrum is used well beyond software because many teams and organizations recognize their work is complex, and they need to be nimble, creative, and value-focused.

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6 Helpful Tips for Managing International Projects

LiquidPlanner

“ Dear Elizabeth: Can you help me with starting right on an international project? I will be responsible for the delivery of 3 projects in Australia and New Zealand. I have a formal project management certification, but managing projects with international teams is new to me. Any tips?”. The principles of managing projects with international teams are the same as managing a project with a team all in your own country.

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The 10 Best GRC Tools to Navigate Risk and Compliance Concerns for Public Companies

The Digital Project Manager

The post The 10 Best GRC Tools to Navigate Risk and Compliance Concerns for Public Companies appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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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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COVID-19: A 7-Step Response Plan for Project Managers

Online PM Courses

The spread of the Coronavirus infection COVID-19 is now global. It is starting to look like many countries could see massive disruption. The post COVID-19: A 7-Step Response Plan for Project Managers appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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[VLOG] How To Create an Outcome Driven Sprint Goal

Scrum.org

Hello awesome people. I am sorry I have been away for a while since I've been busy with stuffs. Today's video is the continuation of my previous video. Just like my previous video, many of my future videos is going to refer back to this video. Other than the Definition of Done, the Sprint Goal is the other most important aspects of Scrum. It is interesting to see that many Scrum teams do not have any Sprint Goal, which makes their Sprint is no different to a mini-waterfall.

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Understanding Velocity in Agile Approaches with MS Project

MPUG

There are certain questions that usually surface in almost every project regardless of the type, domain considered, technology used, complexities associated, or strategic significance. These questions are: When will the project be completed? What are the items you can deliver by the end of the project? What are the items the team can take for the forthcoming release or iteration?

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Siberian dilemma

Musings on Project Management

The Siberian dilemma has been around a long time. The narrative goes like this: It's a seriously sub-zero day on a frozen lake You're walking across the lake and fall through a weak spot in the ice If you stay in the water, you'll die in 5 minutes; If you get out the water, you'll die in 2 minutes. The dilemma: stay in the water and live longer, or get out and die sooner?

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How to Drive Cost Savings, Efficiency Gains, and Sustainability Wins with MES

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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10 Best GoToMeeting Alternatives + Pros & Cons

The Digital Project Manager

This article will help you quickly compare and evaluate the best GoToMeeting alternatives and other. The post 10 Best GoToMeeting Alternatives + Pros & Cons appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Emergence in Scrum

Scrum.org

. This Vlog looks at the topic of Emergence from its definition as a word and application in the natural environment. Emergence in Scrum is a key principle to delivery. Emergence as applied in Scrum. The Vlog considers how emergence is applied by Scrum in four fundamental ways. From the emergence of the Product as it is developed incrementally in Sprints.

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What is Project Life Cycle and What Are its Phases

ProProfs Project Management

What do you think of leadership and management? . As project managers and even as team members of a project, we all know that leadership and management is a field on its own, even referred to as a scientific field. . Now wouldn’t it be correct to say that every project manager and every member of a team working on a particular project have the same goal, and that’s to carry out their tasks successfully and deliver expected results?

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Is Remote Work Really as Green as It Claims to Be?

Teamweek

In 1973, Jack Nilles coined the term “telecommuting ,” proposing it as a way to use technological advances in computing and communications to create alternative working spaces that would cut traffic and reduce commutes. While Nilles knew that the future of work would significantly change, he may not have imagined just how much telecommuting would disrupt the modern workplace.

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Navigating Chaos in Project Management

This text offers practical guidance for project managers navigating diverse frameworks. It covers topics like centralized reporting, standardized metrics, communication, training, risk management, and alignment reviews. By implementing these strategies, project managers can improve efficiency and achieve their project goals.