Rebel’s Guide to PM
MARCH 19, 2018
Project managers are often in a position where their boss is someone several levels above them in the hierarchy and they don’t spend a lot of time with their actual line manager. You guessed it: I’m talking about working for a project sponsor. Many of my project sponsors have been C-suite individuals with plenty of other demands on their time than answering my emails.
Ron Rosenhead
MARCH 20, 2018
I have worked in many companies delivering project management training where there appears to be an issue with my clients complaining that their clients keep changing the specification of work. In order to dig a little deeper I have asked my own clients ask a number of simple questions: What have you done to really tease out client needs/expectations?
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Planio
MARCH 21, 2018
It’s every project owner’s greatest fear. You spent months grueling to build a product you think your customers will love. Your dreams are filled with TechCrunch features and top spots on Product Hunt. The big day arrives. You flip the switch, and…. … Crickets. To avoid this scenario for your next product launch, we'll give you a step-by-step playbook for successful product launches.
Project Risk Coach
MARCH 19, 2018
Earlier I wrote about eights ways to treat risks. One of the risk responses is avoidance. The focus of this strategy is to ensure the risk does not occur by eliminating the cause of the risk. Call the Fire Department. It was Fall, and I had raked the leaves in my backyard into three piles. I was trying to decide what to do with them. I knew there was a ban on burning in my area since we had been extremely dry for months.
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?
Entry
MARCH 21, 2018
A Chief Information Officer (CIO) by definition is an executive job title commonly given to the person at an enterprise in charge of information technology (IT) strategy and the computer systems required to support an enterprise’s objectives and goals. With the evolution of technology, this role has become more and more important in business, making the CIO’s job ever more crucial.
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Project Bliss
MARCH 20, 2018
As a project manager, you’ve got to get the best from your team to meet goals and deadlines. And you need to do so without formal management authority. But do you wonder how to motivate your team to do their best work so your project is successful? You need your team to meet deadlines and targets. But if you’re not their functional manager, you need to know how to do so in ways that work.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
MARCH 21, 2018
Today is World Poetry Day. And in honour of the event, the wonderful Robert Prol has once again allowed me to share some of his great haiku with you. (You can read some of his other poems here and here , and buy his book (affiliate link) here. Enjoy! I planned my whole day. It was to be productive. Then I checked email. I sent five emails. No one responded to me.
The IIL Blog
MARCH 22, 2018
By Erik Krisko, Enterprise Transformation Coach and Consultant. I feel very fortunate to have the opportunity to present at this year’s 2018 Agile and Scrum Online Conference , hosted by the International Institute for Learning (IIL). In my session “From Freight Train to Airplane: The Automotive Transformation”, I discuss Enterprise Transformation efforts taking place to prepare one of the World’s largest automakers for the ‘Consumer of Tomorrow’, and the challenges in doing so.
Redbooth
MARCH 20, 2018
If project success rates were a movie, they’d be a horror film. Numerous studies across industries have put the numbers at well below 50 percent. But why do so many projects fail? Projects break down for a number of reasons. Poor planning, overambitious deadlines, weak leadership, difficult clients—you may have experienced all of the above. We all know hindsight is 20/20.
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.
LiquidPlanner
MARCH 20, 2018
Managing a distributed project team takes real skill and a definite commitment to putting a governance structure in place that enables success. This is a cardinal rule that I learned firsthand nearly two decades ago managing project teams in Korea, and it stuck with me through my career in the military. The take-away I learned with a distributed project team: a virtual presence is an absolute absence.
Online PM Courses
MARCH 19, 2018
Project closure is often viewed as an afterthought by Project Managers: We’re done, let’s run.’ But projects can become like a dripping tap. You tighten the faucet a bit more, but it still keeps dripping. What my friend, Ron Rosenhead , refers unglamorously to as ‘project dribble’ Yet one of the most influential project management training sessions I ever attended, early in my PM career (by Paul O’Neill) identified the basics of project management in three les
Digite
MARCH 19, 2018
In part 2 of this series, Christophe looks at the very Swedish phenomenon of Kanban going “man-cold”! As teams implement their early Kanban boards, they inevitably face the reality of the gap between what they are actually used to doing vs. what they put on their Kanban board. (We have posted about this phenomenon earlier as well!) Here, Christophe explains why this happens – and what to do about it quickly so as to not fall into the Policy Debt-trap!
Ganttic
MARCH 18, 2018
Collaboration is a part of communication and a huge factor in projects’ success. While collaboration is something that might seem too abstract to properly manage, it can be done. And when your team is really collaborating, you’ll witness a never-ending discussion that adds extra value to each of your projects. A change in the timeline will be a hiccup, not a catastrophe.
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Boost by Brightpod
MARCH 21, 2018
The reason we decided to move our blog from a subdomain on Medium to a subfolder on Webflow. Here's a detailed narration of the entire process along with a useful checklist in case you are planning a similar move.
Taskque
MARCH 21, 2018
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traversed, and that has made all the difference.” ~Robert Frost. Unfortunately in a cut-throat business setting, decision-making is not that simple. You can’t just embark on a path and wait for the course to unravel itself. Although taking risks is necessary for growth, even more important is to take calculated risks.
Growing Agile
MARCH 22, 2018
After a long break from blogging I’ve decided its time to get back into it. A lot has happened. So let me use this blog post to bring you up to speed… Sam joined a tiny startup called SprintHive in Cape Town for 6 months. Here she had a lot of fun, exploring and experimenting with company culture – many posts on this too follow. Karen did around 5 months of consulting to various customers.
Planview
MARCH 23, 2018
Most businesses want PPM solutions that can be deployed in the IT organization run by certified, full-time product managers and can be deployed within IT, product development, or professional services departments. The bottom line is to drive the right projects and initiatives for on time, on budget delivery. But what about the accidental project manager?
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.
Paymo App
MARCH 21, 2018
In the first part of this guide, I talked about why you need a plan to manage projects and why so many beginner project managers overlook this part. I also showed you how you can create a to-do list and make time and cost estimates. For this second part, I’ll get into more detail regarding what it takes to execute a plan and how to get closer to finishing a project on schedule without changing your budget.
Herding Cats
MARCH 21, 2018
Some acquisition policies express a strong preference for fixed-price contracts in contracting. Firm-fixed-price contracts are depicted as existing on the extreme left of the continuum of risk. As we progress through the various fixed-price flavors and into cost-type contracts, the assertion is that risk shifts from the vendor to the supplier. . This assertion appears reasonable, but this belief makes the assumption that there is goodness that results in shifting risk to the supplier.
Growing Agile
MARCH 22, 2018
After a long break from blogging I’ve decided its time to get back into it. A lot has happened. So let me use this blog post to bring you up to speed… Sam joined a tiny startup called SprintHive in Cape Town for 6 months. Here she had a lot of fun, exploring and experimenting with company culture – many posts on this too follow. Karen did around 5 months of consulting to various customers.
Entry
MARCH 21, 2018
With the evolution of technology, this role has become more and more important in business, making the CIO's job ever more crucial. Learn more about their unique responsibilities and growing importance in modern business. The post Knowing the Role of Business: Chief Information Officer (CIO) appeared first on Entry Software Corporation.
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.
Function Point
MARCH 21, 2018
8 Agency Templates You Need in Your Toolkit. At Function Point, we don’t just make great agency software: we believe in helping our customers work more efficiently, save money, and build sustainable agencies that grow. Whether you’re looking to perfect your creative briefs or seeking new ways to improve your project management processes, we’ve got free downloadable templates that can help you improve agency productivity.
Herding Cats
MARCH 18, 2018
There is a popular fallacy in the Agile community that small batch sizes are Risk Management. What small batches do is provide information that informs risk management at a fast rate. Small batch sizes answer the question. How long are you willing to wait before you find out you are late? But there is a larger principle at work here. . The sampling rate of a dynamic process under control.
ActiveCollab
MARCH 21, 2018
As those of you on our newsletter mailing list already know, we recently sat down and gave our blog a long, hard look. Not just the numbers behind it (though, those as well), but philosophical queries pertaining to its very existence. Why we are writing it, who are we writing it for, and, most importantly - what do we want to accomplish with it? It’s simple questions like these that often prove the hardest to answer, but also the most rewarding to think about.
Stepping Into Project Management
MARCH 22, 2018
Who do you consider to be a creative? Are they people who have the freedom to pursue their art, are they people who value their freedom- freelancers and artists? What about you? All of us are creative as a child, as we get trained more and more in our schools we all fall for the mundane, we forget who we are and become what we are expected to be. Creativity as it seems comes with a price, in her article Nancy C.
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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.
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