The Digital Project Manager

APRIL 23, 2019

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Project Risk Coach

APRIL 22, 2019

This is a guest article by Dana Brownlee from professionalismmatters.com. One of the most common questions I get when speaking to groups is “How do you deliver a difficult message to/push back on senior leaders – particularly the difficult ones?” I certainly understand the popularity of the question because that’s a sticky situation for sure. While project managers and others often find themselves in opposition to the boss’ ideas, recommendations, or preferred course of action, telling the boss

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GoSkills

APRIL 23, 2019

Why having strong project scheduling techniques is important.

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Online PM Courses

APRIL 21, 2019

One my best decisions was to get a mentor. We didn’t meet often, or formally, but she made a real difference to my confidence. How can you get yourself one? The post How to Get Yourself a Project Management Mentor appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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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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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 23, 2019

ProjectManager.com is well-known as the premier software for planning projects, and with today’s major release, we’re adding powerful new features—transforming our award-winning software into a central hub where teams can work, plan and achieve amazing things together. Today, with the launch of the all new ProjectManager.com, we’re going way beyond traditional project planning!

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Project Bliss

APRIL 25, 2019

Starbursting brainstorming is a structured technique to help your team come up with lots of ideas in many different focus areas. Use this approach to easily guide your team to generate tons of ideas for your product or service. Does the idea of brainstorming make you anxious? Do your brainstorming sessions run dry quickly? Or do you wish you had a more structured approach to lead the team to create more ideas?

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Scrum.org

APRIL 24, 2019

Quite a few teams in organizations implementing Scrum depict their frustration in statements like “Scrum is driving us crazy!”, “It’s too chaotic!”, “As if we didn’t have enough meetings, now we have to deal with a ton more!”, “So many metrics we need to improve upon?!?”. With the discussion that follows, it becomes fairly apparent that problem lies elsewhere.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 24, 2019

Business might appear to have no rule other than making profits at any cost, but there’s a method to its madness. While making money is the overriding mandate of any for-profit enterprise, each individual organization is governed by its own set of standards and practices. Those standards and practices are called corporate governance, and they are going to influence your project.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 26, 2019

Let’s look at the project planning process and how you can make it work to your advantage! This quick 11 minute video offers you hints and tips for project planning. The post Project Planning Process appeared first on Girl's Guide to Project Management.

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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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LiquidPlanner

APRIL 23, 2019

You’re eager to start a new project and jump right in without trying to make order out of and find meaning in everything that needs to get done. How much time do you spend scratching your head, wondering what to do next or even how or where to start? Having a good plan is the most important strategy for getting a project done. Here are five steps to help you organize your work so you can sail through the project cycle while spinning your wheels as little as possible. 1.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 25, 2019

I always assume that the people I work with are professionals - and not children. This is why I don’t like maturity models in whatever shape or form. And we’ve got a lot of those in our industry. We have maturity models about development practices, about Leadership, about Scrum Teams, Scrum Masters and Product Owners. And about skills in general (Shu-Ha-Ri, anyone?).

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 25, 2019

Setting up an automated email campaign is just step one in achieving more conversions. An automated campaign will save you time and resources, but if you only think of it as the same email you would have sent manually, just on a larger scale, then you’re not really tapping into the potential of email marketing automation. It’s time to start thinking outside of the traditional email marketing box when planning your next marketing campaign.

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Planio

APRIL 25, 2019

Let’s say you’re sitting in a meeting with your team. Unfortunately, it’s not going well. The project you’ve spent months on is suddenly on the rocks. Things are unclear and you need a way forward. People start throwing out ideas but they’ve all been done before. You need something creative. The room goes silent. Creativity is the lifeblood of companies.

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Inloox

APRIL 25, 2019

Relevance of Project Management According to the PMI "Pulse of the Profession" report (2018), only 58 percent of companies acknowledge the value of project management. The importance of full acknowledgement of project management cannot be emphasized enough. For example, organizations that underestimate project management as a strategic competence for promoting change report on average 50 percent more failures in their projects.

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Kiron Bondale

APRIL 21, 2019

The old saying about committees came to mind when I was considering the default approach companies often use to achieving a control objective. Bringing together diverse perspectives can help to reduce bias, but in many cases a simpler approach might result in a better outcome. Let’s focus on the specific example of a solution architecture review.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 26, 2019

If you’re managing digital projects, I have a few ideas you might find interesting. I’ve worked with a lot of project managers in the enterprise software space on some large and expensive projects, and I noticed a few things. . First, it’s a really hard job. For reasons I won’t get into here, most enterprise software projects start out with a charter that’s problematic, and many of them fail— in some categories more than 50%.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 24, 2019

A Metaphorical Journey. As we guide clients through organizational Transformation, we apply our System of Transformation incrementally via Expeditions. An Expedition is a “journey” from the current state to a goal state, starting wherever the client organization may be in our Compass model, and striving to reach a milestone in the Transformation that we represent as a “Basecamp,” in keeping with a mountain-climbing or hiking metaphor.

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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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LiquidPlanner

APRIL 25, 2019

Previously, we discussed the onboarding and adoption stages that companies go through when they integrate LiquidPlanner into their daily workflow. This week, we’ll be covering the third and final stages: refining and optimization. Refining. The refining stage tends to kick in once you’ve been using LiquidPlanner long enough to focus on proactively managing project risk.

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PM Basics

APRIL 22, 2019

Before I became a project manager I was a sailor. During one of the voyages, I had a morning shift on the bridge for four months. In 20 minutes after the shift, there was breakfast. So, these 20 minutes were kind of useless. You can’t do anything with them. Except learning. 20 minutes a day for four months gave me 40 hours of pure reading. That’s ended up with about eight books.

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Scoro

APRIL 22, 2019

Everyone has some ideas on how to better manage their time and energy. However, there seems to be this common understanding that we have to choose between the two. What if, instead of choosing one over another we can actually manage both at the same time? This 7-minute read will give you insight on how to improve your productivity with both time and energy management.

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Trello

APRIL 23, 2019

Is there anything more satisfying than completing a long checklist of to-do tasks? The simple act of crossing off items on your to-do list is a blissful feeling.

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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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Leading Agile

APRIL 25, 2019

Metrics are important. Tracking work is important. “What gets measured gets done.” But, if you don’t understand why you’re measuring things, or what the problem you’re trying to solve when you begin measuring things—no amount of metrics is going to help. . In this episode of SoundNotes, LeadingAgile Senior Consultant, Jessica Wolfe and Dave Prior talk about metrics and how important it is to understand what problem you’re trying to solve when you begin using metrics to

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Wrike

APRIL 25, 2019

Wrike is excited to welcome Krystal from GoSkills for today’s guest blog post. Krystal does all things marketing at GoSkills, an online learning company that helps anyone learn business skills to reach their personal and professional goals. When she’s not at work, you can find her listening to podcasts or watching comedy specials on Netflix. .

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Scoro

APRIL 22, 2019

Everyone has some ideas on how to better manage their time and energy. However, there seems to be this common understanding that we have to choose between the two. What if, instead of choosing one over another we can actually manage both at the same time? This 7-minute read will give you insight on how to improve your productivity with both time and energy management.

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Inloox

APRIL 25, 2019

Relevance of Project Management According to the PMI "Pulse of the Profession" report (2018), only 58 percent of companies acknowledge the value of project management. The importance of full acknowledgement of project management cannot be emphasized enough. For example, organizations that underestimate project management as a strategic competence for promoting change report on average 50 percent more failures in their projects.

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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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