Project Risk Coach

JANUARY 29, 2018

Perhaps you are like me. You have lots of thoughts darting around in your mind. If you are looking for a way to sort and organize your thoughts, let’s look at the benefits of keeping a project journal. Project managers are busy people, often managing multiple projects. During the course of a day, you may encounter all kinds of things–schedule conflicts, people issues, poor leadership by your sponsors, too many meetings, and scope creep, to name a few.

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Project Bliss

JANUARY 29, 2018

Does work always take longer than you expect it will? You make a commitment or plan a task, and it always takes twice as long as you thought it would? I became more aware of this when I had a daughter. Just getting out the door in the morning suddenly took ten times longer than before. But I’ve also noticed this is the case with many other things.

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Musings on Project Management

JANUARY 27, 2018

Garbage in; garbage out. GIGO to the rest of us Re GIGO, this issue is raised frequently when I talk about Monte Carlo. simulation, and the GIGO thing is not without merit.

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Kiron Bondale

JANUARY 28, 2018

Changing mindset is all the rage in the agile community. Years of failed transformations which started with practice, methodology or tooling changes are convincing many that changing the hearts and minds of all stakeholders involved in value delivery provides a more safer road to organizational agility. But how do we change people’s minds? We aren’t trying to change what they do as that results in superficial agility, we want to change how they think about what they do.

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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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Online PM Courses

JANUARY 29, 2018

As your experience as a Project Manager grows, you will be increasingly called upon to manage multiple projects. And this does not just apply to full time Project managers… Over the years, I have been asked about this by a lot of managers and professionals. They have been tasked with two or more projects to manage, on top of their day-to-day job.

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Musings on Project Management

JANUARY 30, 2018

Yikes! My backlog is blocked! How can this be? We're agile. or maybe we've become de-agiled. Can that happen? Ah yes, we're agile, but perhaps not everything in the portfolio is agile; indeed, perhaps not everything in the project is agile. In the event, coupling the culprit Coupling? Coupling is system engineering speak for transferring one effect onto another, or causing an effect by.

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Zen Project Management

JANUARY 31, 2018

I had an interesting experience recently. I was working with a team as they went thru their sprint planning. They had figured out their capacity based on yesterday's weather and their average amount of interrupt. The product owner suggested the sprint goal and they started picking stories based on the goal. They reached the point where one more story met the sprint goal, but put them over their estimated capacity.

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Redbooth

JANUARY 30, 2018

The average Slack user sends 70 messages per day. The average office worker sends and receives over 120 emails per day. Too often, being an effective communicator comes at the cost of significant time and productivity. But what if you could find a way to cut down the volume, get answers faster, and keep that pesky knock brush at bay? The answer is more context, and less content.

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LiquidPlanner

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Leadership is one of those words that we come across that has a multitude of meanings. Does it mean to give direction? Does it mean to set a vision and motivate others? Or, does it mean what it meant to Eisenhower: “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”? How about it means all of these, and much, much more when it comes to project leadership.

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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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Digite

JANUARY 29, 2018

Introduction. More and more Agile teams have started to adopt Kanban as a way to improve beyond what Scrum enabled them to do, as also to address some of the challenges that Scrum presented them with. As a result, many people have attempted to compare and contrast Scrum and Kanban in a variety of “Scrum vs. Kanban” sessions in conferences, webinars and online posts.

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Online PM Courses

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Kanban originated in the manufacturing sector. But, recently, it has become a popular approach to managing projects. This is especially as it has been developed into an Agile Project Management methodology. So, what is Kanban? So, what is Kanban? Dr Mike Clayton is founder of Online PM Courses.com. Here, he answers this question, in under 5 minutes.

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Techno-PM

JANUARY 30, 2018

How Do You Identify and Create an Impactful Project Status Report? Would you know a high-quality project status report if you saw one? Don’t worry; most people wouldn’t. And that really is a shame because in today’s fast-paced world of modern business, there’s no better way of delivering crucial data to stakeholders than a well-crafted project status report.

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LiquidPlanner

JANUARY 30, 2018

The great George Carlin did a classic routine about the differences between baseball and football that shows a comic at the top of his game without using any of the seven words you can’t say on TV. Inspired by Carlin, I thought it would be interesting to compare the championships of the top two American sports from a project management perspective. To fully appreciate this piece, imagine the bullet points being read by George Carlin.

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Velociteach

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

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TimeCamp

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Small businesses may have it difficult to stand out in the market, taking into.

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Prince2

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

It’s Super Bowl weekend, so (naturally) we’re thinking about project management. We’re not, however, going to discuss the processes and logistics that go into organising an event like this. We’re going to outline why a football game is just like a project. How so? We hear you ask. Well, as anyone who’s studied project management will know – its processes and themes all find mirrors in everyday life.

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Workzone

JANUARY 29, 2018

Now’s the time. Change is possible. You can communicate more effectively, be more efficient with your work and get faster approvals–possibly with even fewer meetings. Too good to be true? It depends on if you establish your processes and the work you put in to manage your actual work. To help you do that, we asked our project management support specialists and customer success managers at Workzone about ways to improve (see their answers below).

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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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GanttPRO Project Management

JANUARY 29, 2018

It’s difficult to find a project where no problems occur. There will always be issues with tasks, deadlines, and assignees. No one and nothing will secure your plans from poor […].

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 29, 2018

There's a popular notion in Agile that says Focus on Value. The principles of microeconomics of decision making in the presence of uncertainty mandates you make estimates of how to achieve that Value in terms of cost and schedule, those three (and all) variables are random variables, usually driven by a stochastic process. This process can be stationary (unchanging distribution) or non-stationary (a changing distribution function).

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Celoxis

JANUARY 30, 2018

Celoxis has been identified as one of the best software and services companies in India, based on its high levels of customer satisfaction and likeliness to recommend ratings from real G2 Crowd users. India’s B2B tech scene is infused with the country’s advancements in artificial intelligence, digital payments, and other technologies.

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Workzone

JANUARY 30, 2018

So, where should you start searching for project management software? How do you sift through all the choices available to you? You probably already have…. …but don’t just Google “project management software”. It’s going to hurt your brain. There’s so many choices out there that serve every industry imaginable (or say they do) and track projects in different ways.

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Speaker: Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions

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Appfluence

JANUARY 30, 2018

Email Management. The Pervasiveness of Emails. Managing emails effectively is a vital part of workplace communication in this day and age. The purpose of emails is to allow for quick communication and an easy-to-access record of your conversation. However, while email allows you to reach virtually anybody, whether the person you are reaching is in your office or across the world, email seems to universally cut into productivity.

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TimeCamp

JANUARY 30, 2018

One of the challenges every company, or a freelancer working individually, has to face is.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 28, 2018

When you use a technology term to describe a customer value you've lost the customer. And you've made 1000 assumptions without knowing! Without a domain and context, this statement has no meaning. . Let's say we use a technical term like Command & Data Handling. . The Command and Data Handling subsystem is essentially the "brains" of the orbiter and controls all spacecraft functions.

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Celoxis

JANUARY 29, 2018

The experts from B2B software directory CompareCamp performed a thorough analysis of Celoxis, examining all aspects of our product — from main functionalities and collaboration features to integrations and ease of use. Celoxis generated highly positive remarks, thus their experts awarded us their Great User Experience and Rising Star awards.

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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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