Whether you’re setting up the next hackathon or leading a diverse cross-functional team, it’s important to know how to keep your team motivated. And no, the occasional reference to Dr. Who will not do. Technical teams may be made up of…
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Devin Deen, project management trainer and certified Scrum master, explores ways to get RADical with your project, specifically to identify the right way to manage risks, assumptions and dependencies to ensure your project’s success. Here’s a shot of the whiteboard for…
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It’s important for a project to get off to a good start, especially when it can easily get bogged down on the first line item of a plan and languish. The following article discusses some ways you can ensure your…
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It’s not just executives that need to pay attention to what you are delivering with your project. Your end-users need to be engaged as well, and this is often a stakeholder group that’s overlooked. Certainly, the rise of Agile and…
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When you’re up against tight deadlines it’s good to have some tricks up your sleeve to be able to get project tasks completed more quickly. There are three main techniques that project managers use when they need to save time…
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Learn how to effectively schedule your team members time across multiple projects, as well as how to create effective time estimates, in this PM training video with Jennifer Bridges, PMP. Here’s a shot of the whiteboard for your reference! In…
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If you asked most project managers if their project was complex, then they would likely say, yes. After all, the opposite of complex is straightforward, and if the work was simple, then you wouldn’t need a project manager, would you? The debate…
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You know what it takes to carry your project plans forward. Some of you have been delivering projects for years. Every so often it helps to brush up on all the little things that help make your project planning skills…
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Creating a realistic schedule is one of the first things any project manager needs to have in place to insure success going forward. In this video Devin Deen, content direct, ProjectManager.com, shows you the four steps you’ll need to know to achieve this….
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Like the best laid plans of mice and men, meetings often go awry. An experienced project manager, however, knows how to read the signs that indicate a meeting is going off the rails. Annie McKee, writing in Harvard Business Review,…
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Everyone has heard of the KISS method — Keep It Simple, Stupid. Nowhere is that more important than in project management. Yet you’ve undoubtedly come across people in your project management career who enjoy taking the simplest of concepts or project…
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Ah, the lowly testing phase. In all-too-common scenarios, the testing phase is cut short due to scope creep, which extends the deliverables too close to the project deadline. Or sometimes, testing is simply cut out to push an earlier release…
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The best ideas often come from a disagreement that sparked a creative solution. So how to foster that kind of input from your team? While it may seem counter-intuitive to want to work in an environment where your team is free…
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