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6 meta-leadership skills for IT and technical professionals
There are six relational skills that IT leaders must experience and practice to successfully become the leaders they are expected to be. And these are not ingredient skills – they are really meta-leadership skills. A meta-skill is a blend of individual skills that apply to a wide variety of circumstances and help you achieve desired results.Think, Change, Achieve
How to keep your project in a state of happiness
Moving and keeping a project in a state of happiness takes a lot of effort and care. When you focus on setting people up for success you will notice that it has the biggest impact on happiness, quality of work and project outcome.Think, Change, Achieve
5 key steps to get a derailed project back on track
When a project derails, you have an opportunity to learn and course correct. Through the years I have been asked to recover a number of troubled projects and followed five key steps.
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How do you put your project team in the zone?
What do high performing project teams do to thrive together? There are five very unique behavioural characteristics that set them apart from others. Some of them you see in the sports world as well. Clarity of purpose is on of them. What are the other four?
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How project managers can master transformational change
Although change management and project management can be mutually exclusive disciplines, the combined efforts of both can create a powerful instrument for creating transformational change that produces more successful business outcomes (includes infographic).rnThink, Change, Achieve
How companies limit project success
Companies want projects to succeed and realize the planned benefits. But project management leading to that success takes time and effort. Oftentimes crucial steps are being missed, causing trouble further down the road. What are those steps and how should you take them?Straight Talk on Project Management
To avoid IT project management failure, strip rank of its privileges
How ownership of a Project Management issue should be a shared responsibility, as seniority or rank does not give you exclusivity on solutions.Best-Fit Enterprise Software
The payoff from a rigorous software selection
With major software purchases, the key to maximizing success is preparation. Even if you already know what software you want, there are still numerous benefits to a rigorous evaluation & selection. And maybe the favored software is not actually the best-fit after all.Built for Success
The art of maximizing work not done
How should your technology organization decrease wasteful work? Following lean and agile principles will guide the way. Increase flow and decrease variability using Donald Reinertsen's techniques.
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6 proven project team communication strategies
Projects succeed only if your team is strong, and project teams are strong only if they have effective communication strategies.
Managing the Intangible
Starting on time means ending on time
Starting and ending a project on time and efficiently means satisfaction all around.Managing the Intangible
How to avoid buyers’ remorse
Part of the problem we face in IT project management is the speed of technological advances, and as a result, there are times that we’ve all pulled the trigger on purchasing things we thought we needed — only to discover later that we didn’t even turn the system on, much less use it.
Think, Change, Achieve
A leader changes the ground rules
A leader knows when the ground rules have to be changed in order to get better performance. Deep-rooted problems demand leaders to look at their operating model and make adjustments, sometimes significant ones. Course corrections aren't easy, and not meant to be.
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7 nontechnical skills every project manager needs
Project management experts discuss the soft skills one needs to manage projects and project teams successfully.
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Improve business outcomes by aligning project management and CRM
It comes as no surprise to hear that CRM is a primary factor in managing projects, but just how should these areas interrelate to achieve optimal client satisfaction?rnStraight Talk on Project Management
Business culture or business case?
If your project had to be aligned with just one, which would you pick? We discuss the merits of both business culture and business case.Opinion
Why political candidates can't do agile
It’s voting season, and we all know how candidates for office act. They have to be light on their feet, but their behavior is anything but ’agile‘… and their habits would destroy any agile project. Once you’ve absorbed that idea, substitute the word ’executives‘ for ‘candidates.’
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6 proven project management team communication strategies
Projects succeed only if your team is strong, and project teams are strong only if they have effective communication strategies.Tech and the Business of Change
3 warning signs for a 'never-ending' ERP project
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementations are never easy. Many projects start with excitement and high levels of participation but quickly devolve into run-on projects with that are over budget and rife with change orders. Team members are deflated and often feel as if the project will be never-ending. Steering Committee Apathy, Out of Date Project Plans and Inconsistent Issue Tracking and Status Reporting are three warning signs that an ERP project is starting to spin out of control. Addressing them quickly helps avoid going through a project recovery cycle. rnFeature
6 ways to be a better project manager
Project management is a complex — and critical — function. Here are six pieces of advice to help project managers improve their craft.How-To
8 quick ways to increase your PM knowledge
If you’re a project manager, crammed schedules, overflowing to-do lists and restricted budgets can limit your chances of pursuing formal training. Here are eight ways to learn more about project management without breaking the bank or disrupting your busy schedule.Best-Fit Enterprise Software
Knowing when a full software evaluation project is worthwhile
Based on your software budget, here's how to estimate the resources needed to ensure you select the best-fit enterprise software for your particular needs.
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6 tips to ensure you meet project deliverables dates
Deliverables are the life's blood of project management so it only makes sense to do what you can to safeguard against the most common pitfalls.rn
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Using KPIs to measure a project team's effectiveness
Key performance indicators play an indispensable role in project management and aid in measuring the success or failure of project activities. Understanding KPIs and selecting the ones that are best-suited to measuring a specific project team’s performance is not always easy.Best-Fit Enterprise Software
Why software requirements development matters
A thorough requirements analysis takes time and money, but helps an organization to truly understand what they need and want. That understanding is a critical part of the ultimate success of the new software.Straight Talk on Project Management
Having created the LAWS, you have to uphold them!
Project management polices the methodologies and, where necessary, adapts them to suit individual projects. In cases like the hybrid project management methodology I invented called LAWS (Lean, Agile, Waterfall, Six Sigma), now I have to uphold it.
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More than half of IT projects still failing
An annual survey from project management company Innotas shows that more than half of IT projects fail, three years after a similar survey showed nearly identical findings.rnThink, Change, Achieve
3 things world-class achievers do nonstop
World-class achievers find success by having three qualities — three things they have or do nonstop — that let them outperform their peers. Have you ever wondered what those are?The Project Mindset
Prepare your project for the 7 faces of change
Life is full of change. Projects produce change. Change is not something to be avoided, but a reality to be navigated. Let's identify the seven faces of change in your projects and engage strategies to handle change effectively. Developing a change mindset as a project manager enhances your ability to proactively navigate the inevitable twists and turns in your projects.Feature
8 challenges affecting software project management
Software development isn’t easy. Managing software development projects might be even harder.Built for Success
When will the product be done?
Clearly knowing the schedule and budget for delivering an Agile based project is challenging. Using story pointing, velocity charts and Minimum Viable Product (MVP) also known as Minimum Viable Set (MVS) are key methods to minimize the cone of uncertainty in delivering complex IT solutions.Strategy Translation
2 things that determine your project’s strategic potential
Discovery and design determine whether or not your software or technology project has the potential to eventually generate strategic outcomes. If you are considering executing a project, use a discovery and design method that is driven by business strategy.
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How to select a development agency for a replatforming project
Practical advice on how to make the right decision when choosing a developing agency when replatforming your website.
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8 project management skills in high demand
By 2020, reports estimate that there will 700,000 new project management jobs in the United States. Do you have what employers will be looking for?Think, Change, Achieve
5 qualities a leader must have to turn around troubled projects
What traits does an IT leader need to do a 180-degree pivot on problematic projects?Best-Fit Enterprise Software
Why value trumps price when buying enterprise software
When it comes to enterprise software, value is far more important than price.
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How to pick the best requirements management tool
Inaccurate requirements management accounts for almost half of project failures. Aimed at helping IT and business leaders improve their odds for success, Seilevel, a business analysis and consulting company, has compiled a report evaluating 22 top requirements management tools.Straight Talk on Project Management
Which is best – Waterfall or Agile?
Common sense, bravery and nailing the basics. How creating your own hybrid methodology can be the best solution.The Project Mindset
How to know if you're a realistic project manager
Overly optimistic? Stuck-in-the-mud pessimist? Had these barbs thrown your way as you lead projects? We all believe ourselves to be realistic, but are we REALLY realistic or only fooling ourselves and failing our projects? Consider three strong indicators that your thoughts and actions foster project success by being firmly anchored to reality.The Effective Enterprise
The augmented project manager
The coming artificial intelligence revolution is going to dramatically change the project management discipline. Have you thought about what is coming?Managing the Intangible
Failure is an option
When it comes to project management failure is sometimes an option. Many of us have pulled ourselves from the smoking ruins of a project to say, “What happened?” and “How did this not succeed?”Best-Fit Enterprise Software
How to keep requirements wish lists from crippling software purchases
Requirements wish lists can paralyze a major software purchase. This article considers ideas for dealing with the problem.Creating IT Value
Are your IT performance metrics measuring the right things?
CIOs need to make sure IT metrics align with business users’ expectations.
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12 difficult project manager interview questions to prep for
Most project manager candidates can talk about their strengths and skills, but those who ultimately land the job are prepared to answer these difficult PM questions.The Effective Enterprise
3 mistakes companies make implementing time tracking
Many data-centric companies make three common mistakes implementing time tracking, which lead to the creation of data taxes instead of data tools. These mistakes are easy to recognize and can be easy to address.
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Project management glossary
CIO.com’s project management glossary provides definitions and information for many common – and not so common – terms used in the complex field of project leadership and management.Strategic Project Management
A business guide to project portfolio management
Most executives do not have a good understanding of what project portfolio management (PPM) is. Top management tends to think about PPM in terms of financial portfolio management. Here is a short guide on how to explain PPM to senior management using business terms.The Effective Enterprise
The pipe dream of 80% resource availability
Project success today is threatened by the fallacy of 80 percent resource availability for project work. Leveraging the data we collect as a data-centric organization can light a path to greater productivity.Think, Change, Achieve
Project Portfolio Management (PPM) is a game-changer
The chaotic, turbulent, and rapidly changing business environment that has become the new normal, needs Project Portfolio Management (PPM) to drive value . Organizations struggle to prioritize the right initiatives and manifest them at the right time . They are falling behind on their peers and over time put their existence in the market place at risk.Feature
How to hire a rock star project manager
When hiring a PM, the knee-jerk tendency seems to be to hire the person with the most technical knowledge, when other, broader skills are more likely to get the results you're really after.
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