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Is Agile Good For Personal Development?
It’s the third month of the year, and that means our New Year’s resolutions are still new and fresh. Our best intentions are to improve life, develop a new hobby, or learn…
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How to Hold an Effective Stand-up Meeting
Many start-up companies are switching to stand-up meetings as a more casual alternative to traditional meetings. Stand-up meetings come from the agile methodology and are particularly common among agile development teams. They…
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How to Know if Another Project Fits in Your Schedule
If there’s one mistake service organizations commit way too often, it’s taking on more projects than their schedules can fit. A good deal of research shows people tend to be overly optimistic…
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A Trio of Powerful Soft Skills Often Overlooked by Project Managers
Successful project management requires you to excel at a range of hard technical and soft skills. Often cited hard skills include forecasting, reporting, and scheduling. Soft skills of project management include leadership,…
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3 Things You Need to Know on the First 100 Days as a Project Manager
My project manager career path began in earnest working as a graduate in construction project management in the NHS, while completing an apprenticeship in project management. Theoretical learnings from my course, coupled…
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5 Important Steps to Build a Software Project Plan
Like any body of work, a software project has to be planned in advance 1) to account for costs and risks, 2) to show it to stakeholers. Normally, a software project plan…
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A Four-Day Working Week: The Pros & Cons
A four-day working week sounds like reality to many. Thanks to the rise of technology in recent years, more and more people are starting to believe that the traditional five-day working week…
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7 Things Project Managers Should Do Every Quarter
If you’ve ever listened to a large choir, either at church or on a TV special and wondered how the singers all came together in such a glorious unity, note-for-note and word-for-word,…
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20+ Conflict Resolution Strategies to Fit Any Need
You’ve probably asked yourself many times what the best conflict resolution strategies are. No wonder. The cost of conflict in the workplace in the United States may amount to $359 billion in…
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How to Introduce Yourself to a New Team (Without Bringing Sweets)
Team management isn’t a piece of cake. In fact, bringing one to the workplace when introducing yourself to a new team as a manager won’t have a major impact on whether your…
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8 Procrastination TED Talks to Stop Killing Time
TED talks about procrastination are getting momentum, as they try to uncover the new hidden reasons behind the procrastination process. Researchers have been trying to investigate and explain why we wait until…
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How Wireframing & Prototyping Can Help Product Managers Find Balance
Product managers can leverage wireframes and prototypes to keep business executives, teams, and clients on the same page. Imagine the situation. Once upon a time, after many meetings, you’ve finally gathered requirements…
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A Project Manager’s Survival Guide in Disagreements
To disagree or not to disagree? There are many situations in your professional life in which you need to confer or even argue with others, such as when: Your manager proposes a…
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3 Ways Technology Can Align Project Portfolio Management to Business Value
Project Portfolio Management (PPM) solutions are designed to help project and portfolio leaders better track and measure the impact of their project investments. Project Portfolio Management can help you bring more value…
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10 Techniques to Master the Art of Persuasion
One of the greatest challenges project managers face is not having direct authority over the members of their project teams. They must make requests and hold people to those requests, without formal…
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How to Use Design Thinking to Manage Marketing Projects in 2019
How do you reach audiences and how do you engage them in the product that you have put all your energy to develop? These questions are constantly on the minds of marketers,…
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A Summer Reading List for Project Managers
Asking for a worldwide network of experts to recommend a good project management book, I received a lot of suggestions. Some of the books mentioned turned out to be more well-liked than…
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5 Books to Deliver Feedback in the 21st Century
Giving feedback is a never-ending discussion, at least in management circles. To provide quality feedback, you need to practice and sometimes learn by your own slip of the tongue. But what if…
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The New Single Standard in Lean Six Sigma Certification
June 6, 2019 – CEPAS, a Bureau Veritas company has formed an exciting partnership with leading edtech firm e-Careers to launch a new lean six sigma training programme which aims to set…
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PMP Certification: ROI, Skills, Costs, & Life After
If you’re a project manager, chances are you’ve heard about the Project Management Professional (PMP) certification. It may come as a surprise, but there are 876,500 total PMP credential holders. Almost a…
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Chernobyl: What Bad Management Can Cost Us
The world has seen project failures that cost billions of money, but once it saw a failure that cost thousands of people lives, learning its lessons the hard way. “Measured by the…
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9 Expert Tips to Engage Employees in Innovation
The days when employee innovation was the result of luck are long gone. Today, senior managers put considerable efforts to establish formal mechanisms to promote innovation, employee efficiency, creativity, and growth. Even…
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Why Women Succeed in IT Project Management
Project management plays a significant role in a variety of industries, with IT being no exception. And if you’ve worked in IT, you’ve probably come across a few project managers. While some…
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How to Start a Project Management Career with Zero Experience
Are you thinking about taking a leap and jumping into project management career? From my experience, it has truly been a rewarding path. One that I continue to invest in, and learn…
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Project Managers Reveal Tricks That Make Delegation Successful
Ask yourself: What is the last time you re-examined your task delegation checklist and introduced new methods to enroll your team in the work process?
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A BME Member on Fostering Team Diversity, Equality & Inclusion
I recently completed a graduate program in capital project management with a large reputable NHS Trust in London. The immense diversity within my project and team only occurred to me as an…
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8 Employee Engagement Best Practices for a More Robust Year
It is important for businesses to have employees that are engaged with what they are doing and feeling good about the organization. ‘Employee engagement’ has become a watchword for businesses of all…
