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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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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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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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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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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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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…
