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From Voices on Project Management:
by Mario Trentim

 

My earliest experience with remote work came in around 2010. At the time, I believed it would enable me to connect with project teams from around the globe. What I considered a novelty has now become a new normal for myself and project professionals everywhere. With thi…

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From Voices on Project Management:
by Conrado Morlan

 

Not everyone is born a leader. Some must be groomed. This is where the vertical development comes in. In my previous post, I wrote about how it can lead to a better understanding of challenges, more innovative thinking, improved emotional intelligence, and increase…

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From Voices on Project Management:
By Yasmina Khelifi, PMI-ACP, PMP

“We miss the way you managed the project!”

After leaving my role as a project manager of a software development team, these words were the best gift I could’ve received.

It was a new team, a new innovative product development and a new exp…

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Think your project has risks? Critical dependencies? Demanding stakeholders? Unrealistic expectations? Military veterans know more than most people about how these project management challenges play out in real time.

Military veterans, like few others, have truly absorbed the lessons of teamwork,…

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From Voices on Project Management:
by Conrado Morlan

 

The term VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous) world has been around for a while. But 2020 will be remembered as the year that forced every organization to deal with the VUCA world. And the most successful ones will be those that find ways to improve t…

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by Christian Bisson

Conflicts arise on any team. It’s inevitable. What’s important is making sure they’re resolved before they grow into something bigger.

It often feels like unfamiliar territory to some, but resolver of conflicts is one of the many hats a scrum mas…

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From Voices on Project Management:
by Marat Oyvetsky, PMP

When professional service organizations work with customers to implement technical solutions, teams often rely on in-house technical staff for support and system/network access during implementation, testing, validation and training. And this is happening more during the pa…

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Wanted to share this very clever Tableau visualization created by Varun. If you ever wondered what character grabbed the most screen time throughout the Star Wars saga, this is the chart for you. Originally Tableau Public’s Viz of the Day on September 1st, 2020.

Have Gantt Charts gone the way of the dinosaur? An important consideration to Lynda Bourne’s argument about reporting is whether you are using a traditional or agile approach to project management.  Reporting for the two methodologies can be very different.  While traditional PM can have a focus on metrics and measures that tell the story of hours worked and budget and schedule, Agile’s focus tends to be reporting on the team.

What are your views on PM reporting?

From Voices on Project Management:
By Lynda Bourne

Projects mean reports! Many project teams are required to produce weekly and monthly reports for their client as part of a contract, or because of an internal set of reporting requirements. This process comes with challenges:

The information is out of date—project …

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From Voices on Project Management:
by Mario Trentim

I’ve been familiar with remote work and virtual teams since 2010. I’ve also witnessed how digital transformation has enabled the adoption of new business models, flatter organizational structures and hybrid project management approaches since then.

In the wake of t…

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