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What Makes Women the Best Project Managers

Project Management - a largely male dominated domain until recently, is now seeing more and more well qualified women taking the helm. Being great communicators Women can use their communication skills to get an edge over men in project management. Being assertive without coming off as abrasive, and using gentle persuasion to get buy-in from senior management helps the team and PMO. Regular conversations with stakeholders help the PMO align to business goals and get ...

Esa Toivonen, Managing Partner, Senior Advisor, CGEIT, CISA, CRISC, LJK2019-03-08T07:52:30+02:008.3.2019|

What secrets project manager should learn from KonMari concept?

Lean and agile business processes hold the key to excellence. Many businesses struggle to streamline their processes. They have a number of unnecessary protocols and processes that retard the business’s growth. If you are struggling to put your house in order, look to the KonMari concept for answers.

Thinking Portfolio2019-02-24T13:25:34+02:0025.2.2019|

How to define simple success bonus for the project manager and project group?

Behind every successful project is a forward thinking project manager and their team. Project managers and their teams pour their blood, sweat, and tears into their projects. As a recognition of the hard work that team members put in and the sacrifices they make to steer the project in the right direction, businesses must design and implement a bonus plan for the project manager and their team.

Thinking Portfolio2019-02-18T09:18:24+02:0018.2.2019|

6 Key Performance Indicators to Use to Ensure Success with Your Project Portfolio

A key performance indicator or KPI is a measured value indicating how effective an organization is in achieving its key business goals. In the context of project management, it demonstrates how successful the project was in benefiting all the people involved: stakeholders, customers, employees, and the community as well. Without KPIs, it would not be possible to assess the progress of the projects towards fulfilling the goals set. Here are six such key performance indicators ...

Thinking Portfolio2019-02-11T20:12:34+02:0011.2.2019|

6 Top Information Security Risks in Project Management

With technology becoming a major component of Project Management, the protection of project information is of the utmost importance. In this blog, we look at the most significant information security risks that affect PM (Project Management) and how to combat them.

Thinking Portfolio2019-02-03T15:23:31+02:003.2.2019|

Top 6 Benefits Of Kanban Board

While Kanban today is a complicated system of elaborate protocols and operational standards, back in the days in Japan, it had humble origins of sticking cards containing information on various part trays, trolleys, and inventory assets. The cards represent the demand or the lack of it based on which processes and inventory will be managed downstream. Kanban boards are the philosophy of Kanban boiled down to management structures and dashboards. It is simply a board that is used to establish proper Kanban practices at work.

Thinking Portfolio2018-11-27T12:10:13+02:0027.11.2018|

6 Steps for Implementing Successful Project Communication Culture

Any project relies heavily on the communication between all parties involved. This means that the more effective and timely important information is transferred, the higher the chances are that the project will be a major success.

Thinking Portfolio2018-11-15T19:33:21+02:0015.11.2018|

How to Measure Impact Investment

Impact investing is a special type of capital investment where the investor is not only interested in earning revenue but also bring about a social or environmental change in a perceivable manner. Impact investing can be done in all kinds of markets, be it developed or emerging. Impact investment helps in addressing some of the critical global issues such as climate change, agriculture, poverty, sustainable development, clean power, micro-financing, and healthcare among others. There are ...

Thinking Portfolio2018-10-19T09:27:57+03:0022.10.2018|

What could Project Managers learn from Traffic Jams

Traffic is a real-time dynamic system that is constantly changing. Every tiny change in traffic has repercussions down the line. The field of RTM or road traffic management has come about to manage such systems and prevent traffic jams and random congestion. These systems use data analytics to predict and manage traffic.

Thinking Portfolio2018-10-14T12:33:26+03:0014.10.2018|

What makes Kanban Board different from Backlog

Following any kind of agile tactic requires the entire team to come together and work as one unit. Whether you utilize Kanban or scrum boards or Kanban backlogs, or a combination of the two such as Kanplan, without a top-down integration with the program, building an agile team is impossible.

Thinking Portfolio2018-10-05T09:16:32+03:005.10.2018|

Professional Community As Part Of A Good Project Culture

Every project manager worth their salt knows that the success of a project depends on the people working at it. So, it shouldn’t come as a surprise when we say that there needs to be a sense of community surrounding any project. After all, the project’s success is dependent on cooperation and team spirit.

Thinking Portfolio2018-09-24T16:07:14+03:0024.9.2018|

How Social Data and Crowdfunding Support Innovation Management

In an age where creativity and innovation form the core of every business, social data and crowdfunding are two aspects of utmost importance. But, what is social data? What is crowdfunding?

Thinking Portfolio2018-05-17T11:39:20+03:0017.5.2018|

How AI supports Project Steering Group

The project steering committee is main governing body within an enterprise that looks after the proposal and execution of projects. They ensure that the proper deliverables are met and the project is in line with key company goals. This includes approval of budget, defining standards and goals, devising project strategy, risk assessment, quality checks and adherence to time-line. The project steering committee is the body to which a project managers report to. The project manager attends meetings and informs the committee regarding the status of the project along with addressing doubts and concerns.

Thinking Portfolio2018-04-30T12:04:08+03:0030.4.2018|

What Project Manager should Learn from Robots

With the rapid progress in AI, robotics and automation technologies, most jibs are being replaced by automated systems and robots. Be it a white collar job or a blue collar one, both are affected by the rise in automated technologies and machine learning. Growth in machine learning capabilities has allowed machines to become more independent by allowing them to react to real-time changes without being pre-programmed for such tasks. Also it doesn’t take long for them to analyze extremely large data sets and generate accurate reports. This has resulted in the disruption of current industrial practices.

Thinking Portfolio2018-04-27T10:05:44+03:0027.4.2018|

7 Effective Project Change Management Tips

Project managers have to keep themselves ready at all times when it comes to managing a project. Right from the start when the plans are still being drawn up to the end of a project, changes are inevitable and occur over the course of the project lifecycle. The key is to work out how best to accommodate and adapt to these changes.

Thinking Portfolio2018-03-21T23:11:37+02:0021.3.2018|