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5 Reasons Entrepreneurs Should Use Project Management Software

Liquid Planner Leadership

Almost everyone today, regardless of their industry, needs some level of project management skills. And nearly every kind of business would benefit from deploying built-for-purpose project management software. That’s where project management for skills and the power of software come into play.

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Revamping engineering manager onboarding at Asana

Asana

An engineering manager’s success impacts an entire team or group of teams, so setting them up for early success is a high-leverage investment. For most of Asana’s existence, “engineering manager (EM) onboarding” meant attending general engineering onboarding.

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Best Practices for Portfolio Project Management: Processes and Tools

Liquid Planner Collaboration

Managing a single, complex project feels like a Herculean task when you nail the project deadline with a high-quality output. Handling multiple projects, or portfolio project management, is an entirely different beast. Today, we’re taking the mystery out of portfolio project management.

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Managing Project Delays in the COVID-19 Age

Liquid Planner Collaboration

Countless projects have been delayed or temporarily suspended as a result of the pandemic, labor shortages, and disruption to supply chains. But there is a real opportunity here for design project managers to help clients understand what can be done to change the project and make it viable in the new economic climate.”.

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Bad Manager: 6 Signs of a Bad Managemer

Get Lighthouse

In their "The State of the American Manager” study, Gallup found that half (50%) of all Americans have left a job to "get away from their manager at some point in their career.”. We've said it before, but it begs repeating: employees leave managers, not companies. And a bad manager can make employees leave in waves.

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Managing Risk from Every Level of Your Organization

Liquid Planner Leadership

If project management were an off-road 4×4 expedition, where teams had to plot a course through the unknown, cost and schedule contingency would be akin to the number of spare fuel cans you can carry successfully to complete the trip. Risk management is too important to be left to risk managers.

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Emotional Intelligence for Scrum Masters, Team Leads and Project Managers - #1

Mike Griffiths

While explaining project management through cartoon animals is fun, I wanted to post some meatier content here. The material comes from my Beyond Agile book and explains why a firm basis of EI is critical to becoming an effective Scrum Master, team lead, or project manager.   Tackling the “Emotional” Elephant.