Month: September 2022

It can be frustrating to deliver a digital project when you don’t have the right team members available at the right time. Sometimes they were re-allocated for another project. Sometimes it’s because your immediate reaction to an urgent request is not timely enough. Sometimes, it’s because you forgot about the 4-week vacation of your lead…

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How can we dispel the myth that risk management is somehow incompatible our agile, digital project? This was the question we discussed and co-created solutions for at this month’s Live Mentorship. Here’s how it worked. Three challenges related to risk management were pre-selected by the community. Based on our collective experiences, we created step-by-step solutions…

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Many digital teams I know don’t want to be involved in a risk register. A lot of digital PMs that I know don’t want anything to do with risk registers. Yet, one of the most important things you can do for your team is to be able to identify, assess and prioritize project risks. This…

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Audio Transcription Ben Aston: Thank you for tuning in. This is Ben Aston. It’s the Digital Project Manager podcast. Today, Natalie Semczuk joins me. Natalie, thank you for joining us today. This is the first digital project management podcast to ever be recorded. Natalie is also the first guest to return to the show. Today…

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Sushi is my favorite food. Nothing makes me happier then gently dipping thick, fresh futomaki in soy sauce and enjoying its vinegary flavor as I look at the next piece. My boyfriend and my best friend, who are my closest friends, don’t like sushi. My boyfriend is allergic. My best friend doesn’t like raw fish….

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Gordon Ramsay is my favorite celebrity. Ramsay can often be seen hurling barbaric insults at bumbling chefs whenever I turn on Netflix. Some great quotes include: “I wish that you would jump in the oven. It would make my life so much easier! “I have never, ever ever, ever ever, ever, ever seen someone I…

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There are many reasons why projects fail. It is possible for stakeholders to change their goals. Key team members can move to other companies. Budgets can disappear, supplies can be delayed, and priorities may not be managed. If any of these sounds familiar or if you know you are struggling with project failure, then you’re…

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Do you ever feel that your project management software isn’t strong enough to handle all your projects? You wish you could have a software solution that could handle all aspects of your company’s goals, such as communication, file sharing and email integration, tasks, timelines, reports and communication. Meet enterprise project management software (EPM). Enterprise Project…

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Many people don’t intend to be project managers. Take Mike, from Stranger Things. (Haven’t seen Stranger Things?) It’s a Netflix Original filled full of 80s-horror goodness. It’s worth the extra second. Mike, the charming young nerd above, is out searching for Will when he comes across Eleven (or El for short). She has tattooed numbers…

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