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How to Kill Innovation Projects

Destination Innovation

Starting exploration projects. Killing the weaker projects. They are all important but I believe that the most vital is #8 – the ability to kill off the weaker projects. Starting evaluation projects is harder but you need to start many because no-one knows which will succeed. Listening to customer feedback.

Project 234
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Why Big Projects Fail — and How to Give Yours a Better Chance of Success

Harvard Business Review

There are five reasons that large projects fail. Wrong projects are ones that defy conventional business rationale, creating outputs that either few people want, that add little to no real value, or that undershoot the desired benefits because they are so difficult to achieve.

Project 135
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3 Project Management Strategies for a Hybrid Workplace

Harvard Business Review

On a hybrid project, communication and coordination become both more critical and more challenging. Digital tools and meetings may be the only way some team members can keep in touch.

Project 136
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How Project Managers Can Better Navigate Setbacks

Harvard Business Review

Setbacks are common on projects — but project managers hold four key tools to understand why they happen and how to help their teams move past them. First, understand the neuroscience behind setbacks to encourage people to learn and grow. Second, openly acknowledge that a setback has occurred to prevent backsliding.

Project 141
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Turning Metrics into Dollars: How to Turn Your Analytics Data into a Real Financial Model for your Startup

Speaker: Tristan Kromer, Lean Agile Coach, Kromatic

You'll learn: How to turn basic dashboard metrics into a financial model. Learn how margin of error impacts financial projections. At the very least, they need to be able to see the impact of a change in retention rates to their user growth. When to increase the complexity of your model and when to keep it simple.

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How to Improve Return on Investment With a New Project Management Approach

InnovationManagement

Too often, leaders label projects as successes or failures based on budget and schedule expectations. Although time and cost are critical factors, they ignore whether the project delivered the expected benefits.

Project 111
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Encourage Your Team to Escalate Issues on Technical Projects

Harvard Business Review

In the aftermath of a very public system failure or a project going significantly over-budget, a key question that’s often asked is: “Why didn’t anyone bring this to our attention?” Ultimately, the success of a technical project requires that issues are escalated as they arise.

Project 138
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5 Early Indicators Your Embedded Analytics Will Fail

In this White Paper, Logi Analytics has identified 5 tell-tale signs your project is moving from “nice to have” to “needed yesterday.". Many application teams leave embedded analytics to languish until something—an unhappy customer, plummeting revenue, a spike in customer churn—demands change. But by then, it may be too late.

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The Definitive Guide to Embedded Analytics

It will show you how to select the right solution and what investments are required for success. We hope this guide will transform how you build value for your products with embedded analytics. Access the Definitive Guide for a one-stop-shop for planning your application’s future in data.

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Modern Data Architecture for Embedded Analytics

Every data-driven project calls for a review of your data architecture—and that includes embedded analytics. Discover the pros and cons of each approach, plus how to choose the right architecture for your business priorities, timeline, and customers. 9 questions to ask yourself when planning your ideal architecture.

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The Definitive Guide to Dashboard Design

Great dashboards lead to richer user experiences and significant return on investment (ROI), while poorly designed dashboards distract users, suppress adoption, and can even tarnish your project or brand. Download the Definitive Guide to learn why dashboard design matters, and how to do it well.

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Living With Technical Debt: Balancing Quality and Perfection

Speaker: Cliff Gilley, The Clever PM

Unexpected details pop up, as small as UX that needs clean-up, and as big as a previously unforeseen flaw in the infrastructure of a project. Whether you like it or not - because it can’t be avoided. We have to accept that nobody gets away without some technical debt. July 24, 12:30 PM PST, 3:30 PM EST, 7:30 PM GMT.

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Business Agile: A Roadmap for Transforming Your Management & Adapting to the VUCA Environment

Speaker: Peter Taylor, Speaker/Author, The Lazy Project Manager

In this webinar, you will learn: How to reduce processes, and adjust the governance and belief in “the power of the people” to deliver simple success in a time of complex demand. How to guide your management team and change agents on how to get productively business agile.

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Bridging the Gap: Implementing CIO Leadership in Project Management

Speaker: Clint Padgett, President & CEO, Project Success Inc.

You may have a visionary CIO and very capable project managers. But if you can’t establish a dynamic, collaborative team with a clear mission, then your project will slip through the cracks. Join Clint Padgett, CEO and President of Project Success Inc., How to implement strategies developed with PPM.

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How Agile Approaches Change Project, Program, and Product Measures

Speaker: Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant, Rothman Consulting Group

Before agile approaches took the world by storm, we used Gantt charts and defects to measure project and program progress. We can measure the project’s and program’s progress with a variety of product burnup charts. Join Johanna as she discusses: How agile approaches change what we measure. And much more!