How to Prioritize When Everything is #1
Prioritization is the process of determining the level of importance and urgency of a task, project or event. It’s a key skill for any working professional and is absolutely essential for project managers to master. Smart prioritization is a vital part of Liquid Planner’s Planning Intelligence philosophy to align people, priorities and projects.
One of the biggest challenges for project managers and team leaders is accurately prioritizing the work that matters on a daily basis. Even if you have the best project management software, your team could end up working on the wrong things at the wrong time. And, you don’t want to fall into the role of crying “top priority” for every other project that comes down the pike.
To help you manage your team’s workload and hit deadlines on time, here are 6 steps to prioritizing projects that have a lot of moving parts.
The Project Leader’s Guide to Successfully Adapt to Change & Manage Uncertainty
Research shows that 70% of organizations have suffered at least one project failure in the last year. Why? When priorities and work are constantly changing, we all know that it’s hard to keep our entire portfolio of projects up-to-date and see what’s next.
Our latest eBook will walk you through important tips to help manage change and uncertainty in today’s workplace, including how to:
- Keep your workload balanced
- Track progress to know where time goes
- Use a priority-driven methodology
- Wrangle uncertainty with predictive scheduling
Ready to achieve the momentum that your business needs to succeed through seamless project execution?
TOGAF 9.2 Content Meta-Model: Building Blocks and Notation
New updated TOGAF 9.2 Content Meta-Model poster!
This poster provides you with the valuable building blocks of TOGAF 9.2, accompanied by helpful, contextual notations to guide you through the key elements of the framework.
TOGAF 9.2 in Pictures
The ADM is an iterative process used to understand existing architectures and work out the best way to change and improve them.
Never used without some adaptation, the ADM is more like a cookbook of recommendations, ideas and checklists than a set way of doing things.
Think of it in three chunks and bear in mind that in a large enterprise, there may be quite a few projects all using different phases of the ADM.
The Guide to Business Capability Modeling
Business Capability Modeling (or Mapping) is the act of breaking down an organization’s activities into a set of capabilities, which together represent everything the business can do.
In order to understand how a business needs to change, it needs to understand itself. In modern enterprises, with thousands of employees, hundreds of locations and dozens of functions, this is no simple task. Business Capability Modeling transforms the organization into an easily understood set of capabilities, which represent all the different things a business does. This can be used as the basis to understand how people, processes, information & technology support the business.
What is Talkroute?
Talkroute is a UCaaS provider that gives you the ability to utilize your existing phones, web browser, and PCs with our cloud-based virtual phone system. Now you can have the power of an enterprise-level phone system without the upfront cost and maintenance of an expensive on-site system.
Getting Started is Easy!
- Choose a Phone Number. Pick a new phone number or transfer an existing business number to Talkroute.
- Download Our Apps. Our desktop & mobile apps are available for MacOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, & Android.
- Configure Your Settings. Customize your greetings, menus, extensions, voicemail, hours of operation, & more.
- Talk, Text, & Meet Anywhere. Call, message, & meet wherever you do business: home, office, or on the road.
Should YOUR Small Business Make Teleworking Permanent?
Teleworking became one of the most common ways that businesses have dealt with the current coronavirus pandemic. With the rise of new platforms and technological advances that allow businesses from all over the world to shift to a telecommuting work model, working remotely is becoming our new normal.
As the days go by, more and more people are getting used to this working model, discovering its value, and realizing that not only is working from home and telecommuting possible… but it can be extremely valuable.
Well over a year later, close to 25% of workers still telework. So is it a viable long-term solution or simply a short-term answer for dealing with the pandemic? To answer this question, we need to take a closer look at the advantages and disadvantages of teleworking for small businesses.
What You Can Do with Talkroute
Check out why 1000’s of businesses trust Talkroute to manage their calls, messages, & meetings.
- Making & receiving business calls. Keep your personal number private by calling from your business number. Our mobile app is available for iOS & Android.
- Texting with your customers. Get instantly notified when a customer sends your business a text & use our apps to reply with a message of your own.
- Video meetings with your team. With Meetings you may share your screen, start a team chat, share your files, annotate on a whiteboard, & record sessions.
- Managing voice messages. Receive voicemail notifications and messages directly to your email.
Get started with Talkroute in minutes
Building Your Data Fabric with DataOps for Dummies
What is a data fabric and why should you be interested in it? If you have IT folks who are responsible for making all of your IT operate smoothly while meeting your business needs, you need a data fabric.
Download this whitepaper to learn how to design and build a data fabric architecture that works for you.
451 Research: DataOps and the Evolution of Data Governance
Organizations are under pressure to maximize value from data, while also facing new regulatory and privacy restrictions. There is a need to align business objectives in order to accelerate data-driven outcomes, and attitudes toward data governance are evolving – ultimately viewing it as an enabler of business value.
Read this excerpt from 451 Research’s report “DataOps and the Evolution of Data Governance” to learn more about the latest trends.
O’Reilly – Data Governance: The Definitive Guide
Through good data governance, you can inspire customer trust, enable your organization to identify business efficiencies, generate, more competitive offerings, and improve customer experience.
In this book, you will learn:
- Data governance strategies addressing people, processes, and tools
- Benefits and challenges of a cloud-based data governance approach
- How data governance is conducted from ingest to preparation and use
- And much more!
How to Modernize Hadoop in Three Steps
Modernizing your Hadoop technology will help reduce the cost and size of existing data lakes, improve the customer experience by understanding existing data and identify which data should move to object storage versus the cloud.
Download this eBook to learn how to modernize Hadoop in three steps.
The 2021 Tidelift Open Source Maintainer Survey
In early 2021, Tidelift fielded its first-ever comprehensive survey of open source maintainers. Nearly 400 maintainers responded with thoughts about how they fund their work, what they enjoy about being a maintainer, what they don’t like so much, along with a host of other interesting insights.
Over the following pages, we’ll share nine of the most interesting findings with you.
Microsoft Office 365 License Optimization Report
To thrive in today’s highly competitive business climate, organizations must continue to leverage their cloud-based apps and services to their full potential.
With 40% of enterprise organizations mismanaging their O365 licenses - most IT teams need to devote more time and resources to better understand the dynamic licensing needs of their organizations.
Download the full report and see how enterprises are taking back control of their cloud budgets and reaping the full value of their M365 licenses.
Is Your Company Ready for The Future of Work?
The unexpected arrival of the pandemic in 2020 forced every organization to assemble a patchwork of unplanned workforce responses as many moved to remote-work solutions. Now, every firm faces difficult decisions around what the future of the office — and the future of work — will be. It is now time for organizations to decide where employees can or will work from in the future.
In this environment, leaders must make a series of choices for how to best support their workforce with infrastructure that promotes employee safety, connects a distributed workforce, and fuels distanced collaboration. Document management (DM) strategies are a key enabler the future of work, but organizations must act to ensure these strategies support their employees’ current and future needs.
Forrester predicts that around 60% of organizations will adopt a hybrid future work model, which is defined as at least 10% of employees working in anywhere-work mode at least two days a week. This is similar to how our survey respondents plan to orient their document management strategies.