Building a PMO: Four Key Considerations

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Building a PMO: Four Key Considerations
By Kristyn Medeiros
Whether your PMO is brand new or has been around for years, the vision is one of the key components. Without it, each person is beating to their own drum and moving in a different direction. Powerful and guiding, a clear vision will align everyone to make sure […]

Tinder’s Super Like Says More Than A Simple Right Swipe

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Super Like TechCrunch 2 Tinder has today unveiled a new feature called Super Like, which is just about as close to ‘love’ as you can come on the ultra-popular dating app. In essence, Super Like lets users alert a potential match of their undying affection before they swipe, displaying a little notification when the Super Liking user’s profile is served to the object of their desire. For the past… Read More

The Project Charter: A Concise Definition

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The Project Charter: A Concise Definition
By Jeremy Siegel, Northwest University
The project charter is constantly the subject of misinterpretation by many in the PM realm. Below is an accurate, concise, and clear definition of the project charter. The importance of the below definition is that it highlights the authority of the project charter especially when it […]

Instagram Ads Go Global, Including New 30-Second Commercials

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instagram-iphone Instagram is done experimenting and is ready to ramp up ad revenue. It’s making three big changes today to attract marketing dollars from around the world and other ad mediums. Finally, Instagram will make back the money Facebook spent buying it. First, today Instagram ads become officially available in 30 more countries including Mexico, India and South Korea, and will be on sale… Read More

Facebook Equips Business Pages With Mobile Storefronts For Shopping And Services

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11891349_613366382136840_1734649671_n Likes ≠ Dollars. Facebook wants Pages to actually earn money for the 45 million small businesses that use them. So today Facebook is upgrading Pages with a tabbed mobile layout that lets them display storefront “Sections” where users can “Shop” for products or view a list of “Services” the business offers. The company is also making calls to action on… Read More

Periscope Is Secretly Building An Apple TV App

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Apple TV Periscope Periscope is developing an app for the new Apple TV, according to multiple sources. It will allow users to watch livestreams on their television that are broadcasted from Twitter’s Periscope app. You could consider it a coming of age moment, considering the acquired startup’s website is Periscope.tv Tomorrow, Apple will unveil an upgraded Apple TV set-top box that includes an Apple… Read More

AIM for Life Balance

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AIM for Life Balance
By Sally Stanleigh
Scientists are warning us that our busy lives are making us sick and costing our employers and health care systems billions of dollars. Achieving life balance is a worthy goal to AIM for; it requires us to apply positive attitude, involvement and meaning into our busy lives.
More and more studies […]

The Product Roadmap is Not the Project Portfolio

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The Product Roadmap is Not the Project Portfolio
By Johanna Rothman
I keep seeing talks and arguments about how the portfolio team should manage the epics for a program. That conflates the issue of project portfolio management and product management.
Several potential teams affect each project (or program).
Figure 1: Centers and Value
Starting at the right side of this […]

Human Rights Groups Lambast Twitter For Banning Service That Tracked Politicians’ Deleted Tweets

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twitter-censor Seventeen international human rights and transparency groups, including the Sunlight Foundation, EFF, Free Press, Open State Foundation, Human Rights Watch and others, are taking Twitter to task for its decision to ban the Politwoops tool last month, which was used to track politicians’ deleted tweets. Twitter had earlier banned the U.S. version of this tweet-tracking service in May,… Read More