Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Do you need a timeline maker for project communications or to create executive briefings? In this review of Office Timeline Pro, I’ll share the pros and cons of the PowerPoint plugin. Summary. Product: Office Timeline. Pricing: A one-year licence for the Pro version costs $99. The Plus version is only $59. Hosting model: The ‘main’ version is a Windows plugin, but there is a cloud version which lets you run Office Timeline for Mac systems in the browser.

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The Digital Project Manager

OCTOBER 23, 2020

The post 5 Ways to Improve Your Digital Project Management Process appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 15, 2020

When managing a project, one is required to make a lot of key decisions. There is always something that needs executing, and often that something is critical to the success of the venture. Because of the high stakes, good managers don’t just make decisions based on gut instinct. They prefer to minimize risk to the best of their ability and act only when there is more certainty than uncertainty.

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Project Risk Coach

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Why are many project managers confused over risks? Why do some project managers include positive risks in risk management and others do not? Let's clarify what we mean by the term risk. Risk is a Choice Merriam-Webster defines risk as “the possibility of loss or injury: peril.” Most people think of risk as pure risk, as a possibility of loss. However, risk management has evolved to include a more holistic view that includes the potential for positive outcomes.

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Speaker: Kat Conner

The challenge of delivering the right product at the right time while aligning with strategic objectives is more pressing than ever. Product management is evolving and gaining greater recognition as the means to creating this connection. Join our upcoming webinar and learn how to streamline your product development processes, infuse product thinking across the organization, and bridge the gap between vision and delivery.

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Kiron Bondale

OCTOBER 11, 2020

I usually advise my students to encourage their team members to not provide padded work estimates, but rather to make schedule contingencies visible and tie these contingencies to milestones rather than to individual activities. This is intended to counter the potential confluence of Parkinson’s Law (work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion), Student Syndrome (let’s wait till the very last possible moment to start an undesired activity) and Murphy’s Law

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 26, 2020

What is a fixed date project? A fixed date project is one that has a defined — and often unmovable — end date for delivery. Hitting the date is compulsory, which means we can’t plan the project as we would normally do using best practice scheduling techniques. Here are some examples of fixed date projects: Legal and compliance projects to help the business comply with things like new regulations introduced on a certain day Construction work where the project is happening in an

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Musings on Project Management

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Define counter-party: In a transactional relationship, the other party to -- or participating in -- the transaction is your counter-party. In project situations, there are usually many counter-party transactional arrangements, such as contractors and suppliers with transactional relationships. And within the business there may be transactional relationships among business units and the PMO.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Proper schedule management helps you deliver a project on time. The process starts before the schedule is even made, and continues throughout the project. An ideal plan includes setting expectations, including how to develop, manage, execute and control the project schedule. While not an essential part of every project, any complex one should have a schedule management plan to keep you on track.

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Project Risk Coach

OCTOBER 12, 2020

I've been managing projects and programs for more than 20 years. I've seen a little bit of everything. I've also had the joy and the pain of implementing three Project Management Offices (PMOs), two in Information Technology Departments and one Enterprise PMO. Through the years, I've noted many reasons that PMOs fail or struggle. It's rarely just one thing; it's usually a combination of things.

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Speaker: Ketan Jahagirdar

Picture your projects as patients, each with its own unique rhythm and pulse, thriving under your care 🥼 🩺 Step into the role of an innovative project doctor in our upcoming webinar! This session is your guide to evaluating the health of your projects through Waterfall and Agile practices like Scrum and Kanban. We’ll explore the vital signs of project success through the lens of the “iron triangle” metrics, using deliverables as tracers.

Planning

Kiron Bondale

OCTOBER 18, 2020

A question which I’m asked regularly during my classes is what the best place is to start an agile transformation within a company? Given a choice, I’d prefer to use the cop-out (but correct) answer “It depends”, but otherwise I usually respond that you’d want to do both a top-down and bottom-up approach simultaneously.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 4, 2020

I originally published this blog on Medium and reposting it here again. You can read the original post here. When I saw the book “Art of doing twice the work in the half time,” Dr. Jeff Sutherland wrote, my reaction was like how someone can claim that? What will be an effective measure to have such a comparison? I went through the book and loved it.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Communication is about 80% of my job. I don’t profess to get it right all the time, but over the years I’ve built up a few solid techniques that work in most situations. Today I’m letting you in on how I do it. These are the tips and tricks I use to communicate with my stakeholders and project customers. The tools I use. I rely heavily on paper and pens for my personal note-taking.

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The Digital Project Manager

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The post 10 Best LMS (Learning Management Systems) Comparison appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 14, 2020

It’s a cliché to say that nothing is constant except for change, but the adage certainly applies to anyone who has ever managed a project. Sometimes stakeholders want something different from what they had requested during initiation. Teams get sick. Weather gets in the way. Supply chains break. The possibilities are as dire as they are endless. But not all change is equal in a project.

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Project Risk Coach

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Looking for ways to improve your project success? People matter more than technology and processes. However, project managers rarely choose their teams. Let's talk about how to deal with pre-assigned project resources. Are you working in an organization where your project resources are preassigned? Do you feel like you get the left-over resources most of the time?

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Kiron Bondale

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Lean thinking encourages us to focus on maximizing value delivered to stakeholders rather than maximizing the utilization of the people, equipment or material resources contributing to value streams. Two reasons for this recommendation are: Systems which are run with no free capacity will have no tolerance for any impact which causes a greater utilization of resources than was planned, resulting in delays to the value we were expecting to deliver.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 12, 2020

I got the idea of writing this blog while hosting a webinar on the same topics when multiple people told us to document our discussion. Originally I posted this blog on Agilemania , and you can check our upcoming webinars there. These dos and don'ts are my experiences, so I would like to hear yours too. Feel free to connect to me on LinkedIn for further discussion.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Is your re-certification cycle coming to an end for your PMI certificate? Do you need to quickly get your PDU total up to the minimum so you can stay certified? You’re in the right place! Read on for tips for how to earn PDUs fast. PDUs are the Professional Development Units you need to earn to show that you are invested in continuous improvement and ongoing learning.

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Wrike

OCTOBER 5, 2020

In project management , there are a number of tools and techniques that can be used to plan, schedule, and coordinate tasks and resources. One of those tools is a PERT chart. But what is a PERT chart exactly and how does it help simplify complex projects? . This article will provide a thorough walkthrough of PERT charts within project management, including a comprehensive PERT chart definition, an overview of PERT chart advantages, disadvantages, and tips on how best to use a PERT chart for your

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Whether you need to define communication objectives, or identify stakeholders and channels, you can use this communication plan template to schedule project communications and establish a feedback loop that keeps everyone up to date. By formulating your communication plan in advance of the project, you make sure that information will be disseminated clearly and correctly to whoever needs it.

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Project Risk Coach

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Years ago, I had a great job managing about 50 Information Technology professionals. However, I wanted to become a project manager. Therefore, I made a difficult decision to change companies and jobs. Consequently, I needed ways to learn project management quickly. Perhaps you're looking for ways to boost your project management knowledge and skills.

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The Digital Project Manager

OCTOBER 9, 2020

The post How To Make A Project Roadmap (With Roadmap Template) appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 12, 2020

TL; DR: 70 Scrum Master Theses. The following 70 Scrum Master theses describe the role of from a holistic product creation perspective. The theses cover the role of the Scrum Master from product discovery to product delivery in hands-on practical manner. On the one side, they address typical Scrum events such as Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and the Sprint Retrospective.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 27, 2020

If you are like many Project Management Professional ( PMP )® certification holders, you might be finding it hard to source enough quality learning materials for your Leadership PDUs. Panic no more, I have all the details you need below. In this article we’ll look at what Leadership PDUs are and how many you need, and what activities count towards your PDU total in the Leadership category.

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Kiron Bondale

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Emphasizing flow through the reduction or elimination of batching of work items is desirable but this is not always efficient or practical. So what are some of the factors which might force us to batch work items? Whether it is equipment, materials or people’s time, constraints are a common reason for batching work. Let’s say we wanted to build a fence for a customer.

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