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11 Tested Ways to Improve Team Time Management

Teamweek

Team time management involves the collective will and ability to manage time efficiently. Without it, teams are prone to project delays, procrastination, missed deadlines, and lower profits. Let’s look at some of the best ways to improve your teams’ time management so you can streamline workflows and improve productivity for everyone. Why is time management important for teams?

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How to use the SCARF framework as a manager

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Carole Osterweil Managers should have a basic understanding of how the human brain works because it helps you navigate difficult situations. A bit of brain science goes a long way. Unconvinced? Think about the projects you’re working on. How often have you seen a team member becoming defensive or a client getting wound up and quite aggressive over something relatively minor?

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How to Create a Project Initiation Document (Template Included)

ProjectManager.com

Before you can start a project — even before you can plan it — you first need to define the project in detail. This allows the project manager to get buy-in from the project’s key stakeholders and ensure all the research has been done to move into the planning phase without any hiccups. That’s why a project initiation document (PID) is so important.

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10 Interview Questions for the Product Owner

Scrum.org

The Product Owner accountability is critical for the success of the Scrum team. And yet, the characteristics of the Product Owner are not described in the Scrum Guide. Product Owners must understand the organization's business strategy and use that information to create the Product Goal. The Product Owner decides what is the most important thing to do next, and creates a single, ordered list from which the Scrum Team pulls its work - the Product Backlog.

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Understand Digital Debt, Form a Team, Set Goals, and Plan Roadmap for Transformation

Understanding digital debt is crucial before digital transformation. Assemble a team to assess internal operations, market pressures, and digital debt's impact. Define future digital vision with measurable goals. Refine hypotheses and conduct market analysis. Develop a roadmap for transformation with defined projects, cost estimates, and governance.

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Reasons to Adopt AgilePM®

The IIL Blog

The World’s Leading Framework and Certification for Agile Project Management By APMG International July 26, 2023 Agile’s influence on the project management industry continues to rise at pace. Organizations and project professionals are embracing Agile tools and frameworks as they aim to increase the success of – and return on investment from – projects and other change initiatives.

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Step-By-Step Guide to Create a Project Management Workflow

WorkOtter

Did you know 39% of organizations don’t provide project management training? That makes it pretty hard to manage or even understand an efficient project management workflow. After all, if you’ve ever worked on a project, you know how important it is to have a plan. From start to finish, you need a clear idea of who needs to do what and by when.

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Produktentdeckung für Scrum Teams ??

Scrum.org

In Kürze: Produktentdeckung für Scrum Teams Scrum eignet sich zwar hervorragend zum Erstellen und Releasen von Inkrementen, aber es ist keine Garantie dafür, dass diese wertvoll sind. Scrum-Teams können auch Dinge entwickeln, an denen niemand interessiert ist. Das entscheidende Artefakt, um Werte zu schaffen, ist das Produkt-Backlog, „an emergent, ordered list of what is needed to improve the product.“ ( Quelle.

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Feature Tip #18: Break Projects Into Phases Using Sub-folders

LiquidPlanner

Looking for the best way to organize and schedule your project tasks in LiquidPlanner? Consider using sub-folders to break your project into phases. There are many advantages to utilizing sub-folders as phases that could benefit your team and help meet your deadlines: Breaking down work into phases effectively groups important work together within the project hierarchy.

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The Road to Responsible Collaboration: Organize to Collaborate

The IIL Blog

By Robin Hornby July 26, 2023 Collaborative working has become something of a buzzword. Every project would claim it is their intention. But more than good intentions are needed. In this third article, Robin argues that specific drivers, some well-known but re-imagined as evolutionary steps, lead naturally to project management maturity and the complete alignment of corporate and project goals.

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Strategic Project Finance Essentials: A Project Manager’s Guide to Financial Metrics

Speaker: Ketan Jahagirdar - Sopheon’s Director of Product Management

Empower yourself as a project manager with insights that directly influence the financial landscape and strategic direction of your organization! Join us for a deep dive into the world of financial strategy, as we dissect key metrics that drive CFOs and business leaders’ investment decisions. This session will equip you with the necessary tools to craft compelling business cases as well as a comprehensive understanding of the crucial distinction between capital expenditure and operational expend

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The Revolution is Here: Generative AI and Project Management

Planview

In its conventional sense, project management has been marked by rigorous methods and stringent controls. But in the wake of generative AI technology, we’re on the brink of a transformative change in how projects are managed. As chatbots pervade all aspects of our digital lives — from banking to education to shopping — those who plan and run projects for a living will expect the same intelligence, ease of use, and real-time explanations from our project management solutions.

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Applying PMBOK Guide 7th Edition to Projects

The IIL Blog

By Cynthia Snyder Dionisio July 26, 2023 In Getting to Know the PMBOK Guide 7 th Edition , I focused on the structure of the PMBOK Guide – Seventh Edition. Now I want to move into how you can use the 7 th Edition. I want to share with you a story that happened while we were adjudicating comments from the public exposure draft of the Standard. It was March of 2020; I am sure you remember that was the beginning of the pandemic.

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How to Get the Most Out of Your Agile Methodology

Leading Agile

The Agile industry seems insistent that practices, agile methodologies, and frameworks will be how large organizations achieve Business Agility. But, the clients and companies we talk to seem to have a different opinion. Many of them are saying, “yeah, we tried Agile. It didn’t work.” And they’re looking for something else. Is the Agile industry in a rut?

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Breaking Down Barriers: Overcoming Network Security Challenges With FWaaS

Productivity Land

Network security has become an increasingly complex and critical aspect of modern business operations. TechTarget reports that there is a growing trend of malicious attackers targeting internet-connected systems and inadequately protected web applications. A survey conducted in late 2021, with the results published in 2022, revealed that 43% of the 2,031 cybersecurity professionals surveyed noted an uptick in attempted cyber attacks within their organizations.

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Acclaim Projects Helps Deliver Innovation Projects on Time and on Budget

This large intercity transportation company for people and freight employs 100+ IT employees and contractors across North America and Europe and spends $10MM annually for approximately 50 inflight projects. The company needed the right financial tools to budget for innovation initiatives and real-time information on spending and forecasting. This transportation company turned to Acclaim Projects by Sopheon to help deliver projects on time and within budget.

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Unleashing the Power of Social Media Advertising on Ecommerce

Binfire

Ecommerce and social media marketing are a powerful force in helping businesses achieve their goals. These marketing strategies will be examined to see their effectiveness in broadening visibility, drawing in more customers, and boosting sales. Photo by LinkedIn Sales Solutions on Unsplash Taking advantage of social media in your ecommerce business can be a viable approach to propel your company’s success but with the appropriate plan.

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What’s New: Availability Overview For Frictionless Resource Planning

Teamweek

As an agency owner or project manager, you constantly juggle projects and deadlines. At the same time, you have to keep your creative teams running like a well-oiled machine. It’s a catch twenty-two—balancing workload without compromising quality or overloading your team with work. Imagine: You’ve just landed a fantastic new project that demands 200 hours of video editing wizardry.

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Wrike vs. Microsoft Project: Compare MS Project Alternatives

Wrike

If you’re of a certain age, you probably can’t remember a time before Microsoft Office. Whether it was writing a high school paper, creating a spreadsheet to track expenses, or even just doodling on Paint, MS Office has been a part of our lives for decades. For a long time, it was the only show in town, offering capabilities and features that weren’t available anywhere else.

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The Role of UI/UX Design in Cross-Platform App Development

PM Times

Going cross-platform is the smart choice these days, given the ever-growing number of devices and operating systems. However, mobile app development would be incomplete without a well-designed UI and a positive user experience. Building features according to the client’s business requirements is of prime importance. Making them with a natural, user-friendly flow is, or […] The post The Role of UI/UX Design in Cross-Platform App Development appeared first on Project Management Article

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.

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What is Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s Anti-fragile? | Video

Online PM Courses

In this video, I answer the question, What is Anti-fragile? – and how does the conception anti-fragility apply to Project Management? The post What is Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s Anti-fragile? | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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