ProjectManager.com
JULY 16, 2019
It’s become normal in our society to complain to friends, family and strangers that we are so busy with work, school, friends, family or a combination of everything. Tim Peek called “busyness” the “socially acceptable addiction” in his article on the cult of busyness for the Huffington Post. To many, being busy signifies that you are important and valuable.
Scrum.org
JULY 16, 2019
Recently, I stumbled upon the paper “ Nothing is Written — Learning is an Adventure ” by Johnnie Moore & Viv McWaters. I loved every part of it and felt myself nodding in agreement continuously. When it comes to training & teaching, I fully agree with statements like…. “Rather than giving people reassuring — right answers — we may do better to model experimentation, curiosity, and openness.”. and….
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Proofhub
JULY 16, 2019
How to Manage Your To-Do List When You’re Always in Meetings On days when you have far too much to do?—?back to back deadlines, overflowing inbox, multiple meetings?—?here’s how you get yourself in line for SUCCESS. Each day, you write down a bunch of stuff on your to-do list app , perhaps you even assign it a time. But at the end of the day, you have hardly made it halfway into the list.
Scrum.org
JULY 16, 2019
TL;DR. Traditional procurement can be slow and challenging – with the procurement cycle often delaying work starting. With traditional contracts the scope of work can become fixed and may prevent the Product Owner using the Product Backlog to focus on value and respond to feedback. Lean Agile Procurement is designed to reduce delay in establishing the partnerships, and providing clear constraints on the business relationship.
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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.
Workamajig
JULY 16, 2019
A project sign-off sheet is essential to formally close a project or acknowledge delivery of a key deliverable. Learn how to use them in your projects in this guide. Free Bonus: Click here to get a FREE sign-off sheet template in your projects. Use it right away or modify it as you see fit. After countless hours, dozens of resources, and hundreds of requests, you’ve finally wrapped up the project.
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Lynne Cazaly
JULY 16, 2019
I’ve been posting on 'ish', the practice of good enough and the challenges when don't know the standard we're going for. But what about others? Unhappy about the work someone has done for you or a service delivered to you? Perhaps it didn’t have the right information, didn’t look right or wasn’t the way you expected. The increasing problem the world has with perfectionism isn’t just about the standards we have for ourselves.
Celoxis
JULY 16, 2019
Collaboration is defined as the process of working with someone to produce something. In today’s world, collaboration is not limited to instances where you actually need to present in a person with the individual you are collaborating with.
Lynne Cazaly
JULY 16, 2019
In recent posts I’ve mentioned the expectations we can have: - of ourselves. - of others. There’s a third. It’s what we perceive society expects of us. - Society. you know, other people. Them. Those people over there. We can worry a lot about what people think of us. What will they say? How will they perceive us? These worries can become huge filters, censors and constraints to our thoughts and behaviour.
nTask
JULY 16, 2019
October 3, 1951 – When it comes to the prime example of why teamwork is important, I’d like to recall the remarkable “Shot Heard Around the World” incident. It was a historic moment when the benefits of working as a team shone through — That’s when the Brooklyn Dodgers won the Phillies. Russ Hodges giving arguably the best live description of the exact moment – “I don’t believe it!
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
Henny Portman
JULY 16, 2019
The PMO Global Awards is the PMO Global Alliance’s annual award for the most outstanding Project Management Offices in the world. This non-profit initiative intends to inspire organizations around the world to evolve their Project Management Offices and project management practices to achieve the best results. It encourages organizations from all over the world to share knowledge and experiences, acknowledging best results, and allowing the evolution of the PMO worldwide community.
Lynne Cazaly
JULY 16, 2019
Oh, the waste of unnecessary work! We can be head down, diligently working away on a project or task and yet not know when it’s time to be done with it, to test it or share it or press 'go', launch or go live. That's because it takes hindsight for us to make sense of things. It could be that some of what we have done may have been a waste. Some of our time and effort may have been wasted.
LiquidPlanner
JULY 16, 2019
As a great philosopher and chewer of scenery, Star Trek ’s James T. Kirk once said, “ Risk is our business ”—nothing great can be accomplished if you’re not willing to take some risks. I like to say, “If failure isn’t an option, then innovation isn’t an opportunity.” However, risk must be managed carefully. In “ Return to Tomorrow ,” The Original Series episode that this line comes from, the risk is poorly managed, and the impact is nearly catastrophic for all of humanity.
Lynne Cazaly
JULY 16, 2019
Everything doesn’t have to be a-m-a-z-i-n-g. Writing a blog, preparing a report, delivering a presentation? Tidying the cupboard, cleaning your desk, working out what to wear today? Watch out folks! We pile an incredible pressure on ourselves in today’s crazy world, trying to make the quality of what we do amazing. But do you know what? Everything doesn’t have to be amazing.
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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.
TimeCamp
JULY 16, 2019
The weather is lovely, the sun is shining, birds are singing outside and you… You’re.
Lynne Cazaly
JULY 16, 2019
Worrying if you're doing it 'right'. When we write something, share, do, show, try something new, we can be worried about whether we’re doing it. ‘right’ What is ‘right’ anyway? Is it about meeting a standard or expectation. our standard or expectation? Or is it about meeting the standards and expectations of others? It’s surely a conditioning from our upbringing or our school years where the reward and validation was for correct and right.
ProProfs Project Management
JULY 16, 2019
Managing a project isn’t easy. . There are so many challenges that project managers and team members face on a daily basis, ranging from defining clear project goals and objectives to generating detailed reports every month to check team performance. Further, you could be facing other challenges such as meeting your project deadlines, handling your limited budget, and most importantly manage untimed risks. .
Lynne Cazaly
JULY 16, 2019
I was chatting with a colleague today and she said she hadn’t completed a task to ‘her standards’ I enquired what the standards were. They existed in her mind but not on paper and not in writing. She'd said: ‘It has to be neat, look professional, be better than anything I’ve ever done for them before, be the best I can do, be me at my best.’ Do you see how difficult it will be to reach each of these unmeasurable, undefinable targets?
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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.
Wrike
JULY 16, 2019
The transformation of a Kanban board into Kanban template. In 2001, software developers changed project management forever by introducing Agile to the world with the Manifesto for Software Development. Following recognition by Harvard Business Review and McKinsey & Company, Agile is now spreading to all types of organizations and industries. Agile is an umbrella of methodologies that boost productivity by empowering teams to operate with more flexibility than traditional hierarchical styles
Lynne Cazaly
JULY 16, 2019
Excellence says 'good'. It's the act and output of excelling with good qualities in high degree. Yet some parts may not be excellent and these we hope will be the parts that don't really matter or those that can be improved over time. My mother, Shirley, put a little sign in our family home years ago that read: ‘I may not be perfect, but parts of me are excellent.’ This is what it's about!
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