Thu.Apr 11, 2019

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Anti-fragile -- surviving shock

Musings on Project Management

A good system is one in which the risks are visible Nassim Nicholas Taleb Nassim Nicholas Taleb, most famous for authoring "The Black Swan: the impact of highly improbable fragility", also has a just-as-interesting book: "Antifragile: things that gain from disorder" Taleb's objective for this book is to be the definitive explanation of the spectrum of fragile (read: Black Swan,

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The Dangers of Self-Serving Bias at the Workplace

ProjectManager.com

Most of us like to paint ourselves in a positive light. It can be hard to admit to a mistake, especially at work where our professional reputation (and salary) is on the line. But if you start to notice that you or one of your coworkers always seems to be taking credit, seeking praise and avoiding blame, then it’s likely that self-serving bias has reared its ugly head.

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From Onboarding to Expert: Optimizing Projects and Processes with LiquidPlanner

LiquidPlanner

Here at LiquidPlanner we’ve identified four main stages our customers go through to optimize their projects and processes. Our most successful customers don’t try to “eat the elephant,” so to speak, as soon as they buy LiquidPlanner. They know that change and progress occur in steps. Throughout this series of blog posts, we’ll discuss each of the four stages to LiquidPlanner success.

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Maximizing Value In The Presence of Constraints

Leading Agile

Organizations embracing an Agile approach to their work value their ability to inspect and adapt. They value the ability to continually learn and deepen their understanding of what problems they are trying to solve so that they can inspect and adapt toward a better solution. The challenge is that just because we’re Agile and we want to inspect and adapt our way to a better solution doesn’t mean that we can ignore the constraints of scope, cost, and time.

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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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Building a Simple Project Pipeline Flow

Hub Planner

Reading Time: 6 minutes. Building a Simple Project Pipeline Flow. A project pipeline flow can help you move a project through various project stages visually within the resource scheduler. Being organized in this way helps you understand quickly what stage a project maybe at. What is a Project Pipeline Flow? Well, it’s a series of steps or perhaps statuses that a project goes through from start to finish.

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How to Have the Best Printing Experience with Teamweek

Teamweek

Printing in Teamweek’s webapp might appear wonky at times because we rely mostly on each browser’s printing feature. Your personal choice to use Internet Explorer, Chrome, Safari, Mozilla or another provider ultimately determines how that page that comes out of the printer. That being said, we want to help you have the best printing experience.

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PMP Study Schedule That Helped Raeann To Crack The Certification Exam

PM by PM

A PMP study schedule is must for passing the certification test. Passing the exam is next to impossible without defined steps, proper timeline, and discipline. You would know that cracking PMP credential exam is akin to a project – a small but tough project. A project cannot be successful without a plan. In this article, […]. The post PMP Study Schedule That Helped Raeann To Crack The Certification Exam appeared first on PM-by-PM.

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When Is Time Tracking Inefficient & How to Make It Work

TimeCamp

Inefficient Time Tracking – What Does It Mean? According to TSheets survey, “time.

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The Four Fundamentals of Business Change

Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

Senior executives are often responsible for a variety of major initiatives – which all need to be aligned to their organisation’s strategic objectives if they are to successfully deliver on the business goals. But when the deployment of a new product takes time and resources away from a number of different departments, coordinating and sequencing all of this and ensuring things run smoothly can be a real challenge.

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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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How I transformed “multiple Scrum teams” into “multiple team Scrum”

Scrum.org

Intended audience: Scrum masters, Product owners, Managers and Agile coaches. I was working with various groups over the last year and noticed some commonalities in the problems they faced. In this blog I want to share some common collaboration problems and solutions I experimented with. 1. Lack of product focus. The lack of product focus is related to a series of underlying product related problems.

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Review: An executive’s guide to disciplined agile

Henny Portman

The book An executive’s guide to disciplined agile – Winning the race to business agility written by Scott W. Ambler and Mark Lines give a good overview of Disciplined Agile. Disciplined Agile (DA) provides light-weight guidance to help organizations streamline their Information Technology (IT) and business processes in a context-sensitive manner. DA provides the process foundation for business agility.