December, 2021

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How to Respond to Project Risks

Project Risk Coach

Once we've identified our project risks, we should plan and implement responses. In this article, let's look at ways to respond to project threats and opportunities. In our projects, we discover threats that may limit our ability to achieve our goals. We also identify opportunities that could allow us to make more progress. Our job is to increase the opportunities and reduce the threats.

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Hybrid is the norm, not the exception

Kiron Bondale

I frequently see questions asked in project management discussion groups about hybrid projects. As I wrote in last week’s article, projects themselves can’t be waterfall, agile, traditional or hybrid but how we approach them can be. But what does “hybrid” really mean? The Oxford English Dictionary’s first definition relates to the zoological use of the term which isn’t too helpful, but the second is: “ A thing made by combining two different elements; a

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Product Manager vs Project Manager – What’s the Difference?

ProjectManager.com

Product Manager vs Project Manager. While both are leadership roles and the titles are similar, there’s a difference between a product manager and a project manager as Jennifer Bridges, PMP, explains. Here’s a screen shot of the whiteboard for your reference! Of course, these roles can also vary greatly depending on the types of products or projects being executed in the organization.

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Engaging Stakeholders with Gamification [video]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In this video Elizabeth Harrin discusses how merging engagement and gamification creates engagification, a methodology to help people take action on projects. Watch the video to listen (about 30 minutes). If you prefer to read, there are closed captions in the video or there’s also a transcript underneath the video. Transcript. Hello, everybody. My name is Elizabeth Harrin.

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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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Forecasting for Scrum Teams with Roadmaps

Scrum.org

A roadmap is a complementary practice that a Scrum Team might use to forecast upcoming deliveries or to translate Product Backlog items into a visual representation. When multiple Scrum Teams work together on a single product, these teams should share a single Product Backlog and, therefore, a single forecast or roadmap. . A roadmap can provide stakeholders with an easy-to-understand visual of the feature deliveries planned in the Product Backlog.

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Use the STAR Method to Ace Your Next Interview [Free download & Examples]

Project Bliss

The STAR method is a simple framework for answering behavioral interview questions. It formats your interview answers in a way that shows interviewers how your experiences make you an outstanding candidate for the job you’re interviewing for. It’s a great formula for crafting a success story that highlights your skills and experience. What Is the STAR Interview Method?

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3 Project Planning Considerations for the New Year

LiquidPlanner

New Year, New Projects, New Directions = a New Plan. You are very likely in the process of planning where your company is headed next year. If not, it’s time to get started. Looking ahead is an important component of good leadership and project management. At the highest level, it is determining goals and objectives for the organization. These goals are translated into business unit priorities for each team through estimating planned projects, identifying process changes, and determining the peo

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Project Kickoff Meeting: How to Write a Kickoff Meeting Agenda

ProjectManager.com

Project managers put a lot of time and effort into researching the viability of their project. But all that work is pointless if they don’t communicate the purpose of the project to their team and clients. That’s why a kickoff meeting is so important. A kickoff meeting puts everyone on the same page. The team and client know the mission statement, the vision statement and the project plan.

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Thank you 2021

Rebel’s Guide to PM

As 2021 comes to a close, I would like to take a moment and reflect on the year and thank everyone that has made a Girl’s Guide to Project Management a success this year. It is always one of my favorite parts of the year. I hope I’ve remembered everyone! Somehow the list seems to get longer every year. A very special thank you goes to… Companies that let me review their software.

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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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Definition of Done - Where to Start?

Scrum.org

Often after exploring the definition of done in our Scrum.org training, and exploring its importance to promote transparency and is a commitment to the increment every Sprint. A common question we get asked is how do we get started with creating a Definition of Done ? It's not surprising a common question. Often when working with Scrum teams, we'll ask, "Where's your current Definition of Done (DoD)?".

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New Year’s Resolutions and retrospectives

Kiron Bondale

Tis the season – for New Year’s resolutions. Like lessons (rarely) learned sessions at the end of projects, annual resolutions have received their fair share of ridicule. For gym rats like myself, a humorous way to help shake off the doldrums of the post-holidays blues is to see all the new faces in my gym for the first couple of weeks of January and watch their numbers dwindle back as the days pass.

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Best of 2021: Here Are Your Favorite Blog Posts This Year

Inloox

In 2020 the top positions were dominated by posts on working from home and knowledge management. As the pandemic is far from over, this year's list includes our personal lessons learned from a year of (mostly) working from home. But as we are all still working remotely, it’s more important than ever to stay connected and show appreciation to your fellow team members.

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Six Ways How Dev And Marketing Teams Can Collaborate Effortlessly

Proofhub

Image credit: Pexels There is no team without collaboration. As Steve Jobs once stated: “ Great things in business are never done by one person ”. While different departments are responsible for their parts of the project, they all form a single company. And a company can exist only when there is room for discussion and idea exchange. In reality, many employees take on most responsibilities to avoid putting further strain on their coworkers.

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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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How to Manage Ad-Hoc Projects and Ad-Hoc Requests

ProjectManager.com

Projects rarely go as planned. There is always the potential to get new data, project or product updates, reviews or any number of last-minute requests. How do you deal with these ad-hoc requests? Ad-hoc means that it’s specific—something that will not be repeated. Ad-hoc projects and ad-hoc requests will occur in project management and you need to know how to deal with them.

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10 Best Project Timeline Management Software [2021]

The Digital Project Manager

This project timeline management software review covers 10 tools and all the info you need: pros and cons, pricing, features, integrations, and screenshots to help you choose something that fits your needs. The post 10 Best Project Timeline Management Software [2021] appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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How to Sabotage A Scrum Master — 44 Anti-Patterns from the Trenches

Scrum.org

TL; DR: How to Sabotage A Scrum Master — 44 Anti-Patterns from the Trenches to Avoid. One of my favorite exercises from my Professional Scrum Master classes is how to best sabotage a Scrum Master as a member of the middle management. The exercise rules are simple: You’re not allowed to use any form of illegal activity. So, outsourcing the task to a bunch of outlaws is out of the question.

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That’s not funny!

Kiron Bondale

“ Laugh and the world laughs with you ” goes the old saying, but that’s not always the case in the workplace. An HBR article covering research conducted in health care on the impact of humor in clinician-patient interactions is equally applicable in other industries. The authors indicated that humor can be a suitable side dish for an entrée of empathy, courtesy and respect but in the absence of these main courses, it backfires.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Top 10 Client Reporting Tools for Small Businesses in 2022

nTask

Business Intelligence (BI) reporting for small businesses lets owners and decision-makers see the big picture. Reporting software collates information from various sources and reports real numbers and trends to deliver an easy-to-digest package of reports. Client reporting tools specifically report on: Sales. Effectiveness of marketing campaigns. Every aspect of customer engagement.

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Employee Motivation: Benefits And Ways To Motivate Your Workforce

Proofhub

Image Source: [link] As the competition in the corporate world is inflating generation by generation, the workforce is being delegated a truckload of targets to reach the competitive benchmark. We all know how pressure and burden can discourage an individual. Keeping employees motivated is now becoming a challenge. You must understand that when your employees are unmotivated, it can cost you around $550 billion annually.

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What Is Alternative Analysis in Project Management?

ProjectManager.com

There’s more than one way to skin a cat. That is to say—you can reach the same outcome through different means. To discover those means, you can use an alternative analysis. An alternative analysis is how project managers choose how they’re going to approach a project. There are always options, and knowing which is the best one for your project takes time, research and an understanding of possible scenarios.

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10 Best Project Management Calendar Tools For Scheduling

The Digital Project Manager

Time to trash the tacky pin-up calendars and a bottomless hunger for Whiteout for a digital project calendar that is flexible, versatile, and shareable. The post 10 Best Project Management Calendar Tools For Scheduling appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Measure what matters - beware of the Sandwich Effect!

Scrum.org

Have you heard the quote by Deming “Without data, you’re just another person with an opinion”? If you have heard it and you have taken it seriously, you probably already started your journey with Evidence Based Management. Measuring value to enable improvement and agility sounds like a good plan, but as usual it is easier said than done. Measurement challenges.

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LiquidPlanner Named a Top Solution for Portfolio Management

LiquidPlanner

Digital.com , a leading independent review website for small business online tools, products, and services, recognized LiquidPlanner as one of the best project portfolio management software options of 2021. Experts at Digital.com evaluated project portfolio management (PPM) software based on the capacity to track progress and status in relation to milestones, time, and expenses.

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Building an Effective Agile Transformation Consultant Team

Leading Agile

An Agile Transformation Consultant who wants to lead a successful Transformation is going to need more than a deep understanding of Agile. Simply knowing the methodologies and teaching them to other people is insufficient. In a recent blog post, we discussed the various types of Agile Transformation Coaches needed to run a sustainable Transformation.

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Review Project Management Maturity Model Fourth Edition

Henny Portman

Project Management Maturity Model Fourth Edition, written by J. Kent Crawford, is a comprehensive but complete guide to understand and use the maturity model PMMM. The PMMM is based on the knowledge areas of the 6 th edition of the PMBoK guide and the five levels of maturity from CMMI. Each knowledge area is broken down the into specific key components.

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From Complexity to Clarity: Strategies for Effective Compliance and Security Measures

Speaker: Erika R. Bales, Esq.

When we talk about “compliance and security," most companies want to ensure that steps are being taken to protect what they value most – people, data, real or personal property, intellectual property, digital assets, or any other number of other things - and it’s more important than ever that safeguards are in place. Let’s step back and focus on the idea that no matter how complicated the compliance and security regime, it should be able to be distilled down to a checklist.