PM Basics
JANUARY 22, 2019
Let me put this straight: Project planning is a challenging and complex activity. You need to apply knowledge and skills from all aspects of project management. You operate with an enormous amount of information. And let’s be truthful: You’ll race against the clock. Nevertheless, project planning is a structured and logical process. In this article, I’ll show you a proven workflow.
Meisterplan
JANUARY 2, 2019
The Ranking Method, the Scoring Method, and the Domain Approach at a Glance Scarce resources and even scarcer resources. This has always been the case in project portfolio management. Previously, money was the main scarce resource, but now it is employees. The implementation of projects is limited by the available capacity and skills of the employees assigned to those projects.
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Project Bliss
JANUARY 30, 2019
When considering your career, you’re likely looking for a way to set yourself apart from everyone else at work. You may be looking for ways to grow in your career. And you’re possibly wondering what skills will be most beneficial. And you want to ensure you have job security, or that you’ll be able to get a job easily if anything happens to the one you have now.
ProjectManager.com
JANUARY 22, 2019
Project Managers are among the most positive of people. Armed with our methods and tools , our boundless optimism and our can-do attitude, it sometimes feels like we can do anything. Yet the fact is, there are limitations. We must all face some uncomfortable truths. This is a personal perspective, so it may reflect my own insecurities, rather than yours.
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Project Risk Coach
JANUARY 14, 2019
Project managers constantly think about risks, both threats and opportunities. What if the requirements are late? What if the testing environment becomes unstable? How can we exploit the design skills of our developers? Let’s consider a simple but powerful tool to capture and manage your risks—the Risk Register. What to Include in a Risk Register.
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Musings on Project Management
JANUARY 24, 2019
Without Metrics you're just another guy with an opinion - Stephan Leschka, Hewlett Packard* I get it; and mostly, I agree with Mr. Leschka BUT, there are a few other rules: Don't measure -- meaning: don't invest the effort to collect and analyze -- that which you don't manage Don't measure the unmeasurable -- meaning, don't assign false values and dimensions to that which is fundamentally.
The Lazy Project Manager
JANUARY 4, 2019
As we all start the journey that is 2019, a few questions: Are you investing in your project management community? Does your team need better presentation skills? Do your sponsors and executives need better understanding of business change impact? Do you have plans for a business event in the coming months? Do you need help in any, or all, of the above?
Kiron Bondale
JANUARY 27, 2019
A Definition of Ready (DoR) is an agreement established by some agile teams to help them assess if a given product backlog item can safely be accepted by the team to be worked on. It is not expected to be used as a gate but rather as guidance. I frequently hear from teams who are frustrated with one or more of their ceremonies. There can be many reasons for such perceptions but some times the root cause relates more to what wasn’t completed in advance rather than what actually transpired d
ProjectManager.com
JANUARY 14, 2019
Criticism can be helpful, but even when it’s constructive, it can be hard to take—especially at work. How do you deal with criticism productively? Jennifer Bridges, PMP, shows you strategies on how to handle criticism at work. Here’s a screenshot of the whiteboard for your reference! In Review – How to Handle Criticism at Work. What is criticism?
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
Project Risk Coach
JANUARY 21, 2019
If you say the word “risk” to ten people, each person may think of something different— insurance, threats, investments, bets, or potential loss. As we manage project teams, it's critical that you and your team members have a common understanding of what project risk means. Otherwise, people will be confused by your risk management efforts. It is no wonder that there is so much confusion about the meaning of risk.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
JANUARY 27, 2019
It’s a great honour to be asked to mentor someone, and whether that arrangement comes about as a result of an informal discussion or a formal corporate scheme, you should take the commitment to be a mentor seriously. It’s also a good career opportunity for you – working with a more junior project manager can give you a different insight into project management topics and they are likely to have different experiences to share with you as well.
Project Bliss
JANUARY 22, 2019
If you’ve been asked to complete a business process map it may feel overwhelming. You may have an idea of what that is, but you want to be sure you do it right. It’s not intuitive at first, but once you learn how, it’s much easier than you think. And k nowing how to create business process maps is useful in many situations. You’ll be able to provide a valuable skill for your team that can be used in many different situations.
Musings on Project Management
JANUARY 18, 2019
Repetition and review are good--Malcom Gladwell says it takes 10,000 hours to be expert at anything--so here's a few words that will take a few minutes on three important quantitative concepts every risk manager should know: Concept 1: Centrality Most phenomenon of interest to projects, particularly naturally occurring phenomenon, tend to cluster around a central value, given enough samples.
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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.
Kiron Bondale
JANUARY 13, 2019
The Scrum Guide states that a sprint backlog “ is the set of Product Backlog items selected for the Sprint, plus a plan for delivering the product increment and realizing the Sprint Goal. The Sprint Backlog is a forecast by the Development Team about what functionality will be in the next Increment and the work needed to deliver that functionality into a “Done” Increment. ” We expect to find requirements, enhancements and even fixes in the sprint backlog, but is that it?
ProjectManager.com
JANUARY 29, 2019
Consciousness is a blessing and a curse. Thinking has led to great innovation but has also brought people into disastrous conflict. While thought is neither intrinsically good or bad, it can be used for positive or negative ends. Whatever the cause, big or small, overthinking is proof that there can be too much of a good thing. Sadly, this surplus of mental exertion is practically unavoidable: thinking turns into overthinking before you know it.
Project Risk Coach
JANUARY 28, 2019
Have you ever endured a project meeting where you spent hours evaluating risks? Afterward, team members walked down the hall saying, “What a waste of time! Now I can get back to the real work.” Today, let’s discuss the use of qualitative risk analysis to get you back on track. What causes this frustration? First, the evaluation process may not fit the project – too complex for simple projects or deficient for large, complex projects.
Scrum.org
JANUARY 21, 2019
Sub-title: Breaking the Iron Triangle. Sub-title #2: Jeff Sutherland’s book could have been called: “Scrum: Twice the decision-making in half the time leading to half the work and twice the output.”. A discussion is raging at LinkedIn about the Iron Triangle because the co-authors of Scrum say that “Scrum breaks the Iron Triangle”. This, you can imagine, causes ripples through the Project Management community.
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nTask
JANUARY 31, 2019
Evernote is a note taking app that is designed to help take notes, organize and prioritize ideas and create lists to keep productive and on track. Although the options Evernote offers can be very helpful, there are some areas where it could introduce potentially more useful features – especially for the price. Some of the more prominent features Evernote lacks and which can be found in other apps include task creation and management including time tracking.
Musings on Project Management
JANUARY 15, 2019
Trying to remember how you got here? Perhaps Understanding why you're sticking around is also important So, here's my top ten reasons why agile has worked for me 1. Agile is a "best value" method: it's doctrine is centered on value and accomplishment for the customer and user, not so much adherence to cost and schedule--though the sponsor's investment can not be exceeded, so cost is at.
Kiron Bondale
JANUARY 6, 2019
I finally completed reading Nassim Taleb ‘s book Skin in the Game which I had written about in a recent article. In that piece I had applied his principles when comparing the benefits of a product-centric orientation to the project-centric model which is still found in many organizations. But after finishing the book, I realized that there is a much more compelling example of the challenges experienced with risk asymmetry in many large organizations, namely with those staff who are respons
ProjectManager.com
JANUARY 7, 2019
You probably work with someone who complains a lot. Sometimes that can be hard to manage, even with team management tools. Watch Jennifer Bridges, PMP, to understand where chronic complainers are coming from, and learn strategies for keeping everyone happy and productive. Here’s a screenshot of the whiteboard for your reference! In Review – How to Handle Chronic Complainers.
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LiquidPlanner
JANUARY 10, 2019
Being the one in charge is never easy—and not everyone gets to be in that position. It takes more than courage and confidence to be good at taking care of people, projects, and events. Every project manager has suitable skills and necessary knowledge that make him an ideal candidate to lead his team, even if he came into the role “accidentally” without any formal project management training.
Scrum.org
JANUARY 30, 2019
(fyi: this text has been slightly adapted from the original text that can be found at [link] ). Agility is a continuously evolving state that is unique to a specific organization, given that organization’s people, its constructs and its history. A traditional (industrial) approach to becoming more Agile (adaptive) commonly creates no more than an illusion of agility.
Project Bliss
JANUARY 8, 2019
An Affinity Diagram is a tool that helps you group or organize large amounts of information based on theme or relationship. Imagine you’ve just led a fantastic brainstorming session with your team. You’ve had great participation from all attendees. They’ve given you lots of input, and now you have a long list of ideas and data to work with. . But at this point it’s just an overwhelming, disorganized list.
Musings on Project Management
JANUARY 21, 2019
When we mean to build, We first survey the plot, then draw the model; and when we see the figure of the house, Then must we rate the cost of the erection which if we find outweighs ability, What do we then but draw anew the model In fewer offices, or at least desist To build at all? William Shakespeare Henry IV, Part2, I.iii,1598 First seen at heardingcats Buy them at any online book.
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.
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