Workamajig
JANUARY 15, 2020
What are some of the top project management trends agencies need to watch out for? Find the right answers in this article. As a project manager, you have your work cut out for you. It’s not enough to master the nuances of managing projects in the creative field - a tough ask in itself - you also have to stay abreast of the latest developments in project management.
MPUG
JANUARY 13, 2020
Watch for these warning signs, so you don’t end up twisting in the wind! As a project manager (PM) for an international consulting firm, I was once assigned to a very large account that taught online classes through the internet. The company was called the High Intensity Teaching Corporation or HIT. This is the pseudonym used throughout, and for reasons that will soon be obvious, I found it managed to fly into some of the most dangerous red flags that warn of project trouble: a virtual office, a
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Inloox
JANUARY 15, 2020
Imagine the following situation: You have just moved into your first own apartment and some of your friends have helped you. Now you want to assemble the new furniture together. In doing so, you realize that you only have a spoon as a tool. It will work somehow, you think to yourself and just get started. A few hours later, all the furniture is actually in place and it was quite funny to have turned the spoon into a hammer and screwdriver.
Kiron Bondale
JANUARY 12, 2020
It is a common challenge for anyone who has managed projects for a meaningful amount of time. One or more of your key stakeholders who are integral to the successful completion of the project appears unwilling to engage as expected. It could be the project sponsor who ignores your pleas for assistance with a project issue, the functional manager who turns a blind eye to your requests for staffing support or the executive who never seems to have the time to review and sign off on a key deliverabl
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LiquidPlanner
JANUARY 14, 2020
With the increase in cloud-based platforms and web-enabled devices such as smartphones and laptops, remote collaboration has become more than just an option. Both freelancers and corporate teams collaborate on a plethora of projects and daily work-related activities constantly. According to Business 2 Community , 93% of organizations report using standardized, traditional project management practices, while management software adoption remains at low 22%, with 55% of organizations lacking any fo
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Teamweek
JANUARY 12, 2020
In our day-to-day lives, it’s easy to reach a stalemate and feel like we aren’t making any progress. You get bogged down in the minutiae of each project, not realizing how much you have accomplished since you began. Over time, this can be incredibly disheartening and demoralizing for you and others on your team who feel the same way. For most managers, the issue isn’t whether you are making progress or not.
ProProfs Project Management
JANUARY 12, 2020
Are project goals and project objectives both the same thing? Yes? Then, why so? . If not, then again, why do you think these two terms are different? Taking a broader outlook, most people tend to use the words ‘project goals’ and ‘project objectives’ interchangeably. But, there is a world of difference between the two. Let’s take an example: “Our client needs us to build a new building on their campus for IT teams.” .
Proofhub
JANUARY 13, 2020
8 Proven Leadership Ways to Build High-Performing Teams A high performing team is a blend of goal-oriented professionals , experts in their respective fields, responsible for planning, executing and yielding outstanding results. Excellent performance can be only achieved if there is powerful thought leadership, goals shared, clear communications, interpersonal conflict resolution, harmony and trust among team members.
ProjectManager.com
JANUARY 13, 2020
Ask a dozen people what agile is and you’ll get a dozen different answers. But it’s best defined by scrum as a model. Scrum is a way to manage a project within an agile framework and is made up of three roles: product owner, scrum master and team. The product owner is focused on the business side of the project, the scrum master is the expert, who acts like a coach.
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 16, 2020
Are you a better project manager today than you were a year ago? I hope my blog has boosted your knowledge and application. In case you missed some of my blog posts, I'm sharing my most popular project risk management posts of 2019. So, just how many of you came to the Project Risk Coach website in 2019? Year Visitors 2019 220,856 2018 113,206 2017 57,560 2016 42,000 2015 33,000 One of my 2019 goals was to help 180,000 website visitors.
Scrum.org
JANUARY 15, 2020
This post is an excerpt from the book that we’re writing, the ‘ Zombie Scrum Survival Guide ’. It’s our way of delivering small increments and involving our stakeholders: you, the reader. So we’d love to hear your feedback, encouragements and wild ideas. The Scrum Framework urges teams to involve stakeholders. But many Scrum Teams struggle to do so.
LiquidPlanner
JANUARY 16, 2020
In the New Year, businesses are eager to dive into new tasks and goals. Project managers are the first in line to have a full understanding of the intentions of the company going forward. It’s their job to take the companies’ new challenges and get them accomplished in the best way to achieve the desired goals in a timely manner. All around the world, work productivity is generally getting lower.
ProjectManager.com
JANUARY 14, 2020
So, you’ve got a project approved, and you’re ready to kick off the first phase. But have you worked through project development yet? Pause what you’re doing and take a look at how your project has been developed. It might sound like an unfamiliar phrase, but it matters. Think of it this way. If project management is the house that you’re building, then a project development process is the blueprint your contractors need to get started on everything.
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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.
Project Risk Coach
JANUARY 16, 2020
Oh, what a year! Thank you for being a part of the Project Risk Coach Community. In this article, I'm sharing my most popular project risk management posts of 2019. So, just how many of you came to the Project Risk Coach website in 2019? Year Visitors 2019 220,856 2018 113,206 2017 57,560 2016 42,000 2015 33,000 One of my 2019 goals was to have 180,000 website visitors.
Scrum.org
JANUARY 15, 2020
The most important question to stakeholders is often “When can it be done?” There is a lot that goes into answering that seemingly simple question. What is involved in the work? What else are we doing? What risks are there? The questions go on and on. Traditional estimation processes are so time-consuming, and often inaccurate, that an entire #noestimates movement has been started.
Musings on Project Management
JANUARY 15, 2020
Many creative people will tell you that new ideas begin -- often spontaneously -- with a mind's sketch that they then render in some kind of media. Fair enough -- no news there. We've talked about storyboards, etc before. But then the heavy lifting begins. How to fill in the details? Where to start? My advice: Draw it first. If you can't draw it, you can't build it!
Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives
JANUARY 16, 2020
As we move into 2020 and the start of a new decade, it is important to take the time to consider how your industry and workplace may have changed in recent years, and how they will continue to evolve in the future. Crucially, you also need to gain an understanding of what businesses actually need from their employees in this modern age. From participating in project manager training, through to online personal development efforts, there are numerous ways to improve your skills and deliver greate
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ProProfs Project Management
JANUARY 16, 2020
Imagine this: You take up a new project with a new client. You set up meetings to understand and plan the project execution strategy. You adopt a project management software to ensure workflow is streamlined and all project deadlines are met. But, you overlooked a few factors: The software didn’t have a reporting feature , making it difficult to track team productivity and project execution.
Scrum.org
JANUARY 13, 2020
TL; DR: Product Mindset and OWnership in Scrum Teams. There is one product, one Product Owner, one Product Backlog — a simple rule. How is that supposed to scale, you might ask, isn’t that approach turning the Product Owner into the Scrum team’s bottleneck, impeding value creation rather than spearheading it? Well, cargo cult Scrum might end up in that dead-end.
Musings on Project Management
JANUARY 12, 2020
Most of the posts I read are about scaling up to ever larger projects, but what about scaling down? What if you are doing bug fixes and small scale projects with just one or two people? Is a methodology of any help, And if you're working with software, can Agile be helpful scaled down? Methodology To the first point, my answer is: Sure! A methodology -- which is just a repeated way of.
Proofhub
JANUARY 13, 2020
8 Proven Leadership Ways to Build High-Performing Teams A high performing team is a blend of goal-oriented professionals , experts in their respective fields, responsible for planning, executing and yielding outstanding results. Excellent performance can be only achieved if there is powerful thought leadership, goals shared, clear communications, interpersonal conflict resolution, harmony and trust among team members.
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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.
Teamweek
JANUARY 16, 2020
Google is the most popular search engine in the world. You know that something has become a phenomenon when it’s also used as a verb. Ask someone to Google something for you, and they’re on it. Ask them to ‘Yahoo’ something and -you guessed it- they’ll Google what that means. Because it’s so pervasive, a lot of project managers assume that Google has its own project management apps and tools.
Scrum.org
JANUARY 15, 2020
In my first article , I explained what Scrum Patterns are and why they could be useful for you in your transformation. The second article explained how to select the Scrum Patterns from the Pattern Languages. . In this 3rd article, I build on the previous two articles and give an example of how to use the two Pattern Languages to develop your pattern sequence. .
Epicflow Blog
JANUARY 16, 2020
Money issues often lack transparency, especially when it concerns salaries. It’s not a secret that one’s income depends on many factors, such as work experience, the level of theoretical knowledge and skills, job title, duties, and of course location. Salary rates range depending on the country, and they vary even within the same country. So, let’s analyze how much project managers make today all over the world in terms of their qualification level. .
Agile Coach
JANUARY 16, 2020
Lamest blog post title ever. I started running my Lean Change Agent workshop in 2014 and have never offered a certification. I provided a Certificate of Completion because I have never believed that anyone should be ‘certified’ in anything for attending a 2-day course. This is a long post, structured like this and I wrote it mostly for myself, but thought the greater community could benefit: Backstory : My history with certs (to explain how my thinking about certs evolved).
Speaker: Ketan Jahagirdar - Sopheon’s Director of Product Management
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