Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Design thinking is a non-linear process, which allows businesses and their project teams to embrace design concepts, in order to solve complex, ill-defined problems. It is especially useful for situations where project managers need to re-frame the way they view an issue, challenge internal assumptions, or truly innovate. While the concept of design thinking has grown in popularity, some remain unsure of precisely how it works and what the benefits of a design thinking course are.

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Planio

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Feedback rules everything around us. Whether it’s talking to your customers about what features they want or getting feedback from your boss on a website redesign , we all benefit when we step out of our own heads and hear what others think. But feedback can’t be limited to just back slaps and high-fives. Negative feedback is just as, and sometimes even more important than its more positive counterpart.

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Kiron Bondale

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

When teaching agile classes, I’m occasionally asked if I could provide an example of an agile team from cinema or television. While the first Avengers movie does a good job of illustrating Bruce Tuckman’s stages of team development (especially storming!), they are far from being agile. The example I most frequently provide is that quintessential 1980’s TV show, The A-Team.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Whenever there’s a project, there should be a plan. There are many different ways to plan a project, each with their own advantages and disadvantages. Choosing the right planning method ultimately depends on the complexity of your project and your organization. When you have a long-term project that needs to be evaluated regularly, and you’re dealing with numerous stakeholders, the phase-gate process could be an ideal fit for your organization.

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Workamajig

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Project risk assessment is an essential part of any project management plan. This guide shares 6 key steps in assessing project risk. Running a project can sometimes feel like the plot of a Final Destination movie. No matter how much you prepare for it, disaster is always right around the corner. Anything can - and often does - go wrong during a project.

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Bridge the Gap Consulting

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Let’s face it, we all know that person, or people, who it seems do nothing but complain. Beautiful, sunny day and they say it’s too hot. Cool fall morning and it’s too cold. The coffee is not the perfect temperature! Why do you have to drive so fast!? Do you have to drive so slow!? Why are those kids so loud!? It never ends. In the working world, we have them too.

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Teamweek

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Have you ever disagreed with someone about something and had to resort to conflict management? Probably once or twice, right? Disputes are happening all around us. There are so many differing opinions and beliefs across the world it’s nearly impossible to avoid conflict at all times. But even though these disagreements arise, it doesn’t mean the individuals with opposing views can’t find common ground.

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iZenBridge

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Seldom people feel satisfied after the creation of plan B but what if that plan B is not enough to drive those projects. This can be understood by a below real-life scenario. We had a planned vacation to Kerala last year in the month of June. It was expected to rain and I thought I have prepared it by taking Umbrella to the beach but I haven’t prepared for winds though it was predicted in weather forecast and as expected I got drained with water and got the fever.

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MPUG

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

A person inexperienced in project management may think that resource leveling is a method of making use of resources having the same height. Most experienced project managers know that it is a resource optimization technique which tries to make the best use of available resources to create a workable project schedule. Resource leveling is often misconstrued as the only resource optimization technique, but there is another one—resource smoothing.

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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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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

This year, the theme of International Project Management Day is ‘Focusing on What Matters.’. IPM Day is always the first Thursday in November. So, what matters in project management? Is it delivery? Risk management? Engaging stakeholders? Benefits? Leading the team? Nope. None of those things are top of my list. You. You matter. Your wellbeing, morale, mental health is the most important thing.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

There are many ways you can gather all the data required to start, run and complete a project. But as involved as any project is, whether it’s big or small, there are fundamentals that remain the same. Instead of reinventing the wheel each time you start a new project, wouldn’t it be great to have a resource that collected a bunch of documents that have been already outlined to serve the purpose of managing a project?

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Musings on Project Management

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Yikes! My backlog is blocked! How can this be? We're agile. or maybe we've become de-agiled. Can that happen? Ah yes, we're agile, but perhaps not everything in the portfolio is agile; indeed, perhaps not everything in the project is agile. In the event, coupling the culprit Coupling? Coupling is system engineering speak for transferring one effect onto another, or causing an effect by.

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The Digital Project Manager

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

You're asking, "Are there any better alternatives for Microsoft Project out there?" Yes! We've reviewed the best Microsoft Project alternatives that are more powerful, easier to use and cheaper. Choose from this list of the best MS Project alternatives for creating Gantt charts, project plans, and other PM essentials. The post Top 10 BPMS (Business Process Management Systems) In 2019 appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

In football, the team that wins is the one that gets the ball in the other team’s goal most times. Not the one that runs the most. What matters most is what is happening to the ball. So, we need to watch the ball, not the player. Business is no different. In Knowledge Work what matters most is what is happening to the work , not what the workers are doing.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Leading your office towards eco-friendliness can save you money, increase your bottom line, improve your brand perception, boost employee morale and even attract top talent to join your organization. It can also help mitigate the environmental crisis that is driving more than a million species to extinction , forcing coastal cities to relocate , facilitating an increase in cases of mosquito-borne illnesses , increasing the likeliness and severity of extreme weather events and, well, you’ve seen

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LiquidPlanner

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

In the business world, where processes are becoming more technically sophisticated, lead times for product development are getting shorter, and work is becoming increasingly cross-functional, it’s no real surprise that demand for sound project management skills is on the rise, and not just from the dedicated project management team. “The need for high caliber project management capability transcends sector and function,” says Heide Abelli, SVP of content product management at S

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The Digital Project Manager

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The post How Corporate Website Projects Go Wrong: A Cheat Sheet for Project Managers appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

While working with plenty of Scrum Teams and teaching Professional Scrum Product Owner classes, I observed a similar anti-pattern regarding Product Owners, which resembles anti-patterns of Scrum Masters who are not empowered. . Through many years of my professional collaboration with companies, I have rarely seen Product Owners who could wholly fulfill their role.

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Leading Answers

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Here is the second sample from my new Kindle book “ Agile Illustrated: A Visual Learner’s Guide to Agility ”. The book is a graphical introduction to the agile mindset and servant leadership behaviors for working with agile teams. If you missed the first sample on the Agile Manifesto, you can find it here. Today we will revisit the Declaration of Interdependence.

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LiquidPlanner

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

As LiquidPlanner employees, we are all pretty well versed in our product (we have to be!). In working with over 1200 customers, each of us has a favorite Dashboard that brings tremendous value to the teams we speak with. Here are five favorite Dashboards from some of our team members that stand out. 1. New Member Dashboard . – Drew Leavy, Customer Success Manager.

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The Digital Project Manager

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

The post Video: Which Agile Project Management Tools Should I Use? appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

I believe there are three things you need to do regardless of the framework, methodology or program you are embracing with your organization. If you don’t do take decisions , focus on the outcome and get things done ? Your transformation program, Agile Way of Working implementation, Lean initiative or whatever you do, will end up with all those other frameworks you have tried to apply before.

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MPUG

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

If you read my Guide to Network Analysis , made available last month, you hopefully gained a better understanding of a project’s “Network” and “Analysis.” The “Network” part being a logic diagram of connecting nodes (details of the individual tasks and the relationships between them), and the “Analysis” part describing the process of estimating the duration of each task and then calculating the timings for each task.

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Epicflow Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Co-authors: Albert Ponsteen & Jan Willem Tromp. Every project manager using traditional tools to run their projects looks for ways to deliver them faster and make this process more efficient. Striving for advancement involves not only PMs’ professional self-development but keeping up-to-date by using new approaches and solutions. Let’s examine the way Epicflow’s team has made a classical critical chain (CC) tool called “Fever chart” more powerful with Bubble Graph. .

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The Digital Project Manager

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

The post Digital Agency Growth Secrets From A Digital PM appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Speaker: Ketan Jahagirdar - Sopheon’s Director of Product Management

70% of most digital transformation projects fail. Learn how you can quickly improve that success rate. To be successful, digital transformation involves the strategic application of digitalization to improve a business’ entire system of production, procurement, sales, operations, human resources, and financial management. In short, to basically transform the way a company makes money and delivers value to customers.

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