What Is Blended Project Management? | TeamGantt
TeamGantt
FEBRUARY 20, 2019
Download a simple chart for choosing the right project management methodology, and see how to create a blended process that works for your projects and team.
TeamGantt
FEBRUARY 20, 2019
Download a simple chart for choosing the right project management methodology, and see how to create a blended process that works for your projects and team.
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Teamweek
FEBRUARY 17, 2019
We thought we had it all planned. My best friend wanted a destination wedding in Bali, and we were determined to make the experience one that she would never forget. We found a charming beach with a single hotel that would accommodate the entire wedding party and guests, sourced a local florist to turn the wedding and reception into even more of a tropical paradise, and ensured that our bridesmaids’ dresses were made from stylish but breathable fabrics.
ProjectManager.com
FEBRUARY 19, 2019
If Newton’s third law of physics is correct, and every action has an equal and opposite reaction, then businesses need to take note. That’s because any successful business relies on making intelligent and well-timed actions. Those actions set a course towards profit and market dominance, but whether they achieve these objectives or not, they’re making an impact on people, places and things, which will react in kind.
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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.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
FEBRUARY 18, 2019
This is a guest post by Nadine Rochester, technical marketing director at Strategy Execution. Strategy Execution’s Top 10 Trends for 2019. At the beginning of every New Year, Strategy Execution aims to release its Top 10 Trends list to help guide you and your teams through the constantly changing business landscape. We understand the exceptionally fast growth and complexity businesses witness these days, whether that be expansion across geographical boundaries, or organizational ones.
Project Management Update brings together the best content for project management professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Project Risk Coach
FEBRUARY 18, 2019
Think of the project managers you admire most. Often, these are individuals who possess more than the technical skills such as developing project schedules and performing risk analysis. These project managers have strong interpersonal project management skills. So, what are interpersonal skills? Why are they important? And, how can we improve these critical skills?
ProjectManager.com
FEBRUARY 21, 2019
You’ve heard of “the big picture.” It can be a long-term business goal, or simply a view that expands a perspective to include greater context. Either way, it’s a critical perspective for any organization that wants to plan for the future. Having a “big picture” is another way of saying that a business has a vision, for itself, the marketplace or a product it is working on.
Kiron Bondale
FEBRUARY 17, 2019
I’m midway through Priya Parker’s book The Art of Gathering and her insights into how to make an event a meaningful gathering rather than “just another boring meeting” are apropos to ceremonies. A common complaint many team members raise in the early days of an agile journey is that it feels like they are in too many meetings.
Project Bliss
FEBRUARY 19, 2019
Charts and graphs are a great way to share important information about your project. These three simple charts and graphs will help you communicate project information in a way your audience can take in quickly. When you’re sharing information about your project, you want to hold your audience’s attention and get your message across clearly.
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
Musings on Project Management
FEBRUARY 18, 2019
I was recently asked if Agile and 'R/D' go together. The issue at hand: how do you reconcile agile's call for product delivery to users every few weeks with the unknowns and false starts in a real R/D project? Good question! I'm glad you asked. Let's start with OPM. Other people's money. And the first question: What have you committed to do? There are two possible answers: (1).
ProjectManager.com
FEBRUARY 20, 2019
Do you need more time in your day? If you had that, what could you do? Enjoy some more food, take a deep breath or maybe just get more done. Whether you’re a one man team or a large corporation, a project manager with the right tools can help take a lot off your plate and make it seem like you have more hours in a day. Almost every team can benefit from a project manager.
Inloox
FEBRUARY 22, 2019
Critical chain The critical chain is a resource-oriented method and represents the longest chain of tasks, taking into account limited resources and is used with the aim of achieving the minimum project duration. The critical chain planning is not only about determining what to do and when to do it, but who actually does it. The critical chain method brings these two new thoughts to project planning : No Multitasking is not allowed!
Scrum.org
FEBRUARY 21, 2019
Most agile approaches recommend the use of explicit quality standards expressed as check-lists. Scrum has the Definition of Done to ensure the product is releasable, and Kanban teams use exit or entry criteria between stages to add rigor to the process. For many years when teaching these concepts, we have compared this practice to the Surgical Safety Checklist advocated by the World Health Organisation.
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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.
TrustRadius Project Management
FEBRUARY 21, 2019
*This article has been updated on February 21, 2019 based on new research conducted by the TrustRadius team*. Before undertaking any development project, the most important decision to make is how to approach the project as a team. Making this decision can get heated due to the two major development methodologies at play. In simple terms, a development methodology determines how the actual work of development is organized and acted on.
ProjectManager.com
FEBRUARY 18, 2019
Leading a team strikes a difficult balance between being cordial and commanding. Are you strictly a boss or can you have a more friendly relationship with your employees? Jennifer Bridges, PMP, shows you the pros and cons. Here’s a screenshot of the whiteboard for your reference! In Review – Should You Be Friends with Your Employees? Can you be friends with your employees, and still be a successful leader?
Inloox
FEBRUARY 20, 2019
Kaizen with the 5S Method In the last blog post we already discussed the Kaizen management concept. Numerous practical methods have been developed to integrate this approach into everyday working life. One of these tools is the 5S method, with which you can optimize your working environment in only five steps. The 5S enable you to create a good basis for Kaizen.
Scrum.org
FEBRUARY 19, 2019
In the last decade, we have realized that we cannot plan all up front in a linear process to develop software. We are solving complex problems, which require us to use an empirical process, lean UX practices, and a supporting technology platform that allows us to build, measure, learn and apply the learning in a repeatable fashion. This allows us to move from trying to predict everything about the future towards shared learning from the present.
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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.
Planio
FEBRUARY 17, 2019
So you want a software engineering job at Facebook/Apple/Amazon/Google/Netflix? Get in line. It’s every software engineer’s dream to work with one of the top technical teams in the world. Not only do you get the prestige of adding one of the famous FAANGs to your resume, but also the invaluable experience of working alongside people building the world’s most-used technical products.
nTask
FEBRUARY 19, 2019
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” – Mae West. Every new day presents a new set of goals to achieve, a new set of hurdles to overcome and looking forward to being better than yesterday. Regardless of the industry or profession you belong to, you want to maximize your efforts to maximize your growth. Especially, with the phenomenon of globalization, an average student has a higher bar to reach and a regular employee has a tougher competition to not only progress b
Inloox
FEBRUARY 20, 2019
Process Optimization in Project Management In almost all areas of life the pressure to optimize is increasing. This also applies to companies and projects. Even if your colleagues are asking for more process improvements, you shouldn't jump at any optimization approach unprepared. Of course, the project structure is a good way to carry out a test run with different models in selected projects.
Scrum.org
FEBRUARY 18, 2019
During the last year and a half, I was working as a Scrum Master with a team that was working on a product with a history of about ten years. When I started working with the team, they finalized a platform migration and were still struggling with a lot of remaining work. There was a climate of mutual blame between product management and the development team.
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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.
LiquidPlanner
FEBRUARY 21, 2019
In my previous article, I discussed how easy it is to reprioritize your work in LiquidPlanner. This week, I’ll show you how to maintain your schedule and keep it up to date. Now that LiquidPlanner has created our schedule for us and we’ve started chipping away at our project work, we need to be sure the schedule is up-to-date. Then, when you come into work tomorrow, LiquidPlanner will give you current information, not yesterday’s plan.
nTask
FEBRUARY 20, 2019
Ever since the term Getting Things Done (GTD) was coined by David Ellen in 2001, there has been a wave of tools identifying themselves as one of the best to-do list apps for getting things done. One such popular tool is OmniFocus. The ever-increasing popularity and the fact that the product comes from one of the industry leaders has been motivating enough for users to use it.
Inloox
FEBRUARY 22, 2019
Critical chain The critical chain is a resource-oriented method and represents the longest chain of tasks, taking into account limited resources and is used with the aim of achieving the minimum project duration. The critical chain planning is not only about determining what to do and when to do it, but who actually does it. The critical chain method brings these two new thoughts to project planning : No Multitasking is not allowed!
Scrum.org
FEBRUARY 18, 2019
During the last one and a half year, I was working as a Scrum Master with a team that is working on a product with a history of about ten years. When I started working with the team, they finalized a platform migration and where still struggling with a lot of remaining work. There was a climate of mutual blame between product management and the development team.
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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