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What Is Blended Project Management? | TeamGantt

TeamGantt

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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Fast tracking vs crashing: How To Compress The Project Schedule?

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Forecasting: The Secret Ingredient Your Team Needs in 2019

Teamweek

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.

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What Is Business Impact Analysis & Why Is It Important?

ProjectManager.com

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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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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Mind Mapping Supercharges Project Management

The Digital Project Manager

Mention Project Management software and most people’s thoughts will automatically go to Microsoft Project or. The post Mind Mapping Supercharges Project Management appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Evaluate your ceremonies with a W5 check

Kiron Bondale

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.

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How to Make a Product Vision Everyone Can Appreciate

ProjectManager.com

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.

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3 Simple Charts and Graphs You Should Be Using to Make Your Next Project Presentation More Powerful

Project Bliss

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.

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Agile and R/D

Musings on Project Management

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).

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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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Quick and Easy: The Difference between Critical Chain And Critical Path

Inloox

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!

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Why Marketing Teams Absolutely Need a Project Manager

ProjectManager.com

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.

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Checklists Save Lives

Scrum.org

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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Team Essentials: Keeping Your LiquidPlanner Schedule Up to Date

LiquidPlanner

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.

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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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Process Optimization in Project Management (2): The 5S-Framework

Inloox

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.

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Should You Be Friends With Your Employees?

ProjectManager.com

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?

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One and Done?

Scrum.org

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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The Best OmniFocus Alternatives and Replacements of 2019

nTask

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.

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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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Process Optimization in Project Management (1): Steady Progress with Kaizen

Inloox

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.

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Feeling Out of Energy? Let's Get You Back on Track

Ganttic

One of the greatest stressors in project management seems to be never having enough resources. To deal with it, the model SCREAM might come to your mind. However, what comes to your mind when thinking about the scarce resource that is time and not having enough energy to get through it all might be the screaming into a void. Feeling tired and lacking energy on most days is one of the early signs of burnout.

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The Journey of Merging Scrum with Kanban in My Context

Scrum.org

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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Time Management Tips to Reduce Stress and Boost Workplace Productivity

Proofhub

Even if you are the most diligent planner, there are times when you might find yourself overwhelmed by the count and complexity of the tasks in your to-do list. In today’s business world, everyone lives a busy work life, project come and go and it becomes almost impossible to keep a track of everything. The only way to get to the best possible outcome is to manage your time more wisely.

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Acclaim Projects Helps Deliver Innovation Projects on Time and on Budget

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.

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Quick and Easy: The Difference between Critical Chain And Critical Path

Inloox

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!

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What is Failure Mode and Effects Analysis – FMEA? | Video

Online PM Courses

Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (or FMEA) is a powerful methodology that comes from the domain of manufacturing and the toolset of Six Sigma. But it is also a valuable addition to any Project Manager’s toolset. So, what is Failure Mode and Effects Analysis – FMEA? Dr Mike Clayton is founder of OnlinePMCourses.com. Here, he answers this […].

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The journey of emerging Scrum with Kanban in my context

Scrum.org

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.

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Congruence Between Agile Process and Ecosystem

Leading Agile

In a recent SoundNotes Q&A with Mike Cottmeyer , our Fearless Leader fielded questions on a range of topics related to organizational transformation and agility. One key point he made was that any process or method, such as Scrum, LeSS, SAFe, etc., is designed to operate under certain conditions. Each process or method assumes it will be used in an ecosystem that has certain characteristics.

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From Concepts to Actionable Insights: Powering Digital Transformation Success

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.