TeamGantt

JULY 1, 2019

Discover 4 simple meeting facilitation tricks you can put into practice today to keep your team and stakeholders actively engaged in project meetings.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 3, 2019

What a time we live in; there are so many choices. We are experiencing a freedom unlike any other in history, where we can pick exactly what we want and when we want it. But, too much choice can be overwhelming, and we’ve known this for almost two decades. In 2000, psychologists Sheen Iyengar and Mark Lepper published their groundbreaking study, When Choice Is Demotivating , where they studied consumer reactions to being offered a large variety of jams in contrast to a smaller display.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 1, 2019

Does your project team have a roles and responsibilities document that sets out what everyone does? You should do. It’s a really simple document that helps clarify how everyone is contributing to the project. Scroll down you’ll be able to download a free roles and responsibilities template that will make it super fast for you to document team roles.

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Project Risk Coach

JULY 1, 2019

If you are looking for a great way to engage your key stakeholders and identify project risks, perform a SWOT Analysis. Project managers or other facilitators can use this powerful tool to identify strengths and weaknesses. Furthermore, strengths may give rise to opportunities and weaknesses may lead to threats. Let's look at how to perform a SWOT Analysis.

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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.

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Musings on Project Management

JUNE 30, 2019

Dilbert: We need 3 more programmers. Boss: Use agile programming methods. Dilbert: Agile programming does not mean doing more work with less people. Boss: Find me some words that do mean that and ask again Dilbert is a creation of Scott Adams And so, you might ask: what does agile mean? How about this?

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The Digital Project Manager

JUNE 30, 2019

What is GanttPRO? What project management problems can it solve? From this GanttPRO overview, you’ll. The post What is GanttPRO? Detailed Summary of Features, Use Cases & Pricing appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Scrum.org

JULY 1, 2019

In many organisations I see Scrum not producing its anticipated value. The concept of value varies across organisations. But there also is a universal anticipated value of Scrum. The Scrum Guide says about Scrum's purpose: “A framework within which people can address complex adaptive problems, while productively and creatively delivering products of the highest possible value.”. and.

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Inloox

JULY 5, 2019

Scrum vs. Perfectionism Sprint planning and perfectionism only fit together to a limited extent. Perfectionism conflicts with the basic idea of Scrum. Scrum is primarily characterized by it iterative and regular approach. The process is mainly based on experience and is divided into regularly repeating stages called “ Sprints ”. Let’s take a look at why your team won’t think of everything in sprint planning and why that’s totally okay.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 4, 2019

It shouldn’t be arduous to give the public what it wants. Yet marketing and sales are often at odds on their mission. According to HubSpot research only 22 percent of companies surveyed believe that their sales and marketing departments are working together to pursue the same goals. An account-based marketing approach might be just the method to end this madness.

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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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The Digital Project Manager

JULY 5, 2019

The post Email Management Software To Save You Time On Work Comms appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 29, 2019

For executives and for change agents who deal with executives in large contexts. A number of people inside and outside Scrum.org collaborated with me in 2018 and early 2019, to talk about 21st-century executive leadership. Some people contributed independently, some built on work I had been doing since 2015, some of us leveraged the work of Ron Eringa and Ryan Ripley with their Professional Agile Leadership - Essentials class.

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Kiron Bondale

JUNE 30, 2019

Social psychologist Heidi Grant’s interesting TED Talk video providing advice on how to increase the odds of a positive outcome when we ask someone for help was published this week. Three of her four tips are to be specific about the help required and why it is needed, to not apologize for asking for help and to make the request live in person or over the phone.

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Inloox

JULY 5, 2019

Scrum vs. Perfectionism Sprint planning and perfectionism only fit together to a limited extent. Perfectionism conflicts with the basic idea of Scrum. Scrum is primarily characterized by it iterative and regular approach. The process is mainly based on experience and is divided into regularly repeating stages called “ Sprints ”. Let’s take a look at why your team won’t think of everything in sprint planning and why that’s totally okay.

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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.

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nTask

JULY 5, 2019

Video Source – ProjectManager.Com. Since we have read numerous blogs on project management techniques, I still feel there is something lacking. “Project” and “Management” are two different derivatives. They embody a concept where two schools of thoughts work together to maintain workflow and productivity. All of this is done to achieve a favorable outcome.

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Scrum.org

JULY 1, 2019

Scrum has grown up and what was formally casually called “Backlog Grooming” is now called “Backlog Refinement”. Many Scrum teams have a regular meeting scheduled on everyone’s calendar, even though it is not an official Scrum event. Backlog Refinement is not time-boxed, nor does the Scrum Guide has any details listed, for good reasons. In this webinar, we will explore why so many teams struggle with this meeting and why the boundaries between spec-writing, sprint planning and problem solving are

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ProProfs Project Management

JULY 5, 2019

Project management is an essential part of every organization. Whether you are overseeing a team or leading major projects and their execution process, it is essential to keep everything in line to ensure project success. In the long run, it is the project management techniques adopted by managers that either make or break the organization. . But, how do you know which technique works?

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MPUG

JUNE 30, 2019

Microsoft Project is a software application sold by Microsoft that provides project management tools to manage projects. The program, which has many different versions, allows users to: Understand and control project schedules and finances. Communicate and present project information. Organize, estimate, and schedule work, resources, and costs to ensure projects are completed according to plan.

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The Digital Project Manager

JUNE 30, 2019

The post What Is DoneDone? Software Overview & How To Use It appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Scrum.org

JULY 4, 2019

Esta mañana estaba preparando una megamaleta para viajar durante las próximas semanas a Japón, México, Portugal y Alemania cuando me he encontrado el tuit que puedes leer más arriba. Desde el aprecio y el cariño que le tengo a José Manuel Beas , al que en muchas ocasiones he referenciado desde mi blog y esta newsletter, me he preguntado: ¿Qué lleva a una persona que tiene muchos años de experiencia en Agile a pensar que en Scrum se hace planificación por lotes?

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Planview

JULY 5, 2019

The past four blogs in our series are based on the whitepaper, The Agile PMO: 5 Steps to Driving Agility at Scale and have centered around how the PMO can guide the enterprise towards greater agility. It requires the PMO to reinvent itself from a central command organization to one that enables and empowers with “just enough” governance and an eye on a more product-centric approach.

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Teamweek

JUNE 30, 2019

Not too long ago, I attended a networking event in Midtown Manhattan. While standing in line for an event-themed cocktail, I started chatting with an intern from a creative agency that had opened for business last December. Naturally, she was talkative. When I told her that I was a project portfolio manager at my agency, she beamed. “Oh, wow! You should meet our project manager, then.

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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.

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Resource Guru

JULY 1, 2019

At the risk of giving away my age, I am going to share a memory. It was a beautiful, sunny day. I was at a petting zoo with my children at an age when they were young enough to still think all animals were magical and ice cream was a food group. I captured every moment of this special day, and looked forward to being able to relive those times when my girls were grown and gone.

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Scrum.org

JULY 2, 2019

Have you ever wondered about: what is the Value of Success? This question is not easy to answer, and everyone will have a different answer. Why? The reason is The value of Success is equal to all the failures you had to experience to reach to the success. ? We are all scared of the failure; we feel shame every-time we fail. The taste of failure is never sweet.

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nTask

JULY 2, 2019

There are numerous complaints about project management software since the inception of the IT industry. Some of the complaints elicit the counter productivity factor of task management tools. I know that being an Agile project manager at nTask sounds like a bit of cliché’, but at the same time, I cannot help but think otherwise. Sometimes, Project Management Tools are Overrated: Yep, they are not only overrated, but there is a very real possibility that you don’t have to rely on a project manage

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Proofhub

JULY 2, 2019

12 Steps to Establish a Connection Between Remote Workers & Your Company Are your remote employees feeling left out of the workplace? With more and more employees “going remote”, companies everywhere have been working to navigate this new workforce shift. Savvy business owners recognize the benefits of having a remote team, but often struggle to establish a connection with their remote team members.

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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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