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7 Ethics Tips For Project Managers

Rebel’s Guide to PM

A project manager approached me recently with a problem. She knew that some of the data that was being submitted in internal reports was — frankly — made up. It was made up with the best intentions from educated guesses and extrapolation. It’s probably fairer and less controversial to say that it was ‘estimated’ rather than created totally randomly from scratch.

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How To Create the Perfect Project Proposal – A Getting Started Guide

nTask

Nowadays, planning for a project is as important as creating a project proposal. You can’t just dive into the project blindly and realize at a later stage that it wasn’t worth investing in. Thus, it is necessary to create a great project proposal for its success of it. The more prepared you are the better it is for the team and decision-makers to achieve the goals and objectives of the company.

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The Importance of Project Management

ActiveCollab

What if you had to handle projects on the go, without a plan, organization, or any order? You would just brief your team, tell them what needs to be done, and they will be on board with everything you just proposed! This is how things work in an ideal business setting. However, projects aren't that simple, and they demand planning, organizing, leading, and controlling, which are four functions of management.

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When standard is no longer “standard”

Kiron Bondale

Project management standards such as the PMBOK® Guide, Sixth Edition state that contingency reserves, which are established to offset the cost or schedule impacts of realized identified risks, are considered part of the project budget and cost baseline. As the project manager is authorized to spend the budget as planned, it is assumed that they have the ability to draw upon contingency reserves directly as risks are realized.

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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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The Complex Project Toolkit (Book Review)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The Complex Project Toolkit is really a book about paradigms in project management and how to encourage teams (and project managers) to stay curious and to embrace uncertainty. This is not a ‘how-to’ book with templates or checklists, but rather a scaled-out strategy view. It’s packed with examples from history, science, as well as some project anecdotes.

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Top Tips For Businesses To Manage Work During Covid-19

Proofhub

How Businesses Can Smoothly Manage Work Amid The Scare of Omicron Image Source: ProofHub It’s been nearly two years since the global pandemic of Covid-19 unprecedentedly arrived on the scene and threw normal life out of gear. Amid the grave threat to human life, social distancing and remote work have become synonymous in the last couple of years. Yes, scientists have introduced vaccines, and millions of people have been diagnosed with them.

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7 Best Product Backlog Management Tools to Use in 2022

nTask

In the market, when we talk about a complete product that comes in the display, it is an excellent culmination of many individual steps that have been completed by the members of the product development team members playing different roles. In order to make the team exceedingly productive while making sure that every single member of the team knows what they have to do, the project managers create to-do lists in correlation with the scrum team.

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Does social media make projects more complex?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Social media is a de facto standard for businesses these days. Brands can thrive or wither on the quality of their social media manager and some networks can be ruthless. Campaigns and tweets can stick in customers’ memories for a long time: who can forget the Colin the Caterpillar struggles? (#FreeCuthbert!) They even made it on to the primary school curriculum.

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Make Learning An Ongoing Activity, Not A Scrum Event

Scrum.org

Where in the Scrum framework do reflection and learning happen? You’re only partially right if your answer is the Sprint Retrospective. Because although learning should certainly happen there, it’s a waste of opportunities to do it *only* during Sprint Retrospectives, Sprint Reviews, or one of the other Scrum events. There are many ways to encourage learning throughout the Sprint in a way that makes it a natural part of your work together.

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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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Why Your Annual Operating Plan Is A Lie and What To Do About It

Leading Agile

Imagine you’re a CIO, CTO, IT Leader, or Finance Manager. You prepare an annual operating plan outlining your budget and allocations every year. Once the dust settles and everything is agreed to, you are asked to do more with less. Everything after that is chaos. WHERE THE PLAN GOES WRONG. Projects that you targeted did not start when you planned. Unplanned events, outages, and work eat at the money you planned to invest in a new value.

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Product Development with the Stage-Gate® Process (Part 4): Implementation with InLoox

Inloox

In the first three articles of our series on product development with the Stage-Gate® process, we covered the theoretical basics. This article is about the implementation, using the project management software InLoox. We also provide you with a free downloadable template of the idea-to-launch process described in part 3. Contents. The Stage-Gate® process as a phase-milestone plan.

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A 2022 Guide on Matrix Organizational Structure and Everything it contains

nTask

In the way of organizational success, there lies a noteworthy foe that is ever-present and makes sure that you and your goals are berated and questioned at every step of the project development process. Not to make it sound too comical, but the general idea is the same. This “foe” is the stakeholders’ approvals and reviews. Trust me, if you haven’t suffered from this, then you are one of a few that haven’t.

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Why I’m becoming a Professional Coach

Scrum.org

The agile industry has fallen short in providing agile practitioners with all the tools they need to navigate the complex transformations they face. In my opinion, the biggest gap in the toolbox is professional coaching. . The agile ‘industry’ was born in the 1990’s before the agile manifesto was written. Since then, the market potential of agile coaching was projected at $500 million by 2023 and has moved firmly into the territory of organization transformation.

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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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Why resource planning tools need to prevent overallocation

Resource Guru

The project management software market is booming, with an expected value of $9.8 billion by 2026. Most project managers forecast an increase in project volume and their responsibilities over the next few years. So, user-friendly digital tools that reduce manual work and help PMs stay on top of resource management and project scheduling will be more valuable than ever.

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7 Amazing Benefits of PSM Certification in 2022

Agilemania

Scrum Master is a job rising in demand in the last decade. We took a look at the Google Trends data over the past decade, and the results are astonishing. Source: Google Trends. The search term ‘Scrum Master jobs’ grew in popularity by 37% in the last 5 years. Validating this fact is Glassdoor’s 50 Best Jobs of 2021 , where Scrum Master is ranked at 40 and received a job satisfaction rating of 4.0. .

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Legal Project Management and Everything You Need to Know About It In 2022

nTask

To this day, we have heard about project management in a vast variety of areas, from sales and marketing to inventory management and much more. Project management now encompasses almost every division of our work and legal matters are no exception. Be it the whole legal industry or the legal department of your organization, legal project management is how lawyers handle legal matters now.

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Product Backlog refinement: How far is too far?

Scrum.org

The Product Backlog is one of the three Scrum artifacts. It is the team’s to-do list that shows what to work on next. Each item on the list is called a Product Backlog item (PBI), and each PBI contains a description, sizing, and order. A well-refined Product Backlog is essential for high-performing Scrum Teams. Without it, teams will likely struggle to deliver a Done increment each Sprint.

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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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Business Model Canvas Explanation for Strategic PM’s

The Strategic Project Manager

A Business Model is an important input to organizational success. So how can you easily develop a good Business Model? This post examines the Business Model Canvas, a simple tool that provides a template for building an effective Business Model. What Is a Business Model Canvas? The Business Model Canvas encompasses the framework of what a Business Model is.

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Project for the web, Project Online, and SharePoint

MPUG

What criteria should businesses look at to decide on the Project solution they need? There’s plenty of documentation on the features of each of the various Microsoft Project solutions, but where do you start, what do you need, and what’s the right answer? These are the questions we’re going to explore in this article. Microsoft seems to be pushing strongly towards Project for the web (P4W), but that doesn’t mean that’s the only option.

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Choosing Scrum over Kanban – Why we Switched

PM Times

As we set out on the Agile journey, picking Kanban seemed like a no-brainer. It is visual, easy to use, and a perfect fit for the PM tool we have been developing. However, after a short few months, we realized Scrum was indeed a better fit and switched. Here is our story, hopefully, it will […]. The post Choosing Scrum over Kanban – Why we Switched appeared first on Project Management Articles, Webinars, Templates and Jobs.

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17 Scrum-Mythen, die jeder Professional Scrum Master widerlegen können muss

Scrum.org

Scrums größte Stärke ist dessen Einfachheit, welche aber auch die Quelle vieler Mythen und Fehlinterpretationen ist. In meinem fortgeschritten Professional Scrum Master Training helfe ich den Teilnehmern auf unterhaltsame Art und Weise zu verstehen, dass Scrum keine Einheitslösung, kein Allheilmittel oder eine vollständige Methodik ist. Indem ich ihnen Aussagen präsentiere und sie begründen müssen, ob es sich hierbei um eine Tatsache oder um einen Mythos handelt, lernen sie die Grenzen des Rahme

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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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How to Facilitate Productive Project Meetings – with Rich Maltzman

Online PM Courses

Rich Maltzman is co-author of How to Facilitate Productive Project Planning Meetings. So, we discuss creating productive project meetings. The post How to Facilitate Productive Project Meetings – with Rich Maltzman appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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Everything You Need to Know About the Four Functions of Management

nTask

Management is a crucial part of any business. With the world getting fast-paced with each passing day, there is a pressing need to reinvent management techniques. It is always important to reorient yourself with the changing needs and trends. The more up-to-date, undoubtedly, the better. Whether it is for the owner of the business or the employees, management needs to be well-structured to work better.

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Principles of eCommerce Project Management

PM Times

What is eCommerce Project Management and Why is it Important? eCommerce project management is the application of knowledge skills, tools, and techniques in a structured manner to reach eCommerce project goals and requirements. Proper project management can improve a business’s efficiency, foster collaboration between teammates, boost a team’s performance, and improve customer satisfaction. eCommerce project […].

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Moving from Values to Virtues

Scrum.org

Scrum Values were added to Scrum Guide in 2016. Values are what makes Scrum fully uncover it's potential. These values include Courage, Focus, Commitment, Respect, and Openness. When Scrum Team embodies these values, they create an environment where the Team can thrive. Since than values have proved themselves to be a very useful tool in a team coaching.

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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.