Sitetracker

OCTOBER 26, 2020

From pureplay grass and steel towercos to diversified infracos, and from companies building their business from scratch to towercos being carved out of MNOs, Sitetracker has a history of working with some of the biggest names in the sector. TowerXchange speaks to David George, Sitetracker’s Vice President for EMEA & APAC about the challenges for some of the different business models, key considerations in defining KPIs and ensuring user adoption as strategies evolve and the tangible benefits

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Project Risk Coach

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Years ago, I had a great job managing about 50 Information Technology professionals. However, I wanted to become a project manager. Therefore, I made a difficult decision to change companies and jobs. Consequently, I needed ways to learn project management quickly. Perhaps you're looking for ways to boost your project management knowledge and skills.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Communication is about 80% of my job. I don’t profess to get it right all the time, but over the years I’ve built up a few solid techniques that work in most situations. Today I’m letting you in on how I do it. These are the tips and tricks I use to communicate with my stakeholders and project customers. The tools I use. I rely heavily on paper and pens for my personal note-taking.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Trello is an online tool that creates kanban boards, which allow project managers to organize projects. The kanban boards offer a visualization of your work, and allows you to easily see a project’s workload at-a-glance. The software has grown in popularity as users have taken to the kanban board’s ability to visualize the workflow of a project.

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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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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Transparency is critical for agility, but often the power of transparency is challenged by long-hold cultural norms. This article shares examples of the power of transparency and how it can be used to create breakthroughs in performance. Situation. I was helping an organisation adopt agile ways of working across six teams. We had started well. We had a shared vision for the change and everyone felt excited.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 26, 2020

What is a fixed date project? A fixed date project is one that has a defined — and often unmovable — end date for delivery. Hitting the date is compulsory, which means we can’t plan the project as we would normally do using best practice scheduling techniques. Here are some examples of fixed date projects: Legal and compliance projects to help the business comply with things like new regulations introduced on a certain day Construction work where the project is happening in an

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Henny Portman

OCTOBER 28, 2020

B eing a Project Manager – A different Book on Project Management by Hamutal Weisz and Daniel Zitter focuses on the essentials and practice of project management. . I love the process of baking bread as a metaphor for project management and all those related colorful pictures throughout the book. . Project management is the ‘flour’, the base; its function is to create the path to the goal.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 26, 2020

TL; DR: The Cargo Cult Agile Checklist for Download. You want to know the state of agility in your organization? Here we go: Download the checklist, distribute it generously among your colleagues, and run a quick poll. It will only take 5 minutes of their time–and then analyze their feedback. If the average number of checkboxes marked is higher than nine, then you are probably practicing cargo cult agile in one form or another.

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nTask

OCTOBER 29, 2020

According to surveys conducted, as of 2016, 66% of enterprises run a business process improvement program occasionally or never. Of the 20% that undertake process improvements , 5% record little to no success, 28% experience success limited to individual departments but do not record enterprise-level success, and 19% experience success after significant difficulties.

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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

OCTOBER 27, 2020

If you are like many Project Management Professional ( PMP )® certification holders, you might be finding it hard to source enough quality learning materials for your Leadership PDUs. Panic no more, I have all the details you need below. In this article we’ll look at what Leadership PDUs are and how many you need, and what activities count towards your PDU total in the Leadership category.

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Leading Agile

OCTOBER 28, 2020

When teams aren’t formed in the right way in your organization such that they’re encapsulated to create working tested increment of product in a given time frame, they become a dependency. . Without encapsulated teams, you’ll find yourself with many dependencies. And dependencies kill Agility. To watch the entire webinar series, you can sign up for the On-Demand version and watch at your leisure by clicking this link: [link].

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Ser un Scrum Master puede ser una carrera divertida, emocionante y muy gratificante. Pero, ¿cómo consigues un primer trabajo de Scrum Master si aún no tienes experiencia? . Poder mirar hacia atrás en un proyecto exitoso y pensar, “Mira lo que ayudé al equipo a crear” es muy satisfactorio. Vamos a compartir siete consejos que pueden ayudar a obtener ese primer puesto de Scrum Master que estás buscando, incluso si no se tiene ninguna experiencia como Scrum Master.

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EasyProjects

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Best practices to prioritize projects. Suppose your organization’s annual planning exercise comes up with 50 projects that would cost perhaps $10 million, but you have the capacity and financial resources for only $2.5 million, you are in great shape, right? You have a wealth of possibilities from which to choose. Well, no–not in great shape yet.

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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

OCTOBER 27, 2020

To work together, you need to communicate, and to work together really well , you need to communicate at the same wavelength. But what makes for good communication? Is team communication different than communicating otherwise in your daily life? This guide to team communication tells you the what, why, when, and how to get your team communicating effectively.

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Proofhub

OCTOBER 29, 2020

SEO Project Management?—?Here’s How You Can Make It Effective SEO is a long game. That’s what everyone who knows anything about SEO will tell you. Perhaps, that’s exactly what you tell your clients. Naturally, many SEO strategies are spread out over weeks and months. Developing such a strategy is one thing and executing it, making sure you are able to keep up with your commitments to your clients is an entirely different ball game.

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Leading Agile

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Agile Transformation is fundamentally about Three Things: forming teams, building backlogs, and having the ability to produce working, tested software. If we don’t these Three Things then Transformation fails. . To uncover everything you need to know about The Three Things, check out LeadingAgile CEO Mike Cottmeyer’s on-demand webinar series Preparing for Agile Transformation here: [link].

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Gunther Verheyen

OCTOBER 25, 2020

October 1995. After a few years of searching and experimenting, “Scrum” was documented and presented to the general public. October 2020. Scrum turns 25. Hip hip hooray! I record a few highlights of “My life of Scrum”, a few aspects from the past 17 years of the life of an independent Scrum Caretaker. September 2003. The founding managers of the company that employs me, ask me to have a look at the challenge of delivering the core server platform for a digital television

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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.

TeamGantt

OCTOBER 27, 2020

See what types of risk to look out for in project management, and get 5 simple tips to help you identify, monitor, and manage common project risks.

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PM Times

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Written by: Sean Lowe After six plus months of working from home, many remote workers are starting to feel like there’s no delineation between the office and what used to be the solitude of their comfy home.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 25, 2020

This month’s free template is a project initiation checklist. This is the first page of the Project Initiation Checklist. It’s a quick way to speed up finding out what you need to know from your project sponsor when you meet for the first time. Covering everything from what they think success looks like to who else needs to be involved, you can use it as a prompt to help you get your project off to a great start.

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ProProfs Project Management

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Whenever a new project comes, managers set some expectation in their mind related to: Number of deliverables . Timelines to complete each project activity. Resource utilization. Having expectations is crucial, as they keep you focused and drive you towards project success. This fact is really worth your consideration because you would never hit the desired quality standards or meet deadlines if there are no expectations.

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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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MPUG

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The Microsoft Project product family has so many solutions, pricing structures, and platforms to choose from that it can be confusing to many people on what to use. In this article, I hope to clear up some of this confusion and make some predictions. Let’s begin by comparing the different solutions. On-Premise Solutions. The players here are Standard and Professional.

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Teamweek

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Monday.com and Asana are comprehensive project management tools. Yet, there are a few subtle differences between the two. In this article, we’ll compare Monday vs Asana and help you choose the right tool. You’ll learn how both these tools fare when it comes to: Ease of use Project planning features Task management features Team management features And, pricing.

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Leading Agile

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Listen to the SoundNotes Podcast on the go! Find and subscribe to SoundNotes on: Apple Podcasts. Google Play. Spotify. Soundcloud. RSS. You have to deeply understand how what you’re doing at all levels of the organization is going to drive quality. In this week’s podcast, LeadingAgile CEO Mike Cottmeyer joins us to dig into why increased quality should matter to you, and some actionable steps to take to enable more of it across your organization.

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Function Point

OCTOBER 29, 2020

While many businesses closed their doors back in March, only opening again when health authorities allowed the reopening of offices, others began working from the comfort of their homes and continue to do so. However, when employees are no longer in office, managing your team’s workload becomes difficult. Without your team in sight, it can be easy to wonder how employees are spending their time.

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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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