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Ask a PM: How to Recover a Project That Is Struggling in Execution

LiquidPlanner

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Re-imagine your Scrum to firm up your agility

Gunther Verheyen

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There can be only one (and it is not YOUR project)!

Kiron Bondale

Managing a high priority project can be a wonderful experience. You will usually receive ample support from senior leadership in resolving critical issues, getting funding for team celebrations is rarely a challenge, and helping team members and other key stakeholders understand the importance of the project and how its success will benefit them should be simple.

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Total Quality Management (TQM): A Quick Guide

ProjectManager.com

Total Quality Management (TQM) works to maintain success by doing what is necessary to deliver satisfaction to customers. Of course, that satisfaction is seeded in employees, processes and the organization at large—long before any product or service reaches its customer. How does a business or organization make sure that their processes and people are aligned with creating success and customer satisfaction?

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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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Project Leadership In Uncertain Environments with Carole Osterweil

Rebel’s Guide to PM

It seems like more and more of the projects we’re working on as project managers are tricky in non-conventional ways. The environment is shifting as we’re trying to do the work. Or the political situation changes. Suddenly what you thought you were delivering is actually not that after all. Carole Osterweil. It’s not just me feeling like this. In my mentoring group we often talk about how projects don’t quite work the way the textbooks make you think they should.

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5 Best Project Management Certifications and Courses of 2019

nTask

Project Management certifications, or a certified professional are not essential to an organization’s core structure, but their involvement makes a difference in ten folds. From the 1960s to early 2000s, Agile Framework adoption was still in its infancy. Teams and organizations who were looking to expand, unknowingly adapted to a specific set of daily rituals that were later termed as Agile Project Management, PMP and other such condiments.

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Tips & Tools for Project Roadmaps

ProjectManager.com

Due to all of the minutia of a project, it’s easy for a project manager to get lost in the details, and lose track of the big picture. But how can you remove yourself from the daily deadlines and issues that always are popping up, and take the time to see the entire project landscape to ensure you’re heading in the right direction? Fortunately, there is a space set aside for that high-level overview to keep a project on track: it’s called the project roadmap.

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Contextless Scrum: a principles or rules driven framework?

Scrum.org

. I have been doing Scrum trainings for a long time. During the last years, I have stressed even more the importance of understanding the nature and purpose of the Scrum Framework just at the begginning of the classes. Most of us know that Scrum is oftenly understood in the IT industry as a process-oriented framework and that is one of the original sins that spoils the goal of obtaining what it was designed for, helping people to address complex problems.

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Trust and loyalty

Musings on Project Management

From time to time, a profound thought strikes here at Musings. Today, it's these questions: Is it necessary for there to be trust in order that there be loyalty? Can there be loyalty and simultaneously mistrust? Spoiler alert: there's no right answer. It's a matter of your values and beliefs, for which there is no proof, validation, or algorithm. So, where did this come from?

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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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Who’s Leading Your Agile Transformation?

Leading Agile

There are all sorts of Agile coaches, consultants, and practitioners out there. Each with different strengths and weaknesses. Each with different skill sets and experiences. But, they’re not all created equal, and they’re not all meant to be the face of a Transformation. In this clip, Mike Cottmeyer discusses what type of leader should be at the forefront of your Transformation and why it’s so important to the success of your next Agile initiative.

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How Tough Conversations Can Create Better Client Relationships

ProjectManager.com

When you work with clients, sometimes you find yourself facing a tough conversation you’d really rather not have. You can feel your muscles tensing and sweat beads rising on your forehead and palms. This won’t be pleasant. And I’ll own up… Nothing I can tell you will ever make it pleasant. But what I can do is give you some tips to help you do it well and feel a little more in control.

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The Flying Scrum doctor

Scrum.org

In your organization, some problems seem to recur, they are difficult to fix using the tools, tricks and practices you developed over the years as a manager. Maybe this problem is different and the perspective of an expert-outsider might help? At Agilix , we regularly get asked by companies “to discuss some challenges with Scrum”. This is a great compliment for us and it is exciting to submerge into these unknown worlds, being totally blank, without prejudice and mandate; simply bringing knowled

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20 Marketing Influencers You Should Follow on LinkedIn

Proofhub

20 Marketing LinkedIn Influencers You Should Follow in 2019 Do you know that over 2 million posts, articles, and videos are posted on LinkedIn every day, generating tens of millions of likes, shares, and comments every hour? Fascinating, right? Well, there is a reason why LinkedIn has become the #1 social media platform for business professionals. Marketing, software development, and/or human resource?

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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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Project Governance: Establishing an Effective Steering Committee

Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

Within the project management community, the concept of governance is seen as a fundamental project control, which is easy to grasp in principle. But in reality, it’s a different matter. Getting the governance piece right requires insight and at times a few honest conversations about roles and responsibilities. If those conversations aren’t happen ing, the project may end up with an ineffective escalation and decision-making process.

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Basic Filtering in Excel

International Institute for Learning

By Bob Umlas, Excel MVP . In this blog I’ll discuss filtering. In another continued blog, I’ll talk about advanced filtering. First, what is filtering? We’ll define it by looking at a very simple illustration. Suppose this is your worksheet: If you were only interested in the West region, you can show just the West items by filtering. There are many ways to filter and we’ll show them all in this post, but for now, if you right-mouse click on the word West in cell A3 (or A6), you can filter this

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What do you do differently based on this Agile Developer Training? 2min Interviews

Scrum.org

I collected lots of feedback from different students around Europe that attended my Developer Training. Here some photos to give you an idea: . You can sneek on some ideas and maybe get something to try differently for your development team :) . . To further give you an impression what we learn and do in these trainings, I recorded two short videos for you.

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Road Trippin’ Organization Change: The Journey

Project Management Essentials

Organizational change and transformation efforts are often challenging. Most fail to meet their planned objectives with 30% failing outright. In last month’s article, ”Road Trippin’ Organizational Change: The Beginning” , I recommending using adaptive-agile planning practices and treating the effort like a road trip: Set the direction, not the destination.

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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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Learning and Development

Lynne Cazaly

L&D: does it stand for learning and development or long and drawn-out. Is it time for L&D to be more responsive, to lead the way in agility, experiments and lean solutions? I was speaking with an L&D team about running my ‘ish' workshop for the organisation - where people learn to challenge perfectionist tendencies and work until it's 'good enough', working in increments and iterations.

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8 Easy Steps to Plan and Complete a Successful Project

Function Point

Projects are notorious for missing the mark. Budgets bloat, timelines slip, and deliverables stray farther than a toddler at the park. While there’s lots of literature on the science and discipline of project management, navigating the ley lines of 8 fundamentals will increase your chances of project success dramatically. You’ll note the holy trinity of project management – requirements, money, and time – occupy some of the top spots.

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New Open Space Poster (In addition to Scrum Poster)

Scrum.org

After the huge ongoing success of our complimentary Scrum Poster, which is a visual representation of the Scrum Guide, we have decided to offer more learning aids to help teams and organizations in their transition towards more agility. . Today’s reveal is a very important for us as we have facilitated Open Space events for more than 10 years with clients and in our annual conferences for example in Munich or Amsterdam and New York City.

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Agile, Waterfall, or Hybrid? Which Door to Choose?

GanttPRO Project Management

GanttPRO is online Gantt chart software that helps thousands of individuals and teams manage their tasks, deadlines, resources, and costs. Great for communication and collaboration on a project. Try GanttPRO […].

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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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Projects: Creating Products, Services, and Results

Project Risk Coach

People use the term "project" loosely. Someone may say, "I've need to finish my filing project today." But what is a project and what's the difference between creating products, services, and results? What is a Project? A project is a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a product, service, or result. —PMBOK Projects are Temporary Projects are temporary.

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Online Project Management Course

MindGenius

Online Project Management Course. A 4-hour live online training session on how MindGenius can help you deliver successful projects. Outcomes and Benefits: This training session will introduce a Six Step Guide for Practical Project Management. Ideal or non project managers who find themselves managing projects. The six steps are introduced in an easy to follow way using MindGenius to manage the full process: Discover what your project needs to achieve Find out who is involved and what they want t

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Presentation: Innovation Accounting in Scrum

Scrum.org

A couple of years ago I blogged on Innovation Accounting in Scrum , and the bringing of empiricism to product ownership. On Tuesday I gave a presentation on this topic to the Agile Northants UK meetup. There was a pretty good Q&A afterwards. The session was recorded and is available here : . . . Abstract: In Scrum a Product Owner can be described as a "value maximizer".but how is value calculated?

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Agile, Waterfall, or Hybrid? Which Door to Choose?

GanttPRO Project Management

GanttPRO is online Gantt chart software that helps thousands of individuals and teams manage their tasks, deadlines, resources, and costs. Great for communication and collaboration on a project.

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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.