Rebel’s Guide to PM
APRIL 19, 2021
This is a guest post by Matt Diggity. Wouldn’t it be great if project team members were engaged with their work, leapt at the opportunity to hit their milestones and proactively progressed their tasks without you having to chase them? If leading your team feels like you need to constantly prod them to get stuff done, perhaps you have an employee engagement problem.
The Digital Project Manager
APRIL 21, 2021
The post 5 Resource Leveling Techniques That Work appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.
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Project Risk Coach
APRIL 18, 2021
One of the reasons that project managers fail to properly estimate their projects is they miss key activities when developing their schedules. Why does this happen? The failure to engage stakeholders and create a work breakdown structure (WBS). Steven Pressfield said, "A great trick that I learned having worked as a screenwriter for many years, the way screenwriters work, is they break the project down into three-act structure: Act 1, Act 2, Act 3.
ProjectManager.com
APRIL 20, 2021
More likely than not, you have created an action item without realizing it. If you’ve ever written a to-do list, you’ve made yourself a set of action items—errands to run, household chores to complete, people to contact, etc. Managing large-scale projects is a much more complicated process, and it calls for a sophisticated system of creating, assigning and tracking action items.
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Rebel’s Guide to PM
APRIL 21, 2021
What makes a bad project manager? And how can you be a good project manager? In this extract from their new book, Jahn Karsybaev and Fred Obiero share the characteristics and behaviors of successful and unsuccessful project leaders. — Leadership. Fred Obiero. A Bad Project Manager offloads the overall responsibility on others , claiming that they are just there to “oversee” things.
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Kiron Bondale
APRIL 18, 2021
Whether your team follows a specific framework or has taken a mix-and-match approach with its practices, a tenet of agile is the use of short feedback loops to support inspection and adaptation. Whether your team sets a regular cadence for external product reviews or they are conducted on a just-in-time basis, it is important to get actionable feedback.
ProjectManager.com
APRIL 22, 2021
Stakeholders are people or organizations that are internal or external to the project who have a vested interest in its success. That interest can have a positive or negative impact on the project execution. Therefore, it’s crucial to know your stakeholders. More than just being able to identify who the stakeholders are in the project, you need to manage them.
nTask
APRIL 21, 2021
Creating a paperless office was first theorized in 1975, in a Business Week article by a man called Vincent E. Giuliano. The term “paperless office” is still going around but the need for organizations making the switch is becoming more and more obvious. While picking up a piece of paper to scribble a simple note or reminder seems trivial and obvious, the positive effects of limiting the use of paper in offices or eliminating it together are enormous.
Scrum.org
APRIL 21, 2021
On today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: How should a Scrum Team handle spikes? Today's question asks how a Scrum Team should handle SPIKES!?!?! Todd goes for the hot-take and makes it clear that he believes that spikes are an anti-pattern and should not be used! Ryan agreed and they broke down why spikes are a bad practice for a Scrum Team to follow.
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
Online PM Courses
APRIL 21, 2021
Dmitriy Nizhebetskiy understands traditional, planned Project Management & Agile PM… So, we spoke about Selecting a Project Approach. The post Selecting a Project Approach – with Dmitriy Nizhebetskiy | Interview appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.
ProjectManager.com
APRIL 23, 2021
No matter the project or the team, it is important to outline expectations. This is especially true of construction projects. Construction projects often require outside specialists to complete aspects of the work, and construction contracts bridge the gap between contractors who they hire so everyone knows what is required. Create and track your construction projects with ProjectManager.com’s Gantt charts.
Leading Agile
APRIL 19, 2021
Think about it for a moment. Whether you believe in Bigfoot or not, there are many people who do. And the vast majority (or perhaps all of them) have never seen Bigfoot. But everybody has heard of Bigfoot. It’s part of our common culture and is used in brands around the world. Conversations and strong opinions about something that people have never actually seen seem to be common.
Scrum.org
APRIL 19, 2021
En enero de 2020, tuve una entrevista telefónica para un proyecto de transformación ágil con un líder de una empresa con sede en Barcelona que estaba interesado en agile coaching. El entrevistador me preguntó si me gustaría lanzarme a una conversación de coaching y acepté. Durante los siguientes minutos, hice todo lo posible por ponerme un sombrero de coach profesional, aunque, al final, mi intento no demostró las capacidades que buscaba el líder de la transformación.
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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.
nTask
APRIL 22, 2021
Slack vs. Discord is an interesting battle, both the tools are loved by millions, provide similar services but are used by two very different communities. Discord is the go-to app for gamers all over the world while Slack is a business communication platform. If you are looking for an efficient communication tool then, Discord and Slack should be your priority.
ProjectManager.com
APRIL 21, 2021
Just as a project has a charter to define its scope, so too must your team have a charter to put their work in context. Teams need to know the who, what, why, when and how of the project, and a team charter is the perfect way to feed them that information. Once you get buy-in from the team, and they know where they stand and how to maneuver through the project, you’re on the road to success.
Leading Agile
APRIL 20, 2021
When you no longer work with an employee, you often become friends. This was a conversation with my friend Matt about his new role as a software leader in a billion-dollar organization. Hi Matt, Congratulations on your new role as a leader in a technology organization, I am glad I could connect you to the role. It is my goal that this email can assist you at a high level of discovering and visualizing the changes that need to be made and providing a high-level approach to technical remediation w
Scrum.org
APRIL 22, 2021
On today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: Can the Scrum Team skip their Sprint Retrospective? Today's question asks whether or not a Scrum Team can skip their Sprint Retrospective. Todd and Ryan answer with an emphatic "NO" and explain why this Scrum Event is critical to a Scrum Teams' success. Ryan Ripley and Todd Miller are the author of Fixing Your Scrum: Practical Solutions to Common Scrum Problems.
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Proofhub
APRIL 20, 2021
Source: [link] “The problem with lethargy is that doing nothing validates the fear that nothing could be done.”?—? Bill Crawford With all due respect to employers around the world, employees can’t perform like a workhorse running on Energizer batteries all the time. I know productivity is the key word (or maybe it’s the only word) in almost all employees’ dictionaries.
Planio
APRIL 21, 2021
When you put a group of smart, driven people in a room together, great ideas are bound to happen. At least that’s what we’d like to believe. Unfortunately, brainstorming sessions don’t always work out as planned. The loudest teammates take over the conversation, people obsess over the first idea that gets thrown out, or, maybe worst of all, no one says anything.
Epicflow Blog
APRIL 20, 2021
We at Epicflow are guided by researchers who have been in project management for more than 20 years and get inspired by our clients for creating new features and implementing improvements. We strive to advance our product not just to be the best in the market, but to bring the best services possible to our clients and create an absolutely new approach to project orchestration: without any stress, urgent tasks, and rush.
Scrum.org
APRIL 19, 2021
On today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: Does a Scrum Team need specialists or generalists? Today's question asks if we need specialists or generalists on a Scrum Team. Ryan and Todd use a personal example from a recent medical procedure to discuss the importance of having specialists and generalists on a team. Ryan Ripley and Todd Miller are the author of Fixing Your Scrum: Practical Solutions to Common Scrum Problems.
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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.
Online PM Courses
APRIL 18, 2021
Project Scope is simple in concept, but hard in practice. It's a measure of the breadth and depth of your project: everything you need to do. The post Establish Project Scope: How to Master Your Toughest PM Challenge appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.
Scoro
APRIL 19, 2021
With a plethora of collaborative tools out there, it’s easy to become bewildered by the sheer volume of choice. What’s more, the definition of “project management” and “work management” in the context of software can be difficult to distinguish. If you’re wondering which type of solution would suit your organization, here’s a handy guide to the main difference between Project Management Software (PMS) and Work Management Software (WMS).
nTask
APRIL 22, 2021
Being one of the best project management and task management applications out there, Trello is incredible when it comes to catering to the needs of their 50 million users and their task management activities. The software has been counted as a part of the elite list for over 9 years now, and that fame and likeability is very much owed to the fact that the free version which the company provides is one of the best in the business.
Scrum.org
APRIL 21, 2021
TL; DR: A Sprint Review without Stakeholders? There are plenty of failure possibilities with Scrum. Given that Scrum is a framework with a reasonable yet short “manual,” this effect should not surprise anyone. A Sprint Review without stakeholders may create an unhealthy bubble for the Scrum Team due to the disconnect, thus resulting in lower effectiveness.
Speaker: Ketan Jahagirdar - Sopheon’s Director of Product Management
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