Kiron Bondale

DECEMBER 29, 2019

This Dilbert cartoon from December 23, 2019 illustrates a couple of anti-patterns which I’ve sometimes witnessed in companies who are going through an agile transformation. While it is often true that 80% today is better than 100% tomorrow when we consider benefits such as being first to market, an increased return on investment or accelerating validated learning, that rule of thumb refers to the depth and breadth of product features and not to basic needs.

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2019 Agile Process 156

Project Risk Coach

DECEMBER 31, 2019

I often hear people say, “Our company has too many meetings. The meetings last too long and they are woefully mismanaged.” And yet, meetings can be an indispensable tool for accomplishing work. Let’s look at 10 ways to improve project meetings and achieve greater results. 10 Project Meeting Boosters. 1. Meet somewhere new. One simple but effective way to reinvigorate your meetings is to meet in a new location.

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Underperforming Technical Team Energy Innovation Monitoring 259

Taskque

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Artificial Intelligence is disrupting every industry you can think of and project management is no exception to this rule. According to AI Innovators: Cracking the Code on Project Performance report by PMI, 81% of project managers admitted that their organization has already been impacted by AI. . The report also predicted that projects managed with AI will increase from 23% to 37% in the next three years.

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Artificial Inteligence PMI Estimate Risk Management 91

Musings on Project Management

DECEMBER 30, 2019

A narrative* Imagine two doors to the same room: One labeled risk manager; the other labeled decision maker. Though the risk manager's door, entry is for the inductive thinker: facts looking for a generality or integrating narrative Through the decision maker's door, entry is for the deductive thinker: visionary with a need to connect specifics to the vision And, consider this: Pessimists.

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Risk Management Risk 150

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Teamweek

JANUARY 1, 2020

When Yahoo appointed former Google executive Marissa Mayer as its president and CEO in July 2012, she gave every indication of being progressive. Mayer brought in free food and issued sleek new iPhones, which suggested that she valued and was investing in her teams. Then, in February 2013, she rescinded Yahoo’s work from home policy and battle lines were drawn.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 1, 2020

Technology might change at the speed of light, but there are a few classic designs that even time can’t touch. Gantt charts are one of them. Named after their inventor, Henry Gantt, these bar charts help visually illustrate even the most complex project schedules in a simple and user-friendly format. While the charts have been around since the early 1900s, they’re far from archaic.

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2020 Software 2008 Monitoring 352

The Lazy Project Manager

JANUARY 3, 2020

It has been 10 years since The Lazy Project Manager was published and I have had the pleasure of presenting on this topic in 25 countries so far, but now, at the start of a new year, 2020 no less, I have decided that this will be the last year that I deliver ‘The Lazy Project Manager’ keynote. So you only have 12 months to book me if you haven’t heard this one before, or you want to hear it again.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 31, 2019

. It’s that time again. The end of the year, where many of us take a step back to reflect on the year that will almost be over soon and create another new year resolution. Like many of you, I do the same. On my last year life retrospectives, I wrote about servant leadership. This year’s retrospective is the continuation of it. . This year I learnt a lot about the relationship between mastery and humility.

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Planview

JANUARY 2, 2020

We facilitated a roundtable discussion of our customers at the 2019 Planview Horizons Customer Conference where enterprise agility in financial services organizations was discussed. We learned more about some of the biggest struggles financial institutions face with a focus on capacity planning, funding models, and digital transformation. The topic discussed for most of the roundtable was how to get work done with the best impact to drive business results.

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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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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 30, 2019

From the beginning of a triathlon to the first notes of an opening night play—the way you start things off can set the tone for the rest of the event. The same goes for an implementation plan. Without one, your organization could rolling out big changes with nothing but an online reference guide and a stressed-out developer trying to make everything happen.

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Executing Planning Software Review Risk Management 301

The Lazy Project Manager

JANUARY 2, 2020

Peter Taylor is the author of two best-selling books on ‘Productive Laziness’ – ‘The Lazy Winner’ and ‘The Lazy Project Manager’. In the last 10 years he has focused on writing and lecturing with over 350 presentations around the world in over 25 countries. He has been described as ‘perhaps the most entertaining and inspiring speaker in the project management world today’.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Originally posted on www.debooij.training. Any Product Owner faces challenges in the organization that are not directly related to the content and value of the product. For example limited decision making power, dependencies , strict company policies, vendor contracts, annual budgeting tied to scope, a difficult relationship with a stakeholder, etc.

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Proofhub

JANUARY 1, 2020

How To Set Good Professional Goals For Work (Tips And Examples Included) Wondering why your professional goals keep falling flat? Well, it’s simple. You’ve been doing it all wrong. There is no surprise that setting goals is one of the key practices in a workplace environment. Setting clear, attainable goals is something that has an impact on the very bottom line of the company or team.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Do you need help prioritizing tasks when managing a project? There’s an acronym for that! It’s called the MoSCow method and it is a great technique to help with prioritization. How to Prioritize with the MoSCoW Method: Managing a project is often about managing what you will – and won’t! – get done in the given project timeline. When there are no priorities set, projects can quickly become free-for-alls, with the loudest voices in the room getting their work prioritized over ot

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MPUG

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Microsoft’s Ignite is the place to learn from the experts, connect with your community, and explore the latest technology. The platform connects over 25,000 individuals focused on software development, security, architecture, and IT. Attendees explore new hands-on experiences that will help them innovate in areas such as security, cloud, and hybrid infrastructure and development.

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2019 Technical Review Software Review 2020 98

Scrum.org

JANUARY 3, 2020

The Basics. Within the scrum process, there are eleven basic elements that make up the framework. 3 roles, 3 artifacts, and 5 events. Practitioners need to learn to apply and understand the principles behind these in order to obtain the full benefits of the scrum process. As well as its implementation. The scrum process is often termed as a rinse and repeat process.

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Process SCRUM Development Team Review Engineering 132

GanttPRO Project Management

DECEMBER 31, 2019

GanttPRO is a Gantt chart based project planning tool that allows remote teams to collaborate online on projects. It has a very intuitive interface and a short learning curve. Try […].

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2020 Planning 94

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Say your organization is building a new distribution center. This new distribution center is reportedly going to bring hundreds of new jobs, and it will include forklifts, certified personnel, a new HR staff and hundreds of thousands of dollars in new equipment. But without insight from all sides—your customer support specialists, stakeholders, team members and customer base?

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Henny Portman

DECEMBER 31, 2019

I just finished the draft version for the second print of my book Scaling agile in organizaties (in Dutch) and I counted 65 frameworks and approaches (25 more than the first print). I thought I covered all, but I found a few new ones. One of them is the Brightline Transformation Compass, a comprehensive system for transformation developed by Behnam Tabrizi, PMI.

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2019 Sustainability PMI Agile 71

iZenBridge

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Leadership PDUs are a valuable asset to embrace your leadership skills. These PDUs raise your ability to motivate, guide, and lead the team to achieve a goal. Once you earn these leadership PDUs, you can apply them to PMP® certification or any other PMIs certification renewal. In this blog, I am sharing tips to earn PDUs for all PMIs certificates under the Leadership category.

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Certification Leadership PMI Influencer 90

MPUG

JANUARY 2, 2020

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Collin Quiring’s How to get and see Project Information in Power BI webinar being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content.

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Technical Review PMI Closing Certification 52

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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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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 1, 2020

All projects can be improved with the right tool. Smaller construction projects need construction project management software, and bigger ones definitely require the kind of control that only a PM tool can provide. Construction projects can be big, complex and often unruly, with regulatory issues, safety concerns, equipment rentals, multiple teams and more.

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Construction 2020 Software Review Software 212

Henny Portman

JANUARY 2, 2020

The first post in 2020 is again a post about an agile framework. The forest is still growing and this will not be the last one. The next one is already under review too. FLEX, Flow for Enterprise Transformation, developed by Al Shalloway, is designed to be used as a guide for organizations to achieve business agility. It is a platform which lays out the steps required for improving the way a company adds value to its customers, both external and internal.

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Technical Review 2019 Lean PMI 71

GanttPRO Project Management

DECEMBER 31, 2019

GanttPRO is a Gantt chart based project planning tool that allows remote teams to collaborate online on projects. It has a very intuitive interface and a short learning curve.

2020 52

2020 Planning 52

Teamweek

DECEMBER 30, 2019

When Google adopted open-concept office spaces, the result was predictable: businesses everywhere followed suit, eager to capitalize on what must be a successful formula. Back then (and to an extent, even now), anything Google did was to be revered and copied. Cubicles started disappearing from corporate floor plans, to be replaced by long desks shared by multiple employees.

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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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