Project Risk Coach
MAY 6, 2019
How many times have you experienced scope creep ? You know the drill—you elicit and document the requirements. You receive sign off. You continue to see changes to the requirements. Many projects experience 10, 20, 25-percent change in requirements over the life of the project. Let's explore how to manage project scope. Scope is Not a Mouthwash You cannot manage what you do not understand.
The Digital Project Manager
MAY 7, 2019
There’s tremendous value in a well-crafted project charter. Start with the project charter definition, see how it differs from a SoW, and learn what to include in a project charter (and why). The post Write A Project Charter: How-To Guide, Examples & Template appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.
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Proofhub
MAY 7, 2019
How to Engage Employees Through Recognition When it comes to recognizing talent at work, some do it really well and some don’t do it at all. Employers those who do it well get good results, happier workforce, and more profits. Whereas the others are still struggling to find the secret to success and workplace happiness. “Engage employees with effective communication.
ProjectManager.com
MAY 9, 2019
What project management is good at is making the complex simple, or at least manageable. There are, of course, lots of different ways to achieve that goal, many of which are employed during the life cycle of a project. A project network diagram is one such tool that helps simplify a complex project plan, enabling a project manager to see the big picture of the 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.
Kiron Bondale
MAY 5, 2019
The Scrum Guide calls sprints the “heart of Scrum” and also indicates that they should be one month or less. The Guide also cautions about setting sprint durations longer than a calendar month to ensure that inspection and adaption is happening frequently which will reduce the risk of wasted team effort or of building the wrong product. This aligns with the third principle from the Agile Manifesto which encourages teams to deliver value frequently, from a couple of weeks to a couple
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Inloox
MAY 9, 2019
To use certain planning elements, such as important milestones in other project plans , you do not have to create them again and maintain changes in different projects twice. You can use the feature "Publish planning elements" to make relevant elements available in other projects. This is helpful, for example, if there is a higher-level annual planning for a department.
ProjectManager.com
MAY 8, 2019
What is project management, and how can it help marketers? While project management is an industry unto itself, it’s also a way of life. That is, project management can be applied to anything that has a beginning, middle and an end that produces a product or service. Because there are many projects in the marketing industry , marketers could benefit greatly from the practice of project management.
Leading Agile
MAY 6, 2019
When it comes to Agile Transformation, every organization has to deal with things in the system that are blocking them from developing an Agile System of Delivery. Impediments to Transformation exist at many levels: organizations, architectural, cultural, etc. Many of these impediments are common across companies and can be known and planned for ahead of time.
Scrum.org
MAY 5, 2019
Scrum Masters are often understood mostly as “team coaches”. Yet, their role is vastly more important. The Scrum Guide emphasizes that Scrum Masters are responsible for leading and coaching organisations in the adoption of Scrum and causing change that increases the productivity of the Scrum Team. And this makes sense; Scrum Masters are in a perfect position to see how missing skills, red tape, external dependencies, and other organisational impediments impact the ability of Scrum Teams to
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
Teamweek
MAY 8, 2019
Working from home is one of the most popular desires among corporate and small business workers. Some of the most recent numbers show that nearly 5 million people in the United States now work from home at least part-time. And that number is growing dramatically each year. Have you been dreaming about the prospect of telecommuting for years and finally got the chance to work from home?
Scoro
MAY 7, 2019
We are always working tirelessly to improve the initial user experience for all our prospective clients and take our trial site to a whole new level. Having put so much effort into creating the best possible experience, we want every person to get the most out of their 14-day free trial period. This 5-minute read will guide you through 8 steps that will lead to the most optimal experience and hopefully much clearer mind in the decision phase.
Proofhub
MAY 10, 2019
Customer experience has become a goal that SMBs share on a global scale. In fact, it has become so important that almost 70% of executives believe that organizations will switch focus from products to customer experience. In their efforts to do so, companies will have to improve employee experience and training as well. Why? Because there is an undeniable link between employee experience and training with customer experience.
Scrum.org
MAY 6, 2019
. What is a Sprint Goal? " The Sprint Goal is an objective that will be met within the Sprint through the implementation of the Product Backlog " (quote from the Scrum Guide ). The Sprint Goal is a phrase that can be used in many different ways: The Development team uses it at every Daily Scrum, to inspect the work done and adapt the work left. The result of this inspection and adaptation is transparently visible in the Sprint Backlog.
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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.
International Institute for Learning
MAY 10, 2019
Rich Sheridan is the CEO of Menlo Innovations and the author of Joy, Inc. and Chief Joy Officer. As opening keynote speaker at IIL’s Leadership & Innovation 2019 Online Conference , he inspired us all with his uncommon approach to leadership and productivity in the modern workplace. We received so many great questions during the 15-minute Q&A that we didn’t have time to get to them all.
Scoro
MAY 7, 2019
We are always working tirelessly to improve the initial user experience for all our prospective clients and take our trial site to a whole new level. Having put so much effort into creating the best possible experience, we want every person to get the most out of their 14-day free trial period. This 5-minute read will guide you through 8 steps that will lead to the most optimal experience and hopefully much clearer mind in the decision phase.
Leading Agile
MAY 10, 2019
When we develop products, we’re responsible for maximizing the value we deliver to the customer. In order to do this, we have to understand who we’re actually building the products for. We need to know who the customer is, what problem(s) we’re trying to solve for them, and any additional information we can gather that will give us more insight into their needs and how we can address them.
Scrum.org
MAY 9, 2019
Dear Scrum Master: the Scrum events are theirs, not yours ! But they can still benefited from you ! . The Scrum Master is often expected to facilitate and animate every Scrum events. But, according to the Scrum Guide, the role of the Scrum Master regarding the different events is to ensure that the event takes place and that attendants understand its purpose.
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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.
Online PM Courses
MAY 8, 2019
Projects have a lot of processes, tools, and methods. One thing allows a project manager to hold them all together. So, what is Project Integration? The post What is Project Integration? | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.
Wrike
MAY 9, 2019
“ Game of Thrones ” is a phenomenon due to the astounding character and world building both in the books and show. Every character and house has such complex strengths and weaknesses that it’s hard to choose just one that deserves to rule Westeros. . That got our team at Wrike thinking. Playing the game of thrones is like launching a massive project with countless phases, stakeholders, resources, and more.
Velociteach
MAY 10, 2019
Organizational change and transformation efforts are often challenging. Most fail to meet their planned objectives with 30% failing outright. In my last 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.
Scrum.org
MAY 9, 2019
When organizations begin their journey toward agility, they think the business outcomes will become instantaneous. They expect the initial decision to lead to immediate success. Moving towards agile from a more traditional way of working changes so many things about how we work. It changes who we interact with, and has us moving from building others solutions to becoming problem solvers.
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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.
MindGenius
MAY 10, 2019
Do Start-Ups Need Project Management? Ashley Marron – 10 May 2019. Start-ups are definitely an exciting somewhat trailblazing type of organisation to be involved in or with. But they are definitely not for everyone and not those with a nervous disposition. It may just be me, but I like working with and running start-ups and get particularly invigorated being involved in the first steps of a product launch or a new business venture.
Wrike
MAY 8, 2019
You finally dug yourself out from the Excel spreadsheet hole and bought a shiny new project management tool. It color-codes and visualizes project to-dos so you can keep everyone on task and delight clients. You show them how their project will flow and let them know they can log right in and see where a project stands. Green for going, yellow for delays, and red for on hold.
Epicflow Blog
MAY 10, 2019
Although modern technology has helped increase productivity and improve lives, there’s no denying that AI can take over many roles humans currently perform. It’s not a question of if this will happen; it’s a matter of when. AI is slowly taking over all types of industries, with healthcare, finance, marketing, and the automotive industry each integrating some form of machine learning.
Scrum.org
MAY 10, 2019
Companies who build hardware often ask if it’s possible to benefit from Scrum. In order to answer this question, I need to first introduce you to my friend Risk. Risk is a terrible friend. Risk likes to keep information about the future from me and show up when I least expect. Risk has a very long career history in product development. I’m guessing you know Risk too.
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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