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Common Causes For Project Failure In a Multi-Project Environment

Epicflow Blog

There are times when despite companies’ project management efforts, they fail to achieve the desired results – projects they are running are late and exceed the budget, employees are stressed and overworked, and there are no signs of business growth on the immediate horizon. In the worst-case scenario, improper project/resource management and unresolved problems lead to project failure.

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The Case for PM: What Are the 3 Big Benefits of Project Management?

Online PM Courses

How can you make the case for Project Management? And what are the benefits of Project Management, and the counterarguments to prepare for? The post The Case for PM: What Are the 3 Big Benefits of Project Management? appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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What Is a Business Budget? Business Budgeting Basics

ProjectManager.com

Every business, even a not-for-profit business, needs a budget. A business budget can be looked at as the fuel that drives the business. To understand what that means, we first have to define what a business budget is, which we’ll do in a moment. This blog also explains the importance of business budgeting and details how to create a business budget.

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The Expensive Folly of the Oversized Product Backlog

Scrum.org

TL; DR: The Costs of an Oversized Product Backlog Some Product Owners believe that a comprehensive Product Backlog is the best way to accomplish the Product Goal and be fully transparent simultaneously—never let a possibly valuable idea slip away. However, a comprehensive backlog may quickly become an oversized Product Backlog with unintended side effects.

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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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Getting to Know the PMBOK Guide 7th Edition

The IIL Blog

By Cynthia Snyder Dionisio July 12, 2023 Even though the PMBOK ® Guide – Seventh Edition was released two years ago, there are still many project managers who are wondering how it is structured, and how they can use it. I was the Chair for both the Sixth and Seventh Editions, and I wrote this article to help you navigate the layout of the latest edition of the PMBOK ® Guide.

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What Is Oracle Primavera Cloud? Uses, Features & Pricing

ProjectManager.com

There are many project management software products available on the market. Many of them are good and only some are great. It’s a matter of finding the right fit for your business needs. Let’s take a look at one of them, Oracle Primavera Cloud. Does Oracle Primavera Cloud have the features and price point you’re looking for, does it address the work you need to do and are there Oracle Primavera Cloud alternatives that do the job better and less expensively?

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How to improve the release frequency of your team?

Scrum.org

Teams are more effective when they release more often. Of course, these releases also need to be valuable and useful to stakeholders. The aim of all Agile methodologies, such as Scrum, is to increase the release frequency of valuable outcomes to stakeholders. There are several reasons for this. The first is that higher release frequencies provide more opportunities for teams to validate their assumptions by inspecting done increments with their stakeholders.

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3 Ways to Help Motivate Your Team in Challenging Times

The IIL Blog

By Ben Chodor July 12, 2023 Recently, I’ve seen one of Simon Sinek’s great quotes pop up in my social feeds: “A good leader takes care of those in their charge. A bad leader takes charge of those in their care.” This one really makes me pause and think about the impact that leadership has on the performance, health, and overall well-being of a team.

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Roadmap to Developing a Strategic Plan For Your PMO

WorkOtter

Project managers are among the most important professionals that operate in all industries today. When you want what’s best for your career as a project manager and the results that you deliver, you need the right tools for the job. The market for project management software is expected to grow at a roughly 11% rate today. Software aside, you need to also be able to create a roadmap that’ll serve you.

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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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5 of the Most Valuable Hybrid Work Tools for Small Businesses

Proofhub

Hybrid Work An unprecedented number of companies worldwide are now opting for hybrid work arrangements for their workforce. And while this approach has many advantages — for example, better work-life balance — it also comes with its fair share of challenges. Some of these include keeping productivity levels high, maintaining good internal communication , and ensuring a positive and empowering working environment.

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Der teurer Irrtum eines kompletten Produkt-Backlogs ??

Scrum.org

In Kürze: Das komplette Produkt-Backlog: Die ungewollten Seiteneffekte Einige Product Owner glauben, dass ein umfassendes Produkt-Backlog der beste Weg ist, um das Produktziel zu erreichen und gleichzeitig völlig transparent zu sein – und keine möglicherweise wertvolle Idee ungenutzt zu lassen. Ein umfassendes Backlog kann jedoch schnell zu einem kompletten Produkt-Backlog mit unbeabsichtigten Nebeneffekten werden.

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Emotional Intelligence and The Project ManagerBy Harold Kerzner, Ph.D. and Elissa Farrow, Ph.D.

International Institute for Learning

Free Newsletter | Learner Login Search Search Close this search box. Courses Browse Courses Live Virtual Learning On-Demand In-Person Professional Certifications Learning Categories Project, Program and Portfolio Management Agile and Scrum Leadership and Interpersonal Skills Business Analysis Business Relationship Management Information Technology Management Lean Six Sigma Microsoft Project Online Conferences Leadership and Innovation Agile and Scrum International Project Management Day Client S

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The Power of Empathy: How to Create an Agile Culture

Leading Agile

Mike Cottmeyer delivers his talk on building a culture of Agility in a large organizations at Agile & Beyond 2023. Over the course of this presentation, Mike explores what really gets in the way of an Agile Culture and explains why people and leadership aren’t to blame for the resistance to change. You’ll walk away with a firm understanding of what conditions you need to create to foster the kind of culture where the teams are empowered to go off and do great work.

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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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Maker vs. Manager: How To Schedule For Your Productivity Style

Trello

A schedule isn’t a one-size-fits-all solution. A well-planned schedule could maximize productivity for one but become a source of stress for another. The fact is, a schedule is best laid out depending on your role and its demands. Different roles have different priorities and in some projects, you’re faced with a combination of roles — one that morphs from individual contributor one day to manager the next day (or Superman by night).

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Product-Owner-Antipattern erkennen: 5 Anzeichen dafĂĽr, dass Scrum Master handeln sollten

Scrum.org

Wie können Unternehmen agiler arbeiten? Ken Schwabers Antwort: „Delegation of product owner responsibilities continues the deep divide between development and its customers. My concept of the Scrum Master was that they were going to bridge the divide. The Scrum Master would to teach the business how to be agile by fulfilling the role of the Product Owner.

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Reasons to Resort to Managed Security Services

Productivity Land

Nowadays, security problems are very abundant and many companies are dealing with financial losses because of that. Whether we like it or not, security assessments are crucial and with managed security services you can help identify and tackle those problems. It’s not a simple task, but it can certainly have its fair share of benefits. Accessing security intelligence and expertise One of the benefits of using managed security services is that you get to work with a team of experts in this niche.

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What is a Project Roadmap? How to Make One and How is it Different from a Gantt Chart?

Online PM Courses

What is a Project Roadmap? And I also look at why we use them, how they differ from a Gantt Chart, and how to create a Roadmap. The post What is a Project Roadmap? How to Make One and How is it Different from a Gantt Chart? appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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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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How To Build Deep Ownership in Your Team

The IIL Blog

By Dave McKeown July 12, 2023 Building a culture of accountability and ownership in your team and organization is a holy grail for leaders today. It finally allows you to emerge from the need for heroic leadership and instead sit back and watch your team achieve even greater things than you would. The biggest challenge in creating a fully autonomous team is that accountability is not something you can teach.

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A Titanic Misfit: The Alpha Organization's Wasteful Endeavor in Red Markets

Scrum.org

Under the ruthless canopy of the red market, I find myself staring at the bloated behemoth of an Alpha organisation, huffing and puffing in a vain attempt to keep up with the frenzied pace of the modern world. The Alpha model, once a paragon of order and efficiency in the leisurely blue market era, has now morphed into a lumbering dinosaur, with its hierarchical structures and rigid command and control systems looking out of place in the high-speed, unpredictable red markets.

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Streamlining Employee Queries with Power Virtual Agents and Microsoft Teams Integration

MPUG

You may know Power Virtual Agent as the llittle chatbot in the corner of a website, offering assistance and answering questions. In our organization, we needed a solution to help automate the process of answering employee queries which were previously directed to Rich Weller, consuming a significant amount of time. We realized that automating the process using Power Virtual Agent was a feasible option.

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Waterfall Project Management Methodology

ActiveCollab

The waterfall is a project management approach where a project is completed in distinct stages and moved step by step toward ultimate release to consumers. You make a big plan upfront and then execute linearly, hoping there won’t be any changes in the plan. When you take traditional project management and apply it to software development, you get Waterfall.

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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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How To Do Capacity Planning For Your Agency In 4 Steps

Teamweek

Resource capacity planning is the process of determining the amount of a resource you need to meet demand. For agency and consultancy owners, this means balancing your team’s capacity with the amount of work you expect to come in. In this article, you’ll learn how to do capacity planning for your agency to deliver projects on time without overworking your team.

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What should a Scrum Master do when a Developer has a remark during the Daily Scrum

Scrum.org

Earlier this year I was in an Ask a PST session with Scrum.org hosted by Lindsay Velecina. It was awesome, with hundreds of people attending the event. With so many people joining, it was impossible to answer every single question on the spot. So I invited Evelien Acun-Roos to answer these questions together in our tv studio at Xebia with the support of the Xebia Academy and producer Roald Willemsen.

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Riding the Blockchain Wave: A Deep Dive into Cardano’s Price Forecast

Productivity Land

Cardano, a platform supported by a strong current of innovation and strategic planning, is creating ripples in the vast ocean of cryptocurrencies. As crypto enthusiasts and investors, it’s vital to keep a watch on platforms such as Cardano that have the potential to revolutionize the crypto-sphere. We provide price forecasts as one method for evaluating the potential impact of a cryptocurrency.

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Saving Life on Earth: How We Can Stop Climate Chaos?

Green Project Management

Hey there! Did you know that our Earth’s climate is in serious trouble? Unless you have been living under a rock, you know that things are not great. As we are poised yet again to record the hottest July on record, I want to use this post to bring attention to something called “tipping points” […] The post Saving Life on Earth: How We Can Stop Climate Chaos?

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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.