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10 ways to maintain consistent project quality.

Techno-PM

Maintaining consistent project quality is critical to the success of any project. Consistent quality helps ensure that deliverables are up to standard, meet customer expectations, and are delivered on time. It also helps keep the project on budget and reduces the risk of project failure. However, maintaining consistent quality throughout the project requires a concerted effort from the project team.

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The Uncomfortable Truth of Scaling ‘Agile’

Scrum.org

TL; DR: The Uncomfortable Truth of Scaling Agile Agile transformations, scaling Agile from a team level to the whole organization, are more than implementing frameworks like SAFe®. They require a radical shift from rigid, top-down management to flexible, people-centric operations rooted in simplified structures, autonomous teams, and frequent, sustainable value delivery rather than promising quicker, cheaper results. ?

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Pros and Cons of Using ChatGPT for Project Planning

MPUG

There are several important pros and a few cons to consider when using ChatGPT for project planning, as this revolutionary new approach of “prompting for a project plan” might feel alien at first. Are you totally new to ChatGPT? Check out part one of this article for an overview of ChatGPT and an example of how to use it to create a project plan – Transform Your Project Planning with ChatGPT: A How-To with Examples.

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Guide to Marketing Project Management: From Benefits to Practical Example

GanttPRO Project Management

Marketing project management enables efficient resource allocation, aligns marketing efforts with business goals, and ensures the timely execution of campaigns. It facilitates effective communication with stakeholders, controls project scope and […] The post Guide to Marketing Project Management: From Benefits to Practical Example first appeared on GanttPRO Project Management Blog.

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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 Quality Management Processes + Techniques

Techno-PM

Project Quality Management refers to the process of ensuring that a project meets the specific requirements or expectations of stakeholders. Quality management is important for any project, as it helps to ensure that the project objectives are met and that the final product or service meets the required quality standards. To achieve quality outcomes, project managers should plan, execute and control activities to control and measure the effectiveness and efficiency of project deliverables.

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What is Time Management? A Beginners Guide

Teamweek

Time management refers to planning, organizing, and controlling how you allocate your time to different tasks and activities. It involves identifying your priorities, setting goals, and using various strategies and techniques to use your time effectively. The primary objective of time management is to optimize productivity and efficiency. By managing your time effectively, you can ensure you accomplish important tasks, meet deadlines, and avoid procrastination.

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ABC Analysis, Pareto, and Strategic Project Management

The Strategic Project Manager

This post explores ABC Analysis – a framework and technique use in inventory analysis. It further explores where it applies to strategy and project management – and strategic project managers. What Is ABC Analysis? ABC analysis refers to the classification of inventory items into three classes, A, B. and C. Inventory items are classified based upon their importance or value.

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Think often, think critically

Musings on Project Management

Boom! Sometimes we react without conscious thinking. That's survival impulses kicking in.But there are not a lot of "booms!" in the PMO.Thus, there's time to think.And thinking is what occupies most of the time in the PMO domain.So, if thinking is what we do, then we should be thinking of the quality of our thoughts.

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Are These DevOps Obstacles Getting in the Way of Your Agile Transformation?

Leading Agile

As more and more companies scramble to untangle the code of their monolithic legacy software and get it into the cloud, strategic priorities are shifting. 10 years ago, it seemed that a little Scrum here and some coaching there would suffice. But as companies scale, as the market shifts and more parts of the business become software-focused, there’s been an increase in demand for an end-to-end solution to help large organizations build infrastructure around sound technical practices.

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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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Construction Cost Management: Managing Construction Costs

ProjectManager.com

Construction costs are one of many metrics that a general contractor has to keep an eye on. There are others, of course, such as the schedule, quality, safety and much more. But if the construction cost goes over budget, that’s coming out of the contractor’s pocket. That’s why construction cost management is so important. Knowing exactly what construction cost management means and what a construction cost is can be the difference between project success or failure.

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Vision To Value Using Outcomes

Scrum.org

In our daily lives, we pursue specific goals with numerous steps and milestones without even thinking about them. For instance, assembling an outfit or preparing a meal isn't the end goal but contributes to our desired outcome—looking good or satisfying hunger. Likewise, in product development, our roadmap should extend beyond individual features and enhancements, representing the desired outcomes.

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101 Beginners Guide to Adaptive Project Management

WorkOtter

Think about a gymnast performing a complex routine. Without the ability to adapt to every jump, flip, and balance, they’d crash in no time, right? The same principle applies to running a successful business. You need to be flexible, agile, and adaptable to every twist and turn in the market. That’s where adaptive project management comes in.

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Episode 180 –  Fuel Your Project with the Power of Dynamic Documentation

Velociteach

The podcast by project managers for project managers. Will your project’s documentation pass the test of time once the project is done and the people are gone? Documentation is at the intersection of information management, organizational design, and personal productivity. Accurate documentation makes teams more efficient and effective. Table of Contents 01:23 … Essential Project Documents 03:43 … Defining Information Management 04:34 … Adrienne’s Story 05:59 … Performing an Information Audit 09

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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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Construction Reporting: Types of Construction Reports

ProjectManager.com

All projects use reporting to monitor progress and performance, but in construction reporting is especially important. Construction reports are more varied and chart everything from project status to incidents and compliance. First, let’s define what construction reporting is and then explain why construction reports are so important. After that, we’ll list and detail a number of different types of construction reporting to give you a full picture.

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Die unbequeme Wahrheit der Skalierung agiler Praktiken ??

Scrum.org

TL; DR: Die Skalierung agiler Praktiken Agile Transformationen, bei denen die Skalierung agiler Praktiken von der Teamebene auf die gesamte Organisation im Vordergrund steht, erfordern mehr als die Implementierung von Frameworks wie SAFe®. Sie bedürfen eines radikalen Wechsels von einem starren Top-Down-Management hin zu flexiblen, menschenzentrierten Abläufen, die auf vereinfachten Strukturen, autonomen Teams und einer häufigen, nachhaltigen Wertschöpfung beruhen, anstatt schnellere und billig

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The Rise of DevOps: Enhancing Collaboration and Efficiency in Software Development

Productivity Land

In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, businesses are under increasing pressure to deliver software solutions quickly and efficiently. Traditional software development approaches often face challenges in terms of collaboration, communication, and efficiency. To address these issues, the concept of DevOps has gained significant traction.

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How to Use Bing, Bard, and ChatGPT for Project Management | Video

Online PM Courses

Everyone is talking about Bard, Bing, and ChatGPT. I asked Andy Kaufman whether they are toys or tools for day-to-day Project Management work. The post How to Use Bing, Bard, and ChatGPT for Project Management | Video 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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Construction Reporting: Types of Construction Reports

ProjectManager.com

All projects use reporting to monitor progress and performance, but in construction, reporting is especially important. Construction reports are more varied and chart everything from project status to incidents and compliance. First, let’s define what construction reporting is and then explain why construction reports are so important. After that, we’ll list and detail a number of different types of construction reports to give you a full picture.

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How the Sprint Retrospective supports Adaptation (26)

Scrum.org

Remember that Scrum is founded on empirical process control, and that adaptation is the third pillar, following transparency and inspection. During each of the Scrum Events, and throughout the Sprint itself, the Scrum Team and the stakeholders adapt what they deem necessary in order to minimise any deviations to acceptable limits which they have identified during inspection.

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How Can Marketing Studies Help You Make Your Own Business?

Productivity Land

Although the overwhelming majority of students are convinced that the degree they get in college cannot help them in their future careers, it is a completely irrelevant statement for marketing students. A degree in marketing will not only help to start a business but also develop it, attracting customers, finding partners, launching advertisement campaigns, and dealing with other aspects.

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Setting SMART goals as a project manager

Project Accelerator News

SMART goals are a really good way in which you can ensure that your project team have more impact on the business. SMART stands for Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time-sensitive. Here’s how you can set the best SMART goals as a project manager. Specific The first thing you need to do is ensure that your goal is specific. Make sure that people know what to do, why they will be doing it, where the accountability lies and any associated performance standards.

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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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What is Edge Effect Abundance and why are Projects Critical to their Proliferation?

Green Project Management

What is Edge Effect Abundance and how are projects related? During my recent camping trip in Michigan, I had the opportunity to experience the beauty of nature firsthand. However, I couldn’t ignore the hazardous air quality caused by the Canadian forest fires. This reminded me of the pressing need to transition to regenerative practices to […] The post What is Edge Effect Abundance and why are Projects Critical to their Proliferation?

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Facilitation-Mythen: Warum Scrum Master keine Facilitatoren sind

Scrum.org

Eine der größten Fehleinschätzungen lautet: Scrum Master sind Facilitatoren. Viele angehende Scrum Master schrecken davor zurück, ihre Facilitator-Position im Team zu verlassen. Sie glauben: Übernimmt ein Scrum Master die Facilitation, darf er nicht selbst an der Diskussion teilnehmen. Nur der Scrum Master ist verantwortlich für die Facilitation der Scrum Events.

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Some Of Most Helpful Apps for Students

Productivity Land

Modern students are so lucky to live in the days of the technological revolution. Today, young people can rely on multiple gadgets and applications to help them with studies, productivity, organization, inspiration, and more. However, it is hard to keep your head from spinning in the large pool of various apps. The key is in choosing the right tool for specific tasks.

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Top 10 Planview Alternatives 2023

Celoxis

When it comes to project management tools and visualising project plans, many organisations have traditionally relied on Planview as their go-to tool. However, as technology evolves and new options emerge, it is worth considering alternatives to Planview that offer enhanced features, improved collaboration, and increased productivity. This article explores a range of innovative plan view alternatives, highlighting their unique strengths and benefits.

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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.