MPUG

MARCH 29, 2020

“Time is the most precious resource there is — you have to protect it.” – Jesse Itzler. Most project managers are aware that time is our most precious resource, particularly as the clock of deadlines keeps ticking. However, time isn’t the only resource us project managers need to concern ourselves with. There’s the management of all types of resources, both tangible (such as equipment, materials, and finances), and intangible (people and, of course, time).

Software Review 105

Software Review Finance Estimate Energy 105

ProjectManager.com

MARCH 30, 2020

Information technology (IT) is a broad field that encompasses anything related to computer technology. That can include networking, hardware, software, the internet and the people that work with these things. Teams that work in IT are there to support these technologies and the people who use them. Unfortunately, the promise of technology often falls short of reality, and things malfunction.

Technical Review 261

Technical Review Infrastructure Software Review Information Technology 261

LiquidPlanner

MARCH 31, 2020

When I began my first real office job a week after graduating college, I was still young and figuring out who I was. That job eventually helped me learn a lot about myself, though not in the way I might have originally hoped. I was a brand-spanking-new adult awkwardly navigating a full-time job and the post-college world — and instead of providing a nurturing environment to help me grow, they fired me.

Innovation 144

Innovation Budget Executing Process 144

TeamGantt

APRIL 2, 2020

Staying in tune with coworkers is hard when everyone works remotely. These work-from-home tips can help you connect with your team across the social distance.

99

99

Advertisement

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.

Planning

ProjectManager.com

MARCH 31, 2020

As technology advanced, so did the workforce and how teams work. No longer were organizations tied to dipping into the local talent pool. With broadband, mobile devices and software solutions, teams could be recruited anywhere and work remotely. While this widened the net in terms of capturing skilled workers, it creates a whole new set of problems for managers.

Software Review 391

Software Review Technical Review Monitoring Development Team Review 391

Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 30, 2020

This article was written by the team at Finale Inventory. If you need to buy things for your project, you know that shipping takes time and money. And delivery costs are often ‘forgotten’ in project budgets. Thankfully, there’s a ton of methods that you can use to save on these costs. Take a look. 1. Invest in a Label Printer. Often on projects we have things that need to be shipped.

Finance 329

Finance Budget Planning 329

Scrum.org

MARCH 30, 2020

TL; DR: Mastering Zoom — Remote Agile (Part 3). In this third post of the Remote Agile series, we address the tool at the heart of working with a distributed team as a Scrum Master, Agile Coach, or Product Owner: Zoom. While Zoom is an excellent video conference application—particularly for larger groups of twelve or more attendees—by all standards, its killer feature is breakout rooms.

Agile 228

Agile SCRUM Process 228

ProjectManager.com

MARCH 31, 2020

Although the term “strategic initiative” might sound like inflated business jargon, it’s far from useless. A strategic initiative is a compass that guides businesses and targets future goals. It speaks to the PMI’s A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) , which says all projects must be strategically aligned with the organization’s business strategy.

Initiating 290

Initiating Monitoring Executing Software Review 290

Musings on Project Management

APRIL 3, 2020

If you only know one thing about Risk Management, know this: Schedule slack is your most powerful tool Poorly developed instincts and skills in the use of this most powerful tool are leading causes of poor risk management If you are a Systems person a strategic thinker; an integrator; a "it all has to work" person -- you'll translate schedule slack into to "loose coupling" Loose.

Risk Management 186

Risk Management Risk Engineering 186

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

Finance

LiquidPlanner

APRIL 2, 2020

When I joined LiquidPlanner as the Director of Marketing toward the end of 2019, I was pleased to find that our blog features many strong, independent, and talented female authors. In the tech industry, it can sometimes (or often) feel that, as a woman, you play second fiddle — that your opinion is valued , but not quite in the same way as the men at the table.

2019 140

2019 Leadership Innovation Executing 140

Scrum.org

APRIL 2, 2020

Watch the Replay of the Remote Agile Practices & Tools Live Virtual Class. At the end of March, we ran a Remote Agile Practices & Tools class with about 30 participants from all over Europe, the Eastern Seaboard, and Canada. The participants agreed on recording it and make it available to the agile community. We edited the recording slightly; for example, we removed the waiting time during the exercise timeboxes.

Agile 213

Agile Lean SCRUM Closing 213

Planio

APRIL 3, 2020

When you fail to plan, you’re planning to fail. As a project manager, you of all people know the truth of this old adage. Poor planning is at the root of most project failures. But while it’s easy to plan for positive outcomes (like milestones, OKRs , and success metrics), it’s not always easy to plan for the worst. Get your free template and create your own risk management plan.

Risk Management 120

Risk Management Risk Planning Technical Review 120

Epicflow Blog

MARCH 30, 2020

Every employer wants their teams to work as productively as possible to bring the best results to their company. But sometimes even good employees work not at their full and it can be easily noticed that their working efficiency has decreased. It can be due to the lack of motivation. Particularly, it can happen under the conditions of remote working, when employees are “isolated” from the team.

Underperforming Technical Team 116

Underperforming Technical Team Controlling Consulting Estimate 116

Advertisement

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.

Certification

LiquidPlanner

APRIL 3, 2020

When I was approached by our blog team to contribute an article for Women in Tech Week, I knew immediately what my contribution would be. I’ve worked very closely with one of our earliest employees and current VP of Product, Jen Morrisey, for the past five years, and I can’t think of a more inspirational and passionate leader. Jen has been a customer advocate and product fanatic over the past decade at LiquidPlanner.

Sustainability 129

Sustainability Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Leadership 129

Scrum.org

MARCH 31, 2020

Every Sprint starts with a Sprint Planning event. It is very crucial to ensure that the Scrum Team comes to a shared understanding of what and how are they going to deliver a “Done” increment that creates maximum business impact. Although, like other events Sprint Planning also is often marred with few dysfunctions. In this post I will bring forth 5 common dysfunctions that I have observed associated with this event.

Planning 207

Planning Estimate SCRUM 207

Growing Agile

MARCH 31, 2020

We are living in extraordinary times when the novelty of the COVID-19 virus causing disruptions to economies around the world. Many of us find ourselves in self-isolation, working remotely, buying food in panic and more. We are required to make decisions at work and home, but we often lack relevant or accurate information, and at times, we have to deal with too much data.

2020 116

2020 Agile Innovation 116

Inloox

APRIL 2, 2020

Every employee in your company carries knowledge and experience within them. But how can the company and all its employees benefit from that? What exactly is knowledge and why is the organized networking within the company so important? This new blog series will clarify important fundamental questions about knowledge management. It also shows how you can successfully integrate knowledge management and which methods are useful.

Consulting 132

Consulting Influencer Defining Process 132

Advertisement

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.

MPUG

MARCH 30, 2020

Learning to Walk Before You Start Running. PMI describes the Project Management Office (PMO) as a strategic driver for organizational excellence. The PMO seeks to enhance the practices of execution management, organizational governance, and strategic change leadership. Because of differences in organizational structures, power and politics, and culture, it would be extremely rare to ever find two PMOs that look the same.

PMO 111

PMO Technical Review Governance Government 111

Scrum.org

APRIL 1, 2020

A little over a month ago, life was fairly normal and Scrum.org was easing into the normal pattern of March - the rhythm of providing training, the development of new capabilities and products, and a lot of participation with forum and blog posts discussions. We were also planning our largest face 2 face trainer meeting in June and excited to welcome new team members and PSTs to the community.

Construction 172

Construction SCRUM Closing Agile 172

Teamweek

MARCH 30, 2020

Every office has its fair share of distractions and problems. There’s the person that can’t stop sending out the latest viral long read, the person that needs you to see every blurry picture of his kids, and the person who always leaves a half-eaten donut in the box in the kitchen. But when you work from home, you are that person, those kids are your kids, and the donut… well, at least you know that the bite left in it was your own.

Technical Review 98

Technical Review Software Review Engineering Monitoring 98

Henny Portman

APRIL 1, 2020

One of the principles of the Agile Manifesto is “ Simplicity—the art of maximizing the amount of work not done—is essential ”. Studies from the Standish Group and recorded in one of their Chaos reports shows that 60% of developed features are not or rarely used. If you only deliver the right features your customer will get the product much faster and cheaper.

Agile 85

Agile Prince2 Innovation Governance 85

Advertisement

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.

Budget

MPUG

APRIL 2, 2020

Microsoft Project, in its various releases (i.e., Online desktop, 2019, 2016, etc.), can become an accurate estimating tool for top-down (Analogous) and bottom-up (Parametric) estimating. This is accomplished by inserting custom columns and simple formulas. However, some tricks are necessary to get around user impediments. With accurate estimates, a Risk Reserve, an Estimating Uncertainty Buffer, and appropriate updating, a leveled schedule can provide a realistic and feasible current forecast o

Estimate 105

Estimate 2016 2019 Risk Management 105

Scrum.org

MARCH 31, 2020

The Current Situation. Many people around the globe are working from home right now, due to the Covid-19 pandemic. This happened all of a sudden and overnight. Despite the rapidness of the change, moving to remote worked surprisingly well for many teams, because they were used to some degree of remote work before. Especially development teams and technology firms in general have many years of experience with allowing their workforce to do their jobs from wherever and whenever they like.

Underperforming Technical Team 166

Underperforming Technical Team 2020 Technical Review 2016 166

Proofhub

MARCH 30, 2020

3 Flawless Tips & Tools for Team Leads to Manage Remote Workers The trend of remote work is growing rapidly with each upcoming year. The popularity of this trend has increased by 44% over the past five years, and by 91% over the past ten years. Companies continue to advocate in favor of remote work, as they see more of their workers showing the need for more time out of the office.

Underperforming Technical Team 78

Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Software Process 78

Leading Agile

APRIL 2, 2020

Listen to the SoundNotes Podcast on the go! Find and subscribe to SoundNotes on: Apple Podcasts. Google Play. Spotify. Soundcloud. RSS. In this episode of SoundNotes, Ross Beurmann joins Dave to talk about the difference between Leadership and Management. Although many confuse the two and believe they are the same, they are actually very different things—and this can become extremely apparent during the transition to an Agile approach.

Leadership 118

Leadership Software Review Agile 118

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.

Risk Management