MPUG

JANUARY 27, 2020

I remember the day clearly: I slipped into the office 15 minutes late thanks to a transit delay, feeling slightly frazzled. As I sat down at my work station, I noticed that the office — despite most of my colleagues being there — was so quiet you could hear a pin drop. In my absence, I’d missed one of our team members “blowing up,” apparently shouting at the project manager about some frustrations he had with the project.

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Trello

JANUARY 29, 2020

Is your first thought when your alarm goes off each morning — “Oh no, not again?”.

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Project Management Essentials

JANUARY 29, 2020

Disciplined Agile (DA) has the potential to become a leading agile framework because it creates harmony in this congested thought-space. DA recognizes practices from across the spectrum and offers a pragmatic and context-driven approach to agility. Currently, DA is not widely used. In the State of Agile Report, it does not make the list of top methodologies.

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Planio

JANUARY 29, 2020

Not every project goes as planned. And while it’s great to celebrate your wins, the best teams (and project managers!) know it’s just as important to dig into your failures and capture lessons learned. Unfortunately, when a project fails, the last thing most people want to do is dig into why it did. Failure sucks. But whether it’s pride or future deadlines that cause you to turn a blind eye, ignoring failed projects as a source of future knowledge is a huge mistake.

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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.

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Workzone

JANUARY 29, 2020

You have a way that you’re doing your projects, and then you have the way that you should be doing your projects. Those are the project management best practices. As your team scales and grows, you’ll want to have the right tech stack in place to help you navigate that rapid growth phase. You’ll save yourself more time and hours when you’ve optimized your tools to work for you and not against you.

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GoSkills

JANUARY 28, 2020

There is no scarcity of resources for someone who wants to learn on a busy schedule. Here are 15 of the best project management podcasts that you can listen to on the go.

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Susanne Madsen

JANUARY 28, 2020

Provide your team with the best conditions for growth In order to provide your team with the best conditions for growth and enable them to generate optimal results on the project, you must do two things; First you must demand a great outcome, and second, you must enable your team to generate that outcome. You have to ask challenging questions, set high standards and expect the best quality on the one hand, and on the other you have to provide the team with all the support it needs to deliver.

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Project Bliss

JANUARY 30, 2020

What Is Design Thinking? Design Thinking is a human centered approach to innovative problem-solving. Design Thinking seems to be a hot buzzword these days. You’ve likely heard it mentioned in meetings or hallway talk around the office. And you may be thinking that it’s something best left to engineers or the R&D team. But Design Thinking is a valuable problem-solving and design approach that can be used by many different teams.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 28, 2020

A project never exists in a vacuum. A project is executed by a team within an organization that has some sort of a project management framework established to enable the process. This framework, whether deliberately designed or not, acts as a loose guide for how the project should function for teams across multiple channels. This framework should be designed to suit the needs of your projects, your goals and your team.

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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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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 27, 2020

The project management job descriptions you see in profiles on LinkedIn might not represent exactly what you would do in the role. That’s because project managers do so many different things! In this article, we’ll look at the things that make up a typical project management job description, and then look at some specialist industries plus the role of a junior project manager.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 26, 2020

This is quite a long read which you can download as the whitepaper "Systems Thinking in Organizational Coaching". Without changing our patterns of thought, we will not be able to solve the problems we created with our current patterns of thought. —Albert Einstein. Introduction. How many times have you “improved” something in your organization, but the improvements didn’t last long?

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Kiron Bondale

JANUARY 26, 2020

The link between transparency and trust is well known. You are more likely to trust the quality of the food you are served when eating at a restaurant with an open concept kitchen than if the food preparation is done entirely out of sight. Transparency is a pillar of the Scrum framework and while it is not explicitly spelled out by other frameworks or in the Manifesto for Agile Software Development, it is indirectly referenced.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 27, 2020

A scrum board is a critical tool for successfully practicing its namesake, the agile framework, scrum. If you’re unfamiliar, scrum is useful for teams that work on complex, adaptive problems. It gives them the tools they need to stay productive and creative while developing deliverables of high quality. While simple in its framework, it is highly effective for collaborative teams that are creating complicated products.

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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.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 28, 2020

A Gantt chart-based online PM software with a first-of-its-kind AI Recommendation Engine and complete Google integration. This is a guest article by Susan Kuruvilla at Gantter. Gantter is a Gantt chart-based Critical Path Method (CPM) project management tool in the Google Chrome web store. Gantter was designed to give Google users the most natural Google Drive Editor-like experience for their online project management.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 27, 2020

Sprint Planning is a core event, defining how your customers’ lives will improve with the next Product Increment. Learn more on how to improve its effectiveness by avoiding 20 common Sprint Planning anti-patterns. Diagram source: Scrum.org. Do you want to get this article in your inbox? You can sign up here and join 24k other subscribers. The Purpose of the Sprint Planning.

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The Digital Project Manager

JANUARY 29, 2020

What is Kanbanize? Read on to discover how Kanbanize works—what problems it can help you. The post What Is Kanbanize? Detailed Kanbanize Overview & Explanation Of Kanbanize Features appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 29, 2020

Wrike is a cloud-based project management software that project managers and team leaders turn to for help with their projects. With a suite of online tools, Wrike can help you begin to bring order to a project and its tasks, but it can only take you so far. Wrike allows you to manage tasks, but it fails to follow through on its promise of a fully-fledged project management solution, forcing some to find a Wrike alternative.

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International Institute for Learning

JANUARY 30, 2020

By Harold Kerzner, Ph.D. | Senior Executive Director, International Institute for Learning (IIL). We are excited to bring you this blog post on Innovation Project Management, which is adapted from Dr. Harold Kerzner’s new book of the same title. Below, he explains why this topic is so important, the types of challenges that innovation project managers face, and much more.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 26, 2020

Before and during the Sprint, effort needs to be put into coordination to ensure the Scrum teams deliver a working integrated product. This situation can be improved with Multi-team Product Backlog Refinement sessions. This practice increases flexibility and speed in product development. Use this article as a cookbook to get familiar with this practice yourself.

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Proofhub

JANUARY 28, 2020

Workflow Apps You Must Know About to Increase Team Efficiency Are your clients nagging you for status reports now and then? Are they dubious if you are even working on their project or not? Is lack of transparency straining your business relations? Or Is your team losing efficiency due to email chaos? Are you finding it too difficult to keep all the ends together in a project?

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ProProfs Project Management

JANUARY 29, 2020

“In-house development or freelancers?”. “Multitasking or one task per developer?”. “How to tackle the lag at the time of project delivery?”. When trying to implement projects efficiently, these are a few questions (among many!) that crop in a manager’s mind regarding time management. . For many developers and managers out there, project delivery is always rushed irrespective of the number of hours spent in the project planning process.

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MPUG

JANUARY 27, 2020

The preparation for the new Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®) Guide, 7 th edition is currently underway, and the Project Management Institute (PMI®) has made the draft for the standard part publicly available for comments. Yes, you can suggest your changes since January 15, 2020. The standard part of the guide makes a paradigm shift from a process-based approach to a principle-based approach.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 27, 2020

Originally posted on www.debooij.training. Many teams and organizations struggle to get the most out of Scrum. In my previous post “Don’t blame “agile” for existing problems” I shared my analysis why agile or Scrum itself often gets the blame. In this first post out of three I will focus on what the most common mistakes are with Scrum that lead to dysfunctional Scrum.

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Proofhub

JANUARY 28, 2020

Workflow Apps You Must Know About to Increase Team Efficiency Are your clients nagging you for status reports now and then? Are they dubious if you are even working on their project or not? Is lack of transparency straining your business relations? Or Is your team losing efficiency due to email chaos? Are you finding it too difficult to keep all the ends together in a project?

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Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

JANUARY 30, 2020

The project management profession is in a state of dramatic change. The percentage of projects using agile or hybrid practices exceeds the number of traditional projects , according to the Project Management Institute. Agile is moving beyond technology and is now widely used in financial services, government, and professional services companies. Agile is a dominant practice for companies going through digital transformations and accelerating customer experience through UX (user experience) desig

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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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