Rebel’s Guide to PM
MAY 7, 2020
Change management is so important for making sure that the change you deliver is embedded in the organisation. In other words, if you want people to use what you create — or to shift their ways of working to the new standards and processes you implement — then you have to help them through the transition. Here’s my list of top change management books for leaders.
ProjectManager.com
MAY 6, 2020
Collaboration is more important than ever as more people are working from home and teams are distributed across the globe. Getting people to work together in a room is hard enough, but when they’re miles or even a time zone away it can feel close to impossible. Collaboration software is the grease that turns the collaboration wheel. It helps teams work better together.
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Kiron Bondale
MAY 3, 2020
Remote teaming is not a new concept but physical distancing restrictions have forced many project managers who had never previously worked with teams of dispersed team members to quickly adapt. While this transition might create a few hiccups with a well established team it will much more challenging when we are working with teams whose members have never worked together.
Scrum.org
MAY 5, 2020
In my last post I used the metaphor of a rowing team to describe the potential implications of having more than one Product Owner per product. In this post, I’d like to use a similar metaphor to show what might happen if a Development Team member works on more than one team at a time. It’s one of the most asked questions in every Scrum training. .
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Inloox
MAY 6, 2020
Due to the current situation, many project teams have to work from home. In order to enable a structured workflow and to keep track of who has to do what and which tasks still have to be done, there is a simple method: the Daily Standup. The short meeting originally comes from the agile projectmanagement method Scrum. In agile, the Daily Scrum is a central event where the team meets every day to agree on upcoming tasks.
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Proofhub
MAY 5, 2020
A list of communication tools in the workplace that you can use to bring remote teams together and solve the major challenges faced while working remotely. Internal Communication is one of the most important, yet highly ignored aspects of modern workplaces. In one of the surveys published by Queens University , it was concluded that 3 in 4 employers rate collaboration as very important.
Scrum.org
MAY 5, 2020
Being an effective and successful Scrum Master requires a wide variety of skills, knowledge, and experience. This variety is captured in the stances of a Scrum Master. The Scrum Master is expected to act as a teacher, impediment remover, facilitator, coach, mentor, and change agent. The Scrum Master does so by acting on 3 levels: Scrum Team, building relationships with others, and supporting the entire organization.
Planview
MAY 4, 2020
Does your PMO provide the project visibility and insights required to help the organization deliver on strategy? For some PMOs, project visibility is limited to just project status. This two-part blog series outlines how to design our own set of reports, analytics, dashboards, and KPIs to elevate visibility and provide the strategic insights your multiple stakeholders need to make critical decisions.
ProProfs Project Management
MAY 8, 2020
Project management doesn’t seem important when you evaluate it on paper, but it has a directly proportional relationship with business growth. . It’s no brainer that when you manage in-house or clients’ projects appropriately, you enjoy amazing brand equity and economic benefits. That’s why MNCs strive to leave no loose ends while managing projects. .
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 7, 2020
There are plenty of guides online on how to become a freelancer, but not as many on how to hire a freelancer. The internet is a vast place and finding the right person to do a job for you can be quite challenging. Here are some of my top tips on how to hire a freelancer, coming from someone who has both worked as a freelancer and hired freelancers before.
Scrum.org
MAY 4, 2020
TL; DR: A Remote Daily Scrum with a Distributed Team. We started this series on remote agile with looking into practices and tools; we explored virtual Liberating Structures, and how to master Zoom. We had a look at common remote agile anti-patterns; we analyzed remote Retrospectives, Sprint Plannings as well as remote Sprint Reviews based on Liberating Structures.
Gunther Verheyen
MAY 7, 2020
My new book “97 Things Every Scrum Practitioner Should Know” is now available. In a Zoom Webinar I have read following Things from the book: article 4. Ken Schwaber – Scrum is simple. Just use it as is. article 28. James O. Coplien – Specialization is for insects. article 30. Bas Vodde – Digital tools considered harmful: Jira. article 33.
ProProfs Project Management
MAY 6, 2020
Project time management refers to skills, tools, and techniques, which businesses use to manage time while working on project activities. ‘Time’ and ‘Deliverables’ are the two major factors that you need to take care of during the project life cycle. It is so because clients evaluate success or failure by considering the timeframe in which you have rendered project deliverables.
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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.
Proofhub
MAY 6, 2020
It’s a crazy time to be alive! Nations are getting hit badly economically and major industrial cities are under total lockdown to curb the spread of COVID-19. Data even shows a universal decline in responses to sales teams outreach due to the pandemic. Source But it isn’t all gloom and doom as most businesses have tried to keep their brand afloat by embracing remote work.
Scrum.org
MAY 4, 2020
This blog is part of a series of peek previews from my upcoming book Coaching Agile Organisations. In the first part of this blog series , I explained how to identify the organizational elements to include in your product definition. In this blog, I explain how you can refine your product definition to organize into effective cross-functional teams.
Leading Answers
MAY 4, 2020
Do you need relevant, high-quality articles for your corporate website? Are you looking for an expert in leadership, agile, or project management? Maybe you require some training materials, exam preparation support, or remote coaching? I am available for remote work. If you like the ideas on this site or in my books, please get in touch, I would love to discuss opportunities to work together.
MPUG
MAY 3, 2020
Choosing a software system for an organization is something that businesses need to pay special attention to. Such systems do not pick themselves, and when it comes to finding one that is right for your specific company needs, you might encounter conflicting opinions on the matter. Ultimately, you need a capable project manager to evaluate various views and requirements and then identify the right system for your organization.
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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 6, 2020
With the continuing rise of Agile Project Management, a term Project Managers are hearing more often is Design Thinking. So, What is Design Thinking? The post What is Design Thinking? Human-centered Problem-solving | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.
Scrum.org
MAY 3, 2020
Covid-19: Knock! Knock! Hiren : Who’s there? Covid-19: Covid. Hiren: Covid who? . Covid-19: It’s me, the Corona Virus of 2019. These Homo sapiens have nicknamed me as Covid-19. I like it. Hiren, you can call me Covid. How are you? Hiren: Oh boy…COVID!! Err. I am doing well, but what do you want from me? Are you here to get me? Covid-19: Oh no. I am just here for a general chitchat with you.
Epicflow Blog
MAY 7, 2020
Construction is one of the industries that don’t follow emerging innovative trends too quickly and enthusiastically but anyway it doesn’t ignore many of them to improve its state. At the same time, this field is sensitive to all global changes taking place in the world, which forces it to adopt many of the trends. So, let’s take a look at the challenges and trends construction is facing this year, and check out if it’s ready for them.
Appfluence
MAY 2, 2020
Working from Home at Appfluence, Part Two. TL;DR: Many Appfluence staff members work from home for most of the year. Over time, we have developed a playbook to make this a successful experience. If your organization is starting to work from home on a regular basis, this guide might be useful. In this first part of a three-part series, we discuss the processes that make remote work successful at our company.
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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.
MPUG
MAY 4, 2020
MS Excel is a generic tool that can be used in many situations. In terms of project management, it is an average tool for preparing project schedules, at best. It is generally believed that MS Project is a much better solution than Excel could ever be for project scheduling. This is because Excel has some inherent disadvantages for creating and maintaining project schedules.
Scrum.org
MAY 2, 2020
Good Scrum Masters are passionate. Great Scrum Masters are dispassionate. I have learned that there is a good correlation between the Four Stages of Learning and the stages of Scrum Mastery. In this Whitepaper, I have tried to demonstrate how some of the behaviors of the Scrum Master block their shift to servant-leadership. In doing so, I have described the need for recognizing what stage we are in.
Growing Agile
MAY 6, 2020
Agile Alliance and Retrium are holding a series of webinars titled Suddenly Distributed. This was the first one I joined, and I highly recommend watching it. A recap and recording of this webinar can be found here: [link]. Agile retrospective experts David Horowitz , Diana Larsen , Esther Derby , Molood Ceccarelli , Paul Tevis , Jay-Allen Morris , and Kirsten Clacey gathered to share their insights on how to achieve effective retrospectives amidst a sudden shift to remote work during the COVID-
Agilemania
MAY 5, 2020
With many an organization now preferring Professional Scrum Master (PSM) and Professional Product Owner (PSPO) from scrum.org over other similar certifications, there has been a surge in enquiries around these certifications. Unlike most of the other certification bodies taking training from scrum.org is not mandatory to get yourself certified. If you already have enough experience and are looking to evaluate… The post How to clear PSM and PSPO Assessment Without Attending a Scrum.org Trai
Speaker: Ketan Jahagirdar - Sopheon’s Director of Product Management
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