Project Prioritization Process: 5 Strategies to Prioritize Your Projects
GoSkills
FEBRUARY 25, 2019
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8 Truths About Gantt Charts that Every PM Should Know
Project Management Hacks
FEBRUARY 26, 2019
Project management as a sphere is pacing rapidly. According to the Project Management Institute, by 2027 almost 90 million individuals will be in demand for new project management-oriented roles. It means that the global economy will become more project-oriented and even some traditionally not projects-oriented industries like healthcare or professional services will focus on project management roles too.
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Songs for when you are in a project management state of mind
Kiron Bondale
FEBRUARY 24, 2019
As a teenager who had an eclectic taste in music, one of my hobbies was attempting to create the perfect mix tape to fit the theme of different activities I would do such as studying, working out or just relaxing. So how about project management? To quote Barney Stinson: “Challenge accepted!” Can I Play With Madness (Iron Maiden): You know those projects where it seems no one has a clue about what we are trying to achieve?
7 Must-Haves for Every Product Manager Resume
ProjectManager.com
FEBRUARY 26, 2019
A product manager often wears many hats. For starters, a product manager is tasked with leading a cross-functional team that develops or improves a product, while dictating its strategy, roadmap and features. But that’s not all. They can also be involved with the marketing, forecasting, profit and losses of the product. Therefore, they must have a deep understanding of the market and target audience for the product in order to develop a successful plan.
Understand Digital Debt, Form a Team, Set Goals, and Plan Roadmap for Transformation
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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.
Giveaway! Essential Documents
Rebel’s Guide to PM
MARCH 1, 2019
Project management creates a lot of documents — let’s not pretend it doesn’t. However, you don’t need ALL the documents to do your projects. Pick and choose the templates that work best for your project. Finding the right templates can sometimes be overwhelming. If you’re searching online for project document templates, it’s hard to know if you are finding quality files or things that will be relevant to your projects.
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How to Become the Most Compelling Project Manager You Will Ever Know
Project Risk Coach
FEBRUARY 25, 2019
Every project is a story. Projects begin and end. Plots and subplots abound. Interesting characters interact and react, with good and evil motives. Are you a compelling project manager who commands the ship? 10 Attributes of a Compelling Project Manager Some project managers act in boring and predictable manners. Others capture and hold your attention.
The Importance of Customer Development for Startups
ProjectManager.com
FEBRUARY 27, 2019
Is customer development important? The short answer is yes, of course! No business can survive without a loyal customer base that uses its product or service. But customer development is more than just a customer base. It’s one of the three foundations of a lean startup: business model design, agile engineering and customer development. Customer development is the formal process of identifying potential customers and figuring out how to meet their needs.
From Technical To Exceptional Review [Training Course]
Rebel’s Guide to PM
FEBRUARY 25, 2019
The move from technical expert to leader is a big jump for many people. And the work you do as a subject matter expert is very different from how you manage a project or lead a team. Many people get promoted – or think they get promoted – because they’re technically very good in a role. That doesn’t have to mean IT skills. Any subject matter expert who is detailed, personable and demonstrably good at their job can jump up into a leadership role.
Improving your Definition of Done
Scrum.org
MARCH 1, 2019
The purpose of Scrum is to create a potentially releasable Done Product Increment, in order to realize business value. Many teams struggle in improving their Definition of Done. The technique described here allows for greater transparency on what the Definition of Done is, and what the next steps are. The intent is to provide a structure for the teams to reflect, and then build a plan on what to introduce to improve the quality of their Product Increment.
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
The Best Bug Tracking Tools To Identify, Track And Fix Issues Faster
The Digital Project Manager
FEBRUARY 27, 2019
Bug and issue trackers help you identify, track, and fix issues with your site—discover the best bug tracking tools and get expert criteria to choose the right one for your team. The post The Best Bug Tracking Tools To Identify, Track And Fix Issues Faster appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.
Essentials & New Ideas for an Effective Sprint Retrospective
ProjectManager.com
FEBRUARY 28, 2019
Retrospection is key to understanding and self-awareness. At work, and in life, it’s important to take time to reflect and evaluate our progress , so we can better understand our motivations, our goals and our environment. Scrum, an agile framework for small teams, especially harnesses the benefits of retrospection. Scrum works under the assumption that customers regularly change their minds about what they want or need.
It's a bell shape, unless it's not
Musings on Project Management
FEBRUARY 24, 2019
Jurgen Appelo is, by his own description, "a Dutch guy" who is somewhat of a humorist, an illustrator, and a proponent of Agile. He also writes a lot about complexity, and the effects of complexity on systems and projects.
Creative Ways to Keep Your Remote Team Engaged and Motivated
LiquidPlanner
FEBRUARY 28, 2019
Remote working has become the norm in the modern world of work, with digital technology enabling members of teams in different locations and different time zones to work together on the same project. With that comes the modern-day challenge of keeping remote team members motivated and engaged, especially when in all likelihood they have never met in person.
20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers
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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.
When Done is Too Hard
Scrum.org
FEBRUARY 24, 2019
"The Development Team consists of professionals who do the work of delivering a potentially releasable Increment of "Done" product at the end of each Sprint." - The Scrum Guide. The Scrum Guide is markedly ambitious in the standard of professionalism it demands of a team. Development Team members must be self-organizing and cross-functional, to the point that they will repeatedly and sustainably create a valuable product increment -- fit for immediate release -- in no more than one calendar mont
Process Optimization in Project Management (3): Lean Project Management
Inloox
FEBRUARY 26, 2019
In the last blog post on process optimization in project management we introduced you to the 5-S framework, which is also very popular in Lean Management. Therefore, we will now deepen the topic Lean Project Management. Working Efficiently with Lean Project Management Getting project costs under control and optimizing communication with the customer: this is where Lean Project Management comes in.
Roadmapping and Budgeting with Rapid Estimation
Leading Agile
FEBRUARY 25, 2019
Organizations tend to do strategy top down and they tend to do that uninformed about organizational capacity and dependencies. A primary cause of an organization’s lack of predictability, lack of quality, all the problems they have, is the inability to balance capacity and demand. Another is the inability to identify and manage dependencies. The portfolio team has to be able to participate in this discussion: What is the capacity of my system?
Volunteering: Giving Back That Feels Like Taking
Leading Answers
MARCH 1, 2019
Volunteering with PMI has many benefits. Not only does it feel good to be giving back to the profession that supports us, but whenever I do it, I learn something new and build useful connections with fellow project practitioners. Add to this the fact you also earn PDUs makes the whole process a win, win, win. Project management can feel a solitary activity sometimes.
The Big Payoff of Application Analytics
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The best order to get all Scrum.org certifications
Scrum.org
FEBRUARY 26, 2019
Questions about agile certifications (especially those from Scrum.org) are an integral part of my routine. People always come to me saying that they are going to act as a Scrum Master / Product Owner / Developer on an agile project and they want to know what to study and what`s the best first certification. At the same time, other people also talk to me saying that they already have the [ insert one or two Scrum.org certification here ] certification and ask which next certification I could reco
Objectives and Key Results: How to Set and Manage Goals with OKR
Inloox
MARCH 1, 2019
OKR – A Goal Setting Framework OKR stands for "Objectives and Key Results" It is a management method that is currently becoming increasingly popular with large companies such as Google, Twitter and Zalando. The approach is not only interesting for large and fast growing companies: Simple rules and high flexibility make OKRs an efficient tool to transfer company goals to teams and employees, to keep track of progress and to make objectives measurable.
The 5 Best Resource Management Software of 2019
nTask
FEBRUARY 26, 2019
In today’s world, the perpetual pressure of delivering more in less time is real. Squeezing in the crazy amounts of work within limited budget and time can seem like a pain. What’s even more daunting is that a lot of companies suffer from the dilemma of not understanding the art of resource management. As a result, negative consequences are born which affect the overall project performance.
The Top Five Skills for Project Leaders
Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives
FEBRUARY 28, 2019
Business leaders and corporate executives need to find the optimal way to achieve growth while at the same time, manage the risks. But when deciding which initiatives to pursue and how to allocate limited resources among them, organisations often don’t choose well. All business initiatives are achieved through projects, so assessing and ranking these projects in order of importance to the business strategy give organisations the confidence to embrace risk.
Acclaim Projects Helps Deliver Innovation Projects on Time and on Budget
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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.
Break Down Silos! Enhance User-Centricity with UX on Scrum Teams
Scrum.org
FEBRUARY 26, 2019
I often see User Experience (UX) Designers struggle to align focus, work, and approach with Scrum Teams building increments of product in iterations of 30 days or fewer. Common concerns and questions I hear include: "Developers aren't really interested in the user, they just want to build.". "I'm trying to work side-by-side with the team, but I'm always a bit ahead of them, so what should we talk about in our Daily Scrum?".
Objectives and Key Results: How to Set and Manage Goals with OKR
Inloox
MARCH 1, 2019
OKR – A Goal Setting Framework OKR stands for "Objectives and Key Results" It is a management method that is currently becoming increasingly popular with large companies such as Google, Twitter and Zalando. The approach is not only interesting for large and fast growing companies: Simple rules and high flexibility make OKRs an efficient tool to transfer company goals to teams and employees, to keep track of progress and to make objectives measurable.
Product-Driven Organizations:The Evolution of Agile
Leading Agile
FEBRUARY 26, 2019
The Evolution of Agile. Agile has been great. Revolutionary, even. Organizations are producing software faster, creating more cross-functional and collaborative teams than ever before. However, a lot of Agilists are experiencing diminishing returns on their investment to go Agile. Why is that? The reality is that you’ve likely tapped the potential of your Agile practices and you’ve reaped all the benefits of the Agile culture that you’ve instilled already.
What is a Gantt Chart? | Video
Online PM Courses
FEBRUARY 27, 2019
The Gantt Chart is pretty much the poster-child for Project Management. When most people think of project management, it’s a Gantt Chart they see in their mind’s eye. So, what is a Gantt Chart? …and who invented it? Dr Mike Clayton is founder of OnlinePMCourses.com. Here, he answers this question, in under 5 minutes. This video is […].
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.
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