nTask
APRIL 28, 2021
There’s a famous Mark Twain saying that goes something like this: “Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.”. This is an incredible quote that tells you the importance of performing your most important duties at the very start of your day. This will result in freeing you up for all of the menial tasks that can be performed in a jiffy.
Project Risk Coach
APRIL 26, 2021
Think about it for a minute – what have you done in the last six months to improve your cost management? How many of your projects came in over budget? Let's look at some practical ways to actually improve your cost management. Consider John, a savvy project manager, who was asked to manage a project aimed at replacing a dated network system. The project sponsor told him that he had $100,000 for the project.
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The Digital Project Manager
APRIL 28, 2021
The post Bad Meetings Can Kill A Good Project: A Survivor’s Guide appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.
ProjectManager.com
APRIL 27, 2021
Budgets are a foundational pillar of any successful construction project. You need money to buy materials, create blue prints, secure permits, rent equipment, pay for your crew and more. Your construction budget allows you to achieve your objectives. How can you make sure that the money you ask for at the beginning of the project will be enough to see you through the end?
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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.
Scrum.org
APRIL 30, 2021
Scrum Teams do it all the time. It happens in Sprint Review, after Daily Scrum, in Sprint Planning, and as part of development. They discuss the upcoming work to gain a shared understanding. This discussion includes: clarifying the deliverables resulting from the work . breaking down the work so that the individual pieces still provide value when completed. ordering the work in the Product Backlog so that the goals of the Scrum Team and the organization are best achieved. adding new work to the
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nTask
APRIL 28, 2021
A study by BCG/MIT finds that 90% of executives deem sustainability to be important, yet only 60% of companies incorporate sustainability as part of their business strategy, and even less (25%) integrate sustainability into the core of their business model. To generate a clear business case, organizations need to write business operations with sustainability in mind, which can be done by the following two steps: Document their business processes.
ProjectManager.com
APRIL 29, 2021
Projects, whether they’re large or small, are journeys. They begin with planning and initiation and ideally end with the achievement of deliverables. But, this doesn’t necessarily mean the starting point and finish line are the only points that matter. In fact, if we only focus on getting from point A to point B, we can lose momentum along the way. Setting project milestones prevents this.
Scrum.org
APRIL 26, 2021
TL; DR: Data-Informed Retrospectives. In their book Agile Retrospectives , Esther Derby and Diana Larsen popularized the idea that a Sprint Retrospect comprises five stages. The second stage refers to gathering data so that the Scrum Team can have data-informed Retrospectives. As I have observed in practice, many Scrum Teams either limit the data gathering part of the Retrospective, thus lacking vital information.
Leading Agile
APRIL 27, 2021
I always felt that a big part of the enjoyment of work is the people I get to work with. The day-to-day fellowship, water cooler conversations, lunches out, and drinks after work may seem small at the time, but those organic side chats with coworkers offer insight into one another’s lives and create connections that often become strong friendships—friends that understand a huge part of your world because they live it with you.
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
MPUG
APRIL 26, 2021
Let’s consider the following scenario based true events which occurred within an organization I worked closely with recently. This company had a long-running project with a number of uncertainties. Risks were identified, then qualified, and risk responses planned. For implementation of these risk responses, a number of actions were needed. Some were taken, but most ignored or overlooked because of other projects and lack of understanding of risk management at an organizational level.
ProjectManager.com
APRIL 30, 2021
Throughout the life of a project, you must report on a wide variety of information. This information will be compiled into different reports and passed along to managers, investors, clients and other stakeholders. From there, reports can be used to make project decisions and adjustments. Using project report templates, like a weekly status report template, ensure these reports are created quickly and effectively.
Scrum.org
APRIL 30, 2021
Are you interested in becoming a Scrum Master, but you are yet to have any experience? People frequently ask me – if I don’t secure a job, how will I gain experience? In the last seven years, I have assisted several interested and enthusiastic professionals to become Scrum Masters. In fact, in my first job, at Hewlett Packard, I was a Software Engineer.
Leading Agile
APRIL 26, 2021
Last month was Women’s History Month—a reminder to focus our attention on the many achievements women have made over the course of American history. My three-year-old granddaughter has a number of favorite books that she likes me to read to her. One is a story about Helen Keller. Most of us know the chronicle of Helen Keller’s life or at least we are familiar with the impact she made advocating for the blind as well as her many other humanitarian efforts.
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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.
Teamweek
APRIL 29, 2021
Do Monday mornings feel overwhelming with zero passion for starting work? Planning can help you beat the motivation blues. In this article, learn how to plan your week and get work done. . Here’s what you’ll learn: How to plan your week in 3 steps Make a task list Prioritize tasks Create a schedule How to get your weekly plan done How to plan your week using Toggl Plan.
ProjectManager.com
APRIL 28, 2021
In order to understand cost control, you must first understand why it is used: monitoring expenses and identifying risks in order to increase profits. Not to be confused with cost management, cost control has its own set of objectives that can save businesses money. Track your projects costs in real-time and avoid cost overruns with ProjectManager.com’s dashboards.
Scrum.org
APRIL 28, 2021
Scrum vs. Kata? Many readers of this blog are either very familiar with Scrum and want to deepen their knowledge. Others are warming up to this topic for a variety of reasons. During my Scrum trainings, I often get questions about the maximum team size and the motivation behind that. Although Scrum is purely recommending (not prescribing) a maximum Scrum team size, the number 10 is anchored in the scrum guide.
The Digital Project Manager
APRIL 29, 2021
The post What Is noCRM.io? Overview & Tour Of Features appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.
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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.
Ganttic
APRIL 25, 2021
It’s one thing to improve your own productivity. You can discipline yourself to wake up earlier in the morning, stay off of social media sites during the workday, use productivity apps, or implement any number of other tips to work more efficiently. When it comes to boosting the productivity of the team you lead, things are a bit different. Now you are dealing with multiple people and their accompanying work styles, motivations, habits (good and bad), and skills.
Leading Agile
APRIL 29, 2021
Back in the Summer of 2018, I spoke at the Agile2018 Conference under the topic of “Addressing Your CFO’s Concerns to an Enterprise-Wide Agile Transformation.” In that discussion, I covered a range of topics – Building a Business Case and the Key Financial Metrics that should be provided in your Business Case, Understanding your Company’s Software Development Costs, the Importance of Benchmarking, Importance of keeping your Asset Management current, and Capitalizing and Amortizing Software Costs
Scrum.org
APRIL 28, 2021
TL; DR: The Sprint Acceptance Gate. There are plenty of failure possibilities with Scrum. Given that Scrum is a framework with a reasonable yet short “manual,” this effect should not surprise anyone. Turning the Sprint Review into a Sprint acceptance gate where stakeholders sign off features is unfortunately prominent and defies the idea of self-management.
Online PM Courses
APRIL 25, 2021
In its 2021 Pulse of the Profession report, Beyond Agility, PMI describes 'Gymnastic Enterprises'. They can change most successfully. The post Beyond Agility: Gymnastic Enterprises Dominate the 2021 PMI Pulse of the Profession appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.
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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.
ProProfs Project Management
APRIL 30, 2021
Spent way too much time on some tasks you thought would be quick to do? You are not alone and this happens to most of us. It is mainly because of the lack of a structured approach. Workflow management is not easy at all and that is why the market of workflow management software is seeing rapid growth. Having the right software enables you and your team to streamline the work process and speed up the regular routine for optimal results.
Epicflow Blog
APRIL 26, 2021
Imagine that you ask your team members to slow down instead of work faster. Sounds strange, doesn’t it? In the dynamic multi-project environment, it seems that the more productive you are and the faster you deliver, the better. However, statistics shows that the majority of employees have experienced burnout at work at least once. Such reality poses one more challenge for project managers: how to deliver a project successfully and prevent the team from overload at the same time. .
Scrum.org
APRIL 29, 2021
On today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: How Does a Scrum Team Handle Carryover Work? Today's question is all about carryover work. You know, the work that didn't quite get to DONE by the end of the Sprint. Listen in as Ryan and Todd talk about how a Product Owner can best handle carryover work to uphold empiricism and ensure that only valuable things are being worked on.
Online PM Courses
APRIL 28, 2021
The game has changed with Project Management software. Tools like Favro are excellent for project collaboration & hybrid project management. The post Favro Hybrid Project Management Software: The Game Has Changed | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.
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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