ProjectManager.com
MARCH 23, 2020
Collaboration is a call to action that is sounded by many in business. Managers and upper-echelon executives sing its praises. They ask teams to work more collaboratively in order to boost productivity. The irony is that these same people often neglect collaboration within their own circles. If only there was a way to foster collaboration not just at a team level, but at an enterprise level.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
MARCH 25, 2020
We’re living in extraordinary times, and many people will be working from home for the first time. Trust me, working from home is great. But it is a shift in mentality. And we’re all in this together. I decided it would be OK to share some free and paid resources that you might find useful to help you keep your projects and teams moving forward, wherever you find yourself based over the coming weeks.
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Workamajig
MARCH 25, 2020
Virtual team building activities can help you build more collaborative teams. Try these 10 remote team building activities as a start. Remote work is the future of work. You might have arrived at this conclusion by your own volition. Or you might have reached it because of current circumstances. But in a time of global uncertainty and widespread travel restrictions, it’s clear that remote work is the only lifeline that can keep your business afloat.
Proofhub
MARCH 25, 2020
So coronavirus is a killer, am I right? Well, not in the literal sense but more like in a buzz-kill sense. Sending waves through the entire world, this pandemic has been making headlines for months now. However, the most noticeable change is how this outbreak of coronavirus is promoting remote-work in this period of self-quarantine. This is a lesser-known fact that remote-work has its own perks.
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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.
ProjectManager.com
MARCH 24, 2020
You’ve got a project to do. But who is going to execute that plan and turn the abstract into the practical? Your project team: the most valuable resource for your project. If you’ve been tasked with a project and think you can do it on your own, then you’re in for problems. No matter the size of the project, there are schedules and resources to manage, which is a full-time job.
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Scrum.org
MARCH 22, 2020
Completing an Agile Coaching certification doesn’t make you an Agile Coach. So where do you start and how do you chart your own journey? I thought about my own journey and interviewed a number of successful active coaches. The following is a brief guide drawn from our collective experience. Just to be clear, this bare-bones guide isn’t the only way of becoming an effective Agile coach but does contain enough to give you a solid foundation so you can be useful, effective and deliver a ton of valu
Project Bliss
MARCH 25, 2020
Virtual teams need to put forth extra effort for effective collaboration. This list helps you cover all your bases. When you’re working with teammates on a project, you’ve likely got common understanding about how you’ll work together. Group collaboration can produce wonderful solutions to challenges and problem. But for the most effective collaboration, your team needs to follow certain behaviors and guidelines.
Musings on Project Management
MARCH 25, 2020
Did you see this witicism at herdingcats? A skeptic will question claims, then embrace the evidence. A denier will question claims, then reject the evidence. - Neil deGrase Tyson. Think of this whenever there is a conjecture that has no testable evidence of the claim. And think ever more when those making the conjectured claim refuse to provide evidence.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
MARCH 25, 2020
This interview was first published in 2014. I am not fit. Since having my two boys I am heavier than I have ever been, except while pregnant. My only exercise is balancing in small spaces while standing on the train to work. I fuel getting up for the night feeds with cereal bars and chocolate croissants. Luckily, my projects are healthier than I am.
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
Scrum.org
MARCH 22, 2020
A couple of weeks ago we were happily following our daily routines. We grabbed our coffee mugs, slowly walked over to our teams and chatted with them. If there was a problem, people approached us (or we approached them), we hopped into a meeting room and solved the issue. We knew what our teams were doing. For lunch, we grabbed our colleagues and our biggest problem was if we wanted to go for Asian or Italian food.
The Digital Project Manager
MARCH 21, 2020
The post An Honest ReQtest Review Of Features, Use Cases, Pros & Cons appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.
Online PM Courses
MARCH 25, 2020
Risk Management is one of the core skills of project management. And your Risk Register - or Risk Log - is the primary tool you'll use. The post What to Put in Your Risk Register (Risk Log) | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.
Planview
MARCH 26, 2020
“Timesheets are passé.”. “Nobody wants to do a timesheet!”. “Agile teams don’t report time!”. But…. “All of this capitalization stuff is being pushed very hard by finance.”. “[So we need] rigorous timekeeping against work.”. You may be thinking that I’ve collected these quotes from a variety of Planview customers, but the reality is that these are quotes from within Planview!
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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.
Scrum.org
MARCH 26, 2020
Hello awesome people! I hope you all are staying safe and healthy in the midst of this global turbulence. So many things changed in my life in just a week, which made me to have to reorder my life backlog including the vlogs that I have already planned. In today's vlog, I discussed about the differences between the Scrum Master and the Product Owner role.
Teamweek
MARCH 25, 2020
For the last decade, we here at Toggl have advocated for remote work. We believe it’s the future. We believe it provides opportunity. We believe it fosters innovation. But only when done with purpose and preparation. There’s a difference between choosing remote work and being suddenly confined to the boundaries of your home. For both companies and individuals, the sudden switch to the unfamiliar environment of remote work can be jarring.
Proofhub
MARCH 23, 2020
Happiness and satisfaction, be it personally or professionally, are the goals of every employee motivation. When employees are happy, they deliver on their duties and responsibilities irrespective of how difficult the tasks are. They find ways to do it with a smile. This is because their job doesn’t interfere with their personal lives. A distributed team is a group of individuals who work across time, space and organizational boundaries with links strengthened by webs of communication technology
Binfire
MARCH 22, 2020
In the past few weeks, humanity has been tested severely due to the spread of coronavirus globally. A virus that started in one of china’s wet markets is spreading throughout the world at an alarming speed. Hundred of thousands have become ill and thousands have died. . China’s response when the virus was detected first was inadequate at best or criminal at worst.
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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.
Scrum.org
MARCH 24, 2020
TL; DR: Remote Agile (Part 2): Virtual Liberating Structures. Last week, we addressed basic practices and tools of remote agile with distributed teams. Based on that article, I also ran a live virtual class, the recording of which will be made available soon on the Age-of-Product’s Youtube channel. This follow-up post now delves into virtual Liberating Structures, answering the question of how we can make use of the powerful toolbox of inclusive and collaborative practices in a remote setting.
International Institute for Learning
MARCH 26, 2020
By Frank P. Saladis, PMP, LIMCA, MCPM, PMI Fellow Managing a remote team is new territory for many businesses. In order to help manage effective and productive virtual teams, implement these useful tips and suggestions: Keep in mind that when one person is remote, everyone is remote to that person. Practice a virtual version of the “Stand-up Meeting” and get the business done quickly by keeping meetings as short in duration as possible.
Gunther Verheyen
MARCH 23, 2020
Ever since the accidental creation of my book Scrum – A Pocket Guide (A Smart Travel Companion) in 2013, and its deliberate evolution in 2019, I frequently receive inquiries about the availability of an audiobook version. Although I see value in the idea, I have not been able to make it happen so far. Given the current pandemic storm , forcing many friends of Scrum to remain at home, I decided to implement upon the audio idea in a slightly adjusted form.
Henny Portman
MARCH 24, 2020
A few weeks ago, I was for a three-day assessment training regarding the IPMA Project Excellence Model in Vilnius, Lithonia. For 3 days, by using action learning we familiarized ourselves with the Project Excellence Model. This model will be used to judge which large and mega-sized projects will receive the project excellence award. The Project Excellence Model (PEM) is described in the book Project Excellence Baseline for Achieving Excellence in Projects and Programmes.
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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.
Scrum.org
MARCH 27, 2020
COVID-19 forces millions of Scrum teams members currently to work from home. Online collaboration tools are getting a real stress test through an influx of new users these days. Teams around the world see in action how these tools can be powerful, not only complimentary to on-site work, but as the one and only strategy. In a software development project, many of these tools are mature, reliable and provide a great feature set that pretty much fulfills the needs of agile teams one way or the oth
Proggio
MARCH 25, 2020
Businesses worldwide are facing a new reality due to the Coronavirus outbreak. As most countries are ordering a curfew and their businesses are sending employees to work from home, productivity is more challenging than ever. Company productivity is always in the hands of project managers, who are tasked with the time, budget and resources to make sure milestones and goals are met.
ProProfs Project Management
MARCH 27, 2020
The life of project managers has always been tough, and it gets irksome when they have a tight time window and budget. . ‘Do clients care about this?’. The answer is ‘Big NO’. Clients just want timely delivery of promised project deliverables, and this puts more pressure on project managers. Now, this fact begs the question: ‘How can project managers get the monkey off their back?’.
Gunther Verheyen
MARCH 27, 2020
Ever since the accidental creation of my book “ Scrum – A Pocket Guide ” in 2013, and its deliberate evolution in 2019, I’ve been receiving inquiries about an audiobook version. So far, I have not been able to make that happen but the current pandemic storm got me into implementing the audio idea in a different form. On Friday 27 March 2020 I delivered the fourth “ Daily Scrum Pocketcast ” in which I have read following chapters from my book: 2.7 The Scrum values. 3.
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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