Project Bliss

JANUARY 20, 2020

Communication skills are critical for your career. And great active listening skills can serve you in valuable ways you may not have considered. It seems everyone spends a good chunk of their day with their eyes glued to a cell phone. Even when co-workers, spouses, or – saddest of all – kids are speaking, we’re not really engaged. And often, even when someone is speaking to us about something important, we’re often not really listening, but instead thinking about what we&

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Proofhub

JANUARY 20, 2020

What Are Project Activities In Project Management There is no point in oversimplifying project management. It’s rarely simple and straightforward. There are so many factors and activities involved that it often becomes impossible for the manager and the team to deliver quality performance and outcome. In this particular post, we’re going to dig deep into various fundamentals and activities that are a great deal of consideration for everyone during the project management life cycle.

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Workamajig

JANUARY 23, 2020

Project kickoff is one of the most important stages in the lifecycle of a project. Learn how to excel at this stage in this article. Well begun, they say, is half done. Nowhere is this more applicable than at the start of a project. How you start often sets the tone for how the rest of the project unfolds. Kickoff, thus, is a critical time in the life of a project.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 20, 2020

Do you want to improve communication on your projects? And yet make it easier to do at the same time? In this article I’ll share 15 tried-and-tested tips for effective project communications. 1. Use a milestone tracker. The milestone tracker I use is a simple Excel spreadsheet. It lists the milestones in one column, organised by project phase.

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Project Risk Coach

JANUARY 20, 2020

The Project Management Institute says, "high-performing companies manage risk in conjunction with projects and programs far more often than low performers do." How can you help your company manage risks and become a high performer? Let's look at ways to become a project risk management evangelist. The lack of senior management support is one of the primary barriers to effective organizational risk management.

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Taskque

JANUARY 23, 2020

You are planning to launch a new product. From creating the hype to announcing the launch event date and everything in between, you have done everything to make the product launch a success. Your product launch event made the headlines and received a great response from the audience. As the marketing hype starts to settle after a few weeks, you start to receive customer complaints about defects in products.

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Planview

JANUARY 24, 2020

Today’s enterprises are increasingly looking to the PMO to boost the bottom line. Inadequate resource planning practices make it difficult to quickly deliver innovative products, services, and customer experiences. “The risk of poor capacity is the inability to resource projects. We have a ‘need for speed’ and need the right resources at the right time in the life cycle of a project.

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Epicflow Blog

JANUARY 24, 2020

Project Management web resources are awash with articles about 2020 project management trends. Almost on every page, they write about AI in PM, the increased significance of soft skills and emotional intelligence, and hybrid frameworks in project management as a new tendency. Practically, some of them are a little perverted, and some of them – exaggerated.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 21, 2020

Gantt charts have been around for a long time, but since they migrated from analog to digital, their ease of use has made them a staple of project management. There can be misconceptions about Gantt charts, but plainly stated, a Gantt chart shows tasks over time. On the left of a Gantt chart is a list of the tasks, and to the right is a timeline in which those tasks are placed according to when they occur in the project.

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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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Kiron Bondale

JANUARY 19, 2020

I wrote two weeks back about Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) and the benefit of models such as Cynefin and the Theory of Constraints for being able to understand them. What I didn’t focus on in that article was how important the people element is when dealing with CAS. Two HBR articles published this week reminded me of that critical ingredient.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 21, 2020

Students and clients ask us “Can Kanban and Scrum work together?” all the time. The answer is an emphatic, “Of course!” However, what do you mean by “Kanban”? If you are talking about Kanban as a strategy for optimizing the flow of value through a process that uses a visual, work-in-progress limited pull system , then The Kanban Guide for Scrum Teams has some clear advice on how we make this happen.

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LiquidPlanner

JANUARY 23, 2020

Tech teams are comprised of creative individuals, each with their own ideas on how things should work. A good project manager should allow team members to express their creativity, but also keep them focused on the main goal at the same time. The PM is the team member who brings all the creative forces together. Below are the most important project management tips that will make you a more successful manager in the tech industry: 1.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 20, 2020

At the beginning of each year we all reflect on the past and make resolutions for the future. It’s not a bad practice, but why save it for once a year? There is no time like the present for looking backwards and planning forwards. Luckily for project management professionals, there are ample opportunities throughout the year to hunker down with colleagues, network and learn about new techniques and project management technologies in the industry.

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Proofhub

JANUARY 20, 2020

What Are Project Activities In Project Management There is no point in oversimplifying project management. It’s rarely simple and straightforward. There are so many factors and activities involved that it often becomes impossible for the manager and the team to deliver quality performance and outcome. In this particular post, we’re going to dig deep into various fundamentals and activities that are a great deal of consideration for everyone during the project management life cycle.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 22, 2020

Scrum, in its more general definition, is a simple framework to help us address complex challenges. Product development is the subset of complex problem domains where Scrum took root first; by explicitly acknowledging software and new product development to be complex work, serving to deliver complex products in complex circumstances. Scrum is increasingly being discovered as a simple framework to address complex problems and situations other than software and product development.

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LiquidPlanner

JANUARY 21, 2020

“Dear Elizabeth: I ran a kick-off meeting for my project, and it was a disaster. I tried to do the detailed planning, but the group wouldn’t focus, and no one seemed to share the same view about what the project was going to deliver. The experience has put me off running kick-off meetings in the future, but I have another project starting soon, so I’m going to have to do it.

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ProProfs Project Management

JANUARY 21, 2020

Project managers , who have just begun working on a project, may find it really stressful and time-consuming to manage multiple tasks, especially if they don’t know the basics. . Imagine you get a promotion as a project manager and are now solely responsible for various management tasks. If you have just entered this field, there is a lot you don’t know and, instead of covering the basics, you take all the responsibilities head-on. .

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Teamweek

JANUARY 21, 2020

Before we get into the details on Teamweek’s rebrand, bear with me and read this short story about a famous pop threesome, the Jonas Brothers. For those who don’t know, the Jonas Brothers are a trio of siblings who formed a wildly popular band back in the mid-2000s. Six years ago, the Jonas Brothers broke up. Fans were devastated, concerts were cancelled, and the brothers went their separate ways to pursue solo projects.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 18, 2020

In this article, I want to clarify the need for agility in modern businesses and what agility in organisational design actually is. Today’s mainstream organisation structures are systems we inherited from the industrial era when employees were illiterate and the leaders were educated, market-entry criteria were high and markets were predictable. We see that the future of many established businesses has become uncertain.

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MPUG

JANUARY 20, 2020

Gantt charts are very popular with project managers and senior managers. They are primarily used to create and communicate project schedules but they can also be used for preparing status reports and giving presentations. They can be combined with project milestones to create richer status reports and presentations. Gantt charts can be easily prepared in MS Project (MSP), but they are very plain and rudimentary in their default form.

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ProProfs Project Management

JANUARY 22, 2020

Many project managers tend to skip analyzing project scope when they take up on a project or when they brainstorm on ways the end-goal can be achieved. Even if the project scope is defined right from the start, there can always be a situation where it needs to be updated or redefined. Having said that, project creep is seen as the main reason that leads to project failure.

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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.

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Teamweek

JANUARY 20, 2020

How many hours in a week should you work? As it turns out, the answer has less to do with your schedule and more to do with your time management skills. . Jonah works the same schedule almost every single week. He clocks in at around 8:30 a.m. Monday through Friday, and wraps up his workday around 4:30 p.m. Here’s a pop quiz: how many hours per week does Jonah work?

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 21, 2020

When it comes to Product Ownership, there are a couple of things that are essential to get the job done right. Effective stakeholder management is one of them! In this blogpost, I’d like to outline a few tips that I found helpful being a Product Owner myself or when coaching and mentoring others in the role. . What the Scrum Guide says. So what does the Scrum Guide have to say about stakeholder management?

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Online PM Courses

JANUARY 22, 2020

No one wants their project to fail. But, project failure is all too common. And, when your project starts, you barely recognize the possibility of failure. The post Avoid Project Failure: 5 Top Tips | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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Agilemania

JANUARY 23, 2020

Introduction to digital transformation Digital transformation in simple words is the process of utilising technology to comprehensively change your. The post Agile Leadership and Challenges in Digital Transformations appeared first on Agilemania.

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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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