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How to be a Superhero Project Manager

LiquidPlanner

In honor of National Superhero Day on April 28th, this article gives tips on how we can rise to “superhero status” as project managers. Successful projects can make you feel extraordinary, while failed ones can leave you feeling like the villain. At times, it can seem like projects are doomed from the start, and the outcome is completely outside of your control.

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7 Reasons Why Multitasking Doesn’t Work

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This is a guest article by Kristy Gayton from STARTplanner. Multitasking has been praised by many as the secret sauce to reaching success at record speeds. But over the years, the multitasking myth has been dispelled. Studies aimed at disproving the claimed advantages of multitasking have popped up, urging individuals to actually turn the process of multitasking inside out to see if it’s an ally or an enemy.

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Scrum: 20 Sprint Planning Anti-Patterns

Scrum.org

TL; DR: Scrum Master Anti-Patterns. The Sprint Planning is a core event that defines how your customers’ lives will improve with the following Product Increment. Learn more on how to improve its effectiveness by avoiding 20 common Sprint Planning anti-patterns. ???? Zur deutschsprachigen Version des Artikels: 20 Sprint Planning Anti-Patterns. ?? Shall I notify you about articles like this one?

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What Does Project Governance Really Mean?

ProjectManager.com

Projects like anything that involves a lot of people working together need governance. The government runs a nation and project governance in the same fashion runs the project. It might not be involved in the details, but it’s has an overview that is just as important. We’re going to take some time to explore the nuance of project governance and look at the roles associated with it, the pillars on which it stands and much more.

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Understand Digital Debt, Form a Team, Set Goals, and Plan Roadmap for Transformation

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.

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Does your work board “fit”?

Kiron Bondale

Whether you call them work boards, Scrum boards or Kanban boards, visualizing work using physical boards or online tools is a common practice for both operational and project teams. Such boards can provide a number of benefits including: Helping team members to see what work remains to be done Giving them an opportunity to pull work items at their pace as capacity frees up Focusing the team’s attention on blocked work items Providing stakeholders with a lightweight, pull-based method of un

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Is Blue-print Thinking Limiting The Potential Of The Agile Community?

Scrum.org

Do you start a new Scrum team by explaining the roles, artifacts, and events? Do you rarely consider how to build coalitions and persuade people in power to support your work with Scrum? Are you thinking about the psychological needs of people and how to motivate them to work with Scrum? You may be engaging in a bit too much blueprint thinking. Our Agile profession is filled with frameworks.

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Project Documentation: 10 Essential Project Documents

ProjectManager.com

Project managers know the importance of having project documentation. Project documents must be accurate and constantly updated to keep current with the project. Creating and managing project documentation throughout the project life cycle is critical for project success, but where to start? This guide will define what project documentation is, why it is important and what are the top 10 project documents that you should always create to plan and execute your projects.

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Review Agile Portfolio Management

Henny Portman

There are not that many books on agile portfolio management, so I am curious what the book Agile Portfolio Management – A guide to the methodology and its successful implementation “knowledge that sets you apart” written by Klaus Nielsen, offers. The book is divided into nine chapters, starting with project portfolio management, and ending with case studies on agile portfolio management.

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Project Management Training to Help You Achieve Certification This Year

Rebel’s Guide to PM

APM Salary and Market Survey 2021 says that 29% of those surveyed put the issue of leadership, training, skills, and development as the top challenge the project managers will face during the upcoming years. If your goal this year is to put yourself ahead of the curve and get studying for a certification, then I’m here to help! There is a dizzying array of courses out there to help you achieve project management qualifications, both for PMI® courses, PRINCE2® courses and more.

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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

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Characteristics of a Great Product Owner

Scrum.org

The Scrum Guide doesn't provide a complete list of the skills required for any of the accountabilities on a Scrum Team. For example, it doesn't specify that Developers must use Java or C# code. The Scrum Guide simply states that Developers need all of the skills to deliver a Done increment of product each Sprint. We intuitively know that the skills required depend on the product. .

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Kanban Principles & Best Practices Explained

ProjectManager.com

Kanban is a visual workflow tool that, while originally used as a Toyota scheduling system, is now associated with in an agile methodology, especially in DevOps software development. It can also be used in traditional project management methodologies. As its popularity has grown, kanban boards have found a use in industries looking for a way to have everyone on the team view the state of their work.

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Time is Money: The Importance of Earned Value Management

MPUG

In my previous article , I discussed the importance of a baseline, and how, without one, a PM doesn’t have a yardstick, per se, to measure with. Project Management presents many tools and techniques for the management of a successful project. Today, I’d like to continue this conversation on how to achieve success in a project by going back to another basic concept: Earned Value Management (EVM).

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Become a Modern PMO That Empowers Your Organization

Planview

In this post, we’ll show you how to become a modern PMO that enables your organization to adapt to an ever-changing professional landscape. You’ll learn how to adopt a modern approach that keeps up with the speed of business. That way, you can ensure alignment, drive continuous improvement, and help your company become more responsive to change and disruptions.

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

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.

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How to increase UX Design maturity for Scrum teams

Scrum.org

In this article you will learn: Why enabling Scrum Teams with UX Design capabilities is important. Why introducing UX capabilities to Scrum team is frequently hard. What is the job of an UX Leader in a product development organization. How to use a UX Design maturity level to coach teams to deliver better outcomes. . ?? The job of a Scrum Team is not just to deliver a product, but to solve user problems.

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The Importance of Workplace Flexibility in a Modern Organization

ProjectManager.com

Flexibility in the workplace has become something of a rallying cry. Workers got a taste of workplace flexibility when the pandemic disrupted the normal business environment, and many found it to be immensely more preferable than the previous status quo. As we move into the future, those workers aren’t passively going back to their desks. Employers and workers seem to be in agreement, at least according to a survey conducted by Future Forum entitled “The Future of Work Is Flexible, Inclusive and

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How To Manage Your Project’s Schedule and Profitability

Scoro

Every new project starts with a project plan. As a project manager, you’ll set out the objectives, determine how and when these will be achieved, and identify the tasks your team must complete along the way. And of course, all those elements should be brought together in the right way, on budget, and on time. That’s a lot of balls to juggle before the project even starts.

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Managing Change Using the Kubler-Ross Change Model

The Strategic Project Manager

The Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Change Curve has come to be widely accepted as a model for the stages of change. It provides a useful perspective that is helpful in identifying where people are on their change journey. This post explains the Kubler-Ross Change Model, explores its foundation, identifies strengths of the model, and identifies how strategists and project managers can apply it in practice.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

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.

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Wenn die Sprint-Planung schief geht: 20 vermeidbare Fehler

Scrum.org

In Kürze: 20 Sprint Planning Anti-Patterns. Das Sprint Planning ist ein zentrales Scrum-Ereignis, welches entscheidet, wie sich das Leben Ihrer Kunden mit dem nächsten Inkrement verbessern wird. Erfahren Sie mehr darüber, wie Sie Ihren Kunden durch die Vermeidung von 20 gängigen Sprint Planning Anti-Patterns helfen können. ?? Update : Join the poll and its lively discussion on LinkedIn. ??

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6 resource management techniques for successful projects and happier employees

Resource Guru

A new “virus” is going around, and it’s highly contagious. “ Quitagion ,” as the New York Times recently termed it, persuades employees to quit their jobs because they see co-workers making a choice to live better—higher pay, nicer benefits, a sense of workplace belonging, and work-life balance. The good news is that as an employer and a project manager, you can ‘vaccinate’ your company against Quitagion by using resource management techniques.

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How To Successfully Manage Your Project’s Budget

Scoro

You’ve just got a project off the ground and your client is expecting great things. But do you have a firm budget management plan? If you don’t, there are a number of things that could go wrong. You could end up overdelivering and wasting precious resources. Worse yet, you could end up underdelivering, because you didn’t set aside enough time for project planning and budgeting.

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The John Kotter Change Management Model for Strategic PM’s

The Strategic Project Manager

John Kotter’s 8 step Change Management Model is a strong framework that has been used to implement change in many organizations. This post examines the model, its advantages and disadvantages, and its value to strategists and project managers. What Is the John Kotter Change Management Model? John Kotter , a change management expert and Harvard Business School professor, developed a now well-known 8-step change management model, published in his 1996 book “Leading Change.” Kotte

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Acclaim Projects Helps Deliver Innovation Projects on Time and on Budget

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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Top 7 Questions to Ask During a Sprint Review

Scrum.org

The Sprint Review is an excellent opportunity for stakeholders and the Scrum Team to collaborate on the state of the Increment and to discuss future trends which might impact the Product Backlog. Part of this collaboration relies heavily on the ability to ask questions to trigger the right conversation. I have noticed that stakeholders find it very challenging to ask questions during Sprint Reviews, which results in seeing demos and clapping for the performance of the Scrum Team.

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Fast, Cheap, and Good: How to Master the Triple Constraint of Project Management

Planio

Fast, Cheap, Good… Pick two. Every freelancer, business owner, and car mechanic knows this phrase. If you want something done good and fast, you’re going to be paying a premium. If you want it cheap and fast… well, you get what you pay for. Projects operate under similar limitations called the triple constraint of project management. Scope, time, and budget–any change in one of these factors will impact the rest.

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Scoro: Extending Your Capabilities Beyond Project & Time Management

Scoro

“Having one solution for every aspect of our business has saved us time, money and confusion.” This is just one G2 review from our many happy customers who use Scoro not just for project management, but as an end-to-end collaborative work management (CWM) platform. In other words, a solution that improves productivity, profitability and employee satisfaction across all areas of the organization.

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Negotiating for Optimal Outcomes With Paul Nichols

International Institute for Learning

About the Webinar. This webinar covers how negotiation is defined and the phases of negotiation from preparation through measuring the outcomes of the negotiation. In addition, we will explore common approaches to negotiating and an-in depth review of the rules of principled negotiation. What You Will Learn: After this one-hour session, you will be able to: Prepare for an upcoming negotiation.

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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.