Project Risk Coach

MAY 24, 2021

Many project managers feel overwhelmed with emails, phone calls, and meetings. They often work overtime, but few feel as though they are making progress. Although we are all given the same amount of time each day, some project managers are able to produce greater value for their organizations. Some are more engaged. Imagine yourself as a more productive project manager, one with greater capacity and energy to complete each day’s tasks.

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nTask

MAY 25, 2021

One-on-one meetings form a core part of a company’s administration and management. These simple and quick sessions can be an excellent way of communication within the organization. One-on-one meetings give teams an insight into the problems plaguing their projects’ process. They are also an efficient way of identifying issues and resolving them before they pose a threat to project management.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 28, 2021

Contracts specify the terms of the agreement between an employer and a contractor. Because these agreements are so diverse, there are many different types of contracts, each with their own benefits. One of these is called a cost-plus contract. Imagine you’re building something conceptual, but you only have a general idea of how to do so. You’ll want to hire a contractor who’s familiar with this type of job and knows the specific steps to take.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 26, 2021

Here’s the TL;DR: The MBA will give you more flexibility later in your career and should probably be the route you choose. While everyone has individual goals and it’s impossible for someone on the internet who doesn’t know your personal situation to advise you, an MBA is worth serious consideration. In this article, I’ll share 10 expert tips from a range of people about their experiences to help you choose the right higher education goals for you, so you can make the right choice for your caree

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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.

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Kiron Bondale

MAY 23, 2021

A recent HBR article showed how kindness could serve as a lever to generate productivity improvements. The authors explain that while receiving kindness can enable us do better work, the act of giving compliments is equally powerful at making us feel better. Some suggestions were provided in the article on how leaders can create a kinder work place but will a few tactics be enough to change culture?

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 26, 2021

There are many ways to contract work. But when the agreement is signed, it’s legally binding. Both parties must adhere to its terms and conditions. That’s why contracts vary from fixed-price contracts, in which the quoted price is final, to others with more flexibility. For example, a fixed-price contract is only viable for the contractor when they are able to very accurately forecast how much the project will cost.

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Scrum.org

MAY 26, 2021

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. One failure symptom of a botched agile transformation is the frustrated Scrum Master. Join me and explore the consequences of a Scrum Master who has thrown in the towel in 92 seconds. ?? Shall I notify you about articles like this one?

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The Lazy Project Manager

MAY 25, 2021

Special Live Webinar with Peter Taylor – The Lazy Project Manager – and Planview. Modernizing PPM: A Practical Four-Step Roadmap to Accelerate Agility. PM Today is delighted announce that our associate editor, Amy Hatton, will be hosting a very special live Planview webinar , featuring Author, Speaker, Coach, Consultant and Trainer, Peter Taylor – AKA The Lazy Project Manager.

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Susanne Madsen

MAY 24, 2021

We often say that one of the most important roles of a project manager and leader is to be able to communicate effectively. Being the hub of the project, the PM communicates with team members, stakeholders, end users and the project sponsor – all of whom have different preferences for how they would like to be communicated with. Some people prefer email and written status reports whereas others favour telephone and face-to-face interactions.

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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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ProjectManager.com

MAY 25, 2021

Everybody subconsciously creates sequence activities in their day-to-day lives. We plan weekly trips to the store, clean and tidy our homes, we run errands — the list goes on. In this way, we are all familiar with basic project management skills. When we can identify sequential activities in our day-to-day life, it’s much easier to then spot them in the context of a complex project.

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Scrum.org

MAY 23, 2021

In an agile context, we use metrics to set performance goals, measure current conditions, define small improvement experiments and measure the effectiveness of the experiments in order to inspect and adapt goals and determine the next steps. Metrics need to be chosen with care because when poorly chosen, they create an illusion of control. The metric data might deliver green dashboards while in reality, our organisation is not performing very well.

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Planview

MAY 26, 2021

Uncertainty in business is increasing, caused by rapid change, disruptions, unknowns, and whatnots. The problem is treating uncertainty today as an anomaly – a one-off event to overcome – instead of a constant. This is the topic I covered in a recent webinar featuring guest speaker Peggy Lawless, Founder and CEO of Lawless Research. We jointly presented findings from the new Strategy Execution Benchmark research.

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Leading Agile

MAY 24, 2021

When the pandemic started, we had to move our CSM and CSPO training to an online format. For the certification courses, the Scrum Alliance recommends not more than 30, but for LeadingAgile’s CSM and CSPO classes, we set a target class size at 15 with a max at 18. There are a number of reasons for this: Value Delivered. In each class, we run 3 in-class retrospectives and an end-of-class survey.

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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.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 27, 2021

Without knowing what your project success criteria are, can you truly say your project is successful? Everyone wants their project to be successful, but few take the time to define what that means. Let’s say you’ve delivered a product or service on time and within budget—is that success? It could be, but not if it doesn’t meet stakeholder expectations.

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Scrum.org

MAY 23, 2021

TL; DR: Scrum Failure Culture: A Requirement to Be Successful. 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. To make things worse, a crucial success factor of every Scrum team is not even mentioned in the Scrum Guide: Any organization that wants to employ Scrum to learn faster than its competitors needs to have a solid failure culture.

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nTask

MAY 27, 2021

There are many elements involved in planning a project. They include creating a variety of documentation for both the team and all the stakeholders involved. One such document that is one of the first to be created and used throughout the project lifecycle is the project brief. The project brief is an important document as it outlines the entire project from the get-go.

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Leading Answers

MAY 28, 2021

I am excited to announce my new book “ Beyond Agile: Achieving success with situational knowledge and skills “ is launching. It is available now from RMC in paperback or electronic form here. This post explains the name and motivation for the book. Future posts will profile the content.   Background. Since helping create DSDM in 1994, I have been working on agile projects for 27 years.

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LiquidPlanner

MAY 23, 2021

Part of my job is to juggle. Have you ever felt that way? Because I work at a planning intelligence company, I get to let our software manage a good deal of my workplace chaos. But each workplace has its own special form of randomization, and I find myself split between tasks like every other working person. It’s even more important to learn to juggle projects when you split your time between strategy and tactics.

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Scrum.org

MAY 25, 2021

The pandemic has stimulated me to teach Scrum outside my home in the United States. I have been fortunate to collaborate with many diverse cultures worldwide. I am also grateful to facilitate a team of very talented high-school students in my area. They implemented Scrum to build a real-world mobile application called "The Edge". The self-managed team of 5 Developers works in Sprints to deliver The Edge.

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nTask

MAY 26, 2021

We often ramble about the lack of time or how we cannot get anything done in the inadequate amount of time we have. Well, guess what? We are here with the 15 best time saving tips that will help you add more hours to your day. When we say add more time, we do not mean adding an hour or two to the 24 hours of your day (that is impossible in the real world), we mean the efficient usage of these 24 hours to help you save some time whilst you complete all your tasks.

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Henny Portman

MAY 28, 2021

Delighted to hear the news that two of my papers received an Editor’s Choice Award. Editor’s Choice Awards are selected each year by the Managing Editor of the PMWJ based on perceived importance to the project management field, perceived value or usefulness to readers, and quality of the writing, topic coverage and references. A new bird’s eye view on the Agile forest received the 2020 PMWJ Editor’s Choice Awards in the Papers category Project Creatures that accelerate and enhance a portfolio of

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Management Yogi

MAY 24, 2021

By V Satya Viswanadha Raju, RMP, PMPWhy this Course?After completing my PMP certification, in less than a year the COVID pandemic started. The current challenges and risks that were evolving in my project along the current pandemic. My organization's approach has also changed with respect to risk management. It made me think more on Risk Management, primarily identification, planning and.

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Scrum.org

MAY 25, 2021

In my live training, I often ask students why we estimate. The answer I usually hear is some version of. “So we know how big something is and how long it will take.” . And yes, this is important. However, there is more. In this post, I will break down the 3 purposes of an estimate. It's actually the third one that I think is most important and often missed. 3 Purposes of Estimation. #1 - Estimation helps us know that an item is small enough to bring it into a Sprint.

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nTask

MAY 25, 2021

At least once in our lifetimes, we have come across a person who babbles non-stop about the pros of journaling and how effective it is. And every time we encounter such a person, our first instinct is to hide and run away because why should we undertake an additional task on top of all the things we have to deal with every day? Well, it seems like we were terribly wrong in our assumptions and this article will prove how.

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PM Times

MAY 25, 2021

There is a-l-o-t involved when running a successful project: the manager and team relationships, the myriad of tasks that need to be completed, the budget, the deliverables, etc. With all the moving parts that ought to be handled effectively, project managers can’t afford to have poor communication skills, especially when sending emails. When project managers […].

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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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