Project Bliss

MARCH 20, 2021

This is a guest post by Shree Krupa. Project managers do a lot of firefighting. Every day, project managers are putting out fires, both internally within the team and externally with clients. They juggle multiple tasks, manage stakeholders’ expectations, and navigate tricky situations. The road they tread on every day is never smooth. They constantly need to overcome several roadblocks to ensure that the project stays within the agreed constraints of time, scope, and budget.

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ProProfs Project Management

MARCH 22, 2021

“The role of a creative leader is not to have all the ideas; it’s to create a culture where everyone can have ideas and feel that they’re valued.” – Ken Robinson. Let’s kick off with a scenario…. A web designer comes up with an idea to incorporate some animations in the header of the page. He shares this idea with the project manager. Now to move forward with the idea, approval from stakeholders is important.

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nTask

MARCH 24, 2021

Project managers nowadays have a lot of different projects because of the diversity factor that goes into simultaneous business development. That is why, in this article, we are going to talk about how to manage multiple projects using many different effective strategies to generate positive results every time. So, let’s dive right in and find out, in detail, about these strategies, and how they can help us in our work.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 24, 2021

A project list is the starting point for any project management process. They’re a great way to take what seems an insurmountable amount of disparate tasks and organize them. A project list can be as simple as a to-do list or a corral for many projects. Using a project list is so important it’s worth taking a moment to explore what it is, how to create one and how it fits into managing your project with project management software tools.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 22, 2021

Resources are the largest contributor to successful project delivery , and project managers spend significant time planning and managing their activities. Both resource and project managers work in tandem to develop resourcing strategies for projects. The project manager estimates the resource requirement and creates open positions that get fulfilled by the resource manager.

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Kiron Bondale

MARCH 21, 2021

This article represents the confluence of three separate concepts I read about this week. The first came when I read Michael Küsters’s article Why WSJF is Nonsense which details the downside of blindly ranking work packages based on the Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF) formula. WSJF uses the ratio of the cost of delay to the relative effort required to complete a work package.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 26, 2021

All businesses experience change. These changes mean that small businesses need a structured plan to navigate their growth while staying on track to achieve long-term goals and objectives. This is where a small business plan comes in. Creating a thorough business plan that outlines a small business can seem like daunting work. In reality, the job can be done using common project planning methods and tools.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 25, 2021

How do you manage to communicate about your project with virtually no marketing budget? This was a question someone asked me after my presentation on how to market your project at a PMI PMXPO event. We don’t all have big budgets to produce banners, T-shirts and mugs with logos on to share the messages about our projects. You do? Oh, good for you. Go and read this about the collaboration software you can use on your projects.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 22, 2021

Some time ago, someone on Reddit asked whether there would be any other profession that requires attending a 2-day training class and would then pay as well as a Scrum Master job. This attitude is precisely why the 47 Scrum Master Interview Guide exists: Prevent imposters from slipping through the hiring process and causing damage. If you are looking to fill a position for a Scrum Master (or agile coach) in your organization, you may find the following 47 interview questions useful to identify t

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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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Musings on Project Management

MARCH 24, 2021

Yikes! My backlog is blocked! How can this be? We're agile. or maybe we've become de-agiled. Can that happen? Ah yes, we're agile, but perhaps not everything in the portfolio is agile; indeed, perhaps not everything in the project is agile. In the event, coupling is the culprit. Coupling?

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 25, 2021

Changes are part of delivering any project. To keep the project on schedule and within its budget, those changes have to be managed. A change order (or an amendment) is a mechanism that identifies, defines and tracks those changes in a way that is acceptable to all parties. That includes whatever added costs or time required to implement the change.

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nTask

MARCH 24, 2021

Project management process is a complex maze that not everyone knows how to ace every single time. There are a lot of different elements and substances associated with it that make it as unpredictable as it is. But if you have a process or plan in mind related to the needs and requirements of your project, then it is a piece of cake. For that, you need to have a work management software like nTask that will take care of the planning and task scheduling for your project management process, but ev

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Scrum.org

MARCH 26, 2021

One of the pillars of our book the Zombie Scrum Survival Guide , and the Scrum framework itself, is “Ship It Fast”. Shipping fast is important because it allows your team to learn what your stakeholders need and reduce the risks of creating the wrong things. While shipping fast doesn’t guarantee success, it is your best survival strategy when faced with complex work.

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Growing Agile

MARCH 26, 2021

Yesterday was World Retrospective Day. World Retrospective Day is a volunteer-based, globally coordinated effort to share in the power of retrospectives: [link]. World retrospective day started as an idea at the Retrospective Facilitators Gathering and has been going strong for the past 4 years. I facilitated a virtual ‘table’ at the session hosted by Jo and Angie.

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Green Project Management

MARCH 20, 2021

This is the second of four posts based on my experience at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Executive Education for Sustainability Leadership program that I took in November 2017, led by Dr. Leith Sharp, integrated with some of our GPM Global content where appropriate. The intent of these posts is to show […]. The post WORK ON: Lessons from Harvard 2: Understanding Organizational “Operating Systems” appeared first on Delivering a better world, one project a

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nTask

MARCH 24, 2021

Are you looking for the best Avaza alternatives that you can use to help you with resource allocation, handle task dependencies, and easily manage all of your recurring tasks that are a part of your project development process? In this article, we have 12 of the best software for you to end your search. These are some of the most impressive software in the market that you can use if you are not compatible with Avaza.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 25, 2021

In this episode of Scrum Guide 101 , let's take a look at " Scrum in a Nutshell " as described in Scrum Guide 2020. Here is the text that we examine: In a nutshell, Scrum requires a Scrum Master to foster an environment where: A Product Owner orders the work for a complex problem into a Product Backlog. The Scrum Team turns a selection of the work into an Increment of value during a Sprint.

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Agilemania

MARCH 23, 2021

There has been some amount of criticism about SAFe. Some Agile experts are not hard-core fans of SAFe. They say there are hundreds of pages, hours of videos, several different training courses, and more. And this makes SAFe more complicated, bureaucratic than the Agile manifesto recommends. They also have this opinion that SAFe is so heavy, maybe it is not Agile at all.

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Proofhub

MARCH 23, 2021

4-step Performance Management Cycle For Team Success In 2021 Performance management isn’t dead. The old way of thinking about it is. ?—?Anita Bowness Performance Management and Performance Management Cycle are two terms that are generally associated with ambitious organizations; the ones that seek constant improvement in their team’s performance. I’d like to share an anecdote about the same that I managed to experience while working here at ProofHub.

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nTask

MARCH 25, 2021

If you have heard of Atlassian’s tool: JIRA and happen to be wondering about JIRA project management you aren’t alone. JIRA is a popular tool among many organizations and teams, where many users reportedly wonder how they can use the tool to manage their next projects with ease. The tool is complex and offers a load of functionalities that can become quite confusing.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 25, 2021

On today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: How is risk management handled in Scrum? Today's question asks Todd and Ryan to discuss how the Scrum Framework addresses risk management. They explored a number of ideas including the fact that by using Scrum you get quite a few risk management tools for free! Check out the video to learn more about how frequent feedback and empirical process control amplified by the Scrum Framework can lead to a great product risk management strategy.

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Teamweek

MARCH 22, 2021

Today, 97.6 percent of employees want to work from home. As a result, communication becomes the biggest challenge for teams. Using the right set of team communication tools can help overcome this challenge. In this article, you’ll learn about the best communication platforms. Here’s what we’ll cover. Remote Team Communication Challenges Types of Communication Tools Asynchronous Team Communication Software Project Management Communication Tools Document Collaboration & File-Sharin

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Planio

MARCH 23, 2021

There’s nothing easy about starting a new job–especially when you’re expected to manage, lead, and inspire a technical team. To hit the ground running, gather the troops, and all the other cliches about starting a new job, you need a 30, 60, 90-day plan. A 30, 60, 90-day plan is a simple way to set realistic goals for yourself and strategize your first 3 months on the job.

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nTask

MARCH 25, 2021

PDCA cycle is a four-step cycle for constant improvement. Companies constantly evolve to keep up with the rapidly advancing world. PDCA approach is one way to inducing these changes in the system. PDCA cycle is the means to making sure that your company is constantly improving and is headed in the right direction. In terms of marketing, for example, businesses have transitioned from country-wide print media ads to strong social media campaigns targeting audiences across the globe.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 20, 2021

image by Nithinan Tatah I work in “the transformation business”. The Agile transformation business to be more precise. The value I aim to deliver is: Improve the internal organisation of companies so that they get better at making their dreams come true. My core activity is coaching focused on Agility, i.e. influencing people to move towards (a (higher) state of) Agile.

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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.

Risk Management