Project Risk Coach
JANUARY 4, 2021
All project managers face problems. Some big, some small. Some easy, some complex. In this articles, let's look at 7 steps to better problem solving. What are your most significant project problems? Communication issues. Changing requirements. Lack of clear goals. Insufficient budget. Scope creep. Team members failing to complete their activities. Worry and anxiety are not productive ways to respond to life's challenges.
Proofhub
JANUARY 4, 2021
Getting your project off on the right foot is a critical factor that helps determine its success. As you start your project, you need to take the initiative on the preparatory work, from preparing the scope, estimating the costs, assigning resources, and creating a project timeline, to getting sign-off on the key performance indicators. Without a framework for project initiation, it’s easy to get lost in all the tasks that you need to finish before the project can start.
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Celoxis
JANUARY 5, 2021
If you own a company, or work for a small business, managing and keeping track of numerous projects at once can be a tedious task. Project management software is a boon for users that work on multiple projects. Finding the right software amongst all available becomes difficult and takes a lot of time into consideration.
ProjectManager.com
JANUARY 8, 2021
The more accurate your estimates, the more likely you’ll keep to your budget and deliver a project on time. Having a tool to identify and collect costs for your labor, materials and more is the first step to running a successful project. Using a project estimate template is the perfect way to get your project planning on the right track. Download the Project Estimate Template.
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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.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
JANUARY 7, 2021
I’m running a webinar on the skills you need to manage multiple projects on 4 February. Register here. Why do you need to learn how to manage multiple projects? That’s what we’re looking at in this article. I’ll share the 3 main reasons why you need to develop a range of skills – beyond what’s taught in the project management books – to help you meet the real demands of the job: multi-project management.
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The Digital Project Manager
JANUARY 3, 2021
Need a project management tool with resource scheduling software? Our 2020 list covers off the best project management tools that'll help you deliver your projects and manage your resources more effectively. Compare tools easily in our review—pros and cons, pricing, features, integrations, and screenshots will help you choose the best fit for your projects and teams.
ProjectManager.com
JANUARY 6, 2021
Planning a project involves a lot of coordination of time, tasks and costs. It can feel like an insurmountable job, but just remember that plenty of projects are planned and executed every single day. You can do it too! You just have to bite it off in digestible bits—and suddenly what seemed impossible is not only possible, it’s a success. One way to start organizing all those disparate pieces is by using plan templates.
Ganttic
JANUARY 6, 2021
Tuck into some of the best project management blogs of 2021. Recently we reached out to PMs around the web who submitted some of their personal recommendations. Adding to the content that we at Ganttic enjoy reading, we’ve put together a roundup of the 15 best PM blogs for the new year. Gain some new insights, sharpen your skills, and read what some of the most influential minds in the industry have to share.
Scrum.org
JANUARY 5, 2021
BACKGROUND. In December 2020, my friend Adrian Galarza and I delivered a Scrum.org Scrum Pulse Webinar - A Cycle Time Journey: 164 to 8 Days in 6 Months that summarized the journey of Adrian’s Scrum Team. Some key topics that we covered in the webinar were…. How do we define “cycle time” in our context? Why should a business care about reducing cycle time?
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
The Digital Project Manager
JANUARY 7, 2021
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nTask
JANUARY 5, 2021
When you talk about form building through an application, it is very hard to ignore one of the best forms of building software in the market right now and that is JotForm. The application is an incredible tool that allows you to create different forms on all of the mobile devices that you use every day. Despite being a sleeker and more robust application than all of its previous versions, the application is not for everybody, and that is why, in this article, we are going to talk about 7 of the
Musings on Project Management
JANUARY 6, 2021
Take a look at this slideshare.net presentation for a very short course in project management Five tools for managing projects from John Goodpasture. Buy them at any online book retailer!
Scrum.org
JANUARY 4, 2021
Hi everyone, . Let me first start by saying: Happy New Year! Hope you had a good New Year's eve. I want to wish you and your love ones a healthy 2021 full of joy and happiness. . 2020 has been a challenging year for a lot of people. Let's hope that there is light at the end of the tunnel and that everything will go back to normal soon. . 2021 has barely started, and today I would like to share the following product with you. .
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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.
The Digital Project Manager
JANUARY 3, 2021
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nTask
JANUARY 7, 2021
Managing any kind of project involves juggling skills. Think of running a load of different tasks, resources , and different elements – and that too in a simultaneous environment. This kind of situation is no different for those that actively undertake at any advertising agency. That is why many agencies seek the help of advertising agency software to help keep everything organized and stay on top of all the tasks and work items that need to get done.
Musings on Project Management
JANUARY 3, 2021
The oldest advice in risk management is this little ditty: "Don't put all your eggs in one basket" It's obvious on its face: if you drop the one basket, you may lose all the eggs in just one accident. Why not carry two baskets, or three, or four, or how many. ? Well, what we're talking about here is diversifying the risk, and making the situation less fragile: that is more able to absorb.
Scrum.org
JANUARY 4, 2021
TL; DR: 71 Product Owner Interview Questions to Avoid Imposters. If you are looking to fill a position for a Product Owner in your organization, you may find the following 71 interview questions useful to identify the right candidate. They are derived from my fourteen years of practical experience with XP and Scrum, serving both as Product Owner and Scrum Master and interviewing dozens of Product Owner candidates on behalf of my clients.
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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.
The Digital Project Manager
JANUARY 6, 2021
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nTask
JANUARY 4, 2021
Deciding that it is time to abort a project is never easy nor pleasant. However, at times it is inevitable. Aborting a project at the right time can make the world of difference rather than carrying on a project that is failing till its bitter end. That is why we have created this project abortion guide to help you understand how to abort a project but also highlight factors that could lead to project termination, and those that may make this decision.
TrustRadius Project Management
JANUARY 6, 2021
The Productivity Software category for the Best Of Awards encompasses a wide range of applications that help better facilitate time management, as well as the organization of tasks and information. In the fast-paced world of business where there are many moving parts, it is absolutely critical for users to be able to stay organized and on top of their tasks.
Scrum.org
JANUARY 6, 2021
What is up awesome people? I hope you had an awesome holiday break. As you may have noticed, there have been several changes introduced in Scrum Guide 2020. Scrum no longer emphasizes roles but instead accountabilities. Before Scrum Guide 2020, the Scrum Master accountabilities was unclear and not explicit. Organisations gave people job titles like Product Owner and Scrum Master to their people but just remapping from the old role.
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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.
MPUG
JANUARY 4, 2021
I’d like to begin by sharing a brilliant quote that puts the latest project management fashion, Agile, into humbling perspective: “ A Waterfall project is just an Agile (Scrum) project with one huge sprint! An Agile project is just a Waterfall project almost entirely implemented using Rolling Wave Planning! (from George Intzesiloglou , UK on 2020-Sep-11 at ProjectManagement.com).
nTask
JANUARY 7, 2021
A major element of project management is plans and organization. Almost every project that you work on will deal with tasks, goals, deadlines, dependencies, and deliverables. All these elements help make up your project and allow you to plan for success. However, a project management tool that is often overlooked or forgotten is the project milestones.
Henny Portman
JANUARY 6, 2021
A few weeks ago, I received the latest report from the Standish Group – CHAOS 2020: Beyond Infinity – written by Jim Johnson. Every two years the Standish Group publish a new CHAOS Report. These reports include classic CHAOS data in different forms with many charts. Most of the charts come from the CHAOS database of over 50,000 in-depth project profiles of the previous 5 years.
Scrum.org
JANUARY 8, 2021
Anyone responsible for managing business results is also keen to enhance those results by improving their business performance. Regardless of what strategies they use, managers are expected to regularly review and improve business processes. Not only to grow sales or expand margins, but as a condition of continuous business survival. At the same time, companies must respect what their customers want from their business, or they won’t succeed.
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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