Self-Management: How To Prioritize And Be More Productive
Trello
DECEMBER 23, 2019
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What Do Companies like Apple, Amazon and Google Look for in Project Managers?
Epicflow Blog
DECEMBER 23, 2019
It’s rather difficult to define what makes a project manager worthy of a dream position. Every company determines the role and the title differently, but no doubt t ech giants serve as a benchmark. If you’ve got what it takes to land a job at Apple, Amazon or Google, you know that your skillset is up to modern standards. So what are the main aspects that make project managers competitive?
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Project Prioritization as a Savvy PMO
Planview
DECEMBER 23, 2019
In our previous post on prioritization , we talked about the importance of prioritizing your work. We also covered the groundwork you’ll need to know before implementing project prioritization methodologies of your own. Today, we’re going to take it a step further. If you’re new to prioritization, this post will help you learn how to identify and implement a mechanism that’s compatible with your business.
Learn How To Realize Positive Risk Response Strategies (Opportunities)
iZenBridge
DECEMBER 24, 2019
Taking care of opportunities is one of the antidotes to the project success. And, sometimes cautious responses to project risks help in realizing opportunities. But, many of us believe that risks create an adverse impact on projects; it is not always true. Risk can be positive also. Now the question is – what is a positive risk? It is something like an opportunity is there, but we have some risk to realize it.
Understand Digital Debt, Form a Team, Set Goals, and Plan Roadmap for Transformation
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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.
Agile vs Waterfall: What’s the Difference?
ProjectManager.com
DECEMBER 23, 2019
According to Newton’s third law of physics, every action in nature has an equal and opposite reaction. The same can be said for the field of project management, where every constraint usually impacts another constraint, and every missed deadline puts the project off the delivery date by just a little bit longer. Newton’s third law is also true in the case of agile vs waterfall, where one sprang to life as a reaction to the other.
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Key Elements & Components Of Project Management
ProProfs Project Management
DECEMBER 23, 2019
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised. These words, written by American writer and consultant Denis E. Waitley, pretty much sum up the essence of smart project management. To ensure professional, well-thought project management, it’s essential to take care of its key aspects. . While the elements of a project plan can vary depending on project nature, some of them cover general aspects that are standard for all projects.
So, you've got to write an RFP
Musings on Project Management
DECEMBER 21, 2019
Spoiler alert! This posting may be dry to the taste. Ever been asked to write an RFP (request for proposal)? It may not be as easy as you think. My metric is about 2-3 hours per finished page, exclusive of specifications. Specs are normally just imported from an engineering, marketing, or product team. So, it could take you the best part of a week to put an RFP in place.
5 Signs You Need Help with Employee Engagement
Teamweek
DECEMBER 23, 2019
Does it seem like your workers keep showing up late for a project? Are there constant excuses for why things aren’t getting done or why a project is finished incorrectly? If it seems like everything keeps going wrong within your team, the underlying problem might be a decreased level of employee engagement. Why is employee engagement important for companies?
The Zombie Scrum Survival Guide
Scrum.org
DECEMBER 24, 2019
An article by Johannes Schartau , co-author of the Zombie Scrum Survival Guide. It was early 2008 when an Agile Coach sat alone in an office in Western Europe. The dim light of his desk lamp did its best to drive the evening’s gloom away. The man was lost in thought, puzzled by the day’s events. Yet another team showed signs of something he couldn’t quite grasp but had seen before.
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
What would I want to receive from my team members this holiday season?
Kiron Bondale
DECEMBER 22, 2019
With under a week till Christmas 2019, Mike Cohn wrote a good article about what wishes team members might want to have granted this holiday season from their Agile Leads, Product Owners and People Managers. But even if each of these roles were to grant all the wishes which Mike listed, there is one more role which needs to be considered, namely their fellow team members.
Very short course in risk management
Musings on Project Management
DECEMBER 23, 2019
Need a quick introduction to risk management? Don't have much time for this? Try this very short course on risk management (no math required!). Risk management short course from John Goodpasture. Buy them at any online book retailer!
Time Management Technique That Will Make You Productive
Proofhub
DECEMBER 23, 2019
How to Choose The Right Time Management Technique for You Time, they say, is the one commodity you always spend and will never be able to actually buy. You can’t save it up, and every morning your balance goes back to zero. Yet every second counts?—?in athletics, the difference between winning and total obscurity can be in the tenths of seconds. While you’ll never be able to get more time, by using strategies in time management you can organize your time more effectively so as to create opportun
Actual stakeholders? Or just your audience?
Scrum.org
DECEMBER 27, 2019
This post is an excerpt from the book that we’re writing, the ‘Zombie Scrum Survival Guide’. It’s our way of delivering small increments and involving our stakeholders. So we’d love to hear your feedback, encouragements and wild ideas. You can also listen to us reading this post on our podcast. When is someone a stakeholder, really? It’s such a simple question that you can’t help but wonder why we’re even asking it.
20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers
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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.
13 Greatest Epicflow Features Implemented in 2019
Epicflow Blog
DECEMBER 25, 2019
This year has been really fruitful for the Epicflow team and our clients. We have been doing our best to meet our users’ requirements and make their project management life as easy and comfortable as possible thanks to our new features and enhancements. So, let’s take a look at the results of Epicflow’s researchers’ work in 2019. 1. Material Resources.
Eliminate Project Chaos
WorkOtter
DECEMBER 27, 2019
I have spoken to and trained thousands of project managers. Most of them work in an environment ?lled with chaos. Project management is a profession in which you must always be able to deal with change, because there is usually some degree of underlying change (e.g., technology and people) you cannot eliminate. However, this type of change is not what I mean by chaos.
What Is Cost Management in Project Management
ProProfs Project Management
DECEMBER 27, 2019
Every new project comes as a delight to client-centric companies, as they get a golden opportunity to uplift their business growth. However, the factor that decides whether they will thrive or fail at the end is their project management efforts. It is very important to put in all the efforts with all your heart into a project because to meet clients’ expectations regarding deliverables.
Time Management Technique That Will Make You Productive
Proofhub
DECEMBER 23, 2019
How to Choose The Right Time Management Technique for You Time, they say, is the one commodity you always spend and will never be able to actually buy. You can’t save it up, and every morning your balance goes back to zero. Yet every second counts?—?in athletics, the difference between winning and total obscurity can be in the tenths of seconds. While you’ll never be able to get more time, by using strategies in time management you can organize your time more effectively so as to create opportun
The Big Payoff of Application Analytics
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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.
Difference Between Agile and Scrum
Agilemania
DECEMBER 24, 2019
To comprehend the difference between Agile and Scrum, first, we must have a better understanding of- What is Agile? What is Scrum? The post Difference Between Agile and Scrum appeared first on Agilemania.
Lessons Learned – Capture and then Release
Project Management Resource Network
DECEMBER 21, 2019
Lessons learned, first you capture the lessons and then release what you learn. . Going through the project life cycle you will experience peaks and valleys, highs and lows. One would hope more peaks but, unfortunately there will be some lows. If you follow the practice of lessons learned then you benefit from the knowledge acquired throughout your projects. .
Change Management in Project Management- An Ultimate Guide
ProProfs Project Management
DECEMBER 24, 2019
In the business world, nothing is more pleasant than a flourishing client relationship. To ensure long-term client relationships, you have to be at your best to deliver projects on the promised time. Whenever you fail to meet the delivery date, your brand is likely to face the heat afterward. Generally, businesses, especially small ones, miss the project delivery date due to two factors: Tight Time Window.
Overview of my year 2019 book reviews
Henny Portman
DECEMBER 27, 2019
2019 was again a fruitful book review year. I wrote around 40 book reviews including corresponding quick reference cards and several personal insights, and views on specific topics in the field of project, program and portfolio management. Agility. Agile zoals het bedoeld is. How to survive the organizational revolution. Brave new work (English). Brave new work (Dutch).
Acclaim Projects Helps Deliver Innovation Projects on Time and on Budget
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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.
Happy Holidays!
Rebel’s Guide to PM
DECEMBER 23, 2019
It’s the end of the year, and I hope 2019 has been good to you. We’re closing the doors here at GirlsGuideToPM HQ, and we’ll see you again in January, with some special announcements about Project Management Rebels and all the usual brilliant articles, giveaways and freebies. Have a great end of year festive season and see you in 2020!
GanttPRO Achieves High Performer Award in G2’s Winter 2020 Report
GanttPRO Project Management
DECEMBER 27, 2019
GanttPRO is online Gantt chart software that helps individuals and teams manage tasks and projects. The tool has a short learning curve and offers an intuitive interface. A few minutes […].
Linus Torvalds
Musings on Project Management
DECEMBER 27, 2019
Here's a good TED talk with Linus Torvalds, the geek of geeks, and an early inventor of LINUX and Git Linus Torvalds transformed technology twice — first with the Linux kernel, which helps power the Internet, and again with Git, the source code management system used by developers worldwide. "I am not a visionary, I'm an engineer," Torvalds says.
Quick Reference Cards in 2019
Henny Portman
DECEMBER 27, 2019
As a result of my book reviews in 2019, I created several Quick Reference Cards to summarize what I have read. Portfolio Management, a practical guide. How to survive the organizational revolution. Brave new work (English). Brave new work (Dutch). Exponential organizations (English). Exponentiële organisaties (Dutch). Make disruption work. Flawless consulting.
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.
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