Workamajig
APRIL 9, 2019
A great project plan can make your life as a project manager much easier. Learn how to create a project plan in this detailed guide. It all starts with the project plan. While we’ve talked about communication plans , risk management plans , and even work breakdown structures , we haven’t written about the one plan that rules them all: the project plan.
Musings on Project Management
APRIL 11, 2019
A good system is one in which the risks are visible Nassim Nicholas Taleb Nassim Nicholas Taleb, most famous for authoring "The Black Swan: the impact of highly improbable fragility", also has a just-as-interesting book: "Antifragile: things that gain from disorder" Taleb's objective for this book is to be the definitive explanation of the spectrum of fragile (read: Black Swan,
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ProjectManager.com
APRIL 10, 2019
Entrepreneurs are committed, energetic, can-do people. That description can also fit your typical project manager, which makes sense because launching a business is a project. I’ve done it a few times, so I know. I cashed out of the biggest startup I built when it stopped being a project and started being a business. I see two big differences between a natural entrepreneur, and a skilled PM.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
APRIL 8, 2019
As I’ve got older and more experienced I’ve also got lazier when it comes to preparing for meetings. Recently I was completely caught out when I checked my diary in the morning. That afternoon I had four external people coming in for a meeting that I had forgotten about! It was an informal pre-kick off meeting for something that might turn into a project.
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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.
Project Risk Coach
APRIL 8, 2019
Most of us have personal and career goals. Our ability to achieve those goals is dependent on our risk management skills, that is our ability to manage opportunities and threats. We seek to make good things happen and to eliminate or reduce the bad things. Through the years, I have captured my favorite quotes related to the art and science of risk management.
Project Management Update brings together the best content for project management professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
ProjectManager.com
APRIL 8, 2019
Are you being productive or are you simply being busy and wasting energy? Jennifer Bridges, PMP, shows you the difference in this instructive video on how to really be productive. Here’s a screenshot of the whiteboard for your reference. In Review – Busy vs. Productive: Why Being Busy Isn’t Always a Good Thing. Do you feel as if you’re running around all day?
Kiron Bondale
APRIL 7, 2019
When we are managing projects using a predictive delivery approach, dependency identification and tracking is done as part of the BPUF (Big Planning Up Front) exercise using the activities from a work breakdown structure and the collective wisdom of our team members and key stakeholders. If a major scope or solution approach change is identified afterwards, the impacts of addressing new dependencies is usually considered in the analysis of the change request.
Scrum.org
APRIL 7, 2019
This is the first part of a 2-part blog post series about dealing with very large Product Backlog items. Part 1 intends to focus on the Scrum Team, Part 2 will be released shortly after our Webinar on April 29th and will focus on the “Epic” challenges agile leaders are facing. Product Backlog is not an event in Scrum, but has its place in the Scrum Guide and therefore the Scrum Framework.
Musings on Project Management
APRIL 8, 2019
Risk un-management? Perhaps the largest task within risk management, and requiring the greatest judgment, is "risk un-management" On any project there are going to be dozens, perhaps hundreds, of unmanaged risks. These comprise the population to be un-managed. I doubt this is news to anyone, but these are, as a group, more numerous than those selected for the usual risk management paradigm.
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
ProjectManager.com
APRIL 9, 2019
“How much detail do we need for our release plan?”. This is an important question to ask at the beginning of a software development project, or in the case of a long-standing product team, before the development of a major release of a system. The answer to this question will determine the amount of initial effort that we put into documenting our plan, as well as how much effort we will need to maintain the documented plan over time.
nTask
APRIL 10, 2019
It goes without saying that you can’t successfully run a team without formally documenting goals and objectives. That’s just like a shot in the dark. The talented employees that you have would be of no use if they don’t have a common objective to look forward to. Ever wondered how the giants of the industry slay the market with ever growing revenues?
Scrum.org
APRIL 10, 2019
Are we really a Team? . Looking back a couple of years ago, I had a chance to work with the great team. Yes! They are a great team, but not from the beginning.that was a broken team when I came. - The team used Scrum but the Transparency was lost. Development Team hid issues from Product Owner when he came to ask. They said: “All good!", but actually, they were deep in Bugs & Impediments and couldn’t deliver working software. - Team complained about the goal was changed frequently by the Product
LiquidPlanner
APRIL 11, 2019
Here at LiquidPlanner we’ve identified four main stages our customers go through to optimize their projects and processes. Our most successful customers don’t try to “eat the elephant,” so to speak, as soon as they buy LiquidPlanner. They know that change and progress occur in steps. Throughout this series of blog posts, we’ll discuss each of the four stages to LiquidPlanner success.
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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.
ProjectManager.com
APRIL 11, 2019
Most of us like to paint ourselves in a positive light. It can be hard to admit to a mistake, especially at work where our professional reputation (and salary) is on the line. But if you start to notice that you or one of your coworkers always seems to be taking credit, seeking praise and avoiding blame, then it’s likely that self-serving bias has reared its ugly head.
Henny Portman
APRIL 9, 2019
If you look at the AgilePM (The DSDM Agile Project Framework) documentation set-up you could ask yourself if it’s not too much for an agile way of working? In AgilePM the following documents are described: Terms of Reference. Business Case. Prioritised Requirements List. Solution Architecture Definition. Development Approach Definition. Delivery Plan.
Scrum.org
APRIL 11, 2019
Intended audience: Scrum masters, Product owners, Managers and Agile coaches. I was working with various groups over the last year and noticed some commonalities in the problems they faced. In this blog I want to share some common collaboration problems and solutions I experimented with. 1. Lack of product focus. The lack of product focus is related to a series of underlying product related problems.
LiquidPlanner
APRIL 9, 2019
I spend much of my life outside of LiquidPlanner in and around bodies of water. I’m a passionate open water swimmer — marathon swimming , in particular—and a big part of that passion is giving back to the sport. Some swimmers help out at races in various capacities, some crew for other swimmers, but I volunteer my time as a race director. Directing an open water swim race is much like being a wedding coordinator, an event planner, or a circus director—it’s even like being a project manager!
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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.
Resource Guru
APRIL 9, 2019
Employee turnover is an expensive problem plaguing modern workplaces – can a cure be found? There’s a growing tension between employees and employers. At first glance, both parties have the common goals of creating fulfilling workplaces, fit for purpose, in an increasingly stressful and demanding world. But something just isn’t working. Employees report feeling dissatisfied with their work environments as employers keep expanding benefit packages and adapting offices to look more like play
Proofhub
APRIL 8, 2019
12 Best Collaboration Tools To Keep Projects on Track Successful teams thrive on one thing?—?collaboration. It is the force that binds individuals together and gets things done. In fact, an increasing number of companies are focusing on team collaboration more than ever. Luckily, technology offers abundant options when it comes to team collaboration tools and online communication software.
Scrum.org
APRIL 8, 2019
Organizations are always on the lookout to cut costs and scale back when they have unfavorable reporting periods. Hiring freezes, and cutbacks in training and traveling tend to be popular and convenient. These costs are tangible and easy to track. These are only marginal to the true savings they could get by removing the ‘invisible taxes’ most organizations are paying without even tracking.
TeamGantt
APRIL 10, 2019
Making time for project planning is easier than you think. See how to fit it into your weekly and daily schedule so you can stay on top of your project plans.
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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.
Henny Portman
APRIL 11, 2019
The book An executive’s guide to disciplined agile – Winning the race to business agility written by Scott W. Ambler and Mark Lines give a good overview of Disciplined Agile. Disciplined Agile (DA) provides light-weight guidance to help organizations streamline their Information Technology (IT) and business processes in a context-sensitive manner. DA provides the process foundation for business agility.
Leading Agile
APRIL 11, 2019
Organizations embracing an Agile approach to their work value their ability to inspect and adapt. They value the ability to continually learn and deepen their understanding of what problems they are trying to solve so that they can inspect and adapt toward a better solution. The challenge is that just because we’re Agile and we want to inspect and adapt our way to a better solution doesn’t mean that we can ignore the constraints of scope, cost, and time.
Scrum.org
APRIL 10, 2019
Flow of work and, most importantly, value is paramount. There are times when you keep looking at the process and don’t understand what is going on, what is wrong, and why stuff is not getting to done. All the answers to questions asked sound like a bunch of excuses (they most likely are not, but a bit later on this). The delivery, for which a burndown chart is an OK proxy, looks like a knife fall of a broken guillotine – the head was severed half the way leaving the victim suffering in the terri
Wrike
APRIL 9, 2019
Imagine that you were going to build a house. Would you jump right in and dig a hole for the basement, crossing your fingers that you’d figure things out as you went along? Probably not. Before so much as picking up a single tool, you’d form a plan. You’d get an understanding of all of the different steps and teams that would be involved. You’d figure out the order that tasks needed to be accomplished in (after all, you can’t put on a roof before you have walls).
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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