Planio
JANUARY 6, 2020
What’s the difference between a project manager and a project leader? If you’ve ever gone hunting for a definitive answer to this question, you probably ended up disappointed. Depending on your company’s size, policies, and management, these terms might be used interchangeably or they might signify wildly different roles. Leadership is a hot topic in every part of a growing business.
Project Bliss
JANUARY 6, 2020
This is a guest article from Gilad David Maayan. Agile has been a buzzword for many organizations in the last few years. And while many organizations are “adopting” an agile methodology, many are not fully embracing it. Effective implementation of agile requires a cultural shift. You need to actively work towards continuous improvement. To achieve this level of collaboration you need to be able to measure it.
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ProjectManager.com
JANUARY 6, 2020
Communication is the foundation of every good relationship, friendship or partnership. It’s fundamental to the way projects work, too. Without good communication, things can become overcomplicated. Remember the old Abbott and Costello sketch, “Who’s On First”? It’s a timeless illustration of a communication breakdown—now imagine that happening over a year-long project.
Runrun.it
JANUARY 9, 2020
Granted that the agile process isn’t the only effective workflow management methodology out there today, but it certainly is worth understanding more; organizations should at least consider how it can affect the way they work and produce in this day and age. Especially today, when many companies struggle to operate in a highly dynamic market that is in many ways different from what was the status quo for many years, it is only prudent to look at the possibilities the agile process can bring abou
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Project Management Essentials
JANUARY 5, 2020
Agile teams using the Scrum framework commit to delivering value in each development sprint. Sprints are generally 2-weeks long, and the goal is to create working software that can be deployed into production. While commitment is one of Scrum’s core values, in reality, teams do not always complete the work. This is commonly known as a “failed sprint.
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ProjectManager.com
JANUARY 7, 2020
Project management is an art of solutions. You have a project, and it has a means to complete it within the constraints of time, scope and cost. As rigid as some methodologies can appear, they’re surprisingly cooperative when combined with others to create a workable hybrid. For example, take scrum. Scrum is a great framework for helping teams work more productively together.
Bridge the Gap Consulting
JANUARY 5, 2020
“I want to get in shape, so I got a gym membership. What should I do?” I thought about what she was asking for a second. Many questions started popping into my head. Though I’m not a fitness instructor, I’ve helped a handful of friends run their first races and get in better shape. Being someone who works out 5-6 days a week, I’ve gotten some great tips from trainers that I work with regularly. “Well, what is your goal?
Trello
JANUARY 8, 2020
If you ever go on a road trip with my father and you need to grab a bite to eat, I’ll warn you that you’re going to be stopping at McDonald’s.
Scrum.org
JANUARY 9, 2020
The agile movement really has changed the way we lead our people. Giving them more freedom and autonomy to do their job often improves the quality, productivity ánd happiness of the people. Because knowledge workers (or highly educated people) don't need a boss to tell them what to do, they only need a healthy context or environment in which they can do their job.
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
Kiron Bondale
JANUARY 5, 2020
Over the past couple of years I have regularly heard companies, their portfolios and even individual projects referred to as Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS). With a CAS, understanding of the individual components does not convey an understanding of the whole, and reductionist thinking which can work so well with simple or even complicated systems is of limited use.
Musings on Project Management
JANUARY 9, 2020
You've got a big (big!) project with a lot of moving parts (different contractors doing different stuff). You've been told: Get yourself an SI! The questions at hand: what is a System Integrator (aka SI), and what do they do? Point 1: the term is "SI"; and the SI is an independent team, separate from the system engineer "SE" and the architect.
The Digital Project Manager
JANUARY 7, 2020
Why use risk management software? “Risk is an undesirable event, a probability function, a variety, The post The Best Risk Management Software For Enterprises and Midsize Businesses appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.
Scrum.org
JANUARY 4, 2020
How to start an Agile transformation? What are the initial steps? In this article I explain how transformations could be planned using Scrum Patterns and systems thinking. Study Organizational Context. Any collaboration with an enterprise starts with an immersion in organizational context using Gemba Walks and Go See approach. Observing how teams work, collaborate and conduct their regular events is crucial in understanding patterns of behavior that exist in organization.
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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.
Proofhub
JANUARY 6, 2020
Necessary Tools Checklist To Plan Your Time Working Remotely Working remotely can be both beneficial and challenging. The beneficial part is that you can work at any location you want and call your own hours. However, the challenge is that issues might arise regarding team building, team collaborations and team communication. Remote jobs have lots of perks, but it also takes a great deal of self-discipline and time management to succeed.
LiquidPlanner
JANUARY 9, 2020
In a competitive marketplace, businesses depend on high levels of productivity from their employees. There are orders to fill and deadlines to meet. However, your employees are human beings who can only work at a fast pace for so long. If the demands of the workplace become overwhelming, your staff will begin to show the signs of employee burnout. The Consequences of Employee Burnout.
The Digital Project Manager
JANUARY 6, 2020
Having a good task system where you take advantage of task management tools and task. The post The 10 Best Task Management Software For Getting More Work Done, Faster appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.
Scrum.org
JANUARY 9, 2020
Advances in Technology, Maintenance & Updates are not Technical Debt. Although I am going to use the term technical debt in this discussion. I am actively forming the opinion that this is the wrong term to be used both in how various assessments assess understanding and by practitioners in the agile community. The Scrum Guide does not contain the term technical debt.
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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.
ProProfs Project Management
JANUARY 9, 2020
Project management is one of those things that appears to be a relatively easy thing to accomplish — until you get started it. . As organizations grow, their ability to consistently manage and deliver projects starts to play a much bigger role. . Top organizations know that project management covers a lot of aspects, including: Ticking off every task in the project management calendar.
LiquidPlanner
JANUARY 7, 2020
The start of a new year is just that — a new start! It’s a chance to try something new, re-tailor and rework all your previous goals , plans, and activities. I hope your celebrations were filled with family, festivities, and food but now it’s time to get back to work. Think about how your last year went and what you want to change this year. If last year didn’t quite turn out the way you had hoped, take a moment and make a plan for change; otherwise, this year will be the same.
The Digital Project Manager
JANUARY 10, 2020
If you are a team with large projects to manage or looking for ways to. The post Kanban vs. Scrum: Key Differences & How To Choose appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.
Scrum.org
JANUARY 7, 2020
Do you frequently find yourself in Sprint Reviews that only consist of a PowerPoint presentation? Or entirely without users, customers and other stakeholders present? Or bored out of your wits because it keeps turning into a huge group conversation where people talk over others or keep revisiting topics that have already been addressed? For such an important part of the empirical process made possible by the Scrum Framework, the Sprint Review often receives the least attention in how it is facil
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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.
ProProfs Project Management
JANUARY 5, 2020
I get asked about project success criteria a lot, specifically about handling complex stages and elements of project management. So I thought let me start with handling the important and unpredictable elements crucial to project success- human resources. . Let’s understand the concept of human resources with the help of an example. . As a project manager , don’t we encounter such situations regularly wherein during the middle of a project, and suddenly the key developer or some important resourc
MPUG
JANUARY 5, 2020
Gantt chart is the default view in MS Project. Since the inception of MS Project (MSP), Microsoft engineers have used Gantt chart as the default, although I have often wondered why they didn’t choose some other view. I think Network diagram may have been a better choice, as it is a much better tool for network analysis, but, as discussed in my article on scheduling analysis , even though Network diagram is a good tool, it has its shortcomings.
The Digital Project Manager
JANUARY 8, 2020
Screen sharing tools can help with meetings, training, webinars, and other educational opportunities. It’s endlessly. The post The Best Screen Sharing Software and Streaming Hardware for Presentations appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.
Scrum.org
JANUARY 4, 2020
In my earlier article , I explained what Scrum Patterns are and why they could be useful for you in your transformation. In this blog, I discuss how to select and use the Scrum Patterns from the Pattern Languages. Scrum Pattern Languages. The patterns in our book organized into two pattern languages that contain 94 patterns in total — the Value Stream language structures time to deliver a product.
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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