ProProfs Project Management
MAY 27, 2020
‘Let’s stamp this year with success,’ thoughts my business friend shared with me recently. I kept thinking about a few things, and the thought that kept hammering my brain was, ‘how can he manage business projects amid COVID-19 pandemic?’. So I shared my concerns with him openly. Contrary to what I had thought, he smiled and then revealed some fantastic tips on how to organize a project.
PM Basics
MAY 26, 2020
People often ask me what is a digital project manager ? And they ask because this role assumes fully online and remote work. On normal days without pandemics, everyone wishes to work remotely and have freedom. Let’s review what is a Digital Project Manager. What is a Digital Project Manager? First of all let’s separate typical project managers working in the IT industry from a Digital PM.
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Proofhub
MAY 26, 2020
Micromanagement At The Workplace: Here’s How It Is Destroying Your Team Micromanagement at the workplace is the worst thing that you can do to a team. The article discusses everything from the signs of a micromanager to tips on how to stop micromanaging your team. Are you never satisfied with your team’s work? Do you always feel frustrated that you would have employed a different approach for a task than your team member?
Kiron Bondale
MAY 24, 2020
Sabina Nawaz’s article “ In Times of Crisis, a Little Thanks Goes a Long Way “, which was published this week on HBR.org, is a great reminder of the need we all have to be appreciated. In a blog post from a few years back I’d written that team members need to possess sufficient Capacity, Capability and Commitment to contribute towards the success of the team.
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Teamweek
MAY 28, 2020
Trello is a task management tool for agile teams. Despite Trello’s popularity as a simple, Kanban tool, it has some major shortcomings. There are three main reasons why users look for Trello alternatives: No planning features : Trello is great a simple task management. But it has no features for project planning. Trello makes it difficult to plan projects longer than a couple of weeks.
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The Lazy Project Manager
MAY 26, 2020
Not a Project Manager? But you are a Project Manager? Then book your place on this Free webinar. [link]. The Informal Project Manager. There are three strata inside organisations today. There is ‘Business As Usual’ (BAU) what your business is all about, what do make, what you sell, what you offer, there are ‘Projects As Projects’ (PAP), the big scary changes that demand a full-time project manager, and ‘Projects As Usual’ (PAU).
Scrum.org
MAY 27, 2020
This piece was co-penned by Alex Kudinov and Erica J Henson. Shu-Ha-Ri has been a frequent topic within Agile communities for years to capture the essence, the progress of the journey we embark on as we grow and learn better ways of working. Many Agile leaders have written about Shu-Ha-Ri, from Martin Fowler to Alistair Cockburn—both creators of the Agile Manifesto.
The Digital Project Manager
MAY 26, 2020
The post List Of The 10 Best Agency Management System Tools For 2020 appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.
Planio
MAY 27, 2020
There’s a saying in the music industry that the easiest way to ruin a song is to keep working on it. Add enough effects, extra guitar parts, or more cowbell, and you’ll turn Woody Guthrie into Guns N’ Roses. Knowing when a piece of art is “done” is subjective and often difficult to define. But that can’t be the case with your project. Without a clear definition of done , your development team doesn’t know what they’re working towards, your stakeholders are free to increase the scope, and your us
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
Musings on Project Management
MAY 27, 2020
There's a new tension in town. Remote v Local 30M+ Americans have jobs and are working from home (the Remotes) 60M+ Americans can't work from home (the Locals), and 50% of them may not have jobs. If that's not enough to amp the tension between the haves and have-nots, then consider the risk management regime of each: The Remotes have a much lower risk environment from Covid-19, but also.
Scrum.org
MAY 29, 2020
What's up awesome people! I hope you are staying safe and healthy. In 2018, I wrote a blog about Scrum and DevOps. Interestingly, many people shared that blog on the internet. But on the other spectrum, many people today still asked me whether they should choose Scrum or DevOps if their organisation wants to go towards agile transformation. One of the reason they wanted to go with DevOps is because they assume DevOps is only about using tools hence they think it is easier to do while using Scrum
Leading Agile
MAY 26, 2020
When I first thought of writing this article, I struggled with how best to talk to these perceived different approaches. Questions of how does Agile apply to infrastructure and what does TBM have to do with Agile were in my mind. A simple google search reveals just a slim number of articles and these are mainly based on the theory of how these concepts come together vs. real-life learnings.
LiquidPlanner
MAY 28, 2020
“Dear Elizabeth: I am working with a vendor and they have sent over a statement of work (SOW) for me to review. The problem is that I don’t know what I’m looking for. What should I take note of in the document so I can give them feedback and also protect the interests of the company and project going forward?”. Statements of work are very common in project management, so you are going to come across many more in your career.
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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.
Musings on Project Management
MAY 24, 2020
The oldest technique in the book, indeed before there were even books, is "acceptance" To drive a car is to accept the risk that the other driver isn't too drunk, too sleepy, too unskilled, too distracted, too whatever To take on debt is to accept the risk that you'll have the means to repay without bankrupting yourself To take on unsecured credit is to accept the risk (trust, really) that.
Scrum.org
MAY 29, 2020
Introduction. I was asked by at a client to help them with delivering customer-validated products faster and with more flexibility. To better understand the problem at hand, I collected data from the teams doing company-wide retrospective and awareness sessions. We used this data to craft a possible future state of the development organization inspired by the LeSS principles.
MPUG
MAY 24, 2020
In our current, fast-paced world, businesses need to be flexible to stay competitive. It isn’t the best who prevail, but those who can quickly adapt to new requirements. In IT—especially software development—traditional project management approaches are too rigid and out-of-date. Even if a customer requirement appears straightforward, it is very difficult to estimate a forecast on effort and necessary development time.
PM Basics
MAY 27, 2020
I’m so glad to see you here because I want to discuss how to be a good project manager. Or how to become a better project manager. So I’ll share some tips and my observation from my nine years of practical experience as a PM in the software industry. . Okay, first of all, and it’s one of the most important things that I am going to tell you today: 1.
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Teamweek
MAY 28, 2020
Tax time cometh. A bit later this year, at least for Americans, since in light of the coronavirus pandemic, the IRS extended the deadline to file and pay federal income taxes for 2019 to July 15 th , 2020, but it comes all the same, as it does every year. If you’re a freelancer or sole proprietor of a business, or a W-2 employee who needs to keep track of billable hours, and you haven’t already set up a system for tracking your work income, it might be a little late in the game to do so for last
Scrum.org
MAY 28, 2020
With the new normal, online training has exploded, but potential students are confused about what makes a great online training course and the results seem hit and miss. No one wants to sit through a 400 page, death by PowerPoint ordeal, so what should you look for when you’re looking for a great online Scrum Training experience? 1. Zero Powerpoint, tailored training.
Proofhub
MAY 28, 2020
What Types of SaaS Tools Do I Need for My Company? According to statistics, 38% of companies have been doing business almost completely relying on SaaS applications, on average using 34 different tools. Nothing explains the importance of SaaS solutions like the statistical data and reports based on the numerous users’ experience. And, the ones that are using them are reaping the benefits.
Leading Answers
MAY 26, 2020
People are smart, resourceful and inventive. We are also dumb and irrational. This combination makes forecasting nearly impossible. People build cities, express themselves through art, and push forward our understanding of the world through science and logic. At the same time, they exhibit cognitive bias and often behave in ways that defy this same science and reasoning.
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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.
International Institute for Learning
MAY 26, 2020
By Scott Ambler | Vice President, Chief Scientist of Disciplined Agile at Project Management Institute. [This post is a supplement to Scott’s upcoming keynote at IIL’s Agile & Scrum 2020 Online Conference ]. The DA tool kit supplies straightforward guidance to help you, your team, and your enterprise increase your effectiveness. The DA tool kit shows you how to apply and evolve your way of working (WoW) in a context-sensitive manner with this people-first, learning-oriented hybrid agil
Scrum.org
MAY 26, 2020
TL; DR: The Agile Movers & Shakers Interview w/ Christiaan Verwijs & Barry Overeem. Today we welcome Christiaan Verwijs & Barry Overeem. Christiaan and Barry are both Professional Scrum Trainers (PST) with Scrum.org, dedicated early adopters of Liberating Structures, and co-authors of the upcoming Zombie Scrum Survival Guide. Christiaan Verwijs Barry Overeem Do you want to get future articles in your inbox?
Henny Portman
MAY 29, 2020
It looks like my forest is changing into a jungle. This time I added Agile PM 2. Agile PM 2 is an extension of PM 2 (initiative of the European Union, see: [link] ). To be honest I have some problems with this initiative. As a European citizen, I ask myself, looking at my agile forest, why do we need to spend tax money to develop a new (agile) methodology when there are already so many frameworks and methodologies available?
Leading Agile
MAY 28, 2020
Listen to the SoundNotes Podcast on the go! Find and subscribe to SoundNotes on: Apple Podcasts. Google Play. Spotify. Soundcloud. RSS. Getting a few teams up and running using Scrum, Kanban or some other form of Agile is great. But that doesn’t necessarily mean your organization has become Agile. This week in SoundNotes, Dragos Dumitriu joins Dave for a conversation about the difference between spinning up a few teams and truly achieving business Agility.
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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