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10 Things Successful Project Managers Never Tolerate

Project Risk Coach

Project managers are not just managers. They’re leaders. Project managers shape and influence their project culture for good or bad. Tolerance can be a great trait. However, project managers must be deliberate in what we will tolerate and what we will not tolerate. Project managers must refuse to tolerate things that cause disorder, degradation, and uncertainty.

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9 Amazing Tips for New Managers

Proofhub

New To Management? Here Are 9 Tips To Help You Image Source: Pexels Finally, you have been promoted to be a manager after years of hard work or maybe you have been given an offer to work as a manager at a new company. Whatever the case it is, you have a new start and there are so many things to accomplish when you lead a team. It is also true that many managers do not receive any formal management training before they start their managerial role and can face various challenges while leading a te

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How To Motivate Your Project Team

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Ruth Pearce knows everything there is to know about motivating your project team. She’s even written the book on it. I caught up with Ruth to find out more about how to motivate teams and why it’s something you should be actively doing. Ruth, let’s start at the beginning. Why do you think motivation on project teams is so important? Because motivation is intrinsic.

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10 Best ClickUp Alternatives of 2022 (Free + Paid)

ProjectManager.com

ClickUp is project management software that promotes itself as “the one app to replace them all.” It’s a cloud-based tool that integrates with Zoom, Google Drive and GitHub and offers tools that foster collaboration and provide analytical insights. It’s true that ClickUp offers many features including a Gantt chart in addition to a dashboard, list and calendar view.

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Understand Digital Debt, Form a Team, Set Goals, and Plan Roadmap for Transformation

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.

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Scrum Events Reduce Meetings

Scrum.org

One of the first things that I usually hear after describing the Scrum framework and its five events to someone new to Scrum is, “that’s a lot of meetings!” . . I get it — at first glance, it seems like a lot. But it really isn't when I get the person to take a closer look. I explain that if they listed all of the meetings they have in one month, it would probably seem like a lot too.

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10 Secrets To Being a Good Sponsor

Rebel’s Guide to PM

What does it mean to be a great project sponsor? The project sponsor’s role is diverse. It’s far more than being a figurehead for the project. It’s a decision-making, direction-setting role. If you are leading a project in a sponsorship capacity, or want to sense-check that your sponsor is stepping up to meet their responsibilities, then I have something for you that will help.

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What Is Lead Time? How to Calculate Lead Time in Different Industries

ProjectManager.com

Projects are all about delivering a product or service. Whether you’re working in project management, manufacturing, supply chains or inventory management, you need to deliver something valuable to your customers. This is why lead time is so important. There are many stages between the initial idea and the finished product, and knowing your lead time enables you to deliver timely projects.

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Scrum and your Organizational Agility

Scrum.org

There is a popular myth that the scrum masters accountabilities ends with the scrum team and may not be required when the team becomes matured. As a result, many organizations limit the role of the Scrum Master to the team level. Nothing could be further from the truth. In this article, we'll explore the scrum master's accountabilities beyond the team in the service of the overall organizational agility and bust this myth once and for all.

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Do You Know How to Plan and Manage Reliable Project Compliance?

Online PM Courses

Understanding project compliance is not a negotiable skill-set. However, we are often left to figure it out for ourselves; learning as we go. The post Do You Know How to Plan and Manage Reliable Project Compliance? appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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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

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How To Pick Up A Project From Someone Else: 7 Proven Tips

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In the last couple of weeks I’ve turned into a woman who runs down Regent Street in ridiculous heels to get to her next meeting on time. Who has said, “Sorry, I’ve got a mouthful of lunch, hang on,” too many times on the phone because there isn’t enough time in the day not to work through lunch. Who has paid library fines even though the books are just there ready to go back, because she can’t get out of the office for 20 minutes to return them.

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Your guide to human resource planning processes

Resource Guru

Your employees are at the epicenter of your business operations. And just like the far-reaching impact of an earthquake, the shockwaves that result from poor human resource planning are felt throughout the organization—in the form of missed deadlines, stressed employees, and unhappy customers. A human resource planning process can prevent these issues by helping businesses forecast and balance staffing needs and customer demands.

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15 Sprint Review Anti-Patterns — Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide 2022

Scrum.org

TL; DR: 15 Sprint Review Anti-Patterns. Are we still on track to accomplish the Product Goal? Moreover, how did the previous Sprint contribute to our Scrum team’s mission? Answering these questions and adapting the Product Backlog in a collaborative effort of the Scrum Team with internal and external stakeholders is the purpose of the Sprint Review.

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How to Create an Effective Project Schedule

Ganttic

The first thing most people think of when they hear the words “project schedule” is a whole lot of charts and a whole lot of jargon. And while it’s true that many project scheduling systems involve much of the same worksheets, putting together a practical timetable for a project requires so much more. You need to consider both qualitative and quantitative data, all the while dealing with a limited budget, resource constraints, and time pressure.

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

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.

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7 Awesome Meeting Habits That Will Make You Money

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Let’s face it, most of us deal with unproductive meetings every day. You know the type of meetings I’m talking about: When the executives talk more about golf than how to improve profitability When you spend an hour figuring out which brand of gluten free hot dog to serve at the summer staff bar-b-q (I’ve actually suffered through that meeting) When somebody leaves the meeting every 10 minutes to check their cell phone Or how about when you spent 2 hours trying to come up with great new marketin

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5 Quintessential Work Management Tools For New Project Managers

Proofhub

Top Five Work Management Tools For New Managers In 2022 If you are a new manager, chances are that you are still trying to settle in a new role. When we take charge of a managerial position, it’s natural for us to get excited as well as anxious because there’s pressure to deliver. We want to prove ourselves in the new role. We want to be a Mr. Do It All , but you might end up trying too hard with little results to show.

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Scrum Scale Away

Scrum.org

. Scrum Scale Away (parody of Come Sail Away by Styx). Chad teaches many courses - whether you are new to Scrum or ready to take Scrum to the next level. He may even play a song or two at the end of your course! You can view upcoming courses in the United States Central Time Zone at wisconsinagility.com/training. Or check out what Chad is up to at WisconsinAgility.com . .

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Resource Guru turns 10 ?? 

Resource Guru

Cast your mind back 10 years to 2012. It was the year Barack Obama was re-elected as President. The year the Olympic Games were held in London. And the year Queen Elizabeth celebrated her Diamond Jubilee. But way, way bigger than all that… Resource Guru was born! This month we’re celebrating our 10th anniversary so we thought we’d take a moment to pause and take stock of the journey we’ve been on since those heady early days back in May 2012.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

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.

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How 6 Real Managers Get A Work/Life Balance

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Work/life balance comes up time and time again when I speak to people. We’re all desperate for a bit more time in the day, either to fit in more work or to fit in more slippers-and-TV time or something in-between. An extra hour in my day would probably just mean more pushing Thomas trains around the wooden track while sneakily trying to respond to emails without the boys seeing me on my phone.

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Create a Custom Schedule Status Field in Microsoft Project

MPUG

Overview. Have you ever tried to use the default task Status field in Microsoft Project? This field uses the Status date that you set in your project (or the Current date if you have not set a Status date ) to calculate the current status of every task in your schedule. Once calculated, the Status field will return one of four values for each task in your project schedule.

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Guiding the organization in multi-skill development

Scrum.org

The sixth blog, in a blog series about the upcoming book: Creating Agile Organizations - A Systemic Approach , by Cesario Ramos & Ilia Pavlichenko. A successful team works together towards serving the business goals. The team skills required to do that are always changing. For example, a top technology at the moment will likely not be so in a couple of years.

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Work Breakdown Structure Examples (WBS) that You Can Use as References in 2022

GanttPRO Project Management

The concept of a work breakdown structure (WBS) is widely used to represent the project’s scope and deliverables in a hierarchical way. Sometimes the structure may seem confusing for beginners […]. The post Work Breakdown Structure Examples (WBS) that You Can Use as References in 2022 first appeared on GanttPRO.

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Acclaim Projects Helps Deliver Innovation Projects on Time and on Budget

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.

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The Time Is Now – Change the Way You Work In 2022 With Dynamic Planning

nTask

Has your business ever suffered a setback because you “stuck to the plan” a bit too stiffly? Well, making and following plans is a big part of businesses but plans do not guarantee success. Revisiting, reviewing, and readjusting your plan according to the situation, however, might put you on the right track. And that is […].

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When a PM Must Communicate Bad News

MPUG

Setting the Stage. Communication is a fuel that drives project success. In fact, various experts have claimed that communication is the most important skill for a PM. Obviously, this includes how a PM handles the sharing of bad news. Bad news does happen on projects, and how you deliver it can make all the difference on your credibility and possibly your future.

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Prinzipien sind essentiell für Produkterfolg

Scrum.org

Worum geht es? Scrum ist ein leichtgewichtiges Rahmenwerk um komplexe Probleme zu lösen. Die Regeln wie wir sie im Scrum Guide finden sind wichtig. Und dennoch wage ich zu behaupten, dass die unterliegenden Prinzipien noch wichtiger für einen nachhaltigen Produkterfolg sind. Erst dann kann das volle Potential von professionellem Scrum genutzt werden. .

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Contingency Plan in Project Management

ActiveCollab

Smart managers are always on the lookout, focusing on hidden risks that can sidetrack any project or business. Without a contingency plan, there is no risk management recovery plan. Even if your plan was designed with the help of planning software, it could fail anytime. You can apply a contingency plan to any business or organization. Government institutions, for instance, use it to prepare for an economic crisis, like those we experienced in 2008 or during the coronavirus pandemic.

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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.