The Strategic Project Manager
MAY 10, 2022
Rick Mauer has developed a simple and common sense framework for dealing with resistance to change. It is profound in its simplicity – and can really make an impact on how you manage resistance through the change process. This post outlines what the 3 levels of resistance are, how you can approach people at each level, and its usefulness for strategic project managers.
LiquidPlanner
MAY 9, 2022
Planning for Failure can Produce Success. Have you heard the project management saying that failing to plan is planning to fail ? Thinking about that a little more deeply, do you think we might be better off if we plan for failure ? The need for resiliency should not be discounted. For much of the last century, business plans, strategies, and economic theories were predicated upon the behavior of rational actors.
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MPUG
MAY 10, 2022
A Getting Started Guide. According to the 15 th State of Agile Report, 94% of companies are practicing Agile. This statistic is somewhat misleading as it does not mean that all of these companies are receiving benefits or even successful with their Agile approach. That said, many companies are trying to find ways to incorporate Agile methods. When I work with customers, often the biggest challenge they face is trying to explain their Agile needs in a simple way.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
MAY 11, 2022
This is a guest contribution from Monica Georgieff, Agile Coach and Trainer at AgileSherpas. Monica Georgieff. What does this current year have in store for marketers running projects? So far, the outlook for modern business means dealing with the effects of the pandemic on the workplace, uncertainty, crisis, and a volatile global situation. . However, beyond the bad news we’ve had to deal with since the beginning of this year, these changing circumstances have ushered in a different kind
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ProjectManager.com
MAY 9, 2022
Managing a project is a very challenging, but project evaluation makes it easier. Everything starts with careful planning, which sets the stage for the execution phase where estimations, plans and schedules guide the project team as they complete tasks and deliverables. But it’s not as simple as it sounds, project managers need to keep track of costs, tasks and time during the whole project life cycle to make sure everything goes as planned.
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Scrum.org
MAY 10, 2022
Co-authored by: Chris Conlin and Mark Wavle. As Scrum.org professionals, we have coached, trained and mentored thousands of Scrum Masters and consulted the organizations they work with, and we’ve consistently encountered similar issues that not only limit Scrum Teams from thriving, but also restrict empiricism from working. This stifles the advantage that Scrum and Agile can bring to teams and organizations. .
Rebel’s Guide to PM
MAY 9, 2022
What is EMV? EMV is a risk analysis tool that helps establish the contingency reserves for your project activities. It’s a statistical technical for quantifying risk. At the end of it, you get a decision tree that summarizes the financial impact of following a course of action. Using expected monetary value allows you to calculate the profit and loss of an activity, whether that’s a whole project, or part of a project, taking into account different scenarios.
ProjectManager.com
MAY 12, 2022
Producing things isn’t cheap. There are so many costs that occur during production that it can be hard to track them all. These costs are what is called manufacturing overhead. Let’s define manufacturing overhead, look at the manufacturing overhead formula and how to calculate manufacturing overhead. What is Manufacturing Overhead? Manufacturing overhead is part of a company’s manufacturing operations, specifically, the costs incurred outside of those related to the cost of direct materials and
Planio
MAY 9, 2022
After running Planio for more than a decade, I’ve come to learn that managers and leaders often wear blinders. Even if we think we’re being open and understanding, underneath it all, we think we know best. And that’s a problem — especially on remote teams. As Planio moved to a fully remote work setup, I’ve made it my mission to create more psychological safety across the company.
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
Scrum.org
MAY 10, 2022
Fourth blog, in a blog series about the upcoming book: Creating Agile Organizations - A Systemic Approach, by Cesario Ramos & Ilia Pavlichenko. Resisting change during adoption is a normal human reaction. It is not a sign that a team or a particular department lacks courage or abilities. Also, it is not necessarily a sign that a particular framework or method is bad.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
MAY 9, 2022
This article was inspired by Ben Snyder’s book, Everything’s a Project: 70 Lessons from Successful Project-Driven Organizations. How can I deal with a team member with a bad attitude? “How can I deal with a project team member whose attitude sucks?”. That was what a reader got in touch to ask recently. It got me thinking about times that I have had to manage a team member with a negative attitude and fortunately there haven’t been that many.
ProjectManager.com
MAY 10, 2022
Contract manufacturing lets businesses, which may not have the resources or the funds to invest in heavy machinery, collaborate with other companies to fill orders. Let’s take a closer look at the types of contract manufacturing and some examples of how it works! What Is Contract Manufacturing? Contract manufacturing is when one company enters into an agreement with another to produce components or products over a specific timeframe.
Online PM Courses
MAY 9, 2022
One of the hardest tasks for Project Managers is Project Estimation: predicting the future, despite the uncertainty. Meet the PERT method. The post Make Your Project Estimation More Reliable, Using the PERT Method appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.
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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.
Scrum.org
MAY 9, 2022
TL; DR: How to Pass the Product Owner Certification — Scrum.org’s PSPO I to III. The first article of this mini-series established that you do not need a certificate to become good at what you do, for example, working as a Scrum Master or Product Owner. However, getting certified may be a piece of sound investment advice. If you want to take advantage of the signaling power that Scrum certificates seem to have, the question is how to pass the Product Owner certification?
Rebel’s Guide to PM
MAY 11, 2022
If you are involved in any kind of project, you’ll know that project sponsors want to see regular reports. Today I’ve got something for you to make your life a bit easier! It’s a free project status report template that is based on one I use myself for weekly updates to my manager and team. You can adapt it as you see fit to ensure it covers things your colleagues would like to hear about.
ProjectManager.com
MAY 11, 2022
When you buy something new, it’s already been around for a while. By that, we mean that the product started as an idea, was created using materials and labor and was transported to the retail location in which it can be purchased. The steps to getting the product to you is the manufacturing process. The manufacturing process is often taken for granted, but not by manufacturers.
Growing Agile
MAY 12, 2022
Anyone who knows me knows I’m not a fan of estimation. Asking a team how big something is when they know the least about the item seems like a bad idea, but I do understand the need to know how long something will take. I was chatting to one of the leaders I’m currently working with when this came up (again) and she asked me ‘if you took your car to a garage wouldn’t you want to know when it will be ready?
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Scrum.org
MAY 9, 2022
Viele angehende Scrum Master berichten mir, dass sie jeden Tag pünktlich um 9:00 vor diesem Problem stehen: Die Entwickler bitten sie, das Daily Scrum zu moderieren. Sie wissen, dass sie ihr Team unterstützen sollen, indem sie sicherstellen, dass das Daily Scrum stattfindet, positiv und produktiv ist und weniger als 15 Minuten dauert. Das Tool der Wahl des Teams ist Jira.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
MAY 13, 2022
Noise hinders communication. It’s so obvious that I hesitate to say it. But it is often something that is overlooked when we are planning communication activities with stakeholders. Noise, in communication terms, means any interference that makes it harder for the stakeholder to firstly receive, then interpret the message and its meaning. Communication noise can have a profound impact on our perception of our communications – we can believe that we are doing far better than we actually are
Leading Answers
MAY 8, 2022
Agile approaches "Crossed the Chasm" a decade ago. The organizations we see adopting it today are in the "Late Majority" and "Laggard" categories of Geoffrey Moore's Technology Adoption Life Cycle. As companies adopt agile because they have to / it's now expected / the industry norm / required to stay competitive / , we see more push-back and failures than ever.
The Strategic Project Manager
MAY 13, 2022
How do you cope with change? The post is my rant about change – what it really is, and how we can cope with it. It transitions to change complexity, and what tools and approaches strategic project managers can use to manage it. Change. It’s been said – time and again – that, “The only constant is change.” Think about the ultimate resistance to change.
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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.
Scrum.org
MAY 12, 2022
We started this Scrum foundation series explaining we see four underlying concepts of the Scrum framework. In the past series of blog posts we covered the three pillars of Empiricism, and we covered the Scrum Values. Now that we understand that we need trust, which is built up by living the Scrum Values, to bring transparency and as such have a good basis to inspect and adapt, we can have a look at the self-managing aspect of the Scrum Team. ??
Rebel’s Guide to PM
MAY 10, 2022
This is an edited extract from Project Pain Reliever. I contributed this chapter (and another one) to the book. This one is about ensuring everyone buys into the project schedule. The One-Man Plan: A Story. Hans had spent a lot of time working on his project schedule. He knew what needed to be done and how long everything would take. Requirements gathering, that would take a couple of days, right?
Resource Guru
MAY 9, 2022
The Avengers. AFC Richmond. Pawnee’s Parks and Recreation Department. Besides the fact that we’d love to join each one of these fictional groups, what else do these legendary teams have in common? Legendary leaders. Nick Fury united Earth’s mightiest heroes together under a common cause. Ted Lasso taught his players the power of optimism and belief in themselves.
The Strategic Project Manager
MAY 8, 2022
The Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) Cycle, developed by W. Edwards Deming, provides a simple and effective means to create a virtuous cycle in an organization. It can help you to structure initiatives to solve problems and seize opportunities. This post looks at what the PDCA cycle is, dives into the specifics of the four steps, looks at pros and cons, and enumerates where it can enhance strategy and project management efforts.
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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