Kiron Bondale

MARCH 25, 2018

Sprint planning is one of the standard events within the Scrum framework. This ceremony or an adapted version has also been incorporated within other agile delivery frameworks which time-box the work of teams. The purpose of the ceremony is to align the team on what they will be working on during the upcoming sprint to ensure that their efforts are focused on delivering the highest priority work items in a quality manner while maintaining a sustainable pace of work.

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The Digital Project Manager

MARCH 27, 2018

Project managers have mixed emotions about project management tools that trigger both advantages and drawbacks, The post Spreadsheets: Why Project Managers Love Them & Hate Them appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Musings on Project Management

MARCH 27, 2018

Are you a predictor or a predictee? Actually, for this posting it doesn't matter This is about the qualities of a prediction, for which I am drawn to the book "The Signal and the Noise: why so many predictions fail -- and some don't" by Nate Silver Silver lays out three principles to which all prediction should adhere: Think probabilistically: all predictions should be for a range of.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 28, 2018

General information. Name: Teamdeck. Vendor: Teamdeck. Hosting options: Web only. It doesn’t look like there is an app available. Languages: English. Cost: Free 14-day trial, then the Startup plan is free but limited to 6 members without basic resources (which are people who don’t need software access but you do want to be able to allocate them on resource calendars).

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Project Risk Coach

MARCH 26, 2018

Poor project quality can have profound effects on projects resulting in rework, schedule delays, higher cost, frustration, morale problems, and lack of customer satisfaction. Project managers cannot afford to miss the mark here. Quality matters. When buying eyeglasses, what do people look for? One person may focus on features such as the frame style.

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LiquidPlanner

MARCH 27, 2018

Perhaps you’ve been visiting our website for a while now, reading blog posts and watching videos, but you haven’t used our software yet. Or maybe you’ve just learned of us, and you’re on the hunt for a new project management tool. Interested in LiquidPlanner? Start your free trial today. Whatever your reason for starting a trial, we want to help you make the most it.

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Online PM Courses

MARCH 26, 2018

When you are in a Project Leadership role, you will have a lot to do. As well as managing your project day-to-day, you’re responsible for the people. They look to you for leadership and guidance. But, with so many responsibilities, it can be hard to know what are your leadership priorities? Often, it is the soft skills that are hardest to practice.

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Leading Answers

MARCH 29, 2018

I am gathering names for my next Calgary based PMI-ACP Exam Prep course. Please let me know via email to Mike LeadingAnswers.com if you are interested in reserving a spot on the next 3-day Calgary based PMI-ACP Exam preparation.

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Binfire

MARCH 25, 2018

This is a Guest Post by Jessica Watson: Individual’s skills, knowledge, and efforts cannot achieve the targets in a limited time. Teamwork is the best and mind-blowing solution to meet all the goals. A team consists of all individuals who possess skills, knowledge, and intelligence. So collaboration can achieve extraordinary results. If you are an entrepreneur and assigning each task to an individual, then you are making a mistake because the output of the work will not achieve the goals i

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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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Gunther Verheyen

MARCH 27, 2018

While developing my book “ Scrum – A Pocket Guide ” (2013) I described how there is value in the Scrum Values. In 2016 the Scrum Values were added to the Scrum Guide. As part of an on-going translation initiative by a group of international enthusiasts I have created a poster of the Scrum Values, now available as a free download (PNG): The Scrum Values (poster).

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PM Basics

MARCH 27, 2018

Almost all project management resources on the Web provide “project management templates” to download. I get it. People are looking for a shortcut or inspiration. Why would you invent the wheel if there are templates out there? Well, I think you are shooting in your own foot with such approach. Here is why: Universal Uselessness. The best templates should fit all the projects.

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Leading Answers

MARCH 29, 2018

I am gathering names for my next Calgary based  PMI-ACP  Exam Prep course. Please let me know via email to Mike LeadingAnswers.com if you are interested in reserving a spot on the next 3-day Calgary based PMI-ACP Exam preparation course held late May / early June 2018. We can do Wed, Thu, Fri or Thu, Fri, Sat – let me know your preference.   Evolution of the PMI-ACP Credential.

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Fix my Project Chaos

MARCH 29, 2018

Kestrel Stone: Why Developmental Training Is An Absolute Must For Project Managers Project Managers are uniquely positioned to bring more than just project outcomes to the business place, and no one knows that better than Kestrel Stone. During her 13 years of project management on various projects, Kestrel developed a highly-effective method for structuring her […].

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Prince2

MARCH 26, 2018

This month’s blog entry comes from guest blogger and PRINCE2 certified Project Manager, Phil Doyle. Phil has a strong interest in metrics and process improvement and has worked in a variety of project management roles, particularly in the IT sector. He’s also passionate about what he describes as the ‘fusion of the theoretical and the actual’: how best practice methodologies could have helped real-life projects.

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Workzone

MARCH 25, 2018

Whether you’re a small business using Excel to manage your activities , or work for a global brand and use Microsoft Project to oversee your marketing campaigns, you’re likely to be using several communication methods to share, upload and exchange information across your organization. And as the number of communication channels continues to grow, we’re starting to live in a world on communication channel overdose!

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Leading Answers

MARCH 29, 2018

I am gathering names for my next Calgary based  PMI-ACP  Exam Prep course. Please let me know via email to Mike LeadingAnswers.com if you are interested in reserving a spot on the next 3-day Calgary based PMI-ACP Exam preparation course held late May / early June 2018. We can do Wed, Thu, Fri or Thu, Fri, Sat – let me know your preference.   Evolution of the PMI-ACP Credential.

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ProProject Manager

MARCH 27, 2018

Project recovery can be daunting. * Unsplash – Steve Carter. . In a good mood, you arrive in the office with your coffee and a spring in your step. You acknowledge your coworkers as you make your way to your desk. In your email, there’s a message from your boss requesting a meeting. Your coworker’s Project X is not on track and the boss wants you to do project recovery.

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Techno-PM

MARCH 27, 2018

Leave Calculator - Team Leave Plan Calendar Planning is a crucial phase in project management. A project manager whether managing a large or small project, needs to provide an approximate estimation of the project timeline which also takes into account the risk of the project dates being impacted if people go on planned/unplanned leaves. Leave Planner for Planning leaves on a month on month or annual basis, helps the project managers to plan things better and ensure that the project is not impac

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Musings on Project Management

MARCH 24, 2018

Almost everything written about leadership includes this idea: that leaders have the responsibility to set the cultural values of the organization and ensure such values are deployed widely. Fair enough But here's a case where it works in practice but not in theory: Culture is what the organizations' disparate polity say it is, including, by the way, the ideas of the leadership.

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TimeCamp

MARCH 30, 2018

Time Tracking for Engineers Engineers constitute a large part of every company. Very often, they.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 26, 2018

Regular readers will know that I try to share free project management templates once a month or so. The last one was some project organisation chart templates in PowerPoint that you could customise for your charters and other files. Today it’s the turn of the project communications plan. The comms plan is such an important part of your project.

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Boost by Brightpod

MARCH 27, 2018

We interviewed over 150 marketers to understand the tips and tricks to their productivity and how they manage to bring their marketing A game to work every day. We compiled all that data together and here’s a list of their top blogs they religiously follow and read every day.

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Musings on Project Management

MARCH 30, 2018

A study I read about started this way: Draw a picture of an effective leader Almost without exception, the picture was of a man. Ooops: what about the lady leaders?

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TimeCamp

MARCH 26, 2018

Why Integrate QuickBooks With Time Tracking Software? Quickbooks is an accounting software developed by Intuit.

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Susanne Madsen

MARCH 28, 2018

​I recently listened to one of Andy Kaufman’s podcasts about influencing techniques, and two thoughts in particular captured my attention in relation to how we interact with people on our projects. The first thought is that every interaction with others is an opportunity to either increase the connection with them or to break the connection.

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Speaker: Ketan Jahagirdar - Sopheon’s Director of Product Management

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