ProjectManager.com
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
You’ve made the product or developed a great service, now you need to create a marketing plan. Your marketing plan defines the strategies that your organization will use to reach target customers, outperform competitors and position your brand. There are many ways to approach marketing your product or service, but they all share one thing in common— they need an implementation plan.
Online PM Courses
SEPTEMBER 27, 2021
A contingency plan is a valuable part of risk management. It won’t stop a risk happening, but it gives you steps to follow if it does. The post What if? 10 Things to Build into Your Project Contingency Plan | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.
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Rebel’s Guide to PM
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
What does a business analyst do on a project, and how is that different to the role of the project manager? The headline is that the two roles serve different purposes but a lot of the skills used are similar across both positions. Let’s dive into the jobs and see how they work together to successfully deliver a project. The responsibilities of a BA and PM on a project.
Scrum.org
SEPTEMBER 27, 2021
In a recent class, a student asked, “What are the common difficulties teams face when starting with Agile?” To answer this question, I refer to the Tuckman Model of group development, shown below. . Tuckman. 1965. . The Tuckman model describes the phases that groups of individuals go through when they first begin working together as a team. In the first phase, Forming , teams are uncertain about the team goals and how to work together.
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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.
ProjectManager.com
OCTOBER 1, 2021
It can seem like magic. How do marketers conjure customers to buy the product or service they’re selling? It’s not hocus pocus or smoke in mirrors. It is far less exciting than any of those side-show tricks. To reach their target customers, marketers use content marketing tactics like blog posts, eBooks, case studies and social media. All of these channels are part of a content strategy that directs the content creation efforts you execute to meet the company’s marketing goals.
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Rebel’s Guide to PM
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
Since my book Collaboration Tools for Project Managers came out, one of the things I’m asked frequently is ‘how do I choose the right collaboration tool for my team?’. I’m delighted to be partnering with Genius Project today to bring you The 5 Step Expert Guide To Choosing Project Management Collaboration Tools. It’s everything you ever wanted to know about how to pick a project management tool for your team!
Scrum.org
SEPTEMBER 26, 2021
Have you ever completed a multi-billion-dollar project only to see it blow up in your face? Twice? If you answered yes, you’re in good company with the Galactic Empire. . The Rebel Alliance destroyed two Death Stars as well as their successor, the Starkiller Base, using similar tactics. If the Empire had used Scrum, the Death Star might never have been destroyed at all. . .
Project Bliss
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
It can be tough to make your virtual meetings more engaging. But doing so can ensure you’re getting the most value from the session, and creating an experience your remote meeting participants will enjoy. Meeting participants are by now accustomed to meeting online. But meeting virtually isn’t the same as sitting across the table from your teammates.
LiquidPlanner
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
Does your organization invest in a Project Management Office (PMO)? If you are reading this then you must be considering setting up a PMO or have concluded your approach to project management is not working and you are in the process of analyzing, dismantling and preparing to rebuild it. I’ve been through this process with several organizations – either building a PMO from scratch or rebuilding a failing one.
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
Rebel’s Guide to PM
SEPTEMBER 27, 2021
What happens when you are putting together your project plan and you don’t have all the answers? One way to deal with that is to use assumptions: an educated guess. An assumption is a way to simplify or otherwise fill in missing pieces of a project. Those gaps happen for a variety of reasons, and many often exist before a project begins. Perhaps some information or details are either only partially available or just not fully defined yet.
Scrum.org
SEPTEMBER 27, 2021
TL; DR: Product Owner Interview Questions: PO Anti-Patterns. If you are looking to fill a position for a Product Owner in your organization, you may find the following 76 interview questions useful to identify the right candidate. They are derived from my fifteen years of practical experience with Scrum and XP, serving both as Product Owner and Scrum Master and interviewing dozens of Product Owner candidates on behalf of my clients.
The Digital Project Manager
SEPTEMBER 27, 2021
This document management systems software review covers 10 tools and all the info you need: pros and cons, pricing, features, integrations, and screenshots to help you choose something that fits your needs. The post 10 Best Document Management Systems to Track & Store Docs [2021] appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.
Inloox
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
Kaizen is a life and work philosophy that originated in Japanese manufacturing technology, particularly in the post-war automotive industry. Today, this way of thinking is also considered an important pillar of long-term competitive strategies in the Western business world. In English, the concept has been adopted under the term Continuous Improvement Process (CIP) and is an essential component of innovation and quality management.
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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.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
Recently I was contacted by someone who wanted advice about which project management certification scheme to pursue. She asked whether she should take the Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM®) or the PRINCE2 Foundation. Is it possible to take CAPM and then PRINCE2 Practitioner or are the standards different, she asked? And are the Project Management Professional (PMP® ) and PRINCE2 seen as equivalent by employers in the UK?
Scrum.org
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
Recently, I spent some time with a few Product Owners (POs) who work at large financial services companies. I love spending time with people supporting the accountabilities of the Product Owner because I consider myself a product person and love listening to how others have solved many of the problems I still encounter when working on delivering products.
Scoro
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
Most senior managers are not project managers, which means there’s often a disconnect between how operations and projects are run. Despite this, the management style of your C-suite executives will still have a major impact on the performance of a project. Some senior executives want to know every detail of their projects – the dreaded and debilitating micromanagement that can be incredibly frustrating for project managers.
nTask
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
An RTM or a requirements traceability document is an important piece of information that depicts the relationship between the requirements and the other artifacts that make up the project in question. This document is also used to prove whether all of the requirements related to the project have been fulfilled or not. Some other things that this document consists of are tests, requirements, issues, and test results.
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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.
Planio
SEPTEMBER 27, 2021
Scalability is a big deal in enterprise development. When you’re working with massive companies, get a significant spike in users, or land a great white whale of a customer, you want to know that your infrastructure, tech, and team can handle the increased load. Unfortunately, smaller or younger teams with limited resources rarely think about this magnitude of scale.
Scrum.org
SEPTEMBER 26, 2021
I've been fortunate enough to have enjoyed a great Scrum career and, as I look back over the past two decades plus, I note that there is one thing, more than anything else, that took my career in Scrum to a whole new level. Not just a step change. I mean a massive leap forward! . The harder I worked, the luckier I got. Like most people I've met, I ended up finding Scrum by accident!
Agilemania
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
Core Values of Scaled Agile Framework ®. Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®) is the world’s leading framework for business agility. SAFe integrates four primary bodies of knowledge, namely Agile development, Lean product development, systems thinking, and DevOps, to help businesses deliver innovative products faster, predictably, and with the highest quality.
nTask
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
A project has multiple moving parts and individuals. It is a complex process to complete and deliver what can be seen as a successful project. Therefore, many elements can help you and your team reach this outcome. One such thing is the project cronograma. The project cronograma helps organize the events of the project in light of the project completion date.
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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.
Resource Guru
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
Years ago, I was handed a brand-new project to manage and needed to get my team up-to-speed—with a tight two-month deadline to launch and no room for errors. In order to onboard my team, I linked everyone to the project brief, added them to the project task board, and held a hasty all-hands meeting imparting the urgency of the deadline and asking everyone to let me know if they had questions after they read through the project docs.
Scrum.org
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
Many Scrum Teams make use of Velocity. In the right hands, it's an incredibly useful measure. In the wrong hands, it can become a tool of obfuscation and even oppression. Here's how: Velocity as a Measure. In the Professional Scrum Master course, there's an exercise that asks students what a desirable Velocity is. They work on this exercise in their teams and the answers they produce are always insightful.
Proggio
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
The one secret your project teams need to succeed is project team alignment. Project team alignment is when everyone on your team is focused on the same objectives that ultimately serve the greater good of the company’s strategy and goals. When you have project team alignment, you gain exceptional communication and engagement, and an improved performance to deliver.
nTask
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
Event planning is an exhausting process, you have to pay attention to the tiniest details to make sure everything goes according to the plan on the D-day. Even with acute planning and careful deliberation every step of the way, you cannot overrule the possibility of a setback so you have to be ever ready to tackle such a situation. Event management and project management are quite similar when it comes to the fundamentals.
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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