Teamweek
MARCH 7, 2023
If you struggle to maximize your team’s utilization without overwork, you’re in the right place. In this article, you’ll learn how resource loading helps you achieve this seemingly impossible balance in project management. It’s a simple process that helps you: Forecast your team’s workload. Set the right expectations with stakeholders.
ProjectManager.com
MARCH 7, 2023
Planning an event can range from a meeting at work to a convention and everything in between. It’s another project where you have to manage time, cost and scope (and don’t forget quality) to deliver on a deadline. Using planning templates can help you stay organized and keep to your budget and they allow you to schedule and create the kind of event that serves its purpose, whether that’s networking at a trade show or launching a team-building workshop.
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Rebel’s Guide to PM
MARCH 6, 2023
Business Resilience: A practical guide to sustained progress delivered at pace is a book by an impressive authoring team. The tone is set immediately with the powerful introduction: this is not a book for the faint-hearted! To get the benefits of better business resilience, you need to commit at the most senior levels within the delivery and change organization, preferably at board level.
Project Risk Coach
MARCH 5, 2023
I've looked at many risk registers through the years, and I've had difficulty understanding the risks many times. The risk statements were vague and lacked consistency. In this article, let's explore the benefits of clear risk statements. Clarity Improves Understanding When it comes to understanding the risk associated with any project, clarity is key.
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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.
Scrum.org
MARCH 7, 2023
In this vlog , Professional Scrum Trainers, Andreanna Marshall and Scott Adams discuss the Risk Management strategy found in the Scrum framework. Risk management is a key element of any project, and understanding how Scrum applies risk management will help you successfully delivery value. Check out the video, leave a comment with your question(s), and subscribe for more content. ⏩ Click here to join Andreanna in Scrum.org courses. ⏩ Click here to join Scott in Scrum.org courses.
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Rebel’s Guide to PM
MARCH 7, 2023
This is a guest post by Mike Griffiths. “Fun” and “PMP Exam” are rarely used in the same sentence. Too often, training materials are text-based, process-focused, and dry. However, fun is a serious business in adult learning; it boosts retention and cuts study time. We recall facts about our favorite hobbies and sports teams much easier than boring information because our brains prioritize fun experiences for recall.
Resource Guru
MARCH 7, 2023
The saying goes that you can’t build a great building on a weak foundation. Sure, it might look good at first glance, with its fresh paint and shiny new facade. But as soon as there’s a slight tremble or a particularly strong gust of wind, everything can come crashing down. The same goes for projects. You need a strong foundation that can face any twist or turn that’s thrown your way.
Scrum.org
MARCH 6, 2023
Teil 1: Agile Projekte sind fast 1,5-mal erfolgreicher Laut der Studie von Zippia , den Karriereexperten, weisen agile Projekte eine Erfolgsquote von 64 % auf, während Projekte, die traditionell nach dem Wasserfall-Vorgehen umgesetzt werden, nur eine Erfolgsquote von 49 % haben. Als Resultat machen Unternehmen nach der Einführung agiler Arbeitsweisen im Schnitt 60 % mehr Gewinn.
Musings on Project Management
MARCH 4, 2023
Charlie Warzel has posed an interesting thought in an essay about the sundry impacts that may come about with ever more sophisticated AI tools in the workplace:Talking to AI may be the most important job skill of this centuryFor the moment, it's about writing or constructing a 'prompt'Warzel makes this point: "AI evangelists will similarly tell you that generative AI is destined to become the
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
ProjectManager.com
MARCH 8, 2023
Manufacturing is the process of putting together a product. Yes, there are many other factors, such as costs, time, quality and more. But all of those concerns are tied to the bill of materials, which collects the pieces that’ll be used to build the final product. A bill of materials, however, is more than a mere list. If you’re manufacturing anything, then you need to know what is a bill of materials, what is it used for and the types of bills of materials you’ll find in production.
Kiron Bondale
MARCH 10, 2023
A question was posed on my Mastodon instance this morning about combining the roles of Product Owner and Agile Lead (e.g. Scrum Master). The requestor felt that this was a bad idea but wanted to get feedback on whether it was, in fact, possible to do so and under what conditions would it not cause problems. To answer the question, we need to understand the responsibilities of each role.
Scrum.org
MARCH 8, 2023
In Kürze: Die drei Daily Scrum Fragen werden nicht verstummen Das Daily Scrum dient einem einzigen Zweck: der Überprüfung des Fortschritts auf dem Weg zum Sprint-Ziel, indem die Erkenntnisse von gestern aufgegriffen werden. Bei Bedarf passen die Entwickler dann ihren Plan an, um das Sprint-Ziel zu erreichen. Während die Theorie allgemein akzeptiert sein mag, ist die Umsetzung der Idee in der Praxis eine größere Herausforderung.
Online PM Courses
MARCH 8, 2023
You can't manage project risks until you know what you need to manage. So, let’s see the different ways to identify risks to your project. The post Risk Identification: How to Identify Project Risks | Video 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.
The Strategic Project Manager
MARCH 8, 2023
This post looks at the major elements of the Project Charter and how they link back to strategy. It focuses on how to write a Project Charter – and then asks ChatGPT what it would include in a Project Charter! How to Write a Project Charter The Project Charter is often the first document that the actual project manager of the project writes. Other documents, such as Business Case and Feasibility, are done prior to committing to the project – and a project manager who writes these ca
Resource Guru
MARCH 10, 2023
Productivity has always been a tricky subject. We’ve all seen the articles do the rounds on the internet; how to work, when to work, where to work—you name it. We know by now that the same rules don’t apply equally to everyone. So chuck the productivity roadmap for CEOs out the window and let’s talk about a practical technique that can help enable productivity: we’re talking about the time blocking method , of course.
Scrum.org
MARCH 5, 2023
TL; DR: The Three Daily Scrum Questions Won’t Die The Daily Scrum serves a single purpose: inspecting the progress toward the Sprint Goal by reflecting on yesterday’s learning. Then, if the need should arise, the Developers adapt their plan to accomplish the Sprint Goal. While the theory may be generally accepted, applying the idea to the practice is more challenging.
PM Times
MARCH 7, 2023
The flight from New York to London was without incident. The pilot avoided turbulence by requesting timely altitude changes, the flight attendants were attentive, and food and drinks were surprisingly pleasant. The landing, however, was a little rough and those last few seconds surely influenced some passengers’ opinion of this 7 ½ – hour flight. […] The post Projects are Fragile… Yet Their Failure Is Not Always Indisputable appeared first on Project Management Articles, Webina
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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.
Green Project Management
MARCH 8, 2023
Procurement is hardly an interesting topic for most people. In fact, the average person probably doesn’t even know what ‘procurement’ actually means. Most project managers understand that procurement is one of the ten knowledge areas in the Project Management Body of Knowledge. Depending on the industry you work in or the company you work for, […] The post What is sustainable procurement, and why should a project manager care?
International Institute for Learning
MARCH 8, 2023
By Gabor Stramb Nowadays, in Project Management you can only hear the following: Be more Agile – Agility is key – Running projects based on Waterfall is “dead”, “you are not open minded”. Transformation-Transformation-Transformation – more flexibility to be able to adopt, be adaptive, use hybrid project management.
Scrum.org
MARCH 7, 2023
In Scrum, the Product Owner is accountable for maximizing product value for the customer. That’s the focus of the entire Scrum framework, where value is delivered frequently and incrementally. But sometimes, the customer can jeopardize the value the Scrum Team is set to deliver. In some cases, the customer might have a work request that doesn’t warrant risking the value the Sprint Goal will deliver.
nTask
MARCH 8, 2023
Organizing projects, creating effective task management systems, and streamlining collaboration processes can seem like an impossible feat. Fortunately, you don’t have to manage it all yourself! Several great project management tools can help you keep your projects on track.
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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.
LiquidPlanner
MARCH 6, 2023
As you start using LiquidPlanner, your workspace will fill up with tasks and projects before you know it. Editing work items one by one can grow tiresome and slow you down. Did you know that you can edit multiple plan items at once using built-in Bulk Edit features? LiquidPlanner is designed to do the hard work for you so you have time to focus on what matters.
WorkOtter
MARCH 5, 2023
The global project management software market reached a size of $6 billion in 2021. There’s a lot involved in project management, so it takes plenty of skill and knowledge to be able to do things right. Software can be very helpful, but you still need to understand the different types of resources in project management. These are what you’ll have at your disposal throughout a project so that you can complete it as needed.
Scrum.org
MARCH 10, 2023
Photo by Alora Griffiths on Unsplash The Ultimate Litmus Test: Go on Vacation If the outcome of an effective Scrum Master is to create a high-performing, self-managing team, the litmus test may be — what happens when you are not there? Mike Cohn describes a high-performing team as one that “sustainably exceeds expectations in achieving clear goals.
nTask
MARCH 8, 2023
Welcome to the ultimate task management showdown! It's time to explore the pros and cons of two popular task management tools: Hive vs ClickUp. Over the course of this blog post, we will be comparing ClickUp and Hive side by side to determine which one is the best for your project needs.
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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