Proofhub
JULY 26, 2021
Virtual Meeting Etiquette?—?33 Golden Rules to Follow Source: [link] The global pandemic undeniably caused a huge shift in working habits. After more than a year of work from home, a whopping 74% of employees said they expect remote work to be the new normal. Additionally, most opting to come into the office again want to do so on a part-time basis.
Epicflow Blog
JULY 26, 2021
In the present-day business environment, which is dynamic and uncertain, multiple projects management (MPM) as well as project portfolio management (PPM) are becoming common practices. High standards of managing multiple projects ensure that all the projects within a company contribute to achieving business objectives. At the same time, managing multiple projects is undoubtedly challenging.
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PM Times
JULY 28, 2021
As a bit of a motor head, I was excited to watch the inaugural Formula One sprint race format at the British Grand Prix recently. I was pondering Formula One and how efficiently the teams work to make sure that everything comes together so that teams can perform at their peak and achieve success in […]. The post Why Every Project Needs A Formula One Style Pit Stop appeared first on Project Management Articles, Webinars, Templates and Jobs.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
JULY 26, 2021
Office Timeline is a powerful PowerPoint plugin for creating professional timelines and roadmaps. The Pro+ edition is aimed specifically at project managers needing to create timeline slides for executive briefings and project reviews. In this review of Office Timeline Pro+, I’ll share the pros and cons that I found from using this tool. Summary. Product: Office Timeline.
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ProjectManager.com
JULY 28, 2021
If you’re looking for project management software, you’ll find countless options. This can make narrowing the search feel like an insurmountable task. Ultimately, choosing the right project management software comes down to identifying your needs and finding a good fit. Which one is the best for you? Let’s look at two of the top options, Monday.com and ProjectManager.
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Kiron Bondale
JULY 25, 2021
Two of pillars of adaptive approaches are inspection and adaptation. These can be applied to the product, service or results being produced by the team as well as the way in which those are produced. For the former the use of Minimum Viable Products, Spikes, Minimum Marketable Features and Minimum Business Increments are used to reduce the impacts of building the wrong thing.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
JULY 29, 2021
How do you manage your projects? Whatever it is you’re managing you’ll probably use, or need, a tool to help you do it. Maybe it’s a Trello board, a Kanban board, a system of sticky notes…Asana, Toggl… a wall calendar and planner, or a combination of them all! What remains the same is that there is a lot to manage. And a lot to remember. There’ll be different tasks, different meetings, and multiple deadlines to meet.
ProjectManager.com
JULY 29, 2021
Throughout the life of a project, project managers check in on progress and compare it to the project plan—comparing their predictions to reality. If they don’t do this regularly, odds are the budget will suffer and their project will fail entirely. Luckily, these deviances from the plan, such as cost variance, don’t have to sink a project. In fact, they can actually strengthen it.
Scrum.org
JULY 25, 2021
. A Scrum team consists of three clear accountabilities: one Scrum Master, one Product Owner, and Developers. Often, when working with a Scrum team struggling with excessive conflict or a lack of trust, I find the culprit is a lack of clarity around each of these accountabilities. Even with the best intentions, the Product Owner can become too focused on the upcoming Sprint and not focused enough on the bigger picture.
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
Inloox
JULY 26, 2021
Founded in 1969 in the USA, the Project Management Institute is a global non-profit project management association. In 2020, the institute counted more than 600,000 members in over 200 countries, making it the PM organization with the largest membership worldwide. Besides certification programs and extensive market research programs, PMI has been publishing its PMBOK guide (Project Management Body of Knowledge) since the late 1990s by setting standards for project, program and portfolio manageme
nTask
JULY 28, 2021
Technological advancements in recent years have made the digitalization of business processes an inevitable feat. Companies all over the world endeavor to transform their business, equipping it with the latest technologies and machinery in an attempt to stay abreast with the rapidly transitioning world. The transition from the physical to the digital world is unavoidable, the same goes for paperback documents.
Musings on Project Management
JULY 29, 2021
You ask: What's he best thing I can do to manage risk?Answer:Make time your friend. Insert time buffers in your schedule around every uncertain event, around milestones that are critical to success, and around major blocks of scope that determine whether project objectives will be met.Time is your friend if it is allocated in your schedule to give you space to work, and rework, mitigations.
Scrum.org
JULY 25, 2021
In December 2020, Johannes Schartau , Christiaan Verwijs , and I published the Zombie Scrum Survival Guide. We wrote it to help readers understand why Scrum so often descends into Zombie Scrum and to offer practical and down-to-earth help. Zombie Scrum isn’t something you fix with one simple experiment. The deeper it’s ingrained in your organization, the more effort it takes to resolve.
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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.
Proofhub
JULY 29, 2021
What’s the one thing you are Photo by RF._.studio from Pexels looking for when searching for a job? That’s right. Company culture. A Glassdoor’s Mission & Culture Survey in 2019, found that over 77 percent of people across four countries?—?US, UK, France, and Germany, would consider company culture as an important factor for applying for a job, while almost 80 percent would consider a company’s mission and purposes before applying.
nTask
JULY 27, 2021
You deal with hundreds of tasks daily, and each task takes up a valuable part of your time. Dealing with all the tasks at once would be an unwise move, you need structure and order in your life to make sure you stay on top of your A-game. As an Agile professional, you must bring the same orderliness to your work. One way of doing that is to prioritize your tasks , but how?
Planio
JULY 27, 2021
As a project manager, it’s your job to help shield your team from the constant communication, notifications, and meeting requests that threaten their daily tasks (and sanity). Asynchronous communication –when you send messages without expecting an immediate response –is probably the best tool you can use for this. However, it’s also one of the hardest to implement properly.
Scrum.org
JULY 26, 2021
TL; DR: Abandoning Scrum. Can a Scrum team simply decide to abandon Scrum? After all, the Scrum team is self-managing, according to the Scrum manual, also known as the Scrum Guide. So, let’s explore this question at the very heart of team autonomy. ?? Shall I notify you about articles like this one? Awesome! You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 32,000-plus other subscribers. ??
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Project Bliss
JULY 28, 2021
If you’re working with a group trying to choose among a large number of options, multivoting is an easy, structured approach to help your team make a decision. It’s a great tool to use with brainstorming sessions , but there are many times it can be useful. It’s a handy tool for your problem-solving toolbox. What is Multivoting? Multivoting is a way for a group to vote on a long list of ideas and narrow the list down to a few options for deeper analysis or final decision.
nTask
JULY 27, 2021
Being an entrepreneur or a freelancer is a very tricky one-person show that either makes you successful or someone who struggles to manage clients. The work-day as an entrepreneur is full of different proposal drafting , contract creation, client on-boarding, and tax compliance. And, after all of that, they get to manage their business execution and the activities that are going to make them money.
Online PM Courses
JULY 25, 2021
When a project stakeholder wants something different, what do you do? You can't just say 'yes'. or 'no'. You need Project Change Control. The post Project Change Control: What You Need to Know to Make it Effective appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.
Scrum.org
JULY 30, 2021
One of my favorite saying is “Inspection without adaptation is waste”. For continuous improvement it is important not only to identify things that did not go so well but to also change something in the way you are working. If you change nothing, the inspection did not have an impact at all and is a waste of time and energy. But change is hard. To make changes not only easier and more likely to happen but also to drive change in an evidence-based manner, experiments are a great opportunity.
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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.
Planview
JULY 29, 2021
Across the enterprise work landscape, the idea of completely eliminating the existence of silos is more of an idealistic aspiration than a realistic goal. However, the good news is that there are practical ways to overcome teams working in silos. Here are seven best practices to keep in mind and apply as needed. Generally, a top-down approach works most effectively to prevent or reduce silos, provided that a roadmap is well-developed and truly supported by leadership.
nTask
JULY 29, 2021
In this article, we have highlighted the best knowledge management software you can get started for free today. . Businesses deal with a vast amount of knowledge every day. The data collected exceeds the limits of gigabytes and terabytes, it has been estimated that the data generated every day exceeds over 2.5 quintillion bytes. Storing such an enormous amount of data is a hassle in itself, but organizing, sharing, and managing this data on top of everything can be an impossible feat to achieve.
Epicflow Blog
JULY 29, 2021
Scope creep is a common challenge that project managers have to deal with. In an effort to make the project’s final outcome perfect and satisfy customers, project managers/team members/stakeholders may be unable to leave it well enough alone. This results in making too many or too significant changes to the project until its scope goes far beyond what was agreed upon initially.
Scrum.org
JULY 29, 2021
Does the role of the Scrum Master go away with time? For addressing the doubt, first, understand the role of a Scrum Master clearly. . Suppose you go by the Scrum Guide , the person accountable for ensuring that everyone in the Organisation understands the purpose of the Scrum Framework. Thus, the Scrum Master serves not only the team but also the Product Owner and the Organisation.
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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