Gunther Verheyen

JANUARY 7, 2019

Agility is a unique and continuously evolving state that is typical to a specific organization with its people and its history. A traditional (industrial) approach to becoming more Agile commonly creates no more than an illusion of agility. Agility is a specific state as it reflects the unique lessons and learnings that an organization and its inhabitants went and go through, the way in which specific annoyances and hindrances were and are overcome, the many inspections and adaptations that occu

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Binfire

JANUARY 11, 2019

Some people call task management software to do list. This is an oversimplification of task management. Why “to do list” is such an improper name for task management? When you go shopping or doing chores at home to do list is OK. For work, you need task management! The difference between a “to do list” and task management is that you create a “to do list” with no deep thoughts or prior planning.

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Planview

JANUARY 8, 2019

The following content is taken from the whitepaper, “Portfolio-Driven Performance: The 7 Process Areas That Drive IT and Business Results,” written by Jerry Manas. To make it more easily accessible to you, we are giving it everlasting life here on the blog. In part one of this series, “Using Portfolio-Driven Performance to Improve Project Delivery,” we examined how organizations can remain adaptive in the face of constant change through a portfolio-driven approach.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 7, 2019

You probably work with someone who complains a lot. Sometimes that can be hard to manage, even with team management tools. Watch Jennifer Bridges, PMP, to understand where chronic complainers are coming from, and learn strategies for keeping everyone happy and productive. Here’s a screenshot of the whiteboard for your reference! In Review – How to Handle Chronic Complainers.

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Kiron Bondale

JANUARY 6, 2019

I finally completed reading Nassim Taleb ‘s book Skin in the Game which I had written about in a recent article. In that piece I had applied his principles when comparing the benefits of a product-centric orientation to the project-centric model which is still found in many organizations. But after finishing the book, I realized that there is a much more compelling example of the challenges experienced with risk asymmetry in many large organizations, namely with those staff who are respons

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Musings on Project Management

JANUARY 9, 2019

How many project managers are still laboring with the aftermath of Fredrick Winslow Taylor, more popularly known as F.W. Taylor? Taylor Who? You might ask: Who was Taylor? Good question F.W. Taylor was one of the first to study business systematically -- an original "operations research" guy. He brought 'Taylorism" into the business culture in the years leading up to World War I.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 10, 2019

Businesses thrive on certainty, and yet, the future is never certain. That’s why smart businesses plan for the future as best they can through strategic planning. You can’t know what will happen, but you can know what you want and where you want to be when it happens. Both are points that can be mapped, and once you have these destinations on the horizon, then you can use tools to survey how to get there.

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LiquidPlanner

JANUARY 10, 2019

Being the one in charge is never easy—and not everyone gets to be in that position. It takes more than courage and confidence to be good at taking care of people, projects, and events. Every project manager has suitable skills and necessary knowledge that make him an ideal candidate to lead his team, even if he came into the role “accidentally” without any formal project management training.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 7, 2019

A couple of months ago I blogged about some of the tools and toys that live in the trunk of my car. I take these along everywhere I teach and coach. Since posting, people have suggested additional items that just must be in my toolbox. Time Timer Plus. Time-boxing is an important component of Scrum. It provides focus towards a goal and prevents you from over-analyzing things.

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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

Finance

Musings on Project Management

JANUARY 6, 2019

Dr. Barry Boehm, a noted software methodologist with a long and illustrative career at TRW, DARPA, and USC, and author of the COCOMO model and Spiral methodology, writes about the ideal customer for agile projects. Boehm's perspective: -- Collaborative: they will engage with their customer peers and with the development team -- Representative: they know the product or system requirements.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 9, 2019

Defining skills as either hard or soft is slightly misleading. It implies that one might be more difficult or the other less important. The truth, as always, has a nuance that the jargon misses. Anyone who has spent time in a work environment understands that the distinction between hard skills and soft skills is an artificial one, as they often overlap.

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Project Bliss

JANUARY 8, 2019

An Affinity Diagram is a tool that helps you group or organize large amounts of information based on theme or relationship. Imagine you’ve just led a fantastic brainstorming session with your team. You’ve had great participation from all attendees. They’ve given you lots of input, and now you have a long list of ideas and data to work with. . But at this point it’s just an overwhelming, disorganized list.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 6, 2019

Leggere in italiano / Lire en français. In the past years I’ve been the king of procrastination. There may be a bunch of different (good) reasons to delay starting something. Sometimes is just something too big, like the decision to start my own business (a long four years hesitating process) or it may be a small decision that can generate a lot of anxiety!

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PM Basics

JANUARY 8, 2019

How to grow professionally as a project manager ? You collect lessons learned. Then, you act upon them to make the next project better. To boost the process, every project manager in the company should share lessons learned with others. It multiplies the benefits. In this article, I’m going to share my lessons learned from 2018. (It’s only about Project Management side).

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 8, 2019

Plan all you want. But once that plan is being executed, if you don’t have a method or a tool to assess whether you’re meeting the requirements of the project, then you’re in trouble. To know the actual performance of a project against the desirable performance is to know when a project is going off-track. That knowledge is crucial to identifying a problem and taking the necessary steps to correct it.

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Planview

JANUARY 10, 2019

The following content is based on the whitepaper, “Bigger Than a Breadbox: 10 Tips for Better Project Estimates, Part 2,” written by Jerry Manas. For your reading convenience, we’ve decided to give it everlasting life here on the blog. In the first three parts of this series, we’ve discussed the negative effects of project estimation challenges, a problem for just about every organization regardless of size or maturity level—effects like missed market windows, profit loss, and “invisible killers

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The IIL Blog

JANUARY 10, 2019

Originally published at Thetrugroup.com. Rich Sheridan: Change Begins With You | Part 4: Culture Guest Blog Series. [Intro by trugroup.com admin Scott ] “In this interview, Rich Sheridan — founder of Menlo Innovations and author of the new book Chief Joy Officer — shares the trials and tribulations in cultivating and leading a positive work culture in an ever-changing business world.

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Teamweek

JANUARY 9, 2019

Your ability to motivate your employees is built entirely on trust. Your employees must believe in you and be confident in your decisions so they can do their best work. By creating an environment of trust in the workplace, you make it more likely that employees will be committed to reaching their peak potential. There are simple ways of building trust like doing what you say you will do, but you’ll also find a range of more detailed tactics to improve their faith in you.

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Online PM Courses

JANUARY 7, 2019

Project Management is a 'learning endeavor'. That is, when you do it properly, you learn from every experience. And, as we start a New Year, I want to share ten of the most valuable Project Management lessons I have learned over the years. The post Ten Project Management Lessons I’ve Learned over the Years appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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Project Management Essentials

JANUARY 6, 2019

Kanban is a versatile and powerful tool to help you manage your work. It can be used to track personal projects, complex operations and large programs; for example, it can be used to: Efficiently manage the flow of inventory in a factory, Help students manage their homework and papers, Track the progress of project tasks and activities, Organize the preparation and set-up for a holiday meal, and.

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Agile Coach

JANUARY 7, 2019

In 2018, the Agile ecosystem continued to evolve and expand. Those who have been practising agile for years (or more than a decade) seemed to be calling for a simplification of agile, proclaiming that we need to get back to basics. I can’t say I’d disagree, but I thought it would be interesting to see which of my posts were the most popular.

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Meisterplan

JANUARY 11, 2019

Have you ever found yourself Googling “what is project management,” “project coordination,” or even “project help!”? You are not alone. There are many project managers that have more projects than capacity and can’t tackle everything at the same time. Meanwhile, y our project leads are fight ing over key employees and high priority projects are suffering from resource shortages and delays.

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Leading Agile

JANUARY 10, 2019

Iteration 2019 has begun and we’re starting off the year with an episode of SoundNotes where, LeadingAgile CEO and Founder, Mike Cottmeyer shares what’s on his mind as we begin the new year. During the interview Mike talks about some of the trends he’s been paying attention to in and around the Agile space, the changes he sees coming down the pike, and how that’s influencing his focus and expectations for the next 12 months.

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Wrike

JANUARY 9, 2019

When you’re starting work on a project, a blank canvas can be terrifying. How do you ensure you have everything you need? How do you align your goals and priorities with other teams? Is there a way to create a formal process to keep recurring work consistent? Answer: Templates! Templates make replicating work easy by automating repetitive processes and maintaining consistency across projects.

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PM Basics

JANUARY 11, 2019

The first official weekly reading list on Project Management Basics. Hooray! In January, a lot of things change. Want it or not – you do evaluate your past year, your achievements. Hopefully, you make decisions and act upon that evaluation. So, below you will find topics and ideas worth your time in January 2019. Fix your goal-setting before you even start.

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

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