Project Risk Coach
MAY 3, 2021
Do you ever feel like the Lone Ranger when working on cost estimates? Actually, you're not alone; you have a team. Let's explore how to engage your team members and subject matter experts to improve your cost estimates. So, let's look at three techniques to use with your teams: Brainstorming Delphi Technique Nominal Group Technique 3 Team Techniques to Improve Cost Estimates 1.
Proofhub
MAY 5, 2021
Being a business owner, a project manager , or a department head is both rewarding and challenging. It is rewarding because you wake up every day to new opportunities for improving lives, particularly your employees’ and clients’ lives. But then that can be a lot of weight to carry on your shoulders. No matter how many managerial courses you take or how many supervisory tools you utilize, leading people and supervising top-level projects will always present new challenges every morning.
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Rebel’s Guide to PM
MAY 4, 2021
Recently I spoke with Lela Machaidze on Clubhouse about future trends in project management. Here are the notes from that discussion. Lela: For the last decade, there have been a lot of changes in the PM profession. The trend that is here to stay is remote work and digital teams. That’s echoed in the PMI Pulse of the Profession 2021 report. Maybe not in the same volume as we are seeing now, but it will definitely stay. .
ProjectManager.com
MAY 5, 2021
Projects aren’t a one-man show. They require professionals with an array of skills, and the more complex a project is, the more skills they require. Because of this, owners hire contractors to manage the project, and contractors use subcontractor management to fulfill niche roles. Construction projects are complex in nature. They demand extensive planning, manual labor, and they call for various specializations.
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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.
Kiron Bondale
MAY 2, 2021
HBR published an article this week titled Managing your WFH paranoia. In the article, the author focuses on the impacts of the “out of sight, out of mind” concerns which many workers have developed over the course of the past year resulting from COVID-19 pandemic work restrictions. Such fears could include a sense of persecution, feelings of abandonment or being disrespected.
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Inloox
MAY 6, 2021
In recent years, “agile” has become an increasingly important topic in the corporate world. Driven by the need for better performance, efficiency and results, companies are using various agile management methods. Scrum is probably one of the best-known methods. For many teams , this agile management method has become an indispensable tool for effective collaboration.
ProjectManager.com
MAY 4, 2021
In order to succeed, one must have a specific idea of what that success looks like. When this isn’t the case, it’s impossible to discern wins from losses and be certain your goals have been achieved. If asked to define success in terms of a specific project or business, many would struggle not to answer in broad terms. But to truly succeed (and learn from those successes) we must dive into the factors that constitute success.
The Digital Project Manager
MAY 4, 2021
The post Project Dependencies Are Eating Us Alive: A Zombie Handbook appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.
Scrum.org
MAY 3, 2021
Agile frameworks such as Scrum have continued to gain traction because of their ability to vastly improve business outcomes and employee engagement. Scrum is a lightweight framework that helps people, teams, and organizations generate value through adaptive solutions for complex problems. Once firmly in the domain of software development, practitioners find that Scrum is equally applicable to many other kinds of complex work.
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
nTask
MAY 5, 2021
Project management involves making a lot of decisions and these decisions cannot always be easy. This is especially true when those decisions could potentially be critical to the success of your project overall. These decisions, therefore, are not taken lightly. But what is a good way to be able to make such decisions and feel content with the course of action you take?
ProjectManager.com
MAY 7, 2021
Scheduling a project can be daunting. Fortunately, there are tools and techniques to help organize activities and get them all done on time. For example, there is the precedence diagram, which is used to visualize the tasks in a project from start to finish. If you’re not familiar with the precedence diagramming method, you’ve come to the right place.
Leading Agile
MAY 3, 2021
This title probably attracted two types of people – people who are wondering what the role of the ancient practice of martial arts has in organizational change management. No, this is not about conflict resolution. The second group of people are those involved in change management, and already understand a Dojo is an immersive learning environment that focuses on upskilling teams and producing products.
Scrum.org
MAY 5, 2021
There are plenty of failure possibilities with Scrum. Given that Scrum is a framework with a reasonable yet short “manual,” this effect should not surprise anyone. Turning the Sprint Retrospective into a Blame Game Retrospective demonstrates a Scrum team’s lack of skills and professionalism. Join me and explore the reasons and the consequences of this Sprint Retrospective anti-pattern in 83 seconds. ??
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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.
nTask
MAY 5, 2021
It is not something new for a business to pool in their time and resources on some side projects that they had in their mind for a long time. This is not new because, time and time again, it has proven to be one of the best investments that a company makes in its history of financial decisions. Take Slack for example. You might have heard about it, as it is probably one of the best team communication applications out there.
Agilemania
MAY 5, 2021
Today we’ll discuss the useful metrics for Scrum Master. Metrics can be defined as something that lets us know whether we need to make changes or keep our ongoing good work. These are standards that help the scrum team monitor how effective they are as a team. Scrum metrics are powerful tools used for planning, inspecting, and adapting to changes.
Teamweek
MAY 6, 2021
Wrike and Asana are both powerful project management applications. But which one’s better for your creative team? In this article, we compare Wrike vs Asana to help you understand which one’s better for you. As a creative project manager, your needs are different from other project managers. Planning and doing work is more important than reports and charts.
Scrum.org
MAY 2, 2021
Cada adopción de Scrum es un mundo?. Después de llevar más de 10 años acompañando a organizaciones, tanto startups como empresas tradicionales, que quieren adoptar la agilidad a su manera de trabajar, hemos visto una gran variedad de enfoques a la hora de abordar la iniciativa y de contextos iniciales. Las limitaciones, riesgos y resultados han sido en parte comunes y en parte muy diferentes debido al contexto.
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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.
International Institute for Learning
MAY 4, 2021
IIL’s 6th annual Agile and Scrum Online Conference: Co-Create for Greater Value opens on June 3, 2021. In this article, we’ll preview key themes that will be discussed at this unique learning event. View full event and registration details here. Agile has become one of the hottest topics in the project management world, mainly due to its proven success in software projects and its ability to deliver quick and real value to customers.
Agilemania
MAY 5, 2021
Remember when you wished you had enough time to complete all your projects within the working hours? Well, we all make plans to achieve a specific task on time but somehow lack the motivation. This is where burndown charts come to the picture. In this fast-paced world, your team has to complete their work as fast as possible. This will help to ensure they are remaining productive throughout the whole project.
Green Project Management
MAY 1, 2021
There is an ongoing debate about whether it is better to be a specialist or a generalist in the marketplace. Some recruiters have provided a recommendation of playing it safe by positioning yourself as a “specialist, with breadth.” In a Forbes article they recommended being a specialist in your topic and desire, and being a […]. The post The importance of being multi-disciplinary with Sustainable Project Management appeared first on Delivering a better world, one project at a t
Scrum.org
MAY 6, 2021
Recently I was on a call where I was talking about Professional XXXXX. It is not a surprise that I do that a lot, after all the word professional is one we use to describe who Scrum.org is. Our products are called ‘Professional Scrum or Professional Agile XXXXXX’. Our community of trainers is called Professional Scrum Trainers (PSTs). So professional is a word I use a lot.
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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.
Gunther Verheyen
MAY 3, 2021
A big rock that was moved in 2021. The updated, third edition of my book “Scrum – A Pocket Guide” is now available worldwide, as a digital and as a paperback edition. Still small enough to fit in your pocket and carry it with you anywhere, anytime. Still a smart travel companion. I accidentally created the first edition of my book “Scrum – A Pocket Guide” in 2013.
Agilemania
MAY 5, 2021
Remember when you wished you had enough time to complete all your projects within the working hours? Well, we all make plans to achieve a specific task on time but somehow lack the motivation. This is where burndown charts come to the picture. In this fast-paced world, your team has to complete their work as fast as possible. This will help to ensure they are remaining productive throughout the whole project.
Leading Agile
MAY 4, 2021
In the first blog in this series , we explored Habit 1 – Be Proactive of Stephen R. Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. We concluded that a company’s choice to pursue an Agile Transformation is a proactive response to their circumstances that powerfully affects their effectiveness and ultimately their success. Continuing on with the exploration of how the 7 Habits apply to Agile Transformation, let’s take a look at Habit 2 – Begin With The End In Mind.
Scrum.org
MAY 4, 2021
At a recent Scrum.org Professional Scrum Master II class, I asked the group to write down some learnings from the class that may help other Scrum Masters. One statement that came up has stuck in my mind ever since: “Don’t be a comfortable Scrum Master.” – Unknown Scrum.org Professional Scrum Master II Attendee. The Scrum Master is a change agent. As such they will be dealing with and causing change on a daily basis.
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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