PM Times

JANUARY 2, 2024

What do you find to be the hardest part of managing a project? I bet if you asked ten different project managers that question you would get at least six or seven different answers. I believe that many on the outside of project management looking in probably think it is easy. Be organized and […] The post Best of PMTimes: The Greatest Challenges When Managing a Project appeared first on Project Management Articles, Webinars, Templates and Jobs.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 3, 2024

What are your thoughts on the role of certifications in Agile? The agile landscape is replete with various certifications, each promising a certain level of proficiency and skill. However, the true value of these certifications is often a subject of debate. In the agile community, a growing sentiment suggests that the focus on certifications might be misplaced.

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Musings on Project Management

JANUARY 3, 2024

Patent an invention of an AI system?Not so fast!This we learn from David Miessler:The UK Supreme Court has ruled that AI systems cannot be recognized as inventors of patents.

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The IIL Blog

JANUARY 3, 2024

By Ruchi Gupta and Cyndi Snyder-Dionisio These days you can’t escape the topic of Artificial Intelligence…it has pervaded social media posts, the evening news, and everyday conversations – to a level rivaled only by the launch of the internet itself. And so, we were not at all surprised to see that at IIL’s November International Project Management Day Virtual Conference , the most attendance in any one session was at the panel discussion on, you guessed it: AI.

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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.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 1, 2024

In my professional career I have been project manager for many years in different types of environments and for different types of projects. I have studied frameworks, methodologies, and bodies of knowledge in depth; all to serve my clients and teams as best as I could. In my quest for being at my best to serve, I have gone through accreditation processes to become a professional trainer in many of these.

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Workzone

JANUARY 4, 2024

To SharePoint or not to SharePoint? If you are a project manager, that is the question! It is likely you have debated it at some point. It is just one of those perennial questions which have been around ever since Microsoft SharePoint included a whole gamut of features including but not limited to website building, social sharing and content curation, thus diluting the impetus of its original objective: intuitive project management.

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The Strategic Project Manager

JANUARY 3, 2024

This post looks in depth at the piece parts of agile portfolio management. After defining agile portfolio management, it delves into some of the specific agile principles at work. Then it identifies the key portfolio management activities and how they play a role. Then it looks at the role of strategy in agile portfolio management. Finally, it brings these all together again as its own activity agile portfolio management.

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Project Management Essentials

JANUARY 5, 2024

Time is our only finite resource. We cannot buy it or create it. Therefore, we must spend it wisely. Effective time management is a critical project management competency. Regrettably, many teams lack these skills or discipline and consequently fritter away their time. There is not a silver bullet to managing time more effectively.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 4, 2024

Agile frameworks are frequently misunderstood, and one area that exemplifies this is the use of story points. Initially intended as a tool for simplifying estimation, story points have become a source of confusion and dysfunction within teams. My experience with numerous Agile teams has shown me that the reliance on story points often leads to a misalignment of goals and priorities.

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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

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 3, 2024

Managing more than one project at a time creates a lot of problems. How can you allocate resources wisely across all those projects? How can you keep the projects aligned with the strategic goals of the organization? That and more is what enterprise project management does. Let’s define the term enterprise project management and then identify its unique challenges before going into what an enterprise project manager is and what an enterprise project management office is.

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Ganttic

JANUARY 4, 2024

Resource management is the backbone of successful project management. As it ensures that the right resources are available at the right time to complete projects on time and within budget. By implementing resource management strategies, project managers can optimize resource utilization, improve project scheduling, and reduce the risk of resource conflicts and delays.

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Green Project Management

JANUARY 2, 2024

With the new year here, it’s time for businesses to step out of their comfort zones and embrace bold, even audacious, goals. The future demands leaders who are willing to reimagine not only what they do, but also how they do it. Setting Massive Goals The first step is setting goals that may seem beyond […] The post New Year, New Aspirations: Embracing Bold Changes for a Sustainable Future appeared first on Driving Sustainable Change.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 1, 2024

At your next Sprint Retrospective, why not work with your Scrum team to identify a New Year's Resolution? Focus on improving your Scrum game in 2024 with one of these five resolutions to enhance collaboration within your team and deliver value sooner to your customers. 1) Focus on Incremental Delivery What is it? Incremental delivery is the key to achieving tangible progress in small, manageable chunks.

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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.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 2, 2024

Tactical planning is the practical counterpoint to strategic planning, which describes the overall direction of an organization. Tactical planning tells you how to get there. It’s about execution and, therefore, critical to achieving your strategic goals. This concept is an important part of project portfolio management (PPM) and project management offices (PMOs).

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GanttPRO Project Management

JANUARY 3, 2024

GanttPRO continues to receive professional recognition and heartwarming awards in prestigious industry categories. This honorable recognition is the result of recent user reviews. Our Gantt chart maker has been recognized […] The post GanttPRO Recognized With Top Awards in Marketing Planning, Project Management, and Other Categories first appeared on GanttPRO Project Management Blog.

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Velociteach

JANUARY 2, 2024

The podcast by project managers, for project managers. Project C.U.R.E. has become the world’s largest distributor of donated medical supplies, equipment and services to doctors and nurses serving the sick and dying in more than 135 countries. Dave Maddux, shares invaluable project insights on addressing the critical shortage of medical resources worldwide.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 2, 2024

Some well-intentioned practices sound reasonable, but a closer examination reveals potential pitfalls that can compromise the Agile manifesto principles or the Scrum guide's underlying Empiricism. By understanding the rationale behind these practices and exploring their drawbacks, teams can foster a more nuanced and practical approach to achieve true agility and continuous improvement.

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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.

ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 4, 2024

There are many ways to approach budgeting. Two of the more common approaches are bottom-up budgeting and top-down budgeting. Knowing which is right for you starts with understanding both of these budgeting approaches. Let’s start with defining both bottom-up budgeting and top-down budgeting as well as looking at the advantages and disadvantages of each budgeting approach.

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Productivity Land

JANUARY 4, 2024

Source At the forefront of change sweeping across all levels of the global economy is technology. In today’s ever-evolving 21st-century digital age, businesses that embrace and leverage technology find themselves at the forefront of innovation, productivity, and efficiency. From small startups trying to achieve more with fewer resources to multinational corporations with millions of customers, businesses are increasingly streamlining internal complex processes, revolutionizing team collabo

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Teamweek

JANUARY 3, 2024

Hiring the right talent shouldn’t be a game of resume roulette. Yet, for so many hiring teams… it is. While there are several reasons for that, it’s often because they don’t know what kind of employee they’re looking for. They identify a need for a new employee, write a job description, and post it. And listen, we get it!

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 2, 2024

Breaking big product backlog items into smaller ones is an essential skill that all product owners should build. In the previous article ‘Benefits Of Smaller Product Backlog Items’, we explored why it is important to slice PBIs into smaller value units. In this article, we will explore How to achieve that. How Smaller Items Should Be? As small as possible but still valuable.

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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.

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Binfire

JANUARY 4, 2024

In our digital age, it has become increasingly critical for businesses to adopt efficient and stable techniques for verifying customer identities. Online eIDV offers a streamlined approach to this method, ensuring compliance, decreasing fraud risks, and improving productivity. It is a vital guide on Electronic Identification Verification (eIDV) for streamlining commercial enterprise operations online.

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Productivity Land

JANUARY 4, 2024

The world is constantly changing. Time after time, novel challenges arise. They demand the human mind to think critically and act productively. Becoming more productive is a process that takes time and needs consistent effort. No matter which task you do, this trait will help you meet your goals, acquire an analytic mindset, and manage your time. Today, you can turn yourself productive in almost any field.

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nTask

JANUARY 4, 2024

Are you looking for a reliable, cost-efficient solution to monitor your business operations in real time? The Ultimate 2024 Guide to Real Time Monitoring System Solutions has everything you need to make sure you’re up-to-date with the newest and most advanced technologies available.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 4, 2024

The second practice in the Kanban Guide is actively managing items in a workflow. These items are work items. What are work items in progress? Work items in progress are the ones between the “started” point and the “finished” point. Strike a balance You can have more than one “started” point and more than one “finished point”. But… let’s keep things simple and imagine we have a definition of workflow with: 1x “started” point; and 1x “finished” point.

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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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