Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 31, 2020

This is an extract from Project Pain Reliever. Eventually you might find that they won’t work on your projects at all, and you’ll gain a reputation for being a slave driver whose projects always run late. Project Pain Reliever, edited by Dave Garrett, is published by J. I contributed this chapter (and another one) to the book.

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Project Risk Coach

OCTOBER 12, 2020

I've also had the joy and the pain of implementing three Project Management Offices (PMOs), two in Information Technology Departments and one Enterprise PMO. Through the years, I've noted many reasons that PMOs fail or struggle. It's rarely just one thing; it's usually a combination of things. Here is a list of causal factors.

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Technical Review PMO Leadership Information Technology 269

Scrum.org

MAY 4, 2023

Encourage them to use the previous Management in Scrum exercise to gain inspiration. The Scrum team has all the accountabilities it needs to make any decision regarding the product they are developing; Working with Scrum does not necessarily mean that (project) managers are no longer needed. It’s blocking them to use Scrum effectively.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

I have found it helpful to name a persona and indicate age, profession, pains and gains, problems, and needs. Knowing your customers may include the following activities: Interviews While interviewing your customers and users, you can get plenty of useful information about them, their problems, pains and opportunities.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 4, 2023

But instead of losing weight, they gained weight. Don’t fall into the trap of the sugar rush, you’ll regret it and will only gain weight. Stop unhealthy and counterproductive behavior TRIZ is one of the most confronting, painful, and yet also powerful Liberating Structures. So what happened? ? culture, products).

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Project Management Update Submitted Articles

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

1 Show the Existing Pain Points. The growing pains that come with large change management projects are often a deterrent to getting your upper management to co-sign the initiative. Here are some common pain points in a PMO that is lagging in Agile maturity: Failure to live up to expectations. Service Delivery. Latest Articles.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Sometimes temporary pain is needed for lasting gains. Parting ways with fellow team members can be a painful process. This team specifically is creating facial recognition software with highly sophisticated cameras. What if we hire an external team member ? Rafaela had her doubts. Some options were now presented.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

We can engage stakeholders to: Gain a deeper understanding of customer needs and preferences. See our recent article Spain, Trains, and Incremental Delivery for a painful example of a misunderstanding of real-world customer needs. ) Build product support and buy-in. Obtain unique insights and perspectives to inform decisions.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 16, 2023

In this article, I’ll share how we addressed this challenge, what experiments we tried, and what insights I gained from the period after 2015. Selling it as a package allowed us to sidestep this painful and time-consuming debate. And of course, quickly delivering valuable, working software is the ultimate way to gain trust.

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Proofhub

AUGUST 1, 2023

By leveraging customer data, analytics insights, social listening tools, regular customer feedback, and survey responses, you can identify customer behavior patterns and their primary pain points. They diligently gather information and familiarize themselves with available options before making a decision.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

In terms of types of proposals, you can have one that is formally or informally solicited (made in response to a request), unsolicited (like a cold call attempt to gain the project) or a continuation (continuing one already approved). Types of Project Proposals. Remember, you’re trying to win over stakeholders, not bore them.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 30, 2019

The people funding the work are not pleased (not achieving the gains and returns hoped for). The deflation by reality results in unfortunate, if not extremely painful, findings given the many human and financial spendings that likely went into the transformation effort. Blaming keeps taking precedence over collaboractiveness.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

As I gained more experience as a Scrum Master I started to recognise more common anti-patterns in some organisations that were starting to use Scrum: The organisation that says they want Scrum, but only wants the benefits it can bring without making any real changes. Every Scrum Master had a corresponding Project Manager. Was I proud of this?

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 18, 2018

What, for example, are the buyer’s pain points? This requires gaining feedback from those customers, testing your plan before your official launch, practicing the launch itself and making a risk assessment of what might go wrong and how to respond. Define Target Audience for the Product. Know the Buying Process.

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

User journey mapping is a powerful tool that businesses can utilize to gain a deeper understanding of their customers and improve the overall user experience. By identifying pain points and areas of dissatisfaction, organizations can proactively address these issues and provide solutions that exceed customer expectations.

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Gunther Verheyen

DECEMBER 26, 2023

We gained liberty. I guess I needed to take the pain of my youth and transform it into a mission. Let there be no misunderstanding: money is important. Money is important for our family. My wife is my stability (1993). We have three kids (2001, 2003, 2013) of which the two oldest (sons) have a disability ( Duchenne and Down Syndrome ).

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Project Accelerator News

APRIL 18, 2024

Gain a deeper understanding of project performance and facilitate informed decision-making. The project team was consistently behind schedule, by investigating factors like task dependencies, resource allocation, or scope changes he was able to identify pain points that were causing delays. Enable seamless collaboration within Teams.

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Gunther Verheyen

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

As I am aging however, the finding keeps taking root more firmly that I am a man who took the pain of his youth and transformed it into a mission. It might help them gain many followers and leave them with a feeling of being a ‘leader’ ( again, what a strange idea of purpose ). Because, surprise, surprise, I am no wizard.

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LiquidPlanner

AUGUST 8, 2022

In my 10+ years of working in professional services, it’s always been a pain point to juggle multiple priorities and projects with various deadlines and resource constraints across teams. Others think the time investment to learn a new software program isn’t worth the value it could provide. .

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Meanwhile, some ideas have gained buzzword status in the process, causing the occasional collateral damage along the way. After the prototype, you create preliminary personas from the insight you gained during the related research. Think of “MVP.”). Download for free : The Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide.). There are no static personas.

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

This may involve conducting thorough analyses, such as value stream mapping or process flow analysis, to gain a comprehensive understanding of the current state and identify potential areas for enhancement. Map out workflows and identify pain points or bottlenecks to gain a holistic understanding of their current state.

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International Institute for Learning

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

You double over, putting your hand on the pressure point to find relief from the unbearable pain, and try to catch your breath. Think about how the success of most companies is measured, which is increased sales, profits, cost reduction, and gains in market share. You get out of a chair the wrong way or pick up something heavy and pop!

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The IIL Blog

MAY 31, 2023

Radical Simplification | MQ Learning Probably, the inconvenient truth is better hidden behind the curtains of essential and necessary, and we protect ourselves from the pain of the unknown. ” Once while attending a meeting of an NGO, David Whyte asked his colleagues, “Have you seen David? Why are we doing what we are doing?

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The Strategic Project Manager

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Logic trees, by virtue of disaggregating the problem space, can be used to scope projects properly, gain an overall understanding of the problem space, identify possible solutions, work through the merits of each, and provide a great communication tool to gain input across the stakeholder community.

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Planview

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

With more than 7,500 people in four regions across the globe, Finance’s biggest pain point was indeed no single source of truth for business and IT. Our approach was crawl, walk, run to gain our single source of truth. We moved 800 active projects from disparate, older tools, such as MS Project Server, into the new PPM solution.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 8, 2016

The most important factor is the business pain that needs to be solved with the tool,” says Maxime Villeger, Solutions Specialist and Regional Director at Genius Project. Chances are, your company has several pain points. Maxime Villeger, Solutions Specialist and Regional Director at Genius Project. Step 5: Measure The Change Impact.

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Gunther Verheyen

JANUARY 7, 2019

When it turns out people are not happier funding the work (not achieving the gains and returns hoped for). Agility is a unique and continuously evolving state that is typical to a specific organization with its people and its history. No model can predict, outline or capture the unique signature that agility is.

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ProProfs Project Management

MAY 6, 2020

It can take away your pain points regarding project progress and enable you to save a significant amount of time. You can give a try to ProProfs Project , PM software gaining recognition from every corner of the world. We recall one quote by Crystal Paine: If you want to be more productive, you need to become a master of your minutes.

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Inloox

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Most people associate Lego with childhood memories or, if you already have children of your own, with very painful encounters between Lego bricks and your feet. The playful exchange enables you to see colleagues from a different perspective and gain insights into their view of things.

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Teamweek

JANUARY 26, 2024

The good news is that the right employee productivity tracker solves all these pain points. Detailed reporting: Choose from summary reports , weekly reports , or detailed reports to gain insights that suit your needs and help you improve productivity. We tried key productivity features, pros and cons, popular integrations, and pricing.

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The Strategic Project Manager

APRIL 22, 2022

If the change is one being executed as part of a program, it stands a chance of being less painful if managed right. If it is a forced change based upon some condition changing disruptively, then the best antidote to the pain is the hope of seeing it through the process to the next step. There may be no sense of a need for a change.

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The Lazy Project Manager

JUNE 7, 2017

There would be no point in investing £1 to gain £1, there must be a return on investment. Therefore, investing £1 would gain a return in investment of £4. Now for the rest of the portfolio, the business growth or development projects.

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The Lazy Project Manager

AUGUST 1, 2017

Since PMOs lead the project management community – either directly or indirectly, according to your PMO model (see appendices) – then by considering what the best PMOs offer we can gain some insight and see that: The best PMOs have consistent, repeatable PM practices across the enterprise.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 6, 2016

This is an extract from Project Pain Reliever. Eventually you might find that they won’t work on your projects at all, and you’ll gain a reputation for being a slave driver whose projects always run late. Project Pain Reliever , edited by Dave Garrett, is published by J. I contributed this chapter (and another one) to the book.

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Estimate Finance Planning Consulting 150

Susanne Madsen

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

We want to avoid pain and we want assurances that our basic needs are being met. The problem with a high reliance on certainty is that no matter how much we seek to control our surroundings, we will never be able to gain complete certainty, as we live in a world of constant change.

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Underperforming Technical Team Sustainability Governance Government 78

PM Basics

MAY 19, 2020

But too much of it – critics and hard talks become painful. This process helps to systemize knowledge and gain validation of the used approaches. One thing for sure, different teams use different approaches and various tools. However, all managers use data-driven “ Google Manager Behaviors. But it’s Google!

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2002 Technical Review Software Review PMI 128

Productivity Land

OCTOBER 19, 2023

To prevent aches and pains, adjust the height of your chair, keyboard, and display. With this, you may put your workday on “autopilot” and gain some valuable time back. The ideal setting may do great things. Let’s talk ergonomics while we’re on the subject of comfort. Be prepared for any curveballs.

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