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Trello is a task management tool for agile teams. Despite Trello’s popularity as a simple, Kanban tool, it has some major shortcomings. There are three main reasons why users look for Trello alternatives: No planning features : Trello is great a simple task management. MORE
I’m so glad to see you here because I want to discuss how to be a good project manager. Or how to become a better project manager. So I’ll share some tips and my observation from my nine years of practical experience as a PM in the software industry. . MORE
People are smart, resourceful and inventive. We are also dumb and irrational. This combination makes forecasting nearly impossible. People build cities, express themselves through art, and push forward our understanding of the world through science and logic. MORE
Sabina Nawaz’s article “ In Times of Crisis, a Little Thanks Goes a Long Way “, which was published this week on HBR.org, is a great reminder of the need we all have to be appreciated. MORE
There's a new tension in town. Remote v Local 30M+ Americans have jobs and are working from home (the Remotes) 60M+ Americans can't work from home (the Locals), and 50% of them may not have jobs. If that's not enough to amp the tension between the haves and have-nots, then consider the risk management regime of each: The Remotes have a much lower risk environment from Covid-19, but also. human factors Project Management MORE
‘Let’s stamp this year with success,’ thoughts my business friend shared with me recently. I kept thinking about a few things, and the thought that kept hammering my brain was, ‘how can he manage business projects amid COVID-19 pandemic?’. So I shared my concerns with him openly. MORE
The oldest technique in the book, indeed before there were even books, is "acceptance" To drive a car is to accept the risk that the other driver isn't too drunk, too sleepy, too unskilled, too distracted, too whatever To take on debt is to accept the risk that you'll have the means to repay without bankrupting yourself To take on unsecured credit is to accept the risk (trust, really) that. Risk Management MORE
Unemployment is high. You may be working from home for the first time ever. Frustrated? Struggling? Suffering anxiety over whether you'll still have a job in a couple of months - or maybe you've even been laid off recently during these unprecedented times. MORE
In our current, fast-paced world, businesses need to be flexible to stay competitive. It isn’t the best who prevail, but those who can quickly adapt to new requirements. In IT—especially software development—traditional project management approaches are too rigid and out-of-date. MORE
People often ask me what is a digital project manager ? And they ask because this role assumes fully online and remote work. On normal days without pandemics, everyone wishes to work remotely and have freedom. Let’s review what is a Digital Project Manager. What is a Digital Project Manager? MORE
There’s a saying in the music industry that the easiest way to ruin a song is to keep working on it. Add enough effects, extra guitar parts, or more cowbell, and you’ll turn Woody Guthrie into Guns N’ Roses. Knowing when a piece of art is “done” is subjective and often difficult to define. MORE
The post Toggl Plan Review – Simple Project Management Tool For Agile Teams appeared first on The Digital Project Manager. Best Tools Tools MORE
Managing your system vulnerabilities is an essential part of your IT team’s job. It ensures that you update your systems and protect your organization from security breaches. However, to manage your vulnerabilities, you need to assess your systems through thorough and frequent scans. MORE
Listen to the SoundNotes Podcast on the go! Find and subscribe to SoundNotes on: Apple Podcasts. Google Play. Spotify. Soundcloud. Getting a few teams up and running using Scrum, Kanban or some other form of Agile is great. But that doesn’t necessarily mean your organization has become Agile. MORE
Not a Project Manager? But you are a Project Manager? Then book your place on this Free webinar. link]. The Informal Project Manager. There are three strata inside organisations today. MORE
If you want better results from your team and your work, you should regularly stop to think about what was learned at the end of each project. This will get you thinking about what’s working well and what can be improved. To help you do this, we’ve created a lessons learned template for Excel. MORE
Does your PMO generate portfolio dashboards for stakeholders and executives? If so, do those portfolio dashboards offer the right insights and data to help inform and empower your business leaders to make quick decisions? Does it help your PMO be seen as a value driver? MORE
Tax time cometh. A bit later this year, at least for Americans, since in light of the coronavirus pandemic, the IRS extended the deadline to file and pay federal income taxes for 2019 to July 15 th , 2020, but it comes all the same, as it does every year. MORE
When I first thought of writing this article, I struggled with how best to talk to these perceived different approaches. Questions of how does Agile apply to infrastructure and what does TBM have to do with Agile were in my mind. MORE
The recent UK Government’s enquiry into the management of major projects was cut short by world events, but the interim report and oral evidence make for interesting reading. [1] MORE
What Types of SaaS Tools Do I Need for My Company? According to statistics, 38% of companies have been doing business almost completely relying on SaaS applications, on average using 34 different tools. MORE
Expectation no. 1: Since computers and the Internet came into our lives, we got accustomed to believing that they are secure by default. MORE
It looks like my forest is changing into a jungle. This time I added Agile PM 2. Agile PM 2 is an extension of PM 2 (initiative of the European Union, see: [link] ). To be honest I have some problems with this initiative. MORE
By Scott Ambler | Vice President, Chief Scientist of Disciplined Agile at Project Management Institute. This post is a supplement to Scott’s upcoming keynote at IIL’s Agile & Scrum 2020 Online Conference ]. MORE
Many organizations are struggling with their business agility transformation. One of the reasons is the way they have organized their teams. The focus was probably on efficiency and if these teams start to use agile ways of working, this doesn’t make the organization agile. MORE
The Lazy Project Manager
MAY 26, 2020
Not a Project Manager? But you are a Project Manager? Then book your place on this Free webinar. link]. The Informal Project Manager. There are three strata inside organisations today.
The Digital Project Manager
MAY 26, 2020
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ProjectManager.com
MAY 22, 2020
If you want better results from your team and your work, you should regularly stop to think about what was learned at the end of each project. This will get you thinking about what’s working well and what can be improved. To help you do this, we’ve created a lessons learned template for Excel.
Kiron Bondale
MAY 24, 2020
Sabina Nawaz’s article “ In Times of Crisis, a Little Thanks Goes a Long Way “, which was published this week on HBR.org, is a great reminder of the need we all have to be appreciated.
Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic
In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in their own ecosystem. He'll also go over metrics we can use to measure the health of our ecosystems as we build more resources for innovators.
Leading Agile
MAY 26, 2020
When I first thought of writing this article, I struggled with how best to talk to these perceived different approaches. Questions of how does Agile apply to infrastructure and what does TBM have to do with Agile were in my mind.
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Leading Answers
MAY 26, 2020
People are smart, resourceful and inventive. We are also dumb and irrational. This combination makes forecasting nearly impossible. People build cities, express themselves through art, and push forward our understanding of the world through science and logic.
Keyedin
MAY 22, 2020
An effective project management office (PMO) can be a powerful partner in driving positive business outcomes.
The Digital Project Manager
MAY 22, 2020
The post Toggl Plan Review – Simple Project Management Tool For Agile Teams appeared first on The Digital Project Manager. Best Tools Tools
MPUG
MAY 24, 2020
In our current, fast-paced world, businesses need to be flexible to stay competitive. It isn’t the best who prevail, but those who can quickly adapt to new requirements. In IT—especially software development—traditional project management approaches are too rigid and out-of-date.
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How can project planning that stretches over months or years remain relevant and account for new ad-hoc activities that arrive every day?
Musings on Project Management
MAY 27, 2020
There's a new tension in town. Remote v Local 30M+ Americans have jobs and are working from home (the Remotes) 60M+ Americans can't work from home (the Locals), and 50% of them may not have jobs. If that's not enough to amp the tension between the haves and have-nots, then consider the risk management regime of each: The Remotes have a much lower risk environment from Covid-19, but also. human factors Project Management
International Institute of Learning
MAY 26, 2020
By Scott Ambler | Vice President, Chief Scientist of Disciplined Agile at Project Management Institute. This post is a supplement to Scott’s upcoming keynote at IIL’s Agile & Scrum 2020 Online Conference ].
Brad Egeland
MAY 28, 2020
Managing your system vulnerabilities is an essential part of your IT team’s job. It ensures that you update your systems and protect your organization from security breaches. However, to manage your vulnerabilities, you need to assess your systems through thorough and frequent scans.
Planview
MAY 29, 2020
Does your PMO generate portfolio dashboards for stakeholders and executives? If so, do those portfolio dashboards offer the right insights and data to help inform and empower your business leaders to make quick decisions? Does it help your PMO be seen as a value driver?
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This eBook describes the process of managing the project budget and its associated costs.
Henny Portman
MAY 25, 2020
Many organizations are struggling with their business agility transformation. One of the reasons is the way they have organized their teams. The focus was probably on efficiency and if these teams start to use agile ways of working, this doesn’t make the organization agile.
ProProfs Project Management
MAY 27, 2020
‘Let’s stamp this year with success,’ thoughts my business friend shared with me recently. I kept thinking about a few things, and the thought that kept hammering my brain was, ‘how can he manage business projects amid COVID-19 pandemic?’. So I shared my concerns with him openly.
Teamweek
MAY 28, 2020
Tax time cometh. A bit later this year, at least for Americans, since in light of the coronavirus pandemic, the IRS extended the deadline to file and pay federal income taxes for 2019 to July 15 th , 2020, but it comes all the same, as it does every year.
Proofhub
MAY 28, 2020
What Types of SaaS Tools Do I Need for My Company? According to statistics, 38% of companies have been doing business almost completely relying on SaaS applications, on average using 34 different tools.
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These FREE most popular templates will help you perform your role more efficiently.
Leading Agile
MAY 28, 2020
Listen to the SoundNotes Podcast on the go! Find and subscribe to SoundNotes on: Apple Podcasts. Google Play. Spotify. Soundcloud. Getting a few teams up and running using Scrum, Kanban or some other form of Agile is great. But that doesn’t necessarily mean your organization has become Agile.
PM Basics
MAY 26, 2020
People often ask me what is a digital project manager ? And they ask because this role assumes fully online and remote work. On normal days without pandemics, everyone wishes to work remotely and have freedom. Let’s review what is a Digital Project Manager. What is a Digital Project Manager?
Henny Portman
MAY 29, 2020
It looks like my forest is changing into a jungle. This time I added Agile PM 2. Agile PM 2 is an extension of PM 2 (initiative of the European Union, see: [link] ). To be honest I have some problems with this initiative.
Teamweek
MAY 28, 2020
Trello is a task management tool for agile teams. Despite Trello’s popularity as a simple, Kanban tool, it has some major shortcomings. There are three main reasons why users look for Trello alternatives: No planning features : Trello is great a simple task management.
Speaker: Peter Taylor, Speaker/Author, The Lazy Project Manager
Businesses everywhere are trying to “get business agile”—but it’s not easy to adapt to becoming this adaptive. How can conventional organizations succeed in this transformation? In this webinar, Peter Taylor will walk through the change process step by step, and look at a tried and tested transformation roadmap: benefits are outlined, solutions to common challenges offered, and tried and tested methods and tools provided. It will be a guide towards a decentralized and management style that offers more successful decision making through collaboration.
Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives
MAY 28, 2020
The recent UK Government’s enquiry into the management of major projects was cut short by world events, but the interim report and oral evidence make for interesting reading. [1]
Brad Egeland
MAY 28, 2020
Expectation no. 1: Since computers and the Internet came into our lives, we got accustomed to believing that they are secure by default.
PM Basics
MAY 27, 2020
I’m so glad to see you here because I want to discuss how to be a good project manager. Or how to become a better project manager. So I’ll share some tips and my observation from my nine years of practical experience as a PM in the software industry. .
MPUG
MAY 28, 2020
Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Ben Howard’s Microsoft Planner Deep Dive webinar being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members.
Speaker: Teresa Torres, Product Discovery Coach, Product Talk, David Bland, Founder and CEO, Precoil, and Hope Gurion, Product Coach and Advisor, Fearless Product LLC
If you want to build what matters, you can't move forward blindly. But to make progress, you can't let things slow to a crawl while you focus resources on gathering data. This is where continuous discovery and experimentation come in. Join Teresa Torres (Product Discovery Coach, Product Talk), David Bland (Founder, Precoil), and Hope Gurion (Product Coach and Advisor, Fearless Product) in a panel discussion as they cover how - and why - to build a culture of discovery and experimentation in your organization.
TimeCamp
MAY 29, 2020
Project management tools are extremely useful. They help to plan work, organize workflow, and manage. Comparisons project management project management software project management tools task management
Planio
MAY 27, 2020
There’s a saying in the music industry that the easiest way to ruin a song is to keep working on it. Add enough effects, extra guitar parts, or more cowbell, and you’ll turn Woody Guthrie into Guns N’ Roses. Knowing when a piece of art is “done” is subjective and often difficult to define.
Brad Egeland
MAY 28, 2020
Unemployment is high. You may be working from home for the first time ever. Frustrated? Struggling? Suffering anxiety over whether you'll still have a job in a couple of months - or maybe you've even been laid off recently during these unprecedented times.
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