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How to Control Schedule Conflict in Project Management

ProjectManager.com

The last thing a project manager wants is a schedule conflict. But a scheduling conflict is an eventuality in project management. While it’s the project manager’s job to ensure that the workflow is unobstructed, it’s also their responsibility to resolve scheduling conflicts when they arise—a problem that’s unavoidable. Before you can control a scheduling conflict, you have to understand what it is.

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The Sustainable Project Management Principle of Social and Ecological Equity

Green Project Management

This is the 5th installment in our series on Sustainable Project Management Principles. As project managers, it’s crucial to consider the social and ecological equity principle when planning and executing projects in ecologically sensitive areas and centers of population. [In 2023, this essentially means on earth]. Social and ecological equity refers to the fair distribution […] The post The Sustainable Project Management Principle of Social and Ecological Equity appeared first on Dr

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5 Reasons to Study the Standard for Risk Management

Project Risk Coach

Project management standards matter because they provide consistency and predictability. They help us avoid confusion, mistakes, and chaos. In this article, we will explore five benefits of studying PMI's Standard for Risk Management in Portfolios, Programs, and Projects. 1. Improve project success rates Effective risk management is critical to the success of any project, program, or portfolio.

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Collaboration with Structure

Scrum.org

In the fast-paced world of software development, agile methodologies have revolutionized the way teams work. Among the various frameworks, Scrum has emerged as a popular choice for its focus on flexibility and iterative, incremental development. One of the key reasons behind Scrum's success lies in its ability to strike a delicate balance between providing structure and fostering collaboration within teams.

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From Predictive to Agile: How to Choose the Right Project Management Methodology

Our profession is undergoing a transformation, moving away from rigid, one-size-fits-all methodologies. Instead, project managers are embracing dynamic and adaptable frameworks that carefully consider project and product variables to determine the most suitable development approaches and project life cycles.

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Project Risk Management: Strategies for Identifying, Assessing, and Managing Risks

LiquidPlanner

Even the best-laid plans aren’t immune to disruption. That’s why effective project management should go beyond theory, and expand to include risk factors – both internal and external. A practical project risk management strategy accounts for team member miscommunications and mistakes, scope creep and shifting client expectations, and any technical difficulties along the way.

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Overcoming the Loneliness Epidemic: Strategies to Foster Connection and Resilience in the Workplace

The IIL Blog

By Brandon Fargis In a recent advisory , the U.S. Surgeon General described loneliness as a growing epidemic. Across all ages and backgrounds, research suggests that it can adversely affect productivity, mental and physical health. Fortunately, there are steps leaders can take to help organizations and employees overcome loneliness and promote better outcomes.

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5 Steps Every Organization Can Take to Beat the Transformation Odds (Part 2) 

Planview

The big idea associated with this blog series is improving your odds of making a transformation stick. In this post, you’ll jump back into the story of a large biotech company undergoing transformation the intelligent way – by leveraging the principles of organizational change management. Put another way, it means they attended, with clear intention, to “the people side of change.

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How to improve cross-functionality within your team?

Scrum.org

Teams are more effective when they learn how to effectively combine their skills to complete a shared task. This is the essence of cross-functionality. Cross-functional teams are defined as consisting of members with different functional backgrounds ( Keller, 2001 ). The presence of different skills in teams creates opportunities for organizational ambidexterity.

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Best Practices for Portfolio Project Management: Processes and Tools

LiquidPlanner

Managing a single, complex project feels like a Herculean task when you nail the project deadline with a high-quality output. But what if you took that experience up tenfold? Handling multiple projects, or portfolio project management, is an entirely different beast. It’s a juggling act that could lead to chaos, missed deadlines, and the dreaded burnout without the right tools and processes.

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ERM Program Fundamentals for Success in the Banking Industry

Speaker: William Hord, Senior VP of Risk & Professional Services

Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) is critical for industry growth in today’s fast-paced and ever-changing risk landscape. When building your ERM program foundation, you need to answer questions like: Do we have robust board and management support? Do we understand and articulate our bank’s risk appetite and how that impacts our business units? How are we measuring and rating our risk impact, likelihood, and controls to mitigate our risk?

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Killing a Major Project is Hard

MPUG

Introduction This article is a follow-up to an article that I published last fall ( Killing a Project ) that discusses what to do when pulling the plug or canceling a project, regardless of its size. Now I am going to concentrate on how to pull the plug on major projects, which is a difficult decision requiring complicated and objective evaluations.

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Modern Workforce Management Solutions all Managers Should Know

Productivity Land

Workforce management solutions are a key part of running any successful business. But with the ever-changing workplace dynamics, knowing which solutions are right for your business can get tricky. It’s important to stay up to date with the latest advancements in modern workforce management solutions to ensure your team is well-organized and productive.

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How to master release planning (+ Free Agile release plan)

Planio

With 80% of companies using Agile project management methodologies to run their businesses, release planning has become more important than ever. Release planning is the glue that connects your product vision and overall strategy to your day-to-day product development. Releases are the culmination of weeks or months of hard work — and without a clear and organized release planning schedule, all that work can end up going to waste.

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Retrospective Facilitation: A Simple Hack to Go from Good to Great

Scrum.org

TL; DR: Retrospective Facilitation — Going from Good to ? Great The magic technique to turn a boring Retrospective into an outstanding Retrospective is the rotation of the facilitator role equally among all team members. Check out the following ten benefits of this Retrospective facilitation practice, from boosting learning and skill development to ensuring continuity to encouraging ownership. ??

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The Definitive Guide to Dashboard Design

Dashboard design can mean the difference between users excitedly embracing your product or ignoring it altogether. Great dashboards lead to richer user experiences and significant return on investment (ROI), while poorly designed dashboards distract users, suppress adoption, and can even tarnish your project or brand. That’s one of the many reasons we wrote The Definitive Guide to Dashboard Design—to help you avoid common pitfalls, including… Cramming too much onto one screen and expecting the u

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Creating an Employee Skills Matrix

Ganttic

A skills matrix is used to identify the skills and competencies of your team members. With it managers can assign tasks more effectively, give your team the knowledge to grow, and improve productivity and morale. Here we’ll discuss the importance of this tool, plus templates and a step-by-step guide to putting one together for your team with resource management software.

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Hot Topics at IIL’s Agile & Scrum Online Conference

The IIL Blog

By Ashley Jorgensen Since its creation 8 years ago, IIL’s annual Agile & Scrum Online Conference has quickly become a gathering place for Agile enthusiasts from all around the world, and this year is no exception. We at IIL are so excited to reconnect with past attendees and welcome new ones! With attendees and speakers spanning a multitude of industries and levels of expertise, this year’s AgileCon promises to offer something for everyone.

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Ultimate Guide To Setting Up a PMO In Your Business

WorkOtter

When a business is handling numerous projects at the same time, it is important to be able to balance them as needed so that they don’t fail. Successful projects are the goal of every business and organization, as failures can cause a lot of costly setbacks. On the other hand, successfully carried through projects can result in significant growth. Setbacks in productivity can damage the success and growth of your business, which is why setting up a Project Management Office (PMO) to help handle

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A Guide to Decluttering Your Online Workspace

Productivity Land

We’ve all been there—we work hard, accumulate a lot of data, and end up in an online workspace that is cluttered and disorganized. As if trying to navigate through the mess isn’t bad enough, it’s draining to try and find the information you need when you need it. The importance of decluttering your online workspace can hardly be overstated.

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How to Battle Layoffs: The Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp

Facing layoffs in your organization? Support your team members' career transition with Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp: Custom Resume & LinkedIn Revamp + 6 Weeks of Career Coaching. Our certified resume writers will create job search-winning resumes and LinkedIn profiles while they work with a career coach to learn unique strategies to stand out, attract the right employers, automate their job search, and land their dream job.

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Retrospektiven Moderation: Von gut zu fantastisch ??

Scrum.org

In Kürze: Retrospektiven Moderation Die magische Technik, um eine langweilige Retrospektive in eine hervorragende Retrospektive zu verwandeln, liegt in der regelmäßigen Rotation der Moderatorenrolle unter allen Teammitgliedern. Erfahren Sie mehr über die folgenden zehn Vorteile dieser Methode zur Retrospektiven Moderation, von der Förderung des Lernens und der Entwicklung von Fähigkeiten über die Gewährleistung von Kontinuität bis hin zur Förderung der Eigenverantwortung. ?

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Creating the Conditions for High-Performance Development Teams

Leading Agile

In Agile, you only get the full benefits of Scrum and SAFe when certain conditions are met in the organization. People will often break the methodology or the framework instead of changing the org design and sacrificing their ability to be truly Agile. XP and DevOps are no different. Solid technical practices and your full-stack developer’s software craftsmanship are also limited by the conditions inside your organization.

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Great Project Collaboration: Want to Know How to Assure it?

Online PM Courses

As a Project Manager, you want the best collaborative behavior from your team. The key is not tools or software. So, how? The post Great Project Collaboration: Want to Know How to Assure it? appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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Agency operations: A 5-step framework for running a successful agency

Resource Guru

At the heart of every thriving agency, there’s a well-oiled machine known as agency operations. From resource allocation and workflows to client management and process optimization, agency operations are what, well, keeps your agency in business. Agency operations management covers a wide range of roles and responsibilities, from finding resource management software to developing effective quality control processes.

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Unlocking Business Agility: Leveraging the Power of Strategy Execution

True business agility is impossible if execution is disconnected from strategic planning. Download this eBook to learn about the 12 key imperatives every organization must address, and discover how they impact the capabilities you’ll need to effectively deliver execution across all investments.

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Performance Analysis To Improving Productivity

Productivity Land

Performance analysis is vital for businesses of any scope. It will point out the drawbacks and benefits of your service. If done well, it can improve your service’s productivity and keep your business thriving. Let’s dig deeper and see how you can improve your business productivity. What is Performance Analysis ? Performance analysis aims to measure and assess the business’s effectiveness and efficiency.

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Effective Way of Engaging Stakeholders

Scrum.org

Effective Stakeholder Engagement is key to the product's success and one of the essential skills all product people should have. This article is final part of the Effective Stakeholder Engagement series. Below are the previous articles in the series Stakeholder Exploration Stakeholder Analysis & Mapping Stakeholder Communication Strategy All the above steps are fundamental to having a sound Stakeholder Engagement strategy.

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Applying The Grit Triad to an Agile World

The IIL Blog

By Shannon Huffman Polson Imagine this. Flying low over the trees, eight helicopters come to a hover just behind a hill. They are looking for an adversary, and must adjust constantly to new information coming over the radio, noticed through intra-red monocles, or delivered simply through the feel in the aircraft itself as perceived by the pilots. Communication is utterly paramount, and the pilots follow strict rules of engagement ensuring a clear and accurate information flow.

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9 Resume Screening Tools to Boost Your Hiring

Teamweek

The old ways of hiring candidates are outdated and stagnant, not to mention that they can lead to organizations hiring the wrong people. With the advancement of HR technology, it’s never been easier for companies to hire the right people for open positions. Resume screening plays a crucial part in this new wave of HR technology. But how does it integrate into your hiring pipeline, and what will it actually do for YOU?

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How Modern Paralegals Are Implementing Project Management Principles

Speaker: Michael Quartararo - Managing Director at eDPM Advisory Services and President of ACEDS

The paralegal and project management fields may seem totally unique from each other, but in reality, they have many overlapping similarities when it comes to personal characteristics and everyday tasks. In fact, they have enough in common that project management methodologies and principles can help paralegals complete essential tasks.

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From Predictive to Agile – How to Choose the Right Project Management MethodologyBy Harold Kerzner and Cyndi Snyder Dionisio

International Institute for Learning

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The Threats that Affect Crypto Trading

Productivity Land

Cryptocurrencies continue to be a topic of hot debate. There’s no denying cryptocurrency’s worth as we see these assets’ value rise. It’s become such a lucrative investment that individuals with no experience in trading are trying their hand at crypto trading for the first time. However, before investing, you must be aware of some cybersecurity risks that could affect your crypto trading experience.

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5 ideas para agilizar el desarrollo de productos y servicios

Scrum.org

El desarrollo ágil y centrado en el cliente de productos y servicios se basa en aprender lo antes posible , y de manera empírica, las necesidades del cliente y cómo entregar soluciones que funcionen. ? Lee este artículo y el resto de la serie "45 ideas para alcanzar agilidad empresarial" en nuestra web. 1. Adoptar un enfoque centrado en el cliente para el diseño y desarrollo de productos.

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