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IPMA 2014 – Innovation through Dialog

Fear No Project PM

While I have a lot of readers who are in Europe – thank you for reading! – I know that many of my readers are here in the USA and always looking for a good reason to get out of the country. I also know that some of you are members of the International Project Management […]. Best Practice Conference Professional Development learning pm project management training

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Lisa Bodell on Simplification and Innovation

International Institute for Learning

As closing keynote speaker at IIL’s Leadership & Innovation 2019 Online Conference , she delivered a powerful message on how complexity is holding most of us back, and what we can do to get back to the work that really matters. “If we get the work right, we get the culture right” – @LisaBodell #LeadershipCon19 #leadership #innovation pic.twitter.com/hiqPhawym5. — The post Lisa Bodell on Simplification and Innovation appeared first on The IIL Blog.

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Project Management Software Case Study: Chute Gerdeman

Function Point

Founded in 1989, the company is an innovator in beneficial customer brand experiences in the retail, restaurant, consumer goods and service provider industries. Chute Gerdeman is an award-winning strategic brand and design firm. Summary Of Challenges Prior To Function Point. The company used custom-built, time-tracking software that was ready to update it. Chute Gerdeman used lots of offline documents to track project details. Summary Of The Benefits Of Function Point.

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Project Management Software Case Study: Chute Gerdeman

Function Point

Founded in 1989, the company is an innovator in beneficial customer brand experiences in the retail, restaurant, consumer goods and service provider industries. Chute Gerdeman is an award-winning strategic brand and design firm. Summary Of Challenges Prior To Function Point. The company used custom-built, time-tracking software that was ready to update it. Chute Gerdeman used lots of offline documents to track project details. Summary Of The Benefits Of Function Point.

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Embracing an Innovative Mindset

Tony Adams

Digital disruption is challenging traditional business models and creating new market opportunities, with increasing connectivity, IT capabilities and commodification of Big Data reshaping the customer experience (Deloitte, 2014). A new paradigm for commercial success is emerging, grounded in speed to market, innovative thinking and the ability to reimagine the customer experience. Leadership Complexity Innovation Monash University

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Can the Words “Innovation” and “Project Management” Be Used In The Same Sentence?

The IIL Blog

Companies are recognizing that brand loyalty accompanied by a higher level of quality does not always equate to customer retention unless supported by some innovations. According to management guru Peter Drucker, there are only two sources for growth: marketing and innovation [Drucker, 2008]. Innovation is often viewed as the Holy Grail of business and the primary driver for growth. The question, of course, is “How do we manage innovation needs?”. 2014).

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Organizational Structures that Support Faster Innovation and Evolution

Leading Answers

Again, free from some of the normal scrutiny and controls that aim for efficiency, these insulated groups can innovate quicker. Please Innovate While We Micromanage You!

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8 Attitudes Guaranteed to Sink Your Agile Projects

Wrike

” If your Agile team is going to be effective, everyone needs to get in the habit of actively sharing knowledge to foster genuine collaboration and innovative thinking. If your team is pushing itself to create truly great, innovative stuff, failure is a valued part of the process. There’s a glut of articles and advice about Agile floating around online. Adoption patterns, education plans, and implementation methodologies abound.

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Effect of Culture on Innovation – A Conversation with Vivek Wadhwa

Guerrilla Project Management

From tech entrepreneur to business owner, from accomplished academic to widely published writer, Vivek Wadhwa is an agent of innovation and disruption. From tech entrepreneur to business owner, from accomplished academic to widely published writer, Vivek Wadhwa is an agent of innovation and disruption.

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How to buy Project Management Consulting Services: Service as a Product (SaaP)

Guerrilla Project Management

Innovative firms are thinking differently about how they charge for their consulting services and they are offering creative ways to package Project Management. Innovative firms are thinking differently about how they charge for their consulting services and they are offering creative ways to package Project Management.

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10 Benefits of Project Management Cloud Software

Wrike

A chorus of tech innovators and business leaders are singing the praises of the cloud, and more than 60% of businesses rely on cloud solutions to power their projects. We’re big fans of the cloud here at Wrike. As you can tell from the tool we build and the other tools we use every single day. We’re not the only ones — cloud adoption is flourishing.

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Project Management Software Provides Accurate Reporting

Function Point

Founded by Braden Douglas in 2007, Relevention’s team of savvy and creative marketing and design professionals leverages a proprietary 8-step marketing strategy process to provide innovative and results-driven marketing solutions. Case Study: Accurate Reporting = Better Project Management. COMPANY: Relevention Marketing Solutions INDUSTRY: Marketing Strategy & Creative SIZE: 26 Employees. Background On Relevention.

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Project Management Methodologies: A Quickstart Guide (Part 2)

Wrike

CON: This holistic approach may also lead to rigidity in the planning process, which could limit your team’s creativity and innovation. Now that you’ve mastered the lingo and have a firm grasp on our first 8 common Project Management methodologies , you’re starting to settle into your new PM role. You’re gearing up for your first project kickoff, and the boss is back in your office: “So, let’s talk methodologies. What do you think is the best strategy for our company?”

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How to buy Project Management Consulting Services: Service as a Product (SaaP)

Guerrilla Project Management

Innovative firms are thinking differently about how they charge for their consulting services and they are offering creative ways to package Project Management. Innovative firms are thinking differently about how they charge for their consulting services and they are offering creative ways to package Project Management.

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5 Ways to boost your team’s creativity

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Creativity is the cornerstone of innovation. A different version of this article first appeared on this blog in 2014. Thinking creatively is what takes your work from average to outstanding. Creativity fixes problems. It looks out for risks.

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Chess and Business Strategy

International Institute for Learning

More in detail, Luigi wrote the case study “The Airbus A380” and the chapter on “Innovation Management Software” for the books Project Management Case Studies, Fifth Edition (Wiley, 2017) and Innovation Project Management (Wiley, 2019), respectively. Education; Spring 2014, Vol.

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Why Great Leaders Mentalize and Five Exercises to Help You Do So

International Institute for Learning

Introduced by Brasnett & Troupp (2014), the concept of collegial sparring describes when teachers want to grow their mentalization ability within the teacher group. Maria Ebro is a Presenter for IIL’s upcoming Online Leadership and Innovation Conference! By Mario Ebro.

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Value Proposition of the Business Model Canvas – A PM View

The Strategic Project Manager

In fact, an appropriate amount of innovative thinking about the business model is practical and wise. Developing a solid Value Proposition that leads to success is critical and not easy. And it applies to projects and programs as well as to organizations.

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The BCG Advantage Matrix

The Strategic Project Manager

Lean Innovation – Build adaptive processes to learn and build business around the hotpots for customers and markets. BCG Classics Revisited: The Growth Share Matrix , 2014. The Advantage Matrix is an old Boston Consulting Group classic strategic framework.

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Software Estimating Resources

Herding Cats

Benchmarking Effort Estimation Models Using Archetypal Analysis,” Nikolaos Mittas, Vagia Karpenisi, and Lefteris Angelis, ACM PROMIS ’14, September 17, 2014. Effort Estimation for Mobile Applications Using Use Case Point (UCP),” Anureet Kaur and Kulwant Kaur, Smart Innovations in Communication and Computational Sciences. Dori, IEEE Systems Journal, January 2014. “A 4, April 2014, pp. 400, 2014. September 2014, pp. 106–118, 2014. 29, 2014.

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Why Great Leaders Mentalize and Five Exercises to Help You Do So

The IIL Blog

Introduced by Brasnett & Troupp (2014), the concept of collegial sparring describes when teachers want to grow their mentalization ability within the teacher group. Maria Ebro is a Presenter for IIL’s upcoming Online Leadership and Innovation Conference! By Mario Ebro.

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What is Bimodal IT and How Does it Work?

Wrike

Bimodal IT is a concept that was first introduced by leading global IT research firm Gartner in 2014. In mode 2, projects are focused on finding innovative ways to satisfy customer expectations and needs. Some are: Innovation.

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

Mazzuchi, and Shahram Sarkani, Systems Engineering , Volume 17, Issue 4, Winter 2014, Pages: 375–391. Towards a Contingency Theory of Enterprise Risk Management,” Anette Mikes Robert Kaplan, Working Paper 13–063 January 13, 2014, AAA 2014 Management Accounting Section (MAS) Meeting Paper. Risk Management and Reliable Forecasting using Un-Reliable Date,” Troy Magennis, Lean Kanban , Central Europe, 2014. Risk Options and Cost of Delay,” Troy Magennis, LKNA 2014.

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How do you implement SAFe agile in your organization?

Agilemania

It was introduced in 2014. The Spotify model isn’t a framework but it has helped organizations around the world improve productivity and foster innovation by concentrating on autonomy, communication, accountability, and quality.

2021 98
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Estimating is a Learned Skill

Herding Cats

Armour, Communications of the ACM , January 2014, Vol. What We Do and Don’t Know about Software Development Effort Estimation,” Magne Jørgensen, IEEE Software, March / April 2014. “A Effort Estimation in Global Software Development: A Systematic Literature Review,” Ricardo Britto, Vitor Freitas, Emilia Mendes, and Muhammad Usman, IEEE 9th International Conference on Global Software Engineering , 2014. “An 11 (2014), pp. IEEE, 2014.

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The 23 Best Project Management Books For Upgrading Your Career in 2020

Planio

Published date: 2014. However, The Culture Code teaches what you need to know to maximize your team’s performance, create clear and open lines of communication, and challenge your team to be creative and innovative. Published date: 2014.

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Inclusiveness of diversity forms a virtuous cycle with psychological safety

Kiron Bondale

In 2014 I wrote an article about the benefits which diversity in team composition can bring to risk identification. It is also recognized that diverse teams are usually more creative and can be more innovative.

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In-Depth: The Evidence-Based Business Case For Agile

Scrum.org

They also note that this is particularly relevant to complex challenges, which is typically the case for the product innovation that happens in Agile teams. 2014 ; Young & Jordan, 2008 ; Russo, 2021 ). What is the business case for Agile teams?

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

A Taxonomy of Threats for Complex Risk Management,” Centre for Risk Studies, Research Programme of the Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies, University of Cambridge, Judge Business School, June 2014. “A Measuring the Performance of the Risk Management Process,” Barney Roberts and Richard Kitterman, INCOSE International Symposium , Session 6, Track 2: Systems Architecture, 4 November 2014. 1, March 2014. 1–10, 2014. 949, 2014. 1528, 2014. 38 (2014) Suppl.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

A Taxonomy of Threats for Complex Risk Management,” Centre for Risk Studies, Research Programme of the Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies, University of Cambridge, Judge Business School, June 2014. “A Measuring the Performance of the Risk Management Process,” Barney Roberts and Richard Kitterman, INCOSE International Symposium , Session 6, Track 2: Systems Architecture, 4 November 2014. 1, March 2014. 1–10, 2014. 949, 2014. 1528, 2014. 38 (2014) Suppl.

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The Best Project Management Podcasts

Susanne Madsen

The first time I was interviewed by Cesar was in 2014 about how to can stop managing and start leading. Personal and professional growth should be one of the highest priorities on anyone’s to-do-list. Progressing, expanding and getting better at what we do is one of the fundamental human needs that we all have. Some of us love to read and others like to attend events or workshops.

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Steve Wake: Reflections on EVA, Silence and To Do Lists

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Steve has also had to become an accomplished event organiser and chair with his own EVA conference in its 21st year as well as continued close involvement in the high profile PMI UK Synergy events, both productions with a reputation for the unusual and innovative. Synergy 2014: Conference Highlights “When what you do is not unique, the way that you do it makes the difference.” That’s how Ricardo Triana, Chair of the 2014 PMI.

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How Trying New Hobbies Made Me More Productive at Work

Teamweek

I sat at the pottery wheel, my thighs braced against its plastic tub and my hands cupping a ball of wet clay, as the wheel started turning faster and faster.

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19 Genius Ways to Become More Creative Today

Planio

In this guide, we’re going to dispel those myths, run you through the exact process that helps promote creative thought, and then cover 21 specific strategies to help you and your team be more creative, innovative, and imaginative on a daily basis. In short, Csikszentmihalyi is saying that creativity is transformation , either through creating something wholly new or innovating an existing space. In fact, A 2014 study. Let’s say you’re sitting in a meeting with your team.

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The “Big Tech” Threat to Automotive OEMs and Their Suppliers

Leading Agile

Innovators have already changed how we all view transportation in the past decade, including the shift from gasoline to battery-electric and from car ownership to transportation-as-a-service. Apple introduced the CarPlay standard and Google gave us Android Auto in 2014.

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How To Build a Strong Company Culture as a Team Who Hardly Meets Face-to-Face

Proofhub

For instance, a 2014 study found that productivity substantially decreases when individuals work over 50 hours per week, and there is a general consensus among scientists that the ideal working day is 6 hours. Loneliness can also limit innovation, and lower employee wellbeing.

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Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

Herding Cats

Modeling Uncertainty in Risk Assessment Using Double Monte Carlo Method,” International Journal of Engineering and Innovation Technology (IJEIT), Volume 1, Issue 4, April 2012. Building a Credible Performance Measurement Baseline,” The Measurable News , 2014, Issue 4. 229, 2014. Thesis, University of Manchester, 2014. The Concept of Problem Complexity,” Conference on Systems Engineering Research (CSER 2014), Procedia Computer Science , 28.

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What is Agile Project Management? (and how to implement it)

EasyProjects

For example, Microsoft, which began with one team in 2008, several teams in 2009, some 25 teams in 2010 in the Visual Studio group, then several hundred teams in the Developer Division in 2011, and then a commitment to take Agile across the whole organization around 2014. It might even contribute to how fast we are advancing as a species when it comes to technology and innovation. What is Agile Project Management? . Imagine for a moment that you’re cooking stew for the first time.

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The Best Time Tracking Software of 2018

Paymo App

This implies being honest, giving back, innovating, and listening to customers’ needs among others. Their commitment to creating a unique product has earned them several awards in the past: 2015 & 2016 Top Company Cultures by Entrepreneur, Deloitte Fast 500 Technology – 2016 North America, 2015 & 2016 Best Places to Work – Idaho, 2014 Innovation Award – Company of the Year, and also the 2014, 2015 & 2016 Awesome App by the Sleeter Group.

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My Journey as a Scrum Master

Scrum.org

In hindsight, I already started writing the paper “ The 8 Stances of a Scrum Master ” around 2011–2014, although it was published via Scrum.org years later. Think of goals focused on delivering value to customers sooner by releasing early & often, decreasing cycle time and lead time, improving team morale, lowering the number of defects, optimizing return on investment and increasing innovation rate. Let’s start with a word of warning. This can be considered as a long article.

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