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How To Make 2023 A Successful Year for Your Projects

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Would you like to make 2023 a successful year for your projects? I would also encourage project managers to be more innovative. If all they value is compliance and control they will kill innovation. I’m sure you do.

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10 Free Change Management Templates for Excel and Word

ProjectManager.com

It’s often used as a tool to help organizations meet long-term goals, stay innovative and generally improve their processes. This costs money so there’s also a place to estimate the budget, add a risk log and lay out the change management process.

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10 Methods for Screening Candidates in 2023

Teamweek

In this article, we’ll cover 10 of the best methods used to screen applicants in 2023 and cover some of the key application screening challenges: How to innovate your screening process with screening tools. Accelerate your candidate selection process with reliable data.

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11 Recruitment Strategies to Attract Top Talent in 2023

Teamweek

In this article, we look at 11 of the best recruitment strategies for 2023. In 2023, employee referral programs aren’t new news, but getting them right is still tricky. You can’t manage what you don’t measure – and in a hiring process, there’s a lot to measure!

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Our project management future is analog…

Kiron Bondale

As unique endeavors, projects require team members to be creative, innovative and able to react in a timely manner to surprises. I’ve just finished reading The Revenge of Analog and The Future is Analog by David Sax.

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How oragnizations and companies become and remain innovative

Inloox

Research and development, innovation management and new product introduction On the way to becoming an innovative company and what role project management can play in this process What is remarkable about innovations is their multiple ambivalence. Instead of a clear definition of the term, there is a collection of innovation characteristics. The majority of organizations want to be innovative, but admit that they need to do more.

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Digital Transformation Strategy Framework for Strategic PM’s

The Strategic Project Manager

It’s all about people and processes. And it’s about putting in place processes not only for dealing with a single change, but for dealing with continuing change due to the rapid evolution of digital technology. What flavor or level of innovation might be possible?

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Lean Startup and Scrum

Scrum.org

After the conference, I bought Eric Ries’s book - Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses. I remember the first time I heard about Lean Startup.

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How To Lead Scrum Masters With Liberating Structures?

Scrum.org

The only area where you should take a strong position is when decisions are made that adversely impact the empirical process or the degree to which team members feel safe to take interpersonal risks. But also to intervene in order to protect the Scrum process and the health of the team.

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Risks in the project: an overview

Inloox

In addition, risk management in the project should not be a one-time task, but rather an iterative process must be established to continuously identify and appropriately handle emerging risks. Both an unsuitable organizational structure and a deficient process organization can ensure that project goals are missed. Process problems, for example, can lead to delays in the construction of a prototype. Know the risks in your project!

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The Pitfalls of Social Media Screening as a Hiring Tool

Teamweek

To ensure a fair hiring process , more and more hiring teams are starting to reconsider this practice, and we’re here to explain why that’s mostly a good thing. 1 – Create a policy for social media screening This will help keep the process consistent, fair, and legal.

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Using the Prime Directive to avoid Retrospective Witch Hunts!

Scrum.org

The purpose of the Retrospective is to give the Scrum Team an opportunity to reflect on their work and identify ways to improve their process. Psychological safety is important for organizational performance and innovation. The Retrospective is a critical meeting in the Scrum Framework.

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Unlocking Agile Success: Aligning Your Organizational Design with Strategic Focus

Scrum.org

Which processes are necessary within each unit, and how should you coordinate between them? The organization structures itself around key processes works to standards and aims for high resource utilization and operational excellence.

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Improve how your team uses metrics!

Scrum.org

Metrics provide a more objective perspective on the process of teams and can reduce biases. Examples of such metrics are stakeholder satisfaction, return on investment, quality, innovation rate, and cycle time.

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ChatGPT Product Owner Job Interview

Scrum.org

I am also skilled in stakeholder management and communication, which are critical for ensuring that everyone involved in the product development process is informed and aligned. Join your peers on April 5, 2023 : Hands-on Agile #50: The Product Community of Practice w/ Petra Wille.

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ChatGPT 4: A Bargain for Scrum Practitioners?

Scrum.org

Guaranteed on March 23 : Professional Scrum Facilitation Skills Class — March 23, 2023. ? Learn more about the new GPT-4 model from OpenAI’s GPT-4 Developer Livestream of March 14, 2023 , or the OpenAI GPT-4 Technical Report. Highlighting the importance of empirical process control?

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Unlock the Power of ChatGPT for your Scrum Team

Scrum.org

Guaranteed : Professional Scrum Master Training w/ PSM I Certificate — Live Virtual Class: February 7-10, 2023. I created all following prompts and scenarios on January 15, 2023, based on the ChatGPT Jan 9 version. TL; DR: ChatGPT Prompts for Scrum Practitioners.

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Breaking Barriers: How Shifting Mindsets Unlocks AI’s Potential in Project Management

International Institute for Learning

Analyzing data to make informed decisions can be a time-consuming process that, in today’s fast-paced environment, may not be affordable. You can learn more about Marcus at [link] Registration is now open for Agile & Scrum 2023 Online Conference!

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Why is Satya Nadella a better example of agile leadership than Steve Jobs?

Scrum.org

You can see the difficulty he created within Apple because all innovation, product development, and so forth stemmed from him rather than a culture of innovation that permeates throughout the organization. Innovation and Agile capabilities.

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Why your team’s Scrum Genius might be holding you back

Scrum.org

But if it is not outlined in the framework, Scrum teams can innovate how to apply Scrum in their unique environment. Do you have a Scrum Genius on your team? Someone who always chimes in with the “right way” to do things.

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46 Best Trello Alternatives For Your Project Management in 2023

Workzone

It includes an advanced user experience with innovative time tracking to plan, log and get an overview of hours. Or have very systematic processes? ProdPad This tool takes the Kanban process to heart. Is your board exploding in size?

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What Is Agile Product Management?

Agilemania

This job leads the group through the agile process to finish the work prioritized by the product owner. The term “ agile product management ” means precisely what it sounds like. The goal is to develop product strategies and roadmaps in an elegant setting.

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Top 10 Books on Change Management (2023 edition)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In other words, if you want people to use what you create — or to shift their ways of working to the new standards and processes you implement — then you have to help them through the transition.

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Are you familiar with Agile Organization Design?

Scrum.org

According to organizational design expert Jay Galbraith, there are five key components that make up an effective organizational design: strategy, structures, processes, reward systems, and people practices. What is Agile Organization Design ?

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How to get Scrum Teams comfortable asking for help

Scrum.org

Why interdependence is essential to teamwork and Scrum Organizational researchers, such as Adam Grant and others, report findings that indicate a willingness to help others achieve their goals lies at the heart of effective collaboration, innovation, quality improvement, and service excellence.

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2023 Trends: 4 Ways for Project Managers to be More Successful

Traxidy

2023 Trends: 4 Ways for Project Managers to be More Successful. Organizations increasingly continue to rely on project-based work to drive innovation and achieve strategic objectives. The post 2023 Trends: 4 Ways for Project Managers to be More Successful appeared first on Traxidy.

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The purpose of a Goal is not to reach it!

Scrum.org

Focusing on a goal helps Scrum teams reduce muda (waste) in their product management process. In November 2020, the Scrum Guide added a new concept to the framework, the Product Goal. . Interestingly enough, goals have different meanings depending if you possess a project or a product mindset.

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How Project Management Will Benefit from Using Artificial Intelligence

International Institute for Learning

Many companies have already begun implementing AI augmented applications into their processes, tools, techniques, and methodologies for project management. Dr. Elissa Farrow is a Keynote Presenter for IIL’s Leadership and Innovation 2023 Online Conference!

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Leadership Tips for Project Managers

International Institute for Learning

We also need to make people feel safe to create and share their work with peers and customers and suggest improvements to the process. Before joining PMI, Mike consulted and managed innovation and technology projects throughout Europe, North and South America for 30+ years.

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Why Great Leaders Are Also Great Listeners

International Institute for Learning

This act of active listening shows their team members that they have been heard, inspiring them to be more involved in problem-solving initiatives or providing innovative ideas for process improvements. IIL’s Leadership & Innovation Online Conference goes live tomorrow!

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Tribes and Squads. How adaptive is that?

Scrum.org

And there are cases like the one of ING that seem to prove that it works great to create a culture of delivery and innovation. Low adaptivity, low innovation. The innovation here is high, and so is the impact and learning.

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Leadership Tips for Project Managers – Part 1

International Institute for Learning

The image below shows how team member productivity contributions can vary from net-negative Undermining or Resistance on the left-hand side all the way to Passionate Innovation on the right. Establishing a project vision is not a once-and-done process.

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The EVIL is WATERFALL

International Institute for Learning

You cannot help it, in 2023, there are certain types of projects which cannot be run any other way. If heavy process and RACI, (responsible, accountable, consulted, and informed) is needed, maybe there’s an underlying team/culture issue to be addressed?

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Creating a Positive Workplace: Strategies for Building Trust & Respect

Proofhub

Fosters Creativity and Innovation: Workplace positivity encourages creative thinking and collaboration, which leads to new ideas and innovations. By embracing and valuing the differences among your employees, you can foster increased innovation, creativity, and problem-solving.

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What’s The Future of Project Management in 2023 and beyond?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

AI is already a feature in some project management tools and robotic processing will help automate routine PMO tasks. I don’t know yet what this would look like in a project setting beyond the innovations we are seeing in AI, particularly in the PMO.

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What’s Your Problem Solver Profile?

International Institute for Learning

Speed is not your goal; process is. Set a decision-making deadline before you begin a decision-making process to limit how long–and how often–you can ruminate and reach out to a trusted friend or colleague so they can hold you accountable.

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AI in Project Management: Is the Future Already Here?

Epicflow Blog

According to Gartner , by 2030, 80% of project managers’ tasks will be run by AI, powered by big data, machine learning (ML), and natural language processing. The authors expect these transformations to come within the decade, but are we really so far from innovation?

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Benefits Of Implementing A Project Portfolio Management

WorkOtter

Implementing a PPM is only effective if you take the proper steps to ensure transparent project processes. Project portfolio management is also effective for fostering innovative collaboration among team members, project managers, different project groups, and so on.

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Risk Identification Techniques and How to Brainstorm Well

MPUG

The risk management process is core to our practice of Project Management. At the start of the process are two conversations: one strategic, and one tactical. While others, because of their need to innovate and step into the unknown, will have a far greater tolerance for risk.

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Successful DevOps Starts With Organizational Alignment

Leading Agile

Without the underlying organizational design, systems, teams, workflow processes, and alignment on a business goal, DevOps is destined to fail. And what we want is rather than each of those being a step in the process that’s inherently going to slow down our DevOps Transformation.

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