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If there's no Plan B.

Musings on Project Management

If there's no Plan B, then the first rule is "Make Plan A work!"And it might require that you be aggressive about making Plan A work. no fooling around.No Plan BWait! Isn't there always a Plan B somewhere?A general officer once told me: If there's no Plan B, invent it!Insure for failure?Maybe you can insure against the failure of Plan A.

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The Best Product Owners Have Great Facilitation Skills

Scrum.org

Anyone working as a Product Owner with multiple stakeholders having diverse opinions has their hands full. The Scrum Guide states that the Product Owner is accountable for effective Product Backlog management, including developing and communicating the Product Goal, Creating Product Backlog items, Ordering the Product Backlog, and ensuring that the Product Backlog is transparent and understood.

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Roles And Responsibilities Of A SAFe® Product Owner

Agilemania

As the technology is growing and evolving, the demand for SAFe® Product Owners is also increasing. Organizations are also transforming, initially, companies transitioned from waterfall to agile now they are implementing SAFe®-. SAFe® isn’t something related to safety but SAFe® means a scaled agile framework. It provides structured guidelines on roles and responsibilities, works planning, and values to follow.

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Project Management Maturity Models: A Basis for Reaching Your Organization’s Business Success

Epicflow Blog

Do you know your organization’s project management maturity level? If not, it’s high time to change the situation: project management maturity has a direct impact on a company’s competitiveness and business success. . What is project management maturity exactly, and how to define its level? What are project management maturity models? Find answers to these questions in the article. .

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A New Look At Running Grants & Programs: Why Use A System When You Have Excel?

Speaker: Gareth Webb & Phil Selley, Founding Partners at Intouch Business

For many nonprofit organizations and NGOs, managing grants and monitoring projects with spreadsheets and manual processes feels familiar—but is it holding your organization back? As funding requirements become more complex and stakeholder expectations for transparency grow, relying on outdated methods can lead to inefficiencies, missed opportunities, and compliance risks.

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Timesheets: A Guide For Service Businesses

Teamweek

Timesheets have long been touted as the go-to method for teams and businesses to track their time. And it’s your timesheet process and culture that can determine whether they help or hinder your team. But let’s be honest here. Timesheets have a bad rep. Standard practices around timesheets can be tedious, repetitive, and scrutinous. But here’s the thing: The problem isn’t with the timesheets.

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A Guide to MS Excel for Project Management

Techno-PM

Project management is the process of creating and monitoring processes successfully. Every enterprise works on multiple operations simultaneously, and project management ensures the projects are effective, organised, and ready for execution. MS Excel for Project Management is one of the most popular software programs for planning projects. Regardless of the organisation, size, industry, or age, people use MS Excel to control and manage various projects across multiple platforms and track their p

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LEAD Your Team: How to Use Your Top 4 Project Leadership Skills

Online PM Courses

When you have a Project Leadership role, there's a lot to do. So, we'll focus on my top 4 project leadership skills, that set you up to LEAD. The post LEAD Your Team: How to Use Your Top 4 Project Leadership Skills appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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The Three — Wait: Four — Elements of Empiricism

Scrum.org

TL; DR: Elements of Empiricism. In its theory section, the Scrum Guide refers to the three elements of empiricism: transparency, inspection, and adaptation. However, a fourth element, foundational to enable empiricism, is hidden in a sentence on Scrum Values. Read on and learn more about the complete picture of Scrum’s empiricism. ???? Zur deutschsprachigen Version des Artikels: Die 4 Säulen der Scrum Empirie. ??

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5 Tips for Project Managers using Project for the web

MPUG

Many would say that MS Project is dead, or at least dying. Microsoft’s Project for the web (P4W) is being used more and more in everyday project management. The software still has a lot of things missing compared to the good ol’ desktop version and/or the online version, but it’s inevitable that P4W is becoming a replacement to previous versions. Every single month, Microsoft adds new features to the P4W software.

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How to Modernize Manufacturing Without Losing Control

Speaker: Andrew Skoog, Founder of MachinistX & President of Hexis Representatives

Manufacturing is evolving, and the right technology can empower—not replace—your workforce. Smart automation and AI-driven software are revolutionizing decision-making, optimizing processes, and improving efficiency. But how do you implement these tools with confidence and ensure they complement human expertise rather than override it? Join industry expert Andrew Skoog as he explores how manufacturers can leverage automation to enhance operations, streamline workflows, and make smarter, data-dri

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Das Anzeichen Nr. 1, dass Scrum noch nicht (richtig) funktioniert

Scrum.org

Am 22. August wollte ich einen neuen Kurs launchen. Ich habe die Trainingsunterlagen angefertigt, die Trainingsbeschreibung geschrieben und Blogartikel zur Ankündigung vorbereitet. Sonntagabend war alles im Content-Management-System eingepflegt. Montagmorgen drückte ich den Button „veröffentlichen“. Es passierte nichts. Die Beiträge wurden zwar veröffentlicht, allerdings nicht über die Social-Media-Kanäle ausgespielt.

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