Planio

AUGUST 28, 2023

One-on-one meetings are consistently rated as the most impactful way to learn about your team, exchange feedback, and keep projects on track. Unfortunately, many managers get their one-on-ones wrong, with sessions feeling rushed, unorganized, and at times, combative. Increases team motivation and morale.

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International Institute for Learning

JANUARY 18, 2023

One of the key considerations on projects these days is which development approach is best to use for a given product. A life cycle is a series of phases your project will go through from start to finish. The deliverable approach is how you will create the products or deliverables that are part of your project.

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Project Risk Coach

MAY 15, 2017

Project managers spend a large part of each day communicating—facilitating meetings, emailing stakeholders, responding to texts, writing reports, and having one-on-one conversations. One of the best ways to improve your communication is through the use of visuals. Imagine a business analyst who is mapping a business process.

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MPUG

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Introduction: First, I am not writing this to be highbrow; besides technical and project management topics, I have enjoyed history and mythology for years. I recently watched an old Greek mythology movie from the early 80’s, and I had a revelation: the muses and project management.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

And this is precisely the point: The Product Owner miraculously identifies what is the best way to proceed as a Scrum Team by managing the Product Backlog. The wave of agile transition projects, particularly in large, established organizations over recent years, has provided those frameworks with a tremendous tailwind.

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Velociteach

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The project management plan (Plan) is a powerful tool. It describes how the project will be executed. It should be tailored based on the project’s context and needs. Unfortunately, in the rush to start a project, insufficient time is often devoted to creating the Plan. Projects can solve simple to chaotic problems.

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Resource Guru

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The result tells you the percentage of time that your team spends on projects that actually bring in money. Your agency utilization rate is typically tracked in your resource management software , where you also get a breakdown of billable hours. Billable hours: These are the hours your team spends on client projects.

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Agilemania

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Recognized as one of the world’s foremost authorities on Lean-Agile best practices, Dean Leffingwell took it on himself to do something about it. Visualize and limit WIP, reduce batch sizes, and manage queue lengths. Apply cadence and synchronize with cross-domain planning. He introduced the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).

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Planio

MARCH 20, 2020

What’s the number one factor that influences whether your project is a success or a dud? While we’d love to say it’s the project management tool you use the truth is it’s something else: Communication. You wouldn’t just dive into a project without clearly defining your scope, resources, and timeline.

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Proofhub

JULY 23, 2020

Atlassian defines Agile as “an iterative approach to project management and software development that helps teams deliver value to their customers faster and with fewer headaches.” Book calls with people who fit your target audience and make adjustments based on what they’ve suggested or are hoping to learn. What is Agile?

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MPUG

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Now imagine that a senior executive starts off his day and decides first to have a quick look at the project dashboard expecting to see metrics such as the current status of projects, earned value indices in terms of money and performances, and top risks. Welcome to the concept of the Project Management Office or PMO.

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Digite

JUNE 13, 2018

Compared to Scrum, Kanban is a young work-management method. Anderson best articulated its application to software development, in 2013, in the foundational book Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business, and its adoption hasn’t been as universal as Scrum’s during the early days of Agile software development.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 23, 2022

How do you go up into Portfolio Management? How do you go up into investment management, that kind of a thing? What do you do with planning cadences? And you know, the manifesto had just been written and I was working as a project manager in a company called CheckFree here in Atlanta and squarely like in the PMO.

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Teamweek

OCTOBER 4, 2022

How do you tell the difference between a good project and a bad one? Look at the project progress reports. Bad project reports – your team or client gets lost in pointless data, doesn’t know what work was done, and receives no insightful comments. Projects get complex fast, and the tasks stack up quickly.

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Velociteach

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The podcast by project managers for project managers. Learn from the intriguing parallels between a jazz ensemble and an effective project team. WENDY GROUNDS: Welcome, fellow project champions, to Manage This ! Welcome to Manage This. So, buckle up, hit play, and let the show begin!

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Scrum.org

MARCH 11, 2024

This article covers the three Scrum accountabilities (formerly roles) and addresses interferences of stakeholders and IT/line management with this crucial Scrum event. Your single best investment to improve your professional standing ; order the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book now! ? Moreover, I added some food for thought.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 31, 2020

In this week’s episode, LeadingAgile Chief Methodologist, Dennis Stevens, sits down with Mike Cottmeyer to discuss Capability-based organizations, Systems of Delivery vs Systems of Transformation, managing dependencies, and more. – Talk about project management and things like that. – Yeah. – Mm hmm.

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Planio

MAY 9, 2022

After running Planio for more than a decade, I’ve come to learn that managers and leaders often wear blinders. Even if we think we’re being open and understanding, underneath it all, we think we know best. My best guess is because it’s harder than it sounds. Who cares if the best idea came from a junior designer?

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Leading Agile

APRIL 7, 2023

We have these small teams working on troubled projects. That having weekly planning cadences; daily standups, reviews, and retrospectives would give people a reason to get in the same room and collaborate. Traditional project management methodologies are process focused and agnostic to organizational design.

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Leading Agile

JANUARY 21, 2021

And so that’s kinda what we’re talking about, but one of the big challenges is when you’re dealing with agile at that level of scale like how do you begin the process of transformation? And I guess, Dean Leffingwell came out with the first book on scaled agile. Like how do you start it? That’s part of it.

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Planio

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Managing remote teams can feel a lot like playing chess. Awareness and human connection are the manager’s best tools. Plenty of people before you have spent years learning how to manage remote teams–and have it down to a science. The 3 biggest work challenges every remote manager faces. with a blindfold on.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 28, 2022

Welcome to the Sprint anti-patterns article from my series on Scrum anti-patterns, covering the three Scrum roles—pardon me: accountabilities—and addressing the contributions of stakeholders and the IT/line management. Each Sprint may be considered a short project. Moreover, I add some food for thought.

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Planio

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Sprint retrospectives are a powerful opportunity to highlight opportunities for change, generate meaningful improvements to your workflows and processes and speed up future projects, and stop your team from falling into the same traps. Agile project development is all about continuous improvement.

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Digite

MARCH 12, 2018

We have a brownfield project which was recently struck by disaster (many people leaving for unrelated reasons, too many new customers, much too large backlog for much to few people, etc.). Management support is still fine. Shield devs and ops from panicked management and stakeholders. What are your best practices here? •

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Leading Agile

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Like imagine if you’re a 30 year architect running a COBOL mainframe system doing a payments processing engine there where nothing can be off by a penny and you’re having all these problems and somebody comes along and says, man, if you were just doing daily standup meetings, everything would work out. He goes, yeah, I get it.

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PM That Works

MAY 9, 2020

We also want to announce if you haven't had a chance to come join us at the pm tribe calm please do as for my project managers that are listening out there my agile lists that are listening out there. He's an independent management consultant. David Stackleather 4:36 Yeah, and process reengineering. And Mike hammer.

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Project Management Hacks

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

In today’s Q&A interview, you will learn how Charles Byrd developed his productivity practices, managed products and built relationships. I met Charles in 2015 and have been looking forward to sharing his insights with Project Management Hacks readers. What is your background in project management and industry?

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Here's a collection of presentations, briefings, papers, essays, book content used to increase the Probability of Project Success (PoPS) I've written and applied over my career in the software-intensive system of systems and other domains. Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management Briefings and Presentations.

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

There was a common practice known as the “death march,” in which projects began with a fixed timeline but (often) with few if any of the resources the delivery teams would need (such as servers, test environments, software licenses, access rights to key systems, etc.) Survival is the best the teams can hope for.

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MPUG

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Today’s session will cover Agile features and capabilities in Microsoft Project and project PPM. Tim is one of six Microsoft Project MVPs in North America and has held the title for 16 years in a row. Tim works with companies like Microsoft and next generations of project program and portfolio technologies.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 5, 2016

He was not a program manager of engineered to order software intensive system of systems. That is, the answer to the question of what is the best use of the available means is implicit in our assumptions. First some questions: Is the economic data for the project available in a single mind? On projects yes. probably not.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 17, 2021

And this was like way before the days Dean Leffingwell hadn’t even written his first book on scaling. And then the process developed a point of view around kind of why companies were jacking it up. So it’s a little bit where the projects, the product story kind of comes in. None of the stuff on scaling was out there.

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MPUG

JUNE 1, 2022

Melanie: Jeff is currently the Training and Development Manager for Edwards Performance Solutions. As such, he oversees the production and maintenance of courses on project management, systems engineering, software development, business process improvement, and cyber security. Jeff: Here are our process groups.

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