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Win at Digital Transformation By Connecting Portfolio Management and Value Stream Management 

Planview

By combining these approaches, organizations can improve the performance of every stage of the software development lifecycle, from planning to delivery to outcomes. It’s critical to be asking the right questions: How does strategy become a plan? Are the right objectives being focused on?

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Six Characteristics of a Great Project Leader

LiquidPlanner

To effectively lead a project to completion, I think we agree that many soft skills are needed to manage a project team and timelines successfully. Really it’s critical for everyone on the project team, but it is an essential skill for the project leader. Let’s explore a few of them…. Excellent communicator . Emotionally intelligent.

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March Project Madness

LiquidPlanner

March Madness – that crazy college basketball time of year when 64 teams play for the national championship. The madness emerges as Cinderella teams advance, upsetting highly-ranked and favored teams as they fail to deliver. . This allows project teams to focus for the win! One winner, 63 losers.

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Time to Check-in on Your Mid-Year Goals

LiquidPlanner

Shifting priorities isn’t always a bad thing. Even if the fires are still ongoing, can we develop some strategies to focus on achieving the most important goals? Often teams think they can plan projects in Excel to track the progress of their portfolio of projects. In fact, it may well yield better outcomes.

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#PMOT – Who are the Project Managers on Twitter to Follow?

Online PM Courses

Co-author of Strategies for Project Sponsorship – [link] Practical project management: ronrosenhead.co.uk. Donnie’s Article at Online PM Courses: A Simple Way to Develop Interpersonal Skills for Project Managers. We make Agile teams become amazing, check out our free online masterclass: agilesumo.com. Developing Leaders.

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Project collaboration: the key to successful project management (and happy teams)

Resource Guru

If you’ve ever tried to complete a project without the right tools, the right team, or the right resources, you know it can feel like an impossible task. Project collaboration is when a team of people work on the same project to achieve a common goal. ” Not bad! Not bad at all. But you don’t have to go it alone.

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70 Scrum Master Theses

Scrum.org

As somebody hiring for a Scrum Team, you need to determine for yourself what works for your organization — which is a process, not a destination. A Scrum Master should recognize that different stages of a Scrum Team’s development require different approaches: some, teaching; some, coaching; and some, mentoring.

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