Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 20, 2019

We’re approaching the summer holidays – yes, really! – and if your projects have run like mine this year, your carefully planned deadlines no longer coincide with the dates that you are going to be out of the office. I don’t like going away and leaving my work in someone else’s hands. Not because I am a control freak (although I suspect it is partly that) but because something always happens when I am not there.

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Project Risk Coach

MAY 20, 2019

The success of a project manager largely lies in the individual’s ability to communicate. Some project managers have great oratory skills but don’t ask the right questions at the right time. Here are some key questions for each of the project management process groups. This is not meant to be a comprehensive list; just some questions to get you thinking.

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Lynne Cazaly

MAY 20, 2019

The performance enhancing tool for workplaces today is sensemaking. It's the skill of connecting dots and understanding the deeper meaning of what’s being discussed. When we try to take information in, understand what’s going on or decide what to do, we can use sensemaking to help us listen, think and decide. Too often we suffer misunderstandings, time wasting repetition, conversations that go around in circles, people interrupting, and still others who repeat information … but

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Leading Agile

MAY 20, 2019

Whitepaper Lead a Structured and Disciplined Agile Transformation Download Now. There’s no success in Agile outside the context of a team. Forming teams is just that important. So, what is a team? The Scrum Guide implies what a team should be, but we want to get super explicit. In this short clip, Mike Cottmeyer defines what an Agile team should really look like.

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Understanding digital debt is crucial before digital transformation. Assemble a team to assess internal operations, market pressures, and digital debt's impact. Define future digital vision with measurable goals. Refine hypotheses and conduct market analysis. Develop a roadmap for transformation with defined projects, cost estimates, and governance.

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Scrum.org

MAY 20, 2019

In this post I'd like to discuss "Empathy - why it is important in teams and what you can do if you struggle with it". First, we all know what the role of the Scrum Master is, right? The role of the Scrum Master is to "ensure that everyone understands and enacts Scrum". - Scrum Guide November 2017. I believe that in support of this role Scrum Masters should also exhibit all of the Scrum Values: .

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Scrum.org

MAY 20, 2019

The 2019 edition of Scrum Day India is happening on Saturday 20 July 2019, in Gurgaon (Delhi NCR). Sanjay Saini, owner of Agile WOW ("Agile Ways of Working"), kindly invited me, as an independent Scrum Caretaker, to open and close the event. I hope many Scrum practitioners register at scrumdayindia.org and join the event. In the end, only eager attendants can turn events into insightful experiences!

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ProProfs Project Management

MAY 20, 2019

You start working on a new project. Not having any set method in place, you simply start planning and execute the project as it seems fit. Will the project see the light of day? Probably not, right? With 93% of organizations reporting the standardized use of project management practices, you cannot afford to lag behind with an inappropriately implemented strategy.

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Gunther Verheyen

MAY 20, 2019

The 2019 edition of Scrum Day India is happening on Saturday 20 July 2019, in Gurgaon (Delhi NCR). Sanjay Saini, owner of Agile WOW (“Agile Ways of Working”), kindly invited me, as an independent Scrum Caretaker, to open and close the event. I hope many Scrum practitioners register at scrumdayindia.org and join the event. In the end, only eager attendants can turn events into insightful experiences!

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Admation

MAY 20, 2019

The Dilemma and The Fix Series - Part 7. The Dilemma: Angela is an Account Manager at a medium sized ad agency. She’s having one of those days where three clients have tuned in on the same wave length and want a status report - pronto! Angela wishes she had crystal ball to tune into her Production Team’s progress. Instead, she’s had to call the office for an update because she’s working remotely.

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Speaker: Ketan Jahagirdar - Sopheon’s Director of Product Management

Empower yourself as a project manager with insights that directly influence the financial landscape and strategic direction of your organization! Join us for a deep dive into the world of financial strategy, as we dissect key metrics that drive CFOs and business leaders’ investment decisions. This session will equip you with the necessary tools to craft compelling business cases as well as a comprehensive understanding of the crucial distinction between capital expenditure and operational expend

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Stepping Into Project Management

MAY 20, 2019

It was a warm summer day in Kolkata and I was waiting on the curbs looking for a cab at 7.30pm. it was late and horribly humid and warm and I just wanted to get home. Cabs sparsely stopped and refused to go, this was before likes of Ola and Uber hit the streets. Finally the cab I got into amazed me. It was a regular yellow cab, that had a bottle of water and days newspaper placed neatly, a small fan that kept you cool and curtains more as a way to keep the sun out when required.

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GanttPRO Project Management

MAY 20, 2019

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