Tue.Nov 24, 2020

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OKRs: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly

Scrum.org

OKRs are a powerful tool for setting and measuring goals, but like all power tools, they can become dangerous in unskilled hands. When used in informed ways, they can improve focus and lift outcomes, but when mishandled, they can increase waste and inflict real damage upon the organizations that adopt them. The basic idea behind OKRs is simple: it’s a good idea to identify goals that you want to achieve and the measures that will indicate whether you’ve achieved those goals.

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10 Best Remote Project Management Tools Of 2020

The Digital Project Manager

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The Scrum Guide 2020 Reordered

Scrum.org

TL; DR: The Scrum Guide Reordered. The Scrum Guide Reordered 2020 is based on about 95 percent of the text of the Scrum Guide 2020, extending its original structure by adding additional categories, for example, on self-management, commitments, or accountability. The Scrum Guide–Reordered allows you to get an understanding of Scrum-related questions quickly.

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Encapsulation vs Orchestration: Dependencies in Agile

Leading Agile

Dependencies will stop Agility dead in its tracks. In the presence of dependencies, you’re never going to achieve the level of Agility you desire—unless you do something about them. So you only have two choices when it comes to this. You can either encapsulate the dependencies within the team or within the value stream, or you can orchestrate them. Another way to say this is that you either must break the dependencies, or you must manage them.

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Understand Digital Debt, Form a Team, Set Goals, and Plan Roadmap for Transformation

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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Stakeholder Engagement for Your Project Success

Epicflow Blog

The success of any project is dependent on a number of factors such as clear goals, realistic project schedule, budget, resource, risk, and uncertainty management. But the favorable outcome of a project is based not only on processes but also on people. They’re called stakeholders. . Project Stakeholders: Who Falls Into This Category? As stated in the AccountAbility 1000 Stakeholder Engagement Standard , stakeholders are “… those groups who affect and/or could be affected by an organizati

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Project Success: 7 Steps for Building Projects that Deliver Results

PM Times

Written by: Ronita Mohan Project success is achievable—but you need the right mindset and tools to make it happen.

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Adkar Model - Change Competency Assessment

Techno-PM

Adkar Change Management If you have ever been involved in a project, you certainly know by now that change management is a fundamental competency to have if the project is to be successful. Take it beyond projects and you will recognize that same need – whether the business is reinventing itself, or you are moving offices elsewhere, or if you have to allow for everyone to be able to work from home all of a sudden – it’s all about change and how effective you, as a leader or as an organization, a

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What Is a Single Source of Truth?

Wrike

As a project director, you know that a project failure can happen due to many reasons. In fact, nearly 42% of project managers confirmed that inefficient processes were the key reason for a project going off track. Other possible causes can include anything from slow work progress, weak cross-functional collaboration , confusion amongst multiple data sources, or low data accessibility.

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An Audience with Rick and Peter (2)

The Lazy Project Manager

By popular demand (well one person asked us) Rick and Peter are back with a second ‘An Audience with Rick and Peter’ free webinar on Tuesday 15 th December at 5pm GMT/12pm ET. This time we will be talking ‘Speaking in Project Management’ – covering presentation tips and how to get started as a speaker in the project management world. Book your place RIGHT HERE.

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Strategic Project Finance Essentials: A Project Manager’s Guide to Financial Metrics

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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An introduction to an effective earned value management system (EVMS) webinar series part 3 - Author: Maya Creasey

APM

This series of webinars will introduce people to the, often poorly understood, system of work (the Earned Value Management System) that underpins good Earned Value Analysis (EVA) and enduring decisions. Here finally in this third webinar presented on Tuesday 24 November 2020, introduced the tools and techniques to provide assurance that you have an effective EVMS in place, you are actually using it effectively and you have a valid baseline.

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23 Best Office Plants to Boost Workplace Productivity

Teamweek

Office plants matter, just like team building games and other staff morale strategies. According to a study from 2014, plants boost productivity and help companies retain employees. . In the study, people in workplaces with plant densities of one per square meter also performed better on memory tests and other basic skills assessments. According to another study from 2011, “indoor plants in an office can prevent fatigue during attention demanding work.”.

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3 Ways to Improve your Work Performance

MindGenius

Has your work performance gone downhill since the turn of the year? The good news is, you are definitely not alone. There are thousands of people across the world struggling to adapt to the new challenges that comes with remote working. More good news though, there is a way to get through it, and it’s very easy to follow. 1) Identify your problem. The first step to improving yourself is to find out exactly where you’re going wrong.

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ActiveCollab Puts the User and Their Work at Center Stage - Yays

ActiveCollab

My name is Angelica Vigilante, and I am the Brand Communications Manager at Yays [[link] a hospitality company with headquarters in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. We believe that a memorable travel experience can only happen when visitors establish a rapport with the people who give character, heart, and meaning to the destination. We help our guests discover that particular eatery, lesser-known museums, an award-winning brewery, and all the gems hiding in plain sight that most tourists usually wal

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Acclaim Projects Helps Deliver Innovation Projects on Time and on Budget

This large intercity transportation company for people and freight employs 100+ IT employees and contractors across North America and Europe and spends $10MM annually for approximately 50 inflight projects. The company needed the right financial tools to budget for innovation initiatives and real-time information on spending and forecasting. This transportation company turned to Acclaim Projects by Sopheon to help deliver projects on time and within budget.