Wed.Dec 02, 2020

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Risk Mitigation Plan: Definition & Top Strategies

ProjectManager.com

Risk is always present. This is true in life and projects alike. If we were to try and avoid all risks, it would be paralyzing—not to mention impossible. We couldn’t step out of the house, let alone embark on a project. There’s just too much that could go wrong! Project managers don’t have the luxury of locking the door, turning off the lights and hiding in a corner.

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THE PRODUCT GOAL IS A COMMITMENT FOR THE PRODUCT BACKLOG

Scrum.org

In the 2020 Scrum Guide Ken and Jeff introduces the idea of the Product Goal. The Product Goal is a commitment to ensure transparency and focus against progress. The Product Goal describes a future state of the product which can serve as a target for the Scrum Team to plan against. The Product Goal is in the Product Backlog. The rest of the Product Backlog emerges to define “what” will fulfil the Product Goal.

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Guide to Agile Retrospectives for Aspiring Project Managers

nTask

Improving how you work is a common goal for many organizations. With agile teams, this is usually done through retrospectives. In other words, with agile retrospectives, you can focus on how your work is going and take things that are learned from success & failure for further implementation. Such agile retrospectives help to improve processes, methods, and teamwork.

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Why Agile is so Popular in Project Management

GanttPRO Project Management

From the early 2000s to today, the Agile methodology continues to be popular in project management. Now, it even extends past its software development roots to encompass other non-software industries […].

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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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Get 2021 off to a great start with these 3 tips.

MindGenius

It’s fair to say that this year hasn’t been great for a large majority of us over the world. As many of us have begun adjusting to the new way of working, and getting used to a world with constant restrictions in place. However, at the turn of the year there is always hope that “this year will be better than the previous one” and in the case of 2020, it wouldn’t take much.

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Dodging the pandemic

Musings on Project Management

If you're a PM running a project during the pandemic, you probably have one or more of these problems:Supply chain issues: stuff is out of stock; stuff is not available on time; stuff costs moreVelocity and throughput issues: Throughput is slower to achieve; there's more overhead and NVA (non-value added)Communication errors: Remote work is really work with restricted bandwidth; nothing really.

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Why Agile is so Popular in Project Management

GanttPRO Project Management

From the early 2000s to today, the Agile methodology continues to be popular in project management.

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Top 7 Leadership Articles: Fall Edition

Epicflow Blog

This fall has come to an end, which means it’s time for a new collection of the best leadership papers published during the last three months. Almost all materials today turn on the transformations and challenges caused by uncertain times. But we’ve selected the most general insights, so stay up to date and boost your leadership skills all year round no matter what. .

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Displaying Total Slack (Float), Free Slack (Float) and Negative Slack (Float) Graphically in MS Project 2019

Management Yogi

Takeaway: Many confuse Free Slack, which can be enabled with a checkbox in MS Project, with that of Total Slack. Free Slack and Total Slack are completely two different concepts in management. A number of books, guides inform the default slack available in MS Project to be Total Slack, which is incorrect. This post will outline how to enable the Total Slack, Free Slack and Negative Total Slack.

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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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Your Quick Guide to ERP Software and Its Benefits for Your Business

PM Times

Written by: Jimmy Rodela Running a company includes many moving parts. Without a robust way to integrate all your core processes, your workflows and operations become inefficient nightmares to deal with.

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Covid-19 makes Full Kitting in business processes a critical success factor

PM Times

Written by: Jonathan Sapir Ian James, a business process consultant, made the astute observation that “Teamwork fails most often in the moments between us.”.

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