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Why is it a project manager’s job to fix companies?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Projects are the future, a good portfolio office can influence and shape strategy and project management is the only way to holistically deliver improvements. If you have sat through any project management conference presentations or talked to someone evangelizing about the role of the PMO then you will have heard this stuff before. At the roundtable discussion about project management in the collaborative age way back in 2012, the talk turned to how project managers could shape strategy.

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The essence of Empiricism

Scrum.org

You must have observed a Music Director inside a recording studio with a big keyboard who is busy tunning different button. Haven’t you! Long back, I used to wonder - Shouldn’t they have done all that tunning beforehand rather than doing it while a singer is recording his or her voice? Out of curiosity, I asked my musician friend and what he said had a lasting impression on me - no matter how expert we are, no matter how much logic we apply, everything will be just a prediction of how it will al

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Understanding Agile

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This is a guest article by Isidora Roskic. Learning to successfully manage agile projects requires you to first familiarize yourself with the concept of Agile. What is the agile methodology? Where did it start? What does it truly encompass? If you know all of the answers then you’re off to a good start! If not then the following will help. Where it all began.

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Top 5 Project Budget Management Apps You Need In 2022

nTask

We know how troubling it can be to keep track of your budget. Managing your personal expenses is already a stretch, but the budget of an entire business can be a bit too overwhelming. Thankfully, many project budget management apps can make your work much easier and more fun. A project budget management app allows you to keep your finances in check at all times.

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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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13 Easy Tips to Create an Agile Persona -The Most Important Attributes Every Organization Needs

Agilemania

If you aim to make your organization more customer-oriented, the focus should be on building a good persona. Your organization’s persona is highly crucial no matter what industry you belong to. . The reason? . For starters, personas collect and define essential information about your consumers. Personas also visualize your consumers’ use habits and interests.

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5 best capacity planning tools for successful project management

Resource Guru

We do capacity planning all day, every day. Ever kept an eye on how much of your bank balance you’ve spent? Considered how many extracurricular activities you can fit in, based on your time and budget? Packed in sightseeing trips depending on interest, expense, and distance? We may not call it that, but we engage in capacity planning on a daily basis.

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How Do We Translate Agile Transformation Into Financial Benefits?

Leading Agile

How do we translate our Agile Transformation to financial benefits we can measure? Check out this clip where Dennis Stevens explores four areas where financial benefits are created through your Transformation: Value Density. Reducing Head Count Costs. The Total Cost of Ownership. Market and Business Achievements.

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LiquidPlanner Named a Champion of the 2022 Emotional Footprint Award

LiquidPlanner

We are proud to announce that we’ve been named one of the champions in the SoftwareReviews 2022 Project Management Emotional Footprint Awards. The award is given based on emotional response ratings from IT and business professionals across many different industries. The emotional footprint scores are collected from 26 dimensions and five categories: Purchasing, Service Experience, Product Impact, Vendor Strategy, and Conflict Resolution.

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What Are Michael Porter’s Three Generic Strategies?

The Strategic Project Manager

Is there a way to boil down strategic choices to three generic strategies? Strategy guru Michael Porter has done just that. This post explores the generic strategies, the pitfalls in choosing one, and their importance to project managers. Overview of Porter’s Three Generic Strategies. It may seem funny to illustrate Three Generic Strategies with a quad chart!

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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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What are DORA Metrics? Why are They Important in DevOps?

Wrike

How do you improve DevOps and strengthen your operations? It all starts with measurement. You need to understand where you’re starting from and where you want to go. When it comes to software delivery, there are different metrics development teams can use to measure and track performance. Teams need visibility into data to understand their strengths and weaknesses and how they can improve their DevOps capabilities.

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Cross-Team Collaboration: Best Practices, Challenges and Benefits

ProjectManager.com

Collaboration is already hard enough. Now imagine collaborating with colleagues that aren’t in the same department as yours. Or maybe even a different location! Well, people do it every day and it’s called cross-team collaboration. As these hybrid teams become more standard, cross-team collaboration is the key to connecting these different groups and increasing their productivity.

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How the 12 principles in the Agile Manifesto work in real life

Scrum.org

Agile is an umbrella term encompassing a variety of frameworks and approaches to value delivery in complex environments. The word agile came into widespread use following the creation of the Agile Manifesto in 2001. That year, a group of 17 software practitioners looking for a better way to deliver software settled on the the term agile to refer to their more rational, human approach to complex work.

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How to Work with Consultants | Video

Online PM Courses

You'll want to get the best value from your organization’s investment from consulting fees. So, how do you work with consultants? The post How to Work with Consultants | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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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.

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Project Owner – Should we keep using that term?

PM Times

Working as a consultant / Advisor in project management, taught me we can use different terms to mean the same thing provided we set the right controls. Unfortunately, I have seen less controls than expected when terminology has been used in building PM systems, PM Methodologies’ and PM systems when describing terms like owners. In […]. The post Project Owner – Should we keep using that term?

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Day in the Life of a Web Developer

ActiveCollab

Being a web developer really pays off these days. Since more customers rely on internet services, companies significantly depend on developers to make user-friendly, functional, and attractive websites. The recent statistic indicates an 8% growth in web development employment by 2029. A degree in web development can bring you plenty of career benefits, like working from home or freelancing.

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Fixing the MacBook Pro Notch Debacle

Dotto Tech

Summary SUBSCRIBE TO DOTTO TECH YOUTUBE CHANNEL GO Bartender 4 solves a problem Apple has created with the notch on the new Macbook Pro notebooks. The notch takes up important screen real estate that normally contains our menu bar items. These items simply disappear behind the notch, with no easy way to access them, which can be a major inconvenience!

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Working With Clients

Appfluence

Priority Matrix is an ideal system for working with clients. Let us explain how to use PM to effectively work together with clients on shared projects without giving them full access to your entire account. Why Priority Matrix? When working with clients, it is important to use the right tools for the job, maintaining a professional attitude at all times, and focusing on their needs.

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.