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Contract Management: Understanding the Contract Lifecycle

ProjectManager.com

Managing a project is complex. Project managers are trained to plan schedules and allocate resources to meet deadlines and stay within budgets. But once you’re contracting with people outside of your organization, the legal and logistic issues can be overwhelming. Companies employ contract managers to manage this often-complicated contract process. While not every organization has a contract manager, everyone who is leading a project that employees vendors and contractors needs to have an unders

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Gold-Plating Beyond Done — Making Your Scrum Work #7

Scrum.org

TL; DR: Gold-Plating Beyond Done. There are plenty of failure possibilities with Scrum. Given that Scrum is a framework with a reasonable yet short “manual,” this effect should not surprise anyone. However, creating Product Increments that “over-deliver” in scope or quality — also known as gold-plating — with regard to the previous refinement agreement demonstrates that the Developers need to acquire a more entrepreneurial mindset and embrace their responsibility.

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How To Adapt Agile And Kanban For Remote Teams

The Digital Project Manager

The post How To Adapt Agile And Kanban For Remote Teams appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Dangerous Assumptions About Your Customers ??

Scrum.org

Your team most likely is making a lot of assumptions. In a complex world, they have to. Whatever we do, we first have to make some assumptions. But there are two key things to take into account: Are you gathering the information from your actual (or future) customers to help you make assumptions? Do you validate your assumptions before proceeding? As a Scrum Master your role is to help your team navigate complexity by following Agile values and principles.

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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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How To Create A Website Project Plan: A Step-by-Step Guide

Teamweek

Planning is critical to most work, including web design. Without a website project plan, you’ll have a website that yields poor results, disappoints clients, and frustrates the development team. This article will help you plan web design projects so you can deliver them successfully. Here’s what you’ll learn: Why do you need a website project plan? How to plan a website project?

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4 Ways Trello Enterprise Supports Agile Teams

Trello

The agile methodology , which a small group of software developers released in 2001, was designed to support collaboration between cross-functional teams working on projects in fast-paced, changing environments. This methodology is now being implemented by teams across industries around the world. However, research from Harvard Business Review notes that 90% of organizations “struggled with rolling out organization-wide agile transformations.”.

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Everything You Should Know about Resource Allocation in Project Management

GanttPRO Project Management

One of the essential components of an effective project management (PM) process is resource allocation. According to Wellington’s research (2019), it is the second largest project management challenge among surveyed […]. The post Everything You Should Know about Resource Allocation in Project Management first appeared on GanttPRO.

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Zijn jongeren met een chronische aandoening alsnog in de vaccinatievergeetput geduwd?

Gunther Verheyen

Achtergrond. Op 28 december 2020 hebben wij onze persoonlijke bezorgdheid omtrent de vaccinatie van jongeren met een chronische aandoening online kenbaar gemaakt en via mail verstuurd aan Alexander De Croo, Frank Vandenbroucke, Erika Vlieghe, Steven Van Gucht, Marc Van Ranst, Pierre Van Damme, Herman Goossens en Hans-Willem Snoeck. Vandaag, 13 mei 2021, zagen we ons verplicht onderstaand bericht te sturen, in opvolging van ons eerder bericht en op basis van een aantal verontrustende vaststelling

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Everything You Should Know about Resource Allocation in Project Management

GanttPRO Project Management

One of the essential components of an effective project management (PM) process is resource allocation. According to Wellington’s research (2019), it is the second largest project management challenge among surveyed […]. The post Everything You Should Know about Resource Allocation in Project Management first appeared on GanttPRO.

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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 is Inbound Recruiting? – A Guide for Small Businesses

Teamweek

Recruitment is changing. With the rise of digital technology, social media and content marketing, superstar recruiters can create a landscape where talent comes to them. The new world of inbound recruiting is replacing traditional outbound recruitment strategies. . Especially for small businesses, the concept of inbound recruiting is likely to be completely new.

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Strategies for Improving Workplace Communication Skills

ActiveCollab

If you want to run a successful company or agency, you and your team members need to be on the same page. Otherwise, you'll run into misinterpreted situations or misunderstandings. What is the force that keeps everyone moving? Many would say that communication is the key to success. You can't expect to have a successful and fruitful professional or personal relationship without effective communication.

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Projects are Life: Asking the right questions takes you far

Sitetracker

Project managers are the unsung heroes of the telecom industry. With the increase in the volume, variety, and velocity of projects these individuals are doing more with less and pushing their organization forward by demonstrating outstanding leadership. When Alicia Manzi, OSP Operations Manager at Segra, won the Project Manager of the Year Award at the Heroes of Telecom Awards, I knew I had to get to know her and hear her advice on breaking into the world of project management.