Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The clocks go back soon and we get one extra hour! I used to be able to spend it in bed but now I expect it will be whiled away watching children’s TV – the boys won’t understand that it means a lie in and will take a few days to adjust to the new later morning routine. It got me thinking about what else I could do with that hour. File all my payslips, for example, instead of letting them pile up on the bookcase in the bedroom.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Scrum of Scrums describes one of the first approaches to scale Scrum and is often confused with Nexus Daily Scrum. . Even experienced Professional Scrum Trainers, which I encounter in the Scaled Professional Scrum Train the Trainer, sometimes confuse this. I think this confusion is because Jeff Sutherland and Ken Schwaber had a different view of what Scrum of Scrum means from the beginning. .

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LiquidPlanner

OCTOBER 6, 2021

According to research, 70% of organizations have suffered at least one project failure in the prior 12 months. Over the years we’ve talked to many people who managed these projects to better understand their needs and what could have helped them succeed. Most have counted on traditional project management software to align their projects and teams, but they have consistently attributed four common problems to their failure: resources, visibility, alignment of priorities, and scheduling issues

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 6, 2021

In Scrum, a Sprint is a period of time of 1 month or less within which a Scrum Team creates value. A new Sprint begins immediately after the previous Sprint ends. So when we first start to use Scrum we need to decide which day to start our first Sprint, and there will be implications to our decision. Here are some possibilities and their implications.

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LiquidPlanner

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Release 21 | September 28th, 2021. We released a few items this week – simple additions for you to enjoy. Navigation. Right-click on the breadcrumb to open a view in a new tab. The order of Dashboards and My Work has been changed in the left side navigation. As of this release, the top to bottom order is Academy, Projects, Dashboards, Workspace, Timesheet Review, My Work, My Favorites.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Everything you need for your manufacturing process is a resource—people, materials, equipment, software, facilities, etc. And whatever you’re making, you need to manage those resources to do it. That process is called manufacturing resource planning (MRP II), and it’s a method that used to work more effectively. When need precise coordination of resources to get the work done on time and within budget, you’re going to need to create an MRP system.

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Project Management Update Submitted Articles

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Using culture and shared purpose to create great teams.

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Online PM Courses

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Project Managers often fear dealing with difficult stakeholders. I discuss approaches with People and Projects Podcast host, Andy Kaufman. The post Dealing with Difficult Stakeholders – Conversation with Andy Kaufman | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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OCTOBER 6, 2021

A well-structured virtual data room ensures that your team is ready to deal with all the necessary information that has to be collected during diligence. It provides participants in the M&A process with fast access to the current data available to ensure seamless information sharing. In this article, we go over how to structure a VDR for success.

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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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PM Times

OCTOBER 6, 2021

As Project Managers, most of us have experienced someone that works in our organisation slapping a on a PM badge and joining the party. This party is one with an endless bar tab, the end time doesn’t matter drinks are spilled over glossaries containing project buzz words and generic document templates found on Google. Only […]. The post Is Project Management Being Devalued By Non-Project Managers?

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Lynne Cazaly

OCTOBER 6, 2021

How do the things on your ‘to-do’ list get there? We can be overwhelmed by the sheer quantity of tasks and things we have to do. A reality is that we may not ever get to the end of our task list. So how do you become overloaded? When you see things starting to pile up, stay alert to the overload of work. Consider if: - I created the work - I allowed it to be added to my list of responsibilities (and yes, sometimes that’s the nature of work, we have to do things as we are direct

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Project Management Update Submitted Articles

OCTOBER 6, 2021

In agile theory, you plan only one single sprint ahead. But as we all know — theory and practice don't always align. The sprint board is designed to overcome this potential limitation. This blog post deals with the idea of the sprint board and approaches on how you can make the best use of it in agile planning.

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Scoro

OCTOBER 6, 2021

No matter how impressive your marketing plan may be or how incredible your deliverables are, a marketing campaign that isn’t keeping track of the right marketing metrics or KPIs will never be able to back up all of the good work it’s doing. Although it isn’t possible to monitor every metric, there are a few bankable ones that can be applied to all types of marketing campaigns.

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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 Management Update Submitted Articles

OCTOBER 6, 2021

During the years I have spent both as part of a project team and as a Project Manager, the single biggest lesson I have learnt is summed up with this play on a well known saying.

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Scoro

OCTOBER 6, 2021

No matter how impressive your marketing plan may be or how incredible your deliverables are, a marketing campaign that isn’t keeping track of the right marketing metrics or KPIs will never be able to back up all of the good work it’s doing. Although it isn’t possible to monitor every metric, there are a few bankable ones that can be applied to all types of marketing campaigns.

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