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How to Plan a Webinar

ProjectManager.com

As the workforce becomes more mobile, the importance of webinars has only grown. Jennifer Bridges, PMP, shows you everything you need to know to plan a webinar. Here’s a screenshot of the whiteboard for your reference! In Review – How to Plan a Webinar. As when planning any project , Jennifer noted that the first step is to go through the who, what, when, where, why and how of the webinar.

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Nine Awesome Benefits in the World of Stakeholder Management

Project Risk Coach

John has been failing to exploit and enhance the benefits of stakeholder management. Why? He's not been be convinced of the benefits. Allow me to pull back the veil and share nine benefits of stakeholder management. If you are a Project Management Professional (PMP), you’ve likely studied Chapter 13 of the Project Management Body of Knowledge – Stakeholder Management , which was added in the Fifth Edition.

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Rogue Project Sponsor: What to Do when Sponsorship goes Bad

Online PM Courses

One of the things that can make your life most difficult is a rogue Project Sponsor. It’s like they have turned to the dark side. And it feels as if they no longer have your project’s best interests at heart. Let me start by re-assuring you… A truly rogue Project Sponsor is not common. . So, why should you read this? . For two reasons: Because, if it does happen to you, you need to be prepared.

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10 Of the Best Scrum Tools to Increase Your Team’s Productivity

The Digital Project Manager

Compare the best Scrum tools by pricing, features, integrations, and pros & cons in this expert project management review. These tools facilitate the Scrum framework, encouraging collaboration, transparency, and efficiency among your team. The post 10 Of the Best Scrum Tools to Increase Your Team’s Productivity appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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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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Voice of the Customer (VOC): a Powerful Tool for Valuable Customer Insight

Project Bliss

Getting the Voice of the Customer (VOC) tells you if you’re on the right track in your product or process improvement project. If you want to know that you’re on the right track when you’re leading a process or product improvement project, how can you be sure you’re addressing the right concerns? Your team knows there are opportunities to improve, but you don’t want to waste time on the wrong things.

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Next Practice Cognitive Computing and its Impact on Project Management

Inloox

Cognitive computing is a fairly new term and is often confused with artificial intelligence. Admittedly, both refer to the fact that machines think or act on their own, but there are also decisive differences. In this blog post, we will look at the term cognitive computing in more detail and explore the opportunities the technology brings for project management.

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Team Guru Summit 2018 – Resource Guru heads to Budapest

Resource Guru

The entire Resource Guru team recently got together for our annual team summit, hosted this year in Hungary’s beautiful capital city Budapest. As a fully remote team with colleagues in the UK, Spain, Sweden and South Africa, our daily communications tend to be shared across Slack and Google Hangouts video calls. We’re big believers in the benefits of remote work, but it’s still invaluable to get together in-person from time to time.

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Arabic version of the Scrum Values

Gunther Verheyen

While developing my book “ Scrum – A Pocket Guide ” (2013) I described how there is value in the Scrum Values. In 2016 the Scrum Values were added to the Scrum Guide. In 2018 some global Scrum enthusiasts translated my description into several languages. I am gratified for sharing that Rasheed Raya (Syria/Netherlands) created an Arabic version of the Scrum Values.

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6 Group Decision Making Techniques Your Team Needs Now

Teamweek

As a team manager, the majority of the time you have the final say in major decisions related to your projects. But there will also be many occasions where your team will have to choose the best course of action. With all the differing opinions and personalities, this can be an intimidating thought for a leader who wants to maintain a good rapport among their group.

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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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Link Round Up- September

Stepping Into Project Management

This is my favorite read for the last 2 months, Instead of posting Link Round Ups every month, I thought I will do it on alternate months. Here are some of the reads I enjoyed. I am going to start with work life balance and this is about CEO life in silicon valley As I was reading up on a weekend, this article caught my eyes. Apart from the last name i ts her story that’s catches you T he more philosophical part of the reading is about aging and life.

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Quote of the Day - Sample Errors

Herding Cats

Observational studies are inherently challenging because of the potential for self-selection bias and confounding factors. Always be wary of studies the use the data to discover the theory. - Standardd Deviations: Flawed Assumptions, Tortured Data, and Other Ways to Lie with Stastistics , Gary Smith. When we hear or read about any conjectured statement without a supporting theory and principles.

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Women in Project Management: Koviljka Lukic

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Today I’m interviewing Koviljka Lukic CAPM®, a volunteer with the PMI Chapter in Serbia, mother, sales engineer and all round lovely person. Below, Koviljka shares what it’s like to study for project management exams with small children and how she’s finding a work/life balance that works for her. Koviljka, tell us a bit about your career path to date.

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14 Best To-do Apps with Time Tracking Integration for Teams

TimeCamp

Having a to-do list when managing a team or being its part is a must.

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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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Deliberate Practice for Software Developers

Leading Agile

I frequently read and hear that software developers must take care to deliver the right solutions. It’s a waste of time, money, and effort to build the wrong thing. Customers aren’t interested in the wrong thing. It’s true. But it’s often misunderstood. The Developers Who Don’t Do Anything. Many developers I’ve met interpret “don’t build the wrong thing” to mean they should literally do nothing at all unless and until “someone” fi

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Leadership Lessons for creating High Performing Scrum Teams

Scrum.org

This is the last in a series of 3 blogs presenting the result of an interesting research study from Sam Walker. Walker discovered that the most successful sports teams that ever existed all shared one single element: They all had a team captain with 7 overlapping traits that made them extremely successful. In this blog we will explore what Agile Leaders can learn from these extremely successful team captains. 6 Lessons to Learn from Elite Team Captains.

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How To Set Up A Truly Notification-Free Vacation (And Why It’s Important To Detach)

Trello

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