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The PMO Series (5): The PMO as the Driving Force of Agile Transformation

Inloox

The last part of our PMO blog series will try and answer this question. Implementing ‘new’ agile methods such as Scrum or Kanban will have a significant impact on the PMO, as it’s the project management center of the organization. So it is important that the PMO reacts to these new developments in project management as soon as possible. Agile is the trend “Agile” is one of the biggest buzzwords in project management and other industries at the moment.

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How Marketers Stay Productive: Danny Garcia of Stacklist

Boost by Brightpod

This week we feature, Danny Garcia, Marketing Operations Manager at Stacklist. Stacklist is a curated guide to the best tools for growth, featuring tools use.

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How to make onboarding your new projects even easier

Resource Guru

Years ago, I was handed a brand-new project to manage and needed to get my team up-to-speed—with a tight two-month deadline to launch and no room for errors. In order to onboard my team, I linked everyone to the project brief, added them to the project task board, and held a hasty all-hands meeting imparting the urgency of the deadline and asking everyone to let me know if they had questions after they read through the project docs.

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I Smell Dysfunction

Herding Cats

A popular phrase in some agile areas is X is the Smell of Dysfunction. Estimates, governance, planning, architecture, financial forecasting - pick you poison. One naive response to this smell of dysfunction is to conjecture a solution with no evidence that the problem OR the solution have any principles to be based on. . Let's not do X and the smell will be removed is a common approach.

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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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The PMP® Exam Is Changing! Here’s What’s New

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The world of project management education doesn’t stand still. It feels to me like the changes that happen are evolutionary rather than transformative, but it’s still good to see the methods and standards continue to develop. I’m not actually sure what a transformative update would look like – evolutionary is probably the only way to Click for more.

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Agile vs Waterfall Methodology: What’s the Difference?

Project Bliss

Agile is a popular term these days, and you likely hear it a lot. But what is it and what’s the difference between agile vs waterfall methodology? If you feel left behind and want to catch up fast, this post is for you. By the end, you’ll have a high-level understanding of each and how work is done in agile vs waterfall. In this post I’ll do the following for you: Explain Agile.

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5 Top Copywriting Time Management Hacks!

TimeCamp

I love working with words. Any text that comes out of my keyboard is part of me, as it embodies the ideas that come into my head – from the shortest tweet to the longest article. However, content management is very time-consuming, especially when you’re doing that both at work and in private life. Meeting […].

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High Five: Digital PM Summit

Brett Harned

PMs are always on the lookout for milestones, and we have a big one coming up at the Bureau of Digital. This October, the Digital PM Summit turns five this October 15-17 in Las Vegas, Nevada, and we are ready to celebrate everything the Digital PM Summit is about: our growing community. Back in 2012, […].

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High Five: Digital PM Summit

Brett Harned

PMs are always on the lookout for milestones, and we have a big one coming up at the Bureau of Digital. This October, the Digital PM Summit turns five this October 15-17 in Las Vegas, Nevada, and we are ready to celebrate everything the Digital PM Summit is about: our growing community. Back in 2012, when planning the first Digital PM Summit, we didn’t know who our attendees would be, and where (or if) they’d travel for this new conference.

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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