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Understanding Project Management Success Criteria

ProjectManager.com

Without knowing what your project success criteria are, can you truly say your project is successful? Everyone wants their project to be successful, but few take the time to define what that means. Let’s say you’ve delivered a product or service on time and within budget—is that success? It could be, but not if it doesn’t meet stakeholder expectations.

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Project Management Guidelines (Part 1) - What We Can Learn From Project Failures

Inloox

Projects are becoming increasingly complex. This may be due to the project itself, which is becoming more complex because of the multitude of parameters it contains. Another reason can be the influence of the project environment or a high number of stakeholders. A good project manager knows that some developments are out of their control. However, it is the way you react in such situations that can make the difference.

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How Agile Practices Enable Remote Working

Scrum.org

. . How Agile Practices Enable Remote Working. We’ve already discussed the importance of decentralised command and decision-making in an earlier blog, outlining how managers need to be able to train, mentor and teach their teams. And last summer’s 14th State of Agile report clearly demonstrated that Agile adoption is more important than ever in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, a trend that is set to continue throughout 2021.

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What you Need to Know About Creating a Project Brief?

nTask

There are many elements involved in planning a project. They include creating a variety of documentation for both the team and all the stakeholders involved. One such document that is one of the first to be created and used throughout the project lifecycle is the project brief. The project brief is an important document as it outlines the entire project from the get-go.

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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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Back to the foundations of the Scrum framework: Sprint Planning and Transparency

Scrum.org

Welcome back to the professional Scrum foundations series. As introduced last week, empiricism is one of the underlying concepts of the Scrum framework. . Scrum is founded on empirical process control, and transparency is one of the three pillars. During each of the Scrum Events, and throughout the Sprint itself, the Scrum Team and the stakeholders need transparency so there is a common understanding.

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The Scrum Team Charter Canvas

Scrum.org

Using Scrum to solve complex problems requires increased levels of interaction and collaboration between people to achieve shared Product and Sprint Goals. When people form a Scrum Team they have to figure out how to become a real team, rather than a collection of individuals. To become an effective Scrum Team, the team members will need to learn how to share responsibilities and work together.

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How to Keep a Multi-Generational Team Collaborative, Effective, and Productive

Proofhub

There is an ongoing debate whether teams perform better if they are homogeneous or heterogeneous. And while most experts today agree that diverse teams will perform better than less diverse ones, the fact remains that they come with their unique set of challenges. When discussing the various categories that can make a team heterogenous, the age of the team members is rarely the first thing that comes to mind.

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The Talent Gap: What it is and How to Bridge it with Toggl Hire

Teamweek

If you asked 100 organizations whether they had the skills they needed in their workforce, you’d be surprised at the answer. With the rapid growth of technology and the impacts from events like the pandemic, many organizations are suffering from a talent gap. This problem is compounded by the fact many organizations don’t even realise they have a talent problem.

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How I Championed Working Remotely With Kids Around

Proofhub

“ You can be a good mom and a working mom. You are allowed to be both.- Anonymous ” Source: www.pexels.com “Working from home with kids is not impossible, but it’s very, very tough. I have gone nuts trying to figure out what I can do to maintain my focus and productivity while working remotely with my three kids, all under 5, around”. These words of despair came from none other than one of my team members, Tina Smith, a software engineer by profession and a mother of three.

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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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The Rabbit Hole PPM Directors Fall Into in 2021 and How to Avoid It

Proggio

While Project Portfolio Managing (PPM) Directors are guaranteed to be working on multiple projects in parallel to one another, so are its challenges and the pitfalls that ensue. What are those challenges? Perhaps you can already name a few off the top of your head without a second thought. In this article, we are going to talk about a common chain of circumstances that still threatens the performance of PPM Directors in 2021 and suggest what you can do to doge them.

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