Wed.Mar 25, 2020

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Resources for Remote Work (March 2020)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

We’re living in extraordinary times, and many people will be working from home for the first time. Trust me, working from home is great. But it is a shift in mentality. And we’re all in this together. I decided it would be OK to share some free and paid resources that you might find useful to help you keep your projects and teams moving forward, wherever you find yourself based over the coming weeks.

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Effective Collaboration for Outstanding Virtual Teamwork

Project Bliss

Virtual teams need to put forth extra effort for effective collaboration. This list helps you cover all your bases. When you’re working with teammates on a project, you’ve likely got common understanding about how you’ll work together. Group collaboration can produce wonderful solutions to challenges and problem. But for the most effective collaboration, your team needs to follow certain behaviors and guidelines.

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Slow Conversations For An Ever Faster Moving World

Scrum.org

. When global change is on all of our doorsteps, people need to know their voice is being heard. People can only be heard when someone offers time to truly listen. The urgency of having the right type of conversation, especially today in a remote setting, has significantly increased overnight. This blog provides a perspective on a particular type of conversation and my own “personal experiences” that show we need them more than ever.

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Who said 'evidence'?

Musings on Project Management

Did you see this witicism at herdingcats? A skeptic will question claims, then embrace the evidence. A denier will question claims, then reject the evidence. - Neil deGrase Tyson. Think of this whenever there is a conjecture that has no testable evidence of the claim. And think ever more when those making the conjectured claim refuse to provide evidence.

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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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10 Virtual Team Building Activities to Build Stronger Teams

Workamajig

Virtual team building activities can help you build more collaborative teams. Try these 10 remote team building activities as a start. Remote work is the future of work. You might have arrived at this conclusion by your own volition. Or you might have reached it because of current circumstances. But in a time of global uncertainty and widespread travel restrictions, it’s clear that remote work is the only lifeline that can keep your business afloat.

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Adaptation and Compassion in a Time of Crisis: Our Statement On Covid-19

Teamweek

For the last decade, we here at Toggl have advocated for remote work. We believe it’s the future. We believe it provides opportunity. We believe it fosters innovation. But only when done with purpose and preparation. There’s a difference between choosing remote work and being suddenly confined to the boundaries of your home. For both companies and individuals, the sudden switch to the unfamiliar environment of remote work can be jarring.

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4 Most Common Mistakes of Project Managers During COVID-19

Proggio

Businesses worldwide are facing a new reality due to the Coronavirus outbreak. As most countries are ordering a curfew and their businesses are sending employees to work from home, productivity is more challenging than ever. Company productivity is always in the hands of project managers, who are tasked with the time, budget and resources to make sure milestones and goals are met.

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Adaptation and Compassion in a Time of Crisis: Our Statement On Covid-19

Teamweek

For the last decade, we here at Toggl have advocated for remote work. We believe it’s the future. We believe it provides opportunity. We believe it fosters innovation. But only when done with purpose and preparation. There’s a difference between choosing remote work and being suddenly confined to the boundaries of your home. For both companies and individuals, the sudden switch to the unfamiliar environment of remote work can be jarring.

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Spotlight on Virtual Teams – What makes them work?

International Institute for Learning

By Susan Parente, PMP, PMI-RMP, PMI-ACP, PSM I, CSM, CSPO, CISSP, CRISC, RESILIA, ITIL, GCLP, MSEM. In MBA programs, we often learn methods and techniques for efficient and effective project management. But how do we use these methods when our team is not co-located? In our current age of social networking and global businesses, knowing how to work with virtual teams is becoming a requirement.

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Strategic Finance Essentials: A Project Manager’s Guide to Financial Impact

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 expendi

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Daily Scrum Pocketcasts – Episode 2

Gunther Verheyen

Ever since the accidental creation of my book “ Scrum – A Pocket Guide ” in 2013, and its deliberate evolution in 2019, I’ve been receiving inquiries about an audiobook version. So far, I have not been able to make that happen but the current pandemic storm got me into implementing the audio idea in a different form. On Wednesday 25 March 2020 I delivered the second “ Daily Scrum Pocketcast ” in which I have read following chapters from my book: 1.6 Combining Agile and L

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7 Advantages of Virtual Instructor-Led Training (vILT)

Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

We live in a Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous (VUCA) world, a fact brought only too close to home by recent global events. To continue to survive in this environment, successful organisations understand they must think and act differently. Of course, for some organisations, ceasing operations, albeit temporarily, may be the best immediate course of action in the face of crisis.

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ActiveCollab, the Time Saver - Flyte Creative Media

ActiveCollab

My name is Sarah Griffin, and I’m Managing Director and Producer at Flyte Creative Media [[link] based on the South Coast in the UK, and we operate globally. My role within the business is managing the business as a whole and then also working individually on separate projects. So for me, it’s really important to have A BROAD OVERVIEW of how the business is operating and also to be able to get really granular with the details of the projects that we’re working on.

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Leadership in the Time of Coronavirus

Project Management Essentials

The coronavirus pandemic is the most frightening, disruptive, and widespread crisis of our lifetime. As managers and leaders, none of us have faced challenges of such a magnitude or scale. Over the next several weeks and probably months, our teams will look to us for guidance, support, and leadership. In this article, I draw from my experience managing teams through times of crisis.

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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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Why Utilization Plays a Big Role in Understanding Performance

Wrike

Of all the metrics and KPIs that project managers and PMOs use to measure performance, resource utilization is one of the most valuable. By understanding utilization within your project teams, you’ll know how employees are spending their time and gain deeper insight into which projects are under or overstaffed. This will naturally lead to more efficient resource management and increased output for your organization.

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How to Maintain a Productive Project Team

Project Management Resource Network

How can you, the project manager, maintain a productive project team? As the project manager you don’t want a project team, you want a productive project team. There are four key elements to maintain a productive project team. The elements are communication, engagement, measurement, and reward. . People want to know what is happening on a project. Communication will keep everyone informed.

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Excelling Away from the Office with MindGenius.

MindGenius

Following on from our last blog – the World of Telecommuting – where we spoke on some of the ways to make your office at home enjoyable. However, with Covid19 forcing the majority of us to work from home (myself included), this blog is to show that by using MindGenius, working from home can be more flexible, more cost-effective and more collaborative than ever before.

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Leadership in the Time of Coronavirus

Project Management Essentials

The coronavirus pandemic is the most frightening, disruptive, and widespread crisis of our lifetime. As managers and leaders, none of us have faced challenges of such a magnitude or scale. Over the next several weeks and probably months, our teams will look to us for guidance, support, and leadership. In this article, I draw from my experience managing teams through times of crisis.

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.

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Deep Dive into Report Analytics with Report Filters

Hub Planner

Reading Time: 4 minutes New Cross Filters now Available in Reports. Use filters for deep dive into report analytics in resource management. Maximise the information to better decision making in scheduling resources and project planning. Hub Planner have installed in excess of 70 pre-formatted templates which allow for a high level breakdown of data.

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Opportunity knocking. Telecom Infrastructure Provider Outlook

Sitetracker

The Outlook includes Growth in 2020: Promises and pitfalls Impacts from increased project volume The real cost of meetings and reporting COVID-19 industry insights Sitetracker, the global standard for managing high-volume infrastructure projects, is excited to announce the release of the highly anticipated 2020 Telecom Infrastructure Provider Outlook.

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Easily Access Key Project Metrics With Our Report Generator

EasyProjects

Receive quick, reliable project information with our enhanced Report Generator. The new design and increased functionality enable your team to access accurate project metrics through pie, bar and our new dual-bar charts. By utilizing these reports, your team can now easily provide tactical and strategic project metrics to management to review. Enhanced Pie and Bar Charts.

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Get Your Projects Fit with The Lazy Project Manager

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This interview was first published in 2014. I am not fit. Since having my two boys I am heavier than I have ever been, except while pregnant. My only exercise is balancing in small spaces while standing on the train to work. I fuel getting up for the night feeds with cereal bars and chocolate croissants. Luckily, my projects are healthier than I am.

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3 ‘Must-Dos’ for Addressing Digital Transformation Challenges

Digital transformation projects are crucial, with global spending projected to hit $3.4 trillion by 2026. However, they often fail at a rate of about 70%. To enhance success: Employee Buy-in: Acknowledge concerns and establish a change management team to communicate benefits transparently. Identify Processes and Tools: Form a digital transformation office to establish metrics, workstream lifecycles, data capture, and tool selection.

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Easily Access Key Project Metrics With Our Report Generator

EasyProjects

Receive quick, reliable project information with our enhanced Report Generator. The new design and increased functionality enable your team to access accurate project metrics through pie, bar and our new dual-bar charts. . By utilizing these reports, your team can now easily provide tactical and strategic project metrics to management to review. Enhanced Pie and Bar Charts.

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Organizing Your Day At Work – How To Do It Properly?

TimeCamp

How to organize your day at work? Have you ever felt that you could’ve done.

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Remote-work Prompted By Coronavirus; One Step Closer To The Future

Proofhub

So coronavirus is a killer, am I right? Well, not in the literal sense but more like in a buzz-kill sense. Sending waves through the entire world, this pandemic has been making headlines for months now. However, the most noticeable change is how this outbreak of coronavirus is promoting remote-work in this period of self-quarantine. This is a lesser-known fact that remote-work has its own perks.