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7 Awesome Meeting Habits That Will Make You Money

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Let’s face it, most of us deal with unproductive meetings every day. You know the type of meetings I’m talking about: When the executives talk more about golf than how to improve profitability When you spend an hour figuring out which brand of gluten free hot dog to serve at the summer staff bar-b-q (I’ve actually suffered through that meeting) When somebody leaves the meeting every 10 minutes to check their cell phone Or how about when you spent 2 hours trying to come up with great new marketin

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10 Things Successful Project Managers Never Tolerate

Project Risk Coach

Project managers are not just managers. They’re leaders. Project managers shape and influence their project culture for good or bad. Tolerance can be a great trait. However, project managers must be deliberate in what we will tolerate and what we will not tolerate. Project managers must refuse to tolerate things that cause disorder, degradation, and uncertainty.

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What Is Lead Time? How to Calculate Lead Time in Different Industries

ProjectManager.com

Projects are all about delivering a product or service. Whether you’re working in project management, manufacturing, supply chains or inventory management, you need to deliver something valuable to your customers. This is why lead time is so important. There are many stages between the initial idea and the finished product, and knowing your lead time enables you to deliver timely projects.

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Managing Risk from Every Level of Your Organization

LiquidPlanner

If project management were an off-road 4×4 expedition, where teams had to plot a course through the unknown, cost and schedule contingency would be akin to the number of spare fuel cans you can carry successfully to complete the trip. Using this analogy, projects also have constrained or limited resources to deliver on their commitments. So your imaginary expeditionary team must predict the optimum number of Jerry cans that can be carried and determine if that capacity is enough to execute.

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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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15 Sprint Review Anti-Patterns

Scrum.org

In Kürze: 15 Sprint Review Anti-Patterns. Sind wir noch auf dem richtigen Weg, das Produktziel zu erreichen? Und wie hat der vorangegangene Sprint zur Mission unseres Scrum-Teams beigetragen? Die Beantwortung dieser Fragen und die Anpassung des Produkt-Backlogs in einer gemeinsamen Anstrengung des Scrum-Teams mit internen und externen Stakeholdern ist der Zweck des Sprint-Reviews.

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Resource Leveling: How to Optimize Resource Allocation and Utilization

Epicflow Blog

What if you allocate resources to project tasks and realize that some employees are required for several assignments at the same time? Or a team member’s workload turns out to exceed his or her actual capacity? Without addressing these issues, resource allocation won’t be efficient, which puts the quality of work on a project at stake. . One of the ways to tackle these challenges is to apply resource leveling, a resource optimization technique.

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Agile & Scrum 2022 Featured Speaker | Bonsy Yelsangi

International Institute for Learning

Bonsy Yelsangi from Attain Agility is a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) & Author who will lead the Agile & Scrum 2022 presentation entitled, “ S print Your Way to Scrum.” Having trained thousands of professionals, Bonsy realized that most people in the world using Scrum have the same 50 questions to which they’re seeking answers. As a teacher at heart, Bonsy wants to share the knowledge she’s accumulated over many years of working with Scrum teams across a variety of industries

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Get the Right Answers to Make the Right Decisions

PM Times

“If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on it, I would use the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.” – Albert Einstein Decisions solve problems and are the forerunners […]. The post Get the Right Answers to Make the Right Decisions appeared first on Project Management Articles, Webinars, Templates and Jobs.

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Video Spotlight | Agile and Scrum 2022: Making It Work for You

International Institute for Learning

A new video from International Institute for Learning (IIL) has been posted on IIL’s YouTube Channel at: [link]. Watch the video here! If you haven’t yet subscribed, tap the “ SUBSCRIBE ” button on IIL’s YouTube Channe l today! Interact with IIL on YouTube , post your comments and questions, and don’t forget to hit the “LIKE” button after you’ve watched the videos.

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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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Scrum Events Reduce Meetings

Scrum.org

One of the first things that I usually hear after describing the Scrum framework and its five events to someone new to Scrum is, “that’s a lot of meetings!” . . I get it — at first glance, it seems like a lot. But it really isn't when I get the person to take a closer look. I explain that if they listed all of the meetings they have in one month, it would probably seem like a lot too.

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Resource Guru turns 10 ?? 

Resource Guru

Cast your mind back 10 years to 2012. It was the year Barack Obama was re-elected as President. The year the Olympic Games were held in London. And the year Queen Elizabeth celebrated her Diamond Jubilee. But way, way bigger than all that… Resource Guru was born! This month we’re celebrating our 10th anniversary so we thought we’d take a moment to pause and take stock of the journey we’ve been on since those heady early days back in May 2012.

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