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What Is a Product Breakdown Structure (PBS)? Templates & Examples Included

ProjectManager.com

Projects are designed to deliver a product or a service within a specific timeframe and budget, a process that the project manager oversees. If that person is a product manager , he or she may apply a product breakdown structure (PBS). But what is a product breakdown structure? We’ll get into the definition, illustrate product breakdown structure examples and even offer a free product breakdown structure template to give you practical experience with using this helpful flowchart.

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Schätzungen sind nützlich, lassen Sie einfach die Zahlen weg

Scrum.org

TL; DR: Schätzungen sind nützlich, lassen Sie einfach die Zahlen weg. Viele Menschen lehnen die Schätzung von Arbeitspaketen ab, da Schätzungen angeblich Tür und Tor für den Missbrauch von Metriken wie Velocity durch die Manager öffnen und Taylorismus, Mikromanagement und exzessives Reporting durch die Hintertür wieder einführen. Für die Befürworter von #noestimates stehen Schätzungen im Widerspruch zu grundlegenden Ideen der agilen Produktentwicklung wie Selbstmanagement, Ergebnisorientierung o

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How to Combine Hard Data from Resource Management Software with Soft Data

Function Point

Resource management is the process of planning, scheduling and allocating resources to complete a project. Good resource management ensures efficient use of resources, high-quality work, and keeps staff engaged while avoiding burnout. . Resource management software collects hard data that provides an unbiased look at agency operations. Combining hard data with soft data gathered by speaking with staff provides a holistic perspective on how your agency is running and reveals opportunities for op

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New Updates | Release 30 Summary

LiquidPlanner

Release 30 | June 2, 2022. We’re very excited to announce the release of Scheduling Limits – one of the most requested features for the New LiquidPlanner. In addition to this update we also upgraded bulk editing capabilities, improved Target Finish deadline visibility in Workload views and added an Availability Summary under People. This new view makes it easy to see the daily availability of team members as well as who’s in and who’s out over the next sixty days.

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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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Agile: Past, Present, & Future. A Conversation with Agile Trainer, Rubin Jen.

International Institute for Learning

Exclusive Q&A conducted by Jay Masai. Rubin Jen has been in the project management field for over 23 years, spanning aerospace, engineering, telecom, software development, outsourcing, consulting, not-for-profit and government sectors. He has worked with companies such as Bombardier Aerospace, Celestica, Accenture and the Ontario Government. Rubin obtained his Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) designation in 2007 and has been teaching Agile and Scrum to enterprise organizations since 2014.

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The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Project Management

International Institute for Learning

The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Project Management [1]. Written By. Harold Kerzner, Ph.D. Sr. Executive Director for Project Management. The International Institute for Learning. In 2020, hundreds of thousands of people across the globe were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Public sector, private sector and government leaders across all businesses had to respond quickly to the effects of the crisis, often with very little time to prepare.

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What Is Proof of Concept?

ActiveCollab

Brainstorming brilliant and fresh ideas [[link] can be an exciting journey for project teams. But, before they start sharing and further distributing, their ideas need to go through a developmental process. Teams need to have a project quality management plan set in place or a clear understanding of what issues they are trying to fix. Additionally, if you want potential investors and clients to accept your ideas, you need to prove that they are indeed helpful, practical, and worth spending money

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INNER REALM Interview with Judith W. Umlas

International Institute for Learning

The Power of Acknowledgment. Judith W. Umlas is IIL Senior Vice President, Trainer, and Author of Grateful Leadership. The Power of Acknowledgement: The Age of Enlightenment changed the way mankind thought about life, culture, and human relationships. In her evocative new book, The Power of Acknowledgment , Judith W. Umlas unleashes the concept of an Age of Acknowledgment we can all help bring about.

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How can your Product Owner support self-management ?? - Back to the foundations of the Scrum framework (53)

Scrum.org

We started this Scrum foundation series explaining we see four underlying concepts of the Scrum framework. In the past series of mails we covered the three pillars of Empiricism, and we covered the Scrum Values. . Now that we understand that we need trust, which is built up by living the Scrum Values, to bring transparency and as such have a good basis to inspect and adapt, we can have a look at the self-managing aspect of the Scrum Team. . ??

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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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Marketing Project Management Trends Continue To Shape The Industry

Admation

In the past few years, there have been significant changes in the marketing landscape from new social media platforms, new ways to generate awareness about a brand or product, new technologies, and, let’s not forget, a global pandemic that had devastating consequences for the world’s economies.

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Knowing the Answer is Not Enough with Mike Cottmeyer

Leading Agile

This week on SoundNotes our Founder and CEO, Mike Cottmeyer, joins Dave to discuss why simply showing up and having the answer for the customer is not enough. During this conversation, Mike explains the process he follows when engaging with clients to ensure he is truly hearing them and understanding the way they see the problem, and how that begins a series of steps that enables him to work with the client to find the best solution for them.

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ActiveCollab Monthly Updates: May 2022

ActiveCollab

Hello everyone, Welcome to another ActiveCollab monthly recap! In April [[link] we talked about the Project page, its filters, progress bar, batch edit, and the completed tasks in the mobile app. This month, we'll go over changes to the list project view and an easier way to log in when you're on the go. PROJECT PAGE The main changes we've made are visible in the list view of a project.

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Common Project Management Mistakes in Start-Ups

LiquidPlanner

Startups face an immense amount of pressure compared to established companies. No matter the size, most organizations face the dilemma of juggling too many priorities and not enough resources to get it all done. But finding this balance is almost always more acute in early-stage companies. In addition to limited resources, startup’s have the added pressure of competing in a new market and developing brand awareness.

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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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Eight things you should do in your Sprint Review

Scrum.org

The Sprint Review is often referred to as the Sprint Demo. The meeting where the team demonstrates what they have done in the past Sprint. And nothing more than that. This is gross underinvestment in your own Scrum Team and its success. The Scrum framework is founded on empiricism, with three main pillars: Transparency. Inspection. Adaptation. If we limit ourselves to just running a demonstration of the past Sprint, we are stopping at the Inspection point.