Tue.May 10, 2022

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What To Do When Your Team Doesn’t Believe The Project Schedule

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This is an edited extract from Project Pain Reliever. I contributed this chapter (and another one) to the book. This one is about ensuring everyone buys into the project schedule. The One-Man Plan: A Story. Hans had spent a lot of time working on his project schedule. He knew what needed to be done and how long everything would take. Requirements gathering, that would take a couple of days, right?

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What Is Contract Manufacturing? Examples & Types

ProjectManager.com

Contract manufacturing lets businesses, which may not have the resources or the funds to invest in heavy machinery, collaborate with other companies to fill orders. Let’s take a closer look at the types of contract manufacturing and some examples of how it works! What Is Contract Manufacturing? Contract manufacturing is when one company enters into an agreement with another to produce components or products over a specific timeframe.

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Blog Series: From Scrum Master to Agile Leader - Part 1 - Exploring the Gaps in Scrum Mastery

Scrum.org

Co-authored by: Chris Conlin and Mark Wavle. As Scrum.org professionals, we have coached, trained and mentored thousands of Scrum Masters and consulted the organizations they work with, and we’ve consistently encountered similar issues that not only limit Scrum Teams from thriving, but also restrict empiricism from working. This stifles the advantage that Scrum and Agile can bring to teams and organizations. .

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Maurer 3 Levels of Resistance & Strategic Project Management

The Strategic Project Manager

Rick Mauer has developed a simple and common sense framework for dealing with resistance to change. It is profound in its simplicity – and can really make an impact on how you manage resistance through the change process. This post outlines what the 3 levels of resistance are, how you can approach people at each level, and its usefulness for strategic project managers.

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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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Difference Between Managing a Risk vs. Managing an Issue

ActiveCollab

You would often hear project managers using issue management and risk management interchangeably. However, did you know that these two concepts are entirely different and need to be handled differently? A skilled project manager should oversee issue and risk management and have strategies to deal with everything while adapting to changing situations.

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What is Agile Project Management?

MPUG

A Getting Started Guide. According to the 15 th State of Agile Report, 94% of companies are practicing Agile. This statistic is somewhat misleading as it does not mean that all of these companies are receiving benefits or even successful with their Agile approach. That said, many companies are trying to find ways to incorporate Agile methods. When I work with customers, often the biggest challenge they face is trying to explain their Agile needs in a simple way.

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Developing a PMBOK Inspired Career Plan

PM Times

Running Projects is Like Raising Kids – They Need Your Full Attention So, we project managers move heaven and earth, ensuring project success happens. By nature, we are happiest when projects are on track and green. And as a fellow project manager, I know this work can be challenging with: Constant organizational changes Budget cuts […]. The post Developing a PMBOK Inspired Career Plan appeared first on Project Management Articles, Webinars, Templates and Jobs.

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Do your retrospectives suck due to a powerful Product Owner?

Scrum.org

Powerful Product Owner. It sounds like a threat, isn’t it? Anyone overpowering affects the whole team’s activity and outcome. No wonder this affects retrospectives as well. . I did a poll on LinkedIn to know what a Scrum team should do to have better outcomes in a retrospective if the Product is a Powerful person. The maximum number of people voted for “PO not to be a part of Retrospective or half of the retrospective.” .

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The Critical Agile Organization Change Guidelines

Scrum.org

Fourth blog, in a blog series about the upcoming book: Creating Agile Organizations - A Systemic Approach, by Cesario Ramos & Ilia Pavlichenko. Resisting change during adoption is a normal human reaction. It is not a sign that a team or a particular department lacks courage or abilities. Also, it is not necessarily a sign that a particular framework or method is bad.

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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