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What Is Change Control in Project Management?

ProjectManager.com

It’s a cliché to say that nothing is constant except for change, but the adage certainly applies to anyone who has ever managed a project. Sometimes stakeholders want something different from what they had requested during initiation. Teams get sick. Weather gets in the way. Supply chains break. The possibilities are as dire as they are endless. But not all change is equal in a project.

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Learn to Transition

Scrum.org

With the Covid 19 pandemic in, I really struggled big time to create the boundary between my work life and personal life. Day by day, that boundary was getting thin. There were lofty overlaps and I sucked to create the balance. How do I transition? When do I switch off ( my mind, not just the laptop and phone) and discharge my personal and family duties mindfully?

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How to hire remote developers (with free remote job description template)

Planio

Every great company–from the billion-dollar tech behemoths to innovative and scrappy startups–has one thing in common: talented people motivated by a shared vision. But while finding talented people isn’t hard–even when hiring remote employees–finding the right teammates for your company can be a battle. But it’s one worth fighting. As Steve Jobs famously put it, a small team of A+ players can run circles around a giant team of B and C players.

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Predictability and Adaptability Live in Tension

Leading Agile

During Agile Transformation, stakeholders often get frustrated with the lack of long-term planning. There’s a tension between the ability to make commitments, and the ability to pivot easily. Most executives want the best of both, but there must be trade-offs to achieve the level of predictability and adaptability each organization is going for.

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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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What Is a Burn Up Chart?

Wrike

A burn up chart is a visual diagram commonly used on Agile projects to help measure progress. Agile burn up charts allow project managers and teams to quickly see how their workload is progressing and whether project completion is on schedule. . In this article, we’ll discuss the purpose and benefits of a burn up chart, how to read and create one, and the difference between a burn up and burn down chart. .

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What is PMTQ – Project Management Technology Quotient? | Video

Online PM Courses

PMI coined the term PMTQ - Project Management Technology Quotient - in 2019. In this video, we'll look at what it is - and what TQ is. The post What is PMTQ – Project Management Technology Quotient? | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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Why Leadership and Culture Need a Shift to Achieve Business Agility

Agilemania

Description: The 8th episode of SAFe Thursday bring you the golden opportunity to hear business transformation experiences from the Sachin Bhatnagar an Enterprise Coach for Agility and SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) Agile4People, Australia. This week we have Sachin Bhatnagar from Australia joining to share his learning from hands-on global business transformation experiences in Banking, Resource, Utility & Telecom industries.

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A Brief Explanation of the Triple Constraint in Project Management

nTask

If you have been a part of the project management paradigm for a while now, you have probably experienced the triple constraint factor by now. It’s a combination of different variations that allude to project timeline , and completion eventually. The Triple constraint or accurately speaking: project management triple constraints are all the names for the three most important elements in a project development process.

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GanttPRO Achieves High Performer Award in G2’s Fall 2020 Report

GanttPRO Project Management

The G2’s Fall 2020 reports are live and, as usual, GanttPRO online Gantt chart software is presented in a bunch of categories. First of all, G2 named GanttPRO a High […].

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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 benefits of an Approval Workflow Software to optimise marketing projects

Admation

If you are not familiar with marketing approval workflow software , then it is time to get up to speed and learn why marketing teams and ad agencies are adopting workflow solutions to manage their marketing projects. Approval workflow software centralises all of your marketing projects, documents, assets, designs, feedback, messaging and processes in one centralised hub.

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GanttPRO Achieves High Performer Award in G2’s Fall 2020 Report

GanttPRO Project Management

The G2’s Fall 2020 reports are live and, as usual, GanttPRO online Gantt chart software is presented in a bunch of categories. First of all, G2 named GanttPRO a High […]. The post GanttPRO Achieves High Performer Award in G2’s Fall 2020 Report first appeared on GanttPRO.

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SAFe Managed-Investment Contracts

Agilemania

Description: Organisations that are building solutions for complex problems must do so amidst a barrage of change originating both from external customer needs, evolving technology stack and internal development discoveries as projects/solutions progress. This necessitated the organisations to reinvent the way they approached architecture, infrastructure, design and such decisions to be able to leverage the emerging data points for maximising… The post SAFe Managed-Investment Contracts app

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GanttPRO Achieves High Performer Award in G2’s Fall 2020 Report

GanttPRO Project Management

The G2’s Fall 2020 reports are live and, as usual, GanttPRO online Gantt chart software is presented in a bunch of categories.

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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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Task Dependencies for Better Project Management

ActiveCollab

Ready to talk task dependencies? Let's get right into it. For starters, let's define what task dependencies are. Task dependencies are the logical links between individual project activities. Having an overview of task relationships enables you to create a project schedule where every activity happens in the correct order. ActiveCollab task dependencies are finish-to-start, which means that a parent task must end before the Child task can begin.

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10 Task Management Tips for Higher Productivity

ProProfs Project Management

Is the never-ending list of tasks driving you crazy? Do you find it difficult to manage your daily tasks? If yes, there is a high possibility that you have a huge backlog of tasks that are pending for a long time. Add to them your current tasks, and you have a big fat list ready. . Managing this huge list of tasks can be productivity-sapping, demotivating, and extremely frustrating. .