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Use uncertainty poker to increase alignment on delivery approaches

Kiron Bondale

Part of tailoring our approach to delivering a project needs to consider its relative level of uncertainty. While it is not the only determinant of complexity, uncertainty is certainly a key contributing factor. And while there are other dimensions which need to be evaluated when deciding whether to utilize a predictive or adaptive life cycle, higher uncertainty would be a supporting factor for the latter.

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Six Ways to Keep Your Team Motivated When the Going Gets Tough

MPUG

Life comes with its challenges, setbacks, and failures. We all expect that, and we know that the same goes for projects, as well. Even with the most qualified team members, the most supportive and understanding stakeholders, and most driven project manager, things are bound to get tough from time to time. No matter the industry, a project doesn’t reach its end goal without going through a period of difficulty (or a few!).

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Is Scream a new tree in the Agile forest?

Henny Portman

Via my network I received the first version of the Scream Guide; a comprehensive guide (22 pages) to organizational screaming, written by Michael Küsters. Scream is a framework built as an imitation of Scrum, giving unwitting observers the appearance that the organization might be using Scrum. Scream is a framework for cementing the status quo, preserving existing mindsets and creating an illusion that things are improving.

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Low tech war room for big bucks

Musings on Project Management

Does this look like the dashboard for a 3-star running a zillion-billion dollar defense program? That's Vice Admiral David Venlet in the photo, and that dashboard is the way he likes it: low tech, but informative. Unfortunately for the Admiral-program manager, good and useful and timely program information does not necessarily beget good and timely program performance.

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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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How to Get Project Communications Management Right… Every Time

Online PM Courses

We hear that 'Project Management is 80 percent Communication' a lot. And this puts Project Communications Management at the heart of your PM practice. The post How to Get Project Communications Management Right… Every Time appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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We can’t make meaning without first making some sense

Lynne Cazaly

Plenty of things don’t make sense in our life, in the world. So it’s not until we get some perspective to look back that we are more able to make sense of it. And then. then we put meaning to it. ‘This happened. and NOW I understand why or what it was all about.'. We can muck about, procrastinating, avoiding action yet still try to make sense of things.

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Overloaded before we start work

Lynne Cazaly

Most of us have experienced the feelings of overwhelm and information overload. just thinking about our 'to do’ list can cue overwhelm. A group I worked with last week, (boosting cognitive load coping skills + how to deal with information overload) explained how they listen to podcasts, audio books, interviews and radio programs on their daily commutes to work.

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Do you see patterns

Lynne Cazaly

Spotting trends, seeing patterns, staying observant. These are crucial skills for today’s world of work where things change and uncertainty is high. It’s easy to get caught up in our own world, deep in the culture of a project or workplace, cycling through our usual activities, routines and habits. So what would make you take notice of something?

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How you handle a problem

Lynne Cazaly

When you were most recently working on a problem, a conundrum or a tricky situation, how were you handling the problem? Were you talking about it? Say, sitting around a table with other people, just talking it through? Or were you ‘handling the problem’? Did you actually get your hands on the problem? When we physically work with a problem, see, feel and imagine the pieces of it and move things around, we solve it quicker.

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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