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Book review: Critical Chain

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Critical Chain by Eliyahu M. Goldratt is a business novel that talks about creative ways to improve project delivery through managing dependencies. Written in 1997, it is now a classic text, but it still comes across as timely and challenging. To be honest, I wasn’t keen to read Critical Chain. Business novels and stories that I have read in the past, like John Kotter’s Our Iceberg is Melting , have been contrived.

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How to Deal With Pre-assigned Project Resources

Project Risk Coach

Looking for ways to improve your project success? People matter more than technology and processes. However, project managers rarely choose their teams. Let's talk about how to deal with pre-assigned project resources. Are you working in an organization where your project resources are preassigned? Do you feel like you get the left-over resources most of the time?

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How Can Management Boost Profit With Scrum.?

Scrum.org

Many members of Management perceive Scrum as a way to get more velocity, widgets, thingamajigs, outputs, etc. etc. with less money, less people and less time. This could cause more harm than good because it might end up mis-applying Scrum as a tool to enforce industrial Tayloristic thinking. . What might be possible if we had a way to shift Management's relationship with Scrum away from a tool to get more output from teams and towards an approach for getting more value from teams.?

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Guide to Effective Project Cost Management

EasyProjects

Regardless of the size or scope, starting a new project is an activity that symbolizes a new beginning in any business. Whether it’s designing a new product or improving upon an existing work process, nothing matters more than how much it will cost the company in the end. This is where project cost management comes into play. While it may sound complicated, project cost management is simply a fancy way of describing how much of an effect the process will have on the company’s bottom

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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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A Comprehensive Guide to Understanding Program Management for Agile Teams

nTask

Congratulations! You just graduated to play a vital role in the big leagues! How so? Well, if you are reading this article then you probably have a fair degree of knowledge about how project management processes work in any industry. If you don’t, then you do not have to fret about it! This write-up will fill you on how PM works in large scale programs.

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6 Ways to Create Effective Working Relationships

Rebel’s Guide to PM

“The ability to understand people is one of the greatest assets anyone can have,” said Alfonso Bucero, speaking at the PMI Global Congress EMEA in London. Understanding others takes time and effort, he added. But it improves your ability to communicate with them. His presentation offered several tips for better understanding your project stakeholders and creating good working relationships with your colleagues.

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Project Estimation Techniques Everyone Needs To Know

Wrike

Project estimation techniques help project managers accurately estimate essential elements, such as cost and scope , within their projects. These estimation techniques allow PMs to provide better forecasts to clients and more accurately budget the funds and resources they need for project success. . In this article, we’ll discuss what project elements should be estimated, the different project estimating techniques available, and how you can start using estimation techniques in project managemen

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How to Manage Projects using Microsoft Lists

MPUG

One of the latest products from Microsoft is Lists. It is, I will say, an upgrade of the old, boring SharePoint Lists, but with a better look and a new found ease to use built in. Microsoft Lists is part of the Office365 suite. It can be found from within a search of your apps, as shown below. When selected, we end up here: As you can see, we are on the SharePoint site.

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The Great Enemy of Truth… A Bite-Size Project Management Thought

Online PM Courses

For the great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. The post The Great Enemy of Truth… A Bite-Size Project Management Thought appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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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 Master Interview Questions (3): Daily Scrum and Sprint Retrospective

Scrum.org

Last week, someone on Reddit asked whether there would be any other profession that requires attending a 2-day training class and would then pay as well as a Scrum Master job. This attitude is precisely why the 47 Scrum Master Interview Guide exists: Prevent imposters from slipping through the hiring process and causing damage. If you are looking to fill a position for a Scrum Master (or agile coach) in your organization, you may find the following 47 interview questions useful to identify the r

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Connecting Business with IT to Achieve Agility in the Financial Sector

Planview

5 questions and answers from an on-demand webinar with Santander UK. Santander UK, one of the world’s largest retail and commercial banks, has been on an Agile and digital transformation journey for some time. I recently hosted a webinar with Joaquim Cols, Director of Operations for Santander Technology UK, where he described the bank’s progress in aligning business with IT: “ Unlock Enterprise Agility: Drive Strategic Delivery for the Business.

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