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7 Essential Steps to Robust Project Scheduling

nTask

Project scheduling is a critical part of the project life cycle. It determines if the end results of a project will be achieved within the set timelines. However, project managers often face challenges when they start scheduling their planned work, as it requires careful consideration of various underlying factors. But it doesn’t have to be so challenging.

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How to Create a Gantt Chart in 9 Easy Steps | Video

Online PM Courses

In an earlier video, I describe what a Gantt Chart is. But I keep getting asked how to create one. So, here's how to make a Gantt Chart. The post How to Create a Gantt Chart in 9 Easy Steps | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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The Value of an Agile Project Management Office in 2020s

Management Yogi

Imagine this scenario as you start-off your day: You open your business site and the message says: “it doesn’t exist.” You then try to login to your email account, which also displays the same message. Your heartbeat goes up and you rub your eyes in disbelief. You remember receiving emails from customers about payments via payment apps, but there too, the same message is displayed, “this account.

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Review IPMA Organisational Competence Baseline – for developing competence in managing by projects, version 1.1

Henny Portman

IPMA OCB offers insights for all interested in understanding how to improve the way projects, programmes and portfolios are managed in an organization. The IPMA OCB provides a standard for organizations to analyse their context, to identify relevant trends and to develop their strategies, processes, structures, cultures and project, programme and portfolio competences.

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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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2022 Aerospace and Defense Industry Trends

Epicflow Blog

Aerospace and defense industry is gradually recovering from the pandemic consequences, but still remains vulnerable as the world hasn’t fully overcome this crisis yet. Nevertheless, this year, the industry is going to focus on implementing innovations and searching for more opportunities for growth. So, what trends are expected to shape the industry this year?

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With Hindsight: Toggl Plan’s Quarter 4, 2021

Teamweek

In the last quarter of 2021, we finally fully rolled out the new Task card, improved the navigation and overview on My Work view and made all your tasks accessible on our mobile app. Continue reading to get the full overview of our latest improvements. The Product. Here’s what to look forward to the next time you open Toggl Plan. A Simpler and More Flexible Task Card.

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6 ways to develop a Project Scope Statement with MindGenius

MindGenius

In project management, a project scope statement is a useful tool to outline the project’s deliverables and identify the constraints, assumptions and key success factors of a project. The scope statement defines the boundaries of this project. However, prior to getting the project underway, the project team and its stakeholders need to agree to the scope statement before its execution.

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How to Introduce Work In Progress (WIP) Limits to a Team? (Real-life example!)

Scrum.org

. While working with one of my clients, the leader of a large team approached me. We had the following dialogue: — Mark, our team feels overburdened and our delivery time has increased drastically. We’d like to set WIP limits for our team. We did some preliminary calculations, and figured limiting total work in progress to 25 items would be a nice idea.

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Top Project Management Conferences of 2022

ProjectManager.com

The project management industry, and our concept of what a project constitutes, is always changing. Nowadays, even non-PMP-certified workers are taking on work that closely resembles a traditional projects, and the desire to manage them better is growing every year. One way to keep up with the latest project management trends is to attend a project management conference in 2022.

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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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Sprint - Increment - release

Scrum.org

There is often confusion in what happens in a Sprint with regards to the Increment and releasing. . Short summary of this article: during a Sprint, one or more increments are produced. This happens when a Product Backlog Item meets the definition of "Done". At least once every Sprint, but it can happen more often. When a Product Backlog Item meets the definition of "Done" (and therefor becomes an increment), it can be released.

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Become a Skilled SAFe® SPC | Safe Program Consultant

Agilemania

2011 marked a new beginning in the era of large-scale software project management. Since then, Dean Leffingwell’s brainchild, the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) has become the popular emerging agile framework for business agility according to the 15th State of Agile Survey. . But what is SAFe? . SAFe is a knowledge base of proven, integrated principles, practices, and competencies for attaining business agility using Lean, Agile, Systems Thinking, and DevOps to manage large scale software develop

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The New Year is the Best Time to Review Your Marketing Workflow

Admation

It ’ s a new year again. Yes, it ’ s that time of year when you can reflect on the year that has passed, the processes that worked well, the goals you achieved as well as reviewing parts of the business where you did not achieve your goals or the desired outcomes. It is also an opportune time to think of what you ’ ll do differently to reach more of them, be more efficient, and more productive.

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Top 12 Agile Retrospective Tools to Use in 2022

nTask

To take full control of your Agile retrospective and to take full advantage of the interaction, you need the perfect tool at your disposal, but what is Agile Retrospective? Let’s find out. What is Agile Retrospective? An Agile retrospective is a meeting or an interaction between the team members of the project development team. It is a meeting that is conducted at the end of an iteration or a sprint in the Agile software development process.

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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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20 Marketing Tools You Should Add to Your Arsenal in 2022

Workamajig

Our pick of the latest marketing tools you need to excel in 2022. Marketing has changed drastically over the last couple of years. Collaboration has moved largely from conference rooms to Zoom meetings. There’s an explosion of startups automating marketing grunt work with AI/ML. Design and content have been commoditized more than ever before. If you want to win in 2022, you need to have better marketing tools.

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