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How to Engage Participants in a Project Management Workshop

Project Risk Coach

John, Sally, and Bill just left a full-day project management workshop. John said, “Am I the only one who felt like I just wasted a day?” Sally replied, “The trainer lost me in the first thirty minutes. At least, I caught up on my email during the day.”. Are you responsible for project management workshops for a PMI Chapter, a Project Management Office (PMO), or your organization?

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In defense of Critical Chain

Kiron Bondale

One of the more subtle changes in the Sixth Edition of the PMBOK Guide is the elimination of all references to Critical Chain Method (CCM). The rationale for this excision was not provided in Appendix X1 of the Guide which provides details of most of the Sixth Edition changes so I can only speculate that this might have resulted from the desire of the volunteer standards committee to cover commonly used tools and techniques for schedule development, and with the addition of agile release plannin

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How to Engage Participants in a Project Management Workshop

Project Risk Coach

John, Sally, and Bill just left a full-day project management workshop. John said, “Am I the only one who felt like I just wasted a day?” Sally replied, “The trainer lost me in the first thirty minutes. At least, I caught up on my email during the day.”. Are you responsible for project management workshops for a PMI Chapter, a Project Management Office (PMO), or your organization?

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Process Reduces Agility? Only on De Minimis Projects

Herding Cats

A popular toss off aphrase in some agile circles is process reduces agility. This is course is stated in the absence of any domain or context. I've been in the software development business for 30 years, mostly in the Software Intensive System of Systems world, where embedded systems are 100 times more prevalent than business, web and desktop systems.

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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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5 Instincts Of A Product Manager

TimeCamp

The highest objective of every product manager is to manage a product that will concur the market in the future. For that to happen, the product not only has to reach the right user and fully meet their expectations but also be well managed. The only person able to achieve this goal is one that has appropriate instincts, i. e. features and skills that will allow them to make the right decisions about the direction of product development over a given period of time.

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