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Self-Starter Guide on How to Present a Project Plan

nTask

After drafting an impeccable project plan, the next step is to present it to your clients. This is the turning point, as PMs have to deal with the age-old ‘ How to present a project plan efficaciously ?’ dilemma. Presenting a project plan requires more than just PowerPoint slides. Since a good presentation can win you a deal with your clients, you need to be prepared for everything.

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Book review: How To Be A Productivity Ninja

Rebel’s Guide to PM

“Time management is dead,” writes Graham Allcott in his book, How To Be A Productivity Ninja. The old time management concepts don’t work anymore, he says, because we don’t have the same working environment. The number of information sources has gone up, and we’re expected to juggle more and manage more complex jobs while our jobs are less defined. “All of this means you have to come to terms with one important thing: you will never get everything finished. &#

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Why People Are the Most Important Resource in the Company

Inloox

What do you think of when you hear the word resource? Perhaps natural resources in the form of oil or gold, hidden in the earth beneath our feet. Or do you have a project budget in mind that is running low? We've all heard phrases like "our resources are depleted" However, in HR, phrases like "we need more resources for our software engineering team" are also quite common.

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YDS: Does a Scrum Master Need Technical Skills?

Scrum.org

On today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: Does a Scrum Master Need Technical Skills? Today's question is from a viewer who wants to know whether or not a Scrum Master NEEDS technical skills to be successful in their role. Ryan and Todd go back and forth on this one on today's episode of Your Daily Scrum. Ryan Ripley and Todd Miller are the author of Fixing Your Scrum: Practical Solutions to Common Scrum Problems.

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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 Carry Out a Requirements Analysis

Wrike

If you begin a new project without gathering project requirements from sponsors and end users, you’re setting yourself up for failure. Projects are successful when they deliver positive outcomes and satisfy stakeholders’ expectations. If your project does not meet project and user expectations , it has failed no matter how fast you completed or kept it within budget. .

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How To Create A Project Timeline In 8 Actionable Steps

Teamweek

This guide is about how to create a project timeline in 8 steps. Whether you’re new to project management or an experienced manager, you’ll find this guide useful. In this guide, you won’t just learn the theory about timelines, but also how to make a timeline in 8 actionable steps. Using a simple web design project as an example, you’ll learn everything from establishing the scope to building a timeline.

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Harness The Power Of Sophrology For Better Work-Life Harmony

Trello

Sophrology is a growing buzzword among wellness warriors. Known as the “ science of consciousness in harmony ”, sophrology blends Eastern philosophies of Japanese Zen, Tibetan Buddhism, and yoga with Western Science practices like psychology, relaxation and neurology.

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Exploring the Scope (and Opportunities) of Digital Transformation

Leading Answers

A digital transformation means far more than offering products and services digitally. That is undoubtedly the core of it, but as this article illustrates, it goes far beyond. To start, let's review a simplified business model for a traditional bricks-and-mortar company. White Water Designs sells kayak, and small boat plans to home builders. If you want to build a 3-person canoe or small fishing boat, they will design it for you and provide the plans.

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Why Limiting the WIP and Swarming are the Key Habit Changes towards Faster Delivery?

Scrum.org

The most common cause of a Scrum Team (ST) not accomplishing their Sprint Goal, not having things DONE at the end of the Sprint , is that everybody is busy individually working on their Sprint Backlog items. When you look at the Scrum board, most of the things are OPEN / IN PROGRESS, touch time is too long and very few gets to DONE, really conforming to the DoD.

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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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Webinar Recap: Power BI for Business Users and Project Managers – Part 2: Deep Dive into Shaping Data using Power Query

MPUG

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Ben Howard’s session, Power BI for Business Users and Project Managers – Part 2: Deep Dive into Shaping Data using Power Query, being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content.