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Roles and Responsibilities Template [Free Word Doc]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Does your project team have a roles and responsibilities document that sets out what everyone does? You should do. It’s a really simple document that helps clarify how everyone is contributing to the project. Scroll down you’ll be able to download a free roles and responsibilities template that will make it super fast for you to document team roles.

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How to Perform a SWOT Analysis

Project Risk Coach

If you are looking for a great way to engage your key stakeholders and identify project risks, perform a SWOT Analysis. Project managers or other facilitators can use this powerful tool to identify strengths and weaknesses. Furthermore, strengths may give rise to opportunities and weaknesses may lead to threats. Let's look at how to perform a SWOT Analysis.

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To fix your Scrum you need to fix your agreements.

Scrum.org

In many organisations I see Scrum not producing its anticipated value. The concept of value varies across organisations. But there also is a universal anticipated value of Scrum. The Scrum Guide says about Scrum's purpose: “A framework within which people can address complex adaptive problems, while productively and creatively delivering products of the highest possible value.”. and.

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Cloud vs. on-premise: the guide you’ve been looking for

Resource Guru

At the risk of giving away my age, I am going to share a memory. It was a beautiful, sunny day. I was at a petting zoo with my children at an age when they were young enough to still think all animals were magical and ice cream was a food group. I captured every moment of this special day, and looked forward to being able to relive those times when my girls were grown and gone.

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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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Re-Defining Refining (Let’s make Backlog Refinement Meetings Engaging and Successful)

Scrum.org

Scrum has grown up and what was formally casually called “Backlog Grooming” is now called “Backlog Refinement”. Many Scrum teams have a regular meeting scheduled on everyone’s calendar, even though it is not an official Scrum event. Backlog Refinement is not time-boxed, nor does the Scrum Guide has any details listed, for good reasons. In this webinar, we will explore why so many teams struggle with this meeting and why the boundaries between spec-writing, sprint planning and problem solving are

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Agile Rocks Interviews - Dave West

Scrum.org

Over the last year Steve Trapps and I have been chatting to people in the Agile community, in case you haven't seen it yet here is the output from our opportunity to grab Dave West the CEO and Product Owner for Scrum.org. We discuss a very eclectic range of topics from Taylor Swift to Leadership and discipline. We also throw in Triathalons, Scrum at home and of course empiricism, self-organisation and continuous improvement.

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How to Craft a Perfectly Streamlined Document Approval Process

Workamajig

A document approval process is crucial for streamlining your operations and bring order to your creative workflow. Learn how to create one in this article. Have you ever had a project derailed because a key deliverable wasn’t approved on time? I’m sure you have. Getting documents approved in a structured, timely fashion is one of the more understated challenges in project management.

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DPM Podcast: SMART Project Objectives (With Mackenzie Dysart)

The Digital Project Manager

The post DPM Podcast: SMART Project Objectives (With Mackenzie Dysart) appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Sacred but not immutable

Musings on Project Management

There are a lot of project principles, and processes built on those principles, we think of as immutable: stationary--and proven--with time, experience, context. Somewhat like the speed of light: Every observer or practitioner in any frame would see them the same way Not so fast! Sacred indeed! To be respected? Yes! Defaults that are best practice? Absolutely But immutable?

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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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De proyectos cerrados a proyectos ágiles

Scrum.org

Las organizaciones se enfrentan a clientes que piensan que pueden demandar lo que quieran, hay que darles lo que piden y todo se puede hacer con el nivel de presión adecuado. El resultado es: Una industria que mucha gente odia, clientes descontentos y empresas que quiebran. ¿Cómo cambiarlo? Hace tiempo, un lector de mi blog me escribía: Hola Jerónimo, He descubierto tu página hace poco y desde entonces soy un asiduo a ella.

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Project Meeting Facilitation Tips & Tricks | TeamGantt

TeamGantt

Discover 4 simple meeting facilitation tricks you can put into practice today to keep your team and stakeholders actively engaged in project meetings.

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How Hope Changes the World, One Life at a Time

ActiveCollab

_STORY WRITTEN BY RUMBANI NDHLOVU, SENIOR GRAPHICS DESIGNER AT MLFC _ _ _ HOW ARE YOU MAKING AN IMPACT ON THE WORLD? Miracle Life Family Church [[link] mission is sharing Christ, helping believers mature, changing the world. Working here since 2016 has allowed me to see people’s lives change for the better through faith in Jesus. We believe that it changes people’s perspective of themselves and others, helps them create a better life, family and world.

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Finishing 2019 Strong: Keeping up with Your Resolutions

Stepping Into Project Management

We have just crossed June and how time flies by. It seems almost yesterday I was writing my New Years Resolution and today its already been 6 months. Hows your new years resolution going so far? I have been going through my list and here are few ways to make sure you end 2019 strong. 5 ways to get it done: Break the goal into a small task - The one you can get done everyday and doesn’t take away a chunk of your life.

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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.