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How to prevent chronic stress and burnout

Susanne Madsen

Severe stress that leads to sickness and burnout is a growing issue in organisations. With the ‘always-on’ work culture and fewer people employed to get work done, many stretch themselves to the point where their body and mind can no longer cope. A recent study of 382,000 employees, revealed that the discussion of burnout amongst UK workers is up 48 percent.

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Six sins with work boards

Kiron Bondale

Regardless of what type of work your team does, work boards can be a helpful tool. But just because they can be helpful doesn’t mean they are always implemented well. The most common mistake is when teams don’t keep their work boards up to date with the actual status of work that is being done. Increasing transparency is a great way for stakeholders to understand what is going on and to increase their level of trust in teams.

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Why are projects often delivered late?

LiquidPlanner

Why are projects often delivered late? Missed deadlines or missing deadlines – both can challenge your project and cause late delivery. I recently undertook a complex journey by car involving six locations, a number of people, and finally the drive back home. It was over a long distance and took most of one day to complete – but I completed it, and, in fact, I arrived home a few minutes earlier than expected.

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A 4-Step Guide to Creating Powerful Team Rituals

Planio

When it comes to productivity, routines and habits get all the attention — but high-performers rely just as heavily on having powerful rituals in place. Rituals tie your team together, creating a shared purpose and a powerful culture. While everyone has their own routines to help them maximize productivity, team rituals create a sense of togetherness and motivation that takes performance to the next level.

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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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Scaling Agile Practices – Improve Business Outcomes

Agilemania

Scaled Agile Framework, SAFe® is the world’s leading framework for Business Agility. SAFe® is built around seven Core Competencies with Customers as a focal point in the center. The seven core competencies each have three dimensions making it a total of twenty-one dimensions to enable Business Agility. These dimensions contain some of the practices, patterns, and guidelines to Scale Agility across the enterprise.

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Ultimate Guide to Enterprise Project Portfolio Management

nTask

Enterprise project portfolio management (EPM) is an essential aspect of digital transformation and is becoming increasingly important in a global economy. In this article, we’ll provide you with an overview of what EPM is and how it can help you manage your projects more effectively. We’ll also discuss some of the key challenges that businesses […].

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Project Time Tracking Template for Excel

Teamweek

Are you a project manager looking to download a project time tracking template for Excel? Use this free project time tracking spreadsheet below to track the hours spent on your next client project. Free project time tracking template. This project time tracking template focuses on tracking hours for specific tasks within a project. Download your Google Sheets template or Excel template.

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Simple Cost Comparison Template & How-to Guide

Wrike

Working to a budget can be easier said than done at times. If you hold the company’s purse strings, you’ll know it isn’t always simple to make the best choice. Whether it’s materials you’re looking to buy or office equipment, there’s always a lot to consider and various voices to take on board. Making purchasing decisions becomes much more straightforward when you have a robust system for assessing the options.

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How to Motivate People – 20 Ways to Give Motivation | Video

Online PM Courses

Why do people do (or not do) things? It's all a matter of motivation. So, here are my top 20 ways to motivate people on your projects. The post How to Motivate People – 20 Ways to Give Motivation | Video 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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Improved Search Bar, ActiveCollab 8.0: List View

ActiveCollab

Hello everyone, Welcome to the November edition of ActiveCollab's recaps! Before we begin discussing what we've been up to in the past month, let's review what we talked about last time [[link] sorting tasks by their start date in My Work and in-line editing of titles of tasks and task lists, and quickly changing a task's assignee. This time, once again, we have an update available to all our users and news on our progress with ActiveCollab 8.0 [[link].

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Back to Basics: What is Project Governance?

MPUG

In the year 2000, I was working for a small IT services organization. In those days, most companies were taking new initiatives, as the dreaded Y2K problem had passed without creating any trouble. My organization started an initiative to upgrade our project management methodology. At that time, our organization was a certified CMM Level 3 company, and we were already using our homegrown project management methodology based on CMM L3 processes.