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Have You Left Anything Out of Your Project Management Plan?

Project Risk Coach

Have you left anything out of your project management plan? Check out this checklist to help you identify the baselines and plans that will be most helpful to each of your projects. As I define a project management plan, I strive for clarity, brevity, and simplicity. My aim is the create a plan that is easy to understand and that helps me and the project team achieve the project objectives.

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How To Build A Culture Of Data-Driven Estimation (with Marcel Petitpas from Parakeeto)

The Digital Project Manager

The post How To Build A Culture Of Data-Driven Estimation (with Marcel Petitpas from Parakeeto) appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Leading without risk

Musings on Project Management

Leading -- leadership -- without risk; without taking on risk?!It can't be done.End of posting.Perhaps a bit more:To be a leader is to put yourself out front. exposed, as it wereAnd, out front you'll find there are no easy answers.

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YDS: When Does a Scrum Team Create the Definition of Done?

Scrum.org

On today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: When does a Scrum Team create a Definition of Done? Today's question asks when the Definition of Done (DoD is created by the Scrum Team. Todd and Ryan discuss the last responsible moment that a DoD is created and also provide some advice on how to proceed with a minimal DoD with an eye towards incrementally improving the DoD as the Scrum Team gets experience working together and delivering increments.

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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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Step-By-Step Guide to Agile Planning- Drafting And Executing Projects

nTask

With the ever-growing competition in the market and a need for perfection, companies look for ways to improve their processes for better results. One such way of improving performance in Agile planning. Agile panning is used by a whopping 71% of organizations to manage their projects. It has been proven that agile projects have a faster delivery rate when compared with other methodologies of project planning and management.

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Creating A Solid Foundation For Agility

Leading Agile

Mike Cottmeyer explains why team-level Agility is the first step to achieving business-level Agility. Learn more by watching the Base Patterns of Business Agility on-demand webinar series here. Transcript. Well, what agile gives me the ability to do, is it gives me the ability to have a backlog that is written in such way that makes it really, really easy to change and really easy to negotiate scope and manage trade-offs.

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8-step Project Success Plan: Your Essential Project Management Template

Online PM Courses

What a new Project Manager needs most is a simple project success plan that can get you where you need to be. The post 8-step Project Success Plan: Your Essential Project Management Template appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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Lessons from Harvard 3: Discovering the Squiggle on Projects

Green Project Management

This is the third of four posts based on my experience at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Executive Education for Sustainability Leadership program that I took in November 2017, led by Dr. Leith Sharp, integrated with some of our GPM Global content where appropriate. The intent of these posts is to show […]. The post Lessons from Harvard 3: Discovering the Squiggle on Projects appeared first on Delivering a better world, one project at a time.

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Top Frustration #1: The Earned Value Analysis Problem

MPUG

We recently ran a survey asking you to share your biggest frustration with available project management tools. As you can imagine, we’ve gotten some interesting results. One user responded and told us about the large corporation he works for that is required to do Earned Value Analysis (EVA). They don’t have an integrated cost management tool (i.e., Deltek, OpenPlan, or Cobra), and so they’ve been forced to cobble together a mix of middleware over the years to try and accomplish what is required

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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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Toggl Hire: Quarter 1, 2021

Teamweek

We hit the ground running in 2021, and have got a lot to fill you in on! So let’s jump right in. Product Updates. 5 New Skills Added. You can now test candidates on 5 new skills – Financial Transactions, Elixir, SQL Server, Git, and GraphQL. If there are any skills we don’t currently have that you would like to see, please shoot us an email !

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Overload, Overwhelm, and a Yelling Client (Bullying) | Video

Online PM Courses

Three issues in one video: How to deal with overload, overwhelm, and yelling clients. I focus on the Yelling Client. Because it's bullying. The post Overload, Overwhelm, and a Yelling Client (Bullying) | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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How Working in a Bar Helped my Approach to Change Orders.

PM Times

Written by: Matt Kino Every day, the president of our company sends a company-wide email with inspiring, motivational, and thought-provoking quotes.

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12 Crucial Process Management Tips For An Effective Outreach Campaign

nTask

Whether you want to raise awareness of your brand, promote an upcoming product launch, improve your SEO , or all three, you need an outreach strategy that will help you build backlinks to your website. Outreach involves finding businesses, website owners, or influencers in your niche who will be happy to promote your brand and help you with your link-building efforts.

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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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The 7 Habits of ?Highly Effective ?Agile Transformation: Be Proactive

Leading Agile

Many of you have come to know and embrace the teachings of Stephen R. Covey in “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.” Considered one of the top business and leadership books of all time, it is a true treasure trove of wisdom that I find myself returning to time and time again. Like others have found, the book speaks to you on multiple dimensions, personal and professional, family and community, and more.

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The Definitive Guide to Release Management

Wrike

Software development has changed radically in recent years, so why are our processes still the same? Enter release management. Release management is a modern solution to the unique challenges software engineers and project managers face today. Between near-constant demands for updates, increasingly complex platforms, and the external pressures of lightning-fast innovation, it’s no wonder why this new form of productivity has evolved.