Mon.Apr 19, 2021

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The 3 Types Of Employee Engagement You Should Know

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This is a guest post by Matt Diggity. Wouldn’t it be great if project team members were engaged with their work, leapt at the opportunity to hit their milestones and proactively progressed their tasks without you having to chase them? If leading your team feels like you need to constantly prod them to get stuff done, perhaps you have an employee engagement problem.

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Es hora de repensar el "coaching" en agile coaching

Scrum.org

En enero de 2020, tuve una entrevista telefónica para un proyecto de transformación ágil con un líder de una empresa con sede en Barcelona que estaba interesado en agile coaching. El entrevistador me preguntó si me gustaría lanzarme a una conversación de coaching y acepté. Durante los siguientes minutos, hice todo lo posible por ponerme un sombrero de coach profesional, aunque, al final, mi intento no demostró las capacidades que buscaba el líder de la transformación.

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What Bigfoot Has In Common With Agile Transformation

Leading Agile

Think about it for a moment. Whether you believe in Bigfoot or not, there are many people who do. And the vast majority (or perhaps all of them) have never seen Bigfoot. But everybody has heard of Bigfoot. It’s part of our common culture and is used in brands around the world. Conversations and strong opinions about something that people have never actually seen seem to be common.

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YDS: Does a Scrum Team Need Specialists or Generalists?

Scrum.org

On today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: Does a Scrum Team need specialists or generalists? Today's question asks if we need specialists or generalists on a Scrum Team. Ryan and Todd use a personal example from a recent medical procedure to discuss the importance of having specialists and generalists on a team. 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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Who’s in Charge: Obtaining Third Party Services and What Questions to Ask for Success

MPUG

In my early years as a project manager (PM) for IBM, I worked on several assignments where third party vendor or sub-contractors (usually with a specialized skill to perform) were brought in to work on my project. It always seemed like the lines were blurry on who oversaw them. Looking back, I gave them less attention/visibility than my own project members, which was a rookie mistake on my part and a lesson to be learned.

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Do Project Management Certifications Matter In Digital? (with Candice Wyatt from Red Door Interactive)

The Digital Project Manager

The post Do Project Management Certifications Matter In Digital? (with Candice Wyatt from Red Door Interactive) appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Is your creative ad agency working to its best potential?

Admation

It is entirely possible that a portion of your creative workforce is already suffering from burnout. Every time there is a change in your work environment, it is estimated that 5-7 per cent of your employees will be tipped over the edge in terms of workload and will experience burnout. This is an important issue for any industry, but it is especially pronounced in the breakneck-paced advertising and marketing industries where operations are evolving and changing all the time in the digital age.

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PO Interview Questions — The Product Backlog and Refinement

Scrum.org

TL; DR: Product Owner Interview Questions — The Product Backlog and Refinement. If you are looking to fill a position for a Product Owner in your organization, you may find the following 71 interview questions useful to identify the right candidate. They are derived from my fourteen years of practical experience with XP and Scrum, serving both as Product Owner and Scrum Master and interviewing dozens of Product Owner candidates on behalf of my clients.

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Avoid Sunflower Bias: Critical PM Priority | Video

Online PM Courses

Sunflower Bias is when we turn to face the 'brightest' source in the room - and allow them to influence us beyond the rigor of their arguments. The post Avoid Sunflower Bias: Critical PM Priority | 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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Top 5 Open-Source Project Management Software Tools

TrustRadius Project Management

70% of organizations have experienced project failure at some point over the past year, according to research from KPMG. One likely contributor: lack of standardized project management practices. Only 21% of businesses have put standardized project management (PM) practices and systems in place. . Enter project management software. While these tools can help you manage all aspects of a project lifecycle—they often come with a large price tag.

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Pitfalls of Resource Management: How to Reduce the Negative Impact of Office Politics

Epicflow Blog

“The resource manager has a nearly impossible job — with demands coming from every imaginable direction — yet a job that can have a profound impact on the organization’s success” , Neal Whitten. In an ideal world, resource managers assign people to projects in accordance with their skills and availability, make their decisions in the most fair and reasonable way, the relationships between the team members are helpful and supporting, and the team works like a single organism to meet the common ob

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Project Management vs. Work Management – What’s the Difference?

Scoro

With a plethora of collaborative tools out there, it’s easy to become bewildered by the sheer volume of choice. What’s more, the definition of “project management” and “work management” in the context of software can be difficult to distinguish. If you’re wondering which type of solution would suit your organization, here’s a handy guide to the main difference between Project Management Software (PMS) and Work Management Software (WMS).

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5 Reasons Why Parabol Should be on Your Project Management Tool Radar

PM Times

Written by: Brad Egeland The next segment in my somewhat weekly series on 5 reasons to try many of these project management software and service offerings that you may not be using or even aware of their powerful capabilities, I am featuring Parabol and 5 reasons why you should know about it and give it a try. Parabol is an agile meeting tool that helps remote teams run guided retrospective , check-in and Sprint Poker meetings.

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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.