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How Project Managers Can Lead the Way in Sustainability

LiquidPlanner

Sustainability is a critical business focus and a key driver of change in the way that organizations operate, and in the way, that project managers approach their work. Projects that were previously managed in isolation from things like organizational strategy and corporate governance and at a distance from the wider world of society and the environment, must now be aligned with all of these things. .

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Stop Fighting Fires: How to Prioritize When Everything is High Priority

Scoro

One of the most common frustrations we hear from team leaders who don’t have robust project management practices in place is a feeling of constant firefighting, leaving them unable to complete projects on time or within budget. In fact, in a recent PWC poll , only 2.5% of companies successfully completed all of their projects. Firefighting is a natural human response to a chaotic workload as a means of “getting more done”.

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Project Management Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them

ProProfs Project Management

Risks and change requests are two factors that can jeopardize the project management triangle. But there is a third hidden factor that takes you closer to project failure: ‘Silly mistakes.’. Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. — George Bernard Shaw. You encounter different types of obstacles during each phase of the project development process.

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How To Instill Client Trust With These Client Onboarding Strategies

The Digital Project Manager

To help you build and maintain trust, I’ve pulled together the 7 best client onboarding. The post How To Instill Client Trust With These Client Onboarding Strategies appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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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 Enterprise Companies Overcome Common Project Management Challenges

Wrike

Project management is never easy. But, when you’re overseeing projects on a company-wide scale, things become even trickier. As an enterprise project manager, you have to coordinate numerous teams — each with their own processes, timelines, and deliverables. You also need to ensure that each project is supporting the overarching business goals. And you need to do it all with confidence. .

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Is Accessibility Enough?

Scrum.org

Today, on Global Accessibility Awareness Day, I look back on how far we have come as a society in making things accessible for people with disabilities. Yet, how far behind we are in inclusive user and customer experience. Just because I ‘can’ use your product or service, it does not mean I ‘want’ too. In 1971, I was born with Cerebral Palsy. My parents were told that I might not live past 12, I might never speak clearly, if at all.

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Your baseline is crushed

Musings on Project Management

With the pandemic effects on project offices, supply chains, capital funding, customers, and cultural changes (how long before it's the same again?), a lot of projects will shut down. permanently. Their business case crushed in the effects Rebaseline in two steps: Declare the "old" project ended; collect the actuals and variances and record them in the ledger.

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Story Point vs Ideal Hour – It Is a Generation Gap Issue

Agilemania

How much you scored this year? My parents asked this question twice a year throughout my schooling. When I scored 80%, they reminded my previous scores were better, and when I said 90%, they checked how much Sharma’s son scored. They also reassured themselves with follow up questions – are in top 5, top 10, or topper in your class.… The post Story Point vs Ideal Hour – It Is a Generation Gap Issue appeared first on Agilemania.

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June 4, 2020: Quo Vadis, Scrum Master? Is it Time to Reinvent Yourself?

Scrum.org

TL; DR: Quo Vadis, Scrum Master? — A Live Virtual Meetup on June 4, 2020. Freelancing Scrum Masters being let go, with no new projects on the horizon. Employed Scrum Masters being furloughed or fired. Moreover, considering remote work as the new normal — where does this development leave the Scrum Master or agile coach? Is the “invisible presences” acquiring a new, unwanted meaning?

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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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Free Work Schedule Software You Can Download for Your Desktop

TimeCamp

We all use some form of work scheduler.

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Trello vs Asana vs Toggl Plan: What’s the Best Project Management Tool (2020)

Teamweek

Trello and Asana are two popular project management tools. Yet, both tools are very different and cater to different needs. That’s why it’s unfair to compare Trello vs Asana head-to-head. Instead, both need to be evaluated based on: the size of your team, your project management workflow, and the tool’s onboarding time and ease of use.

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