Mon.Nov 25, 2019

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10 Ways to Engage Project Stakeholders

Project Risk Coach

Do you have a stakeholder engagement plan? Have you stopped to think about the diverse needs of your stakeholders? Which stakeholders have the most power and influence? When and how will you engage these people? What is a Stakeholder Engagement Plan? The stakeholder engagement plan is "a component of the project management plan that identifies the strategies and actions required to promote productive involvement of stakeholders in project or program decision making and execution ( PMBOK® Guide –

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21 Sprint Retrospective Anti-Patterns

Scrum.org

TL; DR: Sprint Retrospective Anti-Patterns. What event could better embody Scrum’s principle of empiricism than the Sprint Retrospective? I assume all peers agree that even the simplest retrospective—if only held regularly—is far more useful than having a fancy one once in a while, not to mention having none at all. Moreover, there is always room for improvement.

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How Do You Manage Projects When Your Team Takes Time Off?

LiquidPlanner

People are always taking time off, and that’s as it should be. In the US, we have a problem with people not taking enough time off. The best way to encourage people to take some much-needed time away from the office is to run projects in a way that creates space for that to happen without causing a crisis. There are three types of time off that you need to be prepared for: 1.

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Agile Transformation with Liberating Structures

Scrum.org

Liberating Structures are a very popular toolkit for Scrum Masters these days. Conferences, trainings and meetings make heavy use of them. Of course Liberating Structures also find their way into the Scrum events, for very good reasons. You will instantly notice something very positive when you start using Liberating Structures when working with a group of people.

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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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Benefits Realization Management for Projects

MPUG

Let’s say an organization is taking initiative to build a Smart Website for its internal and external stakeholders which employs artificial intelligence (AI). Two project managers are shortlisted to manage the project. During a pre-project discussion meeting with business owners, organizational leaders, and other stakeholders, one project manager informs the group of the following: The site will have a multi-layered architecture with hot standby facility.

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The Grateful Agile Leader

International Institute for Learning

By Susan Parente, PMP, PMI-ACP, CSM, CSPO, PSM I, CISSP, CRISC, PMI-RMP, RESILIA, ITIL, GL®CP, MS Eng. Mgmt. | Risk Management Guru – Agile Specialist – IIL Senior Instructor. We know that servant leadership is an excellent match for Agile methods. For example, in Scrum, the Scrum Master is a servant leader of the Scrum Team. What other leadership styles have a home in the Agile approach?

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The Manager (A Misunderstood Product Owner Stance)

Scrum.org

What is a Manager? The Manager is concerned with the wellbeing of the Scrum Team. The Manager loves to see happy, engaged and motivated people. (S)he loves it when people are developing themselves, learning new skills, obtaining new knowledge and making mistakes. The Manager is a real people person, focus on peoples’ growth. Another goal that the Manager has is to evaluate individual team member performance.

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The Complex World

The Lazy Project Manager

Is your business life ‘Complex’? Well don’t panic, you are certainly not alone, but you should accept that you are part the ‘VUCA’ world today! C = Complexity: the multiplex of forces, the confounding of issues, no cause-and-effect chain and confusion that surrounds organization. Meaning: Consisting of many different and connected parts – not easy to analyse or understand; complicated or intricate.

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The Influencer (A Preferred Product Owner Stance)

Scrum.org

What is an Influencer? Some of the most famous and influencial leaders of all times include people like Mohandas K. Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr. and Abraham Lincoln. These gentlemen are in all the top-10 lists of being the ‘the best’ Politician, Influencer, world changer, etc. etc. And indeed, these people have all had a big impact on their people, countries and/or the world.

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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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Fight Or Flight How To Channel Your Work Anxiety In A Productive Way

Trello

Is this you? It’s 4 pm and you know that you’ve got too many tasks on your to-do list that you can actually complete before the end of the day. Feelings of unease and restlessness start to creep into your mind and body as you try to fathom how you’ll get all this work done in time.

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Call to action!

Scrum.org

Original article in French here ??. How the information radiator can help the call to action? How to make decisions based on explicit indicators? CONTEXT. . The Development Team scrupulously followed the "suggestions" of the Scrum Master. The Development Team has set up a whole information radiator , with for example a burndown chart , a cumulated flow diagram , a niko-niko , a graph displaying the trend of the number of incidents, a calendar with the next birthdays. .

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How to Succeed in Project Management: 8 Skills to Cultivate | Video

Online PM Courses

Do you want to know how to succeed in Project Management? I'll tell you: hard work. But in this video, I look at eight particular skills to cultivate. The post How to Succeed in Project Management: 8 Skills to Cultivate | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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[VLOG] Coaching in Scrum

Scrum.org

Hello awesome people. How was your week so far? I hope you are having an awesome week. In this vlog, I will be sharing a light introduction about coaching mainly within the context of Scrum framework. As Scrum is becoming mainstream, so does the role of Scrum Master. However, the quality of many Scrum Masters in the current job market are concerning me.

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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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10 Best Wrike Alternatives

Celoxis

In this article, we will talk about Wrike, one of the most popular project management software in the market, along with its best alternatives. Table of Contents What is Wrike? Why do you need an alternative to Wrike? List of Wrike Alternatives: Celoxis ProjectManager.com Workfront ProWorkflow Podio Insightly Jira ActiveCollab GanttPro Monday.com What is Wrike?

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[VLOG] How coaching fits in Scrum framework

Scrum.org

Hello awesome people. How was your week so far? I hope you are having an awesome week. In this vlog, I will be sharing a light introduction about coaching mainly within the context of Scrum framework. As Scrum is becoming mainstream, so does the role of Scrum Master. However, the quality of many Scrum Masters in the current job market are concerning me.

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How project management software can improve your digital design agency

Function Point

A key competency that digital design agencies have is the creativity of your people. When your creativity and ability to come up with great design ideas is all you have to sell, you don’t want to do anything that could jeopardize your team’s ability to innovate. However, for your agency to continue growing successfully, it’s essential to put some kind of framework around that creativity so you can harness it reliably, deploy it judiciously and, most importantly, get paid appropriately for the se

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How project management software can improve your digital design agency

Function Point

A key competency that digital design agencies have is the creativity of your people. When your creativity and ability to come up with great design ideas is all you have to sell, you don’t want to do anything that could jeopardize your team’s ability to innovate. However, for your agency to continue growing successfully, it’s essential to put some kind of framework around that creativity so you can harness it reliably, deploy it judiciously and, most importantly, get paid appropriately for the se

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.