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What Is Quality Planning & Why Is It Important?

ProjectManager.com

Projects are successful when they end on time and within budget. But if you don’t meet the quality expectations of your stakeholders, it doesn’t matter how fast you delivered—you failed. To avoid this, focus on quality planning. Create a quality plan before you start your project to consistently meet the expectations of your stakeholders. What Is Quality Planning?

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Quick and Easy: How to Manage Your Tasks with the Eisenhower Principle

Inloox

The Eisenhower Matrix was named after the former US president of the same name, Dwight D. Eisenhower, who is said to have developed this method and even taught it himself. To this day, the Eisenhower Principle is a proven and widely used tool for prioritizing personal tasks. The method is based on the concept of effectiveness. It is not about getting things done right but doing the right things first.

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?? Adapt How You Lead for Agile Success — Johanna Rothman at the Agile Camp Berlin 2021

Scrum.org

TL; DR: Adapt How You Lead for Agile Success w/ Johanna Rothman — ACB21. Too many people say, “With agile, we don’t need no stinkin’ managers.” However, because managers create and refine the culture, modern managers create and refine the agile culture. Without modern management, any agile initiative will die. It’s time to invite managers to change their behaviors and create a real agile culture.

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How Online Proofing Leads to Easy Approvals

Function Point

Think about your current proofing process. It needs some work, doesn’t it? It’s okay. Though proofing is one of the most important aspects of an agency’s workflow, it’s really hard to do efficiently. Few parts of the marketing agency proofing process are within your control, often you’re waiting for the client to review files before signing off. As we’re all aware, this can slow down the project’s process.

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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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Finding your way with the new

Lynne Cazaly

Copying someone else’s way of working might just work. And it might not. While there are methods, techniques and new habits to start, sometimes the best thing to do is simply try them out. No strings attached. Try it on. How does it feel? What do you like about it? How might it work for you? As businesses change to new and agile ways of working, there can be a little too much ‘don’t mess it up’ and not enough ‘let’s try it out’ I’ve been working wi

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Better ways for who

Lynne Cazaly

Imagine if your team started trying some newer ways of doing things. How might it impact customers? What additional value might you all bring? How might some frustrating customer problems get solved? The dramatic value that can be delivered to the customer, member, patient, user, client, can get forgotten. Perhaps it gets drowned out because the changes WE have to make are tricky and challenging for us.

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How to Streamline Your Business to Increase Your Productivity

PM Times

It’s easy to get caught in the daily whirlwind, especially when you have a long list of tasks and boatloads of firefighting to do. However, if left unchecked, all these, on top of sticking to manual processes, can bog you and your employees down — leading to inefficient workflows, low productivity, and even cost you […]. The post How to Streamline Your Business to Increase Your Productivity appeared first on Project Management Articles, Webinars, Templates and Jobs.

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Face to face ?? Online How did you change

Lynne Cazaly

As many face to face workshops and meetings shifted online over the past year, it’s curious to look back: What did you change? If you’d planned an agenda, how did things need to adapt? Did you change the duration? Or the time between breaks, or length or number of breaks? Did you change what was planned? What about group activities and collaboration?

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Why is Data Science Important?

Leading Agile

LeadingAgile’s Adam Jennison and Dan Smith have collectively spent decades in product management roles in multiple organizations for data-driven products. In a time where it’s nearly impossible to separate products and services from data science, data science is fundamental to success. With so much digital information being produced, leveraging it is imperative to being competitive in any market.

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Strategic Finance Essentials: A Project Manager’s Guide to Financial Impact

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 expendi

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Deciding what to do. next

Lynne Cazaly

I’ve been thinking, reading, researching and writing about overwhelm and overload. A big something that can lead us to greater overwhelm and overload is getting stuck with what to do next. There’s often no shortage of options of what to do. but it’s the what to do NEXT that can make us grind to a halt under a flood of possibilities.

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Which Project Management Methodology is Right for Your Team?

Scoro

Different companies have different needs, and when it comes to individual projects, no two are alike. With so many project management methodologies to apply to your projects, it can be difficult to know exactly which one is right for your team. To help make it easier to pick the right one for your needs, we’ve created a guide that breaks down the most common project management methodologies used by modern businesses.

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What is of your making

Lynne Cazaly

Eating up content is relatively easy. You can read it, listen to it, scan over it, click on it and get endlessly lost in it. But do you make? Do you work out what you think and put it out there for others to consider? For example, such a small percentage of LinkedIn users make and share their thinking. So how about it? Let’s make something! Pick a topic you're interested in.

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10 Effective Productivity Lessons

Stepping Into Project Management

Its September already and if you are constantly trying to figure out how to get more done, these top 10 lessons from the productivity guru Ali Abdaal might be just for you. Stay safe and take care.

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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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How are you managing the ‘blend’

Lynne Cazaly

Our work can often blend a little too much into home life in these times of remote working and working from home. Some people call it ‘living where you work’ or ‘working where you live’ ! Here are 4 things to try to keep a harder line between them : 1. Establish a work area 2. Change your clothes 3. Create a fake commute 4. Use a different page for work/home apps Read more in this article from psychotherapist Amy Morin in Business Insider.

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Which Project Management Methodology is Right for Your Team?

Scoro

Different companies have different needs, and when it comes to individual projects, no two are alike. With so many project management methodologies to apply to your projects, it can be difficult to know exactly which one is right for your team. To help make it easier to pick the right one for your needs, we’ve created a guide that breaks down the most common project management methodologies used by modern businesses.

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How Having An Efficient Team Can Enhance Your Product Strategy

Tactical Project Management

The post How Having An Efficient Team Can Enhance Your Product Strategy appeared first on Tactical Project Management.

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For Project Managers: What is the Definition of Innovation?

The Strategic Project Manager

Innovation is an important topic these days simply because it is becoming critical to survival – for companies, governments, and people. Indeed, we have seen the effect on all three of the development of COVID-19 vaccines. Innovations are usually not completely new, a single stroke of genius, or just about a product. Let’s explore the question, “What is the definition of innovation?

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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.

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Why You Should Stop Multitasking

ActiveCollab

You may have heard that multitasking is a great way to get more things done. In fact, we all multitask daily. But did you know that multitasking is bad for you and that it can damage brain cells, according to the latest research? Also, another study conducted at Stanford University indicates that multitasking adds stress to our daily lives and harms our productivity, motivation, and mood.