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How to Truly Succeed with Agile Transformation

Leading Agile

When organizations set out to adopt Agile, they always have a business reason. It’s never just because they really love Scrum, or SAFe, or LeSS. But when the teams start doing all the Agile things, and they’re met with resistance from the organization around them, it’s hard to point to success because not much changed. So, we start defining success as “do the roles and ceremonies exist and are we following all the Agile dogma.

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Stakeholder Communication Strategy: Part 3 of 4 Steps of Stakeholder Engagement

Scrum.org

By Lavaneesh Gautam , Professional Scrum Trainer Effective Stakeholder Engagement is key to the success of the product and one of the essential skills all product people should have. This article is part 3 of the Effective Stakeholder Engagement series. So far we have covered 2 steps of engaging stakeholders. First, Stakeholder Exploration and Stakeholder Analysis & Mapping.

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Project Management Office vs Program Management Office 

WorkOtter

There are a few main differences between a Project Management Office vs a Program Management Office. While it may seem like splitting hairs between the two to pick out the differences, they are actually quite different in terms of their contribution and roles to a business. Program Management What is a Program Management Office? It can often be viewed as a group of related projects that are coordinated in a specific manner to achieve certain goals and benefits that cannot be achieved without.

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How Scrum Teams And Management Can Work Together To Remove Impediments

Scrum.org

Scrum impacts the entire organization. To unlock your Scrum team’s superpowers, improvements are necessary within and especially around teams. The Scrum.org PSM II class contains multiple exercises that make visible where improvement is needed in order to use Scrum more effectively. In particular the exercise “Management in Scrum”. In this blog post, I describe how Scrum teams can use it with managers, leaders, and coaches in their organization to effectively remove impediments.

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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 to Tame Uncertainty of Research and Development: Tips on Managing R&D Projects

Epicflow Blog

If we needed to choose one word that best describes R&D projects, it would be “uncertainty” – they have so many changing elements and their outcomes are often hard to predict. Nevertheless, this doesn’t mean that these projects cannot be successfully managed. Read the article to find out how to cope with the uncertainty in R&D projects and increase the chances of achieving desired outcomes.

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How to Convert Cryptocurrency to Cash: Grounds and Tips?

Productivity Land

Many people working with cryptocurrency ask how to convert crypto to cash at a minimal cost. This is not as difficult as it might seem at first glance, but you need to familiarize yourself with some simple subtleties to help you complete the operation. Various services appear on the modern market, making converting crypto simple and effective. You can take advantage of different offers to quickly exchange the desired amount of crypto for fiat in seconds.

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7 Ways You Can Deal With an Unhappy Client at Your Creative Agency

Function Point

Every agency will, at one point or another, find itself in some sort of a delicate situation with an unhappy client. We all know that it’s unavoidable, but we still need to be prepared for it to happen to ensure that you both mitigate the issue at hand and take advantage of the situation. Keep in mind that agency clients and prospects alike will notice how you deal with a negative situation, and in the world of social media, this cannot be ignored.

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PMO and Continuous Improvement

Bridge the Gap Consulting

I had a boss once say the trick to continuous improvement is to make it seem easy to the outside world, even though it’s a lot of work within an inner circle. Every improvement is strategic and intentional. She was amazing at CI. Now that the PMO is chugging along, it’s time for you, as the PMO leader, to look at continuous improvement. It’s not easy, and it is necessary.

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ACP Success Story: If You Have Prepared Well for Your PMP Exam, The ACP Exam Will Be A Cakewalk

Management Yogi

By Sandip Kumar Nath, ACP, PMPIntroductionDuring my PMP certification preparation, I have already done a good amount of study in Agile concepts. So, I was already in a mindset to get an Agile certification. I’ve been a certified PMP since June, 2021.Before taking any decision, I had reached out to my mentor, Satya Sir and shared my thoughts.

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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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Applying Project Management Tools to Property Management

Tactical Project Management

Project management is a method of managing projects to achieve objectives and deliver benefits. The right project management tools can help you stay on top of all the issues related to your property. Project management has two main functions: planning and controlling. Planning involves setting goals, creating plans, identifying resources needed, and assigning responsibilities for […] The post <strong>Applying Project Management Tools to Property Management</strong> appeared

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Working on a proposal? Read this.

Musings on Project Management

Do you read Mike Clayton? You probably should.Here is his idea of the 12 points of a perfect proposal:What are the elements of a perfect proposal? Here are 12. YouNo one wants to hear all about you. See the next subtitle. That's who your audience wants to hear about. themselves. But (and it's a big 'but') they do need to know enough about you to know you are worth paying attention to.

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Toggl Academy e04: “From pipeline to invoice, closing deals with Rachel Jacobs.”

Teamweek

Join Marcel Petitpas and Ilia Markov as they share their insights on tracking core metrics, prioritizing them during a recession, and using data-led decisions to improve business performance. What you’ll learn ? Tune in for no-fluff session to get grips with Core metrics to track and benchmarks to keep an eye on How to prioritize those metrics in a recession How to use metrics to help forecast and make data-led decisions Resources ?

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