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How to Develop a Simple Scope Management Plan

Project Risk Coach

How can you develop a scope management plan quickly that provides value to the project? It's not as complicated as it may seem. Some project managers check the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) for advice, which I think is a great place to start. However, project managers may make the following mistakes: Individuals may see the PMBOK as a prescription and include every element for every project.

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3 Wide-Spread Scrum Master Failures in 5:31 Minutes

Scrum.org

TL; DR: Three Wide-Spread Scrum Master Failures. There are plenty of Scrum Masters failures. Given that Scrum is a framework with a precise and concise yet short “manual,” this effect should not surprise anyone. Learn more about three widespread examples of how Scrum Masters fail their team in three short video clips, totaling 5 minutes and 31 seconds. ??

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10 Best Marketing Resource Management Software In 2021

The Digital Project Manager

The post 10 Best Marketing Resource Management Software In 2021 appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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What is Organizational Agility, Really?

Scrum.org

So what is organizational agility? Have you ever noticed people keep talking about things, but they've not aligned with what their words mean? I have seen agility measured as the number of "agile teams" and the "number of training attendees" more often than I like to admit. . Maybe we can talk about what organizational agility is not - in a word - bs.

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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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Visual Project Management Tools: List Of The Top 9 Tools In Town

nTask

Seamless communication, clarity, and transparency are the key essentials for the efficient completion of a project. Unfortunately, incorporating these fundamentals requires more than just your regular project management tools. To fully grasp control over the progress of your project , you need a unique and innovative tool – Visual project management tools.

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Using Enterprise Data To Communicate Impact & Celebrate Wins (with Agile Delivery Champion, Bill Moroz)

The Digital Project Manager

The post Using Enterprise Data To Communicate Impact & Celebrate Wins (with Agile Delivery Champion, Bill Moroz) appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Getting the Outcomes You Want From Technical Spikes

Leading Agile

“Are these volleyball games or demos?” the senior director leaned over to me and asked during the 7 team demo of the day. She had just taken over this part of the organization, and I was the technical consultant tasked making her dreams come true: working-tested product in the demo. Yet another team had been remarkably busy in the last sprint discussing ways to potentially solve problems.

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How to Handle the Issue of Slow Recruitment with Resource Management Techniques

Epicflow Blog

Project managers know that putting the right team together is one of the most important points of successful project implementation. What can be more effective than assigning the tasks to the right people with the right skills at the right time! However, one of the major challenges that project managers have to deal with is the lack of project resources, namely insufficient staff. .

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It Starts with Cross-Functional Teams

Leading Agile

Mike Cottmeyer describes the core challenges with transformations begins with setting up cross-functional teams. Learn more by watching the Base Patterns of Business Agility on-demand webinar series here. Transcript. How do I take this functionally siloed organization and turn it into the kind of organization that we can actually deliver the way we want to deliver?

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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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The Definitive Buyer’s Guide to Flexible Project Portfolio Management Software — Free Guide

Wrike

Regardless of the industry your PMO operates in — IT, construction, business services, finance and banking, or manufacturing — success depends on delivering projects on time and on budget, as well as demonstrating the ROI of your PMO to the organization. Unfortunately, roughly 70% of projects PMOs start actually fail. Part of the reason for such a large percentage is inadequate project portfolio management(PPM) software.

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Officially Introducing Emily Hannon-Luijbregts As A DPM Expert

The Digital Project Manager

The post Officially Introducing Emily Hannon-Luijbregts As A DPM Expert appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Improve How Your Scrum Team Uses Metrics

Scrum.org

Every Scrum Team understands the value of metrics, but so many of them also struggle to use them effectively. This ties into our own experience with Scrum Teams as well. When we started with Scrum, about 12 years ago, metrics were one of the first things we started experimenting with. How else could we determine if we were successful? So we decided to measure the number of story points we delivered per Sprint, tracked how many hours everyone was working on the items of the Sprint Backlog, and me

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How to Export to a PDF Document in Project for the Web

MPUG

Project for the Web was first released in 2019. Since then, Microsoft has continued to add new content to this lightweight project management application on a regular basis. In fact, feel free to take a look at the blog post with a video that I created back in November 2020 about the new Export to Excel feature in Project for the Web. Microsoft has recently announced the new Export Timeline to PDF feature that will assist users with project reporting.

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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.