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Identifying and Overcoming Resource Constraints in Project Management

ProjectManager.com

Resources are what you need to execute your project plan—people, equipment and materials. Managing those resources is part of how you deliver a successful project. Each task in your project plan will have project resources like people, time and a budget attached. Therefore, you must know their availability to schedule them. That’s a resource constraint, and project managers must learn how to manage those constraints in order to keep the project moving forward.

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Two Real-World Stories: Cultivating a Single Source of Truth

Planview

How does a large enterprise cultivate a single source of truth across teams, departments, continents, and solutions? Planview enlisted not one, but two global Fortune 500 customers to tell their transformation stories during a “ Fireside Chat: Power of Having One Single Source of Truth.” Each company is a trailblazer in evolving PPM to meet stakeholder needs and achieve strategic objectives.

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6 Amazing Tips to Boost Team Morale in 2021

nTask

Whenever we think about successful companies and businesses in the organizational paradigm, we always think that they are just well-oiled machines that are run on increased productivity and generating a ridiculous amount of revenue. But in reality, there is so much more to it than that. The most successful companies that are operating in the organizational world are the places that institutionalize the process of keeping their employees feeling more engaged with their work.

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Inspection and the Product Backlog - Back to the foundations of the Scrum framework (17)

Scrum.org

Scrum is founded on empirical process control, and inspection is one of the three pillars. Each of the Scrum Artifacts is inspected in one or more Scrum Events to detect undesired variances. If you feel something isn’t running as expected, have a good look with your team at your Artifacts what could be going on. Inspection is about detecting undesirable variances in progressing towards agreed goals.

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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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Programme Management (PM): Managing Projects To Achieve an Objective

Techno-PM

Program Management (PM) is the process of managing a set of related projects, or programs, to achieve an objective. Program Management can be defined as developing and implementing projects by managing the work, people, time, and budget. In addition, program management includes planning and executing those activities necessary for delivering desired customer benefits in accordance with cost, time, and quality targets.

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Knowledge transfer Template

Techno-PM

Businesses can never stop learning. The knowledge transfer template is a way to do this in a systematic and organized manner. It's an easy-to-follow framework that provides you with the tools and techniques for transferring your company's expertise, skills, experience, or know-how from one generation of staff members to another. The knowledge transfer template is a simple yet powerful tool that will help you and your team organize information about what needs to be transferred from one person or

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How To Hold Your Team Accountable Without Micromanaging

Trello

If you want something to be done correctly, you do it yourself, right? Not so fast—with this mindset, you’re likely to feel overloaded and overwhelmed. Everyone’s to-do list is now a part of yours. Everyone’s business is your business. You’ve got your hands in too many cookie jars, so to speak.

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How to Stay Organized in Project Management with Task Dependencies

Techno-PM

Project management is all about managing tasks and making sure that they are completed promptly. The key to successful project management is the use of dependencies in a project plan. Dependencies can be described as "A task needs another task to complete before it can start." They help you stay organized by ensuring that everything has an order, including your team members' work schedules.

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What Is 6clicks? Overview & Tour Of Features

The Digital Project Manager

The post What Is 6clicks? Overview & Tour Of Features appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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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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5 Ways To Deal With An Unproductive Team And Turn Things Around Quickly

Proofhub

When you own a business, it’s important to keep your employees and colleagues on track so you can hit your goals. Of course, this is sometimes easier said than done, but there are some steps you can take to turn sluggish employees into a productive workforce. So, in this article, we will dive into five ways you can deal with a lazy or unproductive team and fix the problem quickly. 1.

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Top 6 WorkFlowy Alternatives to Use in 2021

nTask

WorkFlowy is an incredible organizational tool that you can use to create interactive lists and outlines to help you in your personal and professional life. The application is a text-based list creation application that lets you create different nested bulleted lists that help you make sure that all of your important tasks and thoughts are stored safely for when you want to look at them.

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How to Find the Right Idea: The Four Rules of Brainstorming

Inloox

Did you know that the word brainstorming is derived from the phrase "using the brain to storm a problem"? The goal is to find an optimal solution to a problem through intensive creative thinking - and preferably together in a group. Today, brainstorming is one of the classic creativity techniques. Whether in a meeting or when planning a private birthday party - brainstorming takes place in all areas of life and already exists in many different versions and variants.

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A Comprehensive Guide on Software Project Management in 2021

nTask

When we talk about software project management in a conversation related to the organizational paradigm, it usually comprises of all of the things from software development, documenting the whole process, testing every single element, and delivering the finished product on time. And while every single project manager working in the industry knows about the importance of software project management and how it helps to develop your project easily and seamlessly, not everyone gets it right all the

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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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Distributed Project Management: Modernize the Way You Work with Enterprise Work Management

Leankor

As processes and technology evolve, so does the meaning of Project Management. Our modern understanding of Project Management has not always been the predominant definition of the role. In today’s shifting landscape, as collaboration becomes better facilitated by technology, the meaning of Project Management continues to change—traditional responsibilities are being distributed from one or few individuals to more people across the business, enabling more flexibility and adaptability.

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Is Design Thinking for Projects?

The Strategic Project Manager

Design thinking has been around for decades, but it has taken root more deeply in recent years. As the transition to a digital economy continues, design thinking plays a role in making and keeping the customer first. It also supports shorter delivery time frames, increases chances of project success, and wards off the effects of inertia. Let’s dive in and explore what design thinking is and the role it plays in both strategy and for managing projects.