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How to Develop a Resource Management Plan

Project Risk Coach

How is it that some coaches, leaders, and yes even project managers can take a rag-tag group and shape them into a high-performing team? How do these individuals secure the physical resources? It’s not an accident. It starts with a resource management plan. What is a Resource Management Plan? The resource management plan is "the component of the project management plan that provides guidance on how project resources should be categorized, allocated, managed, and released.

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Why Impartial Testing is a Non-Negotiable

MPUG

Reducing the Risk of Project Shortcomings. Project teams usually do their own (early) Partial Testing, which consists of unit and function testing. Unfortunately when the early phase is completed, the same project team may be tempted to go on and test their own projects’ component, system, and regression. This testing phase; however, should really be completed by a third set of independent eyes.

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People Innovation: A New Vision to Innovate

International Institute for Learning

By Luigi Morsa, Ph.D. . Nowadays, companies are very conscious that if they want to be competitive, they have to innovate. The conquered market shares can rapidly disappear or drastically be reduced. The only way is to keep pace, to be reactive and introduce new solutions, ideally before their competitors. It is worth quoting a sentence of the father of the Open Innovation concept, Henry Chesbrough: “Most innovation fails.

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What's the Right Scrum Training for Me? PSF or PSM?

Scrum.org

Scrum.org?offers different courses to provide you the best learning experience based on your focus of Scrum. The variety of courses makes choosing the best course difficult sometimes. This blog post aims at helping you choose the best course for you. We will look at the differences between the Professional Scrum Foundations (PSF) and the Professional Scrum Master (PSM) course, as these are the two courses we get the most questions about.

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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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5 Simple Steps to Efficient Workforce Planning

GanttPRO Project Management

“Failing to plan is planning to fail.” Benjamin Franklin. Growing a business is no easy feat. Once you’ve done the hard work of getting things up and running, you now […]. The post 5 Simple Steps to Efficient Workforce Planning first appeared on GanttPRO.

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5 Simple Steps to Efficient Workforce Planning

GanttPRO Project Management

GanttPRO is online Gantt chart software that helps get a detailed plan of short and long-term campaigns. Great for team collaboration and resource management. Try GanttPRO for free!

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Stances of the Product Owner

Scrum.org

Creating the Stances of the Product Owner. With the launch of a brand-new Product Owner-Advanced class (including certification) coming up, we want to introduce you to some new and unpublished content: The Stances of the Product Owner. In this article, we’ll share an overview of both the preferred and the misunderstood Stances of the Product Owner.

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5 Simple Steps to Efficient Workforce Planning

GanttPRO Project Management

GanttPRO is online Gantt chart software that helps get a detailed plan of short and long-term campaigns. Great for team collaboration and resource management. Try GanttPRO for free! It’s also […].

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Creative Thinking: How to Improve Your Creative Ability

Project Bliss

Creative thinking is a valuable skill and can help you stand out and produce great results. Read on for a list of proven ways to increase your creativity. I recently wrote about my trip to Vermont to visit my aunt and uncle. While there, I visited their art studios. I lounged in their home full of art. We drove through the countryside. We visited with friends.

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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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Agile Metrics Survey 2020 — Join Your Peers!

Scrum.org

TL; DR: The Agile Metrics Survey 2020. Let’s stop guessing and start crowdsourcing data and information on this critical topic: Who is using what metrics under which context to what success? Participate in the agile metrics survey now. Do you want to get this article in your inbox? You can sign up here and join 24k other subscribers. Support the Survey by Sharing Your Learnings.

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Video: How To Manage Multiple Projects?

The Digital Project Manager

The post Video: How To Manage Multiple Projects? appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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About the PSPO-A Class: Mastering the Product Owner Stances

Scrum.org

This week we witnessed the launch event of the Scrum.org Professional Scrum Product Owner-Advanced class, and we could not be more excited about it. Finally, we are free to tell everyone about the best training we’ve ever created. Oh well, as freshly minted stewards we might be biased, but based on the feedback we’ve received and the research we’ve done, we believe this training will truly help Product Owners and Product Managers in delivering more value and help them manage the complex world of

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Are You on Track with Your Project Management Career? | Video

Online PM Courses

Are you on track with your Project Management career? In this video, I'll show you a model that will help you understand what's going on. The post Are You on Track with Your Project Management Career? | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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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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The Making of the Brand-New PSPO-A Training Class

Scrum.org

Finally, it’s here! An advanced and certified Professional Scrum Product Owner-Advanced class, with PSPO-II certification! After months working in secret, we can now share the journey that Chris Lukassen and I had in creating this advanced Product Owner class. With the development and release of this brand-new class, Chris and I have officially been appointed as PSPO-A course stewards.

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Scavenger Hunt Team Building: Win all the PM document templates you need

Rebel’s Guide to PM

We’re kicking off something new in the Project Management Café Facebook group today! If that sounds mysterious yet fun , then you won’t want to miss The Office Scavenger Hunt that begins today! Do you want to take part in something you can replicate with your own virtual team for teambuilding or getting to know each other? Do you want to be in with a chance to win a copy of my Essential Project Documents template kit?

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[VLOG] How to Evaluate the Scrum Master's Performance

Scrum.org

Hey everyone. How is your week been going? We are entering summer here in Perth. And in today's vlog, I'd like to share with you how to evaluate the Scrum Master's performance. As Scrum is becoming more widely used for product development, more companies are hiring a full-time professional Scrum Masters. Even though it is becoming more common, many companies still need guidance on how to evaluate their Scrum Master performance.

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