Fri.Nov 06, 2020

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Top 5 Cognitive Ability Assessment Tools

Teamweek

Read on for our top 5 picks for cognitive ability assessment tools and how to pick the right one for your hiring needs. What is cognitive ability testing? When you test a candidate’s cognitive ability, you’re testing a wide array of character traits. You test their comprehension, the ability to understand and follow instructions, their ability to effectively communicate with their manager, and much more.

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Empirismo en Scrum

Scrum.org

Scrum se basa en un proceso empírico. El empirismo se basa en tomar decisiones basados en la información concreta obtenida de la observación que muestra el progreso del desarrollo de producto, los cambios en el mercado y los comentarios de los cliente. El empirismo se basa en la experimentación para validar las hipótesis. Lo contrario al empirismo es usar planes predictivos largos, información ambigua, suposiciones y hechos no concretos.

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7 Essential Books on Agile Project Management Worth Reading in 2021

GanttPRO Project Management

Agile development has moved far from the traditional view of management and planning. This is a relatively new method that has become a salvation for a huge number of projects […].

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The Ultimate Guide To the Change Management Process

Wrike

According to an MIT study on digital transformation , 63% of people said the pace of technology change in their organization is too slow due to a “lack of urgency” and poor communication regarding the strategic benefits of new tools. This is why a poor change management process can lead to failure. Over the last 40 years, studies have shown there is a 60 to 70% failure rate for organizational change projects.

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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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7 Essential Books on Agile Project Management Worth Reading in 2021

GanttPRO Project Management

Agile development has moved far from the traditional view of management and planning. This is a relatively new method that has become a salvation for a huge number of projects […]. The post 7 Essential Books on Agile Project Management Worth Reading in 2021 first appeared on GanttPRO.

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7 Essential Books on Agile Project Management Worth Reading in 2021

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What Should Inform the Digital Transformation Strategy

PM Times

Written by: Paul Oppong Digital transformation is high on the agenda of many organisations, but unfortunately, a very high number of these transformations are believed to fail.

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Intelligent Conflict Management - How to Deal with Conflict in Project Teams webinar - Author: Robert Allen

APM

Martin Gosden, SWWE Branch Co-Chair introduced tonight’s Webinar, 4 November 2020. APM SWWE Branch was delighted to hold its second webinar event this year. Our speaker, Lucy Finney MBE, Head of Leadership Development at Underscore Group, was originally due to speak at an event on 16 June, but of course that had to be postponed due to the current circumstances.

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When you’re stuck for ideas

Lynne Cazaly

It’s tough running on the idea wheel, waiting, searching for ideas. We often need ideas for: - projects - business or branding - writing and blogging - product naming - workshops and meeting activities - presentations and pitches - problem solving. Every day we need to draw on our creative abilities to add our opinion, get something started (or finished) or make something happen.

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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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A little more creativity please

Lynne Cazaly

You can see I’m a fan of regularly applying the skills of creativity: in thinking, writing and idea generation. The World Economic Forum said the top 3 skills we’d need by 2020 would be - Complex Problem Solving - Critical Thinking - Creativity. In their updated skills list for 2025, creativity features in half of the top 10 skills, in one form or another.

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Sitting with the problem longer

Lynne Cazaly

The pressure of meetings, deadlines and things to do can mean we accept the first idea. But try and stay with the problem longer. Really pick it apart, with other minds and perspectives. It might be easier to fall in behind the first or dominant voice with a solution, rather than offering up something else. If you’re leading the meeting, it’s vital that additional contributions are invited at solution time and that those suggestions are welcomed when they’re given.

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What’s on your radar

Lynne Cazaly

What’s up ahead? Can you see it? We check the weather to see what the forecast will be like: what’s predicted and how we might need to be prepared for it, to respond and adapt to what’s coming. I love the rain radar. It’s always changing. As showers or storms drift frame by frame, they change in nature and shape. The way they look now, where they are now. it can change.

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Managing the overload

Lynne Cazaly

It’s not just information. It’s emotions and overwhelm too. It’s workload, decisions, news, and everything that changes. Our ability to make sense of what’s going on is often in overdrive as we juggle complex issues and our reactions to them. So there is the information. And there is our reaction to it. The information can be overwhelming.

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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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6 ways we’re overloaded

Lynne Cazaly

We know what overloads and overwhelms us: information, overwork, deadlines, social issues, politics, uncertainty. While we need to keep a handle on managing our own overload, it’s important to consider others and how we might be overloading them.accidentally or unknowingly. Here’s how we overload: 1. Meetings are too long 2. Focusing on the work for too long 3.

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