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5 Project Management Trends To Watch In 2020

TrustRadius Project Management

10 years ago the project management industry had fewer methodologies, smaller teams and projects, and a ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach to managing projects across organizations. The discipline has evolved quite a bit since then. Today, there are traditional and agile project management methodologies aplenty, more methodological flexibility, and different software solutions for specific use cases.

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Uncertainty is a certainty

Musings on Project Management

"Uncertainty is an essential and nonnegotiable part of a forecast. sometimes an honest and accurate expression of the uncertainty is what has the potential to save [big things]. However, there is another reason to quantify the uncertainty carefully and explicitly. It is essential to scientific progress, especially under Bayes’s theorem." "The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many.

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People Aren’t Resources! Or Are They?

Epicflow Blog

There are the following types of resources in project management: Services. Equipment. Materials. Money. Space. Time . Labor. If the first 6 above-mentioned kinds of resources are clear and are beyond exception, but the last one is quite controversial. Is it appropriate to consider people resources in the era of a hostile work environment? Let’s try to grasp the idea of ‘human resources’ in a company and make sense of it. .

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Upskill of the Workforce

Scrum.org

. A topic at the World Economic Forum (WEF) at Davos this year was the question "How do we upskill a billion people by 2030?". Product Owners and Scrum Masters are specifically named on the WEF list of Jobs of Tomorrow. All the other skills that Development Teams need in the digital age, especially software development, data science and cloud computing, needs upskilling of not only the workforce, but also our education systems and the cultural circumstances. . .

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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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PERT Charts vs. Gantt Charts — What Are the Differences?

Wrike

As a project manager, you need the right tools in your bag to help you organize project plans, streamline tasks, and maximize efficiencies for on-time and on-budget delivery. Gantt charts and PERT charts both meet those criteria. . In this post, we’re going to dig deeper into what makes these two tools so useful for PMs, when each chart is best utilized, and how you can use them both to plan and monitor your projects for the most successful outcomes possible.

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Disciplined Agile: To Agility and Beyond

Velociteach

Disciplined Agile (DA) has the potential to become a leading agile framework because it creates harmony in this congested thought-space. DA recognizes practices from across the spectrum and offers a pragmatic and context-driven approach to agility. Currently, DA is not widely used. In the State of Agile Report, it does not make the list of […] The post Disciplined Agile: To Agility and Beyond appeared first on PMP Certification Exam Prep & Training - Velociteach.

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[VLOG] What Are The Differences Between Project Manager And Product Owner

Scrum.org

Hello awesome people. I hope you had a great week. After my vlog on Project Manager versus Scrum Master , one of the viewer asked me to do a comparison between Project Manager and Product Owner also. The question on the differences between Project Manager versus Product Owner is not raised often in my Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO) class, but when it does, I flash up an exercise and a group discussion.

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Save Your Time & Money With Employee Time Clock Calculator

TimeCamp

It may seem that calculating employee hours is no big deal. But for freelancers or.

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Save Your Time & Money With Employee Time Clock Calculator

TimeCamp

It may seem that calculating employee hours is no big deal. But for freelancers or.

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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