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DPM Podcast: Contracting The Agile Way (With Alexa Huston)

The Digital Project Manager

Triumph over the contracting madness: Alexa Huston explains how an agile contract can benefit your project—and how to get buy-in from clients. This episode offers welcome advice for anyone struggling with the awkward space between fixed scope and agile projects, discussing the challenges, benefits, and drawbacks of working with different types of agile contracts.

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The Qualities of a Good Project Manager

Prince2

Understandably, we believe that being certified in project management is a sure-fire way to boost your career chances, knowledge of best practice and overall skillset. However, without the right personal skills, a qualification can only take you so far. We’ve pulled together 4 essential attributes you can use to take your PM skills from good to great.

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Three Real Agile Team Challenges and How to Solve Them

LiquidPlanner

Agile means a lot of different things to different project teams. Many teams I meet describe themselves as “Agilish” or use “Scrumerfall”. These teams struggle with Agile practices as business analysts author reams of business requirements only to have a development team write the user stories. Business representatives assume the product owner role but only check in with their team at the sprint review.

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The 25 Most Inspiring Leadership Quotes

ProjectManager.com

If Thomas Edison was right when he said, “Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration,” then consider these leadership quotes the one percent. Because sometimes, you just need that little bit of inspiration to get over those humps as a manager. Quotes from great leaders can help you put things into perspective by providing a different angle that you had not previously considered, which can unlock the leadership magic that you need.

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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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10 Ways Managers Can Connect With Their Employees

Proofhub

Can you imagine the kind of difference it would make if everyone in your team brings the very best of themselves at work? Well, it’s not a no-win situation, right? As a project manager or entrepreneur, you have a lot of roles and responsibilities in your hand. From figuring out each employee’s needs, finding an ideal project management software , planning projects , solving problems, making recommendations , brainstorming ideas , and keeping things on-track, you’ve got plenty of work to do in a

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The Agile Industrial Complex and Imposing Agile Practices w/ Mike Cottmeyer

Leading Agile

This Spring at Agile Australia 2018 , Martin Fowler , Chief Scientist at Thoughtworks and Agile Manifesto co-author gave a Keynote titled “The State of Agile Software in 2018” He recently published the text of his talk here. (If you refer video, you can find it on InfoQ.) His Keynote centered around 3 specific concerns with the current state of Agile, the first of which was The Agile Industrial Complex and imposing process on teams.

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The Best Workflow Management Software for Busy Teams

Teamweek

When you’re in charge of a busy team, workflow management software is like the amazing executive assistant you wish you had. It acts as a conductor between your plan and the actual workflow, keeping everything flowing smoothly. When the workflow is automated, the project unfolds in a logical order while remaining flexible enough to accommodate unexpected opportunities or changes.

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Free Download: Goal Settiing Planner

Stepping Into Project Management

If you are reading this blog, the goal is to ensure your are your best version. This means, here you are encouraged to grow, be yourself and find out what the best in their domains do and how they work. Pick up your vibes from success stories and articles here and none of them really stick for long unless of course you have your own goals pinned up in your mind.

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Digital Transformation & Artificial Intelligence: Is your Organization ready?

Digite

Digital Transformation (DX) is one of the, if not the, most crucial initiatives that many organizations have undertaken or are taking up. The perfect storm of a wide range of technologies such as SaaS, Mobile, Robotics, IoT (Internet of things), Virtual Reality (VR), etc. is playing a crucial role in the Digital Transformation (DX) of companies. However, it is our belief that Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) will be the key technologies that will propel organizations throug

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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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Why architecture should emerge?

Scrum.org

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Leankor + Salesforce: What Makes Us Work

Leankor

Leankor + Salesforce: What Makes Us Work. Leankor is an enterprise work management solution with robust capabilities aimed at driving better business outcomes. While our application can be deployed on its own, using Leankor with Salesforce allows companies to have a single source of truth for all customer sales and project data – making for truly customer-centric project delivery.

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