LiquidPlanner
APRIL 2, 2019
Dear Elizabeth: My project team and the exec leadership team are not on the same page. How do you motivate the team when it thinks it should stop but the senior stakeholders direct us to keep going? This situation has a major disconnect in it. Your team thinks the project should be stopped, but the people in power, the decisionmakers, are instructing you to keep going on the project.
ProjectManager.com
APRIL 2, 2019
Anyone who tells you, with 100% certainty, what 2019 will look like at the start of the year is bonkers. The best we can do is to recognize that the seed of each new year was planted in the previous year. If you want to know what your priorities should be for 2019, look at the way your world was at the end of 2018 and at the start of this year. The one trend that seems to be 100 percent reliable coming into 2019 is disruption.
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Scrum.org
APRIL 2, 2019
Through my professional experience, while serving my customers, working with Scrum Teams and training people in Professional Scrum, I have observed that some Scrum Masters only work to serve the Development Team and the Product Owner. According to the Scrum Guide, Scrum Master serves on three levels: 1. Product Owner. 2. Development Team. 3.
ProjectManager.com
APRIL 2, 2019
Are you the type to dwell on the bad stuff and not acknowledge what’s going well? You might have negativity bias and Jennifer Bridges, PMP, says it can be poison to your project. Here’s a screenshot of the whiteboard for your reference. In Review – How Negativity Bias Is Affecting Your Project Management. If you’ve not heard of negativity bias, Jennifer defined it as a psychology term meaning the phenomena by which humans give more psychological weight to bad experiences than good ones.
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Scrum.org
APRIL 2, 2019
Production View (Build Fast). Many large legacy organizations are moving toward agile delivery methods in hopes of releasing faster to market. Based on my experiences, they look at it solely from a production view of getting software released faster and more often. This view has them believing this will result in getting more features released. These organizations are still spending a lot of time doing upfront planning to define the business case, then lock down scope and budget before building
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Scrum.org
APRIL 2, 2019
Ask any Agile practitioner these days what Agile values are and he/she, most likely, will recite you some lines from the Manifesto for Agile Software Development. Ask them the final line of the said Manifesto and the result might be quite different, but I digress right in the first paragraph. Ask a Scrum practitioner and they'll give you 3-4, maybe 5, if he’s real good, values Scrum holds dear.
ProjectManager.com
APRIL 2, 2019
Big data is big in business, but when does too much analysis lead to paralysis and not progress? Jennifer Bridges, PMP, shows you the red flags that appear at the onset of analysis paralysis. Here’s a screenshot of the whiteboard for your reference. In Review – How to Save Your Project from Analysis Paralysis. Jennifer shared the buzzword of the day, “data,” especially the term “big data.” It’s an obsession for many companies who feel they can mine that information to bet
Proofhub
APRIL 2, 2019
7 Effective Tools For Managing A Virtual Team The era of digital entrepreneurs is on the rise and with that comes the need of having virtual teams. Now, finding remote employees and getting them on board with a project is easy. But when it comes to managing a workforce spread across different countries and time zones?—?the equation gets a little more complicated.
ProjectManager.com
APRIL 2, 2019
You’ve put in the time, and you’ve done the work. Are you ready for that job promotion? Jennifer Bridges, PMP, shows you what to do to earn it. Here’s a screenshot of the whiteboard for your reference. In Review – 10 Ways to Earn a Job Promotion. Jennifer asked, “How can you stand apart from your peers?” Regardless of the size of the company or team in which you work, there will come a time in which you want to move up the corporate ladder.
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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
Leading Agile
APRIL 2, 2019
Whitepaper Lead a Structured and Disciplined Agile Transformation Download Now. In order to achieve business Agility, Agile has to be applied in a certain context. You have to be able to form the right kinds of teams, build the right kinds of backlogs, and produce working, tested increments of product. The problem is that this context doesn’t exist in larger, more complex enterprises.
ProjectManager.com
APRIL 2, 2019
Too much red tape can hold back a team member, a project, even a whole organization. If you’re frustrated by the so-called red tape in your organization and are looking for ways to clear the path to efficient productivity, Jennifer Bridges, PMP, has got the answers. Here’s a screenshot of the whiteboard for your reference. In Review – How to Eliminate Red Tape in an Organization.
Leading Agile
APRIL 2, 2019
Whitepaper Lead a Structured and Disciplined Agile Transformation Download Now. In order to achieve business Agility, Agile has to be applied in a certain context. You have to be able to form the right kinds of teams, build the right kinds of backlogs, and produce working, tested increments of product. The problem is that this context doesn’t exist in larger, more complex enterprises.
ProjectManager.com
APRIL 2, 2019
Maybe you’ve micromanaged, but have you ever been micromanaged? It’s not that fun. Jennifer Bridges, PMP, shows you what to do. Here’s a screenshot of the whiteboard for your reference. In Review – How to Deal with Micromanagers. Jennifer said you can experience micromanagement from any number of sources. Jennifer went on to describe some of the reasons that might be motivating their micromanaging: CEOs are worried about competitive threats and market demands.
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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.
Musings on Project Management
APRIL 2, 2019
Want to be a leader? Think you are a leader? Admire someone who is a leader? These three attributes better be in place, and obvious: Be able to recruit the right people. Recognize talent; get the talent fitted to the task, considering not only experience, but temperament and judgment; toughness and stress tolerance. Oh! if you make a boo-boo here, have the strength to relieve the untalented.
ProjectManager.com
APRIL 2, 2019
Business ethics might sound like an oxymoron, but it should be a cornerstone of every industry. Jennifer Bridges, PMP, explains what it is and why it matters to managers, their projects and the organizations they serve. Here’s a screenshot of the whiteboard for your reference. In Review – Business Ethics 101 – What Is It & Why Does it Matter? Ethics are always important, whether you’re a business or not.
The Digital Project Manager
APRIL 2, 2019
Burnout at work is common—if you’re feeling exhausted, isolated, or simply indifferent, get support! Start here with this podcast episode showing how to identify and recover from burnout. The post DPM Podcast: Burn Baby Burn (With Lynn Winter) appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.
Workamajig
APRIL 2, 2019
Project integration management can make running complex projects easier. Read on to learn how this strategy can transform the way you run projects. Being a project manager isn’t easy. There are countless tasks to worry about, and in most cases, just as many people to work with. From initiating and planning the project to executing and controlling it, a project manager has a lot to think about and get done.
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You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.
Herding Cats
APRIL 2, 2019
I'm starting a new engagement next week at the same place I'm working now. It's for the Program Execution Officer for nearly a Billion $ of construction and operations. My colleague, Pat Barker, just released a collection of PMO guides that we'll pout use here and on other programs. Click through the image below to find them.
Leantime - Project Management
APRIL 2, 2019
Having spent a significant amount of my career delivering complex projects, driving innovation and building teams I find that large companies continue to struggle to quickly innovate and get the most productivity out of their teams. Why is there a company like Netflix when there is HBO or MongoDB and Cassandra when Oracle exists? What is even more puzzling, why couldn’t Yahoo or AOL create Facebook with Yahoo 360 or the News Corporation with its acquisition of MySpace, instead both losing out to
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