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Connecting Strategy to Execution w/ Marty Bradley

Leading Agile

Listen to the SoundNotes Podcast on the go! Find and subscribe to SoundNotes on: Apple Podcasts. Google Play. Spotify. Soundcloud. RSS. One of the most critical, and unfortunately, neglected elements of ensuring your teams can deliver the most value possible, is making sure they can see a direct connection between the work they are being asked to execute on and that strategy that work is in service of.

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Top Project Management Hacks in the IT Industry

Celoxis

Thanks to the rapid growth of digital marketing, the complex and indispensable practice of IT project management has gained extreme popularity over the past couple of years. And it’s rising to fame also gave rise to the challenging need for studying this phenomenon more accurately in order to make the best of it.

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SAFe for Architects 5.0 (Scaled Agile Framework): SAFe 5 Architect (ARCH)

Agilemania

A Certified SAFe Architect is a change agent and an effective leader who delivers Agile architecture to qualify/enable the creation of business value. Significant areas of competency comprise of maintaining Agile architecture, applying SAFe principles for the development, leading and supporting solution trains and Agile release trains, enabling an improved flow of value and extending the principles driving continuous flow… The post SAFe for Architects 5.0 (Scaled Agile Framework): SAFe 5 A

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Checklist: How to Prepare Your Business for COVID-19

EasyProjects

A successful business is always one step ahead of its competitors when it comes to R&D or marketing their product/service. Companies are now realizing, though, one major contribution to success they may be lacking: having the proper infrastructure for their team to work remotely. COVID-19 has taught us that no matter how progressive our healthcare system and security measures are, we still face unpredictable circumstances that are beyond our control.

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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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Sitetracker Customer Spotlight: Tower Engineering Professionals

Sitetracker

Towers are essential to power the network that connects the world. The industry relies on competent and capable tower climbers to deploy and maintain technology and the Sitetracker team had the chance to learn from some of the best tower engineers in the game: Tower Engineering Professionals (TEP). On a hot summer day, 10 Sitetracker employees learned the in’s and out’s of tower climbing and eventually made their way up TEP’s training towers at their training facility in Raleigh North Carolina.

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How the Scrum Values could help us cope with COVID-19 outbreak

Scrum.org

As the world faces the current difficult situation of Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, the way we live is changing rapidly. Even if you don't know what the Scrum Framework is all about, or even if software development (and for that matter, any kind of product development) or delivery is not your area of work and have stumbled upon this blogpost while doing your research on COVID-19, I urge you to read on. .

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Little Red Riding Hood Teaches Programming [Comic]

Teamweek

Little Red Riding Hood was a story about not trusting strangers. Programming is about not trusting anything – especially yourself. When talking about fairy tales, most people think of Disney princesses and happy endings. The original fairy tales, however, were dark stories full of violence where things rarely worked out well for the characters.

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7 Simple Hacks to Help You Start Working Remotely in 2020

TimeCamp

With current worldwide health concerns, working remotely is the go-to framework for most of the.

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Webinar Recap: Beyond Macros Revisited: Automating Microsoft Project for Non-Techies

MPUG

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Ira Brown’s Beyond Macros Revisited: Automating Microsoft Project for Non-Techies webinar being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content.

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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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Product Owner vs Project Manager

Scrum.org

What is a Product Owner? What are the differences between a Product Owner and Project Manager? Isn’t a Product Owner some kind of an Agile Project Manager? These are some of the questions we often get from people in our Scrum.org classes. Before we dive into an overview of the differences between a Product Owner and a Project Project Manager, let’s start with the conclusion first, which is: The Product Owner is not an Agile Project Manager.

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Managing Portfolios of Projects with SharePoint and the Microsoft Project Sync

MPUG

Successful project management requires many key ingredients. Careful planning, scheduling, task management, resource allocation, and the right team to implement your project to name a few. You also need a process and a set of tools to manage all of the above. I typically recommend SharePoint as the best collaborative platform with which to manage projects, programs, and/or a portfolio of projects.

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Five Key Skills for Enterprise Project Managers

Wrike

The words “project management” typically inspire visions of overseeing a single project from beginning to end. You’re there to lead the charge as that project moves from inception to reality. It’s true — that’s really the core of project management. However, enterprise project management is a whole different beast. . What exactly is enterprise project management ?

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Is that job really remote? Remote first vs. remote friendly

Teamweek

There are a lot of listicles trying to pin down every single remote company in existence. Employees want in on the newfound freedom, and employers want to appear flexible and hip. It’s the new “unlimited office snacks” or “sports benefits” to list as a perk in the job ad. “Remote is the new unlimited office snacks.”. While I love all the resources shared, there’s an important detail that’s often forgotten.

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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.