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Estimates Are Useful, Just Ditch the Numbers

Scrum.org

TL; DR: Estimates Are Useful, Just Ditch the Numbers. Many people dislike estimating work items as estimates supposedly open the path to the misuse of velocity by the managers, reintroducing Taylorism, micro-management, and excessive reporting through the backdoor. To them, for example, the proponents of #noestimates, estimates conflict with basic ideas of agile product development such as self-management, becoming outcome-focused, or leaving the feature factory for good.

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10 Best Resource Planning Software Tools In 2021

The Digital Project Manager

This resource planning software review covers 10 tools and all the info you need: pros and cons, pricing, features, integrations, and screenshots to help you choose something that fits your needs. The post 10 Best Resource Planning Software Tools In 2021 appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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The Truth About Sprint Zero (and why Ken hates it)

Scrum.org

If you've heard of Scrum, you've likely heard of Sprint zero. This article explains what Sprint zero is and how it is used in Scrum. I'll also explain why the phrase 'Sprint zero' annoys Ken Schwaber, one of the co-creators of Scrum. What is Sprint Zero? The truth? Sprint zero is a term commonly used to describe pre-sprint activities. It is an ad-hoc activity that has no formal guidance or content.

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The 8 Levers of Change

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In their book, Leading Successful Change: 8 Keys to Making Change Work , Gregory P. Shea and Cassie A. Solomon talk about the 8 things that you should be targeting if you want the change management effort on your project to stick. They say that if your project isn’t addressing at least 4 of these elements, then the change is doomed to fail. People will slip back into their old ways.

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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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When there’s no space for more to dos

Lynne Cazaly

It feels rough when your to do list gets a few more things added to it. Particularly when nothing has been ticked off or deleted from it. It can feel like there’s just no space. So how do tasks end up on your list? - Boundaries Do you let or allow tasks to be added? - Requests Are they added once you’ve heard about them and accepted a task?

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Leading change. remotely

Lynne Cazaly

For leaders in these times of remote and hybrid work, change still has to happen. Guiding, leading and inspiring change can require some new and different techniques. There’s still a requirement to have: ? Engagement for change and ? Capability for change. This week I’m working with a leadership team to prepare them to better engage their team for change.

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Could Your Survive on Mars? Problem-Solving | Video

Online PM Courses

Could you survive on Mars? This is, to a large extent, a Project Management question. nd the answer is about your attitude to problem-solving. The post Could Your Survive on Mars? Problem-Solving | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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5 ways to build hybrid team trust

Lynne Cazaly

With some people in the office, some working from home, some working from hubs or other locations, the leadership juggle of a hybrid team is real. It’s bringing plenty of new challenges for leaders, and many of them aren’t obvious or visible challenges. Take psychological safety and trust. ?? How do you know you have it with your hybrid team?

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Understanding and Using Resource Graph View in MS Project

MPUG

The Microsoft Project software tool comes with a number of view options, which, at a high level, can be thought of as Task Views and Resource Views. While views such as Gantt Chart, Team Planner, Resource or Task Sheet, Resource or Task Form, Resource or Task Usage are well used by project managers, many management practitioners often overlook the Resource Graph view or use it less frequently.

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Strategic Finance Essentials: A Project Manager’s Guide to Financial Impact

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 expendi

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Career killers to beware of

Lynne Cazaly

Balance, solution thinking, self-care. These kinds of things now fit into the category of helping your career. not killing it. Check out this Forbes article and see how you might be killing it. And not in a good way! Self doubt. Willing to make mistakes. Risk taking. Empathy and biases. They’re here too. Read on.

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Close by and included. Far away and left out.

Lynne Cazaly

Would you know it if you were doing it : excluding or forgetting someone because they’re not right here? You’d more likely notice it if you were on the receiving end of being excluded, left out or forgotten. As hybrid work has some of us here, some of us there and some of us anywhere, the danger of the unconscious ‘proximity bias’ is also here, there and anywhere!

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The complex culture of the meeting

Lynne Cazaly

They’re groaned at, suffered through and widely reported to be up to as much as 50% a waste of our time. Meetings. Every meeting you’re in is a complex construction and reflection of the culture in which it exists. Online or not, there are elements and behaviours in meetings that - include and exclude people - accelerate and slow the pace of progress - make the workplace more or less safe - generate and ideate. or stagnate and eliminate.

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A mindset for success or burnout

Lynne Cazaly

The deep beliefs we hold about what we’re doing and why, may not be as noble or effective as we think. After all, why do we work longer hours? Why aspire for higher standards? Here’s a quick check of 9 mindsets ( this article says ‘lies’) we may believe, unconsciously, that don’t serve us well. 1. If you stop what you’re doing you’ll be letting everyone down 2.

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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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Beware of zombie overload

Lynne Cazaly

You know those ‘big days’: back-to-back meetings, little time for a break, lunch disappears and zero quiet time to finish things before the day is done! Sleep. Wake. Do it again tomorrow. A reason for zombie-like feelings is overload. And not just of our diary or schedule, but of our minds too. Were these brains of ours ever designed for this huge quantity of information we insist on shoving in there?

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