Tue.Sep 14, 2021

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4 Reasons Project Management Skills Should be a Priority in Early Education

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This is a guest article by Brantlee Underhill, Managing Director, PMI, North America. The pandemic of 2020 and beyond has revealed a plethora of urgent needs across various aspects of society. One of those needs that cannot be ignored is the importance of school-aged children feeling a sense of independence and ownership when it comes to their education.

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15-Minute Sprint Hypothesis

Scrum.org

Being a Product Owner is tough. Having the accountability for maximising value can sometimes feel like a huge weight is on your shoulders and sometimes - it's hard to know where to begin. As a Scrum Master, you’re accountable for helping to establish empirical product planning – but how could you do that? Optilearn have created a visualisation to help.

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How To Talk About Risk And Have Everyone Listen (with Shashwati Roy)

The Digital Project Manager

The post How To Talk About Risk And Have Everyone Listen (with Shashwati Roy) appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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2022 Online and In-Person Events for Project/Resource Managers and Industry Professionals

Epicflow Blog

Are you thinking of attending an event to gain new knowledge, find out recent trends in your industry, share your experience with colleagues, or network with leading experts in your industry? You are welcome to choose the one to attend next year: in 2022, there’s going to be a number of conferences, gatherings, symposia, and other events both on- and offline.

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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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The Ultimate Resource Forecasting Guide for Project Managers (2021 Updated)

Resource Guru

Resource forecasting in project management is much like a super-effective crystal ball. While it may not tell you when you should buy a lottery ticket, it can save you a lot of stress by estimating the project workload, the resources you need, and the best way to use them. Forecasting before a project kicks off is a way to ensure that you are prepared to go into your project appropriately staffed and are ready to respond when the unexpected occurs–which you can expect every time.

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Agile Asanas: Scrum Sprint Inputs and Outputs 2021 (Sprint I/O)(2)

Management Yogi

This is in continuation of Part – 1, which you can read by going to the below link.Agile Asanas: Scrum Sprint Inputs and Outputs 2021 (Sprint I/O) – Part 1[ This post is part of the Agile Asanas series. To read all posts in Agile Asanas series, use this link. ]I’ll strongly recommend that you read the Part – 1, before proceeding with this post. In the earlier part, we have discussed A brief on.

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How Online Proofing Leads to Easy Approvals

Function Point

Think about your current proofing process. It needs some work, doesn’t it? It’s okay. Though proofing is one of the most important aspects of an agency’s workflow, it’s really hard to do efficiently. Few parts of the marketing agency proofing process are within your control, often you’re waiting for the client to review files before signing off. As we’re all aware, this can slow down the project’s process.

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September 2021 Product Update

ProjectManager.com

ProjectManager is excited to announce our September release. In this release, we’ve added the ability to organize files into folders and subfolders on the Project Files and My Work pages, giving users more options and flexibility over file management than ever before. Folder access can be restricted to specific users, and users more control over the files they upload to the software.

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Hybrid Work - Masterclass

Lynne Cazaly

Hybrid Work: some people are here, some are there, some people are alone, some are together. Onsite or offsite, work better with everyone The new realities of work mean you’ll more likely be having a mix of where people are located, for every meeting, workshop, team and project. The world of work continues to change. Not everyone is working from home, OR working from an office.

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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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What Is a Risk Register & How to Create One

ProjectManager.com

What is a Risk Register? A risk register is a tool in risk management and project management. It is used to identify potential risks in a project or an organization, sometimes to fulfill regulatory compliance but mostly to stay on top of potential issues that can derail intended outcomes. While the risk register is mostly used during the execution of the project, it’s part of your risk management plan, which must be given serious consideration by project managers during the project planning phas

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Trying out some better ways of working

Lynne Cazaly

Today I’m working with an organisation introducing them to some new and better ways of working. Work changes all the time. But sometimes we’re locked into the way we’ve always done things. Hey, how much did we have to change in 2020 when we were forced to work remotely - if we weren’t already! What if we kept that pace of change going and tried doing other things differently?

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How To Create A Supportive Company Culture That Isn’t Just For Looks

Trello

We have a super supportive company culture. We recognize that you have a life outside of work. We’re like a family here.

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What is the vital work?

Lynne Cazaly

The Pareto Principle suggests that 80% of the consequences come from 20% of the causes. ‘The vital few’ - as the 20% part is often referred to - is worth finding. It’s worth finding in our efforts, our ideas, decisions, choices, actions and behaviours. So what would be your ‘vital work’? What’s the stuff that’s really truly worth doing?

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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 The Inadvertent Project Saboteur!

PM Times

Organizational change is a tricky business. There is seemingly endless ambition to progress change initiatives, but sadly practicalities like time and budget always appear to be at a premium. Having competent people on the team who are capable of getting on and getting things done is crucial. Yet even with competent people on the team, […]. The post Beware The Inadvertent Project Saboteur!

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To draw out from others

Lynne Cazaly

How are you at the skill of elicitation? Can you draw information and contributions out of people? Why elicit : because they’ve got something to contribute or expertise we need to tap into. Elicitation isn’t just asking one question and then waiting for the answer. It’s more often about an ongoing conversation, back and forth. It’s getting to the point, finding the key information, uncovering the challenge or problem or insight.

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The Ultimate Project Manager Career Path Guide: How to Become a Senior Project Manager

Planio

Navigating the project manager career path can often feel like looking at a map without any compass directions. Just when you think you’ve got it figured out, it turns out you’ve been holding it upside down the entire time. That’s because few organizations have processes, guidance, and support in place to take you from project manager to whatever comes next (senior project manager, product owner, lead, etc.).

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Is it for information only

Lynne Cazaly

The difference between being invited for consultation and information are so, so different. Yet they’re often substituted. ??‘Please comment on this change’ is different to ‘this change is happening’ ??‘What do you think of this proposed process’ is different to ‘things will change on the 8th of the month’ ??

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

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.

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8 Employee Engagement Strategies To Improve Performance in 2022

Proofhub

Source: [link] Employee engagement has been a hot topic in the current business sector. It is one of the key factors that lead to an organization’s success. However, engaging your employees is easier said than done. It is one of the most difficult and daunting tasks that a leader has to face. And the perfect solution to this is to employ the right employee engagement strategies.

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Lines of thoughts

Lynne Cazaly

What is the stuff you like thinking about? How does it connect to other topics you like thinking about? Is there a line or thread that runs through it all? Some people are straight line thinkers. The connections between their ideas, thoughts and themes are straight lines. Others are zig-zag thinkers. Their ideas and imaginings are here. and there. Still others ‘go with the flow’, open to wherever their thinking takes them.

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Hard work is too hard on us

Lynne Cazaly

Burnout, overwork and the drive to ‘do more’ can be a never ending and dangerous loop. There are clever and ingenious solutions - or hacks - available to us, if only we’d take them up. A hack is a smart short cut, a streamlined process or focused advice to make things easier. So, if you knew of a better and easier way, would you take it?

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Remote work tips

Lynne Cazaly

Enjoy these remote work tips from Dropbox including. : - inclusion - multitasking problems - paying attention - exaggerating your responses and body language.

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3 ‘Must-Dos’ for Addressing Digital Transformation Challenges

Digital transformation projects are crucial, with global spending projected to hit $3.4 trillion by 2026. However, they often fail at a rate of about 70%. To enhance success: Employee Buy-in: Acknowledge concerns and establish a change management team to communicate benefits transparently. Identify Processes and Tools: Form a digital transformation office to establish metrics, workstream lifecycles, data capture, and tool selection.