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What Is Lean Project Management?

ProjectManager.com

All businesses must make money in order to remain solvent and stay in business. The need for profitability is clear—how you get there is the tricky part. One way is to deliver more value to your customers while creating less waste for the business. This is commonly called lean project management. What Is Lean Project Management? Lean project management focuses on delivering a manufacturing project with more value and less waste.

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Living the Scrum Values in the Age of Remote Working

Scrum.org

The past 18 months have been a whirlwind. Coronavirus, elections, inequality and conflict – a quagmire of micro and macro complexities that impact the feelings and behaviours of Scrum Teams. In my opinion, it would be fair to say that teams who consistently attempt to mitigate environmental and sociological complexities are ones that thrive. It is the purpose of this blog to explore how some Scrum Teams have successfully done this in an age of remote working by focusing on one thing – the Scrum

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SAFe 5 as a Framework for Leveraging and Exploiting the Product Life Cycle

Agilemania

Product life cycle is linked to creativity, invention, and insight – a method, a discipline, and a formal process followed by a company from the initial conception of an idea till the market launch of the physical product. According to Michael McGrath (in Next Generation Product Development), conscious focus on the development process began late in the 19th century, and in the 21st century, the emphasis has shifted to R&D-based development.

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5 Reasons Why You Should Automate Your Marketing Campaigns

Scoro

Regardless of its size, if your business is doing well, you’re operating at full capacity more often than not. This means that your staff’s time will be at a premium. While you can always hire more employees if need be, you should also be aware that there are many different ways to maximize productivity. One surprising way to achieve this is by exploring the possibilities of marketing automation.

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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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TOAH E PROGRAMAS

Henny Portman

Happy to see that the article about TOAH and programs I wrote together with Henk Venema is not only available in English but in Portuguese too. ed100_artigo12-toah-e-programas Download.

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14 Project Milestones Examples

GanttPRO Project Management

The arsenal of project management tools looks incomplete without milestones. This vital tool helps project teams to identify what must be done to achieve their goals and boost their productivity. […]. The post 14 Project Milestones Examples first appeared on GanttPRO.

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5 Reasons Why You Should Automate Your Marketing Campaigns

Scoro

Regardless of its size, if your business is doing well, you’re operating at full capacity more often than not. This means that your staff’s time will be at a premium. While you can always hire more employees if need be, you should also be aware that there are many different ways to maximize productivity. One surprising way to achieve this is by exploring the possibilities of marketing automation.

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14 Project Milestones Examples

GanttPRO Project Management

The arsenal of project management tools looks incomplete without milestones. This vital tool helps project teams to identify what must be done to achieve their goals and boost their productivity. […]. The post 14 Project Milestones Examples first appeared on GanttPRO.

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What Is Thinkific? Overview & Tour Of Features

The Digital Project Manager

The post What Is Thinkific? Overview & Tour Of Features appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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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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4 Team Effectiveness Models To Understand Your Team Better

Trello

As a manager, understanding your team is critical; without a deep awareness of your team, you can’t empower them to do their best work.

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6 Best Digital Bullet Journals and Apps to Use in 2021

nTask

Nowadays everyone is in a hurry. They just want to get things done quickly but sadly, all of us are scribble monkeys whenever it comes to remembering stuff in our personal and professional life. You might be wondering “what is the relation between getting things done and remembering stuff?”. Well, it all comes down to task management and understanding the importance of some sort of organization in your daily activities.

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Creating A Community Of Practice For Scrum Masters

Scrum.org

Let’s be honest – being the only Scrum Master in an organization is not fun! Whenever I would find myself as the only Agile person in an organization, I would feel very alone. Even when I was already experienced in the role. The reason is that change is hard, especially change of ways of working. That’s why being all on your own trying to bring this change can quickly become overwhelmin if you don’t have support around you.

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4 Amazing Tips to Communicating Your Strategic Planning Across the Company

nTask

The Organizational paradigm or any other paradigm for that matter is run by policies. Policies are what make a company successful because if you are doing everything by winging it, then you are never going to fend off the dangers completely, and they will keep coming back in different shapes and sizes. Well, it is obvious that policies are essential for a company to function, but what if these policies are created by the company or the people in charge and no one hears about them?

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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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20 Questions for Project Governance Success (Infographic)

Wrike

Whether you manage projects, programs, portfolios, project management offices (PMOs), or centers of excellence, you want to do all you can to ensure your projects are successful. You need not only good, but great project governance , which encompasses all of the processes, activities, and checks and balances necessary to ensure successful projects, programs, and portfolios.

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Mind Mapping: 5 Hands-on Tips for the Popular Visualization Technique

Inloox

Mind mapping is a well-known allround method for decision-making, creativity and structuring processes. The technique was invented in the 1970s by the british author Tony Buzan, with the aim to achieve an accelerated information processing and storage through this brain-friendly visualization. To this day, mind mapping is considered a popular visualization method in various fields.