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Project Management Challenge: Teams Are Using Different Methodologies

LiquidPlanner

Project teams love their methodologies. And for good reason. If you launch a project without structure, you’re setting yourself and the team up for failure. Teams typically choose a planning methodology that best fits the nature of their work; they then use that methodology to structure their work. For example, manufacturing typically goes with a Waterfall method; dev teams like Agile.

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Institutional Knowledge Fuels Project Success

Redbooth

Gmail’s 2018 redesign is a large project that, for the most part, has been a resounding success. Positive press and happy users have welcomed the new UI with open arms. Security and task management features make it more appealing to enterprise customers, ensuring steady revenue growth. Source: Google. Finding ways to make meaningful changes to a product with a billion users and a sprawling product team aren’t easy; without institutional knowledge, it would be impossible.

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Shift from Annual to Continuous Planning to Enable Agility [Webinar]

Planview

See if this sounds familiar: your organization’s strategic plan is constructed at the executive level, broken down into an annual plan that is led by finance, then operationalized by the PMO and other groups in the organization. Yet, as soon as you begin to figure out exactly how the plan is to be executed, change happens. I could say to always “expect the unexpected,” but change is inevitable—it’s expected.

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Institutional Knowledge Fuels Project Success

Redbooth

Gmail’s 2018 redesign is a large project that, for the most part, has been a resounding success. Positive press and happy users have welcomed the new UI with open arms. Security and task management features make it more appealing to enterprise customers, ensuring steady revenue growth. Source: Google. Finding ways to make meaningful changes to a product with a billion users and a sprawling product team aren’t easy; without institutional knowledge, it would be impossible.

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Toward a Unified Project Management Understanding

The objective of this research is to dispel misunderstandings about crucial project management terms and their definitions. It aims to accurately place these terms and facilitate a comprehensive global understanding of their meanings.

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[Live] Agile Transformation – Live from Agile Midwest

Leading Agile

? ? ? ?. Many organizations are struggling to apply the concepts of Agile because they view Agile as a new way of doing the same old thing. They believe that if the roles, ceremonies, and artifacts of Scrum are in place, they’ll reap the benefits of having become Agile. However, in our experience, leading a large-scale Agile Transformation isn’t about simply adopting a new set of attitudes, processes, and behaviors at the team level—it’s about building enabling structures, aligning the flow of w

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Agile 2018 Interviews: Day One

Leading Agile

This year, at Agile 2018, we had a ton of thought leaders from the Agile community stop by the set of SoundNotes to talk about the state of the industry, give us sneak previews of their speaker sessions, and to promote their latest projects/endeavors. As always, it was a blast catching up with everyone and we’re already looking forward to next year.

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How Much Will You Save With a Teamweek Annual Plan?

Teamweek

Whether you’ve been a monthly Teamweek user for a while or you’re brand new around here, it’s time to consider signing up for Teamweek’s annual plan. Both monthly and annual users get access to all of our features, including: Team Timelines: Our timeline is a gantt chart alternative that helps you organize your team and projects. Make plans fast and change them even faster.

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Are You a Startup? Here Are Best Free Tools You Should Use!

TimeCamp

Free Tools for Startups – a Must-hev You Must Have! Despite the fact that almost.

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How Much Will You Save With a Teamweek Annual Plan?

Teamweek

Whether you’ve been a monthly Teamweek user for a while or you’re brand new around here, it’s time to consider signing up for Teamweek’s annual plan. Both monthly and annual users get access to all of our features, including: Team Timelines: Our timeline is a gantt chart alternative that helps you organize your team and projects. Make plans fast and change them even faster.

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Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data

Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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How to Stand Up for Yourself at Work

ProjectManager.com

A work place should provide a healthy, collaborative environment where everyone works together towards a greater good. If you’re being disrespected, disregarded or generally abused at your work, you need to stand up for yourself. Not only for yourself, but for the next person who might be treated unjustly. Of course, that’s easier said than done.

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Get ahead by leaving behind.

Musings on Project Management

Nick Tasler has a posting on the HBR Blog Network with an intriguing title: "To Move Ahead You Have to Know What to Leave Behind" His theme is summed up this way in an early paragraph: The Latin root of the word "decide" is caidere which means "to kill or to cut." (Think homicide, suicide, genocide.

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The Art of Scheduling: What it can mean for you

Stepping Into Project Management

Schedules have always been part of our life, since the day we started school. And over the years things have only become more serious. If school wasn’t enough, we took up dance lessons and basketball practice sessions over weekends and felt occupied and busy and we were all okay with it because thats how everyone’s schedule look liked. Full….gasping for air.

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Quote of the Day

Herding Cats

To flourish and grow in a many-sided, uncertain and ever-changing world that surrounds is, suggests that we have to make intuitive within ourselves those many practices we need to meet the exigencies of that world - from The Discourse of Winning and Losing , John R. Boyd, Air University Press, Curtis E. LeMay Center for Doctrine Development and Education, Maxwell AFB, Alabama, March 2018.

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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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Case Study: How Molecular Devices Uses Leankor to Deliver on Complex Manufacturing Projects

Leankor

Case Study: How Molecular Devices Uses Leankor to Deliver on Complex Manufacturing Projects. Industrial manufacturers know that roadblocks can come up during the delivery of a complex project. These roadblocks and the rate at which they come up can increase exponentially when the projects involve hundreds of people spread across dozens of locations.