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A Quick Guide to Change Orders for Construction & Other Industries

ProjectManager.com

Changes are part of delivering any project. To keep the project on schedule and within its budget, those changes have to be managed. A change order (or an amendment) is a mechanism that identifies, defines and tracks those changes in a way that is acceptable to all parties. That includes whatever added costs or time required to implement the change.

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Project Communication on a Budget

Rebel’s Guide to PM

How do you manage to communicate about your project with virtually no marketing budget? This was a question someone asked me after my presentation on how to market your project at a PMI PMXPO event. We don’t all have big budgets to produce banners, T-shirts and mugs with logos on to share the messages about our projects. You do? Oh, good for you. Go and read this about the collaboration software you can use on your projects.

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Scrum Guide 101: Scrum in a Nutshell Requires a Scrum Master

Scrum.org

In this episode of Scrum Guide 101 , let's take a look at " Scrum in a Nutshell " as described in Scrum Guide 2020. Here is the text that we examine: In a nutshell, Scrum requires a Scrum Master to foster an environment where: A Product Owner orders the work for a complex problem into a Product Backlog. The Scrum Team turns a selection of the work into an Increment of value during a Sprint.

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JIRA Project Management Insights According to PM Professionals

nTask

If you have heard of Atlassian’s tool: JIRA and happen to be wondering about JIRA project management you aren’t alone. JIRA is a popular tool among many organizations and teams, where many users reportedly wonder how they can use the tool to manage their next projects with ease. The tool is complex and offers a load of functionalities that can become quite confusing.

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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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YDS: How is Risk Management Handled in Scrum?

Scrum.org

On today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: How is risk management handled in Scrum? Today's question asks Todd and Ryan to discuss how the Scrum Framework addresses risk management. They explored a number of ideas including the fact that by using Scrum you get quite a few risk management tools for free! Check out the video to learn more about how frequent feedback and empirical process control amplified by the Scrum Framework can lead to a great product risk management strategy.

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Differences Between a SAFe Scrum Master and a Scrum Master

Agilemania

Do you have any of these questions in your mind? Is a SAFe Scrum Master and Scrum Master having two different accountabilities or the same? Is it two other names in different frameworks? Is a SAFe Scrum Master, a Scrum Master with additional responsibilities for scaling? Let us explore the differences between a SAFe Scrum Master and a Scrum Master ( a Scrum Master within Scrum framework).

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What is a Gemba Walk?

nTask

A Gemba walk is a tool that can have a dramatic impact on a company. When a company is bogged down by different projects , deadlines, and outcomes it is easy to get lost in theoretics and data reports. However, while essential to an organization they sometimes fail to highlight the real issues at hand and what is going on. A Gemba walk is a great way to combat this and to change this abstraction to a real-world problem that can be made more effective.

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What Is an Agile PMO?

Wrike

What is an Agile PMO? Aren’t all PMOs supposed to be Agile and support transformative change? Does my organization need an Agile PMO? Keep reading to discover the benefits of Agile development and the specific set of features and organizational structure an Agile PMO offers that regular PMOs simply don’t. Introducing the Agile PMO. Traditional forms of enterprise project management are constantly evolving as the field matures and expands.

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10 Expert Tips For Starting A New Job And Ensuring First-Week Success

Trello

No one wants to start a new job without knowing what to expect. And yet, that’s exactly what I did for my first job out of college. Having just moved 2,000 miles to a city where I knew no one, I felt disoriented as I stepped into that office. Not wanting to seem naive, I hadn’t asked many questions and showed up on my first day without proper preparation—clueless about dress code or even when I could take my lunch break.

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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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Types of Teams with Their Advantages and Disadvantages

GanttPRO Project Management

Any project manager should know how to properly organize the work process and be a strong team and project leader who will motivate the members. You have a common goal, […]. The post Types of Teams with Their Advantages and Disadvantages first appeared on GanttPRO.

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Drawing the Line Between Work and Private Life [5 Time Management Tips]

ActiveCollab

_Guest post by Ieva Sipola from DeskTime [[link]. One year into the pandemic, most of us have learned that while remote work definitely has its benefits, there’s also no lack of challenges. If during the first months we thought it was all sunshine and roses - getting up later, not having to commute, having more time for family and home chores, working without office distractions, we soon came to face the other side of the coin.

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Types of Teams with Their Advantages and Disadvantages

GanttPRO Project Management

Any project manager should know how to properly organize the work process and be a strong team and project leader who will motivate the members. You have a common goal, […]. The post Types of Teams with Their Advantages and Disadvantages first appeared on GanttPRO.

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Projects are life: Getting to the moon with the right people, process, and technology

Sitetracker

After watching the Apollo 11 mission successfully land astronauts on the moon in 1969, kids around the world wanted to explore the final frontier and work at NASA. Tom Kwiatkowski, a project manager at ImOn Communications made it happen. When I mentioned I saw he worked at NASA he said “That intrigued me and I thought that would be a pretty neat thing to do.

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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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Make a [insert cuss word] Decision!

Bridge the Gap Consulting

Over the weekend I was driving on a single lane city street. To my left was an elevated median that has trees and bushes planted on it. To my right was the street curb. And in front of me, a driver doing 12 miles per hour!! I was trapped. I try to be patient, and admittedly some days it’s a struggle. Today happened to be one of those days. I quickly found my frustration level quickly going from mild irritation to fire coming out of the top of my head in under 10 seconds.

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Employee Selection Process: Six Steps to Improve Your Recruiting Strategy

Teamweek

Ready to post a new job description but worried you won’t draw in the candidate you are really looking for? The employee selection process can take months to work through and has no shortage of paperwork for HR and the hiring team. Even after all the hassle, there are cases where the employee doesn’t end up working out. So how can businesses improve recruitment and hone in on the best candidate for the job?

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Webinar Recap: SIPOC Workshop Facilitation – Part 2: SIPOC Workshop Strategies

MPUG

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Jeff Bongiovani’s session, SIPOC Workshop Facilitation – Part 2, 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. There may be exclusions, such as those steps included in product demonstrations.