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A Case For The Vital, But Often Avoided, Sprint Retrospective Meeting

Trello

I want to talk to you about sprint retrospectives, but first I have to tell you a story about self-assessment.

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Project Manager or Project Leader? What’s the Difference?

Online PM Courses

Are you a Project Manager or a Project Leader? And how would you be able to tell the difference? This is an important question that can easily get bogged down in academic niceties and philosophic distinctions. But the fact is that we all kind of recognize the difference when we experience it. One way I like to think of the difference between Project Management and Project Leadership is that: Project Management gets things done.

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Top 5 Project Management Certifications To Become A Great Project Manager!

The Lazy Project Manager

Are you working as a project manager? You may want to improve your prospect. There are many certification courses for project manager you should do. We here bring the great options in project management certification. Here you can know the various options available in certification and how to continue in your post. You as a project manager can increase your skill and prospects of job sharp with certifications.

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How to Make a Change Management Plan

ProjectManager.com

A change management plan can be the difference between project success and failure. Jennifer Bridges, PMP, shows you how to create the right change management plan for your project. Here’s a screenshot of the whiteboard for your reference! In Review – How to Make a Change Management Plan. Jennifer started by saying how important a change management plan is for a successful project.

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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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Best Agile Books for Project Managers

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In this video I share my top picks for books on Agile, especially for those of you new to Agile or considering moving your organisation to Agile ways of working. These are my current favourite books on agile for project managers. Under the video you’ll see details of each of the books mentioned. Don’t Spook the Herd by Dan Milller. A practitioner guide to Agile.

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Lean Thinking and the Parable of the Underbrush

Leading Agile

Years ago we lived in Ohio. In our front yard there was a circular bed with a small tree in the center, surrounded by thick shrubbery. The shrubs throve, but the tree looked as if it was barely alive. We called in a tree specialist and he told us the bad news: The tree was dying and we should have it removed. We couldn’t afford to do anything about the tree just then, but we thought the circular bed would look a lot better if the tree were surrounded by flowers rather than by plain bushes.

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How to Create an Excel Timeline Template

Wrike

Visual timelines are essential tools for planning, tracking, and managing a project. You can map out dependencies and milestones to get an accurate overview of progress and deadlines. But while using these Gantt chart -style timelines for project management is fairly easy, creating one in Excel can be tricky. We’ll walk you through the process of how to make a timeline in Excel and share a project schedule template you can reuse for future work.

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This is How I work- Dhaval Panchal (Executive and Agile Coach)

Stepping Into Project Management

Experienced Executive Agile Coach and Organization Design consultant - Dhaval Panchal is founder of Evolve Agility, a Texas based coaching and training consultancy. Dhaval is ScrumAlliance Certified Enterprise Coach® (CEC), Certified Scrum Trainer® (CST), Certified Agile Leadership-Educator (CAL-E). Dhaval Panchal is actively involved in local Houston Agile community.

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Quote of the Day

Herding Cats

Logic will never change emotion or perception - Edward de Bono. I belong to a community of Debunker’s of bad project management and software development processes, dedicated to exposing the myths and misconceptions of good project management and software development methods that can and should take place when spending other people’s money to produce Value from the project—advocating for proven evidence-based management methods.

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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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Event Planning in a 2×2 Framework

Appfluence

Event Planning is Pure Multi-tasking. Anyone who has ever tried to plan a small party can imagine, professional event planning is no joke! There are so many different things to think about days, weeks and even months ahead of schedule. Event though the event is over, the event planners’s work is not. They must wrap everything up, account for missing things, invoice, and make sure that the client is happy enough to write a stellar review!

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How To Prepare For PMP Exam If Your Application Is Rejected?

PM by PM

What will happen if your PMP application is Rejected? What should you keep in mind to pass the PMI audit? How should you prepare for PMP exam based on PMBOK Guide 6th edition if you have taken a PMBOK Guide 5th edition course? Let us answer these questions and a few more by looking at […]. The post How To Prepare For PMP Exam If Your Application Is Rejected?

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Essential Tools for Digital Manufacturing

Appfluence

Digital Manufacturing Requires Innovation, Starting With the Essentials. As with any important project, executive alignment is key for successful digital manufacturing transformation. However, old-fashioned communication and project management methods hold manufacturers back. Transformed Collaboration, The First Step Towards Digital Manufacturing Success.

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Agile HR

Scrum.org

We'd better start by saying "human" is not a "resource". Simply considering specialists in today's business life who require high concentration, motivation and creativity as a "resource" is just like seeing these persons as "battery like people" who are identical to each other and who can fully replace each other as in the Matrix movie. Namely, in a little exaggerated statement, we can't form a team by saying "give me 2 digital marketers, 1 digital salesperson, and 2 software developers from the

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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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What’s The Best Alternative to Discord?

TimeCamp

Why Use Alternative to Discord? Some people decide to use Discord because of its fancy design.

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How To Prepare For Exam If Your PMP Application Is Rejected?

PM by PM

What will happen if your PMP application is Rejected? What should you keep in mind to pass the PMI audit? How should you prepare for PMP exam based on PMBOK Guide 6th edition if you have taken a PMBOK Guide 5th edition course? Let us answer these questions and a few more by looking at […]. The post How To Prepare For Exam If Your PMP Application Is Rejected?

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