ProjectManager.com
MARCH 30, 2020
Information technology (IT) is a broad field that encompasses anything related to computer technology. That can include networking, hardware, software, the internet and the people that work with these things. Teams that work in IT are there to support these technologies and the people who use them. Unfortunately, the promise of technology often falls short of reality, and things malfunction.
Project Risk Coach
MARCH 30, 2020
As a project manager, you will sometimes be asked to make presentations to a board, to a senior leader team, an external vendor, or to your organization. Here are opportunities to help your stakeholders understand your projects. With every presentation, you can try new things and learn to improve your presentations. Improve Your Presentations. 1. Plan your presentations.
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Scrum.org
MARCH 30, 2020
TL; DR: Mastering Zoom — Remote Agile (Part 3). In this third post of the Remote Agile series, we address the tool at the heart of working with a distributed team as a Scrum Master, Agile Coach, or Product Owner: Zoom. While Zoom is an excellent video conference application—particularly for larger groups of twelve or more attendees—by all standards, its killer feature is breakout rooms.
Epicflow Blog
MARCH 30, 2020
Every employer wants their teams to work as productively as possible to bring the best results to their company. But sometimes even good employees work not at their full and it can be easily noticed that their working efficiency has decreased. It can be due to the lack of motivation. Particularly, it can happen under the conditions of remote working, when employees are “isolated” from the team.
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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.
MPUG
MARCH 30, 2020
Learning to Walk Before You Start Running. PMI describes the Project Management Office (PMO) as a strategic driver for organizational excellence. The PMO seeks to enhance the practices of execution management, organizational governance, and strategic change leadership. Because of differences in organizational structures, power and politics, and culture, it would be extremely rare to ever find two PMOs that look the same.
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Proofhub
MARCH 30, 2020
3 Flawless Tips & Tools for Team Leads to Manage Remote Workers The trend of remote work is growing rapidly with each upcoming year. The popularity of this trend has increased by 44% over the past five years, and by 91% over the past ten years. Companies continue to advocate in favor of remote work, as they see more of their workers showing the need for more time out of the office.
Agilemania
MARCH 30, 2020
What is a scrum master? Scrum Master, in simple words, is a role within the Scrum Framework. Scrum framework is an agile approach to build product incrementally and iteratively. Scrum is the most popular framework on the name of agile. Many people get confused between agile and scrum. Scrum is the most popular way to be agile but again, it… The post How to Become a Scrum Master (PSM) – Agilemania appeared first on Agilemania.
Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives
MARCH 30, 2020
Develop an Edge and Expand Your Skill Set. Deciding to get a professional certificate can involve several factors such as, your industry, your interests, your network, and how you would ultimately like to grow in each of these areas. Although certificates demand additional time, energy, and investment, they are likely to pay off by translating to better, more consistent projects, as well as greater visibility and rewards for your work.
Gunther Verheyen
MARCH 30, 2020
Ever since the accidental creation of my book “ Scrum – A Pocket Guide ” in 2013, and its deliberate evolution in 2019, I’ve been receiving inquiries about an audiobook version. So far, I have not been able to make that happen but the 2020 pandemic storm got me into implementing the audio idea in a different form. In subsequent daily broadcasts I have read all chapters from my pocket guide to Scrum.
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
Stepping Into Project Management
MARCH 30, 2020
This article was first published in Projectmanagement.com. Click here to view the article. 56 million. That’s the estimated number of millennials currently working or seeking work—making individuals born between 1980 and 2000 the largest generation in the U.S. labor force, according to the Pew Research Center. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
Techno-PM
MARCH 30, 2020
What do Project Managers Do? There are many roles and responsibilities of the project manager in any given project. If we were to summarise the direct responsibilities of the project manager in one sentence, it would be summarised as thus: to ensure that the people assigned to the project receive the motivation, direction, and requisite information and resources in order to execute their tasks correctly.
The Lazy Project Manager
MARCH 30, 2020
“Book Giveaway: The Project Manager Who Smiled: The Value of Fun in Projects ($17 Value)” on Project Manager News @projectmanagernews. [link].
Wrike
MARCH 30, 2020
Time is money, as the saying goes. Anything businesses can do to reduce or eliminate repetitive, time-consuming tasks and streamline workflows will ultimately improve resource utilization , critical KPIs, and margin growth. So, how can your company leverage data and utilize task automation tools to save more time and boost the bottom line? Read on to find out!
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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.
LiquidPlanner
MARCH 30, 2020
Women make up around a third of the project management population — a figure that hasn’t changed a great deal over the last few years — and they also continue to be largely absent from leadership roles in major projects. As the 2018 Major Project Association gender balance report pointed out, “Whilst companies may be recruiting significant numbers of women at apprentice and graduate level they are not staying in great numbers; they are not getting involved in major projects; and are
Scrum.org
MARCH 30, 2020
This is the first part of a blog series about product definition in Large Scale Scrum. In large product development, teams tend to work on just a part of the real product. The part—a narrow product definition– is often a component or a specific activity in the development process; it is not a product. . A narrow product definition creates all kinds of problems for a product group.
Online PM Courses
MARCH 30, 2020
In a recent video, I talked about being a Smarter Project Manager. Now I look at the three things that people regard as particularly stupid. The post Three Kinds of Stupid: Avoid Project Failure | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.
ActiveCollab
MARCH 30, 2020
Stay at home. Work from home. Remote work. It’s all we ever hear these days. And this is our life now! We hope you’ve been able to get isolated and protect both yourself and those around you. Not everyone has this privilege. We’re aware of that, but we also know that plenty of companies have been forced to suddenly WORK FROM HOME, and change the way they do business.
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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.
Leading Answers
MARCH 30, 2020
Some people say we cannot manage what we cannot measure. I say we cannot solve what we cannot see, or at least visualize somehow. Projects are problem-solving exercises. The entire project is one big problem. We might be building a new product; that's a problem to solve. Or we might be trying to create something well understood but within a challenging amount of time, to a tight budget, and demanding specification.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
MARCH 30, 2020
This article was written by the team at Finale Inventory. If you need to buy things for your project, you know that shipping takes time and money. And delivery costs are often ‘forgotten’ in project budgets. Thankfully, there’s a ton of methods that you can use to save on these costs. Take a look. 1. Invest in a Label Printer. Often on projects we have things that need to be shipped.
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