Mon.Mar 23, 2020

article thumbnail

Enterprise Collaboration: Strategy & Tools

ProjectManager.com

Collaboration is a call to action that is sounded by many in business. Managers and upper-echelon executives sing its praises. They ask teams to work more collaboratively in order to boost productivity. The irony is that these same people often neglect collaboration within their own circles. If only there was a way to foster collaboration not just at a team level, but at an enterprise level.

article thumbnail

Free Webinar: Dark Days need a Smile

The Lazy Project Manager

Dark days need a smile – so if you have a project community that you think will enjoy some laughs and smiles, and learn the value of fun in project delivery then contact me today to book your free webinar. What is the offer: A 30-minute webinar plus 15-minute Q&A (plus 15 minutes pre-call set up) so 60 minutes in total. Subject is ‘The Project Manager Who Smiled’ – The value of fun in a project (only topic offered).

PMO 302
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

AGILE NXT 3rd edition

Henny Portman

In this third edition of AGILE NXT — a magazine designed by Xebia’s thought leaders and experts to inspire and inform you, offers 15 new insights: The Ultimate Model for Managing Performance in Agile Environments (Daniel Burm). The Agile performance management model consists of five main building blocks: purpose, strategy and goals, whole system alignment, performance models and metrics, coordinated performance management routines and high-performance culture and behavior.

Agile 80
article thumbnail

Our 10 Tips to Have Productive and Engaging Virtual Meetings

Scrum.org

With everything that is happening around the world, teams now face the challenge of doing most of their work virtually. Although some will do this effortlessly, it will take more learning for others. As The Liberators , we collaborate with people from all over the world. Virtual meetings are an essential platform for this. Over the years, we’ve developed and learned a lot of practices that may be beneficial to your own adventures with virtual collaboration. .

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

5 Effective Strategies to Better Manage a Distributed Team

Proofhub

Happiness and satisfaction, be it personally or professionally, are the goals of every employee motivation. When employees are happy, they deliver on their duties and responsibilities irrespective of how difficult the tasks are. They find ways to do it with a smile. This is because their job doesn’t interfere with their personal lives. A distributed team is a group of individuals who work across time, space and organizational boundaries with links strengthened by webs of communication technology

More Trending

article thumbnail

A Beginners Guide to Baselining a Project

MPUG

Throughout my career as a project manager, I have been through many project audits, but the first one is etched in my memory. During that first audit as a PM, I was asked to show the Microsoft Project schedule of my project. When I showed the schedule, the auditor asked me to then show the project baseline. I had a scant idea about project baselines at that time, but I had not saved one for the project.

Defining 111
article thumbnail

Three Concepts to Make You a Smarter Project Manager | Video

Online PM Courses

One of my favorite books is John Brockman's 'This will Make you Smarter'. Here are 3 less well-known concepts that will make you a smarter Project Manager. The post Three Concepts to Make You a Smarter Project Manager | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

87
article thumbnail

Automaton transitions from office- to work-based business in one day

Admation

In view of the Covid-19 pandemic, we recently made a decision to trial a company ‘remote workday’. We were keen to see how we performed as a business in the event that we temporarily closed our office doors to protect our staff’s wellbeing.

Closing 64
article thumbnail

How to Get Stakeholders on Your Side With Campaign Transparency

Wrike

Up to 90% of a project manager’s job revolves around communication. Without effective communication within the project team, conflicts can arise and projects can fail. . Transparency requires maintaining open, two-way communication with stakeholders about the status of a campaign. It also keeps clients and other stakeholders up-to-date on campaign progress. .

article thumbnail

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