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5 Reasons Why Using Spreadsheets is a Horrible Way to Manage Projects

LiquidPlanner

Once in my career, I was lucky enough to work with a true Excel spreadsheet master. Chris could make Excel do anything, except he never used spreadsheets to manage a project. He was a wise man. Since then I’ve come across too many project professionals, teams and organizations who stretch Microsoft Excel into a project management tool, and unsuccessfully so.

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Requirements Traceability Matrix Template to Help You Keep Requirements In Line

Techno-PM

What is Requirement Traceability Matrix? Have you ever been in a situation where you no longer remember who asked for a certain requirement to be added to the project? Or even worse, when a key requirement to the project was missed by the supplier? Don’t be ashamed, we’ve all been there. Fortunately, there are tools you can use to prevent these misfortunes from happening.

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Scrum Roles: The Anatomy of a Scrum Team

ProjectManager.com

Thanks to the evolution of modern business practices, Agile , an iterative approach to planning and guiding the project process, is on the mind of nearly every manager. Agile has migrated from software development to touch just about every corner of the project management universe, and Scrum is one of the most popular frameworks for implementing it.

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Agile Product Development: Engineering Practices

Scrum.org

Every time a discussion is raised on Agile Product Development and more specifically on the software side, people complain about how fast they should be to achieve market goals and, in general, lots of "un"useful upfront planning is taken in for such detail level where most people believe are capable to predict. Fortunately, due to this market need and strong competition, companies are being forced to go to market earlier, deploy its product and get customer feedback earlier than ever.

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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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Discarded Corporate Laptops go Digital Education in Schools – InLoox Donates Notebooks

Inloox

While taking stock of our office supplies here at the InLoox headquarters in Munich a couple of weeks ago, we discovered several laptops we no longer use. As they are still fully functional and it would have been a waste to just throw them away. So we did some research and came across a program that helps find new homes for technical devices which can no longer be used for their original purposes.

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6 Ways Gantt Chart is Changing the Modern World of Work

Proofhub

Gantt charts aren’t something new. Anyone who is even remotely related to the project management process knows or have at least heard about Gantt charts. In simple words, Gantt charts are a staple tool for project management, particularly in planning and scheduling projects. These are basically visual tools that help agile teams to keep track of projects and tasks against time.

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The Best Online Collaboration Tools for Remote Teams

Teamweek

It’s no secret, remote teams rely heavily on online collaboration tools to communicate and get the project done. It may seem daunting to have to deal with all these plug-ins and softwares, but if you pick the right ones, it’s a breeze. Online communication and collaboration have evolved far past emails and text messages. There are plenty of better alternatives to simple emails out there.

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Which Software With Kanban Board Is Worth Using?

TimeCamp

What Is Kanban? Kanban board software is probably the most popular tool used for task.

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The Best Online Collaboration Tools for Remote Teams

Teamweek

It’s no secret, remote teams rely heavily on online collaboration tools to communicate and get the project done. It may seem daunting to have to deal with all these plug-ins and softwares, but if you pick the right ones, it’s a breeze. Online communication and collaboration have evolved far past emails and text messages. There are plenty of better alternatives to simple emails out there.

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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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Create shared understanding with ‘What, So What, Now What’

Scrum.org

Liberating Structures are facilitation techniques that allow you to unleash and involve everyone in a group?—?from extroverted to introverted and from leaders to followers. In this series of posts, we show how Liberating Structures can be used with Scrum. . Our human minds aren’t very accustomed to the complex, technological world we live in. We employ stereotypes to judge others, we generalize based on small observations and we jump to conclusions without considering the facts.

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Quote of the Day

Herding Cats

On long enough timeline the survival rate for everyone drops to zero - narrator in Flight Club.

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