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What Is a Kanban Board? Definition & Examples

ProjectManager.com

A kanban board is a visual workflow tool, where kanban cards represent tasks in a project or production cycle. Columns on the kanban board represent where that task is in the process. It helps production move more efficiently through all its phases by making sure that there is always just enough resources on hand. In lean manufacturing, kanban helps save inventory space and overcapacity.

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Using velocity as a management instrument? Don't do it!

Scrum.org

In organizations in which agile transitions take place, the ancient English proverb Blood is thicker than water is frequently appropriate. It is decided to adopt agile working, there is talk of Scrum, self-organizing teams, Sprints, standing meetings, sticky notes on the wall, etc. etc. Everybody has to change with the times, the whole organization has to change.

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10 Easy Ways to Get PDUs & Stay PMI Certified

ProjectManager.com

A project manager is a professional. And, like any professional, if you take your profession, your career and yourself seriously, you’ll undertake Continuing Professional Development (CPD). What is a PDU? If you hold a qualification from the Project Management Institute (PMI) like PMP (Project Management Professional) or PMI-ACP (PMI Agile Certified Professional), CPD is mandatory.

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Scrum Master Fatigue

Scrum.org

While teaching and consulting, I’ve had many existing Scrum Masters pull me aside looking tired, frustrated, and worn out. They seek me out looking for answers to difficult situations they are facing in the organizations where they work. They are running into walls trying to change archaic release processes, raising the urgency to management to empower product owners, getting management to be an ally not an enemy, or tackling any of the difficult organizational impediments that are often brought

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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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How centralized project management software can improve your agency

Function Point

In today’s rapidly evolving digital world, many agencies seek technology-based solutions that help them control the chaos, improve their project management and deliver outcomes more efficiently for clients. In fact, HubSpot’s 2018 Agency Growth Report shows 40 per cent of agencies rank project management software as the number one tool needed to help them run their business better.

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How centralized project management software can improve your agency

Function Point

In today’s rapidly evolving digital world, many agencies seek technology-based solutions that help them control the chaos, improve their project management and deliver outcomes more efficiently for clients. In fact, HubSpot’s 2018 Agency Growth Report shows 40 per cent of agencies rank project management software as the number one tool needed to help them run their business better.

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Workload - Makes Every Hour Count

ActiveCollab

Nowadays it’s common to use a different app for each specific need. We use calendars for scheduling, chat platforms and emails for communication, spreadsheets for everything else. Even when we finally have it all in order, one person gets sick or a client changes the due date and we’re back to square one. Not to mention how hard it is to keep up and make sure everyone’s briefed.

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Change Management Plan Template - Sample and Example

Techno-PM

Projects are ALWAYS about Change Projects are a vehicle for change. We don’t do projects because we have nothing else to do but because we want to take our organizations to a better to-be desired state. In fact, it is not in vain that projects are sometimes also known as change initiatives! Download This Template However, bringing in change without accounting for all the implications in the organization and without understanding the readiness and capacity of the organization for that change can

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Making The Changes Necessary To Become A Brilliant Project Manager

LiquidPlanner

The role of a project manager is both a coveted and feared position. On the one hand, it’s easy to see that being a project manager gives you an excellent opportunity to be at the center of things and to be directly responsible for a project coming to life. The fear is somewhat along the same line: you are directly accountable. So, if the project falls to pieces or gets finished but is of poor quality, people will look to you to explain why.

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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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6 Best Gantt Chart Apps to Make Your Project Management Truly Efficient

GanttPRO Project Management

Javier Baldizan System Programmer at IBM GanttPRO has a transparent and fairly simple design so that all team members can follow up clearly by means of a Gantt chart. It […].

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What is Kanban?

Celoxis

To understand what Kanban is and why is it so popular, we need to understand the history behind Kanban. After the end of the second world war, japan started manufacturing compact and affordable cars like Subaru 360 as compared to their American counterparts which at the time were muscle cars.

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What Is Batching and How Can I Use It to Get More Done?

ProjectManager.com

If you’re interested in productivity at work (and in your personal life), you’ve likely heard about batching. Batching is the act of grouping tasks together, so you do them all at once, instead of switching between tasks that take place in different programs or areas. An easy example of this would be a photographer resizing all her latest wedding photos at once, instead of editing and resizing each one individually.

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Kanban

Celoxis

History Behind Kanban:- In recent years kanban has come into the limelight. But, its history goes way back, even before the internet. You would be surprised to known kanban was first implemented by Toyota. It was known for its manufacturing excellence, quality products and High production rate. > When you look at the car manufacturing industries, you see automation everywhere.

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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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6 Best Gantt Chart Apps to Make Your Project Management Truly Efficient

GanttPRO Project Management

Javier Baldizan System Programmer at IBM GanttPRO has a transparent and fairly simple design so that all team members can follow up clearly by means of a Gantt chart.

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Five Invaluable Laws of Growth for Scrum Masters

Scrum.org

It's been a while since I wrote a blog, here is some good news, this is part1 of a 3 part blog series, inspired by the writings of John C. Maxwell, “The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth: Live Them and Reach Your Potential.”. This blog is by a Scrum Master for Scrum Masters to improve themselves and their teams. In this first part, we will explore the 5 laws of growth that could help us as Scrum Masters to grow ourselves and our Scrum teams. 1.

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