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How to Get Projects From Strategy

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This is a question I’m hearing quite a lot at the moment: How do I turn my company’s strategy into actual projects? It’s good to have a strategy, of course. But a strategy that stays in a fancy PowerPoint presentation isn’t helpful to anyone. That’s not a strategy, it’s a document. OK, you need the document first, as a communication tool to explain the strategy to everyone, but you know what I mean.

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What Is a Technical Project Manager? (Job Description Included)

ProjectManager.com

We talk a lot about project managers, but that title is more general than most might think. There are many different project managers, but today we’re interested in focusing on just one, the technical project manager. Are you interested in becoming a technical project manager or are you in the market to hire one? If either applies, read on. We define what a technical project manager does, provide an outline for a job description you can post and offer tips for becoming better at your job.

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Stabilize your project

Musings on Project Management

Stability!It counts for a lot.It implies -- for behaviors and management decisions -- predictability, reliability, under-control (but not risk-free, of course), coherent narrative, steady-state goals, and a strategy that is understandable to those who have the job of implementing it.Perhaps you are aware, as many are, that stability requires feedback to effect error correction and trap excesses.

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Allan Kelly: Honey, ich habe das Backlog geschrumpft — Hands-on Agile #44

Scrum.org

In Kürze: Hands-on Agile #44: Honey, ich habe das Backlog geschrumpft — mit Allan Kelly. In diesem inspirierenden 44. Hands-on Agile-Meetup zum Thema Produkt-Backlog-Management stellte Allan Kelly eine Sache klar: Das Product Backlog war eine großartige Idee, bis sie es nicht mehr war. Viele erfolgreiche Teams liefern täglich Backlog-Elemente, aber ihre Backlogs werden nicht kleiner.

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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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Understanding Planned and Actual Percent Complete with MS Project

Management Yogi

While interacting with MS Project users across a couple of industry verticals recently, I encountered a question from a senior mechanical engineering lead regarding Planned and Actual Percent Complete fields. The lead was managing a bridge construction project in the Middle East.The client’s requirement was to show both Actual Percent Complete and Planned Percent Complete in the MS Project Plan.

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Tracking Performance: Switching from Project to Resource Level

Epicflow Blog

When your project is in progress, you as a project manager or business leader will definitely want to know how things are going and have an opportunity to check it at any moment. But in a multi-project environment, when more than two projects run in parallel, being focused on a project performance only can be harmful for your organization. Read further to understand why.

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Ingest Microsoft Forms into Priority Matrix with Power Automate

Appfluence

Microsoft Power Automate, previously known as Microsoft Flow, is a tool to connect various online services with each other, producing smart workflows to automate your office life. As you can imagine, Priority Matrix integrates with Power Automate since early on. In order to help you try out the system, we have prepared a series of Power Automate templates to do things like: When a keyword is mentioned in Microsoft Teams, capture the message as a Priority Matrix item.

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What is a Statement of Work (SOW)? | Video

Online PM Courses

A Statement of Work (SOW) is a detailed, structured statement of requirements. What does this mean and what are the different types of SOW? The post What is a Statement of Work (SOW)? | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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6 Best Alternatives to Microsoft Dynamics 365 to Check out in 2022

nTask

As a business with a large market footprint or an entrepreneur just starting their company, you need to have the best relationship with your customers. It doesn’t matter if these customers are old or new, you need to make sure that their reviews and queries are entertained and taken care of. To do that, you […].

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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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Scaled Agile, Collaborative Work Management and the Path to Digital Maturity in Large Scale Project Management

Leankor

Agile product development continues to make waves across enterprise organizations, delivering an unmatched ROI across large-scale and complex projects. In examining the merits of the methodology, a global study from Harvard Business Review found that some organizations using Agile are “achieving 60 percent higher revenue and profit growth.” Results like these are making the case for organizations to scale their Agile operations and embed them across the organization.

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Guru Gathering 2022: A look into our team retreat in Cape Town

Resource Guru

For a new starter like myself, while the reasons to join Resource Guru were already plenty ( remote-first , async culture, work-life balance), learning about the upcoming team retreat, or Guru Gathering as we call them, sure was the cherry on top. The last time the gurus all gathered was in the lovely (but rainy) Dublin back in 2019. With the pandemic putting a stop to life as we knew it, most of the team hadn’t seen each other since.

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Note-Taking Apps Your Whole Team Will Love

Wrike

Getting bonked on the head by an apple led Sir Issac Newton to discover the law of gravity in 1665. He would have appreciated having a note-taking app to quickly scribble his discoveries as he sat under the apple tree contemplating the universe. We know that a good idea can strike at any time, and we should record them before we forget. Scientific research confirms that 20% of the breakthrough ideas of the day strike when the mind is wandering and not actively engaged in any work.