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Project Management Trends for Agencies: What to Skip, What to Adopt

Workamajig

What are some of the top project management trends agencies need to watch out for? Find the right answers in this article. As a project manager, you have your work cut out for you. It’s not enough to master the nuances of managing projects in the creative field - a tough ask in itself - you also have to stay abreast of the latest developments in project management.

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The Project Management Toolkit: What is really needed to make project work simple and effective?

Inloox

Imagine the following situation: You have just moved into your first own apartment and some of your friends have helped you. Now you want to assemble the new furniture together. In doing so, you realize that you only have a spoon as a tool. It will work somehow, you think to yourself and just get started. A few hours later, all the furniture is actually in place and it was quite funny to have turned the spoon into a hammer and screwdriver.

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How do you know you’re not involving stakeholders?

Scrum.org

This post is an excerpt from the book that we’re writing, the ‘ Zombie Scrum Survival Guide ’. It’s our way of delivering small increments and involving our stakeholders: you, the reader. So we’d love to hear your feedback, encouragements and wild ideas. The Scrum Framework urges teams to involve stakeholders. But many Scrum Teams struggle to do so.

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If you can't draw it.

Musings on Project Management

Many creative people will tell you that new ideas begin -- often spontaneously -- with a mind's sketch that they then render in some kind of media. Fair enough -- no news there. We've talked about storyboards, etc before. But then the heavy lifting begins. How to fill in the details? Where to start? My advice: Draw it first. If you can't draw it, you can't build it!

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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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Applying Scrum Patterns in Practice

Scrum.org

In my first article , I explained what Scrum Patterns are and why they could be useful for you in your transformation. The second article explained how to select the Scrum Patterns from the Pattern Languages. . In this 3rd article, I build on the previous two articles and give an example of how to use the two Pattern Languages to develop your pattern sequence. .

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Scrum Patterns in Practice

Scrum.org

In my first article , I explained what Scrum Patterns are and why they could be useful for you in your transformation. The second article explained how to select the Scrum Patterns from the Pattern Languages. . In this 3rd article, I build on the previous two articles and give an example of how to use the two Pattern Languages to develop your pattern sequence. .

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6 super cool tech tools that make life easy for writers

Proofhub

Did you know that more than 211 million pieces of content are created on the internet every minute. Yes, I’m not talking about days or weeks. Multiply it with 1440 and that’s the amount content being created daily. With so much data overload, life has definitely become difficult if you are writer. And, talking about that we all know that online writing is no longer an art where you can just express your feelings.

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Understanding the Basics of Project Time Tracking

Wrike

Time tracking is essential for professional services companies. Effective time tracking can help businesses understand profitability, project efficiency capacity management, project progress, and transparency. . From IT firms through to accounting agencies, being able to track time against projects is essential for understanding where your resources are spending their time and what your projects are genuinely costing you. .

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What Boeing Reminded Us About Email

Bridge the Gap Consulting

Now, I’m not ripping on everyone at Boeing. I’ve met and worked with folks from Boeing in my career and they are good people. Some employees, though, made some poor communication decisions regarding the 737 Max that have now gone public. Some lines pulled from Boeing employee communications: “Would you put your family on a MAX simulated trained aircraft?

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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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CEO’s New Year Resolutions: How to Get Organised for 2020

MindGenius

CEO NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS. Following on from my last blog, it would have been easy to make one of my New Year resolutions to simply improve my golf, after all the starting position is particularly bad and getting better would be a breeze. Work consumed my working life in 2019, maybe now is the time to set myself a real challenge and actually pay more than lip service to the concept of New Year Resolutions.

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How To Pomodoro Your Way To Long-Lasting Productivity

Trello

Maximizing time is a constant struggle. A fast and effective way to try improving your productivity is the Pomodoro Technique.

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Lessons Learned Meeting: How to make it Excellent | Video

Online PM Courses

Project Management is a huge, complex discipline. A great way to improve our performance is by harvesting lessons learned from each project we do. The post Lessons Learned Meeting: How to make it Excellent | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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Create Faster and More Accurate Forecasts using Probabilities

Scrum.org

The most important question to stakeholders is often “When can it be done?” There is a lot that goes into answering that seemingly simple question. What is involved in the work? What else are we doing? What risks are there? The questions go on and on. Traditional estimation processes are so time-consuming, and often inaccurate, that an entire #noestimates movement has been started.

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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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Avoiding Death by PowerPoint (and other Presentation Arts)

MPUG

We CAN! We WILL! . With either of those word pairings, you can set yourself off on the right foot for your next presentation. But, with the wrong opening, you can kill it with equal levels of ease. We’ve all been there. It’s the presentation from Hades. The speaker seems a bit confused and ducks behind the podium or refuses to turn on his/her web camera.

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