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Balancing project sponsor and project manager conflicts

Musings on Project Management

If you follow this blog you've read several references to the project balance sheet. So, is this about accounting? Yes, and no: Yes, it's about a double entry tool to keep track of "mine" and "yours", but no, it's not the accountant's tool used in your father's accounting office. Take a look at this figure: What have we got here? First, the business and the project; but.

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5 Habits to ditch this year

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I’m not a great one for making resolutions so this year I thought I’d take a different look at things. Instead of setting myself up for failure by making promises to do new things, I wanted to turn it on its head. Let’s look instead at the things to stop doing. Here are the 5 habits I am going to ditch this year. Will you join me? 1. Wasting time. Oh, goodness.

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Are your team members “Givers” or “Takers”?

Kiron Bondale

Having recently finished Adam Grant’s latest book, Think Again, I decided to read his first book Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success. Like all of his books, Adam provides good insights into our interactions with others along with multiple examples and case studies supporting his assertions. In case you haven’t read the book, Adam believes that people will default to one of three stances: takers, matchers or givers.

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Three Steps to Done in Scrum

Scrum.org

Scrum uses an iterative, incremental approach to deliver value to the business through the medium of the Sprint. The purpose of each Sprint is to deliver a Done, usable increment. It sounds straightforward, but it can be tricky to achieve. Here are the three steps to Done in Scrum: ensure your Scrum Team has a workable Definition of Done, a well-refined Product Backlog, and uses the Sprint Retrospective to identify improvement opportunities. . .

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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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What are the relevant factors that drive or result from information overload?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Thomas asked this question during the PMI Learning, Education and Development Community of Practice presentation I gave about Collaboration Tools for Project Managers. We were talking about using social media tools at work for communication and collaboration, and – of course – the topic of information overload came up. Normally I’m asked how to deal with information overload , so it was interesting to get a question about what drives it and what happens as a result of it – it made me think!

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6 Barriers to customer centricity

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This is an edited extract from Customer-Centric Project Management by Elizabeth Harrin and Phil Peplow (Gower/Routledge, 2012). It would be great to think that project-based organizations and PMOs would jump at the opportunity to improve stakeholder engagement and project communication by demonstrating customer centricity (not sure what that is in the context of project management?

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Three Top Choices for an Agile Project Planning Tool

The Strategic Project Manager

It can be a daunting task to look for an agile project planning tool. You will find a plethora of option – even free agile project management tools. This article focuses on three hosted agile project management software tools – from Atlassian, Microsoft, and Google. You will find comparisons of key attributes, pricing, and strengths against market competitors.

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How to report PDUs to PMI

MPUG

Are you a PMP who has recently attended a MPUG webinar or course? We always provide an Activity Code for you to report your earned credits to PMI. Here’s how to do it in five easy steps! 1. Login to the PMI website. 2. Go to your Dashboard. 3. From the Dashboard, select Report PDUs. 4. Select Course or Training under the Education category. 5. On the Course or Training screen, fill in the details of Provider, Course ID, Date Started, etc.

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15 Powerful Benefits of Project Management

Project Bliss

Many organizations don’t fully understand the benefits of project management. Here’s how your skills and expertise help organizations deliver greater value for their efforts. This article was originally published on September 30, 2016, and has been updated. Can you easily explain the value you provide to an organization as a project manager?

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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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[VLOG] Why the Product Manager is not necessarily the Scrum Product Owner

Scrum.org

Hey hey hey. What's good awesome people? I hope you had a great weekend. Over the years, I kept getting questions about the differences between Product Manager and Product Owner. In this video I explain my thoughts. Hopefully it can help you understand the differences between the two. Have a great week ahead folks.

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Win Stakeholder Compliance: Use the 5 Paths to Stakeholder Persuasion

Online PM Courses

Stakeholder engagement balances informing and listening to your stakeholders. But, sometimes we need to win stakeholder compliance. The post Win Stakeholder Compliance: Use the 5 Paths to Stakeholder Persuasion appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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