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Applying project management to an election run (part one)

Kiron Bondale

Last year I wrote three articles about the project management tools and techniques I used for managing our inter-city relocation. Every four years, the municipalities within the province of Ontario hold elections for city council, the role of mayor, school board trustees and regional councillors. With the elections coming up this October, I decided a few weeks ago to run for one of the two city councillor roles within my ward in Welland (for more information about my platform, feel free to visit

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Cuando usar Agile y cuando no

Scrum.org

En cada formación, consultoría o acción de acompañamiento que llevamos a cabo surge la misma pregunta, cuando usar Agile y cuando no. También por lo que vemos, hay mucha organización que le han vendido que se transformarán completamente en una organización agile. Cuando digo completamente digo la totalidad de sus departamentos y la totalidad de sus empleados.

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Cost Of SAFe® Scrum Master (SSM) Course

Agilemania

A SAFe® Scrum Master is responsible for ensuring that the SAFe® framework is understood & followed and that the team is able to work together effectively in a complex environment. A SAFe® Scrum Master certification demonstrates that you have the knowledge and skills necessary to perform this role. Do you know how much the demand has increased for SAFe® Scrum master certification from past years?

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Failing Project: Do You Know When it’s Time to Pause Your Project?

Online PM Courses

It’s important to know when it’s time to stop – or at least pause, your project. So, we’ll look at all the reasons why you may want to do so. The post Failing Project: Do You Know When it’s Time to Pause Your Project? appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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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 Is Change Control?

ActiveCollab

Not all projects are designed to be equal. Some changes happen whether you like it or not. Your team members get sick, or some unexpected delays occur. But whatever changes you are facing now must be analyzed and managed and then accepted or rejected. If management accepts the change, it needs to be responded to, opening a whole new set of procedures and ensuring you stay on track and within budget scope.

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Problem maker or process improver

Lynne Cazaly

You can keep creating and fixing messy problems … or … focus on making better progress through improving processes. It’s costly when there’s no process, a process wasn’t followed or human error could have been easily picked up. The pursuit of improvement is a wise investment. But… *gulp* it can take a shift in your attitude and culture to be willing to learn and to receive feedback.

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New productivity apps

Lynne Cazaly

Check through the apps in this Fast Company article to see if they’re the kind of thing you use, and how they might save you some time, effort, energy and attention. They’re not just about calendars or to do lists. They include mail, reading articles, background noise, reminders to move your body, notepads, photo editors… and plenty more.

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Do you do too much work

Lynne Cazaly

What is too much? And how do we know what enough is? When we push on working longer hours, it can have less than good effects on us. The consequences of stress, overload and that feeling of ‘it’s all too much’ can become the beast that is burnout. And it’s not a good place to be. Check off the five things to do to outsmart the overwhelm of too much work.

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A nap is a better way of working

Lynne Cazaly

Schedule it in. Sometime between 2-4pm and for between 10-20 mins. Go to the same place, lie down, close your eyes … and nap! Workdays. It’s like a coffee break but don’t drink the coffee. I find I can have a nap maybe 1-2 days a week, but wondering about making it a regular work day thing. Don’t do this if you have insomnia.

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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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Listen to this

Lynne Cazaly

The audio book recording of my latest book ‘Argh!’ is available on Audible and other audio book channels. I shared some pics from the recording experience recently, using SquareSound / Soundfirm for the recording and production. Thanks to Maryanne Rowe for coordinating and Ryan for recording and production. As a self-publisher, this kind of extension of my book is funded by me, not a big bucks publisher or distributor.

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How to let your boss know that you are overwhelmed and overloaded

Lynne Cazaly

It can be difficult to communicate that you need support - in any context but especially work. Short of having the word ‘HELP’ tattooed on our forehead, what can we do to communicate clearly that we need the support of our boss? … read my article published in Body and Soul in news.com.au.

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Struggling? Juggling? Drowning? Argh!

Lynne Cazaly

These experiences of overwhelm can be a common part of a normal day or week in our life. Yes, the world can be an overwhelming place. We might have an emotional experience of being overwhelmed. We can experience the ‘too much on’ of workload - too much to do and not enough time in which to do it. Or we might feel like we’re submerged under an endless pile of information , reports, books and reading.

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