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Project Management Trends [2022]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

There’s no denying that project management today looks different to how it did even 5 years ago. Project management trends shape our profession. We see technology evolving, new tools, consolidation, innovation and more. Trends come and go, or they stay with us and evolve into new ways of working that stick around and become “the way we do things around here.”.

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How Poor Risk Management Is Hurting Your Program

Project Risk Coach

Poor risk management is costly. Program managers are caught off guard by emerging risks. And these risks may turn into issues costing more time and money. But, it doesn't have to be that way. We can identify risks early. We can assess and prioritize our risks, allowing us to make better use of our limited time. Let's look at the cost of poor risk management through the example of Tom Whitley.

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Top PM 10 Articles of All Time

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In case you’ve only just stumbled across this blog, in 2021 I celebrated 15 years of blogging about project management. I thought it was time to look back and see what the stand-out articles were over the years. Here are the top 15 articles year by year. 2006. I reported on the state of the Gypsy Moth IV project : the restoration of a historic yacht.

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27 Sprint Anti-Patterns ????

Scrum.org

In Kürze: 27 Sprint Anti-Patterns. Willkommen zum Sprint Anti-Patterns-Artikel aus unserer Serie über Scrum-Anti-Patterns. Ich adressiere in diesem Artikel sprintbezogene Fehlverhalten der drei Scrum-Rollen, der Stakeholder bzw. Interessenvertreter sowie des IT-Management. ?? Soll ich Sie über Artikel wie diesen informieren? Großartig! Sie können sich hier für den Newsletter „Food for Agile Thought“ anmelden und sich über 34.000 Abonnenten anschließen. ??

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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 to get the best from your sponsor

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Vicki James, co-author of Strategies for Project Sponsorship. Peter Taylor, Ron Rosenhead and Vicki James have just written a book called Strategies for Project Sponsorship , about (surprise, surprise) project sponsors. Last time I interviewed Peter about how to manage when your sponsor is rubbish. Today I’m going to share my conversation with Vicki.

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The Complete Guide to Scaling Agile and SAFe for Business Agility

Agilemania

What is Scaling in Agile? Agile is a set of values and principles. Agile is an umbrella term for a group of iterative product development frameworks. The Agile approaches such as Scrum framework, DSDM, Kanban, Extreme Programming (XP) provide rules, practices, and guidelines to build products and solutions using the Agile values and principles. . Product development evolves through the collaborative effort of self-organizing and cross-functional teams and their customers and end-users with these

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Strengthen Your Online Presence with the 5 Best Link Manager Apps Of 2022

nTask

2022 seems to be another excellent year for online businesses. In the last couple of years, Lockdowns and quarantines have forced many companies to build and strengthen their presence on the internet. This year again, online trading will take itself to a whole new level, and if you want to participate in the race, you have got to bring your A-game because online marketing management will play the winning card.

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The Evolution of Our Approach to Business Transformation

Leading Agile

The foundations of business Agility are based on teams that can deliver increments of value. But what we discovered early on in the LeadingAgile journey was that there was more than a business strategy problem. What we found was that there was actually a teaming problem. We could see that team-level Agile wasn’t working without the right kinds of teams to deliver with Agility, and the right conditions in place to make those teams successful.

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How to Create a Marketing Plan with nTask?

nTask

A good marketing plan will help you be organized, aligned, and productive to achieve your goals and objectives. However, most people don’t know how to create a marketing plan. Thus, in this blog, we have discussed in detail what a marketing plan is, its benefits, things to be included in a good marketing plan , and how to create a marketing plan using nTask.

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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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12 Incredibly Useful Tips to Get More Out of Scoro

Scoro

Scoro is, no doubt, one of the most comprehensive work management software available. It’s often praised for the interlinkage of all features and data, intuitive interface, and high customizability, enabling every business to find their ideal workflow. But a product is only as powerful as its users. And we genuinely want our customers to know the best ways of using our product.

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Level Remaining Schedule During Tracking

MPUG

This is the last of four articles I’ve written recently on the topic of on tracking a project. I have outlined a four-step tracking cycle: set the status date , enter actuals and revisions , reschedule incomplete work , and level the remaining schedule. To explore the last step, let’s consider an example. The below schedule was baselined after initial resource leveling.

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What is Quality Assurance (QA) in Project Management?

Wrike

Quality assurance (QA) is one of the final and most important steps of any product roadmap. Used in a variety of industries, including software development and construction, quality assurance verifies that a product or service is of the highest quality, which is an integral process for any company. In this article, we’ll explain the basic premise behind what quality assurance is and why it is important.

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Business Analysis & Leadership

Rebel’s Guide to PM

James Archer and Penny Pullan, editors of Business Analysis and Leadership. Business analysis has come of age. If change programs are to be successful, then problem solving, stakeholder engagement, business cases and situational analysis are essential. So comes in the BA role to “challenge, lead and influence” according to Debra Paul in the Foreword to this book.

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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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???? Perché Scrum non è una metodologia?

Scrum.org

Spesso in formazione si discutono le differenze fra metodologia e framework. In questo articolo troverete la risposta alla domanda: "Perché Scrum non è una metodologia?". Una metodologia di lavoro consiste ad applicare sempre lo stesso processo, con gli stessi input e output, per realizzare il lavoro. L'obiettivo è di ridurre i rischi e rendere il risultato del lavoro prevedibile.

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Capacity Planning: The Secret to Successful Projects

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Not that long ago, a project manager – who, for the purposes of this article has asked to remain anonymous – was planning out Phase 2 of her project. There was a lot of work to do for the project management team, which was just her. No problem, she thought. A project coordinator, or an admin resource from the PMO would be the perfect extra pair of hands.

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5 Excellent Knowledge Base Management Systems to Use in 2022

nTask

As we all know a knowledge management system is a tool that can help you store, share and retrieve a specific piece of information for you according to your needs and requirements. Knowledge management systems can also be a sub-category of an enterprise-level content management system because of their ability to help employees, agents, managers, and even customers get to know the software or the product they are interacting with.

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The Scrum Master Salary Report 2022

Scrum.org

TL; DR: The Scrum Master Salary Report 2022 — How Do You Compare? The Scrum Master Salary Report 2022 is the third edition of the industry survey after 2017 and 2019. This free report is based on the answers of 1,113 participants globally. If you are considering a career decision this year, maybe, whether you should join the industry as a junior Scrum Master or move to a new organization or go independent, you will find the report’s information beneficial.

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.