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5 Things Better Than Conference Calls

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I spend a lot of time on conference calls, especially now I am lucky enough to work from home. If I’m completely honest, I know how to use my mute button without even looking at the phone. It’s useful for blowing my nose and slurping tea but also for making sure other people can’t hear me typing. Yes, I am prepared to confess this in a public arena: I do other things while on a call.

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Now is the time to invest in learning and so I offer you six ways to develop your personal or team skills

The Lazy Project Manager

Elizabeth Harrin. Providing education and mentorship to project managers – Author, Trainer, Speaker. The 3 critical skills you need to manage multiple projects and leave the office on time! Here is what you’ll learn: ?The 5 things that make managing multiple projects different to just leading one project My favourite method for managing my time across multiple projects The best way to sequence your projects The one thing that’s killing your comms and what do about it.

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YDS: Which Books Do You Recommend for Scrum Masters?

Scrum.org

On today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: Which books do you recommend for Scrum Masters? A YouTube viewer sent in a question asking about the scrum books that Todd and Ryan recommend. They tried to keep the list to 5 each but ended up offering some "bonus" suggestions. Of course, they both recommend Fixing Your Scrum, but some of the other recommendations might surprise you.

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The Value of an Agile Project Management Office

MPUG

Imagine this scenario as you start-off your day: You open your business site and the message says: “it doesn’t exist.” You then try to login to your email account, which also displays the same message. Your heartbeat goes up and you rub your eyes in disbelief. You remember receiving emails from customers about payments via payment apps, but there too, the same message is displayed, “this account doesn’t exist!

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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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Product Goal & Sprint Goals – A Simple Example

Scrum.org

Here are some simple examples of Product Goals, Sprint Goals and the relationship between them. We will stick with our Bakery example (as used previously in our simple example of a Definition of Done ). Some things to note: Our Bakery produces baked goods sold in our shop to passing customers. We already have the capability to deliver products inside London that are ordered in-store.

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YDS: What is the Hardest Part About Being a Scrum Master?

Scrum.org

On today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: What is the hardest part about being a Scrum Masters? Ben F. left a comment and asked Todd and Ryan about the hardest part of being a Scrum Master. Tricky question as every Scrum Master faces different challenges as they help teams use Scrum to solve complex problems. Check out Ryan and Todd's take on this question as they talk about the things they have struggled with on their Scrum Master Journey.

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Adopting Agile is Never Really About Agile

Leading Agile

Webinars Learn the Physics of Agility Sign Up. Why Adopt Agile? We adopt Agile because we want to solve our problems and deliver better business outcomes. But the truth of the matter is that Agile is often applied at the team level, as a set of practices that don’t account for the underlying business drivers organizations and executives actually care about, the ones that drive the best business outcomes.

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YSD: Which Books Do You Recommend for Scrum Masters?

Scrum.org

On today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: Which books do you recommend for Scrum Masters? A YouTube viewer sent in a question asking about the scrum books that Todd and Ryan recommend. They tried to keep the list to 5 each but ended up offering some "bonus" suggestions. Of course, they both recommend Fixing Your Scrum, but some of the other recommendations might surprise you.

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Free webinar: 3 Critical Skills to Manage Multiple Projects

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I’m not one for making new year’s resolutions in January – I think there’s too much hype around promises I could never stick to. I tend to set intentions in January and then hold myself accountable to the ones I really want to do from February onwards. Last year, it was losing weight, and I’m now a stone lighter than I was this time last year. Did you make resolutions?

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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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Agile Metrics for Scrum Masters (Part 3): Scrum Team's Effectiveness

Scrum.org

This is the third and last video on agile metrics for Scrum Masters. In my previous blog post, I talked about measuring the quality of Scrum implementation on your team and organization. If you haven’t seen the previous two parts in this series, I recommend you do it first and then come back here to continue on this topic. In this post, we’ll talk about the effectiveness of a Scrum Team. .

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Top 5 Roadmap Tools in 2021 (+ Free Software)

GanttPRO Project Management

A good project manager needs to keep everyone on the same page and provide project objectives that are crystal clear and understandable for everybody in a team. Successful project implementation […]. The post Top 5 Roadmap Tools in 2021 (+ Free Software) first appeared on GanttPRO.

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7 common marketing project management challenges and how to solve them.

Admation

The challenges of planning and tracking marketing projects are many and varied today. Just keeping abreast of the multiple campaigns that go live via a range of platforms is difficult in itself. But it’s behind the scenes where the real headaches lie. With so many different types of campaigns to create and manage, marketing teams are feeling overwhelmed with a lack of transparency over their projects and resources.

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23 Product Owner Anti-Patterns from Job Ads: The Snitch, the Whip, the Bookkeeper, the Six Sigma Black Belt™

Scrum.org

TL; DR: Product Owner Anti-Patterns from Job Ads. Like a job ad for a Scrum Master position, the equivalent for the Product Owner position also reveals excellent insight into an organization’s progress on becoming agile. Yesterday, I analyzed 60-plus randomly selected job ads from the UK, the US, and Germany for that purpose. Learn more about what makes job ads such a treasure trove with the following 23 Product Owner anti-patterns. ??

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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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Benefits Management: the Missing Knowledge Area | Video

Online PM Courses

I want to argue why I believe Benefits Management is a missing knowledge area from so much of Project Management. The post Benefits Management: the Missing Knowledge Area | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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