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Project Management Skills Needed in 2020: Experts Share Their Points of View

GanttPRO Project Management

Starting a new career in project management or looking for ways to update your knowledge? Learn from the experts! We talked to four acknowledged managers about the project management skills […].

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Sprint Planning 101: How to Plan Great Sprints

ProjectManager.com

Ask a dozen people what agile is and you’ll get a dozen different answers. But it’s best defined by scrum as a model. Scrum is a way to manage a project within an agile framework and is made up of three roles: product owner, scrum master and team. The product owner is focused on the business side of the project, the scrum master is the expert, who acts like a coach.

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Product Mindset: Encouraging Ownership in a Scrum Team

Scrum.org

TL; DR: Product Mindset and OWnership in Scrum Teams. There is one product, one Product Owner, one Product Backlog — a simple rule. How is that supposed to scale, you might ask, isn’t that approach turning the Product Owner into the Scrum team’s bottleneck, impeding value creation rather than spearheading it? Well, cargo cult Scrum might end up in that dead-end.

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How To Build A High Performing Team

Proofhub

8 Proven Leadership Ways to Build High-Performing Teams A high performing team is a blend of goal-oriented professionals , experts in their respective fields, responsible for planning, executing and yielding outstanding results. Excellent performance can be only achieved if there is powerful thought leadership, goals shared, clear communications, interpersonal conflict resolution, harmony and trust among team members.

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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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Collaboration by Examples

Scrum.org

Collaboration is key to solve complex problems. I’ve always suffered from the evident lack of collaboration between people. It’s professionally frustrating when you’ve experienced effective teamwork. ???? Article en français sur notre site web ????. Think to the best team you worked with, what were the specificities? How a Scrum Master can help people, teams and organizations to become highly collaborative?

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How Trying New Hobbies Made Me More Productive at Work

Teamweek

I sat at the pottery wheel, my thighs braced against its plastic tub and my hands cupping a ball of wet clay, as the wheel started turning faster and faster. I ran through a checklist of my teacher’s instructions: keep my elbows braced, press my pinkies down, push my thumbs into the rotating mound of clay hard enough to start eking out an opening but not so hard that the fragile walls rising slowly between my pointer finger and thumb would break.

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A Project Schedule Is the “How” & “When” You Will Reach Your Objectives

Project Management Resource Network

When you start a project the first question should be “what is the objective?” The next set of questions will be “how” and “when” you will reach the objectives. The answers will be the basis of your project schedule. A project schedule is commonly referred to as the project plan but technically the schedule is a project document not the project plan. .

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Managers are evil and Coaches are virtuous

Agilemania

This blog is my angst against renewed and repackaged attacks in opposition to the management folks in the name of agile and agility. The post Managers are evil and Coaches are virtuous appeared first on Agilemania.

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DPM Podcast: Why Should I Trust You? (With Mike Clayton)

The Digital Project Manager

In this episode, I talk with Mike Clayton, author of 14 print books on project management, about the components of trust—credibility, reliability, intimacy—and how to earn the trust of your colleagues and clients. The post DPM Podcast: Why Should I Trust You? (With Mike Clayton) appeared first on The Digital 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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Koos Coach comic: We need Scrum

Scrum.org

A comic series featuring Koos Coach, the silly Scrum Master struggling to understand and master Scrum. In this episode: Adopting Scrum involves a deep change in the mindset of people and cannot be taken lightheartedly.

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Finding an Optimum – ‘More Haste: Less Speed’ | Video

Online PM Courses

'More haste: less speed' my dad would say. And it is certainly true when you are trying to find an optimum way of doing things. The post Finding an Optimum – ‘More Haste: Less Speed’ | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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Koos Coach in the "This is not Scrum" comic (episode 1)

Scrum.org

In my daily life as a Scrum Master, I witness many crazy situations. I want to share my experiences via this comic series featuring Koos Coach, the silly Scrum Master struggling to understand and master Scrum. We need Scrum. Adopting Scrum involves a deep change in the mindset of people and cannot be taken lightheartedly. If this story resonates with you, please share: What experience do you have with Scrum being adopted for all the wrong reasons?

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Project Management Skills Needed in 2020: Experts Share Their Points of View

GanttPRO Project Management

Starting a new career in project management or looking for ways to update your knowledge? Learn from the experts! We talked to four acknowledged managers about the project management skills […]. The post Project Management Skills Needed in 2020: Experts Share Their Points of View first appeared on GanttPRO.

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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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Best Productivity Applications, Extensions and Add-Ons for Project Managers

Epicflow Blog

Project managers’ professional life is full of events that touch upon not only orchestrating projects where special PM tools are needed but it also involves interpersonal communication and frequent traveling. This, in turn, requires instruments that will be great assistants in keeping and exchanging data, making notes, navigating websites and keeping passwords, booking trips and hotels, business correspondence, and many more.

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Project Management Skills Needed in 2020: Experts Share Their Points of View

GanttPRO Project Management

Starting a new career in project management or looking for ways to update your knowledge? Learn from the experts!

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Red Flags, Blue Lessons

MPUG

Watch for these warning signs, so you don’t end up twisting in the wind! As a project manager (PM) for an international consulting firm, I was once assigned to a very large account that taught online classes through the internet. The company was called the High Intensity Teaching Corporation or HIT. This is the pseudonym used throughout, and for reasons that will soon be obvious, I found it managed to fly into some of the most dangerous red flags that warn of project trouble: a virtual office, a