Thu.Mar 31, 2022

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Is Your Software Getting Better or Worse?

Leading Agile

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Participative Transformation [Book Review]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Subtitled ‘Learning and Development in Practising Change’ and with a truly awful cover I wasn’t sure what to expect from Participative Transformation. I should not have had a glass of wine before I started reading it. I don’t even know how many times I read page 2. However, it did get a lot better, very quickly. The authors, Roger Klev and Morten Levin don’t hold back.

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Be a sequentialist first; beware the accumulations!

Musings on Project Management

I'm a sequentialist.When planning a project, I think first about how to sequence the scope: do this first, then that. Or, do these things in parallel, followed by this or that.MS Project, and similar tools, are the sequentialists go-to tool for planning sequences and establishing the sequential order of the project. Not so fast!What about cumulative, non-sequential, scope and effects?

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28+2 Sprint Anti-Patterns ????

Scrum.org

In Kürze: 28+2 Sprint Anti-Patterns. Willkommen zum Sprint Anti-Patterns-Artikel aus meiner Serie über Scrum-Anti-Patterns. Ich adressiere in diesem Artikel sprintbezogene Fehlverhalten der drei Scrum-Rollen, der Stakeholder bzw. Interessenvertreter sowie des IT-Management. Außerdem habe ich einige Denkanstöße hinzugefügt. Könnte zum Beispiel ein einmonatiger Sprint zu kurz sein, um etwas Sinnvolles zu erreichen?

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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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April Fool’s Ms. Project Manager: 3 Tips for Unexpected Surprises

LiquidPlanner

What’s the purpose of April Fool’s Day? The idea is to pick someone as the focus of your prank and make a fool out of them for a good laugh. One of the best ones ever played on me was when I returned to my dorm room in college while attending the University of Iowa and a few of my friends had turned everything – and I do mean EVERYTHING – upside down.

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Cost Estimation in Project Management – An Introductory Guide for PMs

nTask

Big surprises in the budget are never something we are all fond of. It just puts the whole project off track and demotivates the team, too, more like reverse gear. Thus, cost estimation in project management is essential for predicting the project’s scope. The big difference between a project with and without cost estimation is that you’re somehow prepared for the latter as you’d have already predicted the budget constraints in your cost estimation process.

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What is PRINCE2 Agile? …and Does it Make Sense? | Video

Online PM Courses

PRINCE2 Agile is a Project Management methodology designed to create a high-governance framework for traditional predictive projects. The post What is PRINCE2 Agile? …and Does it Make Sense? | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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Your staff aren’t robots: how to schedule employees effectively

Resource Guru

When a full-time employee says they work 40 hours a week, they don’t actually spend all 40 hours engaged in productive tasks – that’s completely normal and shouldn’t surprise you. A more realistic picture of an average 9-5 working schedule might include a one-hour lunch, bathroom and rest breaks, and various distractions like talking with co-workers or taking personal calls.

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Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) and Risk Governance

Management Yogi

Let’s consider the following scenario based true events which occurred within an organization I worked closely with recently. This company had a long-running project with a number of uncertainties. Risks were identified, then qualified, and risk responses planned. For implementation of these risk responses, a number of actions were needed. Some were taken, but most ignored or overlooked because.

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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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4 Steps You Can Follow To Manage Your Busy Schedule

Sandeep Kashyap

4 Tips For Creating More Time Out Of Your Busy Schedule Image Source: ProofHub Nowadays, working professionals are busier than ever. Although they use tools or software to assist them in their daily work, there are some distractions that can disrupt their progress at work. There is also this perception that if you are more occupied with your work, it shows you are more committed.

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How can the Scrum Master live the Scrum Values even better? ?? - Back to the foundations of the Scrum framework (44)

Scrum.org

You should expect the use of Scrum to become more successful when the Team lives the Values of commitment, courage, focus, openness and respect. Then empiricism starts to work and trust is being built. ?? The more people become proficient in living the Scrum values, the more successful the use of Scrum will be. Each of the Scrum Team members should live these values.

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10 Collaboration Tools For Remote Digital Marketing Teams In 2022

Proofhub

As we know, the global pandemic Covid 19 has changed the scenario of every business sector. However, it has also changed the workflow patterns. Companies have started working remotely for the past two years and it has indeed become a new normal! When we say remote work, there are numerous questions in mind. Like, will the work go on smoothly? How can the teams communicate with each other and so on?

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Kontextwechsel sind schlecht für den Produkterfolg

Scrum.org

Warum? . Immer wieder habe ich es erlebt: Scrum Teams arbeiten an mehreren Produkten parallel. Erstmal sei gesagt, dass es enorm stressig für die meisten Mitarbeiter:innen ist an mehreren "Baustellen" gleichzeitig zu arbeiten. In meiner Erfahrung unterschätzen viele Manager die Nachteile, die damit einhergehen. Die Nachteile sind zum Beispiel. verspätete Auslieferung. höhere Kosten. demoralisierte Mitarbeiter .

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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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The Death of Scope Creep: Agile Project Management

Project Smart

A single word, adaptability, summarises the advantages of agile project management in the shortest, most direct way possible. Organisations that adopt agility – that equip themselves to adapt – are better prepared to adapt to frequent market developments and customer needs in a timely fashion.

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Guide to Stakeholder Mapping

ActiveCollab

Stakeholder mapping is an important term when it comes to handling different types of stakeholders and their influence on your project. Once you have successfully implemented a stakeholder map, you will easily bypass obstacles and navigate your way around potential problems. Depending on your business size, you must be able to evaluate stakeholders' potential impact and risks linked to their projects.