ProjectManager.com
OCTOBER 7, 2020
Proper schedule management helps you deliver a project on time. The process starts before the schedule is even made, and continues throughout the project. An ideal plan includes setting expectations, including how to develop, manage, execute and control the project schedule. While not an essential part of every project, any complex one should have a schedule management plan to keep you on track.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
OCTOBER 7, 2020
The PMP ® exam is changing on 2 January 2020, so here’s your Public Service Announcement: If you want to certify as a PMP before the exam changes, you’ve just about got time. I believe it takes 8-12 weeks to comfortably prep for the exam so if you are committed and prepared to put the effort in, you can squeeze in your exam. Why bother? Because the changes to the exam content outline are more radical than we’ve ever seen before.
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Musings on Project Management
OCTOBER 7, 2020
Harry’s poker-playing friend claimed that probability theory, and how to play your cards according to the rule book, was the easiest thing in the world. But what separated smart players from the not-so-smart was the ability to understand how their opponent was thinking.
Scrum.org
OCTOBER 7, 2020
Want to help your Scrum Team make sense of why Sprint Goals matter? And more importantly, how you can create more focus together? We’ve got your back with this tried-and-tested string of Liberating Structures. All you need to do is run it and off you go?—?without coaches, facilitators, and consultants. You can also download this string as a nicely styled PDF. .
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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.
Planview
OCTOBER 7, 2020
How w e ll your Proj e ct Manag e m e nt Offic e (PMO) or E nt e rpris e PMO (E PMO ) functions is conting e nt on two things: th e minds e t of e ach of your e mploy e e s and e stablishing a strat e gic top-down proj e ct portfolio cultur e. In my career, I’ve been fortunate to have had the opportunity to play a key role in helping a Global 500 company make a positive shift toward a culture focused on portfolios of projects that align with company-wide strategies.
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Teamweek
OCTOBER 7, 2020
Here’s a secret for you: I love email inbox folders. I know they’ve been proven multiple times to be useless. I know I should use search and archive. I know putting every email I receive into topic-based folders is a massive waste of time. I still do it. (Okay–so this might not be the sort of content you thought you’d find on a time-tracking software blog.
Henny Portman
OCTOBER 7, 2020
After nine years there is a new edition of the Managing Successful Programmes (MSP) guide. It’s a best practice so I assume the changes will be incremental and not a revolution. Good to see that the guide is 80 pages less (now 224 pages) and I really like the four scenario’s which are used to show what specific topics mean for the different scenarios.
Agilemania
OCTOBER 7, 2020
Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) is a well-known practice for collaboration and teams use it to bridge the gap between product management and the software development team. The post How Does Behavior-Driven Development Optimize the Value of the Work Done? appeared first on Agilemania.
Planview
OCTOBER 7, 2020
Project management is an imperfect science. No matter how experienced you are in overseeing or how great your project management software may be, it’s inevitable that some initiatives will run over budget, take longer than anticipated, and create a ripple effect of bottlenecks and complications that disrupt other activities within IT and throughout your organization.
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
EasyProjects
OCTOBER 7, 2020
Those project status update meetings are every manager’s worst nightmare. Team members arrive late or not at all, technology for presentations fail, or agreements and agendas can’t be reached within the allocated meeting time. Even a recent worldwide transition to video conferencing did not improve the situation much. However, as a manager, your clients and team members look to you for communication on all aspects of projects at regular time intervals.
ActiveCollab
OCTOBER 7, 2020
More often than not, your team will be working on multiple projects simultaneously, especially in the creative industry. Keeping track of everything can become overly complicated, and a lot can go wrong very fast. Therefore, it's essential to develop a good process that will enable you to manage multiple projects simultaneously. Make sure your priorities are clear, the workload is effectively allocated, and you're not going into overtime.
Appfluence
OCTOBER 7, 2020
Microsoft Teams helps you communicate. Priority Matrix helps you prioritize. Together, Microsoft Teams and Priority Matrix can help you manage emails, projects, and succeed. Priority Matrix is a Microsoft 365 certified solution. Here’s why you need Priority Matrix with Microsoft Teams. As you use Microsoft Teams more and more, you will face challenges such as having many channels and finding it difficult to keep track of tasks, the need to share tasks and resources during a conversation, a
Online PM Courses
OCTOBER 7, 2020
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R Covey is a classic. And we can apply each of his classic habits to being an effective Project Manager. The post Project Management Lessons from The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.
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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.
Henny Portman
OCTOBER 7, 2020
On the AXELOS website you can find my blog how the Directing Successful Projects with PRINCE2 guide can help you with decision latency. ‘The CHAOS Report’ 2018 from the Standish Group sees decision latency as one of the key factors why so many projects fail. In other words, if you want to improve project success, you have to speed up your decision-making.
Agilemania
OCTOBER 7, 2020
Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) is a well-known practice for collaboration and teams use it to bridge the gap between product management and the software development team. The post Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) helps in optimizing the value of work done by Scrum Team appeared first on Agilemania.
Planview
OCTOBER 7, 2020
The world is full of uncertainties and uncharted territory lies just around the next corner for many companies. It just so happens that we have been in uncharted territory for several months as the world comes to grips with the COVID-19 global health pandemic. Shifting resources to support operations in the current climate quickly became a new normal for many businesses.
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