Project Risk Coach
OCTOBER 8, 2018
Fixed date projects occur often these days. The project sponsor picks a date and hands you the project. So, what's a project manager to do? How can we manage fixed date projects? First of all, don’t freak out. Some things are unrealistic, but others are not. Be positive and ask for some time to do some analysis. Let your sponsor know that you will come back in a week or two with the results.
Inloox
OCTOBER 8, 2018
Deciding what team members to assign to which project can be difficult. The Belbin Team Role Inventory can help you. It describes nine types of team members and tells you, which ones your team needs in which case and which type of team members shouldn’t work together. Introduction to the Belbin Team Role Inventory Each team member can contribute their personal qualities and strengths to achieve the team's goals.
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ProjectManager.com
OCTOBER 8, 2018
Is leadership good and management bad? Of course not, both are important. Jennifer Bridges, PMP, explains their roles in project management in this short tutorial video. Here’s a screenshot of the whiteboard for your reference! In Review – Leadership vs. Management, What’s the Difference? Today’s video topic is surprisingly controversial, Jennifer noted.
Project Bliss
OCTOBER 8, 2018
The CTQ Tree is a simple tool to tell you exactly what your customer wants. Have you ever asked a client or customer what they want, and when you deliver it, they tell you it still doesn’t meet their need? Or pulled together a focus group to help improve a product, but got vague responses on how to make it better? You thought you knew what the customers wanted, but they had something completely different in mind.
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The Digital Project Manager
OCTOBER 8, 2018
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Leading Agile
OCTOBER 8, 2018
My home office has a window. The window has plantation shutters. When I work at home, I usually open the shutters all the way to fill the room with natural light. One fine day not too long ago, I opened the shutters just a little. The room was lighted more softly. I felt energized and I had a great work day. On an internal Slack channel, I told my colleagues that I had Hawthorned myself.
Scrum.org
OCTOBER 8, 2018
In Scrum, Product Owner is responsible for maximizing the value of product being developed by Development Team. This implies that a product’s success relies heavily on the Product Owner role. I have consolidated the attributes from Mike Cohn’s book “Succeeding with Agile” with few more must-have attributes for this role: Visionary - Product Owner must have a solid vision on what (s)he would like to deliver to the customers.
Planview
OCTOBER 8, 2018
“WRM is an approach that enables management to better understand how an organization operates and establishes a collaborative environment within which work is assigned and prioritized.”. -Mark Smith, CEO and Chief Research Officer, Ventana Research. In the previous three parts of this series, we have discussed some challenges and obstacles to work and resource management (WRM) faced by executives, how technology is key to a successful execution of WRM, and how aligning WRM to other digital trans
Scrum.org
OCTOBER 8, 2018
Scrum Master. One of the mandatory Scrum roles. Ever important to dictate the Development Team what to do. Keep track of metrics. Gather people to the daily Scrum. Hold performance reviews. Make sure the team improves and that if more Development Team members are needed, you fix that impediment! Right? If you're a Scrum Master reading this right now and think not much of it, it's time to UP your Scrum!
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
Velociteach
OCTOBER 8, 2018
Well facilitated brainstorming sessions are amazing. A creative, sharing atmosphere is built. Numerous ideas are generated. Participants feel productive, valued, and are enthusiastic. By contrast, poorly run meetings are horrible. Little is accomplished. People feel frustrated and that they wasted their time. Brainstorming is a valuable tool and has an almost endless number of uses: […] The post Conducting a Successful Brainstorming Meeting appeared first on PMP Certification Exam Prep
Teamweek
OCTOBER 8, 2018
Regardless of your experience level in project management, you’ve probably heard of Monday’s project management software. While Monday.com is one of the most popular software options on the market, like all software, it has its flaws. Today, we’re going to take a look at some of those flaws and provide software solution recommendations to help fill the gaps.
Stepping Into Project Management
OCTOBER 8, 2018
How was your day? If you are getting started for this week, so am I with some great news about the PMO Virtual Summit that I talked about last week. Did you get a chance to download the free ebook? If not, you can still click here. So, PMO Virtual Summit is a three day virtual event (yep, no travelling involved), where the world global thought leaders on PMO will be speaking.
Musings on Project Management
OCTOBER 8, 2018
The physicist. is an expert in matter, motion, and energy, and has one simple task: to take energy from here and put it over there. [And] we have the engineer, who makes all things possible. Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysicist Ooops, did the eminence of astrophysics forget project managers? Physicists may indeed move the energy. who can forget "the bomb"?
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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.
TimeCamp
OCTOBER 8, 2018
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