Thu.Dec 15, 2022

article thumbnail

Project Monitoring: The Beginner’s Guide

Teamweek

Effective project monitoring helps keep the moving parts of a project flowing. But maintaining one eye on the broader picture is challenging for even the most experienced project managers. Staff members fall sick, clients push out the project scope, and even if just one or two of your subtasks take longer to complete than the estimates. In this guide, you’ll learn what project monitoring is, the three key constraints, and how to monitor them effectively.

article thumbnail

Organizational Competencies: What They Are and How to Develop Them

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I worked in the IT team at my old job. We did a fair amount of off-the-shelf software deployments, and we frequently made the point that we were a healthcare company, not a software development firm. We did have a team of developers who built some in-house apps, and web front ends to databases, but we were not, at heart, a company that built software.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Back to the Foundations of the Scrum Framework - Introduction (00)

Scrum.org

In the heat of "the battle" teams tend to forget why they use the Scrum framework after all and what the foundations are of it. Why do we have Sprint Planning sessions every other week, why does our Product Owner has these or those accountabilities, why did we started using a team board after all, why did. . There are loads of blogs and articles on specific practices, tools and techniques.

SCRUM 189
article thumbnail

Gantt Chart Vs Timeline: Similarities and Differences Explained

nTask

When it comes to planning and managing projects, many people prefer the Gantt Chart method. This basic visual tool is simple to understand, easy to use, and can help you stay organized and on track. However, there are times when the Timeline method may be a better choice. For instance, if you’re dealing with a […].

Planning 158
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Facilitation and Conflict - Graceful Conflict

Scrum.org

Facilitating Conflict. This is the fourth and final installment of the four-part series on conflict. In the first part, we explored why we need conflict. In the second how to establish a space that will be conducive to exploration of ideas. In the third some techniques to review suggestions and ideas. In this post, we will explore a pattern to guide the group through a conflict objectively. .

More Trending

article thumbnail

MacBook instructions for boost your productivity

Binfire

One of the worst feelings is when we want to produce crazy ideas, we waste precious working time on routine tasks that could easily be automated if our laptop did these tasks automatically. It’s time to learn how to “pump” performance from a MacBook. Our brains are wired so that complex tasks go into procrastination mode. To avoid this, development should be gradual.

article thumbnail

New Updates | Release 36 Summary

LiquidPlanner

Release 36 | December 15, 2022. We’re ending the year with a bundle of goodies to monitor progress and delivering on a popular customer request for Workload filtering. Over 85 new features and optimizations were released in 2022, many of them inspired by customer feedback. Thank you! More is coming in 2023. Insights Widget. One of the best things about Predictive Scheduling is the ability to see far into the future.

2022 78
article thumbnail

Solving Real Business Problems With DevOps and Agile

Leading Agile

Mike Cottmeyer chats with CTO Matt Van Vleet about the currently emerging patterns we’re seeing in Agile and DevOps. They explore how some of the lingering assumptions that don’t apply to the present state of DevOps can get in the way of actually solving the real business problems we expect DevOps and Agile to solve.

Agile 75
article thumbnail

20 Steal-worthy Interview Questions for Manager’s Position

Teamweek

Are you asking the right management interview questions? Managers are some of the most important people in your business. But getting to know them before they join your organization all too often comes down to the type and quality of interview questions you choose to ask. Figuring out how seemingly-perfect candidates compare to each other is a crucial part of the process.

article thumbnail

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

article thumbnail

Utility maximalist

Musings on Project Management

Is your instinct to be a 'utility maximalist'?If so, you are someone who wants to ring every dollar of functional effectiveness out of every dollar spent.And why not?Is the alternative just a waste of money?About UtilityUtility, for this discussion, is the value placed on a functionality or feature or outcome compared to its actual cost input. Ideally, you would want more utility value than cost.

article thumbnail

What’s new in Toggl Track • Q4 2022

Teamweek

The last quarter of 2022 at Toggl Track was all about features designed to make your workspace look tidier and run better — and to make it easier for you to keep an eye on it all. You now archive clients rather than delete them and hide weekends from your reports. We also have have a new setting to view total billable hours on your Timer page. We also released brand new desktop apps for Mac and Windows and added Live Activities and Dynamic Island support for our iOS app.

2022 52
article thumbnail

MindGenius Online app launch with Microsoft Teams.

MindGenius

With the transition to hybrid work in the last few years, more organizations are becoming reliant on collaboration tools to get your work done from anywhere. Now more than ever, it’s crucial that teams can work on one platform to share their thoughts and related information in one centralized location. With this in mind, we are excited to announce that MindGenius Online is now fully integrated with Microsoft Teams via our fully functional Microsoft Teams app.

article thumbnail

Offboarding Process - In-depth Guide

ActiveCollab

Employees will leave your company, whether by resigning or being laid off, and you can hardly do anything about it. When that happens, an offboarding process allows a much smoother transition, keeps everything organized, and ensures that employment ends on good terms. While we understand that goodbyes are never easy, an offboarding process makes everything better and more convenient.

Process 69
article thumbnail

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.