Musings on Project Management
JUNE 13, 2022
In my experience, a lot of projects operate more or less on the edge of risk, with no real plan beyond common sense and a bit of past experience to muddle through if things go wrong.Problematic, as a process, but to paraphrase the late Donald Rumsfeld: You do the project with the resources and plan you have, not the resources or plan you wantYou may want a robust risk plan, but you may not have.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
JUNE 13, 2022
When I asked over 200 project managers what task they would most like to drop, meetings were near the top of the list (just after project documentation). So what would life look like if it was easier to have meetings and take notes afterward? That’s what I use Otter for. Let me tell you why it’s so great. What is Otter? Otter.ai is an artificial intelligence tool for productive, collaborative meetings.
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LiquidPlanner
JUNE 13, 2022
Remember that hit from the ’80s, “Who Can It Be Now”? The vocalist seems racked with paranoia, wondering who could be knocking on his door. “Is it the man come to take me away?” And later in the song, “go away, don’t come around here no more.” These feelings are sometimes our reality in the project management world. We dread that next call from our customer, the project management office leader, or a company executive looking for answers or updates on our latest project.
Scrum.org
JUNE 13, 2022
Do you follow a professional sports team like soccer? If so, you may have had a similar thought to the one we have at Amazing Outcomes. Especially if you work in or with an (agile) team, we would like to share our thoughts: Imagine two soccer teams. In team A, all the team members know the rules of the game inside out. Within these boundaries, they play their game, pass the ball to each other and advance towards the goal.
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Scoro
JUNE 13, 2022
The transition to a 4 day work week is a fundamental change for Scoro – we’re essentially compressing our usual 40 hours a week to just 4 days. This means we need to be as efficient as possible, making the most of the days we do have and giving our team a solid foundation to thrive. With this in mind, we’ve developed a set of time-saving methods that will enable us to deliver the same level of outcomes – if not more – as we did previously.
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Scoro
JUNE 13, 2022
As Scoro makes the move to a 4 day work week, we’re spotlighting seven key focus areas in order to optimize our existing processes. In this post, we’re taking a closer look at Automation. With a shorter workweek reducing our working hours, it’s key that we re-evaluate our workflows, suss out any weak spots, and introduce automation in places that will make the most impact and increase efficiency.
Scrum.org
JUNE 13, 2022
Kein UX-Designer im Team? Mit diesen 3 einfachen Techniken kann dein Scrum Team noch heute mit UX-Research beginnen. . Müssen Scrum Teams wirklich Schritt für Schritt alle Stadien im UX-Reifegrad-Modell durchlaufen oder gibt es auch eine Abkürzung? . Im Jahr 1939 kam der Mathematikstudent George Dantzig zu spät zur Vorlesung, was ihm zu weltweitem Ruhm verhalf. .
Scoro
JUNE 13, 2022
As Scoro makes the transition to a 4 day workweek, we’re homing in on seven key focus areas in order to optimize our existing processes. In this post, we’re taking a closer look at Well-being. . Though a key objective of the 4 day workweek will be to enhance our team’s happiness and overall health, we want to go one step further. We want to set our team to be as happy and healthy as possible ahead of the launch.
Scrum.org
JUNE 13, 2022
Verfolgen Sie hin und wieder ein Team im Profisport, z.B. Fußball? Dann ging Ihnen möglicherweise schon mal ein ähnlicher Gedanke durch den Kopf wie uns bei Amazing Outcomes. Insbesondere wenn Sie in oder mit einem (agilen) Team arbeiten, möchten wir Sie zu einem kleinen Gedankenexperiment einladen: Stellen Sie sich zwei Fußballteams vor. Im Team A kennen alle Teammitglieder die Spielregeln aus dem Effeff.
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
Scoro
JUNE 13, 2022
As Scoro makes the transition to a 4 day work week, we’re bringing seven key focus areas under the microscope to optimize our existing process and pave the way for a smooth rollout. In this post, we’re taking a closer look at Time Management. Having a direct impact on performance and productivity, time management is a key focus area that will help us make the shift to a 4 day work week.
Teamweek
JUNE 13, 2022
Looking for planner ideas to streamline your schedule? In this article, you’ll learn about things to put in your planner that make your schedule clutter-free and bring clarity to it. As a result, you’ll get work done faster without feeling rushed. You don’t need a specific tool to implement these ideas. They work equally well, whether you use one of the top planning apps available today or other types of planners such as digital and journal planners.
Scoro
JUNE 13, 2022
As Scoro makes the transition to a 4 day work week, we’re homing in on seven key focus areas in order to optimize our existing processes (Meetings, Wellbeing, Focus, Communication, Automation, Time Management, and Operations). In this post, we kick off with Meetings. As the foundation of an organization’s means of communication, meetings have a significant impact, for better or for worse, on productivity.
Teamweek
JUNE 13, 2022
If you think the tech market is flooded with talent, the stats will prove you wrong. In early 2022, general unemployment sits at 4%. The tech sector is even lower at just 1.7% , causing a squeeze on candidate availability. In 2022, data suggests that 86% of the most qualified candidates are already employed and not actively seeking a new role. But it’s not all doom and gloom, as the outlook for tech hiring remains strong: 40% of companies hired tech staff during the pandemic, and 66% plan to add
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Scoro
JUNE 13, 2022
As Scoro makes the transition to a 4 day workweek, we’ve identified seven key focus areas in order to optimize our existing processes. In this post, we’re taking a closer look at Focus. . With the 4 day workweek cutting eight hours out of our employees’ schedule, being able to better focus during working hours will be key. With this in mind, we’ve introduced new frameworks to optimize focus and to help staff achieve a ‘flow state’.
Celoxis
JUNE 13, 2022
TestCollab is one of the best test management tool to help development teams carry out testing effectively and avoid failures. There are many alternatives available today, each with distinctive features. To help you decide which test management tool suits your organization’s requirement, we’ve compiled a list of best TestCollab alternatives that might help you select the tool.
Scoro
JUNE 13, 2022
As Scoro makes the transition to a 4 day work week, we’re sharing a series of frameworks – across seven different focus areas – based on our key objectives for long-term success. In this post, we’re taking a closer look at Communication. With the onset of the 4 day workweek, Scoro will only have 32 hours a week to get work done. And in order to be as efficient as possible moving forward, we will need to streamline communications to make the most of the time that we do have at our disposal. .
Online PM Courses
JUNE 13, 2022
Project Definition isn't just the first main stage of your project. It's also the foundation on which you will build your whole project. The post Robust Project Definition: How to Build it and the Components you Need appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.
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You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.
Scrum.org
JUNE 13, 2022
TL; DR: Scrum Developer Anti-Patterns. After covering the anti-patterns of the Scrum Master, the Product Owner, and the stakeholders, this article addresses Scrum Developer anti-patterns, covering all Scrum Events and the Product Backlog artifact. Continue reading and learn more about what to look out for if you want to support your teammates who build the Increment. ????
Scoro
JUNE 13, 2022
As Scoro moves to a 4 day work week, we’re bringing seven key focus areas to the fore, and doing all we can to optimize our existing processes in these areas. In this post, we’re looking at Operations. The four day work week will have several underlying implications that we need to address to make sure the transition goes as smoothly as possible – but also for the roll-out to succeed in the long term.
Bridge the Gap Consulting
JUNE 13, 2022
What the hell just happened? One minute, the project is moving along. The next, chaos. Some issue suddenly rears its ugly head and throws a wrench in progress. Whether this issue started as a known or unknown risk, a once happy team is suddenly stressed. Patience is frayed. Fingers are pointing. Blame is creeping in. The project issue is fading from view.
Teamweek
JUNE 13, 2022
“This time, it’s going to be different.”. Why do you get off the phone with your clients–so positive, ready, and confident it’ll be smooth sailing–yet the tides often turn the other way? Scope creep is the phenomenon where project requirements sneakily grow and change from the original agreement, without being accounted for in the timeline or the final service cost.
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