Wed.Jul 15, 2020

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Schedule Variance: What Is It & How Do I Calculate It?

ProjectManager.com

Project managers are responsible for tasks across every part of a business. They have to schedule work, manage people, manage budgets and wrangle technology—just to name a few. If you had to boil it down and define the core function of a project manager in just one sentence, it would be something like, “Project managers ensure work is finished on time and within budget.”.

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Agile.FM Podcast with Dan Vacanti about the Professional Scrum with Kanban (PSK) course

Scrum.org

I had the pleasure to sit down with Dan Vacanti , who has helped develop the Kanban Method and is the course steward of Scrum.org's Professional Scrum with Kanban course, and record this Agile.FM episode. Dan and I talk about Scrum with Kanban and how agile processes can compliment each other. We talked about the communities, metrics and predictability which does not come as a surprise as Dan is also the author of two agile books: .

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New Feature – Repeat Bookings ?? ?? ?? ??

Resource Guru

We’ve just released one of our most hotly-requested features – Repeat Bookings ! It’s now easier than ever to add those Monday morning catchups or monthly team meetings. Everything you’d expect … and a little more. You’ve always been able to add daily repeats to Resource Guru. Now you can also repeat bookings weekly, fortnightly, monthly or yearly and if that’s not enough for you, there’s even a custom option.

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Remote working and the tax man

Musings on Project Management

Working from home? Never done that before? Guess what: If you're working remotely from a State different from your usual workplace, beware the remote-working tax man. Work in; work from: Except for a few States, like Florida, Texas, and Washington, others have -- or may have -- income taxes that apply if you work in -- or from -- those States, in some cases: as little as one day.

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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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The Inevitability of change

Scrum.org

There is no such thing as an Agile Transformation, Digital Transformation, DevOps Transformation, or any of the Whatever Transformation that you can think of or have been sold. You can’t buy agility, and you certainly can’t install it. There is no end state, no optimal outcome, No best practices. We are no longer factory workers. Instead, you have to grow, nurture, and prune agility as it grows organically inside your organization and eventually, you too will be able to take advantage of busine

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What is Opportunity Cost? | Video

Online PM Courses

There's an old saying: ‘Time is money’. When working on one thing, you lose the chance to use your time more productively. It's all about Opportunity Cost. The post What is Opportunity Cost? | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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4 Solutions to Common Professional Services PM Pain Points

EasyProjects

Here’s a common scenario for professional services team leaders: Another work week has begun and you received a calendar invite for a Wednesday executive update meeting. You already know you’re going to have to cancel any meetings you had booked today in order to start gathering all status updates from each department. Once gathered, you spend hours summarizing the information from various platforms like Google Sheets, Excel documents, phone calls, and emails.

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A Guide to Writing an Effective Requirements Management Plan

Wrike

More than 80% of project managers and team leaders believe that process requirements don’t articulate the needs of the business. This can lead to a higher project failure rate. The solution? Learn how to create a r equirements management plan that aligns business and project values that your entire team can get behind. . In this post, we’ll define what requirements management is (and isn’t).

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4 Solutions to Common Professional Services PM Pain Points

EasyProjects

Here’s a common scenario for professional services team leaders: Another work week has begun and you received a calendar invite for a Wednesday executive update meeting. You already know you’re going to have to cancel any meetings you had booked today in order to start gathering all status updates from each department. Once gathered, you spend hours summarizing the information from various platforms like Google Sheets, Excel documents, phone calls, and emails.

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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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How Being Bad At Ceramics Made Me A Better Writer

Teamweek

I’m primarily a writer, but in 2015, on a whim, I take a ceramics class. I haven’t messed with clay since grade school, but all my friends are doing it; ceramics have become the hot new art craze and a welcome respite from all that is high tech and polished. The idea of a creative practice that doesn’t involve looking at a screen sounds vastly appealing.

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4 Solutions to Common Professional Services PM Pain Points

EasyProjects

Here’s a common scenario for professional services team leaders: Another work week has begun and you received a calendar invite for a Wednesday executive update meeting. You already know you’re going to have to cancel any meetings you had booked today in order to start gathering all status updates from each department. Once gathered, you spend hours summarizing the information from various platforms like Google Sheets, Excel documents, phone calls, and emails.