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How to Create a Performance Measurement Baseline for Your Projects

ProjectManager.com

Projects are planned and then life happens. Ideally, project managers know better than to execute their project plans without a performance measurement baseline. They need to know immediately if their team is on track or falling behind. Without that knowledge, the project is running blindly, and anyone who’s tried this knows the dangers. A performance measurement baseline provides a window into the project that allows project managers to see roadblocks and resolve them before the project hits a

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Retrospektiven-Prinzipien für erfolgreiche Scrum-Teams ????

Scrum.org

TL; DR: 15 Retrospektiven-Prinzipien. Was halten Sie von der Retrospektive: Eine Routineübung am Ende eines Sprints, unterstützt durch Standardarbeitsanweisungen? Oder ein wichtiger Teil der Bemühungen eines Scrum-Teams um kontinuierliche Verbesserung? Wie Sie vielleicht vermuten, plädiere ich für Letzteres. Meiner Erfahrung nach schöpfen Scrum-Teams das Potenzial von Retrospektiven erst dann voll aus, wenn sie eine Reihe von Retrospektiven-Prinzipien verinnerlichen, in denen das Warum, das Was

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Who Is Responsible in Agile Transformation?

Leading Agile

If you want to be successful at Agile Transformation —especially at scale—you’ll need more than Agile Coaches teaching your teams the ceremonies of Scrum or how to do SAFe and LeSS. Why? Because the #1 reason Agile Transformations fail in large organizations is that they aren’t set up with the right underlying ecosystem for Agile to work within in the first place. .

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Risk Management Process Explained (+resources, templates)

PM Basics

I’ve been managing software development projects for more than 11 years. Risk management is arguably the most crucial piece in my project management approach. Therefore, I spent lots of time and effort creating a practical risk management process. Risk management process is a structured approach to identifying, assessing, addressing, and controlling risks.

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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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Professional Development Day 2022 – IGNITE!

International Institute for Learning

Friday, September 23, 2022, 9:00 AM to 1:30 PM EST. PDD 2022 Ignite your future with new skills, add to your professional network, and develop as a leader. Earn up to 10 PDU’s. Together we will ignite your career path toward greatness. PMI has become and continues to be the leading professional association in project management. The goal of the Metrolina chapter is to advance the mission and objectives of the Project Management Institute.

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Project Quality Management: A Getting Started Guide For Agile Teams

nTask

You delivered the product/services, everything was on time, and everyone worked hard, but something is amiss. Maybe the product's quality is lacking, or the project itself wasn't very high-quality. Often we are so focused on delivering the products/services on time that we forget a very essential aspect of the project. Project quality management. Quality precedes […].

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Qualitative Risk Analysis Example: How to Perform Risk Assessment

PM Basics

Qualitative risk analysis boosts the chances for project success dramatically. If I were to choose one thing to improve in my project management – it would be it. Why? I honestly believe that this risk analysis in more than enough for small and medium projects. Qualitative Risk Analysis is the process of prioritizing risks for further analysis or action by assessing and combining their probability of occurrence and impact.

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Best of PMTimes – The Faux Thinking: “I Know It All”

PM Times

Often, I feel I am living under a delusion that I know the answers to all the questions when it relates to me. Fair enough, right? Each of us knows ourselves the best. However, a self-assessment check is not only a healthy habit but also aids in taking corrective actions based on the results. […]. The post Best of PMTimes – The Faux Thinking: “I Know It All” appeared first on Project Management Articles, Webinars, Templates and Jobs.

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Risk Management Examples: 9 Behind the Scenes Stories

PM Basics

It is hard to imagine what you can do with a project risk. Yes. Avoid, mitigate, transfer , and so on. But what does it mean? What specific actions can you take to avoid something? What can you, as a project manager, do to mitigate a risk? Adding some risk reserves and removing requirements from the scope are not the only options. I want to share some stories of risk management with you.

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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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Synchronize Azure DevOps work items with Priority Matrix

Appfluence

With Priority Matrix task connectors, you can keep your external task and project data in its original location, but prioritize it using Priority Matrix. In this article, we will explain how to automatically synchronize Azure DevOps work items with Priority Matrix. Azure DevOps is a suite of tools for software developers to manage the complete lifecycle of their applications, from ideation and design, to deployment and maintenance.

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Virtual is not face-face! Who knew?

Musings on Project Management

".virtual collaboration is like evaporated milk with 60% of the water removed; safer; mostly up to the job, but a sterile version of face-to-face that leaves an unsatisfying aftertaste""Bartelby" columnist in the "Economist"Our columnist goes on:"There are downsides to being a clinically efficient worker. They include relinquishing the daily banter and complicity among colleagues.

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Professional Growth and Educating Yourself for Success

Scrum.org

. Gaining knowledge for your future requires intentional effort. With current technology there is little excuse to not level up every week and lock new information in. In this video, we will give you some tips on how you can level up. . In a hurry? Read the video transcript.

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SLACK VS TRELLO 2022: SETTLING THE DEBATE FOR GOOD

nTask

Digitalization accelerated over the past few decades and paved the way for the development of digital communication platforms. It comes as no surprise that businesses of all kinds require constant communication in all directions. The COVID Pandemic acted as a catalyst in two ways. One, it paced up the already accelerating global digitalization. Two, it […].

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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.

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Microsoft Graph API and Priority Matrix

Appfluence

What is Microsoft Graph API? Microsoft Graph is the data system that governs data within the Microsoft 365 system. The Microsoft Graph API provides a gateway into those data sources. What is Priority Matrix? Priority Matrix by Appfluence is a leading prioritization software that uses the Eisenhower Method to help teams prioritize projects, tasks, and emails, aligning on what matters most.

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How To Proactively Handle Team Scheduling Conflicts

Teamweek

Your project deadline’s in three days. Some tasks took you longer than expected, and there’s no wiggle room in the schedule. Then, you realize that you’ve assigned your graphic designer to meet with a new client for planning sessions over the next three days. So unless they can clone themselves and work on both assignments at the same time, your project is going to miss its deadline.