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What Is The Scrum Methodology? Complete Guide To All Things Scrum

The Digital Project Manager

If you’ve spent any time in digital project management, you’ve likely heard of the Scrum methodology. Scrum is a popular project management methodology that has been widely adopted in a variety of industries. 91% of organizations state that it is a strategic priority to adopt agile. (Source: KPMG) When companies say they are following an […]. The post What Is The Scrum Methodology?

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The Incremental Model of Decision Making: What You Need to Know

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Is it hard to get people to make the big decisions? I know what it’s like: analysis paralysis kicks in, and the responsibilities of making a big call can weigh heavy on stakeholders… so they procrastinate, and you don’t get any answer at all. There is a decision-making approach that takes some of the weightiness out of deciding what to do. How much easier would it be to solve a problem a piece at a time instead of having to leap to the end straightaway?

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What Is Resource Loading and Why Does It Matter in Project Management?

ProjectManager.com

You’ve heard it countless times; teams are projects’ most valuable resource. They do the work. But a project manager has to connect each team member to that work. Resource loading is a process to keep team members fully engaged throughout the project. Being able to balance the resource load across your team is important. Resource loading in project management helps you avoid overallocation, which can erode morale and weaken productivity.

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How To Create A Procurement Management Plan In 8 Easy Steps

The Digital Project Manager

If you’re not using a procurement management plan and working in tandem with the procurement team, you’re missing a key step in managing risk on your project and staying on budget and on schedule. The procurement management plan sets the boundaries for the entire procurement process, and covers risk management, vendor management, and even the […].

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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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Using the 5 Whys in Project Management

LiquidPlanner

Nearly 2,500 years ago, Socrates (when he was not occupied with founding Western philosophy and instructing his star student, Plato) pioneered a method of asking questions that led people to draw conclusions and pursue deeper truths and realities. His practice of relentlessly picking apart ideas earned him the deserved reputation of being the gadfly of philosophy.

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What is Estimate at Completion – EAC? | Video

Online PM Courses

Often, most important measure in Earned Value Management (EVM) is the Estimate at Completion (EAC). So, what is the Estimate at Completion? The post What is Estimate at Completion – EAC? | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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Das Problem mit dem Produkt-Ziel und der Product Goal Canvas — Making Your Scrum Work (28) ??

Scrum.org

In Kürze: Das Problem mit dem Produkt-Ziel und der Product Goal Canvas. In Scrum planen wir viel: Es gibt einen täglichen Plan, wenn die Entwickler während des Daily Scrum darüber nachdenken, wie sie heute dem Sprint-Ziel näher kommen können. Natürlich spiegelt das Sprint-Ziel selbst ein größeres Etappenziel wider, das das Scrum-Team für wertvoll hält, um die Probleme seiner Kunden zu lösen.

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Project Manager Over Engagement – A Challenge for Our Time

International Institute for Learning

By Ruth Pearce. At a project manager symposium in September 2022, 87% of the audience said they had burned out at some time in the career. At another event that number was more than 90%! Over-engagement may be part of the problem! When my book was accepted by the publisher Berrett-Koehler Publishers , I could not have been more excited [i]. I put as much effort into that book as I had ever put into anything.

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The Environmentally Aware Project Manager

Project Accelerator News

Much of a project manager ‘s time is taken up with juggling limited resources so it’s a natural progression to think about project managers being environmentally aware and helping to use the Earth’s limited natural resources to best effect. Project Management is often concerned with managing limited resources – there never seems to be enough time allocated to complete the project or to complete individual tasks within the project.

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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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8 Productivity Hacks You Can Do in 30 Minutes

International Institute for Learning

<link rel=” canonical” href=” 8 Productivity Hacks You Can Do in 30 Minutes | Nir & Far (nirandfar.com) ”> By Nir Eyal. They’re part of the secret of becoming Indistractable. Got a few minutes? Then why not use them to implement these quick fixes that cut distraction and aid productivity? I uncovered these productivity fixes while researching how to combat distraction and increase productivity for my book Indistractable , and I’ve relied on them ever since.

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Stakeholder Mapping

Techno-PM

A stakeholder mapping template is a helpful tool for visualizing and prioritizing stakeholders’ needs. This template has been designed to help you identify how stakeholders' interests may be related to your project or business idea. Download Project Management Templates ! The information gathered from this mapping process will then allow you to put together a list of all relevant stakeholder needs for your project or business idea to be taken care of before starting any other work on the project

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Authentic and Vulnerable Leadership: Ways to Put it into Practice Today

PM Times

“Authentic”, “vulnerable”, “empathic”, “emotionally intelligent”… these are positive attributes often sought in leaders and cited as essential elements of effective leadership in the contemporary work environment. But how deeply are these concepts really understood, and how can they genuinely be expressed day-to-day? But first… What does authentic and vulnerable leadership really mean?

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What’s your Management Style?

International Institute for Learning

By Catherine Stothart. A version of this article was published in the UK in CIPD Regional Insights , June 2022. Management style is the second most common cause of stress at work, after workload [i]. Managers are at the heart of people’s experience of their workplace. What they do and say has a big impact on how their teams think and feel, and hence on motivation, engagement, and performance.

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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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Major Differences Between PMBOK Guide 6th and 7th Editions

PMExperto

PMBOK Guide (A Guide to Project Management Body of Knowledge) is a publication from PMI (Project Management Institute). It is considered as a Standard for project management. The latest version of the Guide is 7th edition, which was released in August 2021. Prior to this 6th edition was published in 2017.

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The Agile Dynamic Systems Development Method for Strategic PMs

The Strategic Project Manager

The Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM) is a core agile method emphasizing a strong business foundation up front, and execution through the full project development life cycle. This post looks at the key principles and core techniques of DSDM, the strategic implications, and a strategic project manager’s perspective of the DSDM process. What Is the Agile Dynamic Systems Development Method?

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