Tue.Jun 30, 2020

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10 Career-Limiting Mistakes To Avoid

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I write a lot about how to be better at your job, how to excel at interview , how to improve your skills and so on, and I interview a lot of experts who talk about those kinds of things. Today I want to talk about the opposite: what you should avoid doing at work. I’ve seen project managers and other colleagues crash and burn. It’s not nice to watch, and I hope it doesn’t happen to you.

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Things Every Agile Executive Should Know

Scrum.org

Becoming agile is about more than just Jira and Scrum. To be a successful company, the entire organization must play their part. But how? An agile executive would know. In this Lunch and Learn, Robb Pieper, CEO of Responsive Advisors will discuss areas affected by the agile delivery with some general solutions to common problems in seven areas. We’ll look at topics related to complex domain business strategy, finance, accounting, people management, change management, contracting, and vendor mana

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Fighting Uncertainty in Project Management: Arm Yourself with the Right Tool

Epicflow Blog

In project management, even if you’re a talented and experienced project manager, you definitely know you can’t control everything. Uncertainties can concern both internal factors, such as cost, time, and scope issues, and external ones, such as economic crises, illnesses, and different kinds of restrictions caused by these phenomena. Making decisions in an uncertain environment is an essential part of not only a project manager’s work, but also the project team’s duties.

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Inspiring Product Development with Sprint Review Canvas

Scrum.org

A Sprint Review is perhaps one of the most difficult elements in the product development with Scrum. When I started out as Scrum Master, I didn’t attach much importance to this meeting. Therefore, during the first three years in this role, all my sprint reviews were limited to showing the results to the Product Owner. After a while when I read Scrum Guide it turned out that I did not understand the purpose of this meeting.

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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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Project Management Tools: How to Choose the Best One for Your Organization

GanttPRO Project Management

Project planning is a crucial part of every company. Global consultancy Bain & Company reports that by 2027 most work will be project-based. Because of most processes getting automated or […]. The post Project Management Tools: How to Choose the Best One for Your Organization first appeared on GanttPRO.

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Project Management Tools: How to Choose the Best One for Your Organization

GanttPRO Project Management

Project planning is a crucial part of every company. Global consultancy Bain & Company reports that by 2027 most work will be project-based. Because of most processes getting automated or […].

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Book Review - I Want to Be An ACP: Important Not Only for The Exam, But Also A Treasure of Knowledge To Apply in The Real-World

Management Yogi

By Suresh Juturu, PMP, ACP, CSM The book written by Satya Narayan Dash – I Want To Be An ACP, the plain and simple way to be a PMI-ACP - is particularly written for candidates aspiring to clear the Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP®) examination. This certification examination is from Project Management Institute (PMI®). Chapters Covered The book covers all the important topics.

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Project Management Tools: How to Choose the Best One for Your Organization

GanttPRO Project Management

Project planning is a crucial part of every company. Global consultancy Bain & Company reports that by 2027 most work will be project-based.

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Development Team - the most omitted Scrum role

Scrum.org

You might have already read about an exercise I am performing in every Scrum class I hold - I ask participants to list Roles, Artifacts and Events in Scrum. Each of those categories has the most omitted element. Lets's take a look at the most omitted role: The Development Team. Instead of the Development Team you can find (in order of frequency of appearance): (nothning). developer. scrum team (which is not very wrong - I'll elaborate below).

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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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Social and Governance Factors in Projects

PM Times

Written by: George Pitagorsky This next article in the series on the relevance (materiality, in the terms of the investment community) of environmental, social and governance (ESG).

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Not So New, but Definitely Much Improved - Column View

ActiveCollab

The Column View rework was one of the most anticipated feature updates for many of our users. The whole user interface was rebuilt from the ground up with loads of aesthetic improvements and performance upgrades. Our goal with this update was to maintain a similar look and feel for all those who loved it the way it was, while also making sure we cover all the most requested feature requests that we could fit in.

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Marketing Calendar Software to Streamline Your Campaigns

Wrike

Does your team have a go-to marketing calendar software solution? It should. Whether you’re running a brand-new startup or you’re managing marketing operations at a well-established organization, it’s critical to create a marketing schedule that will guide your promotional efforts and keep new content and campaigns flowing regularly. . While a simple spreadsheet may seem like a cost-effective solution, things can quickly become complicated when coordinating content across multiple channels.

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Progress follows Habits !

Scrum.org

Habits first and then progress follows ! There is a huge power in the little things. It's never that single workout that you missed or that one night you ate mindlessly. That doesn't hurt your progress, stop beating yourself up for it ! In reality, it's the fifty other things, hundred other choices you don't even think about that could be stopping your progress.

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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.