Project Risk Coach
OCTOBER 26, 2020
Years ago, I had a great job managing about 50 Information Technology professionals. However, I wanted to become a project manager. Therefore, I made a difficult decision to change companies and jobs. Consequently, I needed ways to learn project management quickly. Perhaps you're looking for ways to boost your project management knowledge and skills.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
OCTOBER 26, 2020
What is a fixed date project? A fixed date project is one that has a defined — and often unmovable — end date for delivery. Hitting the date is compulsory, which means we can’t plan the project as we would normally do using best practice scheduling techniques. Here are some examples of fixed date projects: Legal and compliance projects to help the business comply with things like new regulations introduced on a certain day Construction work where the project is happening in an
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Scrum.org
OCTOBER 26, 2020
TL; DR: The Cargo Cult Agile Checklist for Download. You want to know the state of agility in your organization? Here we go: Download the checklist, distribute it generously among your colleagues, and run a quick poll. It will only take 5 minutes of their time–and then analyze their feedback. If the average number of checkboxes marked is higher than nine, then you are probably practicing cargo cult agile in one form or another.
EasyProjects
OCTOBER 26, 2020
Best practices to prioritize projects. Suppose your organization’s annual planning exercise comes up with 50 projects that would cost perhaps $10 million, but you have the capacity and financial resources for only $2.5 million, you are in great shape, right? You have a wealth of possibilities from which to choose. Well, no–not in great shape yet.
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MPUG
OCTOBER 26, 2020
The Microsoft Project product family has so many solutions, pricing structures, and platforms to choose from that it can be confusing to many people on what to use. In this article, I hope to clear up some of this confusion and make some predictions. Let’s begin by comparing the different solutions. On-Premise Solutions. The players here are Standard and Professional.
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Scrum.org
OCTOBER 26, 2020
On the 25th birthday of Scrum, I have a free gift for all Scrum practitioners. Do you know any Executive who is willing to spend 15 minutes to save 15% or more on the cost of their company's Scrum adoption.? ;) . If yes, please give them this free gift - a 15 minute video on "Intro to Scrum For Executives". It contains what I learned about the essence of Scrum from my gurus - Ken Schwaber, Gunther Verheyen , the Scrum.org community, my 1000's of students and my clients.
Online PM Courses
OCTOBER 26, 2020
Taking over an existing project is not ideal. How can you make your next project takeover succeed? One day you'll need our ultimate secrets. The post One Day You’ll Need Our Ultimate Secrets to Project Takeover appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.
MPUG
OCTOBER 26, 2020
In schedule management, one of the scheduling approaches to develop a project or program schedule is the Critical Path Method (CPM). This is one of the oldest and widely used scheduling methods. The CPM determines the shortest possible time the project can complete, along with the end date of the project. The main way to determine the critical path is by using the forward pass and backward pass technique.
Agilemania
OCTOBER 26, 2020
To understand the Undone work, one must first understand the Definition of DONE. Definition of DONE as pre-Scrum Guide states, “When a Product Backlog item or an Increment is described as DONE everyone must understand what DONE means” In other words, the DONE means RELEASABLE. UNDONE means the pending work on the Increment that stops it from being releasable.
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
APM
OCTOBER 26, 2020
Association for Project Management (APM) member Brian Paynter, programme director for Network Rail, has been awarded the MBE as part of the Queen’s Birthday Honours, for services to the railway safety and to charity.
Agilemania
OCTOBER 26, 2020
Description Scrum Masters do a lot at work, but many say it is a thankless job. What’s the meaning of a thankless job? We also hear Scrum Masters actively do nothing, and that confuses. Let’s discuss meaningful work for a Scrum master and find a balance in actively doing nothing versus helping the scrum team perform at their best. About… The post How to Actively Do Nothing as a Scrum Master appeared first on Agilemania.
APM
OCTOBER 26, 2020
Throughout Black History Month, Association for Project Management (APM) has been using social media to highlight contributions of black project professionals to major projects in recent history. To mark the end of the month – and to help keep the conversation going beyond October – we’re resharing some of these remarkable stories.
Lynne Cazaly
OCTOBER 26, 2020
Many of us think we're not creative. At all. Perhaps it's more that we don't feel 'creative enough' to respond in the ways we need to today. We all have creative potential in us, but the cry of doubt, ‘I’m not creative’ is enough to make an idea run and hide! If we could be a little more creative than we are. if we could achieve a lift in our creative capability, we could tap into the clever solutions we’re truly capable of.
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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.
Sitetracker
OCTOBER 26, 2020
From pureplay grass and steel towercos to diversified infracos, and from companies building their business from scratch to towercos being carved out of MNOs, Sitetracker has a history of working with some of the biggest names in the sector. TowerXchange speaks to David George, Sitetracker’s Vice President for EMEA & APAC about the challenges for some of the different business models, key considerations in defining KPIs and ensuring user adoption as strategies evolve and the tangible benefits
PM Basics
OCTOBER 26, 2020
Project Charter helps to link requirements and scope of a project to its objectives. In this article, you’ll find a Project Charter Example for a real-life project. In addition, you can get a simple template I developed and used throughout 10 years as a software development project manager. Project Charter is a document issued by the project initiator or sponsor that formally authorizes the existence of a project and provides the project manager with the authority to apply organizational r
Wrike
OCTOBER 26, 2020
Before committing time, energy, and resources to a new project, PMs and executives want to know: Can this project succeed? And even if the project is successful, will the outcomes justify the cost and effort it took to achieve them? These questions, and ultimately the fate of the project, can be determined through a feasibility study. So, what is a feasibility study ?
Teamweek
OCTOBER 26, 2020
When did resting go from a basic human right to laziness? The Grind. The Hustle. The #TGIM. . There’s nothing wrong with loving your job, but there’s a difference between being professional and being busy for the sake of it. Back in 2018, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian talked about “ hustle porn “– the fetishization of overwork that is particularly common in the tech world.
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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.
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