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Top challenges for project sponsors

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Ron Rosenhead, co-author of Strategies for Project Sponsorship. Are you wondering how to build a better relationship with your project sponsor? I spoke to the authors of Strategies for Project Sponsorship , a book about how to sponsor projects, and reading it from a project manager’s perspective is a great way to improve how you interact and engage with your project sponsor.

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PMBOK® Seventh Edition Principles and Risk Management

Project Risk Coach

The Project Management Institute (PMI) released the PMBOK® Guide, Seventh Edition in July 2021. This edition is a principles-based guide as opposed to the process-based guide of the Sixth Edition. In this article, let's look at each principle and why each one matters with respect to managing risks. Table Of Contents. What are Principles? 1. Be a Diligent, Respectful, and Caring Steward 2.

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Remote Work and Scrum

Scrum.org

I am sure everyone has seen Elon Musk’s email to his team at Tesla telling them they needed to get back in the office. Elon has joined other high-profile companies such as Netflix and Goldman Sachs making work in the office mandatory. For many of these organizations, they cite the reason for moving back into the office as improved collaboration or in the case of Tesla, to be fair to the factory workers who need to physically be in the office.

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3 Ways Project Management Software Helps With Resource Planning

LiquidPlanner

Resource planning is a discipline within project management software that ensures the most effective use of an organization’s team members and resources across the portfolio. This involves gathering the proper mix and quantity of resources required to complete a project and coordinating timelines between different departments using the same resources.

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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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Scrum Master Interview Questions: The Sprint Review

Scrum.org

TL; DR: Scrum Master Interview Questions on the Sprint Review. Scrum has repeatedly proven to be the most popular framework for software development. Given that software is eating the world , a seasoned Scrum Master is nowadays in high demand. And that demand causes the market entry of new professionals from other project management branches, probably believing that reading one or two Scrum books will be sufficient.

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7 Mythen über Sprint-Ziele und wie du sie widerlegst

Scrum.org

Das Sprint-Ziel ist seit 2002 Bestandteil von Scrum. Trotzdem verwenden Scrum Teams es nur selten, wie eine Umfrage in meinem fortgeschrittenen Professional Scrum Master Training zeigte. Was ist der Grund dafür? . Selbst nach 10 Jahren kursieren immer noch viele Mythen um Sprint-Ziele. Die weite Verbreitung dieser Mythen könnte auch der Grund sein, warum dein Scrum Team noch damit kämpft, sich Sprint-Ziele zu setzen.

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10 Tips to Lead Successful Remote Retrospectives

nTask

Let’s face the reality, all the agile methodologies weren’t exactly created with distributed teams in mind. All the early agile teams were overwhelmingly co-located in offices, mainly because chat, video conferencing, and other technology that makes the remote work possible were highly laughable and ancient at that time. Ever since the pandemic, so many […].

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The Shape of Projects

MPUG

Introduction. In this article, I’m referring to IT projects with the ‘shape’ of them being their visible form. Projects, IT projects in particular, come in many different shapes (i.e., plans). The PMBOK ( A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge) states that a project is a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service, or result.

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Why projects fail: 10 ways to spot project failure before it’s too late

Planio

Projects fail. That’s a fact. According to a PwC study of over 10,640 projects, only a tiny, tiny portion of companies – 2.5% to be exact – complete 100% of their projects successfully. But what does project ‘failure’ really mean? Project failure can refer to any number of common issues that range from minor inconveniences to full-on catastrophes. You could go over budget, miss deadlines, not hit your goals, or not meet your success criteria and definition of done.

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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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Top 7 Test Management Tools for 2023

Celoxis

You may be wondering about the top test management solutions available in 2022. What is the basis for comparing tools? What features should a company look for? The more options there are, the tougher it is to choose. But don’t worry. In this article, we have put together a list of top 7 test management tools that you must consider using in 2022.

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New feature – sync your schedule with Outlook Calendar

Resource Guru

Team scheduling is almost impossible unless everyone’s calendars show every event, appointment, and meeting that matters. That’s why we’re excited to announce our new two-way sync for Microsoft Outlook Calendar. Hot on the heels of our Google Calendar integration , our latest release brings Microsoft to the party and takes us closer to the ultimate in team scheduling – a unified view of everyone’s availability in one place.

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Best Project Management Book

Velociteach

What’s the NUMBER ONE essential project management book that every good PM should have in their library? Well, according to BollyInside it’s our very own Alpha Project Managers by Andy Crowe. Velociteach’s Alpha Project Manager book was ranked number one as the Best Essential Project Management Books. Not only did Andy’s book make the top […] The post Best Project Management Book appeared first on PMP Certification Exam Prep & Training - Velociteach.

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How to organize a notebook for work

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Whether you are hybrid, home-based, or completely in the office, notebooks are a part of many people’s working life. But how do you organize notes in a notebook? A lot of it is personal preferences but there are also plenty of good practices for managing daily tasks in your work environment. If you are looking for ways to keep a notebook organized, you’re in the right place!

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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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Noble Objection: Top 10 Ways to Say NO | Video

Online PM Courses

How can saying no become a positive that gives you more time, less stress, and more control over your life? The answer is a Noble Objection. The post Noble Objection: Top 10 Ways to Say NO | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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A Better Microsoft Project: Workload Levelling and Resource-Critical Path

MPUG

Most projects are logic-constrained projects (or, if I might suggest, wrongfully treated as such). A logic-constrained project has a duration only determined by logic (i.e., the network of dependencies). 1. As I explained previously in this series of articles , once you have all dependencies, the Most?Critical Path in the network then determines the duration of the project.

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