Mon.Sep 16, 2019

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Managing in Complex Project Environments

Rebel’s Guide to PM

How do you manage a project when it feels like walking through fog? When you don’t know what you don’t know, and the environment is shifting so much that it’s virtually impossible to keep track of all the moving parts? You focus on what you can control. You look at the one or two small things you can do to influence the issues you’ve got now.

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How to Facilitate the Nominal Group Technique

Project Risk Coach

How often have you elicited items such as problems, solutions, or implementation ideas from meeting participants? This sounds simple, but often, participants disagree. The meeting can turn into quicksand. Let's look at the Nominal Group Technique (NGT), a powerful technique for reaching consensus. Imagine that you are planning to facilitate a session to identify the strengths of your organization.

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Agile Culture Isn’t the Problem

Leading Agile

Let’s assume you could flip the mindset of your organization overnight. What would you do next to ensure that you could predictably deliver product into the market, faster? If you don’t have an answer, perhaps it’s time to consider that culture isn’t the problem. Video Transcript. We all show up and we go, we want to change culture, right?

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Prince2 Certification Guide for Misguided #ProjectManagers

nTask

Had I not made the mistake of accidentally deleting my Word doc file, this post would have gone live a week earlier. And gosh… I really put in some extra hours into it. Sadly, our team leader told us that we’re going to have to start again on the write-up because there’s no way to recover a deleted file that has also been emptied from the recycle bin.

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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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How to Use Forward and Backward Pass for Activity Assignments

MPUG

I’m sure you know that a good schedule is critical for the project success. However, did you know that network diagrams are extremely important for creating a good project schedule? In my experience, many senior project managers and project planners shun network diagrams. They just don’t see any value in creating or analyzing them. In fact, I have noticed that some experienced project managers don’t even know what a network diagram is.

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Empirismo

Scrum.org

Scrum se basa en un proceso empírico. El empirismo se basa en tomar decisiones basados en la información concreta obtenida de la observación que muestra el progreso del desarrollo de producto, el empirismo se basa en la experimentación para validar las hipótesis. Lo contrario al empirismo es usar información ambigua, suposiciones y hechos no concretos.

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Achieve operational excellence with Sitetracker’s latest release

Sitetracker

Sitetracker’s latest release, Release 35, delivers numerous enhancements, a few bug fixes, and overall improved user experience in key parts of the platform. As a true Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution, Sitetracker delivers monthly improvements and ensures enterprise functionality and security. Our most recent release of 2019 ensures that we continue to deliver a fast, powerful, user-friendly experience for your whole organization— whether you’re an executive, project manager, or field

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