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Procurement Contracting: Types of Contracts & Best Practices

ProjectManager.com

How you assemble the items you need to execute the project is called procurement, which is a fancy way of saying how you get the goods and services you need for a project. If you don’t have a steady or at least managed supply of the stuff you need to execute the project you’re going to go off track and threaten the success of the project. When you need supplies from a third party it’s important that you enter into an agreement to make sure you get what you need and it is delivered when you need

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Backlog Refinement Techniques – Semantic Analysis

Scrum.org

Backlog Refinement Techniques – Semantic Analysis. To meet schedules, deliver valuable products, and exceed your stakeholder’s expectations, you need the ability to flex scope and offer an actual minimum marketable product. You need to know how to break down your work to be forced by technology or business processes to deliver anything more than the minimum. .

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Perfecting The 30 60 90 Day Plan – Uses, Benefits, And Tips

nTask

The first 3 months of your new job are usually the most demanding. These 90 days play a fundamental role in defining your future in the company. To make the most of these crucial months, you can take help from the infamous 30 60 90 day plan. 30 60 90 day plan is your gateway to successfully adapting to your new job. It is a detailed roadmap that guides you on how to form a firm foothold in the new environment.

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How to effectively eliminate dependencies with sociotechnical learning

Scrum.org

Organizations need to move fast and receive ongoing feedback from customers to drive sustainable innovation through continuous discovery and value delivery. But there is a problem — dependencies. . Dependencies are knowledge gaps. . According to Michael James , dependencies in knowledge work — as in software development — are caused by knowledge gaps and not by the laws of physics. .

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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 Avoid Collaboration Overload? 6 Pro Tips For Agile Teams

nTask

Teamwork requires a collective effort, every member of the team contributes with his hard work and time. Quick and efficient communication breaks barriers to collaboration and prompts productivity. Effective collaboration is the hallmark of successful project completion. But as it is often said, “Too much of anything is bad”, collaboration overload thwarts individual working.

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How To Build A Successful Go To Market Strategy?- A Detailed Guideline

nTask

Whether you are launching a new product or looking for ways to revamp your brand, the first step should be to create an impeccable go to market strategy. Developing a detailed go to market strategy forms the basis for a successful start. Without the backing of a perfect strategy, you will not be able to break into the market. To claim your place, you should fuel your efforts and devise the perfect go to market strategy.

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Backlog Refinement Techniques – Part 1 Semantic Analysis

Scrum.org

Backlog Refinement Techniques – Semantic Analysis. To meet schedules, deliver valuable products, and exceed your stakeholder’s expectations, you need the ability to flex scope and offer an actual minimum marketable product. You need to know how to break down your work to be forced by technology or business processes to deliver anything more than the minimum. .

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Scaled Agile Technical Coaching

Leading Agile

Listen to the SoundNotes Podcast on the go! Find and subscribe to SoundNotes on: Apple Podcasts. Spotify. Soundcloud. RSS. This week in SoundNotes Lance Kind joins Dave to talk about Scaled Agile Tech Coaching. In this episode, Lance and Dave explore how technical coaching can be used to supplement the process coaching that is typically offered during an agile transformation.

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Finding Out Your Business Focus – GM70

Dotto Tech

This is the episode of Grey Matters that every person thinking about starting a business – or succeeding in their existing business – should listen to right now. The alternative may mean months or even years of focusing in the wrong direction. Show Notes The age old question for entrepreneurs, “What should my business look like?” is one where the answer – or at least the correct answer – can elude us for far longer than we were hoping or imagining.

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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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Empowering Your Teams

Project Management Essentials

The virtues of high-performing teams are well documented. They are 50% more productive. They are more creative, and members are 76% more likely to be engaged. Gallup studies of organizational performance find that companies with highly engaged employees are twice as likely to be successful. Specific performance metrics include: 17% increase in productivity, 10% increase in customer satisfaction.

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???? Pourquoi Scrum vous permet de gagner en autonomie ?

Scrum.org

Quand nous devons résoudre des problèmes complexes, nous avons besoin de liberté (de pensée, expérimenter, etc…) pour apprendre le plus rapidement possible. Actuellement, la manière la plus répandue de travailler est de contrôler les personnes, car c’est ce que nous avons appris à l’école et c’est souvent la culture des entreprises que nous aidons dans le cadre de notre mission : aider les personnes et les équipes à résoudre des problèmes complexes.

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We Asked People What Makes a Good Leader, Here’s What They Said

Trello

Good leadership. Countless books, seminars, TED Talks, and articles have attempted to explain what it is and how to emulate it. But what does it really mean for us on a day-to-day basis?

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Back to the foundations of the Scrum framework - The Sprint Review and Transparency

Scrum.org

Scrum is founded on empirical process control, and transparen cy is one of the three pillars. During each of the Scrum Events, and throughout the Sprint itself, the Scrum Team and the stakeholders need transparency so there is a common understanding. Transparency as such is way more than bringing “visibility”. It is about reaching ”a common understanding”.

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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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Tips for Improving Interdepartmental Communication

ActiveCollab

Inter-departmental communication is all about different departments working together seamlessly to develop a service or a product that customers want. But a well-functioning team needs to have impeccable communication, respect, and vision. Suppose we'd ask many team members how they are getting along with other departments. The answer would most likely "we do ok" or a shrug, implying that they aren't maximizing their team's results and productivity.

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Back to the foundations of the Scrum framework - The Daily Scrum and Transparency,

Scrum.org

Scrum is founded on empirical process control, and transparency is one of the three pillars. During each of the Scrum Events, and throughout the Sprint itself, the Scrum Team and the stakeholders need transparency so there is a common understanding. Transparency as such is way more than bringing “visibility”. It is about reaching ”a common understanding”.

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The Essential Guide to IT Ticketing Tools

Wrike

If a problem crops up at work, who do you turn to for help? Technical issues are typically handled by teams known as the customer service desk, help desk, support team, service desk, and IT support. The information technology or IT team is important in every workplace, and especially in an IT project management setup. They help in promptly resolving any tech or IT-related issue that a team member may face, boosting individual, team, and organizational efficiency.

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The Oversized Product Backlog Will Cost You Dearly — Making Your Scrum Work #11

Scrum.org

TL; DR: The Oversized Product Backlog Problem — When Noise Interferes with Signal. There are plenty of failure possibilities with Scrum. Given that Scrum is a framework with a reasonable yet short “manual,” this effect should not surprise anyone. Neglecting the critical Scrum artifact for continuous value creation is one of the common Scrum anti-patterns.

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

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.