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Matrix Organizational Structure – A Quick Guide

ProjectManager.com

It’s recommended to have a matrix organizational structure in place to define how your project team will function. Projects have many activities, from resource planning to task management and everything in-between. Therefore, that organizational structure shouldn’t be rigid, but flexible and efficient. Every organization is structured in some way, and that structure is determined by its business goals and project objectives.

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Diagnosis: Micromanagement? Here’s how to cure it!

Inloox

Are you a micromanager? Are you a micromanager? If some or any of the following statements apply to you, you probably are: The majority of your work time is spent on day-to-day operations. You have been promoted from subject matter expert to manager, but you still have the most expertise in your field within the company. You believe that as soon as you don't take a closer look, everything gets out of hand.

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Team Coaching Canvas

Scrum.org

. One of the powerful stances the Scrum Master's takes to serve is Coaching Stance. Scrum Master's coach the Scrum team, the Product Owner and the Organisation. Coaching stance can do wonders if the right professional coaching skills are leveraged. . With that in mind, I am coming up with Team Coaching Canvas, a toolkit that helps Scrum Masters or Agile Coaches to get started with their Team Coaching.

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The Mad Hatter: How Many Hats Do Project Managers Have to Wear?

LiquidPlanner

If you’re a project manager – and if you are reading this you probably are… or deal with them often on a team – then you know that you often need to be a jack of all trades in order to get things done for your projects. The project manager must wear a number of “hats” in order to successfully lead the project team, customer and stakeholders and to bring home a successful project.

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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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STOP! Using parent as an analogy to describe the Scrum Master

Scrum.org

Hello awesome people. I hope you had a great holiday break and ready for 2022. Just before the holiday break, I overheard some people in the agile community use parent as analogy to describe the Scrum Master. Some people use analogy to describe something that is uncommon or relatively new in the society. However, using parent as analogy to describe the Scrum Master is a bad choice as from my observation in the company I have worked with, it created unintended behaviour & misperception from the

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???? [VLOG] Le principe d'unicité

Scrum.org

J'entends beaucoup parler de différents framework pour l'agilité à l'échelle. Personnellement j'ai toujours aimé travailler avec des équipes d'une dizaines de personne au maximum, avec un parcours qui leur permet de comprendre Scrum et l'utiliser à son plein potentiel. Il faut du temps pour y arriver et quand on y arrive c'est un vrai plaisir de voir un groupe de personnes devenir une Scrum Team !

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Top 10 JIRA Alternatives for Agile Project Management in 2022 [+Free and Open Source Tools]

GanttPRO Project Management

It is not a secret that JIRA is one of the most popular project management tools worldwide. Currently, it takes almost 41,17% of the whole PM software market. According to […]. The post Top 10 JIRA Alternatives for Agile Project Management in 2022 [+Free and Open Source Tools] first appeared on GanttPRO.

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Product Ownership: 5 Dinge, die Product-Backlog-Administratoren wie Unternehmer handeln lassen

Scrum.org

Es gibt zwei Arten von Product Ownern. Die ersten sind Product-Backlog-Administratoren. Product-Backlog-Administratoren fungieren als Bindeglied zwischen Entwicklern aus der IT-Abteilung und Stakeholdern aus den Fachbereichen. Product-Backlog-Administratoren widmen ihren Tag der Pflege des Product Backlogs: Am Morgen sind sie zu einem Termin eingeladen, in dem sie die Anforderung der Fachbereiche aufnehmen.

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Late Tasks: Starts and Finishes

MPUG

The Background Story…. I have been a project manager for over forty years. Over that time, I got into the habit of checking my projects for late starts and finishes two or three times a month. This would help me to flag task problems that I needed to research and try to get back on schedule. Originally, I would take my plan and sort the % Complete field which gave me three major groups: 0% (Not Started), 1% – 99% (Started), and 100% (Completed).

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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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50 Great Project Management Blogs to Learn from in 2022

Online PM Courses

This is the third iteration of our roundup of the best Project Management Blogs. Who says I can't be adaptive in 2022! The post 50 Great Project Management Blogs to Learn from in 2022 appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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Scrum Master Interview Questions: How to Make Your Scrum Master Fail

Scrum.org

TL; DR: Scrum Master Interview Questions on How to Make Your Scrum Master Fail. Scrum has proven time and again 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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Should a Project Manager Get Involved in Contract Negotiations? | Video

Online PM Courses

Should a Project Manager get involved in Contract Negotiations? This is the essence of a question I was asked. The post Should a Project Manager Get Involved in Contract Negotiations? | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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What’s a Talent Pipeline and Why Should You Build One?

Teamweek

In the brutal war for top talent, those who succeed are those with a range of weapons in their armory. So, if you’re one of the 72.8% of recruiters struggling to find relevant candidates, we’re about to equip you with a new tool for your belt – a talent pipeline! . Specifically, we’ll look at what a talent pipeline is, why you need one, and its key differences from other talent frameworks.

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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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Remote Work Reflections

Sarah M. Hoban

March 16, 2020 was my first day of remote work. Little did I know at the time that what I originally envisioned as a 3-6 month vacation from the office would evolve into the default modus operandi for many knowledge workers, myself included, for nearly two years and counting. My thinking on remote work evolved and continues to evolve as I gain more experience with an office optional environment.

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