Rebel’s Guide to PM
JULY 21, 2021
What is hybrid project management? Hybrid project management is a trending topic at the moment. It refers to the tailoring of the project management approach in use to deliver work. Instead of rigidly adhering to a waterfall (predictive) or Agile (iterative) method, project teams pick and choose elements from the range of approaches to choose a way of working that suits them.
ProjectManager.com
JULY 21, 2021
Level of effort (LOE) is a project management term that refers to a specific type of project activity called support activities. Support activities do not yield deliverables, but rather fuel tasks that do. Therefore, the level of effort is how much work these tasks will take to complete. This work can take many forms, such as updating project documents, maintaining equipment, submitting expenses, etc.
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Scrum.org
JULY 21, 2021
More than ever, organizations must focus on their investments and efforts. The ability for organizations to be agile is what will help them pivot and sustain. However, defining success of an organization’s agility by output metrics like “number of agile coaches”, “number of people trained in Agile”, or “velocity” often results in what agilists refer to as Zombie Scrum (superficial agile transformation) because there is no real invitation for improvement, or even a notion of what improvement woul
Online PM Courses
JULY 21, 2021
Epics, User Stories, and Story Points are three terms that are widely used in Agile Project Management and some of its methodologies. The post What are Epics, User Stories, and Story Points? | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.
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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.
Scrum.org
JULY 21, 2021
I remember when I got a brand-new racing game for the Xbox a few years ago. My sons and I unwrapped it, popped it in, and marveled at the amazing graphics. The cars and scenery looked so real, so amazing! In our first race, we all excitedly chose supercars.and struggled mightily to control their enormous power just to get around the racetrack. We wrecked often and hilariously.
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Scrum.org
JULY 21, 2021
Today, Scrum.org launches the new Professional Agile Leadership - Evidence Based Management ™ (EBM) training course. The ideas of EBM came from a simple idea that Ken Schwaber had when looking at the medical profession and the similarly named Evidence-Based-Medicine :-). An article in BMJ describes Evidence-Based Medicine as “ the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current based evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients ” Ken pondered how that would apply to a
Bridge the Gap Consulting
JULY 21, 2021
Project242 (P242) is my journey to bike 242 miles in 24 hours, across the state of Minnesota on gravel roads, in August, 2021 (the Day Across MN, or the DAMN). I’ve found many lessons experienced riding a bike can be applied to our careers. In these posts, I will share the correlations. I checked my Garmin. It was a fast 10.3 miles done in 27 minutes and 47 seconds.
Scrum.org
JULY 21, 2021
In industries ranging from financial services to consulting and defense, we can find countless examples of how organizations employed incentive plans that produced behavior not aligned to the organization's desired strategic goals. The items that we measure should be based on our goals. We want these measures to drive people's actions and behaviors.
Leankor
JULY 21, 2021
In today’s fast-paced and complex business environment, enterprise organizations are facing growing challenges and continuous shifts in their business needs. Staying in front of these changes remains a priority, which is why enterprise organizations need a highly flexible work and project management platform that grows with their business and adapts to their needs.
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
Scrum.org
JULY 21, 2021
On today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: Is the Scrum Master Role an Entry Level Job? Todd and Ryan focus on the skills need to be an effective Scrum Master and some of the anti-patterns they've seen along the way. All of this and more are discussed in today's episode of Your Daily Scrum with Todd Miller and Ryan Ripley. Ryan Ripley and Todd Miller are the author of Fixing Your Scrum: Practical Solutions to Common Scrum Problems.
Scrum.org
JULY 21, 2021
Sprint planning is an important event that has a significant impact on the team’s effectiveness and productivity during the sprint. The most critical aspects of successful sprint planning are the level of the team’s commitment to the goal of the sprint and handling the sprint backlog. To encourage the team’s commitment to the sprint, the Scrum Master (SM) should include all the members of the team in planning the sprint and, together with them, craft a challenging sprint goal and estimate the ta
Wrike
JULY 21, 2021
A program is a group of related projects managed as a unit to achieve economies of scale. For example, a program to relaunch the digital arm of a company would comprise projects in the development, marketing, and design teams. A program manager combines and oversees these projects to maintain a shared strategic goal, enhance cross-functional collaboration , and save costs.
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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.
Scrum.org
JULY 21, 2021
I am often asked how to create better goals. This comes up at the team level, and it also comes up for the wider organization. When we are dealing with complexity, there is no one right way, no perfect template, and no best practice. And I find it helpful to look at the goals people are using today, explore the benefits those goals are giving them, and identify if there are unintended consequences of how they are using goals.
Proggio
JULY 21, 2021
Signals, Alerts, and Notifications: Preventing PPM failure. It may go without saying, but sometimes it helps to hear what you already know…part of staying in control of your project portfolio means that you are always fully aware of what is happening in it. And yet, although it may seem obvious to have warning signs that “somethin’ is a-brewin’” in your project portfolio, it is a feature that oftentimes gets overlooked. .
Scrum.org
JULY 21, 2021
Getting Started. Professional Agile Leadership – Evidence-Based Management (PAL-EBM) is the newest course in the Scrum.org portfolio. To prepare the launch and our trainer community for this one-day workshop, we ran several train-the-trainer events. I enjoyed participating in one of those, and I am glad to share my experience with you. We were 19 people, 17 students, and two trainers, which is quite a large number for a virtual class.
Proggio
JULY 21, 2021
Signals, Alerts, and Notifications: Preventing PPM failure. It may go without saying, but sometimes it helps to hear what you already know…part of staying in control of your project portfolio means that you are always fully aware of what is happening in it. And yet, although it may seem obvious to have warning signs that “somethin’ is a-brewin’” in your project portfolio, it is a feature that oftentimes gets overlooked. .
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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.
Scrum.org
JULY 21, 2021
We have now launched a new Scrum.org course – Professional Agile Leadership – Evidence-Based Management (EBM), and it is an exceptional occasion to share my experience with implementing the framework. I have been actively working with the Evidence-Based Management (EBM) framework since 2015. Attempts have been incorporated in different environments, including large corporations, medium-sized companies, and start-ups.
ActiveCollab
JULY 21, 2021
One of the common questions among many scrum teams is the difference between the definition of done and acceptance criteria and how they affect user stories. While acceptance criteria relate more to software development, the definition of done is unique to scrum. People tend to mix these two terms, but they couldn't be more different, even though they have many things in common.
Scrum.org
JULY 21, 2021
One personality trait we look for in managers is confidence. And rightfully so: It is needed to be able to make decisions and stand by them in adverse circumstances. The manager personalities I have met in my years of consulting, training and coaching management in transformation contexts have mostly had this in common. As different as they may be in levels and areas of expertise, in age and gender (although, to be truthful, especially regarding the latter there is still not so much diversity he
Dotto Tech
JULY 21, 2021
Camtasia is a screen recording software that I love to use. I started using it after I had been using an app called Screenflow for years. In this video, we'll go over what led me to switch from Screenflow to Camtasia and the features that I'm enjoying most about Camtasia! Play Video SUBSCRIBE TO DOTTO TECH YOUTUBE CHANNEL GO All the Reasons We Switched From Screenflow to Camtasia For the last seven or eight years, I have used one tool for creating almost all the videos here on my YouTube channel
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Digital transformation projects are crucial, with global spending projected to hit $3.4 trillion by 2026. However, they often fail at a rate of about 70%. To enhance success: Employee Buy-in: Acknowledge concerns and establish a change management team to communicate benefits transparently. Identify Processes and Tools: Form a digital transformation office to establish metrics, workstream lifecycles, data capture, and tool selection.
Scrum.org
JULY 21, 2021
Professionalism in Leadership. In his post on May 6 2021 Dave West described professionalism within Scrum to focus on four aspects: Values, Customer Outcomes, Discipline and helping others be more professional. The differentiation that Dave brings in is the emphasis on Values first, to create a space where transparency through trust and openness is the default.
Scrum.org
JULY 21, 2021
We've all had challenges with various stakeholders coming to us with a whole bunch of different information and wanting a whole bunch of different things. Who do I listen to? What’s most important? Why do I feel like I’m in a zoo? Some of the most notorious stakeholder animals in the zoo are the HiPPO, the ZEBRA, the WOLF, and the RHINO. . The HiPPO stands for “Highest Paid Person's Opinion” and this is normally the case when a VP or C level executive comes into a Sprint review and says that we
Scrum.org
JULY 21, 2021
Although we have finished the second round of the Scrummer quiz already, but you can join this quiz anytime. We have 3 more rounds to go, including this week starting today. We have announced the winners of the first and second round on the scrummer page and shared the answer key with all participants via e-mail. . Whereas the previous week’s questions were all about the recent Scrum Guide Changes, this week's questions are all about team spirit, collaboration and self-management.
Scrum.org
JULY 21, 2021
Previously, I have described some challenges with the Evidence-Based Management implementation. There are plenty of challenges regarding the process of applying Evidence-Based Management, there are also great results. Below you may find some success stories that occurred while using the EBM framework and meaningful goals. . Right direction, right goals, right decisions The EBM enables perfectly validate the strategic goal, Product Goals and tactical goals.
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