Fri.Mar 27, 2020

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Virtual Agile Transformations

Scrum.org

COVID-19 forces millions of Scrum teams members currently to work from home. Online collaboration tools are getting a real stress test through an influx of new users these days. Teams around the world see in action how these tools can be powerful, not only complimentary to on-site work, but as the one and only strategy. In a software development project, many of these tools are mature, reliable and provide a great feature set that pretty much fulfills the needs of agile teams one way or the oth

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Project Management Metrics Every Manager Needs to Track

ProProfs Project Management

The life of project managers has always been tough, and it gets irksome when they have a tight time window and budget. . ‘Do clients care about this?’. The answer is ‘Big NO’. Clients just want timely delivery of promised project deliverables, and this puts more pressure on project managers. Now, this fact begs the question: ‘How can project managers get the monkey off their back?’.

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Daily Scrum Pocketcasts – Episode 4

Gunther Verheyen

Ever since the accidental creation of my book “ Scrum – A Pocket Guide ” in 2013, and its deliberate evolution in 2019, I’ve been receiving inquiries about an audiobook version. So far, I have not been able to make that happen but the current pandemic storm got me into implementing the audio idea in a different form. On Friday 27 March 2020 I delivered the fourth “ Daily Scrum Pocketcast ” in which I have read following chapters from my book: 2.7 The Scrum values. 3.

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#ThePMTribe: A Community with a Difference

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Hello, I’m Elizabeth Harrin. Welcome! I’m an author and mentor and I do the job of project managing as well. I support project managers individually through 1:1 mentoring , and also through my small group membership scheme, Project Management Rebels. PM Rebels is a fantastic, supportive community that exists to serve the members and share knowledge.

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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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Sorting (and beyond!)

International Institute for Learning

By Bob Umlas, Excel MVP. In this blog, I’ll discuss sorting, likely beyond features you knew were available! We’ll start with this screenshot of a file: It needs sorting. There are many ways to sort data. There are 3 ways to access sorting from the Data tab: 1– 2–You can right-mouse click on a cell and select Sort: and this leads to another flyout with more options: 3–Then there are the sort options from the Home tab, way over on the right side (and includes options for filteri

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Remote Project Management and Distributed Agile Teams

PM for the Masses

Cesar Abeid talks with authors Johanna Rothman and Mark Kilby on managing distributed agile teams. Cesar Abeid talks with authors Johanna Rothman and Mark Kilby on managing distributed agile teams.

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8 Work From Home Productivity Tools

EasyProjects

With remote work becoming more prominent and accepted in today’s work culture, businesses are looking to technology to allow the same job completed in an office to also be completed from the comfort of someone’s home. Face-to-face meetings, team collaboration, supervision and the ability to ask questions on the fly can now all be done online, thanks to technology adapting to the variables of remote work.

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Guest Blog: 5 Steps to Start Your Remote Work Day Off Right by Brad Egeland.

MindGenius

Think “Monday morning chaos.” Think starting the day wondering who has emailed issues to you since you last checked your messages. Think arriving at your desk with voice mails from two of your project customers already waiting for you. Headaches, right? Frustrations? Commonplace occurrences? And in the face of working from home challenges, this all rings especially true because you’ll have added distractions of the home, personal calls, kids, pets and other noises (wife?).

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Top Tips for Deadline Management in Marketing

Wrike

Wondering how to organize and manage multiple projects at once? Start by applying great deadline management techniques. . Deadline management is a process where marketing project managers organize, prioritize, and plan out their workload within a limited timeframe. Completing quality content on time for clients and customers means juggling competing priorities, navigating last minute requests, and efficiently managing your available resources. .

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Strategic Finance Essentials: A Project Manager’s Guide to Financial Impact

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 expendi

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Coordinate Projects More Efficiently with @Mentions & Multi-select Custom Fields

EasyProjects

Easy Projects is excited to announce the highly anticipated new features: @mentions and multi-select custom fields. These upgrades make everyday project management even more efficient! @Mentions. The @mention feature is an efficient way to notify a team member, simply type in “@” followed by the name of the person you want to notify. A pop-up window will appear with potential users whose name matches, similar to the feature found in many other chat and social media applications.