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How to Manage a Team Member With A Negative Attitude

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This article was inspired by Ben Snyder’s book, Everything’s a Project: 70 Lessons from Successful Project-Driven Organizations. How can I deal with a team member with a bad attitude? “How can I deal with a project team member whose attitude sucks?”. That was what a reader got in touch to ask recently. It got me thinking about times that I have had to manage a team member with a negative attitude and fortunately there haven’t been that many.

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Project Evaluation Process: Definition, Methods & Steps

ProjectManager.com

Managing a project is a very challenging, but project evaluation makes it easier. Everything starts with careful planning, which sets the stage for the execution phase where estimations, plans and schedules guide the project team as they complete tasks and deliverables. But it’s not as simple as it sounds, project managers need to keep track of costs, tasks and time during the whole project life cycle to make sure everything goes as planned.

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Expected Monetary Value (EMV): A Project Manager’s Guide

Rebel’s Guide to PM

What is EMV? EMV is a risk analysis tool that helps establish the contingency reserves for your project activities. It’s a statistical technical for quantifying risk. At the end of it, you get a decision tree that summarizes the financial impact of following a course of action. Using expected monetary value allows you to calculate the profit and loss of an activity, whether that’s a whole project, or part of a project, taking into account different scenarios.

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The Psychology of Forecasting Uncertainty

LiquidPlanner

Planning for Failure can Produce Success. Have you heard the project management saying that failing to plan is planning to fail ? Thinking about that a little more deeply, do you think we might be better off if we plan for failure ? The need for resiliency should not be discounted. For much of the last century, business plans, strategies, and economic theories were predicated upon the behavior of rational actors.

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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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3 Tipps, wie angehende Scrum Master ein Daily Scrum durchführen, welches Selbstmanagement fördert

Scrum.org

Viele angehende Scrum Master berichten mir, dass sie jeden Tag pünktlich um 9:00 vor diesem Problem stehen: Die Entwickler bitten sie, das Daily Scrum zu moderieren. Sie wissen, dass sie ihr Team unterstützen sollen, indem sie sicherstellen, dass das Daily Scrum stattfindet, positiv und produktiv ist und weniger als 15 Minuten dauert. Das Tool der Wahl des Teams ist Jira.

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Scrum explained: Technical debt vs undone work

Scrum.org

“Let’s release it now”. Peter Product Owner says. “But Peter, we haven’t tested it yet. We don’t know if it works with all the other Increments, we don’t know if the user would accept it, we haven't even done the regression test.” the developers reply concerned. “Well,” Peter answers, “I think it looks good and the stakeholders demand it, so I’m releasing it right away.”.

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Team management 101: How to create and support all-star teams

Resource Guru

The Avengers. AFC Richmond. Pawnee’s Parks and Recreation Department. Besides the fact that we’d love to join each one of these fictional groups, what else do these legendary teams have in common? Legendary leaders. Nick Fury united Earth’s mightiest heroes together under a common cause. Ted Lasso taught his players the power of optimism and belief in themselves.

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¿Cómo ayuda Scrum a potenciar el intraemprendimiento empresarial?

Scrum.org

?? ¿Qué encontrarás en este artículo? El intraemprendimiento es la aplicación de la mentalidad y prácticas de los emprendedores , que crean nuevas empresas o despliegan iniciativas sociales, dentro de las empresas consolidadas. Las organizaciones pueden innovar desde fuera, comprando startups o servicios de consultoría, o desde dentro con iniciativa de la dirección o surgidas desde el resto de personas de la organización.

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A Complete Guide to Lean Project Management and Why Do You Need It

nTask

Lean project management is the best way to convey more value and revenue to your business. Every business is making money to stay in business itself – the need and urgency for profitability will always be there. However, reaching there is the tricky part. What does it mean to deliver value to your business? It […].

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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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¿Cómo ayuda #crum a potenciar el intraemprendimiento empresarial?

Scrum.org

?? ¿Qué encontrarás en este artículo? El intraemprendimiento es la aplicación de la mentalidad y prácticas de los emprendedores , que crean nuevas empresas o despliegan iniciativas sociales, dentro de las empresas consolidadas. Las organizaciones pueden innovar desde fuera, comprando startups o servicios de consultoría, o desde dentro con iniciativa de la dirección o surgidas desde el resto de personas de la organización.

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The Pyramid Principle and other frameworks for effectively pitching your projects

Planio

Pitching projects and building influence with stakeholders and executives is an essential part of successfully managing projects. But, while project managers have tons of skills, they’re rarely good at being salespeople. The issue often comes down to a Goldilocks problem with information. If you focus too much on all the risks, context, and background information, you’ll put your audience to sleep before the big reveal.

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What Is Issue Log & How Does It Help Project Managers?

nTask

No matter how meticulously you plan your project, issues are bound to arise at one point or another. But remember, issues are slight dips in your progress, not complete full stops. With proper forecasting and timely detection of the problem, you can quickly develop a solution and get back on track in no time. When […].

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Understanding Earned Value Fields

MPUG

In the first article of this series , I discussed the importance of Earned Value Management, or EVM, which evaluates the performance of your project in terms of its schedule, cost, and work. Earned value lets you effectively compare baseline and actual values. In this article, we will discuss earned value fields in Microsoft Project and the meaning of each field.

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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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Three Principles for Management in an Agile World

International Institute for Learning

I started my career as a passionate software developer, then I was promoted to manager of Engineering. Looking back honestly at the reasons I was chosen by upper management, I imagine them to be comprised of the following: I was respected by my peers in engineering as a decent coder. I didn’t mumble or have a strong accent. I was not very intimidating or did I call people stupid.

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Creative Manager – A balanced approach to implementing new software

Function Point

The VCR at my parents house was always flashing 12:00. After a power outage, or with the seasonal clock changes, all other clocks were adjusted, but never the VCR. Neither Mom nor Dad wanted to deal with the thing, but for quite different reasons. Their divergent attitudes towards hardware, reminds me very much of attitudes I have seen in regards to adopting new software.

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There is a case for bureaucracy. sometimes

Musings on Project Management

If you can't trust your peopleOr, you don't know your people well enough to trust themAnd, you can't replace the formerNor do you have time to get to know the latter.Then the management solution is simplicity itself:Invent a bureaucracy and assign them to it!Bureaucracy is the management alternative to trust. Rules, regulations, and punishment do all the work.

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How to Manage Your Creative Firm and Make a Profit

Function Point

In many respects, creative firms operate just like any professional services company. There is a requirement to track time and expenses as they relate to both billable and non-billable work to ensure that the agency is profitable and that the business remains sustainable at the most basic level. Creative Business ( creativebusiness.com ) defined this in their March/April 2010 Newsletter, stating requirements to “keep an eye on project, account, and overall business metrics – productivity, billab

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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.

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Intuition: How it Works and What to Do when it Fails You | Video

Online PM Courses

You use intuition every day. And it serves you well. But, not always. How does it work and how can you fix it, when your intuition fails you? The post Intuition: How it Works and What to Do when it Fails You | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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Project Management Software Case Study: Chute Gerdeman

Function Point

Chute Gerdeman is an award-winning strategic brand and design firm. Founded in 1989, the company is an innovator in beneficial customer brand experiences in the retail, restaurant, consumer goods and service provider industries. Summary Of Challenges Prior To Function Point. The company used custom-built, time-tracking software that was ready to update it.

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How to build psychological safety on remote teams

Planio

After running Planio for more than a decade, I’ve come to learn that managers and leaders often wear blinders. Even if we think we’re being open and understanding, underneath it all, we think we know best. And that’s a problem — especially on remote teams. As Planio moved to a fully remote work setup, I’ve made it my mission to create more psychological safety across the company.

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How to Pass the Product Owner Certification — PSPO I, PSPO II, and PSPO III

Scrum.org

TL; DR: How to Pass the Product Owner Certification — Scrum.org’s PSPO I to III. The first article of this mini-series established that you do not need a certificate to become good at what you do, for example, working as a Scrum Master or Product Owner. However, getting certified may be a piece of sound investment advice. If you want to take advantage of the signaling power that Scrum certificates seem to have, the question is how to pass the Product Owner certification?

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3 ‘Must-Dos’ for Addressing Digital Transformation Challenges

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.

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Why your creative agency should have a blog

Function Point

The way we communicate and advertise has changed tremendously. New media has changed marketing dynamics, and efforts have to be divided in different channels that go beyond traditional TV, Radio and publishing. On the Internet, we have thousand of social media networks where billions of people connect, share content and search for information. Finding information is not the problem for consumers anymore, but often finding a reliable source of information on a specific topic is.

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