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3 Ways to Bring your Mindmaps to Life using MindGenius Online

MindGenius

In light of some of the recent changes we’ve made to MindGenius Online, this blog is dedicated to showing you 3 great ways you can spruce up your projects and bring them to life using our Styles feature inside branch properties. Adding style and colour to your mindmaps help keep your information engaging, entertaining and eye-catching. If you love to keep your work as entertaining as possible, the 3 features we’ve introduced over the past year will without a doubt help you keep your team engaged

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Patterns in the Agile Principles

Scrum.org

Learning and remembering the Agile Values is not too difficult. I think the relationships between the values helps lock them in. I found that sharing them often with folks and writing them (or drawing them) on a whiteboard helps too. See if you can recognize and remember them using these drawings: . The 12 Agile Principles seemed to be a much more difficult list of things to remember.

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Why is API an Important Project Management Software Feature

LiquidPlanner

If you’re someone with a non-technical background, the acronym API might not mean much. Here, we’ll dive into the question, “What is an API?” Perhaps you know the essence of what an API can do for your organization. But for project managers who don’t know basic programming or coding, you’re in the right place. APIs are very technical, but when used to connect disconnected platforms within an organization, they offer tremendous synergies to any organization.

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Agile Leadership Myths and how to move past them

Scrum.org

The best Scrum teams that I have worked with were supported by management leaders focused on removing impediments, providing resources, and promoting an agile mindset and culture that supports the Scrum values. It’s not an easy job. Making it more challenging are the agile leadership myths out there that can get in the way of being effective. From my experience, a lot of these myths come out of a misunderstanding of what team “self-management” means in relation to the manager’s role in an organi

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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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Program Managers: The Next Gen Business Strategists

International Institute for Learning

By Dr. Al Zeitoun. A program is generally defined as a grouping of projects that can be managed consecutively or concurrently; or a combination of both. Most programs, because of their strategic nature and impact on the success of the organization, are much longer in duration and are susceptible to more challenges, risks, and a possible negative impact on the business.

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Improve Your Chances for a Successful Project

International Institute for Learning

By Harold Kerzner, Ph.D. The Contemporary Issue: Managing Potential Failure. One of the comments I make to senior managers during executive briefing sessions is as follows: “If all of your projects are completed successfully, you are probably not taking enough risk and not working on enough projects.” Walking the straight and narrow conservative path and working on projects that have a very high probability of success may result in missing valuable business opportunities that would c

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Back to Basics: What is Project Management and Why is it Important?

MPUG

I have been conducting PMP training workshops for about 15 years. I usually start my training sessions by asking participants to introduce themselves and state their expectations of the training program. This typically results in about 15-20% of students saying that their expectation is to learn project management. I usually have to explain that although the PMP exam is based on project management, the primary focus of PMP training workshops is to help participants to crack the PMP exam—not nece

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Disruptive Change | Leadership Insights and Tips

International Institute for Learning

Presented by: International Institute for Learning, Inc. Intelligence. Integrity. Innovation. Thought Leadership News Insight and Expertise for Individuals, Teams, and Organizations. Disruptive Change | Leadership Insights and Tips Exclusive Zoom Q&A with Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez talks with us about disruptive change and shares leadership insights and tips as he answers these 4 questions: 1.

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More Opportunities to Run with the Big Dogs

MPUG

It’s been a busy summer here at MPUG. We launched two courses, Scheduling Practitioner and Advanced Scheduling Practitioner , which follow PMI’s Scheduling Professional fundamental guidelines….and we’re getting ready to bring you more training opportunities from our experts! Announcing our MS Project Core and Advanced Practitioner Courses. Whether you are an advanced Microsoft Project user or brand new to Project, this next course in our lineup is the one for you.

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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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Product Backlog Refinement: How to Succeed as a Scrum Team

Scrum.org

TL; DR: Product Backlog Refinement First Principles. The Product Backlog refinement is a continuous process to create actionable Product Backlogs, enabling a Scrum Team to run Sprint Plannings at a moment’s notice. Consequently, refinement is about creating alignment among all team members about the Why, the What, the How, and probably even the Who regarding the upcoming work for the Scrum team’s Product Goal.

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How to use behavioral design to build better products

Planio

Ask a project manager what superpower they’d pick, and you’ll most likely hear the same answer: reading minds. As people who make products, it’s our job to understand what real people actually want to the best of our abilities. That’s why we spend so much time and money on user research , customer feedback , and working in Agile sprints. But user interviews and feedback sessions can only tell you what people think of a product you’ve already made.

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3 Ways to Bring your Mindmaps to Life using MindGenius Online

MindGenius

In light of some of the recent changes we’ve made to MindGenius Online, this blog is dedicated to showing you 3 great ways you can spruce up your projects and bring them to life using our Styles feature inside branch properties. Adding style and colour to your mindmaps help keep your information engaging, entertaining and eye-catching. If you love to keep your work as entertaining as possible, the 3 features we’ve introduced over the past year will without a doubt help you keep your team engaged

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SUCCESSFUL FACILITATION - Training From the Back of the Room (TBR)

Scrum.org

On a recent episode of SUCCESSFUL FACILITATION on the Agile for Humans YouTube channel , Professional Scrum Trainers Todd Miller and Ryan Ripley continue their new series on facilitation with another technique: Training From the Back of the Room (TBR). During their discussion, Ryan and Todd explained how TBR works and how to get the most out of the "Trumps" and "4C's".

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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.