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How to Make a Product Vision Everyone Can Appreciate

ProjectManager.com

You’ve heard of “the big picture.” It can be a long-term business goal, or simply a view that expands a perspective to include greater context. Either way, it’s a critical perspective for any organization that wants to plan for the future. Having a “big picture” is another way of saying that a business has a vision, for itself, the marketplace or a product it is working on.

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Checklists Save Lives

Scrum.org

Most agile approaches recommend the use of explicit quality standards expressed as check-lists. Scrum has the Definition of Done to ensure the product is releasable, and Kanban teams use exit or entry criteria between stages to add rigor to the process. For many years when teaching these concepts, we have compared this practice to the Surgical Safety Checklist advocated by the World Health Organisation.

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What is the Difference Between Agile vs Waterfall?

TrustRadius Project Management

*This article has been updated on February 21, 2019 based on new research conducted by the TrustRadius team*. Before undertaking any development project, the most important decision to make is how to approach the project as a team. Making this decision can get heated due to the two major development methodologies at play. In simple terms, a development methodology determines how the actual work of development is organized and acted on.

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Team Essentials: Keeping Your LiquidPlanner Schedule Up to Date

LiquidPlanner

In my previous article, I discussed how easy it is to reprioritize your work in LiquidPlanner. This week, I’ll show you how to maintain your schedule and keep it up to date. Now that LiquidPlanner has created our schedule for us and we’ve started chipping away at our project work, we need to be sure the schedule is up-to-date. Then, when you come into work tomorrow, LiquidPlanner will give you current information, not yesterday’s plan.

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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 procrastinating and boost your productivity with Pomodoro technique

Proofhub

The Pomodoro Technique to Kick Your Productivity up a Notch For ages, people have always tried to make the most of their time. We all have many things we need to get done during the day. People often find it difficult to make out how to organize the tasks in their day. They are always in a hurry of jumping around from one project to another and never getting even a single one accomplished.

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Tasked with eLearning?

Design2Train

Are you a NON-training professional tasked with delivering an eLearning project? It’s a trend we are observing all too often these days. With so many corporate “right-sizing” and mergers, unfortunately the training department staff are often the first to go and last to be re-hired. Even if you have a training department, they are probably so bogged down with mandatory compliance and classroom course development and delivery, there’s probably not an experienced eLearning i

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How to Find the Best Project Management Tool for Your Agency

Wrike

Your agency juggles numerous projects, deliverables, deadlines, and client relationships. Up to this point, you’ve attempted to keep everything organized in various spreadsheets and email threads but you’ve come to realize that it’s just not working. Important messages get lost in the shuffle, timelines slide, and status updates get buried. You want to say “goodbye” to all of that chaos and confusion, which means you need a real agency project management tool to keep your communication centraliz

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Be The Project Leader, Don’t Fail as a Training Developer WannaBe!

Design2Train

. eLearning Project Tip 9: Be The Project Leader, Don’t Fail as a Training Developer WannaBe! How do you control costs, deliver your first successful eLearning project, and earn the red cape of eLearning superhero? Just because you can use PowerPoint and take iPhone videos does NOT make you a Training Professional. Can you successfully deliver an eLearning project if you DO NOT have a training background?

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Looking for stuff on PM?

Musings on Project Management

You say: "I've got to give a presentation about [some] topic in Project Management. Where do I find the stuff I need?" I say: Look no farther than slideshare.net/jgoodpas. There you'll find some 45 presentations available for free download. Attribution: If you use my stuff, please do me the courtesy of an attribution and a reference to the material on slideshare.net The most viewed is this.

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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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Designing an Organization that Manages Value w/ Mikkel Ladegaard

Leading Agile

Mikkel Ladegaard is a Senior VP and Executive Consultant with LeadingAgile. This week, on SoundNotes, Mikkel and Dave Prior discuss Mikkel’s focus on designing product-centric organizations in which the company’s strategic prioritization of work is implicit and decision-making can be localized at the team level. During the conversation, they unpack a range of issues related to this topic, including how favor-based economies work, what the value is in designing organizations where the

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Partners Offers for GanttPRO Customers: from Extended Trials to Lifetime Discounts

GanttPRO Project Management

Can you imagine people who use no online services or use just one lifetime, and that’s it? The world today, in 2019, offers thousands of application that serves for dozens […].

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Stay On Top Of Your Work – How To Always Be Productive [PODCAST EPISODE #44]

TimeCamp

How To Stay Productive? Having well-developed time management skills is one of the.

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Partners Offers for GanttPRO Customers: from Extended Trials to Lifetime Discounts

GanttPRO Project Management

Can you imagine people who use no online services or use just one lifetime, and that’s it?

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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.