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Top 8 Benefits of Project Management Software for Your Company

Inloox

Content. Benefits for team members. Benefits for project managers. Benefits for executives. Benefits of project management software Every company, large or small, is faced with a multitude of projects on a daily basis. The complexity of projects requires teams to take a structured approach. Where once there was only pen, paper and a method, today there are highly functional applications.

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5 Things To Share When Onboarding Team Members

Project Risk Coach

From time to time, project team members are replaced or additional members are added. How can project managers ensure that the new members are on the same page with the other team members? In this article, I will present five questions that I answer with new team members in the onboarding process. Whenever a new team member is assigned to your team, the individual has questions.

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How Scrum with Kanban works

Scrum.org

Scrum and Kanban are two different frameworks. But did you know that your Scrum Team can use some of Kanban’s crucial elements to optimize workflow and deliver value sooner? Combining Kanban with your Scrum practice doesn’t involve replacing events, accountabilities or artifacts. It’s about integrating Kanban’s complementary tools to achieve better outcomes with Scrum.

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Intelligent Collaboration for Predictive Insight & Competitive Advantage

LiquidPlanner

In the COVID recovery era, many people and organizations are no longer distinguishing between office-based, remote or hybrid work. Today, it doesn’t matter where you are located to perform project work. In the twentieth century, the means of production were fixed and immobile. Success used to be defined in terms of scope, scale, and efficiency. “While the twentieth century was the century of industrial conglomerates, the twenty-first century is the century of ideas.” 1 In the modern era, the mea

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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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How do you measure value in scrum?

Scrum.org

How do I measure value for a major IT infrastructure piece of work? How do I measure value? Before I even get into, how do I measure value? What is value? A lot of people struggle with this. I wrote an article about this here, what is value really? I think one of the reasons why the world is in the way it is, is because we over-indexed on a couple of meanings for that.

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Productivity Tips for Better Time Management Solutions

LiquidPlanner

Asking yourself the right questions, and getting all the help you can is key to productivity. Leading projects is a challenging but rewarding experience. But when you ask most project management professionals what the number one challenge is, they will, almost certainly, say time. This includes the lack of time allocated to work, conflicts on their time from many stakeholders and team members, and the increasing time demands throughout the project lifecycle. “The key is in not spending tim

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8 Best Harvest Alternatives For Time Tracking

Scoro

Harvest is one of the best known time tracking software in the market today. It has strong features such as efficiency in revenue management, powerful time tracking and an easy-to-use interface. However, depending on the growth stage, size, budget and the specific needs of an organization, Harvest may not always be the preferred option for agency teams.

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9 Fehlinterpretationen des Scrum Guides, die entstehen, wenn du Passagen überliest

Scrum.org

Kennst du den Scrum Guide wirklich? Halbwissen ist gefährlich. Es führt zu Fehlinterpretationen. . Hier stelle ich 9 gängige Fehlinterpretationen vor, damit dir niemand vorwerfen kann, dass du den Guide nicht verstanden hättest. . Fehlinterpretation #1: Im Sprint Planning dürfen keine Stakeholder anwesend sein. Vier Produktmanager streiten sich mit dem Product Owner im Sprint Planning über die Reihenfolge des Product Backlogs. .

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Design Thinking: Innovation rethought

Inloox

A fast-moving world, a dynamic market environment and, last but not least, intense competition make it impossible to successfully implement complex innovation projects using traditional problem-solving approaches. Design Thinking as a very target group oriented and idea generating approach can help here. The concept is being actively developed and disseminated by the Palo Alto-based design and innovation company IDEO under CEO Tim Brown.

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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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53 Best Project Management Software Solutions for Your Team in 2022

Workzone

As of January 2022, there are over 450 project management software solutions on the market, according to Software Advice ! The market is expected to grow by more than 10% per year , on average, for at least the next five years. That’s an overwhelming number of options to sift through! With so many choices available, you’re likely wondering which software is right for your team.

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A Really Bad Scrum Master Interview

Scrum.org

. Have you ever heard of an interview being really bad? like REALLY bad? Come be a fly on the wall and watch a Scrum Master interview go really poorly. I wonder if he gets the job!

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Creating Value for Our Customers With ActiveCollab

ActiveCollab

In mid-2015, the Strategic Creativity duo, now co-founders, decided to venture into a business Pitch that resulted in the first client that made it possible for PULSO AGENCY [[link] to be born. Thanks to the diversity of talents, learning from projects, and client expectations, they have contributed to the agency's construction. As the challenges let us constantly evolve, humanizing the agency allows us to always keep in mind that "together we are more powerful.

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Constraints, work capability, throughput and flow

Scrum.org

Today I wanna tell you a little bit of a story about a festival in England. You know what the English summertime is like. We went to a thing called Pub in the Park in Marlow, and it was raining. It rained really heavily. And we were wondering what to eat and we saw these different stalls and we were disappointed with the food we were getting. It was like a really tiny portion for a lot of money.

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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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Project Roadmap vs. Product Roadmap: Different but Equally Important

GanttPRO Project Management

If you don’t know the difference between a project roadmap vs. product roadmap, you can start with studying their purposes and intended use. The latest project and product management future […]. The post Project Roadmap vs. Product Roadmap: Different but Equally Important first appeared on GanttPRO.

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Stakeholder Trust — How Can We Earn Our Stakeholders’ Trust as a Team?

Scrum.org

TL; DR: Stakeholder Trust. Trust is the beginning of everything. I am hesitant to recycle an old slogan of a banking institute. However, in the context of becoming a learning organization and embracing business agility, it condenses the main challenge perfectly: How shall we convince the incumbents with vested interests in the status quo to give the new way of working the benefit of the doubt?

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How to use North Star metrics to superpower your product

Planio

As any project manager can tell you, metrics and data can be overwhelming. Between product data, KPIs, performance metrics, and user research , there are a lot of numbers to review, analyze, and manage on a regular basis. Choosing one overarching metric — a North Star Metric (NSM) — can separate the signal from the noise. But it can also be dangerous.

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Trust and its impact on the definition of done in scrum

Scrum.org

Why is our definition of done so long? I don’t like to call the definition of done the checklist for how we do things around here. I used to say that because you might be including every single little thing in your process when you do that, but does it have the essential elements of how do we know that this work is done? So why is our definition of done so long?

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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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The Ultimate Guide to Client Management Software

Scoro

An effective client management system is key to business success. It helps drive company-client relationships, makes it easier to manage clients, and improves the overall client experience. . Though businesses can implement a manual client management system, having a built-in client management software solution can help speed up processes, streamline workflows, and ensure that important client data is stored and can be easily accessed at any moment in time.