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8 Things Great Project Managers Say Every Day

Project Risk Coach

Stop and consider the words you've spoken recently to your project teams. How would you characterize them? Are you speaking words that bring clarity, courage, and confidence to your teams? Are you asking the right questions to keep your team focused? Never forget – you are working with people who need clarity and who have emotional needs. Your words matter.

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Knowledge Management (Part 4): How to Implement and Use Knowledge Management Systems Correctly

Inloox

The implementation of knowledge management is a multi-stage process and should be regarded as a separate project within the company. The previous blog post has already defined the organizational steps of the knowledge cycle. This post explains the next operative steps in the process. Step 4: Distribute your knowledge How do you transfer knowledge to the right employees?

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Koos Coach in the "This is not Scrum" Comic (episode 7)

Scrum.org

In my daily life as a Scrum Master, I witness many crazy situations. I want to share my discoveries via this comic series featuring Koos Coach, the silly Scrum Master struggling to understand and master Scrum. Ownership. To get the best results, every team member needs to be involved in understanding and estimating all the work that needs to be done.

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Role of the C-Suite in Agile Transformations

Leading Agile

Agile began as something only development teams needed to worry about – now organizations seek Agility in how they do business and within their organizations. As organizations increasingly undertake Agile transformations, I see successful CXOs centered around these three guiding principles: organizational Agility, investment tier, and cultural Agility.

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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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Marketing Project Management – A 101 for Managers

ProProfs Project Management

Absence of effective project management severely impairs Marketing from successfully launching quality products – Madeline A. Veltri. A Marketing Strategy is considered brilliant if it: Delivers speed to market. Delivers quality products at a reasonable cost. Achieves business targets and makes customers happy. Therefore, a marketing manager needs to constantly adjust his approach for successful marketing.

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The Projectless Manager

The Lazy Project Manager

The Projectless Manager: A 21-day Challenge. Starting on Monday 20 th April 2020 and ending (successfully I hope) on Monday 11 th May 2020 the 21-day challenge is to design, write, produce, and publish a book written by project managers from around the world. The book will be a sharing of ideas and thoughts from this current world crisis, Covid-19, and how project managers have, in many cases, become projectless managers but kept on doing what they are meant to do, bring about change and improve

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Let Your Team Know It’s OK Not to be OK

Bridge the Gap Consulting

Open up your go-to news site and you’ll see it. An outbreak that shows no signs of slowing down. Death tolls on the rise. Elected officials debating. Alcohol use up. Domestic violence increases. Children hungry because they’re not at school. Parents stressed because they’re trying to help teach their kids. Elderly dealing with loneliness in isolation.

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How 3 Top Organizations Used Curiosity to Revamp Corporate Culture

The Digital Project Manager

The post How 3 Top Organizations Used Curiosity to Revamp Corporate Culture appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Meeting Actions: How to get People to do Them | Video

Online PM Courses

Don't let Them Forget their Meeting Actions. In this video, I'll show you six simple steps to take to get people to do their meeting actions. The post Meeting Actions: How to get People to do Them | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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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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30+ Best Online Conferences to Attend in 2020

TimeCamp

Online conferences are a great alternative to traditional conferences. And now, in a difficult time when.

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Sequencing Product Backlog

MPUG

When modeling a project as a flow process, one objective is to deliver the maximum amount of value in the shortest amount of time. Most project managers likely start with an inventory of features in a product backlog. The sequence in which features are executed determines whether we will achieve the objective. The effectiveness of the sequencing depends upon the interaction of three process variables: flow rate, flow time, and the inventory of work in progress (WIP).

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Seven Aspects of Project Risk in 2020

Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

Ahead of its January meeting in Davos, the World Economic Forum published its Global Risks Report 2020, based on the input of 750 experts and outlining the biggest risks faced by economies over the next 10 years [1]. Infectious disease was ranked as 10th biggest risk in terms of impact, and didn’t figure at all in the top ten by likelihood. And if the WEF didn’t see a risk coming, then what hope do we have?

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Value Stream Mapping with Karen Martin

PM for the Masses

Cesar Abeid talks with author Karen Martin on the benefits of value stream thinking for your organization. Cesar Abeid talks with author Karen Martin on the benefits of value stream thinking for your organization.

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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.