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If the Shu fits?

Growing Agile

Blogging doesn’t come naturally for me, I find it hard to find topics to write about that I think other people will find interesting. Why would anyone read something I wrote? Imposter Syndrome hits us all in different ways I guess. So I am following the advice of a dear friend who said ‘just do it’…. Now you may have stopped reading already, but for those that haven’t, I’d like to take you on a journey of Shu-Ha-Ri.

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How to Become a Project Manager and Succeed in the Business World

ProProfs Project Management

A skilled and diligent project manager is the crucial component to making business projects successful. It could be the primary reason why businesses take the hiring process so seriously and set a high salary bar for job candidates coming for the role of a project manager. . As per the industry reports, companies have to fill 2.2 million new project-oriented roles every year, starting from 2027.

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When the Team Says, ?We Don?t Need to Plan.?

Leading Agile

When a team does not keep rigor, discipline, and quality in making the work-ready, it doesn’t just impact that team – it impacts all the dependent teams and ultimately the return on investment. *The team names have been changed to protect the learning, but the learning needs to be shared. The mobile team is a nimble team. Why wouldn’t they be? They’re running with full continuous deployment and the latest technology, so they get to brag – they are Agile, right?

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Evidence-Based Management card deck

Henny Portman

In January 2019 I published a blog about Evidence-Based Management. When I spoke at the Agile Tour 2019 in Vilnius, Lithuania, I met, among others, Magdalena Firlit as one of the other speakers. She mentioned a card deck she developed to support her classes regarding Evidence-Based Management. I just received some copies of that deck (really appreciated).

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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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Top 9 IT Project Manager Interview Questions and Answers [2020]

PM Basics

IT Project Manager interview questions are tricky. They test your knowledge of project management and software development process as one. Also, remember this: All software development project manager interview questions require you to provide an answer from a leadership perspective. Also, keep in mind that you’ll get the common interview questions for a project manager as well.

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Tracking Progress Status With A Monthly Report Template

Techno-PM

Monthly Report Template Having a monthly report template will be necessary for those businesses working on projects with long durations. Essentially, the purpose of the monthly status report is to communicate the status of your project with all of the relevant stakeholders, including supervisors, colleagues, and/or clients. In doing so, a monthly report template helps define your project’s workflow, highlight dependencies, track your resources, and identifies errors.

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Project Portfolio Management: an Efficient Way to Reach Your Company?s Strategic Objectives

GanttPRO Project Management

Do you know that 80% of project management executives don’t know how their projects align with their company’s business strategy? Sometimes companies lose focus on their long-term plans, objectives, and […].

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You can't run a project with dice

Musings on Project Management

Is this a fair die with a roll-string of heads and tails like this? HHHHHHHHHHHTHHHHHHHHHHHHTHHHHHHHH It doesn't look fair, but it well could be. 50/50 heads and tails is a so-called limit outcome requiring, in theory, nearly infinite rolls to achieve What's going on here? The die has no memory! The next outcome (roll) is not dependent in any way on the last roll There are no lessons.

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Project Portfolio Management: an Efficient Way to Reach Your Company?s Strategic Objectives

GanttPRO Project Management

Do you know that 80% of project management executives don’t know how their projects align with their company’s business strategy?

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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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New Update to Double Grouping: by Custom Fields with Heat Map Report support

Hub Planner

Reading Time: 3 minutes New Update to Double Grouping: by Custom Fields with Heat Map Report support. Now double group reports by Custom Fields. Also, Heat Map Reports are now supported by Secondary Grouping. A small, quick but powerful feature update for you. Expanding on and following on from the recent release of Hub Planner Double Grouping of Reports.

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Hylan partners with Sitetracker to scale rapidly

Sitetracker

Originally posted on PR Newswire. Hylan will use the Sitetracker Platform to achieve operational efficiencies, which will enable their next phase of growth and empower their workforce. Sitetracker to Sitetracker Integrations will enable Hylan to efficiently connect with their customers and vendors to share information and accelerate project completion.

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Tips for Resource Scheduling in Remote IT Projects

Wrike

Your remote IT team is ready to roll up their sleeves and get started on a big project: transitioning everybody in your company from your outdated chat platform to Microsoft Teams. . Now that so many of your team members are working from home, that communication tool has become more important than ever, and everybody within your organization is eager to get up and running with it. .

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Use Google to Sign into Hub Planner

Hub Planner

Reading Time: 3 minutes Use Google to sign into Hub Planner. Hub Planner, the number one resource management software, today unveils a fresh new update to the login and sign up experience with the introduction of Google Authentication and soon to be released SSO. This morning, thousands of new and existing users discover the clean, modern and sleek new look when logging in or signing up to Hub Planner.

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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.