Inloox

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Objective and Key Results (OKR) are a widely used agile planning and management method in which sub-goals of individual employees and teams are aligned with the holistic corporate strategy at regular intervals. The OKR method aims to achieve cross-departmental alignment with long-term corporate strategic goals. As far as possible, measurable sub-goals (key results) are formulated for each department or employee, which are to be achieved by a specific date.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 5, 2021

TL; DR: The Obsession with Commitment Matching Velocity. Despite decades-long efforts of the whole agile community—books, blogs, conferences, webinars, videos, meetups; you name it—we are still confronted in many supposedly agile organizations with output-metric driven reporting systems. At the heart of these reporting systems, stuck in the industrial age when the management believed it needed to protect the organization from slacking workers, there is typically a performance metric: velocity.

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Proofhub

OCTOBER 5, 2021

How To Steer Your Team Away From The 2021 Burnout Epidemic Source: [link] In May 2019, The World Health Organization (WHO) characterized “burnout” as “chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed,” and emphasized that the term “burnout” shouldn’t be used to describe experiences in areas of life outside of the workplace. By the end of 2019, WHO’s focus was on a virus in Wuhan, China that would soon trigger a global pandemic and profoundly change how people work and live around

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nTask

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Project management is fast becoming the most important, and in most cases, the only way to achieve success in the organizational paradigm in 2021. So, when it comes to engineering projects, project management is an incredible way to manage all of the different tasks and processes included in the development process. You should know that project management in the engineering paradigm uses the same standard processes and methodologies that are included in any other form of project management.

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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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The Strategic Project Manager

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Celoxis offers a comprehensive solution that can be a good fit for the right size, focus, and complexity of organization. In this review, we look at the strengths and weaknesses of Celoxis project management software and evaluate it against criteria used commonly in this market. We also take a holistic look – and prognosticate where Celoxis might fit strategically against its competitors.

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PM Times

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Being straight with yourself puts you on solid ground for getting what you want. And who doesn’t like to get what they want? Can you own up to your motivations and limitations, your values, and your intentions? Are you self-aware enough to acknowledge your capacity and capability and to own up to your strengths and […]. The post Be Straight with Yourself to Get What You Want and Want What You Get appeared first on Project Management Articles, Webinars, Templates and Jobs.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Hey hey hey. What's good this week awesome people. In today's vlog we will explore the ingredients to use Scrum with UX. In some companies who practice Scrum and also User Experience, there is a tendency for UX professionals to work one sprint ahead so they can pass on the work for the engineers. Even though this approach may look efficient, it often lead to suboptimal results.

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Trello

OCTOBER 5, 2021

If someone on your team took an extended leave of absence, would you be able to replicate their processes and achieve the same results while they’re gone?

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ActiveCollab

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Hi everyone, Welcome to your monthly dose of ActiveCollab updates! Last time [[link] we talked about the in-app Chat, the mobile app and announced a new project overview as well as additions to the Chat. That's precisely what we're presenting this month: * New project overview [[link] * In-app Chat improvements [[link] * Mobile app enhancements [[link].

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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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nTask

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The organizational paradigm is booming with the advent of new businesses around the world almost every other day. When we talk about companies transitioning to new technologies from scalability points of view, one cannot deny the importance of tools for startups. To that effect, we have a handy list of different tools for startups and applications that businesses can use to expand, grow, and increase productivity tenfold.

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Resource Guru

OCTOBER 5, 2021

It’s 3 p.m., and your project suddenly needs both a design change and front-end implementation within three hours for a very persistent client. You check to see who’s available. Well, you have one UX designer in the wings, but not a single developer to implement the changes. You even have teams in multiple time zones—a model intended to support flexibility and rapid turnarounds like this—so you should have had someone available.

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nTask

OCTOBER 5, 2021

If you have been studying the project management paradigm for a long time then you would know that Kanban is one of the most flexible of the agile frameworks out there. This flexibility comes when you as a manager ask the team to act based on the demand out there. Compared to other methodologies out there like scrum , this methodology might seem unpredictable or unorganized due to its flexibility, but in reality, the Kanban project management methodology operates in certain choreographed rhythms

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Scoro

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Many organizations have tried the four-day working week, including Microsoft Japan , the Utah State Government , and a number of small UK companies. And all of them report many benefits. But so far, the only one to switch permanently is Perpetual Guardian – a New Zealand financial services firm that trialed the practice in 2018 before transitioning all 240 staff.

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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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nTask

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The majority of the companies in the world run on a hierarchical system of management wherein power is distributed from top to bottom in descending order. Top management holds the decision-making power, middle-level employees manage the ones employed under them, while the lowermost tier, essentially, holds no power at all. Each individual is accorded a specific role and is responsible for fulfilling his responsibilities liaised under the position.

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Scoro

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Many organizations have tried the four-day working week, including Microsoft Japan , the Utah State Government , and a number of small UK companies. And all of them report many benefits. But so far, the only one to switch permanently is Perpetual Guardian – a New Zealand financial services firm that trialed the practice in 2018 before transitioning all 240 staff.

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