Mon.Nov 09, 2020

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Manage Risks While Compressing Project Schedules

Project Risk Coach

Project managers are pressured to deliver projects quickly. Sponsors think their project managers are magicians. And in a way, we are. Let us explore ways to compress project schedules and manage the associated risks. Start with the Work Breakdown Structure The project manager’s role is to work with the project team to achieve the project objectives.

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The Sprint Planning Checklist

Scrum.org

TL; DR: Scrum Sprint Planning Checklist. A Sprint Planning checklist? How dare you: Agile is a mindset, not a methodology. It is a journey, not a destination. There is no one-size-fits-all approach, and what else could you possibly cover with a checklist, the mother of all standardized processes? Well, it always depends on the purpose of a tool’s application.

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7 Amazing Ways to Up Your Schedule Management Game in 2020

nTask

Schedule management is one of the most important qualities that define a project manager’s brilliance. This management is very important for the project as the success of every task and process connected to the project has to be completed according to schedule, otherwise, the customer is not going to trust the company again for their business. These tasks and processes can include various elements like the deliverables, milestones, resources, timetables, and even risks connected to the project t

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Why Resistance is a Good Thing | Video

Online PM Courses

Nobody likes dealing with resistance, right? Well, despite this, it's actually a good thing. Let me explain. The post Why Resistance is a Good Thing | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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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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Review Agile transformation

Henny Portman

In the book Agile transformation – Structures, processes and mindsets for the digital age , the author Neil Perkin shows how to transform an organization to a new type of business for a new age and to become fit for purpose for both the present and the future. To create the right agile transformation, you have to make sure you have the right balance between vision and iteration, you remove barriers to organizational change, and you follow a parallel, and not a linear approach.

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The Future of Remote Work: An Interview With the Founders of Toggl

Teamweek

The ongoing global pandemic has turned the couches, kitchen tables, and, sometimes, the beds of the world into the office space of the future. Remote work appears to be the topic of the year, although it’s far from a new phenomenon. Many companies, Toggl included, were fully remote way before we were trying to figure out what greeting would replace the handshake.

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Lo que importa en Scrum

Scrum.org

Lo que importa en Scrum es la la entrega de valor, mejorar los resultados de negocio, mejorar el impacto en los clientes, producir productos innovadores con una calidad que ayude a los clientes a resolver sus problemas y necesidades. Scrum mejora la ventaja competitiva sostenible de una empresa y su capacidad de reducir sus riesgos frente a los cambios en el contexto del mercado.

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11 Best Tools for Managers to Control Office Work

nTask

Project managers have to deal with challenges frequently. However, there is a smidge level difference between a smart manager and someone who is encumbered with the workload. The latter category must juggle several things simultaneously – and that too, without any high changes of precision towards project completion. Smart project managers use different applications to streamline their workflow.

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Common issues with managing marketing campaigns with spreadsheets

Admation

Are you still using a spreadsheet program like Excel or Google Sheets to manage your marketing resources? Are those projects not running as smoothly as you’d like? While spreadsheets can be incredibly useful for individual project management when it comes to management on the grander scale, they fall short. As business and technology has adapted, so too has the complex nature of project management.

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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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Creating the Right Conditions for Stable Teams

Leading Agile

Anytime something must be managed outside of the team, we’re creating a dependency. And dependencies kill Agility. But sometimes we need expertise on multiple teams and only one or a few people with that expertise. How do we keep them from becoming a bottleneck, or destabilizing our teams? It’s all about making trade-offs and balancing tensions. Here are some teaming conditions should you avoid, and what to do instead.

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A Guide To Managing Agile Meetings

Wrike

You don’t have to listen too hard to hear the complaints about meetings. The average worker spends 21% of their time in these sitdowns. And, even worse, they feel that 25% of that time is wasted. Grievances aside, meetings have their time, place, and benefits, especially when it comes to Agile meetings. In fact, meetings in Agile methodology are a core piece of the development process. .

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