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Chess and Business Strategy

International Institute for Learning

By Luigi Morsa, Ph.D. Undoubtedly the chess game is fascinating because it implies deep thinking, strategy, and prediction ability. It is often seen analogous to a business strategy. Each player fervently studies the board, patiently waits their turn, anticipates the opponent’s next move, and runs through potential scenarios in their head. This is not so different from strategic planning in the business world.

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What is a Scrum Master? Why They’re Vital to Project Success

LiquidPlanner

Businesses are constantly working to refine their workflows and improve profitability. Unfortunately, business practices throughout the whole of a company are rarely transparent. It’s common for delays and mistakes to occur, and with today’s fast-moving markets, it’s also possible for products to be outdated before they even ship. . In order to streamline workflows and create a more dynamic system that can improve upon itself, Scrum is used to help organize project management.

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Business Goals for Startups: What You Need to Know

Proofhub

A startup with no business goals can be compared to a person running without an idea of which way to take and where he wants to go. Sure, he will be moving, but at the end of the day, he will be exhausted and have nothing to show for it. Business goals are ideally the things a business anticipates to accomplish in a certain period of time. They give the direction as to where you want to go, and motivates you to do what must be done to get there.

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Agile Procurement Survey

Scrum.org

"Becoming Agile" has been the focus of many organisations for a number of years. 2020 has created a new sense of urgency with a number of factors creating increasing demand for quicker responses. Many organisations focus their efforts in the product definition, development and deployment space. Is this supported by the procurement process and contracts with vendors and suppliers?

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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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What is a Scrum Master? Why They’re Vital to Project Success

LiquidPlanner

Businesses are constantly working to refine their workflows and improve profitability. Unfortunately, business practices throughout the whole of a company are rarely transparent. It’s common for delays and mistakes to occur, and with today’s fast-moving markets, it’s also possible for products to be outdated before they even ship. . In order to streamline workflows and create a more dynamic system that can improve upon itself, Scrum is used to help organize project management.

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Top 10 Books to Improve Your Project Management Skills

Scoro

To ensure projects are delivered on time, budget, and scope, great project managers truly have to be jacks-of-all-trades. And to remain successful, you need to improve your skillset regularly. To help you out, we’ve put together a list of the best project management books that will set you well on your way to becoming a better project manager. According to the Project Management Institute , organizations that undervalue project management report an average of 50% more of their projects failing o

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PMO in a Professional Services Firm

EasyProjects

Introduction. The project management office (PMO) is typically an operating unit of a professional services firm. The “classic” such firm, in a way, is the consultancy, for which the client “is” the project. But any project-based company in fields from architecture to law to tax return–is a natural candidate. The writer worked for an extended period in two firms that may broaden the concept of the PMO.

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How To Manage Marketing Projects Effectively

Wrike

Marketing project management is all about the tools, processes, and techniques that marketing professionals use to get more done. But knowing how to manage marketing projects also means addressing the unique needs of marketing teams. . Effective processes allow teams to manage marketing projects step by step through every campaign, event, and strategy implementation.

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Managing Up: How to Manage Your Boss

Rebel’s Guide to PM

One of the questions I’m often asked is: “How do I get taken seriously at work?” And over my career I have asked myself that question as well. One way to build credibility in the workplace was explained by Dr Lynda Bourne at a presentation she gave at the PMI Global Congress EMEA in Dublin. Let’s talk about managing up. Dublin Convention Center.

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Strategic Finance Essentials: A Project Manager’s Guide to Financial Impact

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 expendi

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Task Management Tips To Keep Your Team On Track

Trello

You turn on your computer, scan your inbox with more than 20 unread emails, realize you have 5 hours of meetings, and then go to your chat app to find a huge list of high-priority tasks to tackle and get other teammates involved in. You say to yourself… how am I supposed to get all of this done today?

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12 Project Management Software Considerations for your Business

EasyProjects

Project management software helps organizations achieve project success by letting users monitor and manage associated tasks to ensure they are accomplished on time and according to budget. How does project management software impact projects across organizations? A crowbotics project management adoption statistics report reveals an overwhelming 77 percent of high-performing projects use project management software.

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Agile Recruiting and Faster Hiring in 4 Easy Steps

Teamweek

Let’s see what agile recruiting is and how you can start using it for hiring software developers. The agile methodology and agile recruiting. To explain agile recruiting, we have to start with the roots of the agile methodology, which was officially announced in 2001. Until that point, traditional development methods were slow because developers kept working on a product and the actual customers couldn’t see it until it was fully finished.

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