Mon.Mar 08, 2021

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5 Benefits of Online Assessment Tools for Recruitment

Teamweek

The internet is a huge part of our daily lives, so it’s no surprise that employers have recognized the advantages it can bring to hiring and managing their employees. Using online assessment tools for recruitment is a great way to reduce hiring and training costs , and to make sure you put all the right people in the right places! Here’s how.

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How to Make Better, Faster Decisions

Project Risk Coach

Our projects are the sum total of all the decisions we’ve made – budget decisions, schedule decisions, scope decisions, requirements, selection of team members, and the list goes on. My goal today is to help you make better project decisions. Here’s why – project managers and teams who make better decisions improve their chance for success. Think about how hard it is for you to make decisions alone.

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Peer Recruiting: How to Hire a Scrum Master

Scrum.org

TL; DR: Peer Recruiting. Peer Recruiting is the new hiring: Shortly, all creative, technology-based organizations will need to abandon the command & control structures that served the industrial world of the 20th century so well. Instead, they will reorganize themselves around autonomous teams to deal with the complexity and pace of innovation of the 21st century.

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Epics and Outcomes

Leading Agile

When teams are first moving away from, “Epic is a container for a list of features,” and towards, “Epic is a discrete investment decision,” It can be hard to reorient. In their old world, the epic had some sort of field – “list the features contained in this epic” which was straightforward to fill out. The decisions they made were really easy: “Is anything we planned to build missing?

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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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Agile Bridges - Celebrating Our Courage

Scrum.org

A collaborative community initiative, Inspired by Women, Powered by Women. Today is International Women’s Day! In the spirit of this year’s theme, #ChooseToChallenge, I would like to highlight an initiative between two women who came together with the common goal of elevating women in their respective communities and learning from each other in the process.

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I #ChooseToChallenge our Agile Community

Scrum.org

Happy International Women’s Day! It is a dynamic time to be alive. Dynamic, don’t you love that word? I do. Words like strange, scary, and unprecedented have been used to describe the times we’re all living in, but dynamic is a new one I’ve been considering. Have you looked at the definition of it recently? It seems incredibly relevant and useful for us on International Women’s Day.

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Troubleshooting in Lean-Agile Development

MPUG

Many project managers utilize a Lean-Agile approach when there is high change or churn in project requirements, significant lack of clarity in scope, high complexity to their projects, and/or a larger number of risks associated with such. As these approaches have gained wide acceptance in a number of industry verticals, there has also been an increase in the problems being reported.

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The Ultimate Guide to SWOT Analysis in 2021.

Appfluence

You’ve probably heard about the SWOT analysis concept many times before but haven’t applied it in practice. Today, we’re making it easy to learn what it is and provide you templates to get started right away. It’s typically used as a framework study for a company’s competitive position. However, SWOT analysis can be applied in many aspects of business and economics.

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How To Master Project Execution

Wrike

Project execution is a must-have skill for beginning project managers. According to a researcher at the University of Baghdad, “ The execution phase of the project is [the] most dangerous and the most draining on the resources during [the] project life cycle,” which is why it needs to be planned and monitored by a professional in order to succeed. Although it’s simple once you understand it, the process of creating a project execution plan can be complex.

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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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The Ultimate Guide to Agile Project Management.

Appfluence

Learn everything you need to know about Agile Project Management: its cornerstones, pros and cons, and how to implement it. What is Agile Project Management? Agile characteristics The Agile Manifesto Agile’s core values Agile’s 12 Guiding Principles Pros and Cons to Agile Project Management Scrum: what it is and how it works Scrum’s Key Components Scrum roles Team characteristics The Scrum Development Process How to implement Agile Project Management Using Priority Matrix.

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Scheduled Maintenance: Saturday, March 13th, 2021

Teamweek

On Saturday, March 13th, Toggl Track will perform scheduled maintenance beginning at 8 a.m. UTC while we upgrade our storage. During this time, users will be unable to access the web application or their Toggl Track account information. Existing installations of Track’s mobile and desktop apps will work in offline mode, with data sync occurring once we are finished with maintenance and back online.

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S.M.A.R.T GOALS

Appfluence

First of all, it’s more common than we think to feel like we are working very hard and not getting the results we are expecting or to not improve our skills as much as we would have wanted in the past years. However, there is a way this could change and that is by using S.M.A.R.T goals. If you don’t know what this concept is, this is the right article for you.

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The Value of Positive Feedback | Video

Online PM Courses

Feedback is a vital part of any manager or supervisor’s role. The one that gets people confused - even angry - is purely positive feedback. The post The Value of Positive Feedback | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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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.

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S.M.A.R.T GOALS

Appfluence

First of all, it’s more common than we think to feel like we are working very hard and not getting the results we are expecting or to not improve our skills as much as we would have wanted in the past years. However, there is a way this could change and that is by using S.M.A.R.T goals. If you don’t know what this concept is, this is the right article for you.