August, 2019

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How to Make Your Project Management Meetings Zing

ProjectManager.com

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Top 20 Project Management Methodologies & their Scions: Which One You Should Choose & Why?

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All About…Project Manager Nomads

MPUG

The Day I Knew I Was One…. Ironically, it was while managing a program to provide upgraded yurts to nomadic people in Southwest China. I realized that after almost 40 years of doing this type of work, I’d become as nomadic as those on the Tibetan plateau that I was trying to help—only perhaps more digitally so. For the first half of my career, projects seemed to come to me, and not the other way around.

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Uniting the Multigenerational Workforce

LiquidPlanner

Employers understand the importance of diversity in the workforce and with many organizations now employing five or six generations of employees, they have ready access to a diverse pool of mature and emerging talent that can bring enormous benefits to the business. However, this can also create challenges. How do employers motivate and engage multiple generations of staff members, from the older traditionalists and baby boomers through to Gen X, Y, and Z, when each has its own preferred style o

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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 are Project Assumptions?

Project Risk Coach

There may be inherent risks when we make project assumptions. We assume certain things to be true when in fact, they may not be. Consequently, we fail to challenge assumptions and continue planning and executing based on false notions. This can be costly. An Example of Wrong Assumptions So, how does this happen? In her book—Thinking in Bets—author Annie Duke shares an illustration: Suppose someone says, "I flipped a coin and it landed heads four times in a row.

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5 Ways To Clap Back At Your To-Do List

Trello

Most of us have been there—it’s time to tackle your work week and your to-do list is staring back at you from your notebook or phone. ??.

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Cost Estimation for Projects: How to Estimate Accurately

ProjectManager.com

Good cost estimation is essential for keeping a project under budget. Many costs can appear over the life cycle of a project, and an accurate estimation method can be the difference between a successful plan and a failed one. Estimation, however, is easier said than done. Projects bring risks, and risks bring unexpected costs. Cost estimation is the process that takes those factors into account, and calculates a budget that meets the financial commitment necessary for a successful project.

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Who said 'hybrid Agile'?

Musings on Project Management

What's the hybrid thing? It's agile coexisting in the same project with a traditional methodology, presumably for the swim lanes that are not software. Some call hybrid agile as: agile in the waterfall Are hybrids practical? After all, the traditional is top down planned, most requirements up front, much system testing at the end, etc. Agile is the not-traditional.

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What challenges do distributed teams pose to others?

Kiron Bondale

Face-to-face communication around a shared modeling surface such as a whiteboard is considered to be a highly effective method of creating shared understanding. When team members are distributed, collaboration tools can help with reducing misunderstandings and miscommunications between team members but can’t fully eliminate those. But what about the impacts of distribution on other roles such as agile leads or senior stakeholders?

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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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What You Need for a Great Project Charter

Project Risk Coach

In this article, let's explore what you need for a great project charter. John Maxwell says, “All great leaders possess two things: They know here they are going, and they are able to persuade others to follow.” And, one of the most powerful tools for improving project communication is the project charter. Think about it—in the project charter process, project sponsors and managers have the opportunity to engage key stakeholders for the express purpose of defining the vision of a project.

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3 Mistakes Managers Make

Rebel’s Guide to PM

It’s human to make mistakes. And we spend so much time at work that it’s normal to make a few mistakes as part of the job. However, no one wants to be making mistakes. In this article I’m looking at three small-yet-mighty mistakes you might be making every day at work. Whether you are managing small projects or a team of global experts, I’ve seen managers of all grades make these errors time and time again.

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Can a Development Team Member Be the Scrum Master?

Scrum.org

“Can a Development Team member be the Scrum Master?”. This is a common question in my Professional Scrum classes. It often comes up early when we are still learning the basics of the Scrum framework. And it comes up because people are already wearing two hats or are being told by their organizations that they will be. The short answer is: Scrum does not have a rule against fulfilling multiple roles.

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What Is a Project Sponsor? Defining This PM Role

ProjectManager.com

Project personnel, such as a project sponsor, are given specific titles and responsibilities and exist in a bureaucratic structure. Projects would quickly spin out of control without a bureaucratic structure to organize action and authorize change. A bureaucracy creates order and delivers efficiency through charting action and sharing knowledge. In that spirit, we’ll look at a critical role, one that’s near the top of the totem pole: the project sponsor.

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.

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Against the Gods. (no luck required)

Musings on Project Management

If you are in the project management (read: risk management) business, one of the best books that describes the philosophy and foundation for modern risk management is Bernstein's "Against the Gods: the remarkable story of risk". Between the covers of this "must read" we learn this bit: The essence of risk management lies in maximizing the areas where we have some control over the outcome.

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5 Best Icebreakers for Meetings & Training Seminars

nTask

Icebreakers were initially part of the dating game. It made sense; two people meeting for the first time and the whole situation rife with nervousness. However, the term “icebreaker” became so popular at one point that it eventually transitioned into the professional world. Today, we see different companies looking to learn different icebreakers for meetings & training seminars.

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What Everybody Ought To Know About Project Risk Owners

Project Risk Coach

So, what are project risk owners and how should project managers identify and assign them? Let's talk. Imagine that you are the project manager of a two-year, multi-million dollar project. During the execution of your project, you take a beach vacation. One of your team members calls upset that a major risk has occurred. You cooly reply, "No problem.

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Benefits Management Template [Free Download]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Over in our Facebook group I asked what templates people would like me to create and Denise said a simple benefits management plan. Benefits management can be really confusing. Is it the job of the project manager? Does it fall to the business owner? How are we all supposed to work together to get the benefit? My thoughts are: Benefits should be documented in the business case.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Input, Output and Outcome

Scrum.org

Many years ago, I questioned myself about what makes a software product successful and what makes it fail. In project management, I observed that even we deliver the project within budget, scope, and time, it still has the jeopardy to be failed when launching into the market. I was keeping to research and observe what is essential to make the product successful.

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Kanban Inventory Management: How to Run a Kanban System

ProjectManager.com

Kanban is a visual tool that is ideal for managing inventory flow. It was developed about three-quarters of a century ago by Taiichi Ohno, an industrial engineer at Toyota. Kanban boards helped the car company restock its inventory only when it was needed, and it was the revolutionary approach that helped Toyota grow so quickly. Essentially, kanban inventory management is a way to have only the minimum amount of stock on hand that is necessary at that time.

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Getting it done

Musings on Project Management

"Others may have plans; I have deadlines" Amy Klobuchar Senator This sentiment has been expressed in other forms, most famously by many: Plans don't survive first touch with reality Plans are nothing; planning is everything The big idea: Plans are the process; outcomes are the value. Manage with milestones Detail planning is good -- it brings out the interdependencies and.

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How to Create an Easy Pareto Chart to Highlight Your Biggest Opportunities

Project Bliss

A Pareto chart is a bar especially designed to show information in descending order. Read on to learn when to use it and how to easily create one. . If you’re not analytically inclined, don’t let the idea of creating a Pareto Chart put you off. It’s a deceivingly simple tool that can add real punch to presentations and decision-making sessions.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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InLoox now! Enterprise for Students: Organize your Studies now for Free with InLoox

Inloox

Organize your studies with the InLoox Project Campus InLoox now! is our collaboration solution in the cloud with server locations in Frankfurt am Main and Magdeburg. With this flexible planning tool, you can quickly and easily coordinate all the challenges of your everyday university life: Course enrollment. Exam registration. Seminar and group work.

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What Is monday.com? Discover The Work Management Software For Teams

The Digital Project Manager

If you want your team to be more productive and motivated to do their best. The post What Is monday.com? Discover The Work Management Software For Teams appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Sprint Reviews with Kanban

Scrum.org

“A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution” -- Dustin Hoffman. I’ve always been intrigued by the different ways in which Scrum Teams go about their Sprint Reviews. It isn’t as though I coach a range of techniques, and suggest that teams just pick whatever format they like. My usual coaching battle is normalizing the practice of having a Sprint Review at all.

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7 Secrets for Conveying Confidence as a Project Manager

ProjectManager.com

Influence and persuasion start with confidence. If the people around you don’t detect that you are confident in yourself and what you are saying, then neither will they be. This means conveying confidence is an essential trait for a project manager because a large part of our work is in winning over team members, stakeholders, and clients to our point of view.

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From Complexity to Clarity: Strategies for Effective Compliance and Security Measures

Speaker: Erika R. Bales, Esq.

When we talk about “compliance and security," most companies want to ensure that steps are being taken to protect what they value most – people, data, real or personal property, intellectual property, digital assets, or any other number of other things - and it’s more important than ever that safeguards are in place. Let’s step back and focus on the idea that no matter how complicated the compliance and security regime, it should be able to be distilled down to a checklist.