August, 2021

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How to Develop a Stakeholder Register

Project Risk Coach

A project manager does not possess all of the knowledge and skills necessary to deliver a project. Therefore, each project manager should engage the people and organizations that have interest in the project. In this article, let's talk about the benefits of a stakeholder register and how to develop one. […] The post How to Develop a Stakeholder Register appeared first on Project Risk Coach.

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21 Ideas To Get Quiet Teams Talking In Sprint Retrospectives

The Digital Project Manager

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Meeting Management Techniques for Project Managers

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I’ve been booking meetings for the next couple of months because I know my team get very busy, and if we don’t schedule the time we won’t meet to talk about the big stuff. We meet weekly anyway, but for Phase 2 planning and other parts of our program that have a longer-term goal, we need to lift up out of the weekly task list and get some space. If it’s not booked, it won’t happen.

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What Is Demand Planning? Tips, Strategies and Tools

ProjectManager.com

Businesses are constantly pulled between supply and demand. But this seemingly simple concept can be difficult to navigate effectively. How do you meet demand and not overstock your inventory? That’s where a process called demand planning comes in. It’s a way to boost profits and keep overhead costs down. What Is Demand Planning? Demand planning is a cross-functional process that businesses use to meet customer demand while avoiding supply chain or inventory management disruptions.

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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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Tailoring project management for a home move (part 2)

Kiron Bondale

In my last article, I had written about our current personal project of moving from our current home to a new house in a different city. After it was published, I received some feedback ( thanks Luis! ) that it would be helpful to provide more context about the project itself. This initiative was the follow up to an initial project which covered the purchase of the new property and the sale of our existing home.

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How to Conduct a Killer Kickoff Meeting

Project Risk Coach

One thing that I've learned after twenty years of projects. Double down on your initial efforts. And one of the most critical events is your project kickoff meeting. Let's ensure that our meeting participants leave the kickoff meeting with a good understanding of the project and motivated for the hard work ahead. Prepare Your Agenda Do you know the 5 P's?

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How to Use the Pomodoro Technique for Productivity and Focus

Project Bliss

Among the many productivity hacks out there, the Pomodoro Technique is one of the simplest and most effective. It’s a great time management tool for increased focus and productivity. It’s a simple method that involves working for 25 minutes, then taking a 5-minute break to relax or do something else. The idea is that it will force you to stay focused on what you’re doing without getting distracted by other things around you.

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Why you need to engage stakeholders (and how to do it well)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Early on in my career, I had a call from the post room manager. She was confused – and angry. Bags and bags of extra mail had arrived, she didn’t have the staff in to sort it and she had heard that it might be something to do with me. It was. I was happy that my project to in-source a service had completed as expected. All the redirections were working – including the post.

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Construction Risk Management: An Introduction

ProjectManager.com

Few things are as risky as construction. There is heavy equipment, crews working in precarious situations and complicated logistics to manage. How do you meet your deadline while managing all that risk? The answer is construction risk management. It can be mind-bogglingly complex, which is you should make a detailed construction risk management plan.

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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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Tailoring project management for a home move (part 3)

Kiron Bondale

In the first two articles in this series, I covered the context and planning work which has gone into our move. This article is being written three days after we moved into the new home. Nearly all boxes are unpacked and we’ve even managed to put some of our home decorations up but there’s still a lot left to do to achieve our desired outcome.

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Velocity is a made-up number ??

Scrum.org

Velocity has become a word specifically associated with measuring how well a Scrum team is doing. This metric is often associated with negative feeling new Scrum Teams are feeling towards Agile in general. However, the issue with velocity is not the metric itself, but rather how we use it. In this video, I will be sharing how to use and how NOT to use velocity with a few examples and metaphors.

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How Do You Respond to Project Conflicts?

Project Risk Coach

Project managers, team members, and other stakeholders have disagreements. Some are heated, some not. Let's look at the top reasons for conflict and five ways to resolve conflict. Successful project managers do not run away from conflict; they run toward it. And they quickly engage the appropriate stakeholders in order to discuss and resolve the issues.

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7 Tips To Lead And Coach Remote Project Management Teams

Proofhub

7 Best Practices To Lead And Coach Remote Project Management Teams Source: [link] Does your remote project management business have a strategic plan for communicating, training, and delegating? Does it run on seamless systems and processes? And what about your team members?—?are they doing great work individually and as a team? If you answered NO to any of the above questions, we’re here to help.

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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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The Stakeholder Salience Model and How to Use It

Rebel’s Guide to PM

What is the stakeholder salience model? The stakeholder saliency model was proposed by Mitchell, Agle and Wood (1997). They define salience as: the degree to which managers give priority to competing stakeholder claims. Their model looks at how vocal, visible and important a stakeholder is, allowing you to create a typology of stakeholders to whom you should pay attention.

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How to Make a Project Calendar for Project Management

ProjectManager.com

What Is a Project Calendar? A project management calendar is one of many formats for displaying a project schedule. In this case, the format is one we’re all very familiar with—regardless of our expertise with project management, we’ve all seen a calendar. For this reason, project calendars are an excellent way to share information about the project timeline with everyone on the team.

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The worst error in scheduling

Musings on Project Management

The worst error in scheduling is to have a milestone depend upon two or more tasks scheduled (planned) to finish at the same time.Here's a footnote to that witticism: It's assumed the two tasks are independent, meaning:They don't share resourcesThey don't have the same vulnerabilities to a common riskThe progress, or not, in one does not affect progress in the otherSo, what's the big error here?

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UnSMART Improvements at Retrospectives — Making Your Scrum Work #18

Scrum.org

TL; DR: Unsmart Improvements. There are plenty of failure possibilities with Scrum. Given that Scrum is a framework with a reasonable yet short “manual,” this effect should not surprise anyone. One area that typically flies under the radar is improvements. While the Scrum Guide encourages addressing the most impactful ones as soon as possible, it is up to the Scrum team to figure out how to improve.

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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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Timeboxing-An Efficient Time Management Technique for Boosting Productivity

nTask

Our inability to efficiently manage time often lands us in hot water, with hordes of delayed assignments and fast-approaching deadlines. Keeping up with the daily activities then becomes a Sisyphean task where you do not actually get anything done but are always in the grind with no way out. While most of us are eager to start and end our daily tasks on time, very few of us are actually able to do that because of poor time management.

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Five factors required for teams to self-organize

Kiron Bondale

Self-organization doesn’t mean anything goes. Even in a very small company, there are going to be some restrictions on what a team can do, even if those purely relate to meeting cost constraints requested by those who hold the purse strings. This is one of the reasons why I endorse the Disciplined Agile guideline to “ Create semi-autonomous self-organizing teams ” as it acknowledges that the degree of autonomy is rarely absolute and will vary widely between contexts even within

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How to List Project Management Skills on Your Resume

Rebel’s Guide to PM

When I brainstormed a list of project management skills to put on my resume (which over here in the UK we call a CV), it was a long list. If you’re putting together an application for a job, you’ve probably found the same. How do you list the project management skills required without it turning into a giant list of buzzwords? Here’s how. How to include project management skills on your CV.

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What is Agile Project Planning? An Introduction for Beginners

ProjectManager.com

While agile is relatively new, it has made a big splash in the work of project management. It started in software development, but has since been adopted by other industries that have seen the benefit of agile’s iterative approach. Those that use an agile project management framework don’t like to consider it a methodology, though some argue it is.

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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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Project Resource Management: Part 1 of Your Comprehensive Guide

Online PM Courses

Nothing gets done unless people do it. And people need tools, materials, and a place to work. So, Project Resource Management is an essential skill set. The post Project Resource Management: Part 1 of Your Comprehensive Guide appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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The value of incremental delivery in Scrum

Scrum.org

When I first started practicing Scrum, I thought that delivering a done, usable increment each Sprint was the least important part of the framework (spoiler alert: delivering a done, usable increment at least once per Sprint is critically important for reducing risk, enabling faster delivery of business value, reducing the accumulation of technical debt, and facilitating empiricism.

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Improve Productivity In 2021 With Effective Workflow Optimization Tactics

nTask

Your workflow guides most of your projects, it is how you schedule your tasks, assign resources and keep up with the deadlines of the project. But sometimes your workflow might not be it, it might need little tweaks here and there for more optimal working. What if you could optimize your workflow and improve your productivity? What if workflow optimization helps you become more efficient?

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A cold lesson in secondary risks…

Kiron Bondale

Secondary risks are those which arise based on the implementation of a response to an identified risk. Similar to other risks, secondary risks can fall into known-unknown and unknown-unknown categories. I’ve never liked the term “secondary risk” as it creates the perception that these are not as important as “primary” ones and this is not the case.

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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.