December, 2021

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How to Respond to Project Risks

Project Risk Coach

Once we've identified our project risks, we should plan and implement responses. In this article, let's look at ways to respond to project threats and opportunities. In our projects, we discover threats that may limit our ability to achieve our goals. We also identify opportunities that could allow us to make more progress. Our job is to increase the opportunities and reduce the threats.

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Hybrid is the norm, not the exception

Kiron Bondale

I frequently see questions asked in project management discussion groups about hybrid projects. As I wrote in last week’s article, projects themselves can’t be waterfall, agile, traditional or hybrid but how we approach them can be. But what does “hybrid” really mean? The Oxford English Dictionary’s first definition relates to the zoological use of the term which isn’t too helpful, but the second is: “ A thing made by combining two different elements; a

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Product Manager vs Project Manager – What’s the Difference?

ProjectManager.com

Product Manager vs Project Manager. While both are leadership roles and the titles are similar, there’s a difference between a product manager and a project manager as Jennifer Bridges, PMP, explains. Here’s a screen shot of the whiteboard for your reference! Of course, these roles can also vary greatly depending on the types of products or projects being executed in the organization.

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Engaging Stakeholders with Gamification [video]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In this video Elizabeth Harrin discusses how merging engagement and gamification creates engagification, a methodology to help people take action on projects. Watch the video to listen (about 30 minutes). If you prefer to read, there are closed captions in the video or there’s also a transcript underneath the video. Transcript. Hello, everybody. My name is Elizabeth Harrin.

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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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Definition of Done - Where to Start?

Scrum.org

Often after exploring the definition of done in our Scrum.org training, and exploring its importance to promote transparency and is a commitment to the increment every Sprint. A common question we get asked is how do we get started with creating a Definition of Done ? It's not surprising a common question. Often when working with Scrum teams, we'll ask, "Where's your current Definition of Done (DoD)?".

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3 Project Planning Considerations for the New Year

LiquidPlanner

New Year, New Projects, New Directions = a New Plan. You are very likely in the process of planning where your company is headed next year. If not, it’s time to get started. Looking ahead is an important component of good leadership and project management. At the highest level, it is determining goals and objectives for the organization. These goals are translated into business unit priorities for each team through estimating planned projects, identifying process changes, and determining the peo

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New Year’s Resolutions and retrospectives

Kiron Bondale

Tis the season – for New Year’s resolutions. Like lessons (rarely) learned sessions at the end of projects, annual resolutions have received their fair share of ridicule. For gym rats like myself, a humorous way to help shake off the doldrums of the post-holidays blues is to see all the new faces in my gym for the first couple of weeks of January and watch their numbers dwindle back as the days pass.

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Project Kickoff Meeting: How to Write a Kickoff Meeting Agenda

ProjectManager.com

Project managers put a lot of time and effort into researching the viability of their project. But all that work is pointless if they don’t communicate the purpose of the project to their team and clients. That’s why a kickoff meeting is so important. A kickoff meeting puts everyone on the same page. The team and client know the mission statement, the vision statement and the project plan.

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Thank you 2021

Rebel’s Guide to PM

As 2021 comes to a close, I would like to take a moment and reflect on the year and thank everyone that has made a Girl’s Guide to Project Management a success this year. It is always one of my favorite parts of the year. I hope I’ve remembered everyone! Somehow the list seems to get longer every year. A very special thank you goes to… Companies that let me review their software.

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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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?? Would you recommend SAFe®? — Join the Survey

Scrum.org

TL; DR: Survey: Would you recommend SAFe®? SAFe® has always been a controversial topic within the agile community. Therefore, back in 2017, I ran a survey on the Net Promoter Score® of the Scaled Agile Framework SAFe®. The result back then was -52. Four and a half years later, I believe it is time to rerun the poll: SAFe® has been through several iterations, and many more agile practitioners have experienced working with it.

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Best of 2021: Here Are Your Favorite Blog Posts This Year

Inloox

In 2020 the top positions were dominated by posts on working from home and knowledge management. As the pandemic is far from over, this year's list includes our personal lessons learned from a year of (mostly) working from home. But as we are all still working remotely, it’s more important than ever to stay connected and show appreciation to your fellow team members.

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10 Best Project Timeline Management Software [2021]

The Digital Project Manager

This project timeline management software review covers 10 tools and all the info you need: pros and cons, pricing, features, integrations, and screenshots to help you choose something that fits your needs. The post 10 Best Project Timeline Management Software [2021] appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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That’s not funny!

Kiron Bondale

“ Laugh and the world laughs with you ” goes the old saying, but that’s not always the case in the workplace. An HBR article covering research conducted in health care on the impact of humor in clinician-patient interactions is equally applicable in other industries. The authors indicated that humor can be a suitable side dish for an entrée of empathy, courtesy and respect but in the absence of these main courses, it backfires.

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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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How to Manage Ad-Hoc Projects and Ad-Hoc Requests

ProjectManager.com

Projects rarely go as planned. There is always the potential to get new data, project or product updates, reviews or any number of last-minute requests. How do you deal with these ad-hoc requests? Ad-hoc means that it’s specific—something that will not be repeated. Ad-hoc projects and ad-hoc requests will occur in project management and you need to know how to deal with them.

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LiquidPlanner Named a Top Solution for Portfolio Management

LiquidPlanner

Digital.com , a leading independent review website for small business online tools, products, and services, recognized LiquidPlanner as one of the best project portfolio management software options of 2021. Experts at Digital.com evaluated project portfolio management (PPM) software based on the capacity to track progress and status in relation to milestones, time, and expenses.

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Sometimes ‘Transparency’ Just Means Not Lying

Scrum.org

The facts of this article are true but I have changed names and some details to protect the identify of a former client. Victor’s Shell Game. Victor, a CTO, was a skilled swindler and played a marvelous shell game with his executive colleagues. Here’s how the game is played: Let’s say the priorities this quarter are initiatives A, B, and C. And the end of the quarter: neither A, B, nor C are done; Victor explains that A, B, and C are in fact done and we’re already reaping the benefits; believing

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Building an Effective Agile Transformation Consultant Team

Leading Agile

An Agile Transformation Consultant who wants to lead a successful Transformation is going to need more than a deep understanding of Agile. Simply knowing the methodologies and teaching them to other people is insufficient. In a recent blog post, we discussed the various types of Agile Transformation Coaches needed to run a sustainable Transformation.

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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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10 Best Project Management Calendar Tools For Scheduling

The Digital Project Manager

Time to trash the tacky pin-up calendars and a bottomless hunger for Whiteout for a digital project calendar that is flexible, versatile, and shareable. The post 10 Best Project Management Calendar Tools For Scheduling appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Review Project Management Maturity Model Fourth Edition

Henny Portman

Project Management Maturity Model Fourth Edition, written by J. Kent Crawford, is a comprehensive but complete guide to understand and use the maturity model PMMM. The PMMM is based on the knowledge areas of the 6 th edition of the PMBoK guide and the five levels of maturity from CMMI. Each knowledge area is broken down the into specific key components.

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How to Identify Different Work Styles for Better Productivity

ProjectManager.com

Not everyone works the same way, which is why there are different work styles. There are those who prefer the morning for the heavy lifting, and others that can’t get started until the afternoon. Some work better in groups and others alone. Some live off long-term plans, while others execute in weekly sprints. As work evolves to include hybrid teams that are located in different places with a wide range of skill sets, successful businesses need to connect everyone to keep them productive.

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Use Kanban Board Like A Pro: Basics, Elements And How To Use It.

Agilemania

If you are familiar with agile methodologies , then Kanban makes it to the top tier. While organizations small and big have used Kanban and seen phenomenal results. . If you’re a beginner looking to know what a Kanban board is , the basics, elements, and how to use it, then here’s a descriptive guide that we’ve compiled so that you shouldn’t have to scour the internet for research.

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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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'Twas the Night Before Sprint Review

Scrum.org

Here's my twist on an old classic. If I've learnt anything by writing this, it's that I should stick to training Scrum and not writing poetry! . 'Twas the night before Sprint Review, when all through the building. Not a dev was there stirring, definitely not out chilling; The increment has been hung on the Ops branch with care, In hopes that the stakeholders soon would be there; Most of the Scrum Team were all snug in their beds; While visions of acceptance criteria danced in their heads; The P

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Implementation Plan: The Key to Successful Project Execution

Epicflow Blog

Strategic planning and its implementation determine the success of any endeavor: whether it’s starting a business or building a house of your dream – you’ll have more chances for success if you have a well-thought strategy and know how to execute it. . It’s no less important in project management – no matter how great the idea behind a project is or how skilled your resources are, you need to understand HOW exactly you’re going to execute your strategy.

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10 Best Web-Based Resource Scheduling Software

The Digital Project Manager

Ditch the ratty coil-bound notebook and dried-out office pens—it’s time to take project management resource scheduling wholly online. The post 10 Best Web-Based Resource Scheduling Software appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Review Everything wrong with agile

Henny Portman

Everything wrong with agile – Half the work in twice the time is the first agilecartoons book by Michael Küsters. A feast of recognition. Delightful cartoons showing a multitude of anti-patterns. The 70 ridiculous agile situations are clustered in 8 groups: Let’s transform. Time to turn Scrum transformation Robust plan Framework selection Cherry picking Meet the agile community Hybrid agile Copy and paste FATE (Fake Agile Transformation for Enterprises) gile transformation.

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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.