April, 2022

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EMPATHY should become part of your leadership now

Proofhub

EMPATHY Should Become Part Of Your Leadership Now Image Source: ProofHub While many leaders may think managing millennials is just like managing a baby boomer, it’s not. However, they may still be treated the same way. So, it is inevitable to feel disconnected, unappreciated and unrecognized. While a baby boomer might not dig flexibility, seek stability, and also believe in a hierarchical structure, millennials seek understanding, engagement and want their voice to be heard as equals.

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The Quality Management Plan in Project Management

ProjectManager.com

Project managers know all about the triple restraint: time, scope and cost. But truthfully, there should be a fourth restraint: quality. The quality of your work can make or break a project, which is why a quality management plan is so important. If you deliver on time and under budget, but the quality doesn’t meet your stakeholders’ expectations, the project is not a success.

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Managing Multiple Projects: The Research

Rebel’s Guide to PM

What are the key skills for working on multiple projects simultaneously? What tools do you use to prioritize your work? How do you get through the day when you’re juggling All. The. Things? I posed these questions (and more) to our community and the insights were illuminating. And unfortunately, not in a good way. In this article, we’ll dive into the statistics and you’ll learn: The top challenges facing people managing several projects at once The key skills required for managing multiple proje

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Which estimation methods are favored for adaptive delivery?

Kiron Bondale

If you ever find yourself wanting to inject some energy into a cross-functional gathering of delivery staff and stakeholders, ask for their opinion on estimates. For every person who adamantly insists that estimates are needed to support proper governance, someone else will argue that the inherent wrongness of an estimate and how estimates are abused will wipe out any benefits of defining them.

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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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Why psychological safety enhances the abilities of the Scrum Team

Scrum.org

Long has spoonfeeding solutions and off-the-shelf feature descriptions prevailed in many development teams. We seek out frameworks in the hope of solving our issues. Although some issues might have been fixed, I rarely see the full potential of a Scrum Team being achieved. And quite often, I see the main reason is worrying about repercussions when things get awry.

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How to be a Superhero Project Manager

LiquidPlanner

In honor of National Superhero Day on April 28th, this article gives tips on how we can rise to “superhero status” as project managers. Successful projects can make you feel extraordinary, while failed ones can leave you feeling like the villain. At times, it can seem like projects are doomed from the start, and the outcome is completely outside of your control.

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Project Documentation: 10 Essential Project Documents

ProjectManager.com

Project managers know the importance of having project documentation. Project documents must be accurate and constantly updated to keep current with the project. Creating and managing project documentation throughout the project life cycle is critical for project success, but where to start? This guide will define what project documentation is, why it is important and what are the top 10 project documents that you should always create to plan and execute your projects.

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What we want from project management tools in 2022

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I don’t often wear a watch, but when I do it’s a very unassuming watch with real hands. Not a smart watch. I’ve been a little bit in awe at colleagues who get WhatsApp messages on the wrists. I’m not sure if I would want that, but I do love the simplicity of it. And then I log into my PM software and suddenly that simplicity that exists elsewhere disappears… Here are my wishes for the PM software industry for 2022. 1.

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Top Six SaaS Tool Marketing Tactics To Follow In 2022

Proofhub

Over the past few years, SaaS applications have grown manifold in terms of usage across various industries. Software as a service has been the fastest-growing segment since 2010, and businesses are now investing 50% more in these cloud-based technologies than they did a couple of years ago. A recent research reports that 73% of organizations indicated nearly all their apps will be SaaS by 2021.

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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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Mind The (Scrum) Gap!

Scrum.org

I’ve been part of the Scrum community for about 12 years. In this period, I’ve noticed a clear pattern in the majority of Scrum-related threads on social media like LinkedIn, Medium, Twitter, and so on. As a community, we excel at putting our fingers on the sore spots of what teams and organizations do wrong. We are also very good at contrasting this with the ideal state of Scrum.

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How to Create a Project Schedule (step-by-step guide)

PM Basics

Creating a realistic project schedule is difficult when you have the wrong mindset. Everyone expects that there’s always a way to squeeze the whole project scope into the deadline project owners set. Stakeholders put a lot of pressure on you to find a solution. But, in most cases, there’s no magic formula. Therefore, the only solution is to do less, or to request more money or time.

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How to Avoid Team Burnout

LiquidPlanner

For World Health Day this year, we want to talk about burnout prevention. This is a very important and popular topic as there has been a significant rise in burnout rates among all professions. The Great Resignation is underway for a reason that appears to have accelerated from the pandemic. Today, 58% of employees report burnout, up from 45% in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Project Selection: Use These 8 Selection Methods for Better Strategic Results

ProjectManager.com

Projects need management. Much of the focus of project management is obviously on methodologies that keep your project on time and within budget. But you don’t want to initiate a loss leader. That’s where project selection comes in. Project selection is all about picking the right project at the right time for your organization. It sounds like it’d be simple, but there are a lot of factors to consider.

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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 do Rolling Wave Planning

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Rolling wave planning, also known as progressive elaboration, is an iterative planning technique to use when it’s difficult (or pointless) to schedule too far ahead. The APM Planning, Scheduling, Monitoring and Control Guide (2015) defines rolling wave planning as ‘the planning density that is achieved at different moments in time. Primarily more detailed planning in the immediate future and less detailed planning towards the end of the project.’.

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Review Agile Portfolio Management

Henny Portman

There are not that many books on agile portfolio management, so I am curious what the book Agile Portfolio Management – A guide to the methodology and its successful implementation “knowledge that sets you apart” written by Klaus Nielsen, offers. The book is divided into nine chapters, starting with project portfolio management, and ending with case studies on agile portfolio management.

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How to increase UX Design maturity for Scrum teams

Scrum.org

In this article you will learn: Why enabling Scrum Teams with UX Design capabilities is important. Why introducing UX capabilities to Scrum team is frequently hard. What is the job of an UX Leader in a product development organization. How to use a UX Design maturity level to coach teams to deliver better outcomes. . ?? The job of a Scrum Team is not just to deliver a product, but to solve user problems.

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Managing Projects during Wartime

MPUG

PM Stories from the Front. War is hell, and not something any sane person plans for (outside of the government, that is). As the events of late have unfolded, the need for wartime planning of projects (military or not), has come to roost across most of Europe and beyond. Another black swan has landed, just a few years after the last. Even non-military project managers are prepared for every eventuality, right?

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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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5 Successful Methods of Project Estimation

LiquidPlanner

Project estimation is hard. Why? Because the only time you know precisely how long it takes to complete a project is when it’s done. Up to the point of delivery, teams use educated guesswork to predict the future. And the bigger and more complex a project is, the hazier that future is. Faulty estimates mean missing deadlines and breaking budgets—two of the main symptoms of project failure.

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How to Overcome the “Zoom Ceiling” and Get Promoted as a Remote Worker

ProjectManager.com

Everyone is talking about hybrid work. Having the flexibility to work remotely seemed like a workers’ dream. No more commuting. No more office politics. No more managers breathing down your neck. Studies, such as this one from Stanford , sweetened the deal by noting remote workers showed an increase in productivity by 13 percent. There’s just one problem, though; the so-called “Zoom ceiling.

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A Framework for Managing Multiple Projects

Rebel’s Guide to PM

How do you start to get your work under control when you are juggling several projects at once? That’s the question I answer in my book, Managing Multiple Projects. The starting point is knowing how all the different parts of your workload fit together so you can manage them in an efficient way. And do not worry, I have a simple 5-step framework that will guide you through.

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Become a Modern PMO That Empowers Your Organization

Planview

In this post, we’ll show you how to become a modern PMO that enables your organization to adapt to an ever-changing professional landscape. You’ll learn how to adopt a modern approach that keeps up with the speed of business. That way, you can ensure alignment, drive continuous improvement, and help your company become more responsive to change and disruptions.

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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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Your Daily Scrum: Why is the Scrum Master Role So Uncomfortable?

Scrum.org

On a recent episode of Your Daily Scrum , Professional Scrum Trainers Todd Miller and Ryan Ripley address a very popular question in Scrum circles: Why is the Scrum Master Role So Uncomfortable? During their discussion, Ryan and Todd talked about the incredibly busy life of a Professional Scrum Master and the challenges they face when confronting complexity in an organization.

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A New Direction for PMI’s PMBOK® Guide Seventh Edition

MPUG

The Project Management Institute (PMI) has gone through quite the metamorphosis over the past few years, positioning itself once again as one of the top authorities on how project management is practiced. However, those of us who just so happened to pick up or download a copy of the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK)® Guide Seventh Edition , the most recent edition published in 2021, may have noticed it’s quite different.

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Task Dependencies in Project Management: Best Practices

Ganttic

According to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) , all tasks should have a dependency. That’s because, in project management, all tasks are related. And by not indicating task order and relationships, you can inadvertently put your project schedule in harm’s way. How so? Well, unclear directives, a lack of focus, and an unrealistic schedule are all main drivers of project failure.

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How To Successfully Manage Your Project’s Budget

Scoro

You’ve just got a project off the ground and your client is expecting great things. But do you have a firm budget management plan? If you don’t, there are a number of things that could go wrong. You could end up overdelivering and wasting precious resources. Worse yet, you could end up underdelivering, because you didn’t set aside enough time for project planning and budgeting.

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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.