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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Why hold retrospectives if ideas don’t get implemented?

Kiron Bondale

I’ve written and spoken frequently about the many issues with holding infrequent lessons learned sessions. The good news is that many practitioners now recognize that it is much better to discuss and implement improvement ideas frequently over the life of their projects than just at the end of a phase or the project as a whole. This applies both to projects which follow a predictive life cycle as those following an adaptive one, with the main difference being the frequency at which such re

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Project Team Engagement in the Context of Human/AI Hybrid Teams

The leadership style that the leaders adopt during engagement is critical in gaining team member support for building a positive thinking team. The challenge is in deciding whether to adopt an engagement focused leadership style that emphasizes human behavior characteristics such as personalities, or to a task-oriented leadership style that focuses on the work needed to be performed and the tools to be used.

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27 Product Backlog and Refinement Anti-Patterns

Scrum.org

TL; DR: 27 Product Backlog and Refinement Anti-Patterns. Scrum is a tactical framework to build products, provided you identify what is worth making in advance. But even after a successful product discovery phase, you may struggle to create the right thing in the right way if your Product Backlog is not up to the job—garbage in, garbage out. The following article points to 27 common Product Backlog anti-patterns – including the Product Backlog refinement process – limiting your Scrum team’s succ

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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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What Does Project Governance Really Mean?

ProjectManager.com

Projects like anything that involves a lot of people working together need governance. The government runs a nation and project governance in the same fashion runs the project. It might not be involved in the details, but it’s has an overview that is just as important. We’re going to take some time to explore the nuance of project governance and look at the roles associated with it, the pillars on which it stands and much more.

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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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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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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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When will we get there?  How to estimate in Scrum.

Scrum.org

When will we get there? It’s not just something you might hear from the back seat of a car on a long road trip. It’s something that a Scrum Team’s stakeholders, customers, managers and many others want to know. When will that thing you are working on be done? How long do I have to wait for you to deliver what I want? Sound familiar? It’s a reasonable question.

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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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Happy One Year Planniversary to Us!

LiquidPlanner

One year ago today, on April 22nd, 2021, LiquidPlanner launched its next-generation project management software! The team completely redesigned the product from the ground up without keeping a single line of code. The reason for this complete redesign was to fundamentally improve the way people manage their projects and teams in a simplified and scalable way.

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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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The Essential Guide to Analytic Applications

Embedding dashboards, reports and analytics in your application presents unique opportunities and poses unique challenges. We interviewed 16 experts across business intelligence, UI/UX, security and more to find out what it takes to build an application with analytics at its core. No matter where you are in your analytics journey, you will learn about emerging trends and gather best practices from product experts.

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3 Reasons You Need the Skills to Manage Multiple Projects

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Watch my free webinar training on the 3 critical skills you need to manage multiple projects. Learn the skills you really need to juggle all your work (and still leave the office on time!). Why do you need to learn how to manage multiple projects ? That’s what we’re looking at in this article. I’ll share the 3 main reasons why you need to develop a range of skills – beyond what’s taught in the project management books – to help you meet the real demands of the job: multi-project management.

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Does your work board “fit”?

Kiron Bondale

Whether you call them work boards, Scrum boards or Kanban boards, visualizing work using physical boards or online tools is a common practice for both operational and project teams. Such boards can provide a number of benefits including: Helping team members to see what work remains to be done Giving them an opportunity to pull work items at their pace as capacity frees up Focusing the team’s attention on blocked work items Providing stakeholders with a lightweight, pull-based method of un

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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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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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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.

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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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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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How to Pass Your PMP Exam [Project Management Professional] | Video

Online PM Courses

So, you want to pass your PMP exam? Here are my top tips to ace your Project Management Professional certification exam. The post How to Pass Your PMP Exam [Project Management Professional] | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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How to Battle Layoffs: The Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp

Facing layoffs in your organization? Support your team members' career transition with Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp: Custom Resume & LinkedIn Revamp + 6 Weeks of Career Coaching. Our certified resume writers will create job search-winning resumes and LinkedIn profiles while they work with a career coach to learn unique strategies to stand out, attract the right employers, automate their job search, and land their dream job.

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Is Blue-print Thinking Limiting The Potential Of The Agile Community?

Scrum.org

Do you start a new Scrum team by explaining the roles, artifacts, and events? Do you rarely consider how to build coalitions and persuade people in power to support your work with Scrum? Are you thinking about the psychological needs of people and how to motivate them to work with Scrum? You may be engaging in a bit too much blueprint thinking. Our Agile profession is filled with frameworks.

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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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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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Kanban Principles & Best Practices Explained

ProjectManager.com

Kanban is a visual workflow tool that, while originally used as a Toyota scheduling system, is now associated with in an agile methodology, especially in DevOps software development. It can also be used in traditional project management methodologies. As its popularity has grown, kanban boards have found a use in industries looking for a way to have everyone on the team view the state of their work.

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Unlocking Business Agility: Leveraging the Power of Strategy Execution

True business agility is impossible if execution is disconnected from strategic planning. Download this eBook to learn about the 12 key imperatives every organization must address, and discover how they impact the capabilities you’ll need to effectively deliver execution across all investments.

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5 Mistakes Every Project Manager Should Avoid

Rebel’s Guide to PM

To err is human. But if you’re a project manager, erring isn’t really something you can afford to do. Even a tiny mistake on your end could cost the organization a lot of money, or worse still, the entire project. And if things go really wrong, your colleagues will end up losing faith in your ability to get work done. That’s career-changing, and not in a good way.

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Project Management Beginner’s Course: How to Get Started in PM

Online PM Courses

If you want to get started in Project Management, you need to learn the basics. And one way is a basic Project Management beginner’s course. The post Project Management Beginner’s Course: How to Get Started in PM appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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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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