December, 2020

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The 2021 Project Management Report

Rebel’s Guide to PM

We surveyed 220 project managers to better understand what it’s like to work in project delivery. In this original research, we share some brand new project management statistics. You’ll learn: What delivery approach is the most common How many project managers have considered leaving the profession Why the top career goal for project managers is not what experienced professionals want How many projects a project manager runs How many people in an average project team What keeps project managers

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Risk Mitigation Plan: Definition & Top Strategies

ProjectManager.com

Risk is always present. This is true in life and projects alike. If we were to try and avoid all risks, it would be paralyzing—not to mention impossible. We couldn’t step out of the house, let alone embark on a project. There’s just too much that could go wrong! Project managers don’t have the luxury of locking the door, turning off the lights and hiding in a corner.

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Putting 2020 in the Rearview Mirror

Green Project Management

When COVID-19 decided to lay claims to 2020, every organization on the planet was impacted. As we search for the light at the end of the tunnel (and hope it is not an oncoming train), we are all faced with the question, “what now?” I am sure many of us during this pandemic have felt […]. The post Putting 2020 in the Rearview Mirror appeared first on Delivering a better world, one project at a time.

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Creating a Common Collective for Distributed Teams

The Lazy Project Manager

We have all experienced an amazing transformation in the last year, one which has, in many ways, accelerated changes that we already beginning to happen, in the way we work, where we work and how we work as part of a team. The following is a guest article from my friends at CROOW. Creating a Common Collective for Distributed Teams. Work looks different these days.

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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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Will you be a champion for team psychological safety?

Kiron Bondale

The final stage in the three-step model for building psychological safety within your team is to champion it. A champion is not afraid of taking on all challengers and you might face plenty of those. You may have some team members who are used to getting their way by ridiculing or bullying others. You could have a mix of managers and their direct reports within your team.

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Top 11 Cities for Project Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

What are the top cities for project management in the world? We looked at hotspots for megaprojects and compared them to the outlook for project management careers. In this article, you’ll learn: Where in the world pays project managers the most How many jobs are available in top cities Which cities made it into the Global Liveability Index Which city made it on to the list… even though it hasn’t been built yet Which city tops the list for EU investment.

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How to Make a Timeline in 5 Steps (Timeline Makers Included)

ProjectManager.com

Timelines are the backbone of any project. They’re an incredibly useful visual tool that lays out your tasks in chronological order. This helps managers create schedules, prioritize work and organize tasks. In other words, they help you to define the duration of the project from start to finish. All your tasks must be completed within the period you allot, and the budget you agree on will finance the effort.

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Scrum Master Trends Report — Prepare for Your Next Career Step

Scrum.org

TL; DR: Scrum Master Trends Report 2019. Back in 2017, we started the Scrum Master Salary Report 2017 —the first industry report that covered in-depth the educational background, working experience, industries, and organizational details of the companies Scrum Masters or agile coaches work for. In 2019, we partnered with Scrum.org —to create the 2019 edition.

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10 Best Project Management Tools For Remote Teams In 2020

The Digital Project Manager

The post 10 Best Project Management Tools For Remote Teams In 2020 appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Strategic Project Finance Essentials: A Project Manager’s Guide to Financial Metrics

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 expend

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Psychological safety is not about being nice

Kiron Bondale

Daniel Goleman wrote this week in an HBR article with regards to emotional intelligence: “ …one of the most persistent things I see people get wrong about the concept is that it equates to being “nice.” But it doesn’t, and misunderstanding this can get people into trouble. “ Some people have the same misunderstanding about psychological safety.

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PMI-RMP: FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS FOR 2021

Project Risk Coach

LAST UPDATED ON DECEMBER 14, 2020, BY HARRY HALL THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS AFFILIATE LINKS. WE MAY EARN A COMMISSION IF YOU CLICK A LINK AND MAKE A PURCHASE. IT DOES NOT COST YOU EXTRA. THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT! Are you confused about the PMI-RMP exam? Not sure what to study? Let's look at frequently asked questions about the PMI-RMP. In this article: 1 What is the PMI-RMP?

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Best Project Management Books: Your Step-stones to Success

Online PM Courses

Project management books are a great way to learn - for new project managers and for those of us with experience under our belts. The post Best Project Management Books: Your Step-stones to Success appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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What Is Work Management? How to Manage Work for Your Team

ProjectManager.com

Project management spends a lot of time on the work that must happen before any project can be executed. Researching the feasibility of the project, planning for its success, scheduling tasks, organizing resources and building a budget are all important. Then comes the execution phase and often much of a project manager’s attention is focused on monitoring, tracking and reporting on progress and performance.

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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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Scrum Teams Need To Share Stories

Scrum.org

While working with students in my classes or at my customers' teams I have experienced one thing over and over: the power of stories. In my work with Scrum Teams the important moments are usually not the ones where I explain some practice or tool, or we discuss one aspect of Scrum; the important moments are usually when someone tells a story that they experienced in the past that highlights an important learning.

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What Is Streamtime? Overview & Tour Of Features

The Digital Project Manager

Discover how Streamtime works—what problems it can help you solve and who uses it, along. The post What Is Streamtime? Overview & Tour Of Features appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Do your team members feel unsafe to lead?

Kiron Bondale

An article published this week on HBR.org indirectly identified another casualty of low psychological safety: future leadership. In the article, the authors highlighted three key reasons why capable people are reluctant to lead. Laziness or inertia did not make the list, but if we give the Homer Simpson who is in all of us an opportunity to take over, his influence could be a fourth contributor!

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Scope of Resource Planning in Project Management for Agile Teams

nTask

Resource Planning in project management has been gaining traction for a while now. Since the pandemic started, its importance has amplified many times over. Moreover, since the concept of resource planning is generating so much noise, the project management has responded in kind and that’s why the qualifications regarding the people that are considered experts in the field have evolved and become more complex.

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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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Quick and Easy: This Is New in the Scrum Guide 2020

Inloox

The creators of Scrum , Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland, developed the concept in the early 1990s. In 2010, they published the first Scrum Guide, a guide to the method with the intention of providing people, teams and organizations with a framework to master complex tasks and create products with the highest possible value. You can read all the basics about the agile method Scrum in this blogpost: The Scrum Methodology.

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Project Management Software Comparison for 2021

ProjectManager.com

Most everyone is probably happy to see 2020 go and has high hopes for a brighter 2021. But it’s undeniable that the changes that occurred over the last year aren’t going away. One example is the work-from-home trend. Even when conditions make returning to the office feasible, the genie of remote work isn’t back into the bottle. We’ve learned a lot over the past year about social distancing, hand washing, and, if you want to keep productivity chugging along, you need project management soft

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Minimum Viable Product Considered Harmful

Scrum.org

If you’ve used agile, you’ve heard of creating the minimum viable product (MVP). MVP has been thrown around so much and for so long that the term’s original power is lost. The original intent is that if you make an MVP, you are making something valuable that your customers can use, albeit without many bells and whistles. Unfortunately, the phrases “minimum viable product” or “minimum valuable product” is open to interpretation, especially when the phrases’ intent isn’t clear.

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Asana project management pros and cons

Binfire

If you are looking to buy project management software for your business, you probably have heard about Asana project management software. Asana promotes its app heavily on social media and on Google Ads. The company has bottomless pockets since the funders came from Facebook. The project management application space is extremely crowded. Competition is fierce and good for the consumer.

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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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The Right Way to Think About Cost Savings with Agile

Leading Agile

Cost savings is a tricky subject with Agile. But it’s not because Agile can’t impact cost savings. It’s because Agile has very little impact on direct and immediate cost savings. The problem is, most people think the wrong way about how to save on cost with Agile. They usually say Scrum is how they realize cost savings—but they’re missing something. .

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KanbanFlow vs Trello – Who Wins the Battle?

nTask

Since way before the time of the pandemic and the start of the most chaotic time ever for businesses, project management software has been very important for the organizational paradigm. They bring order and stability to the very chaotic project development process. Knowing the importance of project management software is one thing but to have an idea about the best project management software in the world is a completely different animal.

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How Digital Transformation Can Affect Leadership Strategies

Proofhub

The benefits and advantages of digital transformation are many; hence, the large number of companies are now opting for such a revolution. However, it would be prudent to say that some of these companies experience difficulties developing a strong-hold during the transition period. As such, you need to come up with ways to overcome such challenges and also to have the right methods of implementing digital transformation strategies.

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Project Timeline Template

ProjectManager.com

Create a Project Timeline in Excel with this free template. If you’re looking to schedule a project and need a timeline, having a project timeline template is a great way to start collecting all your data in one place. Using an Excel timeline template will set you on the road to project success. Why Use a Project Timeline Template? The main selling point of a project timeline template is it’s a visual tool.

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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.