January, 2023

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How To Make 2023 A Successful Year for Your Projects

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Would you like to make 2023 a successful year for your projects? I’m sure you do. Especially as the last few years haven’t been exactly stellar years for many of us! But what does it take to get there?

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What Is Project Risk? 7 Project Risks to Track

ProjectManager.com

Controlling risk is one of the most important areas of project management. Project managers need to know how to identify, track and mitigate project risk. Let’s learn what is project risk, some common examples and how can you manage it. What Is Project Risk?

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10 Project Meetings to Guide Your Project Management Team

ProjectManager.com

Project meetings often feel as if they’re in the way of your work. If you’re not working from an agenda or you don’t manage those meetings, that can be true. But meetings are critical for project planning and team collaboration.

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Project Management Tools and Why They Matter

The Digital Project Manager

Effective project management is important to keeping clients happy and your business running smoothly. However, achieving this level of effectiveness is not always easy. Mainly because of the number of project management tools that we have to use to make projects run smoothly.

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Everything You Need to Know About Crypto

Speaker: Ryan McInerny, CAMS, FRM, MSBA - Principal, Product Strategy

This exclusive webinar with Ryan McInerny will teach you all about cryptocurrency and NFTs! Register to learn more about identifying crypto transactions, crypto asset market trends, managing risk and compliance, and supporting customers and partners using crypto-based payments.

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Rookie mistakes in Risk Management

Musings on Project Management

First comes the planningYou've followed all the standard protocols for setting up your risk management program.You've put slack in your cost estimates, and you've put slack-buffers in your schedule plan.All good.Risks have been listed, prioritized, and the minor ones to be 'unmanaged' set aside (minimize distractions)Otherwise, mitigation planning has been done.All good.Now comes executionThere Risk Management

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What Is Project Scope: Ultimate Guide & Step-By-Step Process

The Digital Project Manager

Project scope is the single most defining aspect of your project. Not your goals, deliverables, or stakeholders. Together these pieces complete the puzzle that is finishing a project on time, within budget, and without overstressing your team.

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Qualities of a Leader: Top 20 Leadership Traits

ProjectManager.com

Leadership qualities can be difficult to label because leadership itself is so present in our lives that traits can be hard to identify and define. Leadership can take many forms, from historical figures to project managers and business managers.

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Project Risk Audits: What you need to know

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Are you looking for a way to better manage the risks associated with your projects? Risk audits are an effective tool that can help project managers and program managers identify potential issues before they become problems. And it’s not just me saying that.

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Agile won’t fix organization dysfunctions

Kiron Bondale

This week, I participated in an interesting discussion on Mastodon in which the initiator asked for input on ways to frame agility based on the core problems which a team might be trying to solve. This is useful as it can help to answer the “why” behind an approach change.

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Exploring the Overlap: Cost Optimization and Digital Transformation

Speaker: Alex Jiménez, Managing Principal, Financial Service Consulting for EPAM

The largest banks have increased reserves for protection against deteriorating economic conditions. Should banks delay their digital transformation investments and focus on cost reductions? In this webinar, Alex Jiménez will walk us through that question and examine the prudent course of action.

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Agile Transformation: ChatGPT or McBoston?

Scrum.org

TL; DR: Agile Transformation with ChatGPT or McBoston? This article is another excursion into this nascent yet fascinating new technology of generative AI and LLMs and the future of knowledge work.

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Everything You Need to know about Change Management Plans

nTask

If you’re planning on making any changes to your company, it’s important to have a change management plan in place. This document outlines the steps that will be taken in order to minimize the impact of change on employees, customers, and third-party partners.

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Why You Should Use Ranged Estimation for Your Projects

LiquidPlanner

Deadlines are an inevitable part of project work. The definition of a project includes having a defined end. Project schedules should invoke a sense of confidence and calm in a project team. Instead, they are a source of stress, consternation, and fear.

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Best Teamwork Quotes: 35 Motivational Quotes for Teams

ProjectManager.com

You can spend hours reading business books and browsing blogs about teamwork, but sometimes, teamwork quotes from history seem to say more than an entire book ever could.

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The Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020: Initial Catalysts, Current Implications, and Future Impacts

Speaker: Elizabeth "Paige" Baumann, Founder and CEO of Paige Baumann Advisory, LLC

In this session, Elizabeth “Paige” Baumann will cover the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020, which also includes the Corporate Transparency Act. She'll take a deep dive into the catalysts that brought on the act, the current implications of the act, and what impacts the act has on the future of banking and finance.

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Best CAPM Exam Prep Tools for 2023

Rebel’s Guide to PM

You’re here because you’re looking for the best way to get CAPM certification (Certified Associate in Project Management – CAPM ®) without having to invest in a load of study guides. Well, you’re in the right place.

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A retrospective on 2022 – my top five posts on leadership and delivery

Kiron Bondale

As I’ve done in past years, I like to review the articles I’ve written over the year and share the ones which were read the most. 2022 was the first year since I started blogging when I took a hiatus of more than a couple of weeks.

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Lean Startup and Scrum

Scrum.org

I remember the first time I heard about Lean Startup. I was an analyst for Forrester research on a panel at the Agile conference in Orlando. A member of the audience asked, “What do you think about Lean Startup?”. Honestly, I had not heard of Lean Startup.

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Agile Project Management: What You Need To Know For Success With Agile

The Digital Project Manager

How does agile project management provide value? Here’s an example: John had been managing a project for his company for over 6 months. He had chosen to manage the project using the waterfall methodology.

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The Definitive Guide to Embedded Analytics

Data-driven decisions are no longer reserved for the few. Everyone needs data insights from the applications they use every day. Learn how embedded analytics is boosting user adoption, creating apps people love, and changing the game for software and SaaS providers.

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A Comprehensive Guide on Delegating Roles In a Team Project

nTask

Working on a team project can be daunting, especially if you’re unsure of delegating roles. How do you decide who should handle which tasks? What do you do if someone isn’t pulling their weight? These are just some questions that can come up when taking on a group project.

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How to Choose a Project Name: Tips & 10 Project Code Names

ProjectManager.com

Most organizations use project names as they’re a quick way to remember projects and programs. Some project managers think those names should describe a project’s purpose or its main goals, while others simply choose cool or catchy project names to lighten up the mood in the organization.

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BrainBOK Review: PMP and CAPM Training [2023]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Category: Training for students preparing for Project Management Professional ( PMP )® and Certified Associates in Project Management ( CAPM )®: BrainBOK review.

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Don’t hate the game, hate the player

Kiron Bondale

(Before you correct me for misstating the iconic quote in this article’s title, read ahead) Over the past week, I’ve seen a number of posts from different practitioners on the Mastodon.world instance complaining about agile.

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Level up Culture & EQ | Sign up for the #CultureDrop

Once a week, culture & leadership expert Galen Emanuele gives free, actionable EQ training in 5 minutes or less. Subscribe to the #CultureDrop and access free resources & content.

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A ChatGPT Job Interview for a Scrum Master Position

Scrum.org

TL; DR: A ChatGPT Job Interview for a Scrum Master Position. Can a large language model, not specializing in anything “agile,” pass a screening interview for a Scrum Master position? In this ChatGPT job interview, I put OpenAI’s latest generative AI to the test.

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The Big Event and it’s Ripple Effects

LiquidPlanner

The airline travel debacle that unfolded through late December affected millions of travelers, and recovering from it will materially impact at least one airline’s financial health.

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Situational Leadership & Goals Alignment in Project Management (*Updated 2023 Guide)

nTask

A leader might employ a variety of leadership approaches to be more productive at work. You may have met a leader or manager who explains things to you, helps you, and progresses you during your PM profession.

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8 Free Risk Management Templates for Excel

ProjectManager.com

If there’s one thing you can be certain of when managing a project, it’s change. If only you knew ahead of time what those issues would be, you could better address them.

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Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualization Will Never Be Enough

Five years ago, data visualizations were a powerful way to differentiate a software application. Today, free visualizations seem to be everywhere. Two trends are forcing application providers to rethink how they offer analytics in their products.

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Crashing Vs Fast-Tracking: What’s the Difference?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Have you ever been asked to ‘just get the project done’? When you absolutely have to hit the deadline but your schedule says no, you really only have a couple of choices. Research from nPlan of 500,000 project schedules points to nine out of every 10 projects are delivered late.

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Let’s be grateful

Kiron Bondale

I’m in the middle of Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton’s book Leading with Gratitude.

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Story Points are not the Problem, Velocity is

Scrum.org

Story points are fine for collaboration and revealing assumptions. Story pointing and planning poker together will encourage even more conversations around product backlog items (PBIs). The problem with story points happens when they are used for predicting (estimating) schedules, as in velocity.

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