April, 2015

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Time for a Demo?

Zen Project Management

When I first learned Scrum , the idea was to have 30-day (4 week) iterations with a demo at the end of each iteration. Today I see teams that have iterations from 1 to 4 weeks, or in the case of Kanban, no iterations at all. So the question is, how often should there be a demo? I’m a believer of getting sign off on a user story once it's done. This usually comes from the person who wrote it, who may be a proxy to the product owner.

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Managing BPI Projects

Gina Abudi PM

Managing Stakeholders Expectations around Change Managing business process improvement (BPI) projects are challenging enough. Add to that the need to manage stakeholders’ expectations around change as it relates to the BPI project and your challenges have doubled! One of our responsibilities when managing BPI projects is to ensure we also manage the expectations of our [.].

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Why Training Is Key For Project Management Software Success

Function Point

Who can honestly say they didn’t need a little extra help when they first purchased anything with an instruction manual. I know I certainly can’t. Take, for example, that supposedly simple point-and-shoot camera, the unnecessarily complicated expresso machine, or, seriously, anything from Ikea. (I’m talking about you, Brimnes Trundle Bed!

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Portfolio Kanban Board

Pawel Brodzinski

One thing that I learned quickly when I started experimenting with Portfolio Kanban is that a classic, flow-driven board design isn’t particularly good in vast majority of cases. Board Designs. Long story short, I ended up redesigning the board structure completely and it worked much better. In fact, it worked so well that I started proposing such a design as a starting point whenever working with portfolio Kanban.

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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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5 Must-Have Skills for the Project Manager Resume in 2015

Wrike

If you’re entering the job market this year, either for the first time or to make an exciting new career change, you may be wondering how to make your project manager resume stand out from the pack. Make sure these 5 essential skills are on your CV to land interviews at the leading companies on your list. Essential Skills for Your Project Manager Resume. 1.

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Tools

Zen Project Management

When I was young, I had a riding lawn mower. We had a big yard out in the suburbs and the riding mower made the job quicker. Today I live closer to downtown in a house with a smaller yard. I’m currently using an old fashion reel mower…no motor, just foot power to make it work. For the yard I have, it’s all I need. With all the technology around us, it’s easy to get caught up in the latest thing.

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Managing BPI Projects

Gina Abudi PM

Building a Strong and Diverse Project Team. The success of business process improvement (BPI) projects relies on many factors, not the least of which is a strong and diverse BPI project team. Consider any BPI project you have worked on in the past. Undoubtedly it touches any number of functions within the organization and requires [.]. The post Managing BPI Projects appeared first on Gina Abudi.

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Why Training Is Key For Project Management Software Success

Function Point

Who can honestly say they didn’t need a little extra help when they first purchased anything with an instruction manual. I know I certainly can’t. Take, for example, that supposedly simple point-and-shoot camera, the unnecessarily complicated expresso machine, or, seriously, anything from Ikea. (I’m talking about you, Brimnes Trundle Bed!

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Culture Pockets

Pawel Brodzinski

Organizational culture is one of these areas that I pay a lot of attention to. Over years I started valuing the role of the culture increasingly more and more. The biggest difficulty though is that organizational culture is a challenging beast to control. Organizational Culture. organizational culture. the behavior of humans who are part of an organization and the meanings that the people react to their actions. includes the organization values, visions, norms, working language, systems, symbols

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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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The 4th Phase of Project Management: Interview with Peter Taylor (Video)

Wrike

I recently interviewed Peter Taylor, also known as “The Lazy Project Manager” as part of the Wrike Thought Leadership Series. If you don’t know Peter, he’s the author of 9 books, including a new one, Real Project Management. He’s also a prolific speaker who’s delivered over 200 presentations in more than 25 countries. With over 25 years of project management experience, he offers a wealth of knowledge for both veteran and new project managers.

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Using Agile as a Lifestyle with @MariaMatarelli: Episode 80

PM for the Masses

On today's show I speak with author, speaker, and coach Maria Matarelli on using Agile at work and at home. The post Using Agile as a Lifestyle with @MariaMatarelli: Episode 80 appeared first on Project Management for the Masses. On today's show I speak with author, speaker, and coach Maria Matarelli on using Agile at work and at home.

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Minimal Viable Product

Zen Project Management

I have a customer with a challenge. We've been working on an application and finished our first release. The business folks looked at it and came up with a list of "must-have's" they want before going live. The IT folks are pushing back, trying to keep additional work to a minimum before going to production. They even threw out the phrase "minimal viable product" or MVP as a way say what's the least that can be done.

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SPM 023 | Leadership Toolbox for Project Managers with Michel Dion

SensiblePM

Michel Dion recently published a book called Leadership Toolbox for Project Managers: Achieve better results in a dynamic world. Michel joined me on #PMHangout41 to discuss leadership concepts as presented in his book. This was one of the many PMHangouts in the ongoing series of broadcasts sponsored by the Sensible Project Manager Hangout Community on Google+.

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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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Find Creative Project Management Software To Fit Your Agency

Function Point

Here’s the thing: we’ve worked with a lot of creative agencies. That is what we do, after all. What this has given us, though, is experience with what works and what doesn’t when it comes to project management for creatives. We know what a good match looks like. It starts with knowing what you want before you go looking for your creative project management software, because once you start, what each option has to offer can blend into an indiscernible jumble. “If you kno

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Find Creative Project Management Software To Fit Your Agency

Function Point

Here’s the thing: we’ve worked with a lot of creative agencies. That is what we do, after all. What this has given us, though, is experience with what works and what doesn’t when it comes to project management for creatives. We know what a good match looks like. It starts with knowing what you want before you go looking for your creative project management software, because once you start, what each option has to offer can blend into an indiscernible jumble. “If you kno

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Simplify Your Agency Life With Creative Management Software

Function Point

January 2015 marked 18 years since I incorporated Function Point. My, how time flies! As you can imagine, over nearly two decades, a lot has happened and a lot has changed. The firm has been through a couple of incarnations: from initially providing custom Filemaker solutions to agencies, to building out tools for two different university distance education teams, to providing Filemaker training courses at Apple Canada.

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Simplify Your Agency Life With Creative Management Software

Function Point

January 2015 marked 18 years since I incorporated Function Point. My, how time flies! As you can imagine, over nearly two decades, a lot has happened and a lot has changed. The firm has been through a couple of incarnations: from initially providing custom Filemaker solutions to agencies, to building out tools for two different university distance education teams, to providing Filemaker training courses at Apple Canada.

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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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Leadership Toolbox for Project Managers – #PMHangout41

SensiblePM

Leadership Toolbox for Project Managers was the topic of the 41st hangout of the Sensible Project Manager Hangout Community. In this community of project managers and others who enjoy discussing project management topics, we have regular hangouts hosted via Google+ Hangout. In this hangout, Michel Dion joined me to discuss his new book called Leadership Toolbox for Project Managers: Achieve better results in a dynamic world.

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9 Podcasts for Project Managers On the Go

Wrike

You stay productive at work. You’re always go-go-go at home. Your schedule is too full to sit down and read a book, even if it’s for professional development. . But unless you want to stagnate at work, professional development should be an important part of your weekly routine. Podcasts are a wonderful way to squeeze in some learning time every week, they can count toward your Category C PDUs , and they’re often free!

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