September, 2022

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3 Key Exercises To Build Trust In Agile Among Project Teams

The Digital Project Manager

You see it all the time: business leaders emphasizing the critical need for their organization to become agile.

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What Are Task Dependencies in Project Management?

ProjectManager.com

Projects are made up of many tasks which are mapped out on a project schedule so they can be executed in a timely and organized manner. One of the most important steps when creating a project schedule is to identify task dependencies, as they’re critical for time and task management.

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Are your project team members “quiet quitting”?

Kiron Bondale

While the phrase “quiet quitting” might have been popularized recently, the behavior has been with us for a long time.

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Engaging Stakeholders with Gamification [video]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In this video Elizabeth Harrin discusses how merging engagement and gamification creates engagification, a methodology to help people take action on projects. Watch the video to listen (about 30 minutes).

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ERM Program Fundamentals for Success in the Banking Industry

Speaker: William Hord, Senior VP of Risk & Professional Services

This exclusive webinar with William Hord, Senior VP of Risk & Professional Services, will explore the foundational elements you need to start or validate your ERM program. He will also dive into topic definitions, governance structures, and framework components for success.

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What is a Program in Project Management?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The definition of a program. What is a program in project management terms? Here’s a definition. A program is a set of related projects and activities, managed in a coordinated fashion and under a structure that allows for the delivery of outcomes and benefits.

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What is Disciplined Agile (DA)? | Video

Online PM Courses

There are many different Agile methods. In this video, I want to answer the question, what is the PMI's Disciplined Agile, DA? The post What is Disciplined Agile (DA)? Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses. Agile Project Management Project Management: What is. disciplined agile video

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How to Measure Project Profitability

ProjectManager.com

As projects are all about the bottom line, you can imagine the importance of project profitability in project management. Being able to determine beforehand whether a project will turn a profit is how organizations can decide which projects to initiate and which ones to skip.

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The What, Why, & How of Risk Appetite

Project Risk Coach

A project manager makes decisions based on their risk perspective. That is to say, he or she perceives the organization and stakeholders’ desires and seeks to fulfill them. However, the project manager may miss the mark. Misunderstanding of the stakeholders’ risk appetite.

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If there's no Plan B.

Musings on Project Management

If there's no Plan B, then the first rule is "Make Plan A work!"And And it might require that you be aggressive about making Plan A work. no fooling around.No Plan BWait! Isn't there always a Plan B somewhere?A A general officer once told me: If there's no Plan B, invent it!Insure Insure for failure?Maybe Maybe you can insure against the failure of Plan A. Perhaps that's your Plan B -- just get your money back, Project Management

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The Power of Storytelling in Risk Management

Speaker: Dr. Karen Hardy, CEO and Chief Risk Officer of Strategic Leadership Advisors LLC

Join this exclusive webinar with Dr. Karen Hardy, where she will explore the power of storytelling in risk communication as a core component of a resilient organization's management framework!

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Book review: Risk Happens

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Mike Clayton. Mike Clayton defines risk as “uncertain events that can affect outcomes,” in his book, Risk Happens!: Managing Risk and Avoiding Failure in Business Projects. Risk management is the most important of your project controls.

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8 Best Workplace Management Tools of 2022

nTask

To be super successful, your organization must be efficient, agile, and productive as well as put an emphasis over managing the internal processes that involve your most essential asset – your employees.

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Retrospective First Principles

Scrum.org

TL; DR: Retrospective First Principles. What is your take on the Retrospective: A routine exercise at the end of a Sprint, supported by standard operating procedures? Or a critical part of a Scrum team’s journey of continuous improvement? As you may assume, I advocate for the latter.

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Parametric Estimating In Project Management

ProjectManager.com

Every project, regardless of the industry, uses a methodology to estimate time and cost to better plan projects. In the life sciences, engineering and construction industries, the method often used is called parametric estimating.

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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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PMI-RMP® Training for the New Exam

Project Risk Coach

On April 1, 2022, the Project Management Institute (PMI®) rolled out the new PMI-RMP® exam. In this article, let's examine why the new PMI® Standards matter and what to look for in your PMI-RMP® training.

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Review: Xebrio Project Management Software Solution

Brad Egeland

Project management consists of a collection of tasks broken down into several phases to reach the final aim of project completion. Using just one project management tool to follow this process is uncommon.

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Book Review: A Short Guide to Facilitating Risk Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Risk meetings don’t have to be boring, although in my experience they often are. A Short Guide to Facilitating Risk Management is a book that specifically addresses how to get the best out of your risk management meetings.

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The Next Wave of Project Management: Planning Intelligence

LiquidPlanner

There are so many impactful quotations about planning. Here are just a few that you might recognise: “If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail!” Benjamin Franklin. “An An hour of planning can save you 10 hours of doing.” Dale Carnegie. “A A goal without a plan is just a wish.”

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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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Employee Engagement and Professional Scrum - Part 1 of 5

Scrum.org

Between Agility and Better Business Outcomes is Employee Engagement. Somewhere in between all the hard work that goes into becoming a more “agile” organization, and the real tangible business outcomes you are aiming for, there is the squishy topic of Employee Engagement.

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RICE Framework for Prioritization in Product Management

ProjectManager.com

What are you going to put on your product roadmap? It’s not an easy question. Which product gets the green light? What features need priority? The RICE framework provides a scoring model for product managers when prioritizing roadmaps.

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Preventing Kickbacks to Those with the Power to Purchase

Project Risk Coach

Charles Hall This is a guest post by my twin brother Charles. He is a CPA and a Certified Fraud Examiner. He is a partner in the firm McNair, McLemore, and Middlebrooks & Co. Charles lives in Macon, Georgia, with his wife Kelley.

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Professional Development Day 2022 – IGNITE!

International Institute for Learning

Friday, September 23, 2022, 9:00 AM to 1:30 PM EST. PDD 2022 Ignite your future with new skills, add to your professional network, and develop as a leader. Earn up to 10 PDU’s. Together we will ignite your career path toward greatness.

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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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5 Simple Reasons Why Processes Don’t Work

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I bet you have plenty of project management processes, don’t you? One for risk, one for escalations, one for changes, issues, new project kick-off, closure, logging dependencies… the list goes on and on. We couldn’t work without them. But they don’t always work.

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How to Improve Demand Planning

LiquidPlanner

There is a consensus among leaders and managers – supply chain problems are enormous, causing steep expense increases, loss of business opportunity, and customer frustrations. The pandemic has exacerbated this problem, and uncertainty and change seem to be the only sure things.

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Tips & Tricks to facilitate Sprint Planning

Scrum.org

In this blog post, I share some tips and tricks that may help you facilitate strong Sprint Planning outcomes, so that your Scrum Team will have a great start into their Sprint. Spoiler alert: Facilitating strong Sprint Planning outcomes starts before the Sprint Planning event!

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Product Lifecycle Management (PLM): A Quick Guide

ProjectManager.com

Products have a lifespan just like everything else. After they’re born, they develop, mature and eventually die. That journey is called product lifecycle management. Like any aspect of creating a product, it involves many processes.

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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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FastTrack Schedule 2022 is the Best Tool for Teams to Plan and Track Their Projects

Brad Egeland

In a world full of project challenges, FastTrack Schedule 2022 is the best tool for teams to plan, track, analyze, and report their projects. ​ FastTrack Schedule 2022 - completely redesigned for macOS 13 Ventura, macOS 12 Monterey, 11 Big Sur, 10.15 Catalina, and 10.14

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4 Ways To Improve Your Project Estimation Process

The Digital Project Manager

Let’s talk about estimation. The project estimation process is the bane of existence for so many project managers. It’s not just that it’s high-pressure, hurried, and mostly done off the sides of our desk.

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How to Get Ready for Next Week

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Sunday nights in this house are a buzz of activity. For me. Everyone else seems chilled out after the weekend. On a typical Sunday I spend the evening making sure my outfit is planned for the morning, packing my laptop bag, preparing snacks, and finding my train ticket.

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