May, 2022

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10 Things Successful Project Managers Never Tolerate

Project Risk Coach

Project managers are not just managers. They’re leaders. Project managers shape and influence their project culture for good or bad. Tolerance can be a great trait. However, project managers must be deliberate in what we will tolerate and what we will not tolerate. Project managers must refuse to tolerate things that cause disorder, degradation, and uncertainty.

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10 Strategies for Successful Project Execution

ProjectManager.com

Is your organization failing to close the gaps between strategy and project execution? Fortunately, there are strategies ( and tools! ) you can use to help you close those gaps, yet it isn’t easy. And you’re not alone in this challenge. Let’s review strategies and tools you can use, and learn how they can help you close that gap to promote successful project execution.

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Are you giving your team members “breakfast”?

Kiron Bondale

In a project-oriented structure where the project manager has people management responsibilities for their team members, it is expected that an individual’s performance on project work is the primary basis for their formal (HR) evaluation. But in a matrix structure, formal evaluations get carried out by the functional managers to whom the team members report to.

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Agile Project Management for Marketing

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This is a guest contribution from Monica Georgieff, Agile Coach and Trainer at AgileSherpas. Monica Georgieff. What does this current year have in store for marketers running projects? So far, the outlook for modern business means dealing with the effects of the pandemic on the workplace, uncertainty, crisis, and a volatile global situation. . However, beyond the bad news we’ve had to deal with since the beginning of this year, these changing circumstances have ushered in a different kind

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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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Public Infrastructure: Project Management as a Key Success Factor

Inloox

Content. External influences. Intentional miscalculation. Lack of uniformity in implementation. Incompetence in project management. Lack of risk management. The Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders building, an extension to the House of Representatives in Berlin, Germany’s capital, recently acquired the inglorious title "BER 2.0" The reason for this was the announcement that the building will not be completed before 2024.

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From strategy to plan to approval

Musings on Project Management

To state a strategic principle is one thing; to reduce principle to a practical plan is another; but then to get stakeholders to approve and invest in both the principle and the plan is yet another.

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Project Evaluation Process: Definition, Methods & Steps

ProjectManager.com

Managing a project is a very challenging, but project evaluation makes it easier. Everything starts with careful planning, which sets the stage for the execution phase where estimations, plans and schedules guide the project team as they complete tasks and deliverables. But it’s not as simple as it sounds, project managers need to keep track of costs, tasks and time during the whole project life cycle to make sure everything goes as planned.

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Managing Risk from Every Level of Your Organization

LiquidPlanner

If project management were an off-road 4×4 expedition, where teams had to plot a course through the unknown, cost and schedule contingency would be akin to the number of spare fuel cans you can carry successfully to complete the trip. Using this analogy, projects also have constrained or limited resources to deliver on their commitments. So your imaginary expeditionary team must predict the optimum number of Jerry cans that can be carried and determine if that capacity is enough to execute.

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The 3 Steps to Take When Failure is Not an Option

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This is a guest article by Joel “Thor” Neeb from Afterburner. In school, we were taught that 99% was an A+, and if you were the recipient of such a grade you would probably be accused of “blowing the curve” on the test for everyone else. Well, in today’s business world, 99% business execution is no longer good enough. In fact, it’s an “F”. Take, for instance, Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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

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 expendi

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Complaint management: Added value with the help of project management tools

Inloox

Content: The importance of a well-run complaint management system. The complexity of complaints. Project management as a success factor. Wherever transactions take place between buyers and sellers, complaints are an integral part of everyday life. You have probably had negative experiences with companies yourself and may have addressed a complaint to them.

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Quickstart To Improve How Your Team Uses Sprint Goals

Scrum.org

This article is also available as a free PDF. It’s a nicely styled paper and allows you to easily share it with others. You can download the PDF here or check the package that includes 30 Quickstart workshops ! . Does your team struggle with using Sprint Goals? We wrote this guide to help you get the dialogue started in your team. Sprint Goals help teams understand what is valuable in a Sprint, and thus help them make decisions about what to spend time on (and whatnot).

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Disengaged Employees and How You Can Retain Them

Proofhub

Why Workers Are Disengaged and How Employers Can Win Them Back There is no doubt that employers do everything possible to boost their employee engagement ; whether it is spending countless hours or spending a great amount of money. But, despite all of this, they are not successful in engaging their employees. So, they need to use effective methods to measure dedication instead of using traditional methods.

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Product Update: New Keyboard Shortcuts & Customized Project Views

ProjectManager.com

ProjectManager’s May release provides two new highly-requested features that further enhance the user experience—new keyboard shortcuts and customized project views. These new features make it easy to locate the information most important to you. These new keyboard shortcuts and customized project views are designed to improve software adoption and appeal to all roles within your organization.

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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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5 Ways Project Management Will Evolve

LiquidPlanner

Project management has been a job since the Egyptians mapped out plans for pyramids – and probably before that too. We’ve seen a lot of changes over the past 4,000 years, and the pace of change for our profession shows no sign of stopping. I’ve been around project management most of my professional career, which has given me over 20 years on the job.

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7 Secrets to Successful Project Manager/Team Collaboration

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Elisa Cepale. As project managers, it’s important that we know how to best support our development teams (and vice versa), especially in Agile environments. At White October we continuously reflect on our process to refine the way we work. Here is what we learned from an invaluable brainstorming session with our Tech Lead. A lot of the points below relate to teams in Agile environments , but can apply to any type of project team.

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Make Your Project Estimation More Reliable, Using the PERT Method

Online PM Courses

One of the hardest tasks for Project Managers is Project Estimation: predicting the future, despite the uncertainty. Meet the PERT method. The post Make Your Project Estimation More Reliable, Using the PERT Method appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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Programmer- or Product Developer? Why The Difference Matters!

Scrum.org

Some time ago, we hosted an experience interview with Bas Vodde. Together with Craig Larman, Bas developed Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS). A framework for scaling Scrum to medium to large products while staying true to the original Scrum principles. During this meetup, Bas answered a wide variety of questions raised by our Patreon community. For example: What would be a 2-minute explanation of LeSS?

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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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Should You Estimate Your Feature Backlog?

Growing Agile

Anyone who knows me knows I’m not a fan of estimation. Asking a team how big something is when they know the least about the item seems like a bad idea, but I do understand the need to know how long something will take. I was chatting to one of the leaders I’m currently working with when this came up (again) and she asked me ‘if you took your car to a garage wouldn’t you want to know when it will be ready?

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The 5 Lean Principles: Definitions & How to Use Them

ProjectManager.com

Lean management originated in Japan, where it grew out of the Toyota Production System. This led to lean manufacturing, but today lean is used in more industries, such as project management, software development, construction and more. Lean principles come from the Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI), where founders James P. Womack and Daniel T. Jones declared that there were five key lean principles.

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3 Ways to Manage Your Team Members and Resources Most Effectively

LiquidPlanner

The economy is hot right now. Unemployment levels are exceptionally low, at 3.6% in the US. In April 2022, The Wall Street Journal described that “the demand for workers is so intense that companies have listed millions of unfilled job openings.” So, this begs the question: are you doing all you can to attract and retain top talent ? There are three things to consider to ensure you’re making the best use of your team members and their resources. 1.

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Expected Monetary Value (EMV): A Project Manager’s Guide

Rebel’s Guide to PM

What is EMV? EMV is a risk analysis tool that helps establish the contingency reserves for your project activities. It’s a statistical technical for quantifying risk. At the end of it, you get a decision tree that summarizes the financial impact of following a course of action. Using expected monetary value allows you to calculate the profit and loss of an activity, whether that’s a whole project, or part of a project, taking into account different scenarios.

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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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What Is Gap Analysis In Project Management?

nTask

Regardless of how much planning you do, whenever you are executing a project, you may still face plenty of challenges. The idea is that you will eventually want to have the tools in place that helps to assess the requirements. Understanding whether or not your project is on the right track with effective progress is […].

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Scrum and your Organizational Agility

Scrum.org

There is a popular myth that the scrum masters accountabilities ends with the scrum team and may not be required when the team becomes matured. As a result, many organizations limit the role of the Scrum Master to the team level. Nothing could be further from the truth. In this article, we'll explore the scrum master's accountabilities beyond the team in the service of the overall organizational agility and bust this myth once and for all.

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Do You Know How to Plan and Manage Reliable Project Compliance?

Online PM Courses

Understanding project compliance is not a negotiable skill-set. However, we are often left to figure it out for ourselves; learning as we go. The post Do You Know How to Plan and Manage Reliable Project Compliance? appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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The Manufacturing Process: Steps & Types

ProjectManager.com

When you buy something new, it’s already been around for a while. By that, we mean that the product started as an idea, was created using materials and labor and was transported to the retail location in which it can be purchased. The steps to getting the product to you is the manufacturing process. The manufacturing process is often taken for granted, but not by manufacturers.

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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.