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Planning for those project disasters that no one wants to think about

Kiron Bondale

Harvard Business Review published an article this week about how boards can prepare for unexpected calamities such as pandemics, natural disasters or cyber-attacks. The authors provided a three-pronged approach for dealing with both true black swan events as well as the more common black elephants (a low probability significant threat which leaders are aware of but don’t wish to address proactively).

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Improving Project Outcomes with proper Project Integration Management

Techno-PM

Project Integration Management Project Integration Management improves the project management process by organizing and coordinating the activities. Because it accounts for resource allocation, managing interdependencies, and balancing competing goals, it is an effective methodology to approach project management. Download Project Management Templates Project Integration Management Project Integration Management Basics Project integration management involves the coordination of the various compo

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How to Calculate Resource Utilization for a Project

ProjectManager.com

Your most important resource when managing a project is your team. They need tools, equipment, materials and more to get the job done, of course. But without people who have the skills and experience to use those tools and materials, your project isn’t going anywhere. Therefore, those who are tasked with managing a project and delivering it successfully must know how to keep their teams productive.

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Seven Stupid Mistakes Managers Make (and What to Do Instead)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Darryl Rosen. This is a guest post on stupid management mistakes by Darryl Rosen, author of Table for Three? Bringing Your Smart Phone to Lunch and 50 Dumb Mistakes Smart Managers Don’t Make! You’re a manager and you glance down at an incoming text while an employee is talking to you. DUMB! Or you bark “Just get it done!” to your team and then walk away.

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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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How To Exploit and Enhance Project Opportunities

Project Risk Coach

Imagine a project manager that focuses primarily on identifying and managing project threats and very little on opportunities. This one-sided mindset can be costly. The best project managers know how to exploit and enhance opportunities. What is a Project Opportunity? The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines opportunity as "a set of circumstances that makes it possible to do something.

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Training budget for project robots?

Musings on Project Management

Are you busy building your project budget?Are you going to include a budget for training your project's working staff? New developer and testing tools; New frameworks; New process and workflow management?If that's a Yes and Yes, have you thought about this? You may need to train your project robots also. Really?Really! Robots, whether mechanical and real, or virtual, all depend on training data.

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Productive PM: 5 Practical Systems to Get More Done

LiquidPlanner

Practical systems have made me a more productive Project Manager. I used to worry about tools that helped with my workload, ironically. Did they diminish my role? Should I be thinking more on my feet? I’ve come to understand that systems are the foundation of successful individuals. They squeeze more tasks into each day. Systems also add more value to our roles.

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7 Best Online Invoicing Tools For Digital Agencies

The Digital Project Manager

The post 7 Best Online Invoicing Tools For Digital Agencies appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Experiment: Map Dependencies to Find Bottlenecks

Scrum.org

In our book?—? the Zombie Scrum Survival Guide ?—?we dive deep into what causes Zombie Scrum; something that looks like Scrum from a distance, but lacks a beating heart. We also offer 40+ experiments to recover from Zombie Scrum. In this series, we share experiments that didn’t make it to the book but are still very helpful. This post was written collaborative by Christiaan Verwijs, Barry Overeem and Johannes Schartau.

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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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Plan v Objective

Musings on Project Management

"In war [projects] nothing goes according to plan, but always remember your objective" Israeli generalGood advice. And, of course, your objective always is -- or always should be: Apply your resources to maximize their value added while taking the least risk to do so.But our general's admonition begs the question: Is "nothing goes according to plan" the same as there's "no value in planning"?

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How To Make A Gantt Chart In Excel (+ Free Templates)

Teamweek

Microsoft Excel is a popular tool to create data-driven charts. However, it does not come with Gantt charts. If you’re looking for a step-by-step tutorial on how to make a Gantt chart in Excel, this article is for you. In this article you’ll learn: What is a Gantt chart? What are the important elements of a Gantt chart? Advantages and disadvantages of creating Gantt charts in Excel Step-by-step process to create a Gantt chart using Excel Free Excel Gantt chart templates A simpler and free altern

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Productive PM: 5 Practical Systems to Get More Done

LiquidPlanner

Practical systems have made me a more productive Project Manager. I used to worry about tools that helped with my workload, ironically. Did they diminish my role? Should I be thinking more on my feet? I’ve come to understand that systems are the foundation of successful individuals. They squeeze more tasks into each day. Systems also add more value to our roles.

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Belarus: Self-Organization of the Nation

Scrum.org

You may have heard about the tragedy of Belarus, a country with a population of 9.5 million residing between Poland and Russia. Thousands of people have been tortured and repressed after the falsified presidential election held on 9 August 2020. An interesting phenomenon though is that hundreds and thousands of people continue to self-organize and struggle without any leaders, centralized structures, and opposition parties.

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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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Review Moose heads on the table

Henny Portman

If you want to make the transformation to a self-managing organization the book Moose heads on the table – Stories about self-managing organisations from Sweden by Karin Tenelius and Lisa Gill is a good starting point. This book gives you insights, stories, lessons learnt from six different small Swedish companies who transformed towards self-managing companies.

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How to Relax Away From the Screen

Teamweek

I am a proponent for reduced screen time because of a brain injury. I suffered a debilitating concussion in 2018 after I was hit by a car. For over a year, I was unable to look at active digital screens without suffering vertigo, confusion, or seizures. The only way to recover from a concussion is to rest. Initially I thought this referred to physical output alone, so I continued to read the news online whenever I was awake.

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What Really is the Waterfall Method?

Online PM Courses

Waterfall is a term we hear a lot in Project Management. But there are still too many project managers who don't know what it really means. The post What Really is the Waterfall Method? appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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How To Predict The End Date Of Your Agile Transformation

Scrum.org

Somewhere between the 15th and 45th minute of the first pre-sales call, the prospect usually asks me - "Based on what you have heard about our company, by when do you think we will be 100% Agile Transformed and what will it cost? BTW, in full transparency, we are considering other companies." Hint, Hint - We want a fixed date, fixed scope, fixed price Agile Transformation Project and we will sign the SOW with whichever company provides the cheapest and fastest quote to getting us 100% Agile Tran

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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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Project creatures that accelerate and enhance a portfolio of projects

Henny Portman

Proud to see that the PM World Journal published a next article that I wrote together with Marisa Silva. As you might recall, last year we (Marisa Silva and myself) went on a safari to hunt the project creatures that could negatively impact a portfolio of projects [ Silva, M. and Portman, H. (2019). Creatures that slow down portfolio delivery and how to kill them; PM World Journal, Vol.

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An Introduction to the Professional Scrum with Kanban Course

Agilemania

Did you ever witness teams and coaches arguing on the floor, battling over which one is better, Scrum or Kanban? Did you ever witness hours and hours of debate, where each side tries to prove that their framework is better and outperforms yours? I have been a part of such vain discussions, and I am sure most of you are!!… The post An Introduction to the Professional Scrum with Kanban Course appeared first on Agilemania.

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Cost of not implementing marketing project management software

Admation

The marketing world is moving faster and with this so is the expectation to produce more campaigns via a growing number of channels. Sounds overwhelming, especially if you’re still managing your projects without a dedicated marketing project management tool. But perhaps you’ve never considered the run-on effect that comes with using traditional tools.

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Who Should be Doing What in a Sprint?

Scrum.org

I was recently asked. What should each role be doing during the Sprint? So, I took a copy of the latest Scrum Guide (November 2017), read it (again) and broke it down for them and now for you! . The items below are taken directly from the Scrum Guide Novermber 2017 and so may see vague or less prescriptive than you're expecting. As Scrum is framework, your teams may be doing additional things in the events - which is fine,as long as they're getting value from doing the actions.

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Acclaim Projects Helps Deliver Innovation Projects on Time and on Budget

This large intercity transportation company for people and freight employs 100+ IT employees and contractors across North America and Europe and spends $10MM annually for approximately 50 inflight projects. The company needed the right financial tools to budget for innovation initiatives and real-time information on spending and forecasting. This transportation company turned to Acclaim Projects by Sopheon to help deliver projects on time and within budget.

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RMP Success Story: Risk Management Will Be A Vital Part of Life and Business After COVID-19 Experience, My Recommendation for PMI-RMP Aspirants

Management Yogi

By Shahpour Kakaei, PgMP, PMP, ACP, RMP, ITIL, Attended Harvard Business School Introduction I have lived with and grown up in large enterprises in Telecommunications and Information Technology. With rapid and ever-changing technologies in all aspects, it is vital to deal with managing people, business, projects and systems in an enterprise.

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5 Things I Learned About Working From Home When I Was Too Scared to Leave My Home

Teamweek

Not long before my 22nd birthday, I went from being a social butterfly to a prisoner in my own home. No, I’m not talking about working from home during lockdown; this was in 2012, long before that. With apparently no rhyme or reason, I was diagnosed with agoraphobia. I had gone from being a bright and bubbly bartender who had also worked in sales and recruitment (all very social jobs) to someone I barely recognized.

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What to Consider in a Two-Way Interview

MPUG

A job interview for both an employer and a hiring candidate can be a stressful and time-consuming activity. A recent CareerBuilder survey reported that three out of four employers felt that they had hired wrongly for a position. Of course, this wrong hire comes with a cost. On average, companies spend $14,900.00 annually each time they make a mismatched hire.

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[VLOG] What Is Technical Debt In Software Development And The Impact To The Business?

Scrum.org

What is up awesome people? In this vlog, I am doing something different to all of my other vlogs. It is probably less popular than my other vlogs. The topic technical debt does not get talked about more often in the agile space eventhough some of the agile manifesto signatories like Ward Cunningham and Martin Fowler have concerned about it. . Many organisations with a iron project triangle mindset only think that Scrum is only a iterative shortened waterfall.

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From Concepts to Actionable Insights: Powering Digital Transformation Success

Speaker: Ketan Jahagirdar - Sopheon’s Director of Product Management

70% of most digital transformation projects fail. Learn how you can quickly improve that success rate. To be successful, digital transformation involves the strategic application of digitalization to improve a business’ entire system of production, procurement, sales, operations, human resources, and financial management. In short, to basically transform the way a company makes money and delivers value to customers.