ProjectManager.com

JULY 9, 2020

A kanban board is simple to use, but it can be a powerful tool for teams. A kanban board creates a visual workflow that illustrates how a team works together and how work is produced. Such workflows help teams improve productivity by providing a glimpse into efficiency at each project stage. Historically, kanban was used in manufacturing and development teams, but managers across all industries have joined in the fun after seeing just how helpful the tool can be.

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Software Review Manufacturing Monitoring Software 267

The Digital Project Manager

JULY 7, 2020

The post The 10 Best Online Project Management Software For 2020 appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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2020 Software 274

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 10, 2020

What is a decision log? A decision log template in project management is the document you use to fill in all the decisions made relating to your project. Decisions are taken in all kinds of settings: meetings, on email, when you bump into someone in the corridor… From experience I know that it’s a) hard to remember what decision you took, and b) difficult to find information hidden in meeting minutes to remind yourself of why that decision was taken.

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Teamweek

JULY 9, 2020

The truth may be hard to swallow, but charts and plots can make it easier. There’s something about a colorful pie chart or data points mapped out neatly on a line graph that makes things seem that much more plausible. It’s easier to digest numbers in pie chart form—incidentally (or perhaps not so incidentally) the Toggl time tracker has a Reports feature where you can see your hours worked visualized as a multicolored donut chart. .

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Influencer 83

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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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Kiron Bondale

JULY 5, 2020

I’m sure some of you have led projects where everything appeared to be going swimmingly right up to the finish line only to find that you had somehow stepped into the project equivalent of the Hotel California. Everyone has a desire to wrap things up and move on to whatever is next but transition seems like it will never end. While there might have been some reasons late in the life of the project as to why this unfortunate situation occurred, in most cases, problems with ending projects c

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 4, 2020

If you aren’t using PRINCE, or if you want some general guidance as well about project closure documents and so on, read this next: How to close a project. A project has a start, a middle and an end, so closing a project is an important part of the project management lifecycle. Closing a project successfully means a good, clean transition for the project team.

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Scrum.org

JULY 7, 2020

TL;DR – Your Sprint Planning Meetings don’t have to be a chore. Your Sprint Backlog doesn’t have to be a mess. Do short backlog refinement meetings twice a week and sleep a lot. Our Hero Takes a Nap. I was working on a performance problem in some code last week. An operation that gets run a lot had over time become insanely slow. I spent a day working on it and no matter what I modified, it barely made any difference.

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LiquidPlanner

JULY 9, 2020

“Dear Elizabeth: I am working with a group of very knowledgeable subject matter experts. They have 15-20+ years of experience in the field, many of those years in our company. We cannot deliver our technology project without them. They are experts in the field, but they are really bad at forecasting time, work effort, and even identifying the tasks that need to be completed.

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Technical Review Estimate Software Review Risk Management 152

Growing Agile

JULY 6, 2020

This is the second part of the blog series were we discuss the 12 Agile Principles. In this post we will focus on principles 4-6. 4. “Business people and developers must work together daily throughout the project. “ I recently attended a workshop with Woody Zuill around Mob Programming and it really opened my eyes up to just how powerful it can be for a whole team to be working on the same computer at the same time in the same place.

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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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Leading Answers

JULY 10, 2020

How does work from home impact our use of agile approaches? If co-location is no longer possible, can we still be agile? Yes, of course we can, and in many ways, now we need to be more agile than ever as we try new approaches, learn and adapt how we work. However, let's address the co-location question and look at agile practices in remote work situations.

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Scrum.org

JULY 8, 2020

In our Professional Agile Leadership training , we talk about changing your organisations hiring practices to hire more of the right sort of people to create the company that you want, not the company that you have. Hire the right people also implies that you will have to, within your cultural constraints, de-hire the wrong people. Early Luddites destroying machines during the industrial revolution.

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LiquidPlanner

JULY 7, 2020

Projects can get delayed for many reasons from third party suppliers failing to deliver on time, to poor communication between project stakeholders sometimes the deliverables are simply not realistic within the project constraints. Then there are the unpredictable and devastating external factors like COVID-19 that disrupt on an unprecedented scale.

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Underperforming Technical Team 2012 Retail PMI 156

Musings on Project Management

JULY 9, 2020

Can there be scope creep in Agile? Doesn't agile define creep away in a stroke: "Scope is whatever is prioritized in the backlog that fits within the budget (OPM, other people's money) and the time." "The backlog changes all the time, but that's not creep, it's just backlog management." What I just wrote is a "best value" definition of scope. But, sometimes it just doesn't sell.

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Planio

JULY 9, 2020

There’s a reason startups are obsessed with “community” and influencers tell you to find your “tribe”. Pretty much everything is made better when you bring together a group of the right people. Even software. Redmine is the most popular open source project management tool and issue tracker out there, thanks in large part to it’s dedicated community of users and contributors.

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Scrum.org

JULY 7, 2020

TL; DR: Agile Laws and Remote Agile. On many occasions in the recent past, working with distributed agile teams has amplified existing organizational, technical, and cultural challenges in many organizations. Starting changing, and I am not referring to the introduction of a new video conferencing tool, always requires the acceptance that there is a problem that needs attention.

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Technical Review Agile Software Review Software Engineering 136

The Digital Project Manager

JULY 9, 2020

The post What Is BugHerd? Detailed BugHerd Overview & Explanation Of BugHerd Features appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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MPUG

JULY 5, 2020

Working virtually certainly has its perks. There’s no commute! Your lunch is just the short walk to the refrigerator away! You don’t have to wear pants! That said, working remotely can have its pitfalls when it comes to keeping your project on track and your team members working together as a cohesive unit. There are fewer social cues, a higher risk for role and responsibility ambiguity, an increased chance of conflict, and more challenges in the area of trust building.

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Online PM Courses

JULY 5, 2020

Does your Project Name matter? The name we hear can color our perception of a project. But naming projects is tricky, so how can you get it right? The post Do You Know How to Craft the Perfect Project Name? appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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Scrum.org

JULY 6, 2020

. Kate Hobler challenged Rich Visotcky and I to share our thoughts on the article “ Commitment is not free overtime " based on the Quora question below. Rich already responded in Kate’s article and now it’s my turn. . . As a CEO, odds are that you are not where you are now by chance. You identified a need in the market or something you wanted to improve in society.

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Risk Management Risk 130

Ganttic

JULY 7, 2020

If you find yourself in the position of managing a virtual team , you’re far from alone. Statistics show that this kind of team structure is on the rise. And why not? With them, the benefits are enormous! The world is your oyster, allowing businesses to utilize the best talent from anywhere. And grow on their terms. But that doesn’t mean that you won’t run into a few challenges along the way.

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Technical Review Software Review Influencer Planning 78

MPUG

JULY 6, 2020

Project for the Web was released at the end of 2019. Since that time, Microsoft has added new features to the application on a regular basis. In this article, I’d like to share two NEW features and one additional feature that is sure to make every Project Server/Project Online project manager want to switch to using Project for the Web today! Read Only Access for All Office 365 Users.

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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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Leading Agile

JULY 9, 2020

Listen to the SoundNotes Podcast on the go! Find and subscribe to SoundNotes on: Apple Podcasts. Google Play. Spotify. Soundcloud. RSS. This week is all about Earned Value and Justin Polk is back, spending time with Dave to discuss how Earned Value tools can be applied in an Agile Transformation. Dave and Justin will explore what types of work you might want to consider using Earned Value for, how Earned Value can help, and who might find the path to Agile just a little more possible when you sh

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Henny Portman

JULY 5, 2020

The book Leading the transformation – Applying agile and DevOps principles at scale written by Gary Gruver and Tommy Mouser gives a refreshing look how to start your agility transformation. While most Agile implementations start with a focus on applying Agile principles at the team level, the approach presented in this book focuses on applying the basic principles of Agile and DevOps across the organization.

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Software Review Technical Review Agile Closing 86

TeamGantt

JULY 6, 2020

See why brainstorms are part of good project planning and how Wistia defines project scope to simplify video production and get everyone aligned on the plan.

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Defining Planning 88

Teamweek

JULY 6, 2020

Hiring needs a revolution. Recruiting with resumes is a time-consuming, expensive , and unfair process for both employers and candidates. 60% of applicants don’t finish their applications because they’re too complex or long, and that is despite their willingness to spend almost 2 hours on each job application. On the flip side, employers only spend 6 seconds looking at each resume, and yet, it is not uncommon for candidates to wait for weeks and sometimes months to hear back (the ave

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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.

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