Workamajig
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
Learn to create more streamlined remote management workflows for your agency in our latest blog post. As many project managers have learned by now, managing a remote team is distinctly different than managing a team on-premises. The communication cadence is completely different. There is no popping into the office next door to resolve an issue, nor are there chance encounters at the watercooler.
Techno-PM
NOVEMBER 17, 2020
Configuration Management Plan If your business utilizes a systems engineering process known as configuration management in order to maintain the consistency of a project with regards to performance and physical attributes throughout the production process (and often for the projected lifetime of the product), then your business also needs a configuration management plan for that project.
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Project Risk Coach
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
Project managers spend a large part of each day communicating—facilitating meetings, emailing stakeholders, responding to texts, writing reports, and having one-on-one conversations. We are so busy, we rarely take the time to improve the effectiveness of our communication. How can we become a better project communicator? 1. Join Toastmasters Howard Hendricks said, “Practice doesn’t make perfect.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
NOVEMBER 20, 2020
How are you doing with your Christmas shopping? If your Christmas project planning has gone a bit awry and you still have gifts to buy, here is my list of what to get the project managers in your life. Or you could suggest that people buy these things for you! There are so many cables on my desk at the moment. My skills at managing cables are non-existent.
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ProjectManager.com
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
A program is a collection of projects that relate to one another, and are therefore managed together in order to achieve maximum efficiencies. The advantages of managing these similar projects make them stand better together than by themselves. However, that doesn’t mean they don’t programs don’t require the same laser focus on planning that individual projects require.
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Scrum.org
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
. Technology, globalization, the environment and society are more closely linked than ever before: Technological advances are driving globalization, changing our environment and influencing society which in turn calls for new solutions to these challenges. This cycle is happening at an increasing pace and is making our world ever more complex. The COVID-19 pandemic is just one current example of a change with complex global consequences.
Kiron Bondale
NOVEMBER 15, 2020
Harvard Business Review published an article by Sabina Nawaz this week on some challenges managers face when they delegate work to their staff. The gaps identified with team members being able to perform the tasks successfully included a lack of critical thinking, a lack of initiative, a lack of quality and a lack of speed. While these are valid concerns, some times the issue is that we avoid delegating activities to team members.
Leading Answers
NOVEMBER 20, 2020
We intuitively know that a successful agile adoption requires more than copying agile practices. It needs more than just working in short iterations and having daily stand-up meetings. But can we label those missing ingredients? You may have seen the “agile iceberg” model that shows the visible practices agile teams perform as the tip of an enormous iceberg supported by a mindset, values and principles.
The Digital Project Manager
NOVEMBER 19, 2020
The 10 Best Resource Scheduling Software Tools of 2020. The post The 10 Best Resource Scheduling Software Tools of 2020 appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.
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
Scrum.org
NOVEMBER 14, 2020
Doing Scrum is not enough! The precious result will not be achieved just by understanding and following the rules and principles of the Scrum Framework. Every day organisations are starting and failing with business agility, praise and blame Scrum. And everyday organisations are succeeding with Scrum! So what is the difference? Learning the rules and principles of Scrum, understanding the “Why” and “What” of Scrum is essential.
Musings on Project Management
NOVEMBER 17, 2020
" [The concern my some is] that with all good intentions, some project managers might start cutting corners. It's easily done. Don't be fooled by the trappings. This sort of success comes with a lot of pressure. There are deadlines, penalties, [finances], and [executive changes]. [PMs] are stuck in the middle. Priorities can become murky.
Leading Agile
NOVEMBER 17, 2020
Listen to the Agile Unplugged Podcast on the go! Find and subscribe to Agile Unplugged on: Apple Podcasts. Spotify. Soundcloud. RSS. Welcome to our latest episode of the Agile Unplugged podcast with host Mike Cottmeyer, LeadingAgile’s CEO. In each episode of Unplugged, Mike and a special guest explore LeadingAgile’s freshest ideas, mental models, frameworks, and solutions with the people that are actually doing the work of leading large-scale Agile Transformation in the real world.
MPUG
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
One thing Edward Snowden has taught the world is this: Never trust the US Government or any other government for that matter! US intelligence is into everything they can get their hands in or as the saying goes, can “force their elbow into,” including software applications or datasets owned by US?based organizations. I believe this is why Microsoft’s PPM (Project & Portfolio Management) Cloud strategy ( see here ) is failing, and why it is still failing even after Microsoft has built datacen
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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.
Scrum.org
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
On November 18, 2020 Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland published an update of the Scrum Guide. According to the co-creators, the Scrum Guide 2020 aims at “bringing Scrum back to being a minimally sufficient framework by removing or softening prescriptive language”[1]. To help you see and understand these changes, we created this side-by-side comparison of the Scrum Guide 2020 and the Scrum Guide 2017.
Teamweek
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
We are very excited to announce updates to our subscription plans – a name change, new features to our Standard (previously Premium) plan, and a fresh out of the oven subscription choice, Business. In short, our existing Standard plan users now have access to two new paid features without any changes to billing. People with higher privacy and control needs can opt for the Business plan.
Henny Portman
NOVEMBER 19, 2020
Yesterday, November 18th, there was a 3-hour virtual event to celebrate the launch of the 2020 Scrum Guide with nearly 20,000 registrants. I connected 15 minutes before the start but received a message that the limit of 1000 participants was reached, and I couldn’t participate. Luckily the event was streamed, and you can now watch it on demand (see below).
Epicflow Blog
NOVEMBER 17, 2020
According to Gallup , 76% of employees in both leadership and non-leadership roles have experienced burnout at least once. The profession of a project manager belongs to senior positions with an increased level of responsibility and as a result, stress. . Let’s take a small test. . Do you feel frustrated lately? . Do your projects hardly meet their deadlines?
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Scrum.org
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
TL; DR: The Scrum Guide 2020. The Scrum Guide 2020 is available now: Change is coming to make Scrum more accessible and inclusive beyond software development. Learn more about the changes, download the brand new and free Scrum Guide 2020 Reordered to spot patterns quickly, and join the Scrum community discussion. Do you want to get this article in your inbox?
Function Point
NOVEMBER 17, 2020
Life’s too short to churn out projects that miss the mark. For a creative brief to be the most effective, it should be completed at the beginning of a project so that it’s streamlining the timeline and not interfering with it. A good creative brief helps set you up for a great rhythm by outlining: what you’re making. when it’s needed. who it’s for. why you’re doing it. how it’s going to get done.
Planview
NOVEMBER 15, 2020
There is a myth in planning circles that more detail is better and more accurate. In resource planning this looks like huge spreadsheets with people’s names assigned to specific projects across the months or weeks for at least a year. If we can plan out that much detail that far, it must be accurate, right? Well, not so fast. There are three main problems with this approach: It takes a long time to create and modify those spreadsheets.
Agilemania
NOVEMBER 17, 2020
Agile coaching skills is one of the most in-demand skills nowadays. Agile coaching is an essential skill for scrum masters, agile coaches, and leadership coaches to support self-managed teams. Agilemania has been facilitating Agile Coaching classes since 2017 and has been well appreciated by participants. We started our online agile coach course for India long back, and participants from Bangalore,… The post What is an agile coach?
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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.
Scrum.org
NOVEMBER 19, 2020
Scrum Guide 2020 Poster After yesterday's Scrum Guide 2020 launch event by Ken and Jeff, I am excited to announce the release of the new Scrum 2020 poster. This free poster includes the changes that were made in the Scrum Guide which was released yesterday, for example the Product Goal, the Scrum Team changes and the three commitments among many others.
Appfluence
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
What is Prioritization? Prioritization Definition. According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary, to prioritize means “to organize (things) so that the most important thing is done or dealt with first.” Sometimes this involves organizing a group of tasks, or things that need to be completed, and ranking them according to different factors including but not limited to, criticalness, whether or not it is time sensitive, and how long it takes to complete each one.
Teamweek
NOVEMBER 20, 2020
Project teams that meet deadlines consistently are able to deliver projects on schedule. A PwC study found that only 2.5 percent companies were able to complete 100% projects project successfully. Often failure was caused by not completing projects on time. The end result was budget overruns, let-down stakeholders, and a demoralized team. If you can relate to that, you’re not alone.
Agilemania
NOVEMBER 20, 2020
Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) has emerged as the most accepted approach to an organization’s quest to thrive in the digital age characterized by highly increasing complexity. While SAFe provides organizations with the requisite ability to quickly adapt to market changes and emerging opportunities, to succeed at transformation, it is imperative that the whole organization understands, embraces, and applies Lean-Agile mindset… The post How to Get SAFe Certified appeared first on Agilemania.
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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