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Save time on project management and planning with these easy-to-use gantt chart examples for a variety of different industries and project types MORE
Talk to enough project managers and you’ll start to realize that there’s really just one thing that differentiates the great from the good: Good project managers are masters of planning, gathering requirements, sticking to schedules, and hitting milestones…. MORE
I came across an article the other day that mentioned the fact that some organisations are still clinging to the hope of IR35 being postponed. Unwilling to start preparing for the changes incoming this April. MORE
It’s not easy to keep track of project costs. It’s even harder to relate them to resources, time, and budgets while projects are still ongoing. Often, we find ourselves waiting to the end of the month (or even longer) to see accurate project financials. MORE
LAST UPDATED ON DECEMBER 14, 2020, BY HARRY HALL THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS AFFILIATE LINKS. WE MAY EARN A COMMISSION IF YOU CLICK A LINK AND MAKE A PURCHASE. IT DOES NOT COST YOU EXTRA. THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT! Are you confused about the PMI-RMP exam? Not sure what to study? MORE
Webinars Learn the Physics of Agility Sign Up. Transformation is really about forming teams, building backlogs, and producing working, tested product. At scale, it’s about defining structure, and creating governance, metrics, and tooling strategies that support Agility. MORE
As more people are working from home nowadays, online meetings have started to become the norm. But conducting online meetings is very different from in-person meetings. The lack of physical presence can make it difficult to engage and inspire your audience. MORE
We created ProjectManager.com to give teams maximum flexibility in planning and working on projects, no matter their preferred view. Some teams prefer to work exclusively on the Gantt, where others prefer a combination of other views, as each view provides unique benefits. MORE
Have you thought much about this? Two of the conceptual conundrums of the hybrid agile-conventional methodology are: How do you verify that which is incomplete and. How do you validate the efficacy of that which is yet to be conceived? Verification and validation (V-and-V) are traditionally held to be very important project practices that to some may be difficult to map directly into the. agile Quality MORE
If you want to build a product, you have to make a product backlog with all the essential requirements. Next, you have to start working on the high priority requirements to build the product. You can start working on the product requirement within Sprint. Now, what is a sprint? MORE
TL; DR: Scrum Master Trends Report 2019. Back in 2017, we started the Scrum Master Salary Report 2017 —the first industry report that covered in-depth the educational background, working experience, industries, and organizational details of the companies Scrum Masters or agile coaches work for. MORE
Despite different campaigns in an age where equality is being fought with inequality on the frontline of many conversations, women are not always equally represented. This is also true in the area of project management. MORE
We are almost done with the year 2020. Among many adversities that this year has brought us, being productive at work has been a real challenge. Therefore, we turned to the experts that remained vigilant in times where being productive was a big struggle for many across the globe. MORE
The book Engaging stakeholders on projects – How to harness people power , written by Elizabeth Harrin is the starting point if you want to get a better understanding of stakeholder engagement and it gives you a lot of practical advice, tips for improving practice key takeaways and action steps for successful stakeholder engagement. MORE
Project management books are a great way to learn - for new project managers and for those of us with experience under our belts. The post Best Project Management Books: Your Step-stones to Success appeared first on OnlinePMCourses. Advice for Project Managers Agile Project Management Best of. MORE
Managing a project is hard enough. Managing all the changes that can and often do happen on a project makes everything that much harder. It's like trying to hit a moving target or trying to ride a bull through the streets of Mexico! Here's the simple definition of change.To MORE
Without a systematic process, managing a marketing campaign can become chaotic. Marketing project management software helps you plan, collaborate, and track the delivery of marketing projects. In this article, we look at the top 10 project management software tools for marketing teams. MORE
A theme for the 2019 World Economic Forum’s (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland was the “Fourth Industrial Revolution.” It was concerned with how a combination of technologies are changing the way we live, work and interact. MORE
Two weeks ago, I received a blurb request. “I I saw on your blog that you reviewed Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard, and I’d like to ask whether you’d be willing to consider giving a blurb to a similar book”. MORE
Project management certification. Is it helpful? Does it get you jobs? Does it increase your project management skills? Does it add value to you as a project manager? Does it add value to the organization you work for? Monetarily.is it worth it? Should hiring organizations require it? MORE
Is Agile for everyone? Do you think it’s right or best for every project? Or does it have some best fit scenarios? Furthermore, is it right for every industry or for every organization or even for every project manager, business analyst and tech team? MORE
The final stage in the three-step model for building psychological safety within your team is to champion it. A champion is not afraid of taking on all challengers and you might face plenty of those. You may have some team members who are used to getting their way by ridiculing or bullying others. MORE
The most prominent way to resolve conflict in agile teams is first to normalize it. Conflicts are often wrongly looked upon as threats to the product. It should be discouraged by the agile project leader and the other team members. Extra effort is needed to address the conflict in the right manner. MORE
How can you evaluate your success as a Scrum Master using metrics? Agile metrics is a complicated topic with no one-size-fits-all solution. There are many options to choose from. Where do you even start? MORE
Successful companies know a little secret – making your dreams a reality requires alignment between your strategies and your projects. It's not a matter of just working harder; success requires doing the right things at the right time with the right people. MORE
Scrum has been around for a while, they say. The Scrum Guide holds the definition of Scrum, they say. The first, official version of the Scrum Guide was released in February 2010. So, how was Scrum defined before 2010 then? MORE
Budget overruns have always been a litmus test for project success or failure. MORE
For organizations in the midst of an agile transformation, the question “how do we know if/when we’re agile?” is pressing. When quizzed about why they want to be agile, they respond that they “want to go faster”, or maybe even that they “want to be more responsive.” MORE
The scrum framework incorporates multiple management characteristics that determine its high project benefits. Retrospectives being one such example. Traditionally, a retrospective is a meeting organized right after a sprint to grasp the positive and negative happenings during the process. MORE
Clarizen
DECEMBER 16, 2020
It’s not easy to keep track of project costs. It’s even harder to relate them to resources, time, and budgets while projects are still ongoing. Often, we find ourselves waiting to the end of the month (or even longer) to see accurate project financials.
Planio
DECEMBER 17, 2020
Talk to enough project managers and you’ll start to realize that there’s really just one thing that differentiates the great from the good: Good project managers are masters of planning, gathering requirements, sticking to schedules, and hitting milestones….
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Brad Egeland
DECEMBER 13, 2020
Managing a project is hard enough. Managing all the changes that can and often do happen on a project makes everything that much harder. It's like trying to hit a moving target or trying to ride a bull through the streets of Mexico! Here's the simple definition of change.To
Project Risk Coach
DECEMBER 14, 2020
LAST UPDATED ON DECEMBER 14, 2020, BY HARRY HALL THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS AFFILIATE LINKS. WE MAY EARN A COMMISSION IF YOU CLICK A LINK AND MAKE A PURCHASE. IT DOES NOT COST YOU EXTRA. THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT! Are you confused about the PMI-RMP exam? Not sure what to study?
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Kiron Bondale
DECEMBER 13, 2020
The final stage in the three-step model for building psychological safety within your team is to champion it. A champion is not afraid of taking on all challengers and you might face plenty of those. You may have some team members who are used to getting their way by ridiculing or bullying others.
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nTask
DECEMBER 17, 2020
We are almost done with the year 2020. Among many adversities that this year has brought us, being productive at work has been a real challenge. Therefore, we turned to the experts that remained vigilant in times where being productive was a big struggle for many across the globe.
Project Risk Coach
DECEMBER 14, 2020
Successful companies know a little secret – making your dreams a reality requires alignment between your strategies and your projects. It's not a matter of just working harder; success requires doing the right things at the right time with the right people.
Henny Portman
DECEMBER 12, 2020
The book Engaging stakeholders on projects – How to harness people power , written by Elizabeth Harrin is the starting point if you want to get a better understanding of stakeholder engagement and it gives you a lot of practical advice, tips for improving practice key takeaways and action steps for successful stakeholder engagement.
Online PM Courses
DECEMBER 13, 2020
Project management books are a great way to learn - for new project managers and for those of us with experience under our belts. The post Best Project Management Books: Your Step-stones to Success appeared first on OnlinePMCourses. Advice for Project Managers Agile Project Management Best of.
Speaker: Shannon Lietz, Director of DevSecOps Team, Intuit
The new DevSecOps team is up and running, and you feel ready to take on rising security threats while delivering quality software updates. But that leaves just one question: how do you monitor your new program as effectively and efficiently as possible? Join Shannon Lietz, Director of DevsecOps at Intuit, and award-winning innovator, to learn the answers to these questions so you can lead your DevSecOps team to the top!
Teamweek
DECEMBER 17, 2020
Without a systematic process, managing a marketing campaign can become chaotic. Marketing project management software helps you plan, collaborate, and track the delivery of marketing projects. In this article, we look at the top 10 project management software tools for marketing teams.
Musings on Project Management
DECEMBER 14, 2020
Have you thought much about this? Two of the conceptual conundrums of the hybrid agile-conventional methodology are: How do you verify that which is incomplete and. How do you validate the efficacy of that which is yet to be conceived? Verification and validation (V-and-V) are traditionally held to be very important project practices that to some may be difficult to map directly into the. agile Quality
Gunther Verheyen
DECEMBER 17, 2020
Scrum has been around for a while, they say. The Scrum Guide holds the definition of Scrum, they say. The first, official version of the Scrum Guide was released in February 2010. So, how was Scrum defined before 2010 then?
Leading Agile
DECEMBER 17, 2020
Webinars Learn the Physics of Agility Sign Up. Transformation is really about forming teams, building backlogs, and producing working, tested product. At scale, it’s about defining structure, and creating governance, metrics, and tooling strategies that support Agility.
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Does your analytics solution work with your current tech stack and DevOps practices? If not, any update to the analytics could increase deployment complexity and become difficult to maintain. Learn the 5 elements of a DevOps-friendly embedded analytics solution.
TeamGantt
DECEMBER 14, 2020
Save time on project management and planning with these easy-to-use gantt chart examples for a variety of different industries and project types
Henny Portman
DECEMBER 17, 2020
Two weeks ago, I received a blurb request. “I I saw on your blog that you reviewed Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard, and I’d like to ask whether you’d be willing to consider giving a blurb to a similar book”.
Brad Egeland
DECEMBER 12, 2020
Is Agile for everyone? Do you think it’s right or best for every project? Or does it have some best fit scenarios? Furthermore, is it right for every industry or for every organization or even for every project manager, business analyst and tech team?
Leading Answers
DECEMBER 15, 2020
A theme for the 2019 World Economic Forum’s (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland was the “Fourth Industrial Revolution.” It was concerned with how a combination of technologies are changing the way we live, work and interact.
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This whitepaper discusses how automated business monitoring solutions like Yellowfin Signals revolutionize the way users discover critical and relevant insights from their data.
nTask
DECEMBER 15, 2020
Despite different campaigns in an age where equality is being fought with inequality on the frontline of many conversations, women are not always equally represented. This is also true in the area of project management.
Agilemania
DECEMBER 16, 2020
If you want to build a product, you have to make a product backlog with all the essential requirements. Next, you have to start working on the high priority requirements to build the product. You can start working on the product requirement within Sprint. Now, what is a sprint?
Scrum.org
DECEMBER 14, 2020
TL; DR: Scrum Master Trends Report 2019. Back in 2017, we started the Scrum Master Salary Report 2017 —the first industry report that covered in-depth the educational background, working experience, industries, and organizational details of the companies Scrum Masters or agile coaches work for.
Proofhub
DECEMBER 15, 2020
As more people are working from home nowadays, online meetings have started to become the norm. But conducting online meetings is very different from in-person meetings. The lack of physical presence can make it difficult to engage and inspire your audience.
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Selecting the right solution for your embedded analytics is crucial to the success of your application. But with so many solutions and vendors, how do you make this critical selection? Learn about the different approaches to analytics and the pros and cons for each.
Brad Egeland
DECEMBER 14, 2020
Project management certification. Is it helpful? Does it get you jobs? Does it increase your project management skills? Does it add value to you as a project manager? Does it add value to the organization you work for? Monetarily.is it worth it? Should hiring organizations require it?
Agilemania
DECEMBER 15, 2020
The scrum framework incorporates multiple management characteristics that determine its high project benefits. Retrospectives being one such example. Traditionally, a retrospective is a meeting organized right after a sprint to grasp the positive and negative happenings during the process.
Scrum.org
DECEMBER 14, 2020
For organizations in the midst of an agile transformation, the question “how do we know if/when we’re agile?” is pressing. When quizzed about why they want to be agile, they respond that they “want to go faster”, or maybe even that they “want to be more responsive.”
Arras People
DECEMBER 17, 2020
I came across an article the other day that mentioned the fact that some organisations are still clinging to the hope of IR35 being postponed. Unwilling to start preparing for the changes incoming this April.
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This report is designed to help readers select an embedded analytics product. It provides 12 criteria to consider when evaluating embedded capabilities. It also comes with a companion spreadsheet that enables users to score and compare products along these 12 dimensions and others they may add.
Moira Alexander
DECEMBER 18, 2020
Budget overruns have always been a litmus test for project success or failure.
Agilemania
DECEMBER 15, 2020
The most prominent way to resolve conflict in agile teams is first to normalize it. Conflicts are often wrongly looked upon as threats to the product. It should be discouraged by the agile project leader and the other team members. Extra effort is needed to address the conflict in the right manner.
Scrum.org
DECEMBER 18, 2020
How can you evaluate your success as a Scrum Master using metrics? Agile metrics is a complicated topic with no one-size-fits-all solution. There are many options to choose from. Where do you even start?
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