Project Bliss
APRIL 13, 2021
Time management skills help you work efficiently, get the right work done, and still maintaining a balanced life. Use these critical skills to manage your time well, and see fast benefits in both your career and personal life. This is a guest post by Lori Wade. Everyone craves career success. It’s the kind of success that is essential for having a happy, healthy life.
Project Risk Coach
APRIL 12, 2021
How can you develop a scope management plan quickly that provides value to the project? It's not as complicated as it may seem. Some project managers check the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) for advice, which I think is a great place to start. However, project managers may make the following mistakes: Individuals may see the PMBOK as a prescription and include every element for every project.
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ProjectManager.com
APRIL 15, 2021
Documentation is required in any project, but even more so when it comes to construction project management. Construction projects demand regular, detailed reporting during execution, so you can review and analyze your progress. This data is delivered in the form of a construction daily report. This is daily construction log is usually handled by the site manager and will be repeatedly created and delivered over the course of a project.
Kiron Bondale
APRIL 11, 2021
HBR published an article this week on how leaders can help their teams to recover quicker from disruptions. Given the events of the past year, this topic is apropos and is likely to remain so for the foreseeable future. In the article, the author introduces the concept of collective self-healing at the team level drawing upon observations of how ant and other social insect colonies respond to major upheavals.
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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.
Inloox
APRIL 15, 2021
". "If you don't know where you're going, don't be surprised if you end up somewhere else." - Mark Twain. ". Whether in project planning or in business management, for reliable decision making you will need some predefined parameters. In practice, three elementary concepts are constantly confused in this context. Where are the differences between vision, strategy and tactics?
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ProjectManager.com
APRIL 16, 2021
Stakeholders are very concerned with the progress of the project because they have a vested interest in its success. They want to stay in consistent communication with you and get reports on how the project is progressing over regular periods of time. The way for a project manager to keep stakeholders updated is through reporting, specifically with a progress report.
Musings on Project Management
APRIL 11, 2021
There comes a point where more planning can not remove the remaining uncertainty, instead execution must be used to provide data and remove uncertainty. This quote comes from a nicely argued case -- from the agile blog 'leading answers' -- for mixing agile methods in rather traditional businesses, like the oil and gas exploration/production business If ever there was a business that.
The Digital Project Manager
APRIL 12, 2021
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Scrum.org
APRIL 15, 2021
On today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: How does a Scrum Team handle scope creep? Today's question asks how a Scrum Team can handle scope creep. Todd Miller and Ryan Ripley discuss push and pull systems and how Developers pull work into a Sprint. They also talk about welcoming changing requirements in collaboration with a Product Owner and how Scrum is adaptable because we use the framework to be opportunistic in the marketplace.
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
nTask
APRIL 12, 2021
Seamless communication, clarity, and transparency are the key essentials for the efficient completion of a project. Unfortunately, incorporating these fundamentals requires more than just your regular project management tools. To fully grasp control over the progress of your project , you need a unique and innovative tool – Visual project management tools.
Leading Agile
APRIL 12, 2021
“Are these volleyball games or demos?” the senior director leaned over to me and asked during the 7 team demo of the day. She had just taken over this part of the organization, and I was the technical consultant tasked making her dreams come true: working-tested product in the demo. Yet another team had been remarkably busy in the last sprint discussing ways to potentially solve problems.
The Digital Project Manager
APRIL 12, 2021
The post Using Enterprise Data To Communicate Impact & Celebrate Wins (with Agile Delivery Champion, Bill Moroz) appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.
Scrum.org
APRIL 12, 2021
So what is organizational agility? Have you ever noticed people keep talking about things, but they've not aligned with what their words mean? I have seen agility measured as the number of "agile teams" and the "number of training attendees" more often than I like to admit. . Maybe we can talk about what organizational agility is not - in a word - bs.
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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.
Proofhub
APRIL 13, 2021
As the working world moves from the office to home, many businesses are finding they have little choice but to become more flexible in their approach. Organizations that are coming out ahead during the health crisis are those that are introducing flexibility; flexibility in terms of workspaces, working hours, and expectations. But let’s be honest. It hasn’t always been smooth sailing.
Agilemania
APRIL 15, 2021
What is Value Stream. A value stream is the set of actions that add value to a customer from the initial request through the realization of value by the customer. The value stream begins with the initial concept, moves through various stages of development and on through delivery and support. So, what is value? Value is something the customer can benefit from, like a product or a service of high quality received within an expected time & budget.
nTask
APRIL 15, 2021
Self-organization and management have a positive impact on employees’ performance. Constant monitoring and introspective thinking go a long way. Self-organization does wonder by improving employees’ performance. It not only makes you productive but also alleviates workplace stress. Since you have organized everything, you stay on top of your game and deliver the best of the best.
Scrum.org
APRIL 14, 2021
One of the most often used skills and stances in the daily life of a Scrum Master probably is coaching. I'm talking coaching as in the definition of e.g. the Agile Coaching Institute . Ability to act as a coach, with the client’s interest determining the direction, rather than the coach’s expertise or opinion. So we are explicitly talking about coaching, not consulting or mentoring but coaching.
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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.
Leading Agile
APRIL 12, 2021
Mike Cottmeyer describes the core challenges with transformations begins with setting up cross-functional teams. Learn more by watching the Base Patterns of Business Agility on-demand webinar series here. Transcript. How do I take this functionally siloed organization and turn it into the kind of organization that we can actually deliver the way we want to deliver?
Agilemania
APRIL 15, 2021
What is Value Stream. A value stream is the set of actions that add value to a customer from the initial request through the realization of value by the customer. The value stream begins with the initial concept, moves through various stages of development and on through delivery and support. So, what is value? Value is something the customer can benefit from, like a product or a service of high quality received within an expected time & budget.
nTask
APRIL 14, 2021
The world’s slow but gradual transition to remote work has shown that there are countless benefits of working remotely, probably even more than working at the office. What’s even more shocking is that unlike what is generally believed, remote work is as advantageous for employers as it is for employees. Industries, all over the world, are gradually shifting to remote work since it gives greater autonomy to employees and helps increase the overall profitability of the organization.
Scrum.org
APRIL 15, 2021
TL; DR: The Hardening Sprint Fallacy. There are plenty of failure possibilities with Scrum. Given that Scrum is a framework with a reasonable yet short “manual,” this effect should not surprise anyone. The hardening Sprint is one of those Scrum failures that are particularly challenging. Explore with me the deep-rooted issues we can learn from a team that practices a hardening Sprint, from the level of team maturity to possible organizational concerns of becoming agile in less than 100 seconds.
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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.
Trello
APRIL 15, 2021
There are two things that always seem to stand true in a professional career: time is scarce and the workload is abundant.
Agilemania
APRIL 14, 2021
Business Agility is the new talk of the town. However, I see it as an outcome, the value received if you have paid the right price for it. You cannot have business agility by training the senior management and leadership on Lean thinking or a set of Agile values and principles. To enable business agility, the proper foundation has to be in place. The teams that work tirelessly to create valuable products need to be empowered and encouraged to embrace agility in the proper sense.
TrustRadius Project Management
APRIL 16, 2021
An email service is a tool that has long since stopped needing to be paid for. For many users, free email accounts and service providers will fulfill all their needs. From mobile applications and ease of use to security and name recognition, there are many factors at play. Understanding what your specific needs are and how they relate to the plethora of options will help you choose the right email provider.
Scrum.org
APRIL 13, 2021
On today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: Who Decides the Sprint Length for A Scrum Team? Today's question asks about who decides the sprint length for a Scrum Team. Ryan and Todd discuss different roles each Scrum Team member plays in figuring out the best sprint length (planning horizon) for the team. Check out the video and let us know what you think below!
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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