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Top Attention Management Techniques While Working from Home

Proofhub

Employees, everywhere around the world, are working from home?—?not by choice but by chance?—?in a desperate attempt to stop the spread of COVID-19. And, going by the ever-growing number of COVID deaths world-wide, it’s almost sure that we may end up spending a significant part of 2020 working from home. There’s no denying that several employees may not be very pleased to work from home.

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14 Tips for Running an Effective Stand Up Meeting 

GoSkills

Stand up meetings can help teams stick to the agenda, collaborate more effectively, and more. Read on to find out how you can make the most of them.

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How to Handle a Difficult Project Sponsor: [7 Different Types]

Online PM Courses

A common challenge is how to handle a difficult project sponsor. We'll look at seven types of difficult project sponsor, and strategies for handling them. The post How to Handle a Difficult Project Sponsor: [7 Different Types] appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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7 Tips for a Smooth Virtual Meeting

ProjectManager.com

Virtual meetings are commonplace in our digitally connected world. Whether they are used to connect teams from different countries, or to bring employees who work from home together for a conference call, virtual meetings can be crucial to a company’s success. Like clockwork though, almost every virtual meeting seems to run into some sort of problem.

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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 Manage Project Tolerances (with PRINCE2 Guide)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Tolerances are an important part of being able to work autonomously as a project manager. You need to have the authority and freedom of action to be able to change the direction the work is going in. However, the project sponsor is the person responsible for decisions that affect the project budget and the schedule, where making a change would deviate from the agreed plan.

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What makes the difference between a GOOD Scrum Master and a GREAT Scrum?Master?

Scrum.org

Even though the global Scrum adoption is now at 75% ( source: 14th State of Agile report 2020 ), the Scrum Master profession is still difficult to grasp for many. I have encountered and still encounter many organizations struggling with understanding the role of the Scrum Master. These misunderstandings result in sub-optimal mixed roles (developer/scrum master, tester/scrum master, product owner/scrum master, project manager/scrum master) or the complete omission of the role (the team will pick

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How to Effectively Engage With Multiple Project Stakeholders

LiquidPlanner

“Dear Elizabeth: I work with a difficult stakeholder population – there are a lot of them. My project has over a thousand people affected by the change my project is delivering, in multiple geographic locations. I know I should be doing stakeholder engagement and creating plans to work with them, but how do you get the one on one contacts with such a large group?”.

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Tips for Project Managers: How to Lead Your Project Team Through a Crisis

Inloox

In many cases project managers find themselves in critical or uncertain situations, as every project has some unknown factors that have to be taken into account. Nevertheless, the current Corona pandemic creates an even bigger insecurity than anything project management has experienced in the last decades. Project managers have to make decisions without knowing whether they will still be sustainable tomorrow, employees show new strengths and weaknesses dealing with the crisis, and in addition, t

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How to Scrum with Project for the Web

MPUG

Project for The Web has a couple different areas: Grid, Board, and Timeline. A question I hear often is, “Can we manage Agile projects in Project for the Web?” To be more specific, “Can we manage Scrum based projects?” The answer is yes, of course—in a limited way, but still well enough! I will walk you through the steps. Let’s say that we have a Project called Scrum.

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Strategic Project Finance Essentials: A Project Manager’s Guide to Financial Metrics

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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DoD Matrix at Sprint Planning

Scrum.org

Many teams have been adopting an iterative way to deliver new services, products, and complex projects. Duration of the iteration is one month or less and starts with short planning session. In Scrum, the iteration is called Sprint and the mandatory rule says that at the end of the Sprint there must be a done product increment in accordance with Definition of Done or simply DoD.

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Announcing Supported Study Groups

Leading Answers

I am piloting a new program for anyone wanting to study for and obtain their PMI-ACP credential. It is a small group, 8-week online book-club / self-study program. Read one chapter of my PMI-ACP Exam Prep book each week. Join me for a one-hour Zoom call to review topics and ask any questions you may have. Get access to a private LinkedIn group where you can ask additional questions and discuss topics with peers.

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LiquidPlanner Named Top 20 Best Project Portfolio Software by Capterra

LiquidPlanner

LiquidPlanner is happy to share that we have ranked in the Top 20 Most Popular Software for Project Portfolio Management by Capterra based on customer ratings. “Project Portfolio Management software helps organizations manage budgeting, resources, scheduling, and risk across a complex portfolio of simultaneous, ongoing projects. It helps makes it easier for project leads and organizations to analyze goals across projects, manage resources at the enterprise level, and communicate between project

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Project Roadmap: What Is It & How To Create One To Manage Stakeholder Expectations?

Teamweek

In this article, you’ll learn how to create a project roadmap to manage stakeholder expectations and keep your team on track to meet deadlines. We’ll also look at: What is a project roadmap? How is it different from a project plan? Reasons why you should create a roadmap Project roadmap templates How to create a roadmap timeline? How to keep stakeholders up-to-date with roadmaps?

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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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How the Efficiency Mindset Leads to Zombie Scrum

Scrum.org

This post is an excerpt from the book that we’re writing, the ‘ Zombie Scrum Survival Guide ’. It’s our way of delivering small increments and involving our stakeholders: you, the reader. So we’d love to hear your feedback, encouragements, and wild ideas. The Scrum Framework was developed by Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland in the 1990s and first formalized in 1995 to address the inherent complexity of product and software development.

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How to Beat Parkinson’s Law and Deliver Projects in Half the Time

Epicflow Blog

Everyone engaged in project management is aware that this field is prone to different kinds of uncertainties. They all are diverse and unpredictable, though there are some that appear in every project due to their nature. Parkinson’s law is an example. Any project is sensitive to it because this phenomenon originates from human behavior, and projects are executed by people.

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Unveiling the Agile Operating Model

Leading Agile

New strategies or dramatic shifts in existing strategies require an examination of an organization’s operating model. Agile is a new business paradigm, but few established companies understand what needs to change to make their business Agile. Most think it is about speed and flexibility. They forget about efficiency and resiliency, key fundamentals without which companies fail to achieve their desired speed.

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Ten Best Home Office Tips To Improve Remote Work Productivity

Proofhub

Boost Remote Work Productivity Using Top 10 Home Office Tips Working from home is a new experience to many. It’s easy to relax and lose track of your deadlines. Achieve more in less time by following these ten home office tips to boost productivity. “Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better.”?—? Jim Rohn Congratulations to those who are working from home these days!

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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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Virtual Open Space and Experience Report

Scrum.org

The simplicity and power of Open Space is stunning for most first-time participants. The opening the circle, 4 common sense principles and of course the law of mobility that brings two additional roles in an Open Space to life; the butterfly and the bumblebee. . Many facilitators and organizers feel nervous in the days, hours and minutes leading up to an Open Space because they are thinking about the pressing question: What should I do if nobody proposes a topic?

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The Hidden Dangers of Refactoring [Comic]

Teamweek

A couple of years ago I had what looked like a leaky sewage pipe in my apartment. We started taking out the wall to get to the root of the problem. It wasn’t long before half of the apartment was stripped to the bones. During one of our long and sweary smoke breaks, my builder—normally a chatty fellow—grew awfully quiet, took a long drag of the cigarette and said: “It’s easier to tear everything down and build a house from scratch”.

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Review 97 Things Every Scrum Practitioner Should Know

Henny Portman

The book 97 Things Every Scrum Practitioner Should Know edited by Gunther Verheyen contains the wisdom of 69 practitioners around the world and helps you to improve your understanding of Scrum ( nb. Who are we missing on the cover of the book? ). Gunther organized these 97 essays around ten themes. These themes cover all aspects of Scrum and beyond.

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Best Microsoft Project Alternatives of 2020 (Free & Paid)

GanttPRO Project Management

Looking for the best & free MS Project alternatives? Here is the list of more than 35 tools divided into a few categories: best, free, online, Microsoft Project alternatives for […].

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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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Scrum.org

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How To Reschedule Incomplete Work

MPUG

A colleague posed a problem recently. He recorded earned value after tracking work done in the first status period of his project. When recording work done in the second status period, he returned to the first only to find the earned value had changed. What could have caused this? One possible reason is neglecting to reschedule work that should have been completed prior to the status date.

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How to Stay Focused When You Work From Home

Teamweek

Have you heard about the studies that state working from home offers a major productivity boost , equivalent to one whole extra workday each week? You get it—working remotely means you aren’t subjected to the typical in-office distractions. You don’t have to overhear your deskmate’s phone conversations, and you aren’t dealing with people randomly popping by your workspace when you’re zoned in on a project.

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How to open MPP file online without MS Project

GanttPRO Project Management

Microsoft Project is one of the most popular and widespread project management software. The software allows you to plan projects, assign tasks, manage resources and workflows, create reports, and do […].

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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.