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Does your project need a PCO?

Kiron Bondale

When I first read it, I found that one of the more interesting characters in Tom Clancy’s debut novel, The Hunt for Red October , was the political officer, Ivan Putin. His role is to ensure that the leadership and crew of the nuclear submarine were acting in alignment with the values and principles of the Soviet Union. He acts independent from the rest of the crew as his reporting relationship is to Moscow and not to the submarine’s leadership team.

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Work Breakdown Structure Guide for Beginner-Level PMs

nTask

A work breakdown structure (WBS) combines scope, cost, and deliverables into a single tool by breaking down the project into smaller components. WBS is a vital technique that may assist you in planning, executing, and analyzing large projects. While most work breakdown structures are based on deliverables, they can also be based on phases.

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Risk Intelligence: What Is And How It Can Benefit Your Organization?

nTask

In this era of digital transformation, companies are increasingly turning to technology and data-driven solutions to streamline their processes. One such solution is risk intelligence, which involves using data and analytics more effectively to manage risk. But what exactly is risk intelligence? And how can it benefit your organization?

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15 Productivity Techniques Everyone with a Busy Schedule should Know

nTask

Are you constantly feeling overwhelmed with a full schedule that never seems to end? You’re not alone! Today, the pressure of managing jobs, families, and social lives can be extremely taxing.

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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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Risk Identification Techniques and How to Brainstorm Well

MPUG

Risk Identification Techniques At the start of every project, you as a project manager (PM) have a lot of important things to do, and you don’t want to forget any of them. They may all be priorities, but near the top of your list is figuring out what could go wrong – because, take it from me, plenty will! The risk management process is core to our practice of Project Management.

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7 Clockify Alternatives to Consider in 2023

Teamweek

Looking for Clockify alternatives? You’ve landed on the right page! ? We’ll analyze and dissect some of the best Clockify alternatives for freelancers and small teams. But before diving into each time tracking app , let’s take a closer look at Clockify and explore why some are seeking alternatives. Why do people consider Clockify alternatives?

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Tuesday Tip #5: LP Schedule Bars Leave Gantt Charts in the Past

LiquidPlanner

With complex portfolios to manage, it can be hard to determine and communicate your project schedule using traditional methods like a GANTT chart. Because GANTT charts are static, any changes to estimates, availability, budget, scope, and priorities call for manual calculations to come up with new deadlines for your whole project or portfolio. You might spend too many hours rescheduling your work to determine your new delivery schedule, or just give it your best guess.

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How to Write a Project Summary (Free Template Included)

ProjectManager.com

There’s a lot of work involved in getting a project approved. You need to convince stakeholders or clients that the project is worthwhile. This should be done upfront and is usually accomplished via the project summary. That’s a lot of responsibility for a project summary, which by definition is a short overview of the project. Therefore, nothing can be wasted.

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Stakeholder Engagement Essentials You Always Wanted To Know (Book Review)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The book’s cover (see on Amazon) Stakeholder Engagement Essentials You Always Wanted To Know by Michelle Bartonico (Vibrant Publishers, 2023) is a book about working with others on projects. It’s goal is to help you “learn strategies and techniques to balance the tenets of project management with the realities of human dynamics” – something I’m very keen to make sure happens in our practice as project professionals.

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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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Definition of Done: Business Agility Abhors Technical Shoddiness

Scrum.org

TL; DR: The Definition of Done: Business Agility & Technical Excellence Most of the time, stakeholders are not interested in how we solve their problems as long as we ethically play by the rules. Instead, they are interested in the regular delivery of valuable Increments as these pave the road to business agility. However, there is no business agility without technical excellence, which brings us to today’s topic: the importance of an actionable Definition of Done.

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ChatGPT on the risk matrix

Musings on Project Management

I asked ChatGPT for an assessment of the limitations and hazards of using the conventional risk matrix -- of impact vs probability in a matrix format -- in project management.

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Project Procurement Management: A Quick Guide

ProjectManager.com

Every business needs resources such as labor, raw materials, equipment and other inputs. Your team uses resources to execute a variety of projects such as making products or providing services. These resources must be purchased by your organization, and the procurement process must be carefully planned and executed. That’s what procurement management is all about.

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How to Implement Business Intelligence in 2023

nTask

Business intelligence (BI) is a collection of tools and techniques used to analyze organizational data and make better decisions. As our world continues to transition into a more digital-intensive environment, it’s essential for businesses to use the power of analytics and BI to gain insights that can help them stay competitive and profitable.

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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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Using the Prime Directive to avoid Retrospective Witch Hunts!

Scrum.org

The Retrospective is a critical meeting in the Scrum Framework. As a reminder: The Retrospective in Scrum is a regular event that takes place at the end of each Sprint, which is a time-boxed iteration of work in the Scrum framework. The purpose of the Retrospective is to give the Scrum Team an opportunity to reflect on their work and identify ways to improve their process.

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The Rise of Digital Transformation

Leading Agile

Organizations use Digital Transformation to reinvent their business models, processes, and technology to adapt to changing business and market needs. It may sound simple enough. Buy a new tool, introduce new software, or deploy your current tech differently, and problems are solved. In reality, Digital Transformation is a highly complex problem, and there’s no easy fix.

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The Agile Facilitation and Facilitation Mindset

Agilemania

Are you curious about what facilitation is and how you can use it in an Agile team setting? Have you ever wondered about the role of a facilitator in guiding a group towards a specific outcome while maintaining neutrality? Rosanna Von Sacken, IAF Regional Director in Canada, defines facilitation as a set of four actions that the facilitator needs to complete to call it facilitation: Plan, prepare and design a facilitated session, applying the appropriate methods and processes, and developing the

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Top 7 Bug Tracking Tools Of 2023

Productivity Land

Your work and your business need to run effectively without any hindrance. Bug tracking tools allow you to work effortlessly while tracking, capturing, and resolving the bugs in your systems. This system is also referred to as defect tracking tools and issue tracking tools. Understanding Bug Tracking Systems Bug tracking is mainly used during software testing to make sure that your work system goes efficiently.

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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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Why your customer should care about Scrum

Scrum.org

Join the Mastering Agility Discord community! Let’s face it, your stakeholders couldn’t care less about Scrum or whatever framework you’re using. And I understand that. They just want to get their needs met. Scrum is not one of their needs. If you go off to buy bread, you don’t care how they made it. You just want to feed your family and yourself. Or maybe a more complicated example: buying a new car.

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Working with User Stories and Story Points in MS Project Agile (Scrum)

Management Yogi

Recently, while interacting with many Agile practitioners in a webinar, a number of questions came-up on the capability of MS Project Agile software with respect to user stories and hence, associated tasks. MS Project has features, tasks and as you’d know the features can be broken down into tasks. However:Can MS Project Agile have items in user story format?

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The 10 Key Metrics You Should Include in Your Business Plan

nTask

Starting a business can be an incredibly daunting task, and there are so many aspects to consider. One of the most important steps is creating a business plan, which should include comprehensive research and analysis of key metrics. But what should you include in your business plan?

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How to Implement Change… in the Face of Resistance to Change

Online PM Courses

Whenever we implement change, we face resistance. Here's how to handle the five commonest forms of resistance, to make your change a success. The post How to Implement Change… in the Face of Resistance to Change appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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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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BA World: 5 Ways To Spot Fake Scrum

Scrum.org

What if you spent $500,000 to buy a brand-new hand-built Rolls Royce Phantom luxury car just to find out you got a fake. This regularly happens in companies big and small. Large investments are made to be “Agile” and all they end up with is a phony. It’s not real. It looks real, but it’s a cheap knock-off. Scrum is one of the most popular frameworks that is used by companies to become an agile organization.

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Key Components Of Project Portfolio Management

WorkOtter

Data transparency is one of the most basic project portfolio management components. Having accurate, compelling data available when needed is crucial for any business. These split-second decisions often lead to enterprise growth and success based on objective data available through PPM software. But aside from compiling data and displaying it, what other components make excellent PPM software?

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The Importance of Securing Your Business With the Right Insurance

Productivity Land

Risks are inherent in running a business—entrepreneurs deal with a wide range of risks daily. These risks faced by entrepreneurs are part and parcel of their ongoing job. Accidents occur anytime in a business—for instance, a natural catastrophe destroying property, an employee getting hurt at work, or a client bringing a lawsuit alleging a contract violation.

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Cross-team Collaboration – Why it’s more Important than Ever in the Modern Workplace

nTask

The modern workplace is a constantly evolving environment, and it’s becoming increasingly clear that collaboration between different teams is essential for success. Cross-team collaboration allows employees to bridge the gap between departments, build relationships, and create innovative ways of working together.

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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.