Planio

MARCH 3, 2025

Being a designer is hard. Balancing the desire to design something remarkable against a projects cost, time, and scope limitations requires equal doses of creativity, collaboration, and pure grit. Luckily, this is where a design brief can really help you out! Unlike other types of projects, such as software development or marketing campaigns , design projects often run into trouble when the stakeholders vision doesnt match the final deliverable.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 4, 2025

When Im mentoring project managers, one of the key things I hear time and time again is that they want to be given more responsibility and have greater influence over the work. Project managers often struggle from not having budget and resource responsibility. If you dont control these elements of the project, you dont really have the option to take many decisions about how the work unfolds.

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Green Project Management

MARCH 3, 2025

Sustainability in project management isnt just a buzzwordits a necessity. I say this a lot. Organizations are making commitments to sustainability, but if those commitments dont translate into actual project decisions, they dont mean much. Thats why weve added Sustainability Impact Thresholds to the latest version of our Sustainability Management Plan (SMP) Template (v3.0), which […] The post Impact Thresholds: Making Project Sustainability Real appeared first on The GPM Blog.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 3, 2025

Last week, my team hit a roadblock that threw our carefully planned sprint into chaos. We were working on a critical feature, and everything was on track until we realised we needed a deliverable from an external provider a crucial API integration to connect our platform to a third-party service. The problem? The external provider informed us at the last minute that their update was delayed by two weeks due to internal issues.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

As prospects define their problem, search for solutions, and even change jobs, they are generating high-value signals that the best go-to-market teams can leverage to close more deals. This is where signal-based selling comes into play. ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck recently broke down specific ways to put four key buying signals into action with the experts from 30 Minutes to President’s Club.

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Teamweek

MARCH 6, 2025

Year after year, hiring teams complain about a lack of talent in the job marketwhile candidates vent about their ability to line up a new gig.Something doesnt add up, right? While there are loads of external things we can blame (poor education systems, cut-throat competition, revenue decline), more often than not, a poor talent acquisition strategy is the culprit.

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Binfire

MARCH 2, 2025

Selecting the right warehouse vehicles is crucial for optimizing operations, but it is not always a straightforward process. Warehouses vary widely in size, layout, and operational demands, meaning a vehicle that works well in one setting may be inefficient or impractical in another. With the increasing range of equipment availablefrom forklifts and pallet trucks to automated guided vehicles (AGVs)the process of choosing has grown more complex for decision-makers in logistics businesses.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 5, 2025

A Product Owner is an important accountability when it comes to creating Valuable products. However, a Scrum Team may not always have a Valuable Product Owner. What I mean is, if the person performing the accountability of Product Owner is not well versed or executes their responsibilities poorly then it leads to a lot of challenges and eventually can lead to failure of the Product.

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ProductSide

MARCH 6, 2025

Ever wondered how product leaders juggle massive mergers & acquisitions, tricky integrations, and a pressure-cooker paceall while keeping their teams fired up and focused? Meet Brian Fugere , a pro whos navigated the high-stakes terrain of M&A more times than he can count. In this edition of Productside Stories , we dig into Brians 30-year legacy of building, integrating, and supercharging product portfolios across healthcare, software, media, and government.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 4, 2025

Projects are made up of tasks. Each of those tasks needs to be completed to meet certain quality standards. However, they also have to be done safely and, often, under specific conditions or regulatory requirements. A method statement is a document that ensures tasks check these boxes. Well explain what a method statement is, when it should be used and what should be included to help with writing one.

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Speaker: Chris Townsend, VP of Product Marketing, Wellspring

Over the past decade, companies have embraced innovation with enthusiasm—Chief Innovation Officers have been hired, and in-house incubators, accelerators, and co-creation labs have been launched. CEOs have spoken with passion about “making everyone an innovator” and the need “to disrupt our own business.” But after years of experimentation, senior leaders are asking: Is this still just an experiment, or are we in it for the long haul?

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MPUG

MARCH 3, 2025

Originally posted on LinkedIn. Photo Credit: Transformative Management Solutions LLC Overview This guide provides step-by-step instructions for extracting and transforming project task data from Microsoft Project Online using Power Query. By leveraging the Project Online Reporting API, you can pull structured JSON data into Excel or Power BI, convert it into a usable table, and apply necessary transformations for better reporting.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 7, 2025

How do I (as a Product Owner) handle "urgent requests" (usually from people with high political power) in Scrum? This is one of the most common questions I receive from participants attending Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO) courses. Before I share how to handle "urgent requests," let's revisit the fundamentals of Scrum. In Scrum, there are two types of backlogs: the Product Backlog and the Sprint Backlog.

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Teamweek

MARCH 4, 2025

Do you know the simple strategy that helps 90% of companies make better hires? Instead of relying on outdated or inflated resumes, they use skills-based hiring a smarter approach that tests candidates’ real-world abilities. By doing so, they base their hiring decisions on what candidates can actually do (not just what they claim on paper). One of the biggest players in the talent assessment software arena is Mercer Mettl, but the platform has some flaws.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 6, 2025

Big things coming from small beginnings might sound like a cliche, but its rooted in truth. Project managers understand that before embarking on large endeavors, its best to test the waters. The phrase for that in project management is a pilot project. What is a pilot project? Well get to that and the industries that use a pilot plan before initiating big, expensive and complex projects.

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Speaker: Dylan Secrest

Construction projects are high-stakes operations where even minor inefficiencies can lead to costly delays, safety concerns, and budget overruns. Managing risk in construction has always been a challenge, but as projects grow in complexity, traditional methods no longer cut it. Enter Digital Transformation - a game changer approach that replaces inefficiency with AI-powered analytics, real-time monitoring, and automated workflows to proactively manage risk.

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Scoro

MARCH 4, 2025

Agency pitching isn’t getting easier. Longer sign-off times, smaller budgets, and flat-out ghosting are testing even the most seasoned teams. While market conditions are tough, the real challengeand opportunityis refining the pitch process to stay ahead. Be Ryt growth consultant Freia Muehlenbein sat down with us to share her framework for winning new business.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 6, 2025

Let's continue from where we left in Part 1 of this blog Why are Leaders not empathetic? There could be multiple reasons for this. Heres my list, and you can add your own: 1. Performance vver People: In fast-paced industries, speed and efficiency are prioritized over emotional intelligence. Leaders are often evaluated based on KPIs, deadlines, and profits, rather than how well they understand their teams emotions.

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Brett Harned

MARCH 6, 2025

We need strong leadership now more than ever. Instead, we’re getting reckless, inhumane budget cuts, mass layoffs, and a government left in total disarray. Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) claim they’re saving taxpayer dollars by gutting the workforce. But efficiency isn’t firing half the people who actually get things done and expecting the same results.

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Function Point

MARCH 3, 2025

Budgeting is the backbone of any successful project, but what happens when costs spiral out of control? Cost overrunexceeding the planned budgetis a common and costly challenge that plagues creative agencies, impacting profitability, client trust, and overall project success. This blog dives deep into the causes of cost overruns in project management, their consequences, and practical strategies for handling them effectively with the help of Function Points all-in-one agency management software.

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Sandeep Kashyap

MARCH 6, 2025

In 2025, the workplace demands smarter, faster, and more efficient solutions to keep up with the pace of modern business. Teams are more dynamic, remote work is more common than ever, and collaboration has become the backbone ofsuccess. To navigate this modern approach, you need a tool that streamlines workflows and ensures seamless project management.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 6, 2025

Stakeholders. The Scrum Guide talks about them a lot. But do you really know who yours are? The Scrum Guide repeatedly emphasizes the role of stakeholders. A few examples: The Scrum Team and its stakeholders inspect the results and adjust The Scrum Team and its stakeholders are open about the work and the challenges. The Scrum Team is responsible for all product-related activities from stakeholder collaboration, The Product Owner may represent the needs of many stakeholders Facilitating stakeho

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Pawel Brodzinski

MARCH 6, 2025

We can consider so many things both in our professional and personal lives as value exchange. The most obvious case: I exchange 40 hours of my time each week for a set amount of money that lands in my bank account each month. As a business, we do the same thing. We commit our engineers to spend their time on whatever our clients need them for, and in exchange, we receive an agreed-upon rate for each hour of that effort.

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Wrike

MARCH 4, 2025

There are dozens of posts on project management software for marketing teams. But very few of them actually consider what a marketing team needs. Whether you work in-house or run an agency, marketing projects face challenges with: Scheduling , as you work toward hard launch deadlines Versioning and file management , as you create hundreds of design assets across different media types Capacity planning , as new project requests can arrive at any time Delivery , as you share completed assets with

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Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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Project Management Essentials

MARCH 2, 2025

I earned a master’s degree in economics and worked in the field for a few years before shifting to project management. Despite the shift, I continue to use economics as my primary lens for analyzing the world around me. Recent project management industry changes prompted me to consider its economics. This article aims to provide data-supported context and analysis.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 7, 2025

How do I (as a Product Owner) handle "urgent requests" (usually from people with high political power) in Scrum? This is one of the most common questions I receive from participants attending Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO) courses. Before I share how to handle "urgent requests," let's revisit the fundamentals of Scrum. In Scrum, there are two types of backlogs: the Product Backlog and the Sprint Backlog.

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ActiveCollab

MARCH 6, 2025

Hello, everyone! Welcome to ActiveCollabs latest updates! In January [[link] we worked on Events in Workload, eInvoicing, and a Project Progress Menu. February also brings interesting new things, including External Calendars in ActiveCollab, Invoices and Estimates in Companies Profiles, and improved Team Timesheets. These should all help you get around in your ActiveCollab workspace better.

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Wrike

MARCH 5, 2025

Marketing project management is not for the faint of heart. Its a combination of two big roles in a fast-paced environment, with complex workflows, busy campaigns, and a structured marketing project management process. Its no wonder that so many projects fail, with one study showing that out of 50,000 projects, 71% failed to come in on time, on budget, or with a satisfactory result.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

Sales and marketing leaders have reached a tipping point when it comes to using intent data — and they’re not looking back. More than half of all B2B marketers are already using intent data to increase sales, and Gartner predicts this figure will grow to 70 percent. The reason is clear: intent can provide you with massive amounts of data that reveal sales opportunities earlier than ever before.

Project Cubicle

MARCH 6, 2025

Recruiting metrics often highlight the time it takes to hire someone. The HR assistant recruiting journey can vary significantly based on the specific role and the organization. Initially, applicants submit their materials for review by a hiring manager, who conducts interviews with promising candidates and ultimately makes offers to those deemed suitable.

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Beyond the Chaos

MARCH 6, 2025

Workflows depend on consistency. When employees leave, that consistency is lost. Processes stall, knowledge gaps form, and teams scramble to adjust. The more often it happens, the harder it becomes to keep operations running smoothly. And the impact isnt small, studies show that frequent turnover can cut productivity by up to 30% as new hires take time to reach full efficiency.

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House of PMO

MARCH 5, 2025

PPM tools are the backbone of effective project, programme, and portfolio management, but they come with their own challenges. A recent House of PMO survey highlights the most common pain points PMO professionals face and the tools they rely on most. While some issueslike usability and adoptionare longstanding frustrations, otherssuch as integrationseem to be fading into the background.

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