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Work Break Down Structure: Everything You Need To Know

Taskque

According to Gallup’s study that analyzed more than 10,000 projects, Only 2.5% of companies complete their projects successfully. Most projects exceeded the deadline or budget. Even though the project failure rate might vary from industry to industry but it is important for businesses to know why projects fail so they can drive their projects to successful completion.

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Why Identifying as a Project Business is Critical For Success

The Lazy Project Manager

The following article is the first of four in a series on ‘Project Business’ and is authored by Daniel Bévort. I have long commented on, and grumbled about if I am honest, that most project conversations talk about internal projects and not external, client facing, business oriented projects – both of which are important but with the latter representing most of my personal career experience.

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Go slow (to go fast later)

Kiron Bondale

The January 2020 issue of PM Network provide a case study for one of the 2019 PMI Project of the Year finalists, the Société de transport de Montréal’s (STM) eight-year project to modernize the underground Montréal rail system. I have a soft spot in my heart for this system, having spent most of my formative years in Montréal and having been a frequent user of its services while commuting to university and my first job.

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Kanban 101: How Any Team Can Be More Agile

Trello

How often do your team meetings start with this question:

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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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The Future of Work: It’s Already Here

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I’ve been doing some research for my new book and I’ve been struck by how many people are writing about ‘the future of work’. But so many things that are referenced as ‘the future’ are already here. AI, automation, robotics – these are all things that exist in the tools you probably already use. You might not know it, but those capabilities have been around for long enough now that they are already embedded in the way you use consumer-based products.

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What Is Kantree? Detailed Overview & Explanation Of Kantree Features

The Digital Project Manager

What is Kantree? Read on to discover how Kantree works—what problems it can help you. The post What Is Kantree? Detailed Overview & Explanation Of Kantree Features appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Project Management, Jungle-Style

MPUG

It was Rudyard Kipling who popularized the idiom “law of the jungle” back in 1894, and ever since I was a kid falling asleep to passages of Jungle Book , I’ve been fascinated by everything jungle. Another popular expression, “It’s a jungle out there,” is also how I would describe my career as a PM, where I spent most of my time within the concrete jungle of corporate life.

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How the Savvy PMO Does Demand Management

Planview

Could your work intake and demand management processes use some sprucing up? Have no fear, the Savvy PMO is here! This blog series is for you whether you are inundated with work requests, need a more streamlined process, require better scoring and prioritization, or have other challenges with demand management. Using a formalized demand management process, your organization can collect and evaluate work requests consistently and transparently.

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5 Tips for Better Resource Scheduling

ProjectManager.com

What are resources? They’re everything you need for a project. That includes people, places and things. In other words, resources are essential. Dealing with them and coordinating their use is one of the main hurdles that project managers have to clear if they’re going to cross that project finish line. Resources will plug into every phase of your project.

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

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 expendi

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4 Tips for Developing a Risk Management Plan

Project Risk Coach

Steven Covey introduced the concept of Quadrant II activities—working on things that are important but are not urgent. Planning is a powerful Quadrant II activity that can save you time and energy. Think about the future so you can make better decisions in the present. Let’s talk about how to plan your risk management. First Things First Some people think of risk management plans in the wrong way.

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Product Owner vs Business Analyst

Scrum.org

Are you a Business Analyst and do you currently fulfil the role of the Product Owner? Or otherwise the Product Owner may have delegated some tasks to you, for lack of time to deal with those themselves. How well does that work for you? Can you manage it? Do you know the difference between these two roles and what additional tasks and responsibilities you have been given when adopting the role of the Product Owner?

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What is Project Management Framework & How to Choose a Framework?

ProProfs Project Management

Of late, Project Management has gained increasing traction in the industry, and rightly so. Thanks to the Project Management Framework, Project Managers can plan projects systematically and strategically, meet deadlines, and most importantly, not just meet but exceed client expectations. . In simple words, a Project Management Framework refers to a set of methods , procedures, and rules that relate to and cover the entire lifecycle of the project.

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5 Best Trello Alternatives in 2020

ProjectManager.com

The kanban board is easily one of the most popular work management tools available at the moment. If you’ve used one, it’s not hard to see why. Kanban boards are visual tools that keep teams flexible, productive and focused on continuous delivery. It’s a more efficient way to manage workflow. Given its diversity and simplicity, it’s understandable that so many software solutions are incorporating kanban.

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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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July 1, 2020’s PMP® Exam Changes

MPUG

The Project Management Professional (PMP) Exam has changed several times in the past twenty-five years, and it is making another – far more dramatic – change soon. Anyone who has been thinking of taking the exam might want to act now, while the target is clear and exam prep resources are abundant. The new exam, which goes live on July 1, 2020, contains the biggest changes the exam has ever experienced.

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Throughput-driven sprint planning

Scrum.org

Over my 15 years of experience with Scrum, I’ve observed velocity-driven and capacity-driven sprint planning as our ways of working when we figure out the amount of work the development team can take during a sprint. While I believe these practices helped us adopt Scrum by planning our work at each sprint, I believe we can now go one step further with throughput-driven sprint planning.

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5 Steps to Create a Test Plan for Your New Feature Release (Free test plan template)

Planio

In 1962, NASA launched the Mariner 1 as their first attempt to send a spacecraft to Venus. However, shortly after it launched, the rocket veered off course and was forced to self destruct. The cost? $135 million (in today’s dollars). The issue? A missing hyphen in the code. Free Test Plan Template. Based on our research on best test practives, we compiled a Test Plan Template for you to use for free.

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Wunderlist Alternative

Binfire

If you are using Wunderlist, it must be disheartening that the big bad wolf named Microsoft is closing the Wunderlist down. Over the years Wunderlist which was funded in 2010 had a strong following and was considered a good to-do list. But like everything Microsoft buys, it was neglected and fell behind the competition. So instead of investing in the platform, Microsoft decided to close the Wunderlist and promote its own internally developed to-do list.

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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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Agile Methodology vs. Traditional Forms of Project Management for Software Developers

MPUG

Something of a revolution has occurred in the software development arena over the last few decades. Many companies, large and small, have converted to Agile project management methodology instead of the classic Waterfall type approaches that had dominated the development landscape some years ago. In my view, the reason for this is simple. The software development industry had one of the worst track records for delivering products on time and according to budget.

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What can we learn from a football team about self-organisation?

Scrum.org

"He puts everything in place to get the ball up to the final third of the pitch and then trusts his team to finish the job in the only area of the field that can’t be planned for. ". This is how Thierry Henry, the legendary French striker, describes the football mentality of his former coach in F.C. Barcelona, Pep Guardiola. F.C. Barcelona will probably be best remembered for the period they dominated the competition in the late 2000s and early 2010s.

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13 Effective Team Management Techniques For Managers

Proofhub

Being a leader is tiring and demanding. You’ve got so many pieces moving around at the same time. You’ve got deadlines to meet, you’ve got clients to attend, you’ve got resources to track, and most importantly, you’ve got a team that needs to be managed and motivated properly to ensure success in the given venture. It is overwhelming. Agreed. But there are ways to make team management much simpler and more rewarding.

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Agile Principles: The 12 Keys to Adaptive Project Management

Online PM Courses

First, there was the Agile Manifesto: a statement of intent and a set of four beliefs. Then came the 12 Agile Principles. The post Agile Principles: The 12 Keys to Adaptive Project Management 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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5 Must Know Facts Before Implementing Agile in 2020

Proggio

Agile is all the rage, and for good reason. It’s effective, it works, and it works effectively. (Yes, agile methodology can bring such good results that we’ll repeat ourselves three times.) However, like any trend in the business world, there can often be adopters of a practice that do so in name only. This is prevalent enough that people can say the term agile is meaningless !

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The Successful Scrum Master — Liberating Structures for Scrum (6)

Scrum.org

TL; DR: The Successful Scrum Master Meetup. During the 19th Hands-on Agile meetup, 30-plus people addressed the path to becoming a successful Scrum Master or agile coach, following up on the “ Scrum Master Career 2020 — Using Ecocycle Planning to Identify Opportunities ” meetup we had in December 2019. We used two Liberating Structures microstructures — Appreciative Interviews and Superpower Cakewalk — to delve into what lets us grow as professionals as well as individuals.

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Book Summary: Think Better – An Innovator’s Guide to Productive Thinking

Project Bliss

Learn how to think better by using productive thinking approaches with Tim Hurson’s book Think Better – An Innovator’s Guide to Productive Thinking. In the book Think Better: An Innovator’s Guide to Productive Thinking , Tim Hurson teaches a step-by-step process for dealing with big challenges. . He explains the approach and gives tools and techniques for each step.

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Milestone or Deadline? What’s the Difference? | Video

Online PM Courses

Milestone or Deadline? Of all Project Management tools, none is as simple as a milestone. I'm often asked the difference between milestones and deadlines. The post Milestone or Deadline? What’s the Difference? | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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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.