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Top 13 Motivating Team Building Exercises Your Team Will Love

TimeCamp

Team building activities are becoming more popular. That’s because they strengthen relationships between the team.

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Why Productivity in Project Businesses is Flatlining?

The Lazy Project Manager

The following article is the part two in a series of four on ‘Project Business’ and is authored by Daniel Bévort – part one certainly seemed to draw some interest and some comment so please, like, share and comment on this one as well. Project Business is a significant portion of all companies. Approximately 20 to 25 percent of all businesses are Project Businesses, companies that provide products and/or services for their customers through projects.

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How to Make a Cost Management Plan

ProjectManager.com

You know how it goes—you’re a few months out from a deadline, and your team isn’t anywhere close to finishing the project. You’re quickly running out of budget and time, and you’re starting to stress. Should you tell the stakeholders, or wait a little bit longer? Well, you’re not alone at least, as this situation happens to more than 45 percent of all large-scale IT projects.

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10 Tips for Good Meeting Minutes

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Minutes help with communication at work – they ensure people have a common understanding of what the meeting was about and what they should be doing next. In this article we’ll look at why minutes are worth doing and then dive into the 10 tips for taking effective meeting minutes. Why bother with minutes? Minutes are particularly helpful for formal meetings like Project Boards as they serve as a permanent record of the discussion and the decisions that were taken.

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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 Project Risk Management Quiz

Project Risk Coach

Webinar: How to Create a Project Risk Management Plan Date: Wednesday, February 26, 2020 Time: @ 10am PST / 11am MST/ 12pm CST / 1pm EST. register now. The post The Project Risk Management Quiz appeared first on Project Risk Coach.

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Best Project Planning Software of 2020

ProjectManager.com

How do you get a project off the drawing board and into the execution phase? With a plan. But project plans are unruly beasts that need to be reined in. That’s where project planning software comes in: it’s a project manager’s best friend. Project planning software gives project managers the means to control costs and stay on schedule. It’s how deliverables meet the quality expectations of stakeholders.

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My team have nothing to say in our Retrospective!

Scrum.org

One the questions I get asked during almost every Scrum Master training course is "How do I get the team to engage in the Sprint Retrospectives?". Quite often the feeling within Scrum Teams is that once nothing is broken and the team is meeting their forecasts, there's "nothing to talk about". So I've been thinking about this and how the conscious competence matrix might be a useful model when thinking about.

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How Leaders Can Develop Great Remote Management Skills

LiquidPlanner

Remote work is growing in popularity, but succeeding as a remote manager isn’t the same thing as being able to manage remote workers effectively. Unfortunately, managers who lead partially- or fully-remote teams — but who don’t have remote work experience of their own — may not understand what employees need to be successful in these environments. Whether you’re a new remote team manager or an established leader looking to improve your remote management skills, keep the following nine tips in mi

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How Savvy PMOs Keep Score to Improve Demand Management

Planview

A shared services mandate challenged a major university to merge three central IT organizations into one. To meet service delivery goals, they had to redefine and implement their IT operations and internal processes. In addition, they needed more than 800 employees to adopt them! Working with IT, the PMO started with demand management and has now reduced approved projects by 75 percent, created a visible pipeline of demand, reduced staff workload, and improved performance.

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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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How to Make a RACI Chart for a Project (with Example)

ProjectManager.com

The better team members know their roles and responsibilities, the better a project is going to run. Therefore, communicating role distinctions early on in the project is crucial. But how can a project manager make those definitions clear and obvious to the team? There’s a tool called RACI, or a RACI chart or matrix, which helps to define project team roles and responsibilities.

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My Team has Nothing to Say in our Retrospective!

Scrum.org

One the questions I get asked during almost every Scrum Master training course is "How do I get the team to engage in the Sprint Retrospectives?". Quite often the feeling within Scrum Teams is that once nothing is broken and the team is meeting their forecasts, there's "nothing to talk about". So I've been thinking about this and how the conscious competence matrix might be a useful model when thinking about.

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How Can Leaders Retain Key Talent Through Unexpected Change?

ProProfs Project Management

We’re only a little way into 2020, yet we’ve already rung in several changes — from the Australian bush fires to uncertainty in the Middle East, to shake-ups in the Royal Family. And in business, we find ourselves firmly in an era of transience, where it’s often said that change has become the ‘new normal’. Deloitte recently published their 2019 Insights report highlighting that annual US mergers and acquisitions alone run into the trillions, with no expectation of slowing for the foreseeable fu

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How to Introduce Yourself on a New Project (Team and Clients)

PM Basics

So today I want to give you a step by step guide on how to introduce yourself to a new project team. The secret is simple: Someone gives credit to your management skills. You position yourself as a leader. Let’s break it down! Imagine you come to a new company and the new project. Someone shows you the room where your team is located. You get in and ask: “May I have your attention please?

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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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Top 5 Tips for Going Remote

LiquidPlanner

I recently made the leap from commuting 2.5 hours a day to a 15-second commute to my home office. Telecommuting or “going remote” can be a dream for some and a challenge for others previously acclimated to office life. Working remote may seem like an employee’s Nirvanna but it isn’t about working in shorts while wearing a dress shirt for video conference calls.

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Development Team – why your Scrum doesn’t work (2/3)

Scrum.org

Originally posted on www.debooij.training. Many teams and organizations struggle to get the most out of Scrum. In a previous post “Don’t blame “agile” for existing problems” I shared my analysis why agile or Scrum itself often gets the blame. In this second post out of three I will focus on what the most common mistakes are with Scrum that lead to dysfunctional Scrum.

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Develop a Strategy to Embrace Change w/ Marty Bradley

Leading Agile

Talk Overview. Markets are changing faster than typical strategic planning cycles can support. Additionally, digital strategies are increasing interdependencies and exacerbating the strain on execution. Strategic planning often falls short because it’s not as fluid as it needs to be. One thing we must consider is that their areas typically a lot of assumptions being made about markets as well as the organization’s capacity to execute.

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The Best Tools for Marketing and Sales Teams to look into in 2020

Proofhub

12 Best Tools for Marketing and Sales Teams to look into in 2020 The marketing and sales teams here at ProofHub have been victorious thanks to the right tools to help them achieve their goals. As a leader I have found that marketers and sales reps have too much on their plates and if there are tools that could potentially aid you with the same, why wouldn’t you want to use them?

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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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Automating MS Project for Non-Techies

MPUG

Project Management technology should never be more complicated then managing a project! . The use of macros can enhance the efficiency of Microsoft Project significantly, but the thought of writing and recording macros to meet your unique needs can often prove challenging to those of us who are not technical programmers. This article will familiarize you, the business user, with some of the ways Microsoft Project can be customized to help you maximize its value.

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How a growth mindset has helped in my journey to become a PST

Scrum.org

In this post, I’m going to share my history and show that you can succeed in any challenge you commit to by using a technique called the Growth mindset. A growth mindset is a term coined by Carol Dweck in 2006 in her book mindset Mindset: The new Psychology of success to describe the underlying beliefs people have about learning and intelligence. In summary, the person with a growth mindset believe that new abilities can be developed through practice. .

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Can you use Agile for Mergers and Acquisitions? w/ Rick McMichael

Leading Agile

Listen to the SoundNotes Podcast on the go! Find and subscribe to SoundNotes on: Apple Podcasts. Google Play. Spotify. Soundcloud. RSS. This week in SoundNotes we’re focusing on a question asked by a student in a recent class: Can you use Agile for Mergers and Acquisitions? To address the topic, LeadingAgile Principal Consultant Rick McMichael joins Dave to discuss Mergers and Acquisitions (or M&A).

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Mind Mapping for Effective Project Management

Proofhub

As a project manager, you need to utilize great tools that allow you to manage your project and your team effectively. Mind mapping is one such tool. You can develop your project management skills, problem-solve, and lead a team much more efficiently by integrating mind maps into your business projects. What is mind mapping? A mind map is a graphing technique that allows you to brainstorm organically and outline concepts relating to a central idea.

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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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Why Remote Teams in Multiple Timezones Actually Works

Hub Planner

Reading Time: 4 minutes Why Remote Teams in Multiple Timezones Actually Works. If you haven’t trialed out remote working, then perhaps you’re about to be thrown in at the deep end. Take the current outbreak of Coronavirus. This makes for a real-time case study where remote teams are required more than ever. For example, resources at Indeed EMEA HQ in Dublin were all asked to work remotely where possible.

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A More Effective Sprint Review? Do it the Fish! way!

Scrum.org

Choosing how you will walk through your day, having fun with your colleagues and clients, actively listen and participate in collaborations, and ensuring others also have a great day. I have written a short story a while ago about the basics of the Fish! Philosophy for being an outstanding team member. In other blog posts, I covered how this can make your Sprint Retrospective more effective , and also how it can improve your Sprint Planning.

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How Do Priorities on a Project Become Priorities?

Project Management Resource Network

I am surprised by priorities on projects. Where the focus lies and what is debated in meetings is astounding at times. Everyone has their own priorities on a project. Stakeholders have their interest and project teams have their focus but not every priority can be number one. As the project manager, you should decide what are the project priorities and steer the project in that direction.

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Webinar Recap: Project Managers are Change Managers

MPUG

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Walter Stinnett’s Project Managers are Change Managers webinar being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content. There may be exclusions, such as those steps included in product demonstrations.

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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.