Sat.Mar 14, 2020 - Fri.Mar 20, 2020

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How to Make a Procurement Management Plan

ProjectManager.com

Project management planning is made up of many parts. There’s the schedule, the stakeholder matrix, the managing of resources. Speaking of the latter, there’s the matter of how you’re going to procure resources that require vendors of goods and services. That’s procurement management. The procurement management plan is part of the overall project management plan.

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Project Management Process & Phases

ProProfs Project Management

Project Management is the art of coordinating resources and directing working groups to execute components of work so that each group delivers components that can be tied together into a wholesome deliverable (contracted scope of work) within schedule and budget. — Project Management Institute. In simple terms, the Project Management process is the art of managing all components of a project from starting to closure using a structured scientific methodology.

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When To Use What Tools For Remote Work Success

Trello

Technology has changed (read: it's gotten a lot better!). As a result of streamlined technology, remote work is now not just feasible but often preferable and in some cases, necessary. Remote employees often agree that a determining factor of success comes from leveraging the right tools—and no, the microwave does not count.

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Remote Work: 6 Common Mistakes You Really Should Avoid to Stay Productive (Part 1)

Inloox

Working remotely from home is gaining a lot of popularity. Flexible working hours, no traffic in the morning and much better coffee than in the office. Find out which common mistakes you really should avoid to stay productive. PROS and CONS of working from home A 2018 study from OWLLabs found out that 68% of global workers worked remotely at least once a month.

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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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GanttPRO Review + Mini Tutorial

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Are you looking for an online tool that offers powerful Gantt chart templates and all the other bits you need for collaboration like file sharing, exporting and resource management? GanttPRO might be just the solution for you. Read on…. (Full disclosure: I was compensated for my time in preparing this review but the views expressed are my own and this is an honest review/tutorial of how I found it.).

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Remote Agile (Part 1): Practices & Tools for Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, and Product Owners

Scrum.org

TL; DR: Remote Agile, Part 1: Practices & Tools for Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, and Product Owners. Agile has always been about colocation, about direct communication, physical boards, and all the other haptic and analog moments to create value in the digital realm. As a Professional Scrum Trainer, I strive to provide training classes without using PowerPoint or digital devices.

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Why All Entrepreneurs Should Have Project Management Skills

LiquidPlanner

Not every project manager is an entrepreneur, but all entrepreneurs need to be project managers if they want their business to succeed. Whether it’s developing a new product or securing investment, where the process involves a series of steps, it should be managed like any other project. Although many elements of project management apply to startups and large corporations alike, in a small business, the approach is distinctly different to large scale organizations.

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Remote Work: 6 Common Mistakes You Really Should Avoid to Stay Productive (Part 3)

Inloox

Home office can solve many problems, but also create new ones. But if you are aware of the challenge and know how to deal with it, you can really take the benefits of remote work. Avoid typical mistakes and use all the possibilities and tools that Inloox offers to make working from home easier. Mistakes you really should avoid to stay productive: #5: Blurred boundaries between job and private life Private calls, WhatsApp messages and the latest posts on Instagram play a minor roll during your wo

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The unfolding course of events

Musings on Project Management

"It is not given to human beings -- happily for them, for otherwise life would be intolerable -- to foresee or predict to any large extent the unfolding course of events" Winston Churchill Of course, project management can modify such a bit to tolerate some of the intolerable: Simulations can add to the extent of foresight of unfolding events Systems tests can reveal unforeseen hazards in.

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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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Agile forecasting techniques for the next decade

Scrum.org

The Old Farmer’s Almanac is the oldest continuously published periodical in North America. It was first published in 1792 by Robert B. Thomas who wanted an almanac “to be useful with a pleasant degree of humor. Many long-time Almanac followers claim that its forecasts are 80% to 85% accurate. . This claim was seriously tested in 1816 when Thomas made a mistake in his Almanac.

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The Essential Guide to Writing a Project Communication Plan: What It Is and Why You (Actually) Need One

Planio

What’s the number one factor that influences whether your project is a success or a dud? While we’d love to say it’s the project management tool you use the truth is it’s something else: Communication. That’s why having an effective communication plan is so important. You wouldn’t just dive into a project without clearly defining your scope, resources, and timeline.

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How to Solve Project Management Problems in The Modern Workplace

ProProfs Project Management

Project management has always been tough because you encounter a throng of problems. The most cited reason for this is the hidden risks, which come out at different stages of the project to get it off the track. You can even say that they pose a great challenge to project managers during their work. It begs the question: What’s the key to cope with project-related problems?

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Lift Positive Risk-Taking

MPUG

Most people hear “project risk” and they think of an adverse event or threat that may occur. Regardless, the term carries a negative connotation, but this common belief means you may be missing out on positive risks or opportunities that potentially have a beneficial effect on your project’s deliverables and goals. When you are presented with a risk (and most projects have inherent positive risks), don’t try to avoid it.

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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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Alternative Scrum Framework Poster

Scrum.org

We have redesigned our Scrum Framework poster and have made some changes. . . . Here is an explanation of the elements we have presented differently compared to the Scrum.org poster [1] and the reasons why: . Scrum Events . The Sprint . “The heart of Scrum is a Sprint, a time-box of one month or less” [2]. To emphasize, that in Scrum everything happens within a Sprint, we visualized the Sprint as a gray dotted line surrounding the other Scrum elements.

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The importance of human contact against the backdrop of a viral war

Gunther Verheyen

The United Nations’ World Health Organization (“WHO”) correctly describes “Covid-19” as a new variant within the Corona family of viruses. A Covid-19 infection typically shows through symptoms of fever combined with respiratory problems — a dry cough, shortness of breath, and (severe) breathing difficulties. As we speak, Covid-19 is exponentially spreading across large parts of the world, infecting frightening numbers of individuals.

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How to Organize Remote Work: Best Free Management and Collaboration Tools

GanttPRO Project Management

Category: Gantt chart-based software for project planning and management. Offer for remote teams: free account till August 15, 2020, for hospitals and non-profit organizations.

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Rebranding? Read this first!

Teamweek

The beginning of 2020 has been busy for us– we’ve gone through a comprehensive rebrand, taking on the new name and identity of Toggl Plan. We’re nowhere near to calling this a closed project, but we passed an important milestone when we made our new brand public in the beginning of February. The thing is, the changes to the name, appearance, and the way we talk are the main things the outer world will notice.

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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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The Third Of Four Things You Do To Prevent Value Delivery

Scrum.org

Background. On November 22nd, 2019, I gave the closing keynote at Scrum Deutschland, a talk called ‘The Four Things You Do To Prevent Value Delivery.’ In this keynote, I discussed the trends I found during my research at multiple organizations. . For background, I’m often called into organizations to investigate their ability to deliver. Such a study is holistic; it involves looking at the organizational design, technical capabilities, culture and knowledge, and type of control and metrics used

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Review Formula X

Henny Portman

Jurriaan Kamer and Rini van Solingen are the authors of Formula X – How to reach extreme acceleration in your organization? It’s a business fable that shows which steps you should take to drastically accelerate the time-to-market in your own organization. In this novel, we follow Ronald Verhulst, the director of a major kitchen manufacturer who is confronted with an advertisement, placed by the major shareholder promising that kitchens can be operational within two weeks from order.

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Mike Cottmeyer | Elevate Agile 2019 | The Systems of Agility

Leading Agile

Becoming Agile isn’t simple. Although many think all that’s needed is a System of Delivery, like Scrum or SAFe, in large organizations, it’ll take much more than a new process, or culture shift to Transform. But without the right foundational ecosystem and systems in place to enable Agility, achieving it is nearly impossible. The three systems necessary for Agility are a System of Delivery, System of Transformation, and System of Sustainability.

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The Secret of Project Delivery: Project Implementation Heartbeat

Online PM Courses

Project Implementation (aka project delivery or execution) is when things get going. After definition, scoping & planning, it's time to make things happen. Here's where you implement your project, execute your plan, and deliver the benefits your sponsor commissioned. So, although I'd argue that this is the easy bit, you have to get it right. The post The Secret of Project Delivery: Project Implementation Heartbeat 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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Distributed Lean Coffee

Scrum.org

. Lean Coffee Poster The premise of Lean Coffee is relatively straight forwarded. Like-minded people that want to create or discuss something they care about use this tool to organize their conversations. Lean Coffee increases the engagement level significantly among the participants. In the early days of Lean Coffee, the choice of beverage was often coffee and the tool itself is also referent to Personal Kanban.

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White paper: Exploring the delta in AgileSHIFT

Henny Portman

Happy to see that my white paper Exploring the delta in AgileSHIFT is now live on the AXELOS content hub. Enterprise agility is key. It is not just about implementing an agile way of working in your IT department but a transformation for your whole organization. You have to understand where the market is going, where your competitors are moving, where your customers want to be, and, as a result, where your organization needs to be.

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Dyslexia and Mind-mapping: Organization like never before.

MindGenius

In light of the Dyslexia Show being held in Birmingham’s NEC on the 20 th March, this week’s blog shall be dedicated to those suffering from dyslexia, and showing how the use of mind maps can simplify and improve your organizational skills, whether you are dyslexic or not. As many of you reading this will know, Mind mapping can be a fantastic tool for those looking to plan and organize areas of your life.

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A Letter From Our CEO About COVID-19

LiquidPlanner

Dear LiquidPlanner Customer, Helping teams plan and execute work is our purpose. We designed and built our product to enhance team effectiveness with project management and resource utilization. The Coronavirus pandemic presents a real threat to people, companies, and the global economy. To protect our team and ensure business continuity, we adopted a work from home practice on March 3.

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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.