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Best of PMTimes: 5 Secrets To 5% Increased Profit On Your Next Project

PM Times

All resources matter on the project. Without all resources working cohesively and effectively together, it can become nearly impossible to effectively and successfully deliver on the project. But beyond that – looking to the revenue level and the profitability on the project… everything affects it, but close management and oversight of it comes down […].

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Who makes the rules for your team?

Kiron Bondale

Playing a board game without all participants having a consistent understanding of the rules is a frustrating, time-wasting experience. The same is true when a team starts to work together for the first time. Whether it is done proactively when the team assembles or is done as a reaction to unhealthy conflicts, having a basic set of working agreements can help to accelerate a team’s transition out of the storming and norming phases of development.

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Why You Need a Project Management Tool for Resource Planning

WorkOtter

Let’s be honest: it can be quite exhausting to monitor the available resources at your company and assign the right ones to certain projects – while keeping an eye on the costs. And that’s especially true when you’re tracking everything in a messy spreadsheet (or worse — in your mind). . That’s where project portfolio management (PPM) software comes in.

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How to Manage Auditability (and other non-functional, non-technical requirements)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Dave Gordon. This is a guest post by Dave Gordon. One of the most common causes for IT projects to slip into “troubled” status is missed requirements. In many cases, this is because the subject matter experts don’t think of all at the functional requirements at the beginning of the design stage. In other cases, technical requirements may be “discovered” during the execution stage, when the team starts to build the system that will deliver on the functional requirements.

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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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Records Management: A Quick Guide

ProjectManager.com

Whether you’re managing a traditional, agile or hybrid project, they all have one thing in common: documentation. Depending on the methodology, project management requires a lot of paperwork, which is why records management is so important. Records management helps control your current project and set the stage for future projects. Let’s define what records management is, explore what is the role of a records manager and outline the life cycle of records management.

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7 razones porqué los gerentes se equivocan tanto

Scrum.org

Como agile coach de organizaciones y de personas, a menudo me encuentro que muchos gerentes se equivocan tanto porque descuidan la función de planificación. . También me he encontrado muchas veces que me han dicho que cuando somos ágiles no planificamos. Y eso no es verdad. En la agilidad se planifica un montón, pensad en Scrum o Kanban, es una planificación constante.

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7 Tips for Better Time Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Time management is something that most of us strive to be good at, but often it seems too complicated to put in place systems that work so we abandon it before giving it a try, or after not giving any new approach long enough to become a habit. You can manage your time more effectively, even if you haven’t been that great at it in the past. Here are 7 simple time management tips which will help you improve your time management skills.

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Time Management Techniques to Prevent Burnout

LiquidPlanner

It’s ingrained in many of us to strive for optimal productivity. Are you in the habit of negative self-talk when you don’t accomplish as much as you had planned? You are not alone. Many of us may not have a healthy relationship with time management. Have you ever thought to yourself: I never have enough time in a day. I don’t manage my time well enough.

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5 Main Challenges of Hybrid Working and How to Tackle Them

Proofhub

5 Challenges of Hybrid and How You Can Overcome Them Image Source: Pexels New working models like hybrid working present new opportunities for employees. However, the hybrid workforce model also comes with various challenges along with its benefits. In a hybrid working environment where teams work half-onsite and half-remotely, you need to come up with new best practices to manage teams effectively.

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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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Join the Product Owner and Product Manager Salary Report 2022

Scrum.org

TL;DR: Product Owner and Product Manager Salary Report 2022 — An Anonymous Poll by the Community for the Community. The purpose of this anonymous Product Owner and Product Manager salary report is to create a clear, data-backed benchmark that allows everyone in the agile community to understand whether their compensation is adequate. (And yes, the report will cover Product Owners as well as Product Managers, both employed and freelancing.

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Overcoming the Roadblocks in Agile Backlogs

Leading Agile

Many teams that operate within Agile are struggling. The story is the same for an abundance of them—the Backlogs from which they operate fail to provide clarity on priority, definition, and scope. The teams are left with more questions than answers and have no clear path to creating value for the organization and customer. We find that the backlogs that Agile teams frequently operate from appear as a thematic list of items that the product owner wants built.

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Why You Need To Be Part of the Artificial Intelligence Revolution

LiquidPlanner

Why Join the Digital Dance? Dancing with the Stars [1] , or in the UK Strictly Come Dancing as the original is named, pairs celebrities with professional dancers. Each week the couples perform predetermined dances and compete for judges’ points and audience votes. Weekly, the pairings become a closer and more harmonic partnership (mostly) and, by the end of the season, we see some truly amazing dances in the finale.

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What is a Product Backlog and What is a Sprint Backlog? | Video

Online PM Courses

A backlog is an accumulation of uncompleted work or matters needing to be dealt with. So, what is a Product Backlog, and a Sprint Backlog? The post What is a Product Backlog and What is a Sprint Backlog? | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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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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Can scrum and agility be scaled and what’s the best way to do it?

Scrum.org

. I received a question: do you believe scrum and agility can be scaled and what’s the best approach to it? And then the follow-up to the question was maybe a framework that is already familiar to the masses like LeSS, SAFe Nexus. I want to walk through each of these, first of all, I just want to talk about pathology that seems to be going on with scaling.

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Why an Agile Delivery Model Isn’t Always Enough

Leading Agile

An Agile Delivery Model will only take you so far. Many organizations simply go through the motions of Scrum. The teams are diligently having their daily standups, rigorously writing user stories, and dutifully performing a retro at the end of every sprint. Yet, they still fail to improve. Why then do all the ceremonies and cadences still fail to deliver on the promise of Agility?

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How To Write A Request For Proposal? 10 Things To Include For Software Development

Ganttic

Almost every company needs some type of software development today. Good software can make a huge difference in how quickly and efficiently your business functions. Whether it’s for internal processes or external communication, sales, customer service, or payroll. To get into this fast-paced growth-oriented mode, you need to put a software development team or agency in place.

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The Best Way to Achieve SAFe® Scrum Master Certification (SSM)

Binfire

It is a very honorable thing to become a servant leader and coach to lead the teams, you direct them in the right direction to get higher yields. For this certification, you need to pass a scrum master certification exam, after which you will be awarded your certification of SAFe Scrum Master (SSM®). Aspects of this Scrum Master Certification. Foremost, SAFe® is the most popular scaling method, and the demand of this skill is very high.

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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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What does Cross-Functional really bring to your Daily Scrum? ??

Scrum.org

We started this Scrum foundation series explaining we see four underlying concepts of the Scrum framework. In the past series of mails we covered the three pillars of Empiricism, the Scrum Values, and Self-Management. A self-managing team is taking decisions about who does what, when, and how. This ensures the team can move forward without unnecessary waiting time.

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Resource leveling isn’t enough – here’s what to do next

Resource Guru

As a project manager, you ensure that your team has the resources they need to get the job done. But what happens if you have competing priorities – deadline vs available resources? You may choose to implement resource leveling, a resource management technique that involves reallocating resources to ensure that your project goals are met. If you’ve used resource leveling during project planning, you’ve probably noticed that it can slow your team down.

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5 Main Challenges of Hybrid Working and How to Tackle Them

Sandeep Kashyap

5 Challenges of Hybrid and How You Can Overcome Them Image Source: Pexels New working models like hybrid working present new opportunities for employees. However, the hybrid workforce model also comes with various challenges along with its benefits. In a hybrid working environment where teams work half-onsite and half-remotely, you need to come up with new best practices to manage teams effectively.

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Updated New Course: RMP 30 Contact Hours Online Course

Management Yogi

The Risk Management Professional (RMP) exam has completely changed and based on it, the following course has been fully updated:RMP 30 Contact Hours Online CourseThis is a complete video course and comes with a full money-back guarantee. You can go for either 30 or 40 contact hours with this course. This course is based on the new RMP Exam Content Outline (ECO of March/April 2022), the.

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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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Who writes the acceptance criteria?

Scrum.org

Who writes acceptance criteria? Should you even have acceptance criteria? It's a loaded question, because it's assuming that we're using user stories. And in user stories typically you might say in order to deliver a particular type of value, some particular persona wants or needs something in order to do so, and then you typically list off your acceptance criteria. .

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New Updates | Release 31 Summary

LiquidPlanner

Release 31 | June 23, 2022. Exciting news! – setting dependencies between plan items just got easier with dependency chaining. In addition to this update, we’ve expanded upon filtering options with the new ASAP task filter. Visibility is also increased in portfolio, package, and project views by surfacing inherited custom data values and target dates in columns.

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Wrike vs Monday vs Resource Guru

Resource Guru

If you’ve been Googling like crazy trying to find and compare suitable project management solutions for your organization, you’re bound to have come across two of the heavyweights in this space – Wrike and Monday. Let’s not beat around the bush – these are both great project management tools. But they’re not right for everyone. If you’re comparing Wrike vs Monday and are still on the fence, we want to show you why Resource Guru might be a better option for managing your project resources and sch

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What’s new in Toggl Track • Q2 2022

Teamweek

Here’s what’s we launched for Toggl Track last quarter. With the release of several long-awaited features, Q2 was all about about keeping our promises to our users. Thanks to all of our loyal, vocal users! Stay vocal. We’re listening. More flexibility for developers. Toggl Track API v9. We have a new version of our API available—hello v9! V9 not only looks better in its new home on the Toggl Track website ( developers.track.toggl.com ), it also is better.

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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.