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A new era of project management for service companies

Runrun.it

Until the mid-2000s, it was very difficult to hear about agile project management methods. The most modern IT teams in more flexible companies were probably testing these methods in software design and maintenance. After over ten years, we can only hear of agile methods. If you do not have agile principles in managing your projects, […]. The post A new era of project management for service companies appeared first on For Managers | Personal Development Hacks.

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Business Analyst & Project Manager Relationship: Collaborate for Success

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This is a guest post by Laura Brandenburg, describing how to get the best out of the project manager and business analyst relationship. Before I forget, I want to be sure you know about Laura’s Quick Start to Success as a Business Analyst training (it’s free) that’s designed to help you business analysts achieve more success on their projects. . We all want more successful projects – projects that deliver their intended business value and are delivered on time and on budget.

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The 7 Habits of Successful Project Managers

ProjectManager.com

There’s a hugely successful book that you’ve probably heard of and may have read called The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey. It identifies seven habits that can help people be more effective in personal and professional environments. But what habits apply specifically to successful project managers? Well, let’s start by acknowledging the value of good habits in general.

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Impress Clients and Executives

The Lazy Project Manager

And the clock is ticking …. Too late, you have missed the moment since your clients and executive’s attention span is reducing rapidly! A Canadian survey of media consumption, commissioned by Microsoft, noted that the average attention span had fallen yet again, it was now just eight seconds. In 2000 it was recorded as twelve seconds but is seems we may now have an even shorter attention span than a goldfish (or is that memory?

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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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Untapped Powers of Micromanagement in Project Management

PM Basics

“It looks like a micromanagement to me,” Corwin said just as we left the room. “What’s the problem?” I asked. “Micromanagement is a bad technique, isn’t it?” Corwin was surprised. Micromanagement got a bad reputation. It is a tool of evil project managers ! Only despotic leaders use it! Nevertheless, I believe the micromanagement technique is a powerful tool.

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How to Stop Procrastinating at Work

ProjectManager.com

There’s a great way to stop procrastinating, and we’ll tell you about it in a minute. First let’s straighten up our desk, maybe get another cup of coffee and then check social media to see what our friends are having for lunch. Oh, it’s lunchtime now! We’ll get to that anti-procrastination technique after we eat. Well, then we’ll likely be tired and need to digest.

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How to memorize the 49 processes from PMBOK 6th Edition in under 30 minutes

ExamsPM

The Project Management Institute (PMI) offers certifications that provide project management professionals with both information and credibility. Two of these certifications are the Project Management Professional (PMP) and Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM). Both of these certifications are based on the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) which outlines the PMI approach to managing projects.

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The secrets and science of a productive four day workweek

Planio

Nearly a century ago, economists and philosophers speculated that by the year 2000, industrialized nations might have workdays as short as 4 hours a day. And while we’ve come a long way from the 12–14-hour average working day of the first half of the 19th century, we’re still nowhere close to those predictions. In fact, I’d wager most people feel like they’re working more now than ever.

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They say: Story is almost everything

Musings on Project Management

"Alasdair MacIntyre argued many years ago, you can’t know what to do unless you know what story you are a part of. Story is more important than policies." "You can get a lot of facts wrong if you get your story right." Quoted by David Brooks That last observation -- good story, wrong facts -- sounds off key, but consider: facts are in the rearview mirror; only estimates lie ahead.

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

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 expend

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How to Scale Your Business

ProjectManager.com

How do you know when your business is ready to scale up? Jennifer Bridges, PMP, asks the right questions and gives you practical advice on how to scale your business successfully in this short tutorial video. Here’s a screenshot for your reference! In Review – How to Scale Your Business. What are the common problems of trying to scale a business? Jennifer started by noting two scenarios: Overspending and scaling too early.

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The Making Of The Brand-New Professional Scrum Master II class

Scrum.org

Finally! With the “embargo” lifted by Scrum.org, we can now share with you the incredible journey that Christiaan Verwijs and I have been on for the past months. The bottom-line is that Scrum.org has acquired our “Scrum Master Advanced”-class. We’ve been spending the past eight months turning it into the official, brand new Professional Scrum Master II-class (PSM-II) for Scrum.org.

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Agile 2018 wrap up

Zen Project Management

I'm on my way home after spending the week at Agile2018. It's been a great conference. I reconnected with old friends, met some new ones, and attended some great presentations. Monday's keynote was Dom Price (@domprice) from Atlassian. He shared how Atlassian tracked team health via their playbook. One interesting statistic he shared was that 78% of people don't trust their team mates.

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5 Ways Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace Improves Communication and Leadership

Project Bliss

When considering ways to become a more respected leader, does emotional intelligence in the workplace come to mind? Or does thinking about emotions seem to be something that only applies to your private life? For some, emotions may not seem like something that we really care about at work. Instead, we should be focused on profits, productivity, and the bottom line.

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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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Office Politics: How to Network and Navigate

ProjectManager.com

Even under the most ideal circumstances it can be difficult to stay afloat at work with all of the tasks that you’re responsible for completing in a day. Add the mucky waters of office politics to the mix, and you might find yourself drifting so far from shore that you’ll never get back. Related: Task Management Software. It might have a negative connotation, but office politics isn’t inherently a bad thing.

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Professional Scrum Master II - An Advanced Scrum Master Class

Scrum.org

The Scrum Master role is a difficult one. Often, they are the ones driving agility into the organization, making the agile practices stick and ensuring that teams, products and the organization are using an empirical process, supporting self-organization and continually improving. The Scrum Master does this using any techniques necessary. Sometimes Coach and mentor, at other times manager and teacher.

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Ask a PM: How to Prioritize When You Wear Multiple Hats

LiquidPlanner

Dear Elizabeth: I am a project manager for a company that builds education software. I am also the Operations Director, Customer Services Manager…you name it, I’m getting involved with it. The company is in startup mode. We’re doing everything fresh, and there is a lot of document creation and defining processes. On top of that, we’re constantly developing new offerings, onboarding new employees, pitching for work, and more.

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Pulse of the Profession 2018: Success in Disruptive Times by Managing Projects Effectively

Inloox

PMI’s most recent Pulse of the Profession is about how to succeed in a disruptive world, with challenges being, among others, new technologies (like autonomous vehicles), artificial and data intelligence and big data. Also, it stresses the importance of investing in skilled and experienced project managers to meet these challenges and become one of the champions in project management – meaning that at least 80% of your projects are completed on time, on budget, meting business intent, and having

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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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Why Projects Fail – Five more reasons

Online PM Courses

In last week’s article , we started to look at the reasons why projects fail. We set out the first five of ten Points of Project Failure. In this week’s article, we’ll look at the second set of causes. Five more reasons why projects fail. If you did not read last week’s article , I recommend you do so first. Why Projects Fail – Five More Reasons.

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Scrum Mastery: 4 Steps to Optimize Product Value

Scrum.org

This is the fourth in a series of posts exploring Scrum Mastery. In our first post, we introduced the four dimensions of Scrum Mastery: Team Identity, Team Process, Product Value, and the Organization. In this post, we will explore the product value dimension. Are you building the right thing to create value for the organization? How do you know?

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Mike Cottmeyer’s Agile 2018 Talk: Deck and White Paper

Leading Agile

The Talk, The Presentation, and The White Paper. First, we’d like to thank all of you that were able to attend Mike’s talk at Agile 2018. We know that it was a a lot of information to digest, so we wanted to send you home with a little something extra to make sure that all the ideas and concepts remain fresh in your mind. That’s why we’re giving you his deck to take with you, and a white paper that will continue to build the case that a systems-first Transformation is tru

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The Top 10 Tools for a Team Leader

Teamweek

Randy Soderman, the founder of Soderman Marketing, once said, “A great leader understands that it is the people they lead that ultimately determines the success or failure of any venture.”. The truth of Soderman’s statement resonates with any successful company, as it is the employees who have aided them in their pursuit for that success. Many leaders of these businesses tend to have similar qualities that set them apart from the crowd.

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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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Begin to Deliver Strategy… Fast

Planview

If you’ll recall, we previously got you set up to translate your organization’s strategy into a top down vision with metrics in the blog, “ Failing to Deliver Strategy… Slowly.” In addition, you started to create a plan to deliver iteratively and measure against the metrics allowing future work to be defined based on the results to date. But no one can do this alone—you need a strategy planning team to set up a strategic plan that the organization can deliver… fast.

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About the Professional Scrum Master II Class

Scrum.org

This week Scrum.org launched the brand new Professional Scrum Master II class! For the past eight months, together with the Scrum.org staff we’ve been turning our “Scrum Master Advanced”-class into an official Scrum.org course. As described in the article “ The Making of the PSM-II Class ” it was an incredible journey! As new course stewards , we are now responsible (with Stephanie Ockerman and Simon Reindl ) for the entire Professional Scrum Master curriculum (both PSM-I and PSM-II).

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Manage Project Expectations – 10 Project Management Tips

Eylean

How to manage project expectations is a favorite topic of any project manager. Effectiveness of this process is as important as communication or risk management. So, what is an project expectations management? It is all about bringing users, customers, project sponsors and other interested people to the same result. At the end neither of the … The post Manage Project Expectations – 10 Project Management Tips appeared first on Eylean Blog.

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Your Complete Guide to the 5 Project Management Phases

Teamweek

Every successful business in any industry has a specific process they follow to maintain order and organization throughout their company. Project management is no different. While every project is unique, the basic procedure and operation is often the same. It starts with an idea, a plan is put in place, which is then completed and reported to the necessary parties.

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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.