Musings on Project Management
MARCH 19, 2022
Leap!And expect a parachute to followFrom the Netflix series "Inventing Anna"Actually, in the book "The Network" by Scott Wooley -- which is a pseudo-biography of Edwin Armstrong (vacuum tube amplifier inventor, among many electronics inventions. 42 patents and IEEE Medal of Honor) and David Sarnoff (founder of RCA and NBC) there are many "Leap!" projects described, to include but not.
Project Risk Coach
MARCH 21, 2022
How often have you found new requirements towards the end of your projects? Or perhaps your team said they had gathered the requirements, but in reality, the team had hastily rushed through the requirement process resulting in rework, missed deadlines, and another blown budget. Let's look at 12 common requirements mistakes. If you want to improve your project success, improve your requirements processes.
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Kiron Bondale
MARCH 20, 2022
One of the clichés about Scrum is that it is “easy to understand but difficult to master” The first part of that is obvious with the Scrum Guide is only eleven pages (if you don’t count the title page, purpose and table of contents). There are three roles, three outputs and four events (five if you include sprints as an event but I prefer not to as the whole idea of events within events makes me nauseous).
ProjectManager.com
MARCH 25, 2022
What Is Agile Project Management? Agile project management is an iterative approach to delivering a project through short planning cycles called sprints. By using incremental steps towards completing a project, agile teams can easily adjust their project plan or product development plan to better meet their customer requirements. Agile project management allows teams to gather customer feedback as the project progresses.
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Rebel’s Guide to PM
MARCH 23, 2022
This is an edited extract from my book Customer-Centric Project Management , co-authored with Phil Peplow (Routledge, 2012). As any project manager will know, projects do not exist in a vacuum. They are created from the need to fulfil an organizational objective such as generating more revenue or improving brand awareness. Projects happen because someone – an individual or a committee – deems that this particular initiative will deliver some kind of business benefit.
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Leading Agile
MARCH 23, 2022
Mike Cottmeyer was recently a guest on the Agile to Agility podcast with Miljan Bajic where he discussed Transformation, Business Architecture, and Scaling. Listen now. Agile to Agility Website. Transcript: Speaker: Miljan Bajic 00:29. Who is Mike Cottmeyer and what’s been your journey? Mike Cottmeyer 00:33. Okay, well, that’s a big question, man, who is Mike Cottmeyer?
Online PM Courses
MARCH 20, 2022
The PMBOK Guide 7th Edition introduced Models, Methods, and Artifacts. This is a set of tools to help you get the Project Management job done. The post Models, Methods, & Artifacts: PMBOK’s Awesome Tools to Get it Done appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
MARCH 25, 2022
This is a guest article by Dr Mike Clayton, who is the well-known author and trainer behind Online PM Courses.*. It was about 17 years ago. I sat opposite the new project manager. What to tell her? The First Meeting. I remember sitting down with a new project manager over coffee. Don’t get me wrong: she had lots of good experience, but was off to manage her first project for a client the next day….
Scrum.org
MARCH 21, 2022
Scrum’s power is in its simplicity. Rather than containing a set of work instructions, Scrum is a framework offering general principles. That’s what makes it well-suited to complex environments where more is unknown than known. . The simplicity of Scrum means that teams can adopt the complementary practices that work for their environment. For example, Scrum doesn’t tell teams that they need to use points.
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
Leading Agile
MARCH 21, 2022
For the past 20+ years, I have worked with small and large organizations seeking more business agility. I’ve seen firsthand that the Transformation is not as difficult for smaller organizations because there are fewer layers to work through. For larger businesses, it becomes more challenging. Becoming more Agile for large, well-established businesses is more than just a change for the IT organization; it has wide, sweeping implications.
nTask
MARCH 25, 2022
Starting with a project is easy but wrapping it up effectively is tiresome and challenging. When it comes to project closure, we procrastinate or don’t do it all. Truth be told, we mostly don’t find time and energy to properly put the whole project to bed. So, we tend to skip it. However, project closure is pivotal to properly tie up loose ends and finish the project.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
MARCH 25, 2022
Very early in my career I worked with an IT manager who refused to use the term ‘the business’ in conversation. He’d pull people up when colleagues said things like, “The business is asking for…”. What you really mean, he would argue, is that the Marketing team, or the Finance team, is asking for something. There is no dichotomy of IT and ‘the business’.
Scrum.org
MARCH 23, 2022
Recently I was asked to answer some questions for a journalist on how to structure IT organizations. The questions were interesting and I wanted to share my responses here. What's the best way to restructure an IT organization for maximum productivity? Of course, the word productivity is an emotive one. Should we strive for productivity or value? Are productivity and value the same?
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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.
PM Times
MARCH 22, 2022
A few of my colleagues raise eyebrows when I mention that I used to be a programmer back in the days, I am not talking about assembly language, but I could write a few things in Java and C++. Recently I picked up some new skills creating Power Apps, connecting data with Microsoft Dataverse, building […]. The post Progressive PMOs are harnessing the power of Citizen Developers appeared first on Project Management Articles, Webinars, Templates and Jobs.
Hub Planner
MARCH 23, 2022
Are you still using Spreadsheets to Manage your team? We chat daily with project managers around the world who find themselves trying to manage teams of resources with nothing but a spreadsheet and a headache. You are not alone, so don’t be surprised if you find yourself reading this article. By the time PM’s talk to us at Hub Planner t hey are frustrated with their current “hack” of a solution, that they spend more time maintaining it than doing their job.
Management Yogi
MARCH 20, 2022
“I keep six honest serving-men,They taught me all I knew,Their names are What and Why and When,And How and Where and Who.I send them over land and sea,I send them east and west,But after they have worked for me,I give them all a rest.”– From the poem, “The Elephant’s Child,” by Rudyard KiplingLong ago, in my childhood days, I was introduced to the fascinating world of poetry by my father, who.
Scrum.org
MARCH 23, 2022
Professionalism is a key part of our identity at Scrum.org. We spend a lot of time thinking about how to bring professionalism alive for our learners, our trainers and the broader community. What does professionalism mean in a broader context than Scrum? How do we bring it alive for Scrum practitioners? As we do this work, it often gets us wondering do we know what it means to be a professional in the Agile industry?
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Techno-PM
MARCH 23, 2022
Certification of Capability in Business Analysis by the International Institute of Business Analysis is a program that helps professionals explore business analysis and learn how to conduct business analyses through theory, concepts, and practical application. The goal of the course is to certify people as competent in performing a variety of tasks related to conducting business analysis.
The Strategic Project Manager
MARCH 22, 2022
Revenue Streams tie together the value creation elements of the business model canvas. This post explores different types of Revenue Streams and mechanisms for generating them. It also explores the financial, strategic, and project management perspectives on Revenue Streams. Basics of Revenue Streams – Business Model Canvas. ‘Revenue Streams’ is the fifth block in the business model canvas.
ActiveCollab
MARCH 24, 2022
Project managers employ various tools to complete tasks on time or overcome potential obstacles. One of the common tools they use is a project risk register. A risk register is used to assess any risks your project may face, and it’s a crucial component in project management because it helps managers fight potential setbacks proactively. While the risk register is mainly focused on projects, there are other circumstances where this tool is helpful as well, for instance, in manufacturing or produ
Scrum.org
MARCH 24, 2022
In Kürze: 24+2 Daily Scrum Anti-Patterns. Nach meiner Erfahrung ist das Daily Scrum das Scrum-Ereignis mit der höchsten Anti-Pattern-Dichte unter allen Ereignissen. Erfahren Sie mehr über die Daily Scrum Anti-Patterns, die Ihren Weg zur Agilität gefährden. ?? Soll ich Sie über Artikel wie diesen informieren? Großartig! Sie können sich hier für den Newsletter "Food for Agile Thought" anmelden und sich über 34.000 Abonnenten anschließen. ??
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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.
Techno-PM
MARCH 25, 2022
ITIL 4 Specialist: Drive Stakeholder Value course ITIL 4 Specialist: Drive Stakeholder Value Course This is an introductory level training that provides the knowledge and skills to identify, understand, analyze, communicate, and resolve issues that arise in business continuity management. The course covers service strategy development, design, implementation, and key processes within the core capability areas of incident management , including first response, event handling, and problem manageme
Resource Guru
MARCH 22, 2022
Asana and Teamwork are both formidable products for helping you manage your work. Both have done a great job of paving the way for new entrants into the project management software market. But as you’re pitching Asana vs Teamwork and deciding which is right for you, we also want to show you how Resource Guru can help you manage your team’s workload, rather than just being a simple project management tool.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
MARCH 21, 2022
Michelle Symonds. This is a guest post by Michelle Symonds, on behalf of Parallel Project Training. Clearly, men and women are different and deal with situations differently in the workplace. The skills that they naturally excel at rarely coincide and it is the innate talents of women that help to make them better project managers than men. The industries in which women work as project managers vary and few work in the still male-dominated ones such as construction projects and engineering, but
Scrum.org
MARCH 21, 2022
TL; DR: 24+2 Daily Scrum Anti-Patterns. In my experience, the Daily Scrum is the Scrum event with the highest anti-pattern density among all events. Learn more about Daily Scrum anti-patterns that threaten your Scrum team’s success, from becoming a reporting session to assignments to answering these three questions. ???? Zur deutschsprachigen Version des Artikels: 24+2 Daily Scrum Anti-Patterns. ??
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.
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