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Project Integration Management: Your Guide to the PM Glue

Online PM Courses

Project Integration Management is the glue that holds the parts of your project together. It's a discipline common to all project management methodologies. The post Project Integration Management: Your Guide to the PM Glue appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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Lessons Learned: A Simple Framework for Project Managers

Teamweek

“Not again!”. I could hear Dan, one of the other project managers, from across the hall. Excusing myself to my co-worker, I hurried over. “What’s happened?”. He gestured to his computer screen, which looked like it had a new Easter egg screensaver. “Paul sent this UI to the client without running it by me first.”. “Didn’t Mary do the same thing last time?

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Going Agile

Project Management Essentials

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Coaching and Mentoring for Improved Performance in Projects

Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

When businesses need to improve all-round performance, it is common for them to turn to high-quality business skills training programmes. Aside from enhancing some of the specific skills that are required to perform project tasks and improve day-to-day operations, these training programmes can also help to build coaching and mentoring skills. This development of coaching and mentoring skills among experienced, senior employees can be invaluable, allowing them to impart wisdom and contribute to t

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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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How to Write an Effective Project Charter

nTask

In the old days, businesses or the organizational culture was a hit or miss affair. Businesses were pushed forward and projects were pitched without asking the tough questions or defining a specific direction for the team on how to achieve the goals that were set by the company. If you are in such a position that you are responsible for setting the direction and scope of a team to work on a project, then you should be able to write an effective Project Charter and in this article, we’ll gu

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8 Things All Bad Project Managers Have in Common

Project Risk Coach

Bad project managers create project cultures filled with stress, confusion, and little progress. Unfortunately, many of these individuals are not aware of their behaviors. Photo courtesy of Adobe Stock Let's run through a list of eight behaviors that all bad project managers have in common. Furthermore, let's talk about how to remedy these behaviors.

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Agile Illustrated – Sample #1

Leading Answers

Over the next few weeks, I will be featuring samples from my new Kindle book “ Agile Illustrated: A Visual Learner’s Guide to Agility ”. The book is a graphical introduction to the agile mindset and the best servant leadership behaviors for supporting agile teams. Let’s start with the Agile Manifesto: The Agile Manifesto was created during a meeting in February 2001 that brought together a number of software and methodology experts who were at the forefront of the emerging agile methods.

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Personal development action planning starts with the “What?” and “Why?” before the “How?”

Kiron Bondale

How many times have you been on a project where your customer or some other key stakeholder has prematurely tried to jump to a solution without having fully articulated their needs and wants? This behavior gives rise to many risks including wasted effort, the perceived loss of autonomy for delivery team members, and a loss of optionality. So why should we consider our personal development to be any different?

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Project Delivery, Uncertainty and Neuroscience [Giveaway]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I recently sat down and interviewed Carole Osterweil and now I am happy to announce that I have two copies of her book, Project Delivery, Uncertainty and Neuroscience: A Leader’s Guide to Walking in Fog, to giveaway! What is the book about? Fully referenced, yet concise and easy to read, Project Delivery, Uncertainty & Neuroscience, draws on recent research in neuroscience, mindfulness, complexity and project management.

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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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The Relationship Between Project Risk Management and Project Management

Project Risk Coach

Project management is "the application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activities to meet the project objectives" (PMBOK—6th Edition). So, how does project risk management fit into the world of project management? Hand in Glove Relationship Project risk management fits in project management like a hand in glove. It empowers the project manager to achieve the project objectives.

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Project Organization 101: How to Structure Your Project

ProjectManager.com

The day to get organized is now, not later. Without having some organization for your project, you run the risk of sending an extensive and time-consuming project spiraling into abject failure. A well-organized project ensures that everyone knows what’s expected of them, what their authority is and what they need to do. It provides the track on which to run a project.

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Mind your language (if you want to be Agile)

Scrum.org

There are four key words in the first value of the Agile Manifesto: “ Individuals and their interactions over processes and tools ”. Most of us can spend countless hours debating the value of focusing on people and the dangers related to focusing on processes and tools. Interestingly, in our debates we seem to be oblivious to the reference to interactions and what it truly means to social and tribal animals as we, humans, are.

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Percent complete -- Boo!

Musings on Project Management

Perhaps I've said this before. I certainly intended to. But, percent complete is a worthless metric Not a value measurement: Percent complete is a ratio. The ratio is dimensionless, whereas value has a dimension; it can be measured. Percent complete is not only not a measure of value completed; it’s really not even a measure of completeness, even if some things are "completed" at less.

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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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Video: What is agile project management? 

The Digital Project Manager

The post Video: What is agile project management? appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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The 2019 Guide to Project Portfolio Management (PPM)

nTask

The organizational culture is complete mayhem right now because of the humongous size of projects and activities of thriving companies throughout the industry. When the projects are large in size and number, there has always been a need for a strategy to manage the mix of interrelated, connected and dependent projects. That’s where Project Portfolio Management comes in.

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Faking Agile Metrics or Cooking the Agile Books

Scrum.org

TL; DR: Faking Agile Metrics — An Eye-Opening Exercise. Imagine you’re a Scrum Master and the line manager of your team believes that the best sign for a successful agile transformation is a steady increase in the Scrum Team’s velocity. Moreover, if the team fails to deliver on that metric something is wrong with the Scrum Team. Alternatively, something is wrong with you as you are the Scrum Master and hence responsible for the team’s performance.

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10 Tips for Presenting at Work

Rebel’s Guide to PM

So you have to do a presentation at work? Presenting in meetings or to your boss is always a bit nerve-wracking. Here are 10 tips for giving a fantastic work presentation. 1. Know your audience. First, know your audience. Who are you presenting to? And where are they in the organisational hierarchy? The presentation you give to a team of technical system developers is going to be very different to the presentation you give to the CEO, even if you are talking about the same project.

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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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Become a PM Pro With These Project Management Courses

Workamajig

The right PM course can change your career. This article shares a list of project management courses to help you learn faster than ever. Are great project managers born or made? The honest answer: a little bit of both. Some of the skills you need to be a project manager are innate. If you’re a naturally good communicator and a born leader, you’ll be at home in a project management role.

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PPM without Getting Fired? Step 5: Clear Your Calendar

WorkOtter

In the 16 years we have been working with customers (big and small) on their project portfolio management implementations we have seen every mistake in the book. Unfortunately, some mistakes turn into implementation disasters where budgets, time, and the careers (of those who picked the software and planed the roll-out) go to die. Don’t let this happen to you.

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Struggling with capacity in Sprint Planning

Scrum.org

. CONTEXT. Your Sprint is over. Your increment is “done”, you have coded cleanly, your unit tests and integration tests are bright green, you are proud of your work. The Sprint Review is running smoothly. The Sprint Retrospective allows the team to find 1 or 2 axes of improvement without revolutionizing the world. Well done ! You follow on your Sprint Planning, identifying a friendly Sprint Goal as a target, a dozen Product Backlog item as a trajectory and a nice Sprint Backlog to get there.

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CEO’s Insight: Transforming the Way We Work – From Reactive to Proactive [Video]

Scoro

Fred Krieger is the Founder & CEO of Scoro, the all-in-one business management software that helps agencies and professional service companies to work smarter, not harder. Besides being a successful leader in the tech world, Fred Krieger has also been an award-winning music producer and songwriter for more than 20 years. He has always been inspired to find ways to be more productive and work more efficiently.

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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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A Guide to Network Analysis

MPUG

Introduction. The core technique available to Project Managers for planning and controlling their projects is Network Analysis. This short guide will provide a basic understanding of networking principles before applying them. Network Analysis, Critical Path Analysis (CPA), or the American “Program, Evaluation, and Review Technique” (PERT) is one of the classic methods of planning and controlling the progress of projects.

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4 Ways Digital Transformation Is Changing Project Management

Wrike

Remember the good old days when making it a “Blockbuster night” was the thing to do? Nothing beat the feeling of walking through those doors to eagerly scan the new release wall before perusing aisle after aisle of classic, obscure, and off-the-wall films… that is, nothing except having on-demand access to practically every movie ever made without having to leave the comfort of your couch.

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Improve Objectives & Key Results (OKRs) With Key Result Validation

Scrum.org

In the world of tech, many industry giants such as Google choose to use a management framework known as Objectives and Key Results (OKR). This goal-setting platform requires a company, to define goals and come up with activities that should help them to meet these goals. Since the 1970s, OKRs have been used to improve the workplace capabilities of countless companies.

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CEO’s Insight: Transforming the Way We Work – From Reactive to Proactive [Video]

Scoro

Fred Krieger is the Founder & CEO of Scoro, the all-in-one business management software that helps agencies and professional service companies to work smarter, not harder. Besides being a successful leader in the tech world, Fred Krieger has also been an award-winning music producer and songwriter for more than 20 years. He has always been inspired to find ways to be more productive and work more efficiently.

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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.