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Five Ways to Improve Project Communication

Project Risk Coach

Communication is the vehicle for successful projects. From the beginning to the end of a project, the project manager and team must plan, execute, and deliver the required products and services while interacting with stakeholders. What are you doing to improve your project communication? Project managers are not lone rangers. Projects involve interdependent relationships such as the sponsor and other leaders, the project manager and the project team, and users interacting with the systems.

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10 Ways to Improve Efficiency in Your Project Management

nTask

Efficiency is a crucial companion for any and every type of management that a company might be performing to run its business. Be it a small business or an enterprise , efficiency is the most important factor for their success, because most types of businesses are accountable to their clients about how they spend their time and energy, and whether or not the projects are going to be completed in time.

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New To Project Management? Here Are 50 Terms You Should Know

Trello

You love organizing individual tasks and timelines that make up a project. You’re whip-smart and ready to manage large-scale projects, budgets, resources, and teams. Your brilliant career as a celebrated project manager awaits you in the very near future.

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Schedule Performance Index (SPI): An Introduction

ProjectManager.com

If someone asked how much value you get from a day of work, what would you say? Odds are, you’d give one of the customary responses — a fair amount of value, not much value, a lot of value, etc. Unfortunately, these answers aren’t helpful and aren’t valuable to projects. The schedule performance index was created to eliminate the guesswork and give a specific, quantifiable answer to the question, as well as show where improvements need to be made for maximum efficiency.

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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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Project Communication Management: What is it all about?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Did you know that 56% of your project budget might be at risk due to poor communications? Perhaps that number (from research by PMI ) surprises you, but I’m sure you aren’t surprised by the fact that good communication management on projects leads to higher success rates. We know that all projects use finite resources to achieve an objective. One of the most valuable resources in a project is the people (developers, engineers, subject matter experts, etc.) who support it.

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Do you trust the other side of the transaction?

Musings on Project Management

The other side: the counter-party In a transactional relationship, the other party to -- or participating in -- the transaction is your counter-party. In project situations, there are usually many counter-party transactional arrangements, such as contractors and suppliers with transactional relationships. And within the business there may be transactional relationships among business units and.

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Calculating Estimate at Completion (EAC)

ProjectManager.com

Even the most meticulously planned projects experience unforeseen changes, and when this happens, we need to quantify the effect these changes have. Luckily, there are formulas that eliminate the guesswork. One of these formulas solves for Estimate at Completion — an important metric for monitoring a project budget. Keep reading to learn why to always calculate Estimate at Completion and exactly what this formula can do.

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The Best PRINCE2 Exam Simulators

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I remember studying for my PRINCE2 exam and taking plenty of sample papers and mock tests. They were all on paper back then, and learning to deal with the style of questions and the time management required to get through the exam was as important as knowing your way around the manual. These days, the best exam prep I can suggest for PRINCE2 certification is to use online exam simulators.

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The Power of Graphic Facilitation in training

Scrum.org

I was blessed with a partner who, on top of his skills as Agile coach, is a gifted graphic facilitator. For me, who cannot draw a straight line, it always seems like magic when people are able to create instant graphics to facilitate a learning process. And yet, before realizing the real benefits of Graphic Facilitation, I thought I would just get better charts….

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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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Scaling Kanban Across Your Organization for Beginner Level PMs

nTask

You may have heard of “scaling” when looking into Agile development in recent times. Scaling is the process of widening Agile practices across multiple teams. This includes methodologies such as Kanban. Usually, organizations or companies see the benefits of implementing Kanban at a singular team level and want to go ahead and start the process of scaling Kanban to implement its practices across the whole organization.

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10 Best Project Management Software With Invoicing

The Digital Project Manager

The post 10 Best Project Management Software With Invoicing appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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How to Fix Meetings (Book Review)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

How to Fix Meetings: Meet Less, Focus on Outcomes and Get Stuff Done is by Productivity Ninja author Graham Allcott, and Hayley Watts. It’s a book about how best to use your attention. Each section comes with a practical exercise and tips on how you will know when you’ve managed to fix a particular aspect of meeting culture at your workplace, which makes it super easy to implement these ideas.

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Evidence-based Interventions—Agile Camp Berlin 2021

Scrum.org

TL; DR: Evidence-based Interventions w/ Viktor Cessan — ACB21. In this highly engaging speaker session from the Agile Camp Berlin 2021, Viktor Cessan shares lessons learned as an agile coach when working with systems, resulting in evidence-based interventions. ?? Shall I notify you about articles like this one? Awesome! You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 31,000-plus other subscribers. ??

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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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Training beyond IT teams

Growing Agile

Recently we’ve been training quite a few teams that do not have any link at all to software development. I thought I’d share a little about what we’ve changed in our training to adapt to a new context. When we designed the one day agile overview, we kept in mind the brillian t Spine Model and started with the needs, or as Simon Sinek says, start with ‘Why?

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16 Mistakes to Avoid For More Productive Virtual Team Meetings

Proofhub

Meetings are an inherent part of every organization, no matter the industry. It’s a way to make people feel seen and included. With meetings, employees have a platform to have one-on-ones with managers and express their opinions. However, hosting meetings just for the sake of having meetings is a blunder that is costing your organization valuable time.

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What is a Disaster Recovery Plan? | Video

Online PM Courses

What if a disruptive event meant you don't have access to your critical technology infrastructure or data? You need a Disaster Recovery Plan. The post What is a Disaster Recovery Plan? | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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Dejemos de normalizar el comportamiento poco profesional en nombre de la agilidad de negocio

Scrum.org

En los evento de agilidad de negocio en todo el mundo, escucho que se repite la frase «así es como funciona agile» o «así es como funciona scrum » o «así es como funciona Kanban » al describir comportamientos que son poco profesionales y todo lo contrario de una mentalidad ágil. . Hay mucho autodenominado agile coach que defiende tener toda la verdad absoluta y todas las soluciones a tus problemas respecto a business agility.

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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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Overcoming the Most Common Agile Transformation Problems

Leading Agile

We know that Transforming a large, complex organization isn’t easy. While many companies try to start with a culture or practices first, we also know those methods typically don’t work. Agile processes require a certain context to be effective, so we have to address the structure and alignment of the organization first. The problem is that this structure doesn’t exist in most of the companies that are trying to adopt Agile at any scale—and there are some very common obstacles that show themselve

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SEO vs PPC: Which Is Best For SaaS Companies?

Proofhub

Marketing is something that all businesses need to focus on today, and SaaS companies are no different. Competition is fiercer than it ever has been for those in the SaaS sector, and marketing effectively is what is going to enable you to stand out from all of the noise. With that being said, let’s take a look at two of the most popular marketing approaches in further detail below: PPC and SEO for SaaS companies.

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An Oldie but Goodie: Create a Hammock Task

MPUG

Background. Over the years, I have found a common need for many project managers is to create a task in their Microsoft Project schedule that spans the entire timeframe of the project, from the Start date of the project to the Finish date of the project. An additional need is to have the Duration of the task calculated automatically, so that if the project schedule slips, for example, the task will continue to span the entire timeframe of the project.

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Back to the foundations of the Scrum framework - The Product Backlog and Transparency

Scrum.org

Scrum is founded on empirical process control, and transparency is one of the three pillars. Each of the Scrum Artifacts exist to bring transparency to the Scrum Team and the stakeholders. If you feel that there is a lack of transparency for any aspect of your initiative, have a good look with your team at your Artifacts. Note: transparency is way more than bringing “visibility”.

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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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The Secret to Finding More Time: An Interview With Productivity Expert Laura Vanderkam

Teamweek

Laura Vanderkam on work-life balance, leisure time with kids, and how time tracking can help you prioritize . Tracking time helps you find more free time. Sounds contradictory but it’s true. If you’re like me, you may feel as if there aren’t enough hours in the day, much less an entire week. There’s a solution though: time management. According to time management expert Laura Vanderkam, author of 168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think , the secret is in time tracking.

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Course Comparison: ACP 21 Contact Hours Vs. ACP Live Lessons

Management Yogi

There are now new courses on the Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP®) exam from the Project Management Institute (PMI®). These new courses are already being used by aspiring PMI-ACPs. ACP Live Lessons - Guaranteed Pass Or Your Money BackACP 21 Contact Hours Online - Full Money Back GuaranteeAmong the questions I received, one question is particularly important.Whare are the main differences.

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Five reasons to take a closer look at LiquidPlanner for Project Management

PM Times

During my “Five Reasons Why…” series of project management software and services articles, a firm has emerged that deserves special mention. LiquidPlanner, founded in 2007, established a methodology I have written about before. Just this month, they have released the next generation of their product. With orientation to ranged estimates, resource availability and task prioritization […].

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Why not everybody pays the same price for my Professional Scrum Training

Scrum.org

. picture by numeo . Scrum.org provides high-quality level professional training. Professional Scrum Trainers are top-notch Scrum professionals delivering excellent training and training materials. But quality comes at a price. Then again, Prices are relative: The price I pay for a loaf of bread in Amsterdam is not the same as the price I pay in Abidjan in Africa.

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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.