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Top Tips for Avoiding Project Overload

Wrike

As a project manager , you’ve likely found yourself managing multiple projects simultaneously. You think you’ve got it handled and then one of them starts to run into problems, drawing more and more of your time and energy. Suddenly, you realize you’re overloaded, and dropping the ball all over the place. This is an all too common example of project overload.

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Schedule Variance: What Is It & How Do I Calculate It?

ProjectManager.com

Project managers are responsible for tasks across every part of a business. They have to schedule work, manage people, manage budgets and wrangle technology—just to name a few. If you had to boil it down and define the core function of a project manager in just one sentence, it would be something like, “Project managers ensure work is finished on time and within budget.”.

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Business Leadership for IT Projects

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Before I’d got far reading Gary Lloyd’s Business Leadership for IT Projects I realized he was offering a critical assessment on the Standish report on project failure – thankfully. I knew then that we were going to get along just fine. Don’t get me wrong – I have no issue with the Standish research and the CHAOS report itself, but it is often used for a quick headline without any analysis of how the numbers were arrived at.

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7 Tips to Successfully Lead a Remote Team During Challenging Times

Project Bliss

Photo by Chris Montgomery on Unsplash. This is a guest post Annie-Mei Forster. Many team leaders and managers have been leading their teams remotely due to the COVID-19 pandemic and it hasn’t come without its challenges. Many things that were once taken for granted, such as face-to-face interactions at the office and after-work drinks, are now only a distant 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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10 Best Project Tracking Software in 2020

The Digital Project Manager

The post 10 Best Project Tracking Software in 2020 appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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How to Deal with Challenging Situations Involving Stakeholders

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This is a guest article by Christine Unterhitzenberger. Most project managers will have experienced a situation where they have found a stakeholder to be really difficult. This often causes stress and it’s challenging for project managers to find ways to deal with it. A recent study by Dr Clara Cheung and colleagues found that project managers experience particularly high stress levels in regard to their working relationships.

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Are you an unbeliever?

Kiron Bondale

I was asked a very unique question by one of the learners in a project management course I taught this week: “ How do I motivate my team members when even I don’t believe in the project? “ While I’d been posed this question for the first time, it is not an uncommon challenge. It is hard enough for project managers who are in full support of their projects to inspire disengaged team members so having to do so when the project managers themselves don’t feel the projec

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3 Key Similarities Between Lean And Agile Methodologies

The Digital Project Manager

Project managers are always working on finding the best ways to create their products or. The post 3 Key Similarities Between Lean And Agile Methodologies appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Agile.FM Podcast with Dan Vacanti about the Professional Scrum with Kanban (PSK) course

Scrum.org

I had the pleasure to sit down with Dan Vacanti , who has helped develop the Kanban Method and is the course steward of Scrum.org's Professional Scrum with Kanban course, and record this Agile.FM episode. Dan and I talk about Scrum with Kanban and how agile processes can compliment each other. We talked about the communities, metrics and predictability which does not come as a surprise as Dan is also the author of two agile books: .

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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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10 Tips to Get the Most out of Attending Conferences

Rebel’s Guide to PM

It’s conference season (isn’t it always? — there’s always something happening) so time to dust off your networking skills and get prepared for your industry conference. Get conference ready. The more preparation you put into any event before you go, the more you will get out of it, whether that’s a small social gathering at work or a huge industry congress.

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The 12 Agile Principles. Part Three.

Growing Agile

This is the third part of the blog series were we discuss the 12 Agile Principles. In this post we will focus on principles 7-9. 7. “Working software is the primary measure of progress. “ Early in my agile career, when I was still a project manager with agile tendencies, I took over a project that was ‘60% done’ When I probed a little I found out that the 60% done meant that 60% of the budget had been spent, the project was far from done.

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5 Reasons to Stop Using Excel for Virtual Team Project Management

Ganttic

Excel is a ubiquitous office tool. And with good reason! Beloved for its versatility, it can be used in just about any industry - from design to engineering to managing lab equipment. However there are a few things that those spreadsheets, mind the pun, just do not excel at. One of these is managing projects virtually. An ever increasing trend in the modern workplace, remote and virtual work is being turned to more and more.

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Speaking Truth to Power 2.0 — Taking A Stand as an Agile Practitioner

Scrum.org

TL; DR: Speaking Truth to Power. Do you need an emergency fund as a change agent—whether you are acting as Scrum Master, Product Owner or agile coach—because conflict is inevitable, but change is not? Speaking truth to power probably comes at a price. In my experience, speaking truth to power, pointing at the emperor’s new clothes and the reality in the trenches, is necessary a trait for every change agent — including Scrum Masters and agile coaches — in organizations that lack strong leadership

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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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How to manage tasks effectively?—?tips that really work

Proofhub

How To Manage Tasks Effectively?—?Surefire Ways To Succeed As A Manager Being someone who has been part of the task management industry for as long as I can remember, I have come across this question quite often. Whenever I meet someone from my professional network, more often than not the greetings are followed by this or a similar question. I might express my answer in different words, but the crux of what I explain to them always remains the same.

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The Key Deliverable of Your Project Plan | Video

Online PM Courses

In this video, I'm focusing on Project Planning. And asking what is the key deliverable in your project plan? The answer's not what you expect. The post The Key Deliverable of Your Project Plan | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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Vendor Showcase Recap: Using WBS Schedule Pro – By Critical Tools

MPUG

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Jim Spiller’s showcase session, Using WBS Schedule Pro, being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content. There may be exclusions, such as those steps included in product demonstrations.

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Is Kanban Linear?

Scrum.org

. A typical Kanban board usually shows a series of steps or activities that work passes through. In software development, this may take the form of work items passing through some sort of discovery step when analysis or design happens, to a building or development activity, before it passes through a validation or testing stage. Such a visualisation often shows that work items move from the left hand side of the board to the right.

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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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Review True lean

Henny Portman

With the book True lean – Your guide to the fundamentals connecting purpose, process and people written by Rudy Gort you get a concise but complete and clear overview of and insight into lean. What is it, what can you do with it and how did it come about? The book is divided into three parts. The first part examines the origin of lean in order to understand the philosophy behind lean.

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How to Use Your Calendar to Master Time Management – Best Tips & Tools

TimeCamp

Time management wouldn’t be possible without calendars. They help to plan work, meetings, and important.

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Flow for Project Managers: A Podcast Interview with Andrew Kallman

MPUG

Last week, I must have missed the start of at least three scheduled meetings. In each case, I saw on my calendar that the meetings would start in an hour or less, which meant that I could probably start and finish another task before I had to be at those meetings. And each time, I got so involved in the task I was working on that I lost track of everything around me and the meetings started without me.

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Organizations with the best Scrum claim they don’t have it

Scrum.org

This particular revelation came to me few years after I started working with agility. Organizations I have visited were either in a rigid-waterfall state and claimed that they are agile ("but we do daily standups" -this is an actual quote from management of one of them), or were agile and nible and admitted that they "have a long way to go and are still learning" (another actual quote - thanks Filip ??).

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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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5 Ways to be an Excellent Project Manager During COVID-19 by Brad Egeland

MindGenius

There’s no question that the way we did things last year cannot be the status quo way we do things this year. Or maybe even next year. Who knows how long this will go on and what long lasting effects the COVID-19 pandemic will have on our behaviors and business practices for the long term. That doesn’t mean we still can’t practice excellence and lead very successful projects either from the home or office or somewhere else… like the beach… as long as the person on t

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40+ Best Outlook Calendar Integrations for Workflow Improvement!

TimeCamp

According to the research conducted by Email Client Market Share, Apple iPhone and Gmail are dominating the email client market. In the fourth place, right behind the Apple iPad app, Outlook settles itself with 9% of usage (among the 946 million opens). It’s a tool we mostly know from being a part of Office 365, […].

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New Feature – Repeat Bookings ?? ?? ?? ??

Resource Guru

We’ve just released one of our most hotly-requested features – Repeat Bookings ! It’s now easier than ever to add those Monday morning catchups or monthly team meetings. Everything you’d expect … and a little more. You’ve always been able to add daily repeats to Resource Guru. Now you can also repeat bookings weekly, fortnightly, monthly or yearly and if that’s not enough for you, there’s even a custom option.

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Can virtual Scrum training help a non-IT team learn about Scrum? or, Can an R&D team benefit from Scrum?

Scrum.org

“Can an R&D team of chemists, physicists, electrical engineers, mechanical engineers and embedded software developers optimize teamwork and value by using Scrum? And can live virtual Scrum training deliver a practical Scrum learning experience to everyone on such a functionally diverse team?”. These were the two questions one of my customers asked. Throughout our conversation I learned more about the team, and we quickly agreed that their work of applied research and technology development inclu

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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.