Agilemania
SEPTEMBER 5, 2022
Scaled Agile Framework, SAFe® is the world’s leading framework for Business Agility. SAFe® is built around seven Core Competencies with Customers as a focal point in the center. The seven core competencies each have three dimensions making it a total of twenty-one dimensions to enable Business Agility. These dimensions contain some of the practices, patterns, and guidelines to Scale Agility across the enterprise.
Kiron Bondale
SEPTEMBER 4, 2022
While the phrase “quiet quitting” might have been popularized recently, the behavior has been with us for a long time. For those of us who are Seinfeld fans, you’ll remember the many creative ways in which George Costanza would do either no work or the absolute bare minimum to avoid getting fired. When we are considering operational work, quiet quitting is putting in the least effort to perform the standard responsibilities of one’s role such that required performance mea
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International Institute for Learning
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
By Max Langosco. Two Things Are Happening. First , project management is being applied to contexts where the outcome is both ever more important and uncertain. Consider, for example, the adoption of project management to deliver strategic corporate objectives or using project management approaches to do pure research. Both examples are of common occurrences.
nTask
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
An idea without a plan is nothing but a dream. You may be in a situation where you want to roll out a new strategy for your company or organization but are uncertain where to begin. To make your ideas a reality, you must first organize them and devise a plan. A process map allows […].
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Musings on Project Management
SEPTEMBER 5, 2022
You've no doubt read here and elsewhere that the critical path and the most important path are sometimes different, sometimes). How so?The 'critical path' is a technical term arising from precedence scheduling techniques wherein a path is 'critical' if any stretch of that path stretches the very last milestone of the project.The 'most important path' is a matter of business priorities.
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nTask
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
Project management is all about planning, executing, and delivering the best possible services to your clients. Any and every project is important when it comes to successful completion where the satisfaction of beneficiaries and stakeholders matters the most. Project cycle management is one such approach where the satisfaction of stakeholders is prioritized.
Online PM Courses
SEPTEMBER 8, 2022
Neuroscience offers a body of useful tools for better results at work. I asked Carole Osterweil about Neuroscience for Project Managers. The post Neuroscience for Project Managers with Carole Osterweil | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.
ProjectManager.com
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
Products have a lifespan just like everything else. After they’re born, they develop, mature and eventually die. That journey is called product lifecycle management. Like any aspect of creating a product, it involves many processes. Product lifecycle management is the sum of the process that makes a product happen. It can be long and complicated with many phases, but let’s first define what product lifecycle management is and look at its history.
MPUG
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Background. There was an interesting question recently in the Tech Community Project user forum. A user asked how to change the default working calendar to allow Saturday as a working day. The question was specifically related to Project Online, but both the question and the answer relate to the Microsoft Project desktop application as well. Because the user provided very little details in his question, the responses from a fellow Project MVP and I dealt with two possible situations the user mig
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
Project Risk Coach
SEPTEMBER 5, 2022
Charles Hall This is a guest post by my twin brother Charles. He is a CPA and a Certified Fraud Examiner. He is a partner in the firm McNair, McLemore, and Middlebrooks & Co. Charles lives in Macon, Georgia, with his wife Kelley. He is the author of The Why and How of Auditing , Audit Risk Assessment Made Easy , and The Little Book of Local Government Fraud Prevention.
Scrum.org
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
TL; DR: Retrospective First Principles. What is your take on the Retrospective: A routine exercise at the end of a Sprint, supported by standard operating procedures? Or a critical part of a Scrum team’s journey of continuous improvement? As you may assume, I advocate for the latter. In my experience, Scrum teams start utilizing Retrospectives to their full potential when they embrace a short set of Retrospective first principles, outlining the essence of the Why, the What, and the How.
ProjectManager.com
SEPTEMBER 8, 2022
Projects are planned and then life happens. Ideally, project managers know better than to execute their project plans without a performance measurement baseline. They need to know immediately if their team is on track or falling behind. Without that knowledge, the project is running blindly, and anyone who’s tried this knows the dangers. A performance measurement baseline provides a window into the project that allows project managers to see roadblocks and resolve them before the project hits a
LiquidPlanner
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
There is a consensus among leaders and managers – supply chain problems are enormous, causing steep expense increases, loss of business opportunity, and customer frustrations. The pandemic has exacerbated this problem, and uncertainty and change seem to be the only sure things. At first, we experienced shortages due to the lack of material, like wood for paper towels and toilet paper, which led to hoarding.
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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 Basics
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
Here’s the most important thing you need to take from this article. Risk identification is not a rigid process that you follow step-by-step. Instead, good risk identification comes from communication and collaboration with all project stakeholders. Moreover, you need to educate others on how to use your risk management process. Let me explain how it works in the real world with real people.
Scrum.org
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
This article is also available as a free PDF on our webshop. It’s a nicely styled paper and allows you to easily share it with others. You can download the PDF here. Christiaan Verwijs and I created the Scrum Team Survey to support Scrum and other Agile teams in their continuous improvement loop. The first step in that loop is to create transparency around where you are right now, and then to work together as a team to identify improvements and make adaptations.
International Institute for Learning
SEPTEMBER 8, 2022
Friday, September 23, 2022, 9:00 AM to 1:30 PM EST. PDD 2022 Ignite your future with new skills, add to your professional network, and develop as a leader. Earn up to 10 PDU’s. Together we will ignite your career path toward greatness. PMI has become and continues to be the leading professional association in project management. The goal of the Metrolina chapter is to advance the mission and objectives of the Project Management Institute.
The Strategic Project Manager
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Personal mindset is very much at the core of becoming a strategic thinker and project manager. This post explores personal aspects such as our actions, our ambitions, and our aspirations – and how they map to various aspects of project management and strategy. What Our Actions, Ambitions, and Aspirations Tell Us. Someone famously said one day that “We become what we think about most of the time.” If there is any truth to that, then we had better be thinking about the right thin
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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.
PM Basics
SEPTEMBER 8, 2022
I’ve been managing software development projects for more than 11 years. Risk management is arguably the most crucial piece in my project management approach. Therefore, I spent lots of time and effort creating a practical risk management process. Risk management process is a structured approach to identifying, assessing, addressing, and controlling risks.
Scrum.org
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Scrum Team Accountabilities and responsibilities can be confusing, misunderstood, and lack shared understanding between its members and the organization. This is especially true for new Scrum Team members, yet I also have experienced this with teams who have been using Scrum for several years. And sometimes these misunderstandings are perpetuated by the organization and its leaders.
International Institute for Learning
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
By Natalie Berkiw-Scenna, PMP. Meetings are a reality of every industry and certainly for every project. A successfully facilitated meeting can add significant value to your meeting participants, your projects, and your organization. Leading and facilitating projects meetings that are productive and high-functioning doesn’t need to be challenging. In fact, by leveraging several key behaviors found in the most effective professional meeting facilitators, you can consistently hold project meetings
nTask
SEPTEMBER 8, 2022
You delivered the product/services, everything was on time, and everyone worked hard, but something is amiss. Maybe the product's quality is lacking, or the project itself wasn't very high-quality. Often we are so focused on delivering the products/services on time that we forget a very essential aspect of the project. Project quality management. Quality precedes […].
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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.
PM Basics
SEPTEMBER 8, 2022
Qualitative risk analysis boosts the chances for project success dramatically. If I were to choose one thing to improve in my project management – it would be it. Why? I honestly believe that this risk analysis in more than enough for small and medium projects. Qualitative Risk Analysis is the process of prioritizing risks for further analysis or action by assessing and combining their probability of occurrence and impact.
Scrum.org
SEPTEMBER 8, 2022
TL; DR: 15 Retrospektiven-Prinzipien. Was halten Sie von der Retrospektive: Eine Routineübung am Ende eines Sprints, unterstützt durch Standardarbeitsanweisungen? Oder ein wichtiger Teil der Bemühungen eines Scrum-Teams um kontinuierliche Verbesserung? Wie Sie vielleicht vermuten, plädiere ich für Letzteres. Meiner Erfahrung nach schöpfen Scrum-Teams das Potenzial von Retrospektiven erst dann voll aus, wenn sie eine Reihe von Retrospektiven-Prinzipien verinnerlichen, in denen das Warum, das Was
International Institute for Learning
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
By Rubin Jen. In a recent ProjectManagement.com article, a well-known industry practitioner posed the statement: “PMOs struggle to deliver value and are often not clear about what that value should be. They are frequently started without full and careful consideration of why they are being created, what the real underlying problem is that they are there to solve, and what success would look like in doing so.
Teamweek
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
We all know the feeling…. You find a new business opportunity and take on a new project. Excitement’s in the air ??. Then the work starts… Scope creep enters the picture, and that profit margin that was supposed to fuel your future growth disappears little by little. Source. In this guide, you will learn how to increase the profits of your projects and get your growth back on track.
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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