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5 Team Productivity Blockers and How to Overcome Them

ProjectManager.com

Team productivity is one of the most important ingredients in business, and it’s everyone’s responsibility to keep themselves on track. Without productivity, projects can fall behind deadlines, leaving teams scrambling to deal with the consequences. A distracting workplace can cost you far more than team productivity—it can cost businesses billions in revenue loss.

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Managing Team Conflict and Strategies for Conflict Resolution

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Projects can be a hotbed of conflict. From the difficult stakeholder who wants to undermine the project’s success to a disagreement about a feature of a deliverable, project work lends itself to workplace conflict situations. And project managers contribute hugely to that because we go out and look for it. We challenge leaders, we talk about risk and what might go wrong and we call people out on poor performance through project monitoring and control.

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Stakeholder Management 101: Types of Stakeholders & How to Manage Them

The Digital Project Manager

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Let Me Show You How to Determine Project Budget Reserves

Project Risk Coach

After publishing my article entitled Evaluating Risks Using Qualitative Risk Analysis , I received questions on how to determine project budget reserves. Here are my answers. Project Budget Reserves: Questions and Answers. Question #1 After evaluating risks qualitatively, do you set aside some dollars for a contingency reserve ? The Answer: The short answer is yes.

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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 Design a Clear Product Roadmap

ProjectManager.com

Product management is notoriously known as a detail-oriented discipline, and a product roadmap helps keep those details in perspective. Getting into the weeds is part of the job description, but one should never get lost there. Product managers must lift their heads out of the day-to-day operations of a product to take a larger look at where they are in context.

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Ravetree Software Overview – Work Management Solution For Digital Agencies

The Digital Project Manager

In the past, agencies would piece together a collection of different software tools to manage. The post Ravetree Software Overview – Work Management Solution For Digital Agencies appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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5 Ways Scrum Helps Manage Risks

Scrum.org

An organization’s ability to rapidly and deliberately respond to changing demand, while controlling risk helps ascertain its Agility. If practiced in true essence, Scrum helps teams and organizations mitigate risks through its rules. Let’s look into some of these –. Iterative Delivery. By building the product iteratively with each Sprint focusing on delivering increment of highest possible value for the customers, Scrum mitigates the risk of lack of visibility to the stakeholders regarding the p

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Project Bulls**t

Musings on Project Management

Many fine books have been written about 'bull' and its excrement, 'bulls**t' (*). Indeed, such may go back to at least the 17th century, if not before, as written into plays and documents of the era.

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Continuous Planning Equals Business Agility

Planview

Your organization’s ability to react quickly and pivot to changes and disruptions is crucial to remaining relevant to your customers. In a recent webcast, Planning Deconstructed , Heather Westomoreland , Planview Planning Capabilities Product Manager and Angie Sarmiento , Planview Solutions Marketing Manager discuss continuous planning and the steps organizations can take to have a more proactive role in creating, executing, and managing different planning types.

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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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The 10 Best Wireframe Tools To Make Wireframes, Mockups & Prototypes

The Digital Project Manager

Here’s an easy-to-understand review of the best wireframe tools—quickly compare and evaluate the best software for making wireframes, mockups & prototypes. The post The 10 Best Wireframe Tools To Make Wireframes, Mockups & Prototypes appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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5 Tips to Increase your Emotional Intelligence as a Product Owner

Scrum.org

A Product Owner is constantly balancing expectations from the business, the team, and users. It’s a tough job; sometimes the rewards feel fleeting and the customer can be flighty, but perhaps your team is just not working well together. At times, you might feel you are doing all the right things, but your team is just not responding. If you feel you are not getting the best results from your team, or perhaps you sense they just don’t like working with you, you might benefit from improving your

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Running Projects With Tight Time Constraints – How Can Agile Help

Eylean

No matter how good we are at planning things out, for some reason or another we often have to complete work under a tight time limit. It brings stress and uneasiness in most teams and managing such projects can often be a challenge. While there are many ways to try and avoid these situations, once … The post Running Projects With Tight Time Constraints – How Can Agile Help appeared first on Eylean Blog.

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5 Ways Epicflow Enables High-Performing Teams

Epicflow Blog

Boosting team productivity should be among the top priorities for industrial manufacturers if they want to meet current technological and organizational challenges. K nowing good ways to increase productivity also gives you a competitive advantage. Have you ever considered resource planning software as a way to increase the productivity of your employees?

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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 Are The Best Tools For Managing Multiple Projects Successfully?

The Digital Project Manager

Watch and learn which tools we use for tracking key information when managing multiple projects—and learn why and how we use them. The post Video: What Are The Best Tools For Managing Multiple Projects Successfully? appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Ask a PM: Where to Start after Taking a Career Break

LiquidPlanner

Dear Elizabeth: I start a new job in a week after a couple of years away from work on a career break. From what I know, I am entering a complex project with multiple stakeholders. They are active in leading the work, so at least I don’t have to worry about not having support for the project. Given I don’t know anything about the project yet, I want to thoroughly asses and understand what the situation is.

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The Agile Fluency model

Henny Portman

The Agile Fluency model, developed by Diana Larsen and James Shore in 2012 and substantially updated in 2018, is a framework to help teams understand their current position and to help them develop an individual road map. Agile teams pass through four distinct zones of fluency as they learn ( fluency evolves). Diana Larsen defines fluency as things that you do automatically without thinking.

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5 Reasons Why Your Team is Missing Tight Deadlines (And How to Fix it)

Teamweek

It’s easy to blame employees when they miss a tight deadline. But if this happens all the time, the problem might be the way their deadlines or tasks are structured. Employees can only do their best work if they have a supportive, organized environment to work in. Employers can make it easier for employees to meet deadlines by improving the work environment.

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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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Reference Architecture vs. Reference Implementation

Leading Agile

In this clip from TriAgile 2019, Mike Cottmeyer is explaining the difference between Reference Architecture and Reference Implementation and why understanding the base patterns of Agility are so important to the success of your Agile Transformation. Reference Architecture vs. Reference Implementation Transcript. Does anybody in the room believe that you’re supposed to take everything in the SAFe guide and to deploy it in your organization verbatim?

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Task Management vs Project Management vs Process Management: Which Software Do You Need?

ProProfs Project Management

Meet Jess. She works in her university’s business office. Every day, she has a number of tasks to get done. Many of them are routine tasks like processing purchase requisitions, travel requests or leave approvals. Sometimes, Jess performs one-off tasks as part of a specific project like gathering numbers for a budget. And, like everyone, she also does some random things like setting up the office March Madness pool.

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How to Set Priorities at Work and Achieve More

Proofhub

How You Can Set Priorities And Achieve More Nobody likes a shouting and yelling boss. If you are one of those employees who have never been a victim of a boss’s anger then just reach your boss with incomplete and overdue tasks assigned to you. You will get to know how it feels (you might not want to know). I have one of my clients who was a victim of continuous shouting by his boss.

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Recovering from Burnout: 10 Research-Backed Tips

Teamweek

Ask anyone who knows me: I’m not someone who’s easily intimidated. But one of the few frightening memories I have is my experience with burnout over 10 years ago. We all have episodes where we feel tired and depressed. The boss is demanding too much, the significant other wants to argue all the time, the dog mangled the new bedroom furniture that we maxed out our credit cards to buy.

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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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Five Top Tips for Gaining Your Next Project Management Job

Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

You’ve decided that its time to move on and you’re starting to think about getting things lined up to make the job searching as painless as possible. Where do you start? Looking for a new position is like having a full-time job, that’s why so many people struggle to find the time to do that while they are still in a post. In this article, we look at the top five things you should be thinking about and doing to make sure you make the most of your limited time and put your best f

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Don’t Leave Project Success to Chance

MindGenius

Don't Leave Project Success to Chance. A project kick-off meeting should be given the same focus as the project as a whole. Think of it as setting the scene for the tone of the whole project. Anything less than full focus for this meeting will put the project at risk from the outset. Following some key steps will ensure you are fully prepared for the project kick off meeting.

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Key Takeaways from ‘The Phoenix Project’ DevOps Simulation

International Institute for Learning

By Paul Wilkinson | Owner/Director, GamingWorks. Parts Unlimited Shares Take Another Tumble ‘Once again, the CEO of Parts Unlimited is embarrassed by a tumbling share price as the unions threaten walk-out because of payroll issues caused by failures in the IT systems, and at the same time a credit card leak weakens investor confidence. The issues are put down to human error and IT skills shortages.

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Got Stuck? 6 Ways Project Management Software Can Help You (You’ll Love It)

Celoxis

What’s the best thing you know about project management software? Probably, one package with all the productivity tools. Right? Being loved by many, is your team using a project management system already or you are still wondering what it is?

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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.