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4 Steps for More Effective Meetings

Rebel’s Guide to PM

We all know the problem: We spend far too much time in stuffy conference rooms, discussing problems, listening to people’s opinions, brainstorming products and strategies. Countless gurus have advocated for the benefits of reducing the time spent in meetings, of the number of meeting attendees, and even of meetings in general. The truth is, some meetings are necessary and if done right they are simply the best way to exchange ideas, form plans and make decisions.

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How to Network: Building Business Relationships That Feel Authentic

Project Bliss

Knowing how to network doesn’t come naturally for most pople. But networking – and building business relationships – is one of the most valuable things you can do for your career. After all, your network can help you grow in your career. And often in ways you can’t even know yet. But sometimes knowing how to network can be tricky.

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The Product Owner in Scrum: Responsibilities, Certifications & Tools

ProjectManager.com

Scrum is a framework for organizing agile teams, and it’s processes and guidelines are excellent for improving team productivity. One reason scrum is so effective is that it clearly defines the different roles of the team. When the roles are clearly defined, the team, as well as the stakeholders, know exactly who is doing what, and what to expect for deliverables.

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20 Questions New Scrum Masters Should Ask Their Teams to Get up to Speed

Scrum.org

TL; DR: 20 Questions a New Scrum Master Should Ask. Twenty questions for you — the new Scrum Master — that fit into a 60 minutes time-box. Start learning how your new Scrum Team is currently delivering the product and get up to speed: from Product Backlog forensics to metrics to team challenges and technical debt. Download a printable template for your convenience.

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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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NLP for Project Managers

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Peter speaking at the APM Rethinking Leadership conference. This is a guest post by Peter Parkes, author of NLP for Project Managers. I recently found myself walking away from a project and used an NLP technique to help identify the root cause of my decision. At the same time I identified some lessons for leadership styles for project management. History of NLP.

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10 Best Project Management Dashboard Software Of 2020

The Digital Project Manager

The post 10 Best Project Management Dashboard Software Of 2020 appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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The Scrum Values from the Scrum Master’s perspective

Scrum.org

Values drive behaviour. Therein lies the importance of the Scrum Values, for different people and roles involved in Scrum. Having explored the Scrum Values from a Product Owner perspective and from Stakeholders perspective , I want to now consider the Scrum Values from the Scrum Master’s perspective. . . . Commitment. Scrum Master commit to implement agility and enact the agile principles through Scrum.

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Building a Culture of Trust and Belonging

Binfire

Studies have consistently shown that companies that encourage a positive and strong culture perform better compared to those that don’t. This is not a surprise as a strong culture encourages collaboration and communication and enhances inclusivity. It also fosters a sense of pride and belonging, which in turn improves loyalty, motivation, and hard work. .

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5 Project Management Skills all Leaders Should Master to Ensure Project Success

LiquidPlanner

The art and science of project management are constantly changing and evolving with new industry trends. Even though many of the tried and tested methods and practices will prevail in 2020 and the years to come, you as a project management expert need to stay on top of the latest trends in your field and embrace continuous growth and development to ensure productivity and the success of every project.

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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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Why You Need Digital Project Management Training in 2020

The Digital Project Manager

The post Why You Need Digital Project Management Training in 2020 appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Is the Outcome of Your Meeting to Schedule Another Meeting?

Scrum.org

When I ask this rhetorical question in a training class or a coaching call, I often get knowing smiles and uncomfortable laughs. We’ve likely all been in this situation, and you know how frustrating it can feel. It often leads to lots of meetings filling our calendars and little time to “do real work.” Those meetings aren’t working sessions that are moving us forward and creating new insights as a team; instead they feel like a waste of time.

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New Scrum Master email course

Growing Agile

Back by popular demand is the New Scrum Master Email Course. Here are the topics we will cover: What should I be doing all day as a ScrumMaster? How can I make our Scrum meetings valuable? Can I improve the Daily Scrum? How can I be more proactive? Am I learning enough of the right stuff? The content is just as relevant today as when it was first created.

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Time Management Problems? Use These Tools To Make Every Minute Count!

Proofhub

9 Ridiculously Useful Time Management Tools Every Smart Manager Must Know About Use these top-rated time management tools to minimize time wastage and produce desired results. “It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about?”?—?Henry David Thoreau Managers often have the heaviest workload; meetings, interviews, hiring, creating and maintaining budgets, planning and promoting daily schedules of employees, performance evaluation, reporting to senior management

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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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Cultivating the Kind of Culture Employees Crave

Leading Agile

As the Chief Cultural Officer, of LeadingAgile, I view myself as an advocate for our employees. I’m super passionate about creating a working environment that is supportive, nurturing, inclusive, and respectful of all employees. Not just the ones that work here, but anyone who might one day work here, too. As you might expect, I spend a lot of time thinking about our culture and how I can contribute to its evolution and continuous improvement.

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¿Cómo ves el liderazgo en una transformación ágil?

Scrum.org

Recientemente comencé a agregar mis notas, enlaces y referencias relacionadas con el liderazgo ágil para comprender mejor cómo podría verse y entenderse en el contexto de una transformación ágil. Al final, volverse ágil no es el objetivo de una transformación. La idea principal es sobrevivir como una organización. De ahí que aprecio todo lo que atraiga a los líderes empresariales y su motivación para profundizar en ideas, marcos o prácticas ágiles pensando en seguir entregando valor.

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Surprise. I am no wizard. Agile nor Scrum.

Gunther Verheyen

I regularly get inquiries from people reaching out for instructions, assistance, or other forms of guidance to learn about Scrum, pass exams, become a trainer, or advance their career towards “Agile coach” Surprise. I am no wizard. I do not have the magical powers that would be required. I really don’t want to go into people’s motivation to approach me with those desires (‘free’ seems to be a recurring theme), but I can share my personal and professional stanc

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PM, CEM, and Covid-19: Reflections

MPUG

Collage by Jigs Gaton. The black swan * has landed, and is honking up a storm, as I am sure you have all noticed. In my 30+ years of planning, I’ve never seen anything like this; have you? Personally, I never paid enough heed to Disaster Planning and Risk Management until after leaving the USA and becoming a PM nomad , but once I was out in the world, it became clear that I had to do much better.

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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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Artificial Intelligence in Project Management

International Institute for Learning

By Marcus Glowasz – Project & Product Lead, Fortean | Program Manager, UBS. It is the end of project management as we know it. When googling about Artificial Intelligence in Project Management you’ll find loads of articles talking about how AI will revolutionize and transform project management, how it will automate processes, etc., and how it possibly will eliminate the project manager role all together.

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In Scrum beginnt der Sprint nach Sprint Planning!

Scrum.org

Scrum Master aufgepasst! Der Sprint beginnt nach dem Sprint Planning. Handelt es sich hierbei um einen Scrum Mythos oder Fakt ? Um zu erfahren wie dein Sprint Planning noch effektiver wird, besuche doch mein Advanced Professional Scrum Master II Training ! .

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The Perfect Storm for The Project Economy

Leading Answers

The winds of change were strong before the COVID-19 pandemic. Driven by three macroeconomic trends, the need for projects and project managers was increasing. These three trends are: 1) Accelerating rates of technology adoption. 2) The switch to alternative energy sources to maintain GDP and meet emissions targets. 3) Infrastructure projects for population growth.

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If Programming Languages Were Games [Comic]

Teamweek

The only difference between programming and games is that games have win conditions. JavaScript is Counter-Strike. It looks cool at first but gets worse the more you understand it. At least the community is nice (because they understand each other’s pain). C++ is Dark Souls. You are killed by the tutorial. Kotlin is Tetris: built by some Russians and is only famous because a big corporation is supporting it.

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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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Top 11 Challenges of Remote Working You Can Possibly Encounter

ProProfs Project Management

Remote work has always been a hot topic in corporate because as much employees are willing to enjoy that extra cushion of freedom, the employers are a bit reluctant to give the same. Sadly, the horrors of the COVID-19 outbreak put an end to this everlasting debate. . Now, remote work has become new normal, as companies have allowed their employees to work from home due to safety concerns.

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5 Project Management Skills all Leaders Should Master to Ensure Project Success

LiquidPlanner

The art and science of project management are constantly changing and evolving with new industry trends. Even though many of the tried and tested methods and practices will prevail in 2020 and the years to come, you as a project management expert need to stay on top of the latest trends in your field and embrace continuous growth and development to ensure productivity and the success of every project.

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Thoughts on ITIL® 4 from an ITIL v3 Expert

International Institute for Learning

By Jurian Burgers, MSc, ITIL Expert and Managing Professional. ITIL® has been the leading guidance for IT Service Management for the past three decades. Millions of practitioners worldwide have applied it in their daily jobs to deliver and support IT services for the improvement of business results. Last year, AXELOS launched ITIL4. Why the change? As a certified ITIL v3 Expert, consultant and service management trainer for 20 years, I was curious to find out what the novelties were.

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Seven Practical Nuggets–Dependencies, Leads and Lags with MS Project

Management Yogi

Recently, I spoke in a global webinar on a very important area of Dependencies, leads and Lags and showed how it’s addressed by Microsoft Project Software tool. You can check the recorded webinar in the below link.

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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.