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6 Easy Ways to Manage Group Think and Risk at Work

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This is a guest article by Dr Mike Clayton , the brains behind Online PM Courses.com. It’s an edited extract from his book Risk Happens ! Dr Mike Clayton. In the 1970s, the social psychologist Irving Janis examined how groups make decisions. He found that a group’s dynamic often inhibits exploration of alternatives. People find disagreement uncomfortable, so the group seeks consensus before it has reached a satisfactory conclusion.

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Does your PMO hinder or help your agile transformation?

Kiron Bondale

An agile project management office might sound to some like an oxymoron, right? This might be a reasonable assertion as many PMOs were first formed to provide oversight over a portfolio of projects and enforcing standards sounds like the antithesis to agility. But many successful PMOs have evolved beyond governance and control to helping their company reach higher levels of organizational project management maturity, and increasing agility should be complementary and not contradictory to this pu

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How To Easily Make A Project Initiation Document

The Digital Project Manager

Why bother going to the trouble of creating a Project Initiation Document? You’ve received sign-off. The post How To Easily Make A Project Initiation Document appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Project Quality Management – A Quick Guide

ProjectManager.com

When you’re managing a project, the Triple Constraint is always foremost in your head. How can you control the scope, schedule and cost of the project? But there is a fourth concern that is just as important and is sometimes forgotten in the maelstrom of project management, and that is quality. It doesn’t matter if you got the best project management tools , met every milestone and completed the project under budget if the deliverable didn’t meet quality standards.

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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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Why You Need to Become Business Agile

The Lazy Project Manager

[link]. In the first of this 3-part webinar series, we will explore ways to not only significantly reduce change failures but also how to dramatically raise the capability, speed, and success rates of delivering strategic change in any organization through the adoption of a ‘business agile’ change structure. Join our webinar to learn: Evolution and Stasis of Project Management: Challenges and Failures.

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A grand bargin: Agile in the enterprise

Musings on Project Management

In my book, Project Management the Agile Way, now in its second edition, I make this statement in the chapter on contracts: Firm Fixed Price (FFP) completion contracts are inappropriate for contracting agile. I got an email from a reader challenging that assertion, to which I responded: I always start by asserting that agile is a "fixed price" methodology.

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The Perfect New Hire Checklist – Use this Free Template

ProjectManager.com

The long, arduous hiring process is finally over. You’ve whittled down the many qualified candidates to that one individual who checks all the boxes on your list. They’re going to be a great addition to the team. So, now you can get back to business as usually, right? Wrong. According to the Society for Human Resource Management, between 16-17% of new hires leave their position between the first week and the third month of starting their job.

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5 Ways You May Unintentionally Create Schedule Risks

Project Risk Coach

The Problems with Crashing, Fast Tracking, and other Schedule Compression Techniques Do you feel uncertain about your project schedule? Does something see out of order but you just can’t put your finger on it. In this article, let’s look at five causes of schedule risks and ways to avoid or reduce these risks. Many times, it starts with pressure from a sponsor to deliver the project early.

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Get Your Projects Started With OnlinePMcourses Fast Start Program

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Get 30% off the Fast Start Program project management training, and accelerate your way to project management success! I’m delighted to be partnering with project management trainer extraordinaire Dr Mike Clayton from OnlinePMcourses to bring you a special offer on his Fast Start Program. Designed for managers or professionals who want to feel confident taking on a small or mid-sized project, it gives you everything you need to get your project off to the best start.

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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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4 Trends That Will Transform Project Management

LiquidPlanner

In the world of project management, change is constant. From technology improvements to shifts in how teams collaborate and work together both in-house and around the world, it can sometimes feel overwhelming to keep up with the rapid pace of flux. So what are some of the biggest changes in the world of project management, and what do you need to keep an eye out for in the coming months?

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What is Agile and Scrum?

The IIL Blog

By J. LeRoy Ward, PMP, PgMP, PfMP, CSM, GWCPM, SCPM | Executive Vice President – Enterprise Solutions, IIL . The Nuts and Bolts of Agile and Scrum. Agile and Scrum: What’s the difference? It seems like almost every company, regardless of their industry, is practicing Agile and Scrum in some way and at some level of proficiency. If you’re new to Agile and Scrum, you may be scratching your head wondering first, what are they?

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How to Build a Robust Project Risk Culture [8 Steps]

Online PM Courses

A robust risk culture goes beyond having a strong basic risk management process. But the rewards for the extra work you’ll put in to build that culture are huge. Particularly for large, complex, or strategical important projects. Some of my readers may hope to influence the risk culture of their whole organization. But, for many, I suspect this may be too great an ambition.

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20 Team Building Activities That Your Team Won’t Sigh At

Paymo App

Teams that bond together, succeed together. Easier said than done. That’s because in reality, team-building activities are hard to swallow. Some of your colleagues might not feel comfortable getting too childish, while others might already think about the work they could get done during this time. Here’s the good news: it doesn’t have to be like this.

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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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Feeling Stuck? LiquidPlanner Can Help

LiquidPlanner

We are excited to announce the release of the updated in-app Help Tab. LiquidPlanner users will now have access to updated help features for onboarding, projects, and more. With our latest update, users who access the Help Tab will experience an interactive and more straightforward way to go through multiple workspace tasks. In addition, they keep track of their progress with the convenient checklist format!

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3 Biggest Causes Of Project Failure

Ganttic

Project failure. It’s a subject that’s discussed over and over again. According to the research done by Project Management Institute , more projects are actually failing and it’s causing us to lose time and money. We want our projects to be on time and within budget but the reality is far from that. Don’t you hate that? On time and within budget? When actually, only about 53% of projects are completed on time and 49% are completed within the original budget.

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Scrum with Kanban Class of Service

Digite

This article is the third in a series of “Kanban and Scrum – Stronger Together”. Inspired by Steve Porter’s efforts to bring process practitioners closer together and educate Scrum practitioners, I’m writing a shadow series of posts that will follow the Kanban and Scrum – Stronger Together series and continue my own efforts to clear up misconceptions between practitioners of these methods.

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Project Management Software ROI

Binfire

I am sure you have heard the grandiose claims by software vendors about their project management software ROI. . Or how their ware improves productivity in your team overnight. If it sounds too good to be true, it is not true. You might ask as a software vendor ourselves why we are saying such a negative thing about project management ROI? We believe no software by itself can help improve the ROI nor the productivity.

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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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Cure Your Zombie PMO

Planview

Breaking news update: as I previously reported in the blog, “ Symptoms of the Zombie PMO ,” zombification is still proliferating in businesses throughout the world. However, the spread is thankfully slowing down, as people are becoming more aware and educated of the symptoms, and thus taking action sooner. In this updated report, I will expound upon the cures discussed by experts in the on-demand webinar, “ Avoiding the Pitfalls of a Zombie PMO.”.

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Effectively Using Product Roadmaps for Agile

The IIL Blog

By Betsy Kauffman, Organizational Coach, Agile Pi. What is an Agile Product Roadmap? A product roadmap is essentially an action plan for how a product will evolve to completion. Product roadmaps can be incredibly useful to outline your product functionality and showcase a timeline for when new features will be implemented. Multiple agile teams can utilize a shared product roadmap.

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How to Prioritize Tasks and Work in Workplace, Plan Your Work and Meet Deadlines

Proofhub

Picture this: You’ve got a number of tasks on your plate and your to-do list is all messed up?—?just like your work life. Isn’t it something we all can relate to? There comes a phase when we feel stuck in a routine which has no structure, no planning, and things start to fall apart slowly and gradually. This is what happens when you don’t know how to prioritize tasks and manage projects at work.

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SwiftEnterprise 4.0 Release

Digite

We are happy to announce the release of SwiftEnterprise 4.0. It is the next generation of our SwiftALM product with the focus to deliver Enterprise Class Agility. It will continue to offer the complex capabilities of multiple organization structures, roles, hierarchies, custom processes, custom rules, custom metrics – all that an Enterprise-class ALM tool should have.

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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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How Planview Can Enable Your PMO at Hyper-Speed [On-Demand Webinar]

Planview

Today’s PMO is not only under pressure to work at hyper-speed but also to satisfy customers who have higher expectations about their digital experience. To enable your PMO to keep up with the pace of digital transformation, it’s time to transition from tactical to strategic planning. Before I jump into just how you can smoothly achieve this transition, check out the blog, “ Your PMO at Hyper-speed ,” which covers the first webinar in this series.

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Ranking the Most (and Least) Productive Industries

Redbooth

A common complaint for people about their workplace is that things never get done. Bureaucracy, politics, and coordination costs among teams means that projects are completed at a snail’s pace, if it all. You often see this complaint among people at large companies, where these dynamics can be especially pronounced. You also tend to hear about it in certain industries with a reputation for slowness.

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The ShowMe column #agileWeeklyTip

Growing Agile

Add a ShowMe column to your board. . Bob has just completed a task. His task was to create the test case for a successful credit card transaction. He moves the task into ShowMe and finds someone on his team. In 5 minutes Bob has showed Julia (a developer on his team) his test case and made a few modifications based on feedback from Julia. The task can now move to done. .

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What are ITTOs Part 2: Definitions | Video

Online PM Courses

ITTO: Inputs, Tools, Techniques, Outputs. So, what do each of those terms mean? Dr Mike Clayton is founder of Online PM Courses.com. Here, he answers this question, in under 5 minutes. Project Management in Under 5. What are the ITTO Definitions? You may also like… What are ITTOs. What is the PMI? . What is the PMBOK? Please: subscribe to our YouTube Channel by clicking here.

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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.