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4 Reasons Project Management Skills Should be a Priority in Early Education

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This is a guest article by Brantlee Underhill, Managing Director, PMI, North America. The pandemic of 2020 and beyond has revealed a plethora of urgent needs across various aspects of society. One of those needs that cannot be ignored is the importance of school-aged children feeling a sense of independence and ownership when it comes to their education.

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What Is a Risk Register & How to Create One

ProjectManager.com

What is a Risk Register? A risk register is a tool in risk management and project management. It is used to identify potential risks in a project or an organization, sometimes to fulfill regulatory compliance but mostly to stay on top of potential issues that can derail intended outcomes. While the risk register is mostly used during the execution of the project, it’s part of your risk management plan, which must be given serious consideration by project managers during the project planning phas

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Tuckman Model of Team Development: Forming Storming Norming Performing

Project Bliss

The Tuckman model of team development describes the stages that groups go through as they mature. By moving from forming, storming, norming, and performing, your team will perform well and produce great work. Learn how to identify and help your team move through these stages of development to get the best from your team and your projects. This guide works even if you’re working with a virtual team.

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The specifics of how you deliver really doesn’t matter (to your executives)

Kiron Bondale

I’ve worked in the delivery space for thirty years. Over that time, I’ve seen delivery approaches rise and fall and wars about ways of working rage on. Frameworks, tooling, nomenclature, roles and rituals have changed, but one thing hasn’t. Most executives don’t care how you deliver as long as business objectives are met. The question they want answered is not which framework to pick but rather what they need to do to get their business results.

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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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6 reasons to get certified in project management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This is an article by Krishna Kumar, CEO of Simplilearn Solutions. Krishna Kumar, CEO of Simplilearn Solutions. Have you ever wondered why, after spending roughly 15 to 17 years of our life in the process of completing your formal education, most of us follow the same routine of job hunting, rejection, and sometimes, selection in this fiercely competitive, dog-eat-dog world?

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Quick and Easy: How to Manage Your Tasks with the Eisenhower Principle

Inloox

The Eisenhower Matrix was named after the former US president of the same name, Dwight D. Eisenhower, who is said to have developed this method and even taught it himself. To this day, the Eisenhower Principle is a proven and widely used tool for prioritizing personal tasks. The method is based on the concept of effectiveness. It is not about getting things done right but doing the right things first.

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Velocity. The Revolutionary Way to Measure in Scrum

Scrum.org

Almost everybody has heard of Scrum and no sooner do we learn of its existence, we hear about 'velocity'. But what is it and what part does it play in Scrum? Let's take a look. . Definition of Velocity. Let's start with a definition of velocity within the context of Scrum. I've deliberately broken this down into small phrases as each phrase deserves an explanation: Velocity is: The Amount of work.

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Forget everything you think you know about project management training

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Project management training courses are everything you need only part of what you need to succeed in this job. We’re flipping the script. For too long, this profession has been all about getting the certification and ticking the box to say you’ve taken an exam. Let’s set the record straight about what it takes to build a successful project management career – which means having the skills to do the job and the confidence to work with senior executives without feeling like a secretary.

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What Is Quality Planning & Why Is It Important?

ProjectManager.com

Projects are successful when they end on time and within budget. But if you don’t meet the quality expectations of your stakeholders, it doesn’t matter how fast you delivered—you failed. To avoid this, focus on quality planning. Create a quality plan before you start your project to consistently meet the expectations of your stakeholders. What Is Quality Planning?

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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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How To Talk About Risk And Have Everyone Listen (with Shashwati Roy)

The Digital Project Manager

The post How To Talk About Risk And Have Everyone Listen (with Shashwati Roy) appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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15-Minute Sprint Hypothesis

Scrum.org

Being a Product Owner is tough. Having the accountability for maximising value can sometimes feel like a huge weight is on your shoulders and sometimes - it's hard to know where to begin. As a Scrum Master, you’re accountable for helping to establish empirical product planning – but how could you do that? Optilearn have created a visualisation to help.

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Effectively Monitoring Project Risks

Project Management Update Submitted Articles

Project risk is defined by Project Management Institute as "an uncertain event or condition that, if it occurs, has a positive or negative effect on a project’s objectives.” Put it simply, to most project professionals, risk is the likelihood that a project will fail to meet its objectives.

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Material Requirements Planning (MRP): A Quick Guide

ProjectManager.com

Manufacturing requires the right balance of many factors. One of the most important is the inventory—the materials and components needed for the manufacturing process. The more efficiently a company handles this process, the more profit they will find. To this end, the manufacturing industry developed material requirements planning (MRP) to improve inventory efficiency.

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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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2022 Online and In-Person Events for Project/Resource Managers and Industry Professionals

Epicflow Blog

Are you thinking of attending an event to gain new knowledge, find out recent trends in your industry, share your experience with colleagues, or network with leading experts in your industry? You are welcome to choose the one to attend next year: in 2022, there’s going to be a number of conferences, gatherings, symposia, and other events both on- and offline.

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?? Adapt How You Lead for Agile Success — Johanna Rothman at the Agile Camp Berlin 2021

Scrum.org

TL; DR: Adapt How You Lead for Agile Success w/ Johanna Rothman — ACB21. Too many people say, “With agile, we don’t need no stinkin’ managers.” However, because managers create and refine the culture, modern managers create and refine the agile culture. Without modern management, any agile initiative will die. It’s time to invite managers to change their behaviors and create a real agile culture.

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The Ultimate Resource Forecasting Guide for Project Managers (2021 Updated)

Resource Guru

Resource forecasting in project management is much like a super-effective crystal ball. While it may not tell you when you should buy a lottery ticket, it can save you a lot of stress by estimating the project workload, the resources you need, and the best way to use them. Forecasting before a project kicks off is a way to ensure that you are prepared to go into your project appropriately staffed and are ready to respond when the unexpected occurs–which you can expect every time.

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New Updates | Release 19 Summary

LiquidPlanner

Release 19 | July 28, 2021. We’re excited to share another round of updates centered around usability enhancements, and adding more muscle to reporting with advanced filtering options & the ability to export timesheets. Read on to learn more about the latest updates. In this release, our featured improvements are Dashboard & Advanced Filtering , Quick Add and Task Import.

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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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5 Ways to Remove a Risk Entirely | Video

Online PM Courses

There are 6 (maybe 7) strategies for managing risk. But one is the most powerful of all, if you can make it work: removing a risk entirely. The post 5 Ways to Remove a Risk Entirely | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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6 Biggest Challenges Facing the Professional Services Organizations in 2021

EasyProjects

Just like any other industry, professional services are facing a never-ending onslaught of challenges. Despite numerous opportunities for success, there are constant forces that act against companies in this sector. Along with other mounting issues in the economy and constantly changing business climate, organizations need to adapt to changes within their respective markets and internal demands.

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3 Organizational Change Management Strategies That Make Growth Easy

Trello

How does your team react when you announce a new change? They’re not likely to jump for joy. In fact, you’ll probably hear silence at first. That’s because our innate reaction to change is fear—it’s part of the fight-or-flight response.

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How to claim PDUs after Leading SAFe (SA) training?

Agilemania

Assuming you have a certification with PMI, attending the Leading SAFe session entitles you to 15 PDUs for your PMP & PgMP, and here is how to claim them. Step-1: Login to your PMI account. Step-2: Navigate to the ‘New Class’ page. Alternately You can also access the ’New Class’ using the link [link]. Step-3: Fill in Agilemania as the Provider. Step-4: Key in Leading SAFe as the name of your course.

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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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Agile Asanas: Scrum Sprint Inputs and Outputs 2021 (Sprint I/O)(2)

Management Yogi

This is in continuation of Part – 1, which you can read by going to the below link.Agile Asanas: Scrum Sprint Inputs and Outputs 2021 (Sprint I/O) – Part 1[ This post is part of the Agile Asanas series. To read all posts in Agile Asanas series, use this link. ]I’ll strongly recommend that you read the Part – 1, before proceeding with this post. In the earlier part, we have discussed A brief on.

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Locus of Blame, Elevate Agile, and Speaking with Authority

Leading Agile

Listen to the SoundNotes Podcast on the go! Find and subscribe to SoundNotes on: Apple Podcasts. Spotify. Soundcloud. RSS. This episode of SoundNotes is an interview with LeadingAgile CEO, Mike Cottmeyer who takes on 3 separate topics during the interview: 1. Locus of Blame (01:38). Things happen. They don’t always happen the way we want them to. You get a flat tire on the way to a job interview, your supplier is late resulting in a massive delay in your delivery of a project, there’s a pandemic

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How Online Proofing Leads to Easy Approvals

Function Point

Think about your current proofing process. It needs some work, doesn’t it? It’s okay. Though proofing is one of the most important aspects of an agency’s workflow, it’s really hard to do efficiently. Few parts of the marketing agency proofing process are within your control, often you’re waiting for the client to review files before signing off. As we’re all aware, this can slow down the project’s process.

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Dashboards & Advanced Filtering

LiquidPlanner

Updated October 5th, 2021. As part of Release 19 , dashboards and advanced filtering received a big update. During our Beta phase we tested Workspace Dashboards, but they weren’t quite ready when we launched back in April. We spent some time polishing them up and we’re excited to make them available now. NEW: Workspace dashboards are back and better than ever!

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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.