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How to Make a Scope Management Plan

ProjectManager.com

Scope can make or break a project. If you’re not keeping a finger on the scope of the project, it can quickly go off-track, messing up your schedule and depleting the budget. That is how many projects fail. Yes, scope management is one more constraint a project manager must master, but then project managers love making plans to overcome challenges. A scope management plan is just another meaty piece of the project that any project manager will love to sink their teeth into.

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Zombie Projects and How to Kill Them

Rebel’s Guide to PM

One of the first things that project managers learn on training courses is that a project has a start, a middle and an end. Unfortunately, outside the classroom you’ll come across projects that don’t work like that. What is a zombie project? A zombie project is one that never ends. It simply consumes resources and carries on because no one has the foresight (or courage) to kill it off.

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Know Your Stakeholders

Project Management Essentials

Stakeholder management is one of the most critical project management functions. Stakeholders are our customers, organizational leaders, members of our project teams, and people we may not even know. The project manager’s ability to effectively identify, understand, and engage stakeholders is a key determinant of success. According to the Project Management Institute’s (PMI), 2018 Pulse of the.

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What are the 3 biggest mistakes that project managers make?

Susanne Madsen

In my role as a project leadership coach, trainer and facilitator I come across many project managers who are struggling to gain traction on their projects. They find it hard to get team members to commit, to gain buy-in from stakeholders and to win people over. They put in a lot of effort and complete a lot of work; yet they are not getting the results they want.

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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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Understanding the mismatched is another benefit of long-lived, stable teams

Kiron Bondale

In his latest book, Talking to Strangers , Malcolm Gladwell writes about the problems which can result when we expect that there is alignment between how people act and how they really feel internally. Gladwell call this the transparency problem and provides multiple examples to illustrate the challenges we face when we assume that what we see is what we get.

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A Short History of Project Management

MPUG

Have you ever wondered about the history of project management, or how it evolved into its’ present day usage? This article will cover most of the major project management happenings throughout history. The stages of time will cover the BC time period, the 1900’s where the root of modern project management was driven by the military, and we’ll end up looking at the ever evolving Agile methodology that more and more project manager are implementing now.

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How to Develop a Project Charter

Project Risk Coach

In this post I'm going to show you how to develop a project charter. In fact, these are the exact techniques that I used to create charters for small-budget to multi-million dollar projects. Let's kick things off by defining the project charter. Quick Navigation. What is a Project Charter? The Importance and Benefits of a Project Charter Agile Project Charters The Elements of a Project Charter What You Need for a Great Project Charter 1.

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Project Planning Process: Navigate the Many Steps You Need

Online PM Courses

The project planning process can be daunting to a new project manager. And to one with experience too. There are so many components, and steps to take. The post Project Planning Process: Navigate the Many Steps You Need appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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Design-Thinking and Project Management

Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

In today’s volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) business environment, organisations need speed, innovation and breakthrough solutions if they are to achieve. In a previous blog How to Structure Your Organisation to Drive Innovation , we discussed how strategic project management supplies the key ingredients for choosing and executing innovative products that align with an organisation’s overall strategy.

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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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Building And Managing Your Team

Stepping Into Project Management

You are as good as your team. If you have been trying to build a business for a while, then you might be thinking about building your team. Or at least getting a person or two onboard to help you manage everything that you have to do. It is hard to build a team, one that works efficiently, effectively and most importantly get on well. While you can build a successful company alone, you are going to want to grow and increase your ability.

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Issue-Free Projects Are the Exception, NOT the Norm

Bridge the Gap Consulting

I enjoy being part of project management panel discussions. Just when you think you’ve heard it all, someone asks a question or talks about a situation that blows your mind! In a recent panel discussion, one such comment came up. This person asked us how many of our projects have had issues because according to her PMO manager, NO project should EVER have issues if you’ve planned sufficiently.

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How to Use Agile Project Management to Deliver Results Every Time

LiquidPlanner

Imagine you are remodeling your kitchen. You submit your design to your contractor, and in a couple of months of planning and hard work, you have a remodeled kitchen. But after a week of using this kitchen, you decide that you want more drawers. To remove a cupboard and replace it with drawers at this point would be very expensive and challenging to do.

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Can a Sprint be Just One-Day Long?

Scrum.org

Scrum uses a concept called a “Sprint” to eliminate the risk of complex product development and deliver value sooner to stakeholders. These Sprints are no longer than 30 days in length. If you ask anyone doing Scrum how long their Sprints are, they will usually respond “2 weeks”. If you ask them why they’re doing 2-week Sprints, you will often get a puzzled look.

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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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seele – Eylean customer story

Eylean

About the company seele is one of the leaders in the world of façade and roof construction. Providing solutions for spectacular building skins and innovative façades is the responsibility of seele’s 1,000+ employees worldwide. From intelligent planning to efficient installation, seele provides everything necessary to complete ambitious architectural one-offs true to their original designs.

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Know all about your project in one place with Gantt chart

Proofhub

A Project Management Beginner’s Guide To Gantt Charts in 2019 Beginnings tend to be intimidating. That is why sometimes we find beginnings as the most difficult part of any journey. Over the years, I have experienced that people tend to have the same sense of paranoia associated with the usage of new tools and software solutions. Here at ProofHub , whenever a new team member joins, I see them being doubtful about using a Gantt chart, looking at and managing these boxes, lines, and arrows scares

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ElevateAgile: The Business Value of Agility w/ Marty Bradley

Leading Agile

At ElevateAgile, LeadingAgile Principal Consultant, Marty Bradley, led a session called “The Business Value of Agility.” The talk focused on the question of how organizations measure and understand the business benefits of adopting an Agile approach. All too often, organizations make a decision to “go agile” without defining the outcome they hope/want/expect from changing their approach to work.

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How to Improve Your eLearning Courses

TrustRadius Project Management

Today’s Community Contributor is John Chavez. He is a Human Resources manager and training specialist at iBASEt, where he manages the business’s LMS. He has over six years of eLearning content and LMS management experience. Check out his in depth reviews on various LMS and other business tools. Would you be surprised to learn that e-learning is now the fastest growing learning strategy for organizations?

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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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Integrated Project Environment To Keep The Small Team Feel

Eylean

Managing or working on a project really depends on the scale. Taking on a small effort usually means easy sailing, but tackling a more complex or large attempt is often followed with frustration. While there is very little we can do about the outside factors, creating an integrated project environment can guarantee even the largest … The post Integrated Project Environment To Keep The Small Team Feel appeared first on Agile Blog.

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A new voice a leader should listen to

Scrum.org

Do you always hear the same people speak up when you present a new idea or when you ask for feedback? You might be dealing with an important voice here. The voice of the system! A voice any leader should (learn to) listen to. If you don’t? It will never go away! This is how I would describe a system. The system is a complex entity that contains all the knowledge, emotions, thoughts and memories of the entire group of people.

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Review Brave New Work

Henny Portman

In his book Brave new work , Aaron Dignan shows how he views evolutionary (agile) organizations and what you can do to become a more agile organization. The book is made up of three parts. The first part – The future of our work shows how our work has changed as a result of technological progress and on the other hand that for many organizations this does not apply to management.

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All About the Capacity Line in Project Web App

MPUG

I had an interesting discussion with a colleague recently about how Project Online calculates the Capacity values for resources shown on the Capacity Planning page in Project Web App. As a result of this conversation, allow me to provide you with a brief overview of how Project Online calculates the Capacity values for each resource individually. Capacity , by the way, represents the resource’s commitment to project work.

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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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Digital Transformation Journey in Finance

Epicflow Blog

On their way to the improvement, every modern business, in a faster or slower way, is undergoing digital transformation. It’s the talk of the town, but ‘what is it?’, ‘why is it necessary?’, ‘how difficult is this path?’, and ‘what are its consequences?’ are the questions arising in the mind of those who haven’t initiated this process in their company yet.

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Daily Scrum Anti-Patterns: 20 Ways to Improve

Scrum.org

TL; DR: 20 Daily Scrum Anti-Patterns. In my experience, the Daily Scrum is the Scrum event with the highest anti-pattern density among all events. Learn more about the Daily Scrum anti-patterns that threaten to derail your transition. The Purpose of the Daily Scrum. The purpose of the Daily Scrum is clearly described in the Scrum Guide — no guessing is necessary: The Daily Scrum is a 15-minute time-boxed event for the Development Team.

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The new, super-fast, mobile-friendly Schedule is here!

Resource Guru

The new Schedule has just come out of beta! And we’ve never been this excited about a release before. That’s because it’s a massive upgrade to the old one and lays the foundation for all the other cool things we have on our roadmap. We have to admit, it’s taken way longer than we ever expected – and we have to apologize for that. But we know it’s been a worthwhile investment because the Schedule is the heart of Resource Guru.

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How to Stay Relevant At Work (Hint: It’s Called Upskilling)

Teamweek

When my grandmother retired after 40 years of teaching, she walked away with a gold watch and a generous pension. Today, you might get that tenure and those perks if you work for the government or the military, and even then, it’s a big IF. . Times have changed. Today, getting a raise usually means jumping ship for a higher-paying job. If you work for 40 years, it probably isn’t for the same employer, and keeping your job requires more than just picking up experience as you go.

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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.