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4 Categories of Project Management Methods

Rebel’s Guide to PM

(This post contains affiliate links. Read my full disclosure.). What is a method in project management? A method is how you do something. It’s the way you achieve a result; the steps you take to get the output or the deliverable. Think back to when you did science experiments at school. I had to write out the method, explaining how I did the experiment including the steps I used and the equipment that was needed.

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Negative feedback: good or evil?

Musings on Project Management

The question is posed: Is negative feedback good or evil?Answer: Good!Really? Yes, 'negative' is good.Ooops: did I mention what feedback is? Generally it is a sample or portion of an outcome, or something quite similar but directly related to an outcome.Here's the thing: 'Positive' feedback is reinforcing, agreed, but that may not be a good thing.

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What is a Statement of Work? Definition & Examples

ProjectManager.com

No matter what industry you’re in, the one constant throughout the project life cycle of a project is paperwork. There is always plenty of paperwork to create, have approved, file and finally archive. All of those project management documents are important, but the Statement of Work (SOW) is easily one of the most important because it’s made at the outset of a project and outlines everything that needs to go into your project.

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Six signs that you might be inheriting a sick schedule

Kiron Bondale

We’d all like to lead projects from start to finish, but the reality is that often times the project manager who kicked it off won’t be the one who turns the lights off at the end. Steve McQueen said “We deal in lead, friend” and a fitting motto for project managers is “We deal in change” and that includes our own role.

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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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Project Management Camp: A 10-week intensive development experience

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Project Management Camp 2021 starts on 20 September 2021 and is now accepting applications. Learn more and apply here. How would you feel if you had an impartial, independent, skilled friend to turn to when you need a second opinion about a tricky work problem? Someone who wouldn’t judge (you, at least), who would give you honest advice and then follow up to make sure it actually worked?

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What Is Organizational Planning in Project Management?

ProjectManager.com

If you’re looking to start or grow a business (or just keep a business profitable), you need a business plan. But not all plans are the same. If you need to define your business and its objectives, you need to use organizational planning. That planning provides a clear path forward. When you organize the various departments of your business, everyone knows what their function is—and the tasks and processes necessary to achieve your business goals.

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16 Creative Reward Ideas To Recognize Your Best Employees

Proofhub

Source: [link] According to an O.C. Tanner Learning Group white paper , 79% of people who quit their jobs say they did so due to “lack of appreciation.” Furthermore, a poll by Gallup revealed that out of the one billion full-time workers globally, only 15% of them are actively engaged at work , meaning 85% of them dislike their job?—?and more specifically, their boss.

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Creating Psychological Safety for a High-Performing Team

Project Bliss

As a project manager and team lead, creating psychological safety is an essential part of creating and maintaining high-performing teams. What is Psychological Safety? Psychological safety refers to feeling like we have permission to express our thoughts and feelings, even those that may seem unpopular or controversial. It also includes having access to information about others’ actions and decisions.

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SAFe Easy Explained (Part2): Basic Idea and Most Important Terms

Inloox

The SAFe method is based on the Lean philosophy and offers a fixed framework in which Scrum and other agile management methods can be scaled to the entire company. In the previous part of this series, we already explained the basic core competencies and principles needed to successfully implement SAFe in the enterprise. Although the Scaled Agile Framework was designed to provide a simple introduction with a lot of familiar terms, roles, and methods, the concept is so broad that it may seem very

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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 Create a Flawless Implementation Schedule for a Project

ProjectManager.com

Projects require an implementation plan, and that plan requires an implementation schedule. A schedule defines when project phases will start and end. Those dates might change depending on risk and constraints, but without an implementation schedule, things quickly go off track. Getting your strategic plan into action requires an implementation schedule.

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Do We Need Agile Coaches when Practicing Scrum?

Scrum.org

TL; DR: Agile Coaches vs. Scrum Masters. Do We Need Agile Coaches when Practicing Scrum? Don’t get me wrong; my LinkedIn profile states “Professional Scrum Trainer, Agile Coach, and Scrum Master,” as ‘agile coach’ is an important search term. (Many seem to confuse agile coach with Scrum Master or believe both terms can be used interchangeably. However, that should not be a reason to reduce your chances of meeting a new employer or client.).

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Two Real-World Stories: Cultivating a Single Source of Truth

Planview

How does a large enterprise cultivate a single source of truth across teams, departments, continents, and solutions? Planview enlisted not one, but two global Fortune 500 customers to tell their transformation stories during a “ Fireside Chat: Power of Having One Single Source of Truth.” Each company is a trailblazer in evolving PPM to meet stakeholder needs and achieve strategic objectives.

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Sketching out the architecture

Musings on Project Management

I was recently directed toward an interesting site (blog, presentations, etc) by Simon Brown, and his download presentation about "sketching the architecture" that more or less reinforces my idea that: "If you can't draw it, you can't build it." Box modelFrom this idea flows my "box model" approach to setting down high level narrative (business story with context), major functions (boxes) and.

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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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Identifying and Overcoming Resource Constraints in Project Management

ProjectManager.com

Resources are what you need to execute your project plan—people, equipment and materials. Managing those resources is part of how you deliver a successful project. Each task in your project plan will have project resources like people, time and a budget attached. Therefore, you must know their availability to schedule them. That’s a resource constraint, and project managers must learn how to manage those constraints in order to keep the project moving forward.

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How to use Evidence-Based Management and Scrum (Part 1): Bridging EBM goals with the Scrum Guide 

Scrum.org

. Scrum.org developed its Evidence-Based Management (EBM) practices placing a strong emphasis on goals and experimentation. EBM's key value areas are also important, but the critical focus is on goals and how to use them to achieve further organizational gain. This part I of a three-part series will focus on goals. We’ll examine how the goals set out in the EBM guide correspond to the Scrum Guide and some tools and formats for setting workable goals.

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6 Amazing Tips to Boost Team Morale in 2021

nTask

Whenever we think about successful companies and businesses in the organizational paradigm, we always think that they are just well-oiled machines that are run on increased productivity and generating a ridiculous amount of revenue. But in reality, there is so much more to it than that. The most successful companies that are operating in the organizational world are the places that institutionalize the process of keeping their employees feeling more engaged with their work.

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Strategic Adaptability in the Face of Change

PM Times

In late 2019/early 2020, the Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice (DEHSP) developed a comprehensive strategic plan that outlined the key focus areas, objectives, and milestones the division planned to accomplish by 2024. The strategic plan was being disseminated right as the world was grappling with the uncertainty, fear, and panic of the COVID-19 […].

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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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How Do We Organize around Business Capabilities in Large Scale Agile Transformation?

Leading Agile

Most large organizations we work with don’t have their organizational structures and systems aligned around their customers and markets. The trouble is, if this is the case, your processes aren’t going to matter. So how do we take our biggest clients on the journey to business Agility so they reach a point of alignment between their structures and customers/markets?

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Inspection and the Product Backlog - Back to the foundations of the Scrum framework (17)

Scrum.org

Scrum is founded on empirical process control, and inspection is one of the three pillars. Each of the Scrum Artifacts is inspected in one or more Scrum Events to detect undesired variances. If you feel something isn’t running as expected, have a good look with your team at your Artifacts what could be going on. Inspection is about detecting undesirable variances in progressing towards agreed goals.

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Defining Your Productivity Style and Using It for Smarter Working

nTask

How many times have you felt that nothing works for you? Nothing can set you on track? Or working with timetables/schedules is not your thing? Don’t worry, you are not the only one who has faced this monster of unproductivity. Things that work for others might not work for you. Following to-do lists might have helped your colleague deliver work on time, but it might become an exhaustive routine for you.

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Repeat bookings enhancement, visual refresh, API improvements, and much more

Resource Guru

It’s been a while since our last product update. We’re committed to letting you all know what we’ve been up to at a more regular cadence going forward, so keep an eye on the app and this blog for new posts. We’ve had an incredibly busy 2021 on all fronts, so let’s dive right in and see what’s been going on with our product over the last few months.

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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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The Principles of Being a Good Steward – PMBOK 3.1

Bridge the Gap Consulting

“Stewards act responsibly to carry out activities with integrity, care, and trustworthiness while maintaining compliance with internal and external guidelines. They demonstrate a broad commitment to financial, social, and environmental impacts of the projects they support.” – PMBOK, pg 24. Stewardship can mean different things to different people.

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The 2 Best Product Owners I Ever Worked With – The Proxy Product Owner

Scrum.org

A few years back I wrote 2 popular posts that talked about the best Scrum Masters I ever worked with. This time around I am going to share some stories about the best Product Owners I have encountered. The first Product Owner (Matthew) was successful because he was empowered. You can read more about Matthew – The Empowered Product Owner. The 2nd Product Owner, Gerry was not empowered but was still successful.

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9 Workflow Automation SaaS Software to Boost Your Productivity

nTask

The market growth of workflow management systems has seen steady growth for many years now. This is because more and more professionals are realizing that their work will be better organized and executed if their whole workflow is properly thought out and managed first. This post will highlight the best workflow automation SaaS apps you can use today.

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Agile Asanas: Scrum Inputs and Outputs 2021 (Sprint I/O) - Part 1

Management Yogi

The Scrum Guide has changed and it has come with a number of new concepts such as Product Goal, Lean Thinking, Commitment based Artifacts among others. With the new Scrum Guide, you can also see changes to the various events of Scrum. [ This post is part of the Agile Asanas series. To read all posts in Agile Asanas series, use this link. ]At the heart of Scrum is Sprint, which as per the Scrum.

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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.