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The 5 Cs of Acknowledgment: Courage – We Need Lion-Hearted Leaders!

International Institute for Learning

By Judith W. Umlas Why is courage necessary to tell a colleague know how much you value him, the difference he makes on your team, and his unique contributions? Shouldn’t such acknowledgments take humility? Possibly. Generosity? Perhaps. Attentiveness?

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Wrike Vs Smartsheet vs nTask: Which Project Management Tool is Better For Your Business?

nTask

Are you trying to decide which project management tool is the best fit for your business? With so many options, it can be difficult to choose. But don't worry!

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Uncovering the Role of Risk Owners in Agile Projects

Project Risk Coach

It's a simple question, "Who owns the risks in agile projects?" However, I find many people need help when I ask. In this article, let's uncover the role of risk owners and how to perform risk management in agile projects. What is a Risk Owner?

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An Effective 3-Step Change Management Process For Project Managers

The Digital Project Manager

It might be cliche, but it’s true, the only constant in life is change. Right? If you’re a digital project manager (or aspire to be one) you probably know all too well how important it is to have an effective change management process.

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Everything You Need to Know About Crypto

Speaker: Ryan McInerny, CAMS, FRM, MSBA - Principal, Product Strategy

This exclusive webinar with Ryan McInerny will teach you all about cryptocurrency and NFTs! Register to learn more about identifying crypto transactions, crypto asset market trends, managing risk and compliance, and supporting customers and partners using crypto-based payments.

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17 Marketing Project Manager Software Solutions of 2023

nTask

Are you a marketing project manager looking for the best software solutions to help you manage your projects in 2023? Look no further! In this article, we will be taking a look at the top 17 software solutions that will make your job easier and more efficient.

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9 Trello Alternatives for Personal Use in 2023

nTask

Are you looking for a great Trello alternative in 2023? If so, look no further! In this blog post, we'll be taking a closer look at nine top Trello alternatives for personal use that can help you stay organized and productive.

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15 Free PMO Templates for Excel and Word

ProjectManager.com

A PMO, or project management office, can be an internal department or an external group or agency that defines and maintains the standards for a company’s project management. There are three types; supportive, controlling and directive and each has varying degrees of involvement.

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Transformation Corner: Continuous Learning in Project Management from the Navy

MPUG

Project management has many practical applications across various fields. It’s enlightening to explore the similarities and differences in project management fundamentals and advanced techniques, as they’re applied in different industries.

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If you had it, could you spend it in a month?

Musings on Project Management

Here's the challenge: On your project, if you had it in hand could you spend $1M in a month?Take Take a minute and think about it.Actually, take a minute and estimate the possibilities.Does money solve all the problems?Consider::If Consider::If it's just a workforce issue (marching army costs), then:If you've got 100 people with an annual payroll of $15-20M, then yes, it's possible, even likelyIf you've got 20 estimate Project Management

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Exploring the Overlap: Cost Optimization and Digital Transformation

Speaker: Alex Jiménez, Managing Principal, Financial Service Consulting for EPAM

The largest banks have increased reserves for protection against deteriorating economic conditions. Should banks delay their digital transformation investments and focus on cost reductions? In this webinar, Alex Jiménez will walk us through that question and examine the prudent course of action.

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What is Agile All About?

Scrum.org

If you’re a newcomer to all of this, you might be asking yourself: What is Agile even all about? How can organizations such as your own profit from becoming more agile? To understand what Agility is, we have to go back to how things are being done without Agile.

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Operations Management: Key Functions, Roles and Skills

ProjectManager.com

Whether you’re a big or small business and no matter what product you manufacture or service you provide, you’re always looking to deliver the highest quality and greatest value for your customers. One way to achieve these goals is through operations management.

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We Don’t Always Start Fresh

PM Times

Project Management texts usually assume we’re starting at the beginning of a project, with control over scope, schedule, and resources.

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Key Components of the DevOps Pipeline?

Agilemania

Concerns were voiced in the IT operations and software development sectors from 2007 to 2008 about the old software development paradigm that split operations from developers regarding how code was distributed and supported. As a result, the DevOps movement was established.

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The Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020: Initial Catalysts, Current Implications, and Future Impacts

Speaker: Elizabeth "Paige" Baumann, Founder and CEO of Paige Baumann Advisory, LLC

In this session, Elizabeth “Paige” Baumann will cover the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020, which also includes the Corporate Transparency Act. She'll take a deep dive into the catalysts that brought on the act, the current implications of the act, and what impacts the act has on the future of banking and finance.

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How Facilitation is Key to Effective Scrum Events

Scrum.org

As an agile coach I often have Scrum Masters come up to me because management is complaining there are too many meetings in Scrum and that their developers aren't 100% utilised on developing the products.

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5 Step Guide to Deploying Your Ad Agency Traffic Management System

Function Point

After spending weeks or months looking for an agency traffic management system, you finally decided which one makes the most sense for your agency workflow. What’s next?

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Webinar Highlights: Project for the web – How It Works and What You Can Do With It

MPUG

Please find highlights from Erik Van Hurck’s course – Project for the web: How It Works and What You Can Do With It – being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members.

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Connecting Product Roadmaps to Business Value

Leading Agile

Maximizing the value of product roadmaps requires more than just deeply understanding customers and muscling through a bunch of features. It requires that we bring together Product Managers and Enterprise Architects to collaboratively align the business and technology roadmaps.

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The Definitive Guide to Embedded Analytics

Data-driven decisions are no longer reserved for the few. Everyone needs data insights from the applications they use every day. Learn how embedded analytics is boosting user adoption, creating apps people love, and changing the game for software and SaaS providers.

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ChatGPT Product Owner Job Interview

Scrum.org

TL; DR: ChatGPT Product Owner Job Interview A few weeks ago, I ran a simulated job interview with ChatGPT for a fictitious Scrum Master position. Admittedly, I would not have invited this “interviewee” for an interview with other team members; however, the interview produced some remarkable answers.

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Schedule your day for focus: 6 steps toward a flow state for project teams

Resource Guru

When was the last time you were completely absorbed by a task? A time when you were so immersed in doing something, you forgot about the world around you? This is called the “flow state.” But as we’ve designed a world full of distractions, experiencing a flow state is a rare commodity these days.

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Resource Utilization Made Simple: Essence, Importance, and Ways to Optimize It

Epicflow Blog

How to make sure that a company utilizes its available resources wisely so that they are productive but aren’t overloaded? How to minimize downtime, and get the chance to increase a project’s profitability?

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The Project Profession and Bio-diversity. We need to mind our impacts.

Green Project Management

For many years I have been getting on soapboxes at conferences and in keynotes stating that “the project profession” is waking up to sustainability but is not paying enough attention to bio-diversity.

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Level up Culture & EQ | Sign up for the #CultureDrop

Once a week, culture & leadership expert Galen Emanuele gives free, actionable EQ training in 5 minutes or less. Subscribe to the #CultureDrop and access free resources & content.

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Why does Agile focus on values and principles rather than a prescribed set of steps?

Scrum.org

Why does Agile focus on values and principles rather than a prescribed set of steps? Agile exists to address the idea that no predetermined set of steps will lead to a predefined outcome. The problem has never been solved, nor has the solution ever been created, so you don’t know what you don’t know.

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Intellectual Imagination: Shaping the Future of Learning

International Institute for Learning

By Deepak Bansal “The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.” ” – Alfred N. Whitehead. We are living in a binary world.

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Can You Do Scrum without a Product Owner?

Leading Agile

If you don’t have a backlog that’s been influenced by the business, you’re merely going through the motions Agile. If the backlog items don’t result in working tested product at the end of the sprint, then it doesn’t matter how good you are at the ceremonies of Scrum or any other methodology.

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Feature Tip #7: Save Time & Streamline Adding New Work with Intake Forms

LiquidPlanner

Feel like you’re always chasing down details for new work requests? Always missing a few important bits of information at the start of your projects?

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Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualization Will Never Be Enough

Five years ago, data visualizations were a powerful way to differentiate a software application. Today, free visualizations seem to be everywhere. Two trends are forcing application providers to rethink how they offer analytics in their products.

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How Product Owners Can Maximize Value with Stakeholder Input

Scrum.org

In Scrum, the Product Owner’s purpose is to maximize the value of the Scrum Team’s work (the product). Delivering value to the customer (beneficial customer outcomes) is the ultimate measure of success for the Scrum Team, including the Product Owner.

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How to Create a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) in Excel: a Detailed Guide [Alternative Included]

GanttPRO Project Management

A work breakdown structure (WBS) is a fundamental project management tool that represents a hierarchical decomposition of projects.

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Taking Responsibility – Your First Choice as a Leader

International Institute for Learning

By Barry Moline The first time I volunteered to take on a big responsibility was so memorable, so impactful in the moment, that it has served as inspiration for my entire life. Now, don’t laugh… It happened in a hockey game… I was 16 years old in my rookie year as a hockey official.

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