ProjectManager.com
JUNE 17, 2020
Kanban, or billboard in Japanese, is a visual tool for scheduling. It was first introduced on the floor of the Toyota factory as a just-in-time manufacturing method that delivered just the materials needed at the time they were needed. Since that time, kanban has expanded and can be found throughout project management, used by teams that have never assembled a car.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
JUNE 15, 2020
When I regularly traveled into London, I’d be at my desk by 7.45am. I was often one of the first people in, and I know others noticed. In reality, I did it because I left work at 4.30pm, and that meant I could do my commute there and back and always get a seat on the train. Also, I’d be home by 7pm, and I could tuck my children into bed.
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Project Bliss
JUNE 15, 2020
These virtual team building activities can help your team build stronger bonds and work better together. Even if they’re not in the same room or even the same city. Team building exercises are an intentional way of strengthening bonds across the team. And this is even more important for you as a leader if your team members aren’t all in the same place and can’t work face to face.
PM Basics
JUNE 17, 2020
This is complete guide on leadership in project management. The cool thing about it? It’s full of practical tips. Why? It fully comes from my practical experience in managing software development projects for nine years. Here you’ll learn: What is leadership in project management in practice? How to lead without authority or title. How to manage senior-level experts (even if you a junior PM).
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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.
Kiron Bondale
JUNE 14, 2020
I’ll admit to being hyperbolic with the title of this article, but a question posed today in one of the project management LinkedIn discussion groups managed to sidetrack what I was intending to write about this week. The author asked what needs to be considered when planning risk responses. The majority of the answers offered focused on characteristics of the individual risks themselves such as their probability, impact, ability to be responded to and so on.
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Musings on Project Management
JUNE 14, 2020
Consider, if you will, this value system arranged as a Belief and an Operating Principle, adapted from "Maximizing Project Value" Chapter 1 (one of my books): Quality is free: We value doing the right job (value adding) in the right way (training and skill development) the first time (correct systemic errors). There is no substitute for ethical, honest, and transparent transactions: As.
The Digital Project Manager
JUNE 17, 2020
The post Why I Wrote The Book Metagility: Managing Agile Development For Competitive Advantage appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.
Growing Agile
JUNE 19, 2020
Much is said and written about the Agile Manifesto that if I were to write about it, I’m sure it wouldn’t be anything that hasn’t been said before. There is less material out there around the 12 agile principles that go along with the manifesto though, so I’d thought I’d put out there my own thoughts around these 12 sentences that help us understand how to apply the agile manifesto in our daily work.
Scrum.org
JUNE 15, 2020
TL; DR: Remote Agile Transitions. We are used to saying the Scrum is a perfect probe for organizations, as it will reliably discover all dysfunctionalities. Since the pandemic has forced many of us to work remotely, this unique capability has been kicked into overdrive regarding remote agile transitions. Here are my top-10 challenges of organizational change that remote Agile has made more urgent to address than ever before. ??
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 expend
MPUG
JUNE 15, 2020
As project managers, I suspect we’ve all considered starting or completing work in the future. When you think about it, although jumping ahead to tracking future work could seem handy, this ability has the potential to cause some problems, too. Would your cost and work reports be skewed? Would resource availability be a problem? Are task dependencies still valid?
ProProfs Project Management
JUNE 19, 2020
The whole world is suffering from the outbreak of the novel coronavirus. Countries like the USA, Italy, etc. used to be hailed for their unprecedented medical facility are facing their worst due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This virus has dramatically increased the recession rate; however, renowned companies are trying their best to prevent loss as they know their employees’ livelihood is on the stake.
Trello
JUNE 18, 2020
Many of us are constantly striving to grow professionally and personally in our lives. Every new year we set aside some time to establish brand new objectives and things we want to achieve. We start the year off with admirable willpower but it’s not uncommon to arrive at a point when our motivation drops off and our plans lose their luster.
Scrum.org
JUNE 16, 2020
"Scrum and Organizational Design in practice" is my contribution to Gunther Verheyen book "97 Things Every Scrum Practitioner Should Know" published by O'Reilly Media and resumes my latest experience as Scrum Practitioner on how to make a company's transformation implicit rather than explicit. . A company that has been around for more than 30 years, with all of its organizational habits and practices, is a much too complex system to change if you look at the whole.
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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.
MPUG
JUNE 14, 2020
Saving Time with Tips, Keyboard Shortcuts, and Macros. Project has many data manipulation tools and ways to set up easy access to different commands. Implementing these shortcuts will allow you to work faster and with less mistakes. Also, it will give you the advantage of having better control over your work schedule. Let’s get started! Tips. In your scope statement, make sure you clearly define what elements are not in your project’s scope to help you avoid scope creep, as it causes an increase
Teamweek
JUNE 15, 2020
Illustration: Annelise Capossela. There are many things my freelance life makes possible, from collaboration with great clients to midday workout classes. The common factor is flexibility. I have the freedom to take on more projects if I find interesting work I’m excited to do. I also have the freedom to cut back if I want to visit a new place and spend my time slowly traveling through it.
Ganttic
JUNE 16, 2020
The way that people have worked has changed drastically in the past hundred years. From the invention of the 8 hour workday, to Henry Ford’s creation of the weekends , to debates on whether we should cut the working day and week down even more. And now with the advent of better technology, employees are no longer tethered to their desks. Which means that in a lot of the places, the traditional brick and mortar offices are going the way of the Model T.
Scrum.org
JUNE 14, 2020
. There are many books and articles written differentiating between machines and people. An organization is a group of people. People are not machines or components, they have values, feelings, perceptions, opinions and motivation. An organization is not a physical entity but a network of people. Without those people the organization doesn’t exist.
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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.
Proofhub
JUNE 16, 2020
Your project management style is the difference between hard and smart work. Simply stating that a manager has a lot of responsibilities would be a gross understatement. However, it needs to be said anyway. Apart from putting out fires at the office, a manager is dealing with all sorts of clients and customers all day, and overseeing the progress of the team.
Teamweek
JUNE 17, 2020
Illustration: Virginia Gabrielli. If you could base your career path on your interests and skills, why wouldn’t you? Decades ago, the workforce was fairly stable. Employers could count on their employees staying for the long haul and employees could count on a job with benefits and a pension. Then came globalization, technological innovation and the gig economy.
Function Point
JUNE 17, 2020
Working within cross-functional teams can quickly turn into a frustrating game of Telephone if different functions aren’t on the same page. An increased dependence on multiple people and systems can often lead to misinformation, double-entry, or sometimes no information at all. This is most likely the result of what is commonly known as Information Silo or Data Silo.
Scrum.org
JUNE 18, 2020
With the change in business model in the current crisis, many training organizations have had to do the unthinkable and move to Live Virtual training options. Existing wisdom was that training online, just as running teams virtually would be a disaster and reduce the student's experience. We were Wrong! In-person pass rates are slightly lower 6% looking only at students from 2020.
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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.
MPUG
JUNE 18, 2020
We are again bringing you the latest products and services for enhancing Microsoft Project in a no pressure, stress-free environment this July. These sessions will demo the latest and greatest offerings. The products that MPUG features in this year’s Vendor Showcase address gaps in out-of-the-box functionality (and require product trial or purchase).
Leading Agile
JUNE 18, 2020
Listen to the SoundNotes Podcast on the go! Find and subscribe to SoundNotes on: Apple Podcasts. Google Play. Spotify. Soundcloud. RSS. Many organizations begin their journey toward becoming Agile by selecting a few initial teams or projects that are set up to test out how Agile will impact the organization and its ability to deliver work. LeadingAgile Senior Consultant Justin Polk joins Dave this week to discuss how to select and run an Agile pilot.
Hub Planner
JUNE 16, 2020
Reading Time: 6 minutes Booking Category Groups – Hub Planner’s new feature release for the Resource Management Tool. One of the core functions of Hub Planner is to quickly identify ‘Who is working on what right now?’ With the use of booking category groups, resource planners can streamline resource scheduling. Visibility is key.
Scrum.org
JUNE 19, 2020
1. Do you hold frequent, recurring product market discussions with stakeholders and Development Team members? 2. Do you or your Product Owner, review all features as development is underway, or do you wait until just prior to deployment? 3 & 4. Do you or your Product Owner, facilitate these reviews? If so, are these working sessions, or instead, are these simply status update meetings?
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.
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