Sat.Apr 02, 2022 - Fri.Apr 08, 2022

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How to do Rolling Wave Planning

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Rolling wave planning, also known as progressive elaboration, is an iterative planning technique to use when it’s difficult (or pointless) to schedule too far ahead. The APM Planning, Scheduling, Monitoring and Control Guide (2015) defines rolling wave planning as ‘the planning density that is achieved at different moments in time. Primarily more detailed planning in the immediate future and less detailed planning towards the end of the project.’.

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5 Tips for Returning To Work After Maternity Leave

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I’ve had two periods of maternity leave and returning to work after having a baby doesn’t get easier the second time! I did do a little freelance work during my maternity leave, supported by my wonderful family, and my book, Shortcuts to Success , was published. But after that it was time to take it up a gear and get back to work properly.

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Which estimation methods are favored for adaptive delivery?

Kiron Bondale

If you ever find yourself wanting to inject some energy into a cross-functional gathering of delivery staff and stakeholders, ask for their opinion on estimates. For every person who adamantly insists that estimates are needed to support proper governance, someone else will argue that the inherent wrongness of an estimate and how estimates are abused will wipe out any benefits of defining them.

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Mind The (Scrum) Gap!

Scrum.org

I’ve been part of the Scrum community for about 12 years. In this period, I’ve noticed a clear pattern in the majority of Scrum-related threads on social media like LinkedIn, Medium, Twitter, and so on. As a community, we excel at putting our fingers on the sore spots of what teams and organizations do wrong. We are also very good at contrasting this with the ideal state of Scrum.

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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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How to Avoid Team Burnout

LiquidPlanner

For World Health Day this year, we want to talk about burnout prevention. This is a very important and popular topic as there has been a significant rise in burnout rates among all professions. The Great Resignation is underway for a reason that appears to have accelerated from the pandemic. Today, 58% of employees report burnout, up from 45% in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Useful history, or not?

Musings on Project Management

Is keeping project history valuable? Doesn't every project office have at least cost history? Isn't all parametric pricing based on history? Yes, Maybe, Yes. respectively, to the above! And, could there be parametric estimating without history (*)? No, definitely not.Or, could there be project, event, or risk statistics without history? (**) No!

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Roman Pichler: The Product Owner

Scrum.org

In this energizing 38th Hands-on Agile session, Roman Pichler delved into your questions on the role of the Product Owner. The topics range from product manager vs. Product Owner vs. business analyst to the right size of a Product Backlog to linking product vision to Product Goal and Sprint Goal. ?? Watch the video now: Roman Pichler: The Product Owner — Hands-on-Agile #38. ??

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Top Six SaaS Tool Marketing Tactics To Follow In 2022

Proofhub

Over the past few years, SaaS applications have grown manifold in terms of usage across various industries. Software as a service has been the fastest-growing segment since 2010, and businesses are now investing 50% more in these cloud-based technologies than they did a couple of years ago. A recent research reports that 73% of organizations indicated nearly all their apps will be SaaS by 2021.

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How To Take A Sideways Step In The Job Market

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Are you going up? Sometimes you don’t need to take a promotion in order to get a new job or to get ahead in the career stakes. Taking a sideways move is just as valuable and can get you where you want to go, faster. The career path for many types of jobs is pretty straightforward. For a project manager, it often looks like this. Start on project support and small projects, manage bigger and bigger projects, then become a program manager — a role that, according to salary survey data

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Strategic Project Finance Essentials: A Project Manager’s Guide to Financial Metrics

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

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A New Direction for PMI’s PMBOK® Guide Seventh Edition

MPUG

The Project Management Institute (PMI) has gone through quite the metamorphosis over the past few years, positioning itself once again as one of the top authorities on how project management is practiced. However, those of us who just so happened to pick up or download a copy of the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK)® Guide Seventh Edition , the most recent edition published in 2021, may have noticed it’s quite different.

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5 things I learned about Scrum from Star Wars

Scrum.org

If you are a Star Wars fan like me, then you know that Star Wars is more than a story; it’s an Epic which holds many important life lessons. Below are the top five things I learned about Scrum from Star Wars. . #1 Do or do not. There is no try. Star Wars: Episode V. The Empire Strikes Back. 1980. . One of the most memorable quotes from the Star Wars franchise comes from Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, when Yoda demonstrates to Luke that he must believe in the Force to use the Force.

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Task Dependencies in Project Management: Best Practices

Ganttic

According to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) , all tasks should have a dependency. That’s because, in project management, all tasks are related. And by not indicating task order and relationships, you can inadvertently put your project schedule in harm’s way. How so? Well, unclear directives, a lack of focus, and an unrealistic schedule are all main drivers of project failure.

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Why do projects fail? (Includes examples!)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

It’s easy to find examples of high-profile projects that fail. The ones that hit the papers are often public sector projects because their audits and budgets are more open to scrutiny. Here are some high-profile failed projects: Following an internal review, Multiplex, the Australian development company responsible for the reconstruction of the Wembley Stadium, became aware that costs for the project were escalating to the point that the company would make a loss of £750 million on the project.

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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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Closing A Project with MS Project

MPUG

A project, unlike an operation, is a temporary endeavor. Because of this fact, every project will have a beginning and an end. There can be multiple projects launched within a program life cycle or a product life cycle. It’s also possible that a project can be specifically chartered within a portfolio, or a greenfield project can be launched independently by an organization.

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Roman Pichler über den Product Owner — 38. Hands-on-Agile Meetup DE

Scrum.org

In Kürze: Roman Pichler über die Product Owner Rolle — HoA #38. In dieser spannenden 38. Hands-on Agile-Session ging Roman Pichler auf eure Fragen zur Product Owner Rolle ein. Die Themen reichen von Produktmanager vs. Product Owner vs. Business Analyst über die richtige Größe des Product Backlogs bis hin zur Verknüpfung von Produktvision und Product Goal und Sprint Goal. ??

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How a Top Telecom Company Adopted Demand Management Software and Streamlined Their Projects

Planview

Demand management software helps companies improve productivity, reduce bottlenecks, and make better-informed decisions. It can transform the way organizations plan and execute projects. But there’s a catch. If employees don’t know how to use this technology, there’s no point in implementing it. For all the time and resources organizations invest in new software, they often experience a similar challenge ­­­– a resistance to change from within.

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20 Books on Communication in the Workplace

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Communication in the workplace is what we all do, day in, day out. Our ability to communicate with colleagues makes the difference between people taking us seriously, doing what we ask (without too much hassling) and our ability to influence others. So it is worth spending some time thinking about how to improve your communication skills for work. Books are a great way to learn different techniques and see how others use their skills.

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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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Introduction to Agile Scrum Project Management – with Alexis Allen | Video

Online PM Courses

Scrum is the most widely-used Agile Project Management methodology. Alexis Allen is an Agile Coach, ScrumMaster and IT Project Manager. The post Introduction to Agile Scrum Project Management – with Alexis Allen | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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¿Debe el Product Owner y el Scrum Master atender la daily?

Scrum.org

Me cuesta mucho imaginarme una capacitación sin que algun participante me pregunte por la daily. . Sin duda la daily es el evento por excelencia cuando hablamos de agilidad de negocio. . Cuando llego de nuevo a una organización es el primer evento que siempre han implementado, por decir algo, pero que es exactamente una daily. ¿Qué es esto de la daily?

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Risk Management: Possible Types of Risks

Management Yogi

I receive many questions on Risk Management - particularly from the customers of my new risk management courses and readers of risk management book. Many times, there is a lack of clarity on possible type of risks.Hence, I decided to write the possible types of risks that came to my mind and referenced my new course: RMP Live Lessons, Guaranteed Pass.

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How What You Say Affects You At Work

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Do you think about what you say at work? Alfonso Bucero certainly does. He presented at PMI Global Congress EMEA in Dublin on the subject of why we should choose our words carefully. “During many years as a project manager, I was not conscious about the consequences of the words I used with my team members, customers and other stakeholders,” Bucero said. “Many times your words can have more power than you imagine.

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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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PM, Strategy, and Key Resources – Business Model Canvas

The Strategic Project Manager

Key Resources encompass people as well as other important assets that are needed in order to execute a business model. As with managing projects, without Key Resources, nothing will happen! This post provides an overview of the Key Resources block on the business model canvas, provides related considerations for organizational strategy, and outlines the impact on project management.

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Roman Pichler über den Product Owner — 38. Hands-on-Agile Meetup ????

Scrum.org

In Kürze: Roman Pichler über die Product Owner Rolle — HoA #38. In dieser spannenden 38. Hands-on Agile-Session ging Roman Pichler auf eure Fragen zur Product Owner Rolle ein. Die Themen reichen von Produktmanager vs. Product Owner vs. Business Analyst über die richtige Größe des Product Backlogs bis hin zur Verknüpfung von Produktvision und Product Goal und Sprint Goal. ??

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How To Create A New, Better Normal For Your Team Post Covid-19

Proofhub

COVID-19 situation is changing with every passing day. There is clarity on how long things are going to remain like this. While governments all across the globe are doing their best to minimize the damages people and businesses are suffering, there’s still a lot that needs to be done. Everyone is learning and trying to build a plane as they fly. After all, there isn’t a guidebook that prepares you for adversities like this.

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New Updates | Release 27 Summary

LiquidPlanner

Release 27 | March 17, 2022. This release delivers additional functionality for our Slack Integration and a redesigned Timesheet so teams can communicate more effectively about the status and progress of their work. Timesheet Redesign. Timesheets have a new look and some important updates that make time tracking easier. Read more here. See Upcoming Tasks in Slack.

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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.