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Managing Team Clashes: Tips and Strategies for Conflict Resolution

MPUG

I remember the day clearly: I slipped into the office 15 minutes late thanks to a transit delay, feeling slightly frazzled. As I sat down at my work station, I noticed that the office — despite most of my colleagues being there — was so quiet you could hear a pin drop. In my absence, I’d missed one of our team members “blowing up,” apparently shouting at the project manager about some frustrations he had with the project.

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Your Realistic Guide To Beating Burnout (Because A Vacation Isn’t The Answer)

Trello

Is your first thought when your alarm goes off each morning — “Oh no, not again?”.

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Disciplined Agile: To Agility and Beyond

Project Management Essentials

Disciplined Agile (DA) has the potential to become a leading agile framework because it creates harmony in this congested thought-space. DA recognizes practices from across the spectrum and offers a pragmatic and context-driven approach to agility. Currently, DA is not widely used. In the State of Agile Report, it does not make the list of top methodologies.

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What to Do When a Project Fails: How to Document and Share Lessons Learned

Planio

Not every project goes as planned. And while it’s great to celebrate your wins, the best teams (and project managers!) know it’s just as important to dig into your failures and capture lessons learned. Unfortunately, when a project fails, the last thing most people want to do is dig into why it did. Failure sucks. But whether it’s pride or future deadlines that cause you to turn a blind eye, ignoring failed projects as a source of future knowledge is a huge mistake.

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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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14 Project Management Tips For Better Team Collaboration

Workzone

You have a way that you’re doing your projects, and then you have the way that you should be doing your projects. Those are the project management best practices. As your team scales and grows, you’ll want to have the right tech stack in place to help you navigate that rapid growth phase. You’ll save yourself more time and hours when you’ve optimized your tools to work for you and not against you.

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A Comprehensive List of the 15 Best Project Management Podcasts

GoSkills

There is no scarcity of resources for someone who wants to learn on a busy schedule. Here are 15 of the best project management podcasts that you can listen to on the go.

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The yin and yang of project leadership™ 

Susanne Madsen

Provide your team with the best conditions for growth In order to provide your team with the best conditions for growth and enable them to generate optimal results on the project, you must do two things; First you must demand a great outcome, and second, you must enable your team to generate that outcome. You have to ask challenging questions, set high standards and expect the best quality on the one hand, and on the other you have to provide the team with all the support it needs to deliver.

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Design Thinking: Human Centered Design for Innovative Problem-Solving

Project Bliss

What Is Design Thinking? Design Thinking is a human centered approach to innovative problem-solving. Design Thinking seems to be a hot buzzword these days. You’ve likely heard it mentioned in meetings or hallway talk around the office. And you may be thinking that it’s something best left to engineers or the R&D team. But Design Thinking is a valuable problem-solving and design approach that can be used by many different teams.

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Project Management Framework Types, Key Elements & Best Practices

ProjectManager.com

A project never exists in a vacuum. A project is executed by a team within an organization that has some sort of a project management framework established to enable the process. This framework, whether deliberately designed or not, acts as a loose guide for how the project should function for teams across multiple channels. This framework should be designed to suit the needs of your projects, your goals and your team.

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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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Project Management Job Description

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The project management job descriptions you see in profiles on LinkedIn might not represent exactly what you would do in the role. That’s because project managers do so many different things! In this article, we’ll look at the things that make up a typical project management job description, and then look at some specialist industries plus the role of a junior project manager.

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Systems Thinking in Organizational Coaching

Scrum.org

This is quite a long read which you can download as the whitepaper "Systems Thinking in Organizational Coaching". Without changing our patterns of thought, we will not be able to solve the problems we created with our current patterns of thought. —Albert Einstein. Introduction. How many times have you “improved” something in your organization, but the improvements didn’t last long?

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Transparency improves customer satisfaction

Kiron Bondale

The link between transparency and trust is well known. You are more likely to trust the quality of the food you are served when eating at a restaurant with an open concept kitchen than if the food preparation is done entirely out of sight. Transparency is a pillar of the Scrum framework and while it is not explicitly spelled out by other frameworks or in the Manifesto for Agile Software Development, it is indirectly referenced.

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The Best Wrike Alternatives You Need to Try in 2020

ProjectManager.com

Wrike is a cloud-based project management software that project managers and team leaders turn to for help with their projects. With a suite of online tools, Wrike can help you begin to bring order to a project and its tasks, but it can only take you so far. Wrike allows you to manage tasks, but it fails to follow through on its promise of a fully-fledged project management solution, forcing some to find a Wrike alternative.

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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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What Is Kanbanize? Detailed Kanbanize Overview & Explanation Of Kanbanize Features

The Digital Project Manager

What is Kanbanize? Read on to discover how Kanbanize works—what problems it can help you. The post What Is Kanbanize? Detailed Kanbanize Overview & Explanation Of Kanbanize Features appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Product Owner – why your Scrum doesn’t work (1/3)

Scrum.org

Originally posted on www.debooij.training. Many teams and organizations struggle to get the most out of Scrum. In my previous post “Don’t blame “agile” for existing problems” I shared my analysis why agile or Scrum itself often gets the blame. In this first post out of three I will focus on what the most common mistakes are with Scrum that lead to dysfunctional Scrum.

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Innovation Project Management

International Institute for Learning

By Harold Kerzner, Ph.D. | Senior Executive Director, International Institute for Learning (IIL). We are excited to bring you this blog post on Innovation Project Management, which is adapted from Dr. Harold Kerzner’s new book of the same title. Below, he explains why this topic is so important, the types of challenges that innovation project managers face, and much more.

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PMI PMBOK Guide 7th Edition Standard – What’s New?

MPUG

The preparation for the new Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®) Guide, 7 th edition is currently underway, and the Project Management Institute (PMI®) has made the draft for the standard part publicly available for comments. Yes, you can suggest your changes since January 15, 2020. The standard part of the guide makes a paradigm shift from a process-based approach to a principle-based approach.

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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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I have my Scrum Master certification—now what?

Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

The project management profession is in a state of dramatic change. The percentage of projects using agile or hybrid practices exceeds the number of traditional projects , according to the Project Management Institute. Agile is moving beyond technology and is now widely used in financial services, government, and professional services companies. Agile is a dominant practice for companies going through digital transformations and accelerating customer experience through UX (user experience) desig

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3 Amigos – Bytesize Agile

Scrum.org

. The Bytesize Agile Series is inspired by discussion tangents that arise during training. 3 Amigos the topic of today comes up during discussion regarding refinement of backlog items into a ready state. The general response to this is creating a Definition of Ready. There is a risk that Definitions of Ready become a tick list. Lists tend to give reasons why something cannot be delivered.

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The Business Technology Standard

Henny Portman

The Business Technology Standard (or BT Standard, 4th edition) is an open-source management framework to plan, build and run information technology in today’s technology-driven business world. It gives a comprehensive picture of how to manage the overall business technology organization with pragmatic governance without compromising speed and agility.

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Generation Z Proof Your Business!

Hub Planner

Reading Time: 10 minutes Gen Z Proof Your Business! Generation Z, the new wave of recruits entering the workforce. Let’s look at how to be business ready for the first digitally native generation and the war on talent recruiting. Firstly, it’s perhaps better to understand who Generation Z, GenZers and Gen Z are? [/fusion_text]. Who are Generation Z?

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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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Project Risk Management – How to Manage Project Risk | Video

Online PM Courses

When you are managing a project, risk is always with you. So, Project Risk Management is a fundamental discipline. I'll introduce you to it in this video. The post Project Risk Management – How to Manage Project Risk | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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Using Mad Tea to Engage the Neural Network of Groups

Scrum.org

If you are an experienced Scrum practitioner, chances are that you’ve worked with groups of sixteen or more. It could be during the kickoff at the start of a new project, a multi-team refinement session, or a Sprint Review with every possible stakeholder attending it. How do you start such a gathering? How do you close the meetup and give everyone the feeling that it was a valuable investment of their time?

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How do I become an Enterprise Agile Coach

Agilemania

Enterprise Agile Coaching is about transforming an entire organisation into an Agile. And this is done by an Enterprise Agile Coach. Also known as. The post How do I become an Enterprise Agile Coach appeared first on Agilemania.

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What Is a Project Management Plan

Project Management Resource Network

In project management there will be a number of project plans like the risk management plan , the change management plan , and the communications management plan. All of the different plans put together is your project management plan. . So often the project schedule is referred to as the project plan but technically the project plan is the combination or integration of all the different project management plans.

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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.