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5 Tips for better Agile Planning

Appfluence

Agile Planning offers you one of the best ways to collaborate with your team and bring in front the best project results. While the planning project might seem tedious and challenging, it will help bring in comprehensive, powerful solutions to suit your needs. Here are some of the top tips you can use right away. Set the right goals and prioritize the most important ones.

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What Is Change Control in Project Management?

ProjectManager.com

It’s a cliché to say that nothing is constant except for change, but the adage certainly applies to anyone who has ever managed a project. Sometimes stakeholders want something different from what they had requested during initiation. Teams get sick. Weather gets in the way. Supply chains break. The possibilities are as dire as they are endless. But not all change is equal in a project.

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Be Bold; be brave; be calculating

Musings on Project Management

I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a 27-mile wind. I look with amazement upon our audacity in attempting flights with a new and untried machine under such circumstances. Yet faith in our calculations and the design of the first machine, based upon our tables of air pressures, secured by months of careful laboratory work, and confidence in our system.

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Office Timeline Review: The Pro Timeline Maker [2020]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Do you need a timeline maker for project communications or to create executive briefings? In this review of Office Timeline Pro, I’ll share the pros and cons of the PowerPoint plugin. Summary. Product: Office Timeline. Pricing: A one-year licence for the Pro version costs $99. The Plus version is only $59. Hosting model: The ‘main’ version is a Windows plugin, but there is a cloud version which lets you run Office Timeline for Mac systems in the browser.

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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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Why project work doesn’t get completed early…

Kiron Bondale

I usually advise my students to encourage their team members to not provide padded work estimates, but rather to make schedule contingencies visible and tie these contingencies to milestones rather than to individual activities. This is intended to counter the potential confluence of Parkinson’s Law (work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion), Student Syndrome (let’s wait till the very last possible moment to start an undesired activity) and Murphy’s Law

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40 Reasons PMOs Fail

Project Risk Coach

I've been managing projects and programs for more than 20 years. I've seen a little bit of everything. I've also had the joy and the pain of implementing three Project Management Offices (PMOs), two in Information Technology Departments and one Enterprise PMO. Through the years, I've noted many reasons that PMOs fail or struggle. It's rarely just one thing; it's usually a combination of things.

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15 Easy Ways to Earn PDUs in 2020

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Do you need to earn PDUs to maintain your PMI certification? You’re in the right place! In this article we’ll cover what you need to know about the different categories of PDUs and how many you need to get, plus some simple and free ways to earn PDUs in 2020. There are also some further suggestions that take a bit more effort but are equally worthwhile in case you’ve got more time and energy to spare for your professional development.

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5 Dos And Don’ts During The Sprint Planning

Scrum.org

I got the idea of writing this blog while hosting a webinar on the same topics when multiple people told us to document our discussion. Originally I posted this blog on Agilemania , and you can check our upcoming webinars there. These dos and don'ts are my experiences, so I would like to hear yours too. Feel free to connect to me on LinkedIn for further discussion.

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Communication Plan Template

ProjectManager.com

Whether you need to define communication objectives, or identify stakeholders and channels, you can use this communication plan template to schedule project communications and establish a feedback loop that keeps everyone up to date. By formulating your communication plan in advance of the project, you make sure that information will be disseminated clearly and correctly to whoever needs it.

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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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10 Best LMS (Learning Management Systems) Comparison

The Digital Project Manager

The post 10 Best LMS (Learning Management Systems) Comparison appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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A 2020 Guide to the Importance of Project Design in Project Management

nTask

The project management paradigm is a complex paradox. Every project that graduates from the project development process is unique with many different qualities and problems attached to it, but one thing that all of them have is a Project Design. Project Design is such an important element of a project that without it there is no structure for the project development process to stand on and make the project a success in the future.

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The Scrum Mythbusters Exercise

Scrum.org

Scrum is not a one-size-fits-all solution, a silver bullet, or a complete methodology. Instead, Scrum provides the minimal boundaries within which teams can self-organize to solve complex problems with an empirical approach. This simplicity is its greatest strength, but also the source of many misinterpretations and myths. The Scrum Mythbusters exercise helps you address the common myths and misunderstandings about Scrum and helps teams discover how Scrum is intended as a simple, yet sufficient

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Project Closure Template

ProjectManager.com

All good things come to an end. Projects are no exception. It’s necessary to define completion criteria, so that when your project ends, you can close and transfer the right documentation to the right people. The end of a project is but one of your project’s phases. Get Your Free Project Closure Template: Why You Need a Project Closure Template.

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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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7 Must-Follow Practices to Set Up A Successful Remote Team

Proofhub

There’s no doubt about it: Remote working is not only here to stay, but getting bigger. According to Forbes , more than 1.54 million people in the UK worked from home in the UK (compared to just 884,000 in 2009). Similarly, according to Sonovate, the UK has seen a 43% growth in freelancing since 2008. WIth the COVID-19 accelerating this monumental shift in the workforce, more and more businesses are looking to build remote working teams to cut costs and cast their hiring net further afield.

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what who when project management questions

Binfire

As the title of this post suggests, this article is all about project management questions and answers to those questions. If you ever were afraid to ask project management questions, now is your turn. This post is especially useful for new project managers. I encourage you to send me your project management questions by leaving comments here. .

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Learn to Transition

Scrum.org

With the Covid 19 pandemic in, I really struggled big time to create the boundary between my work life and personal life. Day by day, that boundary was getting thin. There were lofty overlaps and I sucked to create the balance. How do I transition? When do I switch off ( my mind, not just the laptop and phone) and discharge my personal and family duties mindfully?

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Timesheet Template

ProjectManager.com

Help your team keep track of their time with this Excel timesheet template. Includes calculations for cost per hour, vacation and overtime. Timesheets can be used for a variety of different project needs, so don’t hesitate and get started downloading your free timesheet template today! Get Your Free Timesheet Template for Excel: Why You Need a Timesheet Template.

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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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Five Factors Shaping The Future Of Project Management

LiquidPlanner

As a profession, project management is in a constant state of evolution, with advances in technology, approaches, and techniques putting project managers under enormous pressure to stay abreast of new developments as they emerge. So, what does the future of project management look like? Certainly, COVID-19 has made it difficult to predict what lies in store for the profession over the coming months, never mind the next few years.

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Remote Agility Framework

Henny Portman

Just published the New bird’s eye view on the agile forest (PMWJ) and I can already make an adjustment (will it ever stop?). Designed for all levels of business (enterprise, team of teams and teams), Remote Agility Framework (remote:af) is an evolution to your ways of working to overcome the modern challenge of distributed teams. Enterprise: Make strategy accessible to enable autonomous decision making with directional alignment.

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Wann ist der Scrum Master überflüssig? (10 unangenehme Anzeichen)

Scrum.org

In meinen Professional Scrum Master Trainings beantwortet ein Großteil der Teilnehmer diese Frage mit: “Hoffentlich so früh wie möglich, denn als Scrum Master ist es unsere Aufgabe uns selbst überflüssig zu machen.” Haben Sie damit Recht? 10 Anzeichen, wann du als Scrum Master überflüssig bist. Wenn du deine Arbeit als Scrum Master ausschließlich darin siehst, die Scrum Meetings zu moderieren , den Sprint Backlog in Jira zu verwalten und darauf zu achten, dass jeder Entwickler genug Arbeit hat,

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How to hire remote developers (with free remote job description template)

Planio

Every great company–from the billion-dollar tech behemoths to innovative and scrappy startups–has one thing in common: talented people motivated by a shared vision. But while finding talented people isn’t hard–even when hiring remote employees–finding the right teammates for your company can be a battle. But it’s one worth fighting. As Steve Jobs famously put it, a small team of A+ players can run circles around a giant team of B and C players.

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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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Five Factors Shaping The Future Of Project Management

LiquidPlanner

As a profession, project management is in a constant state of evolution, with advances in technology, approaches, and techniques putting project managers under enormous pressure to stay abreast of new developments as they emerge. So, what does the future of project management look like? Certainly, COVID-19 has made it difficult to predict what lies in store for the profession over the coming months, never mind the next few years.

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Adapting to All-Remote Talent Management

Leading Answers

The recent article “ Can We Still be Agile? ” examined two successful organizations that many years ago deliberately chose an all-remote workforce structure. Most of us have recently experienced unplanned and quickly implemented trials of all-remote work, so let’s examine the advantages and disadvantages when planned for and optimized. All-remote organizations have no central hub(s) for workers.

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7 - Evénements Scrum : Sprint Review

Scrum.org

La Sprint Review est l'événement au cours duquel l'Équipe Scrum et les parties prenantes (invitées par le Product Owner) se retrouvent pour inspecter l'Incrément et adapter le Product Backlog. Cette fréquence d'inspection et adaptation du travail effectué est très importante pour comprendre si la direction prise est correcte et ensemble décider de la modifier.

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7 Recruitment Best Practices for 2021

Teamweek

As it’s nearing its end, we can say that 2020 has been a crazy year. Regardless of what industry you’re in, you have probably been impacted by the coronavirus pandemic in some way. If you’re lucky enough to be planning for some hires in 2021, there are some things to keep in mind. Don’t worry, we’ve got your back. Here are 7 recruitment best practices for 2021. 1.

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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.