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2022 Project Management Trends: A Look Ahead

ProjectManager.com

The effects of the pandemic have infiltrated every industry, and project management is no exception. The industry continues to evolve. Project management trends that were once standard are slowly being replaced by modern and innovative solutions. The new Global Trends in Project Management 2022 report, released today by ProjectManager, taps the insights of more than 600 project management professionals to determine how project teams—and the way they work—are shifting.

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Trick or Treat – project management lessons from Halloween!

Kiron Bondale

It is still more than three weeks till Halloween but stores have already sold most of their spooky selections and are starting to put their Christmas stock out on the shelves. This Halloween may generate more anticipation than in previous years since last year’s festivities were curtailed in many cities due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Halloween holds a special place in my heart as it provides an opportunity for everyone to express their creativity.

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Guest Post : Strategic Agility – Strategy in the era of disruption

Growing Agile

This blog post is by Nilesh Makan. While the world has been changing at an exponential pace over the last decade, it doesn’t compare with the seismic shifts that have transformed our lives over the past year or so. With the advent of Covid, we have moved into a discontinuous and digital world, impacting society as a whole. As parts of the world start to emerge from the pandemic, disproportionally so, we have an opportunity to learn from the past, and we have to make choices on how we move

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Project Management Radar 2021 Sheds Light on What’s Next

Rebel’s Guide to PM

As project delivery professionals we are always on the lookout for new project management trends and practices, right? It’s good to know what’s coming and how we can best respond to that. Following the latest industry news can help build knowledge, confidence, and find new solutions to existing problems. There are a range of reports and surveys released each year which are useful for shedding light on what has been going on, and looking forward to what is to come.

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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 Manage Project Environment from Initiation to Close

ProjectManager.com

Managing a project is difficult. You have a deadlines to meet and budgets to keep. And within that narrow lane, you have to deliver a quality product or service. And that’s just the project! What about all those things that can impact the project? There are forces outside your control that can sidetrack your work. There are even issues that can arise from your team or stakeholders.

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The Scrum Guide - A Leader’s Perspective

Scrum.org

Scrum - The Leader’s Perspective. If you’re leading Scrum Teams or generally are a leader in an organization that’s leveraging Scrum? Are you feeling a bit left out after reading the Scrum Guide ? The Scrum Guide doesn’t explicitly call out the role of the Leader but successful implementation of Scrum definitely requires leadership. . The Scrum Guide describes the leadership required by the Product Owner, Scrum Master, and Developers.

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Understanding RAG in Project Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Have you seen project status reports with colored boxes in different shades of green, amber, and red? Or project names written in those colors where the rest of the text is black? That’s the RAG status of the project. According to PMI, 11.4% of investment is wasted due to poor project performance. RAG reporting is a good way to draw management’s attention to projects that need support.

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How To Overcome The Challenges Of Building And Managing A Distributed Workforce

Proofhub

Source: [link] While the pandemic catalyzed a massive economic shift toward remote work, the shift was already in motion even before 2020. This has been proven in the last few months?—?pandemic restrictions have died down, but many companies are still employing workforces who work from home part-time or full-time. It’s no real surprise. Remote workers are skilled and efficient, and this flexibility can contribute to job satisfaction and increased productivity.

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Monroe’s Motivated Sequence: Messages with Massive Impact

Project Bliss

Monroe’s Motivated Sequence outlines principles of speech you can use anytime you need to move an audience to act. This powerful communication formula is easy to understand and gives you a template for creating powerful messages. Alan Monroe was a psychology professor at Purdue University. He used the psychology of persuasion to develop an outline for speeches that deliver results.

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

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 expendi

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How can the Scrum Master support Inspection? Back to the foundations of the Scrum framework (22)

Scrum.org

Remember that Scrum is founded on empirical process control, and that inspection is one of the three pillars. Each of the Scrum accountabilities participates in one or more inspections. If you feel that there are undesired variances for any aspect of your initiative, think about who could best initiate an inspection. . Inspection is about detecting undesirable variances in progressing towards agreed goals. .

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How to Create a Work Breakdown Structure: A WBS Masterclass | Video

Online PM Courses

The Work Breakdown Structure (or WBS) is one of the few truly fundamental tools of Project Management. But how do you create one? The post How to Create a Work Breakdown Structure: A WBS Masterclass | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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Which SAFe® Certification Course is the Best Pick for You?

Agilemania

When it comes to Scaling Agile, SAFe is the most popular framework. And with it’s ever growing popularity, many people are interested in learning and understanding more about the framework. However , with the variety of training programs that the framework offers, it becomes quite difficult for the learner to decide which one to opt for. In this article, I would like to provide a simple guideline to select the right SAFe course for you, if you are willing to take up one.

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The Complete Guide To Work Management For Small Project-based Teams

Teamweek

The way many of us work has changed over the past two years, one of the most significant evolutions being the mainstream adoption of remote work — which is definitely here to stay. Often considered a last resort option due to the assumption that unsupervised employees wouldn’t deliver as much as they should, many studies conducted in the past 18 months show that remote employees get more done.

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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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Scrum Master – Hire a Professional or Promote from Within?

Scrum.org

Why hire a professional Scrum Master? They cost extra and you can always get one of the developers to do the work, part-time. Big saving, right? Not so much. Here's why. Who will be the Scrum Master? Most of my students tell me their organizations don't have professional Scrum Masters. Instead, the work is handed out as a part-time task to a developer.

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Blue Ocean Leadership: The Secret to Blue Ocean Strategy Execution

The Strategic Project Manager

The Blue Ocean Strategy framework is unique in that it incorporates execution into the strategy. By contrast, most strategy frameworks are just that – strategy, and strategy alone. They separately require strong execution, which usually takes strong project management. One of the ways that Blue Ocean Strategy incorporates execution is through its approach to leadership.

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Guide to negotiation in project management

Resource Guru

Project managers are professional negotiators. . We’re negotiating constantly—even when we don’t realize it. We negotiate resources, timelines, budget, and scope every time we start a new project. We negotiate stakeholder expectations and vacation plans. We don’t just use negotiation in project management; we probably even negotiate at home: it’s fine to have burgers tonight, kiddos, but we’re getting Indian takeout on Friday. .

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What Is Work Management? The Ultimate Guide to Work Management In 2021

nTask

Increasing competitiveness in the business realm has put companies in a whirlwind of quick and efficient working. Teams are pressured to produce good results and bring in high profits. Under such chaotic circumstances and high pressure, effectively managing your team seems almost impossible. Micromanaging every team member in your team is also practically impossible and results in employees’ dissatisfaction.

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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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3 Fehler, die Scrum Teams im Umgang mit ungeplanter Arbeit machen und wie sie vermieden werden können

Scrum.org

Ungeplante Arbeit ist die Regel und nicht die Ausnahme. Scrum Teams entwickeln eben nicht nur Produkte und Services, sondern betreiben diese auch. Ohne den Betrieb einer Anwendung ist es unmöglich, Feedback zu erhalten. Allerdings ist Feedback essenzielle für erfolgreiche Scrum Teams, da es die Triebfeder ist, um Nutzer- und Kundenwünsche zu erfüllen.

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Guest Post: Alright Stop, Collaborate and Listen

Growing Agile

This blog post is by Nilesh Makan and one of my favourites, thanks for sharing. Alright Stop, Collaborate and Listen. Vanilla ice was ahead of the curve when coming up with the lyrics of Ice Ice Baby. The lyrics in the following line of the song are: “Ice is back with my brand new invention”. While there are differences between them, invention, innovation and creativity are part of the same WhatsApp group, and all of them are becoming increasingly necessary in a disruptive world.

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Project Management Communication Plan

Planview

A robust and realistic project management communication plan is essential for project success. This informative and easy-to-read article looks at basic concepts of a project management communication plan, and provides examples, strategies and best practices. There are several paths to project glory. However, one characteristic that all successful projects have in common is effective and efficient communications.

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What Are Feedback Loops and How to Implement Them in Your Business?

nTask

A company’s growth is highly dependent on the feedback it receives from its consumers as well as its employees. Hence, the need for feedback loops. What is a feedback loop and how does it work? These are the main questions we will be addressing in this article. Sit back and fasten your seatbelts because you are in for an interesting ride (and we will definitely love to hear YOUR feedback on this, just to keep us in the loop too!).

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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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Why having a clear vision is key to project success

Susanne Madsen

The ability to identify, articulate and share a clear vision for the project is one of the key ingredients to project success. When we run projects we must begin with the end in mind as Stephen Covey put it in his best-selling book; The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. Beginning with the end in mind – in a project context – is about envisioning what we ultimately would like the project to achieve and how it fits into the bigger context of organisational change.

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Evolving PMO: How the pandemic is shaping future PMOs

PM Times

The pandemic has taught everyone that anything can happen, and change is always just around the corner. While every industry has been reeling from its impacts, the pandemic has given us the opportunity to make our project management offices more resilient and sustainable. To stay relevant and fulfil its role as a strategic command centre, […].

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Awakening Creativity for a better Product Backlog

Scrum.org

So many times, I’ve heard that round about 50–70 % of all software features are rarely or never used. In the Cloud we can now even measure it. As a developer, I think: “Damn it! So much time spent cracking the code and then no one is using our features. We could have spent 2–3 days each week at a pool or playing chess instead while achieving the same outcome.

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Using Gantt Charts for Project Management – Benefits and Best Tools In 2021

nTask

Project management is a comprehensive, exhaustive responsibility. You have to be on your toes all the time, juggling between different things, trying to ace everything there is to stay on top of the project. Gantt charts bring calm and peace to this otherwise chaotic routine. Gantt charts are your safe haven when it comes to project management. The presence of a Gantt chart reduces clutter and streamlines the workflow making it easier for you to manage a project.

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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.