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How to Develop a Quality Management Plan

The Digital Project Manager

The post How to Develop a Quality Management Plan appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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How to Make a Marketing Plan Like a Project Manager

ProjectManager.com

Marketing doesn’t get the respect that it’s due. No matter how great the product or service, it will wither on the vine and die if no one knows about it. That’s where marketing comes in. But marketing doesn’t just happen: it takes a concerted effort. You might even say it’s a project, because it is. And any project manager can tell you that without a plan, a project is aimless and destined for failure.

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5 Things In The Office Blocking Your Productivity

Project Bliss

This is a guest article written by Ashley Wilson. Productivity is a big issue. When a workplace is inefficient, it leads to missed deadlines, eats time, and affects employee morale. In extreme cases, it can even make your company a less safe place to work. But productivity isn’t a standalone issue. It has various causes, including noise and lack of organization.

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Tips for project managers: How to choose the right team members for your project

Inloox

Projects are rarely carried out by one person. Why do project managers consistently rely on teamwork? The biggest advantages of working in a group are obvious. By bringing together different professional skills, the effort of every single employee can be reduced and therefore the strength of each individual can be better integrated into the project.

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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 Build Trust in Virtual Teams [Book Review & Tips]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Trust matters because it helps build a resilient project team. Trust helps get things done. Trusted team members not only do only what is asked, but what the project needs them to do, because they know that the project manager will trust their decisions and actions. . Trust is a shortcut to better working relationships and better project outcomes. That’s the premise behind Thomas P.

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Be the eye of the storm for your team members

Kiron Bondale

I’ve written a few articles over the past weeks which have touched on the current COVID-19 global outbreak. Things are likely to get worse before they start getting better, so I felt this week’s article would serve as a keystone for the series. The media are well known for sensationalizing threats and artificially elevating fear levels among the public.

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Sprint Goal Template

Scrum.org

The Sprint Goal is mentioned numerous times in the Scrum Guide, however it can be over looked by many teams or seen as an "oh yeah" moment when teams are finishing Sprint Planning. When I started out in a Scrum Team we never really had a Sprint Goal, our focus tended to be looking at the items in the backlog then saying "Get that done and that one, if not all of them!

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Planning a Budget for a Proposal in 5 Easy Steps (+ Example)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This is a guest article by author Edoardo Binda Zane. We start with 5 steps for how to put a proposal budget together and then Edoardo shares a worked (fictional) example to show you what the budget would look like once it is completed. Scroll to the bottom to download this article as a handy PDF so you can keep it for reference as you create your proposal.

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The collision of risk and politics

Musings on Project Management

There have been a lot of very high profile examples that demonstrate what seems like the evitable progression of the collision of risk and politics. The narrative seems to always fit this frame: Conventional risk management processes identify a risky situation and assess the unfavorable outcomes Mitigations are designed and briefed up the chain Such mitigations are immediately clamped from.

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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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4 Common Pitfalls to Avoid When Implementing OKRs

LiquidPlanner

These days, many business leaders are laser-focused on goals. Organizations don’t just want to have broad goals that only top-level personnel are aware of — they want to set, track, and measure goals across the entire company. That’s where the concept of Objectives and Key Results (or OKRs) comes into play. . OKRs are a goal-setting framework developed by Intel co-founder Andy Grove and implemented at major companies like Google.

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That Agile Training Course Probably Wont Work…

Scrum.org

‘So’ – I asked, ‘How was the training course?’. ‘Amazing’, said the newly minted ‘Super Agile Scrums Mechanical Engineer’. ‘Cool, what did you learn…? ‘. ‘I learned about all this amazing agile scrum stuff!’ replied the eager chap. ‘Great,’ I smiled, ’so what are you doing differently?’. ‘Excuse me?’. ‘What are you doing differently?’. ‘Erm, not sure what you mean’, he replied looking confused.

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4 Easy Tips For Effective Virtual Meetings

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I’m delighted to have worked with Diana Ecker from Redbooth to bring you this sponsored article on how to make virtual meetings easier. #ad. Even though we may take them for granted, virtual meetings are a dazzling concept. You bring together people who are working from home, on the road for travel, or in offices around the world with just a few clicks.

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Work management user guide

Binfire

Binfire is a work management application consisting of project management, task management, collaboration, and storage facilities and versioning tools. It is designed as all in one application with features you need to manage your business. The app is integrated with tools like Google Drive, Google Calendar, iCalendar, Dropbox, and soon G-Suite and SalesForce to create a true work management system.

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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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The Best Ten Microsoft Project Tips for Beginners

MPUG

There is an old adage which says, “Well begun is half done.” It means that once you start something well, the rest will become easier, and it’s especially true when learning Microsoft Project (MSP). I started using MSP in the year 1997. I was a greenhorn at that time and did not have much experience, but I was given the responsibility of managing an offshore team, and my manager told me to use MSP for scheduling.

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Five Ways You're Doing Scrum Wrong

Scrum.org

Scrum is a simple framework that can quickly come apart if even one part of the framework is not being properly implemented. As a Professional Scrum Trainer for almost ten years and founder of Responsive Advisors , I have seen many agile teams and companies struggle to maximize the benefit from Scrum for many reasons. In this short video blog, I have identified five of them and offer some quick solutions to get the most out of Scrum.

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Social Media Success: A guide to Social Media Marketing.

MindGenius

In today’s world, Social Media is the most crucial, and cost-effective, marketing tool there is. Regardless of whether you’re a multinational organization or a local café, you should be using social media to advertise, communicate and interact with both existing and potential customers. This blog will provide hints and tips to help get the most out of your social media marketing and expand your customer base.

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What is the difference between a SAFe and Certified Scrum Master certification

Agilemania

In this article, we will discuss the significant differences between the two prominent certifications in Agile space. The post What is the difference between a SAFe and Certified Scrum Master certification appeared first on Agilemania.

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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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2020 Automotive Industry Challenges and Trends

Epicflow Blog

Automotive industry trends in 2020 are primarily dictated by the demands of a new class of consumers – sophisticated customers with a high level of consciousness and awareness, ever-growing needs, and environment-focused preferences. It makes automotive services work at full blast and address arising challenges as quickly as possible not to lose clients.

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Lean Coffee in 5 Minutes

Scrum.org

Lean Coffee is a powerful meeting faciliation technique that can be used in coffee shops, conferences, open space, scrum events or simply replace existing corporate meeting formats. Lean Coffee is easy to learn, empowers participants and increases engagement. It is also fun! Give it a try, learn in this video how shockingly simple. Get your own personal copy of the Lean Coffee Poster used in this video and use it as your facilitation guide for your next meeting.

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How to Manage Remote Teams working from Home

Hub Planner

Reading Time: 3 minutes How to Manage Remote Teams working from Home. With more and more teams working remotely or being forced to work from home due to health concerns, companies are exploring the best way to manage teams working from home and keep the productivity high, business as usual. Below are 5 key tips, software recommendations and advice to help you get the most out of remote working with your team. . 1.

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SAFe for Architects 5.0 (Scaled Agile Framework): SAFe 5 Architect (ARCH)

Agilemania

A Certified SAFe Architect is a change agent and an effective leader who delivers Agile architecture to qualify/enable the creation of business value. Significant areas of competency comprise of maintaining Agile architecture, applying SAFe principles for the development, leading and supporting solution trains and Agile release trains, enabling an improved flow of value and extending the principles driving continuous flow… The post SAFe for Architects 5.0 (Scaled Agile Framework): SAFe 5 A

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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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What is Project Risk?

Project Management Resource Network

Project risks, what are they and how do you identify them? Project risk is uncertainty of something impacting the project. It could have a positive or negative effect on the project’s objectives if the risk happens. People tend to think of risks as something negative and to avoid. This negative classification of a risk would mean it is a threat. But risks can also be opportunities.

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A Scrum Master's Search for "The Art of the Possible"

Scrum.org

A Day in a Life of a Scrum Master. It's 9:30 am. The Scrum Team gather around their team desk to hold the Daily Scrum. Jamie, one of the team members, highlights a problem that he faced yesterday: "I cannot deploy the code into the staging environment due to pipeline issues. I need help from the infrastructure team. I raised a ticket, but since they had so many things in the queue, it's not been prioritised yet. .

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Checklist: How to Prepare Your Business for COVID-19

EasyProjects

A successful business is always one step ahead of its competitors when it comes to R&D or marketing their product/service. Companies are now realizing, though, one major contribution to success they may be lacking: having the proper infrastructure for their team to work remotely. COVID-19 has taught us that no matter how progressive our healthcare system and security measures are, we still face unpredictable circumstances that are beyond our control.

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What are Project Assumptions?

Wrike

In our everyday lives, we are constantly operating under assumptions. We assume our alarm will go off as scheduled and we’ll wake up on time. We assume our cars will start each morning and we’ll get to work without a hassle. And, as PMs, we make assumptions in project management, too. The fact of the matter is that assumptions can be proven wrong at any time, effectively throwing a wrench in our 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.