PM Times

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

What are OKRs? OKR stands for Objectives and Key Results. This allows to clearly define the course in a project must be set to achieve the expected result, for this OKRs are established in objectives that can be measured. The OKR method consists, first in establishing qualitative objectives, and second define the strategy to quantify […]. The post OKR and Project Management appeared first on Project Management Articles, Webinars, Templates and Jobs.

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Project Risk Coach

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Some project managers make a big fuss over risk management. And others use lots of acronyms and big words to impress people. But at the end of the day, all that really matters is getting results. For eighteen years, I worked for a property and casualty insurance company. Each year, our senior management team would meet with a credit rating agency to share our goals, strategies, and progress.

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Proofhub

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Image Source: Pixabay Managing a hybrid team might seem much simpler than managing an all in-person team. Your employees will only be in-office part-time, and will otherwise work from home. You’re saving on business costs because of it. And your team’s productivity is soaring thanks to a greater work/life balance. However, hybrid teams like these don’t happen overnight.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Project managers put a lot of time and effort into researching the viability of their project. But all that work is pointless if they don’t communicate the purpose of the project to their team and clients. That’s why a kickoff meeting is so important. A kickoff meeting puts everyone on the same page. The team and client know the mission statement, the vision statement and the project plan.

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Kiron Bondale

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

When Fred Brooks Jr. wrote The Mythical Man Month, he provided project managers with the valuable caution which later was named Brooks’ Law: “ Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later “ While there are always exceptions, this statement is generally true. It is also applicable to most types of projects, not just software development ones.

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LiquidPlanner

DECEMBER 1, 2021

New Year, New Projects, New Directions = a New Plan. You are very likely in the process of planning where your company is headed next year. If not, it’s time to get started. Looking ahead is an important component of good leadership and project management. At the highest level, it is determining goals and objectives for the organization. These goals are translated into business unit priorities for each team through estimating planned projects, identifying process changes, and determining the peo

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Your business operations are only as good as your ability to monitor and control them. For example, manufacturing teams would be lost without a controlling process that lets them measure and improve on their management function. The process of controlling in management is essential for any business to remain viable. When you monitor with software and control the process of your manufacturing, you’re able to see what works and what isn’t working.

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Musings on Project Management

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Applying agile methodology in your software project? Good! Working for an organization large enough to be called an 'enterprise'? Probably that's good.Why so?Access to resources is the main reason. You may have heard that agile is all about small self-directing teams -- yes, that's part of the doctrine. But how many teams are needed for your project?

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

A while ago, we hosted an experience interview with Roman Pichler , a product management expert specialized in digital products. He’s known from the various books he wrote: “ Agile Product Management With Scrum ”, “ Strategize ”, and “ How To Lead In Product Management ”, and the many tools he created, like the Product Vision Board, Product Management Framework, and the Product- and Sprint Goal templates.

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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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The Digital Project Manager

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Ditch the ratty coil-bound notebook and dried-out office pens—it’s time to take project management resource scheduling wholly online. The post 10 Best Web-Based Resource Scheduling Software appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Agile Transformation is a journey. And it starts exactly where the organization realistically is and works forward from that point. There are some thinking tools we can use to help us create some structure around the process of change to get us from where we are to where we want to be. To start, we will need a way to orient the organization toward our goals and understand why we’re making the decisions we’re making and what drives those decisions—what we call our Compass.

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Agilemania

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The year was 2011 and there was a pressing need for a scaling framework that could help large organizations design efficient systems to build enterprise level products/solutions to cater to customer’s rapidly changing needs. Recognized as one of the world’s foremost authorities on Lean-Agile best practices, Dean Leffingwell took it on himself to do something about it.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Several months ago, when the pandemic caused weight gain due to inactivity and isolation, I decided to purchase like so many a peloton bike. Not only to burn off some calories but also to see other people and having a shared experience, even though only on a screen. The videos are motivational, the program diverse and the possibilities sheer endless.

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The Strategic Project Manager

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The Advantage Matrix is an old Boston Consulting Group classic strategic framework. Despite changes in industry structure, the competitive environment, and the impact of technology since it was originally conceived, it still has applicability as a framework and as a thought tool. History and Basics of the BCG Advantage Matrix. The BCG Advantage Matrix, also sometimes known as the Competitive Advantage Matrix, is a decades old but still relevant strategic framework developed by Boston Consulting

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Epicflow Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Do you know that inaccurate requirements gathering appears to be one of the common causes for project failure? . This fact makes us take a fresh look at this process. Collecting and documenting project requirements may seem a formality and additional paperwork, but in fact, if done correctly, it will become one of the prerequisites for project success.

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Planio

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The worst mistake any project manager can make is to focus too much on their process and forget about the people powering it. Your team is the heart and soul of every project. But that’s easy to ignore when you’re behind schedule, over budget, or getting negative feedback from stakeholders. Even in the darkest moments of a project, effective feedback is the light that guides you and your team forward.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

Toll, die PSPO I Zertifizierung gilt lebenslänglich, d.h. man muss sie nicht erneuern. Und wie schafft man das? . Gar nicht so einfach, denn man muss . ganz schön schnell sein bei 80 Fragen in 60 Minuten (Ø 45 Sekunden pro Frage) . eine ganze Menge wissen - siehe PSPO Subject Areas. Das klingt jetzt erst mal abschreckend. Nein, bitte nicht entmutigen lassen.

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The Strategic Project Manager

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

Stable industries require a well-defined, largely predictive approach to managing projects. Less stable environments, by contrast, require a more adaptive approach – to both strategy and project management. This post explores an old rule in strategy for stable industries, the Rule of Three and Four. It looks at the impact it has, when it applies today, and alternative, more adaptive approaches to PM and strategy in situations where the rule does not apply.

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Agilemania

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Did you just Google ‘SAFe Certification Cost’ only to realize there is a ton of information which is unnecessarily exhaustive? Don’t worry, we realize your time is precious and for that reason, we are going to provide you only the relevant information. Scaled Agile Framework or SAFe is a set of organization and workflow patterns intended to guide organizations in scaling lean and agile practices.

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Teamweek

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Toggl Track has long had a number of open source repositories available on GitHub. These range from our public API documentation and various smaller libraries to the full code of our desktop client apps. Unfortunately, due to lack of focus over many years, most of these repositories now range from obscure to unmaintained in their usefulness. As a company that is majority developers, many of whom love open source, this does not sit right with us.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

TL; DR: Designing Powerful Questions with Daniel Stillman. Powerful Conversations are the environment that drives change. Learn from Daniel Stillman how designing powerful questions helps you coach, create, connect, and lead from the 35th Hands-on Agile meetup of October 5, 2021. ?? Watch the video with Daniel Stillman now: Hands-on Agile #35: Designing Powerful Questions to help you Coach, Create, Connect and Lead. ??

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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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Leading Agile

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Data science is fundamental to success—and leveraging it effectively with data analytics is imperative to being competitive in the market. As we covered in the first conversation in this series with Adam and Dan, the way your organization uses data is important. If you aren’t actively managing, governing and operationalizing your data, you will inevitably fall behind.

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PM Times

DECEMBER 1, 2021

In my next installment of this “5 Reasons Why…” series on project management related software and services, I want to consider 5 reasons why you should consider Portfoleon to manage your projects and portfolio of projects. I personally had not heard of Portfoleon before, but was delightfully overwhelmed with the power and visibility this tool […].

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MPUG

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

While Scrum and Kanban are two frequently used, individual Lean-Agile frameworks, many management practitioners use Hybrid-Agile approaches. This is because a number of organizations, across industry verticals, don’t explicitly follow any prescribed framework, but customize according to their organizational needs. When a combination of predictive, iterative, incremental, and/or Agile approaches are applied to projects, we see what we call a “hybrid” approach.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

What is happening awesome people? I hope you had a great weekend and ready for the week. Throughout 2021 I am seeing more companies are using Scrum. In this year I also noticed many teams are practicing what Barry Overeem and Christian Verwijs as the Zombie Scrum. These teams are just moving in motions. What's interesting is they did self-study and picked up Scrum from unreliable resources.

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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.

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