nTask
NOVEMBER 21, 2018
In today’s age of ever-fluctuating market trends, risks are inevitable. Whether you’re running a start-up or are a part of a giant corporate culture, eventually you’ll be faced with risks that need your utmost dedication for timely mitigation. Whenever you’re beginning any new task, one of the most important questions that are highly likely to cross your mind is, ‘what could possibly go wrong?’.
nTask
NOVEMBER 19, 2018
Being an Agile team is all about adopting the Agile frameworks to the core – both in project management and team collaboration. It is all about efficiency and effectiveness, which means adopting methods to optimize resources, make the most out of teamwork and, especially, mitigate or avoid loss of time and costs. But whether you adopt Scrum, Kanban, XP or any Agile framework, in the end, it all depends on the teams involved, the leaders managing the project and the customers at the receiving end
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Pawel Brodzinski
NOVEMBER 20, 2018
One of the concepts that has been widely popularized by Agile movement is self-organization of teams. It lands very nicely in any Agile context, no matter the discussed method or even a general approach one might have to Agile implementations. It is, after all, an idea that appeals to line employees and managers alike. Let’s give atomic teams power to decide how they would work within safe constraints.
ProjectManager.com
NOVEMBER 21, 2018
Here’s the good news: an executive summary is short. It’s part of a larger document and, as the name implies, summarizes the longer report. Here’s the bad news: it’s a critical document that can be challenging to write. It’s more difficult to write than, say, a request for proposal (RFP), which is a straightforward description of your company’s history, product or service, schedule of implementation and support.
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Rebel’s Guide to PM
NOVEMBER 19, 2018
. Tzvi Zucker, Marketing Manager at Proggio. I’m pleased to be working with Proggio to bring you this thought-provoking article from Tzvi Zucker, Marketing Manager. The nature of the modern business environment is constantly evolving. Project management has wrought much change. From plotting Gantt charts by hand to the modern day explosion of project management software solutions, everything is different – including the nature of work itself.
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Inloox
NOVEMBER 20, 2018
Project #1: Thanksgiving Dinner Scope The key to good project management is a clearly defined scope. Decide beforehand how big your Thanksgiving dinner is going to be, how many dishes you want to offer and so on. Be aware of the so called ‘scope creep’: going overboard with fancy ingredients and elaborate decorations will significantly increase your budget.
ProjectManager.com
NOVEMBER 19, 2018
Trying to come up with new blog post ideas is rough. You want to write about something that you find interesting. But you also want write something that other people find interesting too, since you want people to read your post. Satisfying both is no easy task. It’s easier to write about topics that are in demand, obviously, as it’ll attract readers.
Scrum.org
NOVEMBER 17, 2018
Professional Scrum Trainers at the Face-to-Face Meeting #49 in Stuttgart, Germany (Photo Credit to Novatec) . This blog is written by Shirley Santiago, with a little help from Gunther Verheyen. Everyone has a story to tell. Some write their stories in books, some in blogs, and some confine them in their hearts. I feel I have a beautiful story that is meant to be shared with the world.
Musings on Project Management
NOVEMBER 20, 2018
From Viscount Nelson, victorious British commander in chief at the naval battle of Trafalgar, we get this insight for initiative and independent action, as described by Admiral James Stavridis in his book "Sea Power": Nelson knew he would not have clear and instantaneous communication. [making] precise command and control impossible.
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
Online PM Courses
NOVEMBER 18, 2018
When we did our roundup of the 50 best Project Management Blogs in 2017 it quickly became one of our most popular posts. You folks do like reading about project management! And that’s great. But shift happens. Things change. So, it’s time to refresh our list and put up a new one, in good time for 2019. So, here then is our list of the 52 best Project Management Blogs for 2019.
ProjectManager.com
NOVEMBER 22, 2018
Have you noticed how some people seem to be lucky in life? Or lucky at work? Have you ever wondered how that happens, why some people have good fortune? My dictionary defines luck as, “Events beyond our control that seem to be subject to chance.” As project managers, we seem to deal with more than our fair share of “events beyond our control.
Scrum.org
NOVEMBER 17, 2018
Many organisations are embracing agile ways of working in an attempt to build faster, more customer-focused and resilient organisations. They are redesigning themselves to create a culture where decision making is transitioned away from middle management towards those working with customers at the coal face. Ultimately, they seek engagement in order to create a culture where staff are empowered to truly delight customers.
LiquidPlanner
NOVEMBER 20, 2018
With Thanksgiving in a couple of days and the December holidays approaching, I’m reminded of the importance of taking the time to recognize the team. As managers, we should recognize teams frequently, but the end of the year usually provides us with the formal opportunity. Project teams work long hours to deliver seemingly never-ending projects, and it can be exhausting tackling issue after issue.
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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.
Online PM Courses
NOVEMBER 21, 2018
Estimating project work package times and the times it will take to build products or deliverables is one of the most difficult parts of Project Management. One great tool is Planning Poker. It comes from the world of Agile Project management, and Scrum, but is far more widely applicable. So, what is Planning Poker? Dr Mike Clayton is founder of Online PM Courses.com.
ProjectManager.com
NOVEMBER 19, 2018
What is SIPOC, and how does one use a SIPOC diagram? It’s a method to improve process, and Jennifer Bridges, PMP, shows how it can be used as yet another tool to help you manage your project. Here’s a screenshot of the whiteboard for your reference! In Review – What Is SIPOC? How to Use a SIPOC Diagram. Jennifer noted that people who are working in process improvement are aware of the acronym SIPOC, but the rest of us could use a lesson.
Scrum.org
NOVEMBER 22, 2018
Photography may sound simple but is actually a problem of complex domain. There are many variables - light, subject, motion, distance, composition, framing - that come into play while capturing an image. Although, with current range of cameras equipped with highly adaptable sensors (empiricism) many of these variables can be ignored to an extent and great images can be clicked with press of a button.
Teamweek
NOVEMBER 19, 2018
FOMO is a real thing. Although its effects vary from person to person, it’s especially strong with me. Why is that, you might ask? Well, for the past year I’ve been making the most of working remotely by living in different places around the world. This has been incredibly rewarding but has made balancing fun with productivity a bit of a challenge.
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Herding Cats
NOVEMBER 21, 2018
There's a popular notion going around the agile community that says. we focus on Value and don't need to worry about Cost. This, of course, is a violation of the principles of Managerial Finance and Microeconomics of software development in the presence of uncertainty and scarce resources. Here are the moving parts of any project that intends to make money from the cost invested to produce a product or service.
ProjectManager.com
NOVEMBER 20, 2018
The interview process offers a chance to dig deeper than a resume’s bullet points, and with the right interview questions, you can really experience the personality of a candidate. A person is more than the sum of their degrees, skills and work history: that is merely a black-and-white portrait. The color is how they behave in stressful situations, with groups of people they aren’t familiar with and other subtleties which often take months to reveal themselves.
Scrum.org
NOVEMBER 20, 2018
I’ve been in a situation a few times where I’ve interviewed a candidate for a role. I’ve matched their CV to a well-prepared job specification. I’ve prepped a whole bunch of competency-based questions that the candidate answered well. An offer has been made, but when they start their new role, they don’t turn out to be quite as great as I expected. Am I a bad interviewer?
Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives
NOVEMBER 22, 2018
On small, tactical projects it’s not unusual for the project manager to double up and also be a team member who completes some of the team’s work and who makes detailed decisions. It can be a great way to utilize people’s skills, especially if the project doesn’t need a full-time project manager. On large strategic projects, however, it’s a different story.
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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.
Herding Cats
NOVEMBER 20, 2018
Risk Management has six steps: Planning risk management - decides how to approach and plan the risk management activities for the project. Identifying the Risks - determines with risk are likely to affect the project and documenting the characteristics of each. Performing qualitative risk analysis - prioritizes risks based on their probability and impact of occurrence.
ProjectManager.com
NOVEMBER 19, 2018
If you look at your Facebook feed right now, how many posts are videos? Probably most of them, am I correct? Facebook has been pushing video because it keeps people on their platform longer, and this won’t stop any time soon. When it comes to Facebook ads, video views are already a cheap way to reach an audience. The cost per 10 second view should be fractions of a penny if you have a decent video and good targeting.
ProProject Manager
NOVEMBER 19, 2018
Welcome to Mary Rownd! Mary’s story is the latest in our series “How Did I Get Here?” Mary has a background in Marketing and enjoys working in the Digital Project Management space. Here’s her story. When did you first decide to become a project manager? Starting out, I was a Marketer and used my PM skills to manage million dollar marketing campaigns, manage cooperatives and launch new products.
Wrike
NOVEMBER 20, 2018
You’ve checked off the last few tasks on your to-do list, submitted the final deliverable, and shaken hands with a group of happy stakeholders. Time to congratulate your project team on a job well done and pop the champagne! . Wait, what do you mean the project’s not finished? Record lessons learned?? Groan. . It can be tough to make time for any kind of retrospective when you’ve got a slew of urgent new tasks and projects waiting.
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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