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9 Powerful Strategies to Manage Multiple Projects

Project Bliss

As a project manager, you’ll most likely manage multiple projects. And you’ll have to give each one the focus and energy to ensure it succeeds. You’ll have competing demands and new challenges each day. Unexpected problems emerge and tasks can get off track. It takes incredible organizational skills to manage conflicting workloads and competing priorities.

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How to Conduct a Killer Kickoff Meeting

Project Risk Coach

One thing that I've learned after twenty years of projects. Double down on your initial efforts. And one of the most critical events is your project kickoff meeting. Let's ensure that our meeting participants leave the kickoff meeting with a good understanding of the project and motivated for the hard work ahead. Prepare Your Agenda Do you know the 5 P's?

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Tailoring project management for a home move (part 2)

Kiron Bondale

In my last article, I had written about our current personal project of moving from our current home to a new house in a different city. After it was published, I received some feedback ( thanks Luis! ) that it would be helpful to provide more context about the project itself. This initiative was the follow up to an initial project which covered the purchase of the new property and the sale of our existing home.

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Why you need to engage stakeholders (and how to do it well)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Early on in my career, I had a call from the post room manager. She was confused – and angry. Bags and bags of extra mail had arrived, she didn’t have the staff in to sort it and she had heard that it might be something to do with me. It was. I was happy that my project to in-source a service had completed as expected. All the redirections were working – including the post.

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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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Construction Risk Management: An Introduction

ProjectManager.com

Few things are as risky as construction. There is heavy equipment, crews working in precarious situations and complicated logistics to manage. How do you meet your deadline while managing all that risk? The answer is construction risk management. It can be mind-bogglingly complex, which is you should make a detailed construction risk management plan.

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Timeboxing-An Efficient Time Management Technique for Boosting Productivity

nTask

Our inability to efficiently manage time often lands us in hot water, with hordes of delayed assignments and fast-approaching deadlines. Keeping up with the daily activities then becomes a Sisyphean task where you do not actually get anything done but are always in the grind with no way out. While most of us are eager to start and end our daily tasks on time, very few of us are actually able to do that because of poor time management.

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The Long Game (Book Review)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Are you stuck in a zone of permanent action? Perhaps you are getting a lot done, but it’s tactical – nothing really strategic or long term. In fact, you might not even know what long term plan you want to have, let alone be making steps towards achieving it. The Long Game by Dorie Clark (HBR Press) is the answer. It’s a book that will help you create the ‘white space’ that you need to clear the decks and work out what that long term plan might be.

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How to Make a Project Calendar for Project Management

ProjectManager.com

What Is a Project Calendar? A project management calendar is one of many formats for displaying a project schedule. In this case, the format is one we’re all very familiar with—regardless of our expertise with project management, we’ve all seen a calendar. For this reason, project calendars are an excellent way to share information about the project timeline with everyone on the team.

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The Scrum Master Is An FFFCDO For Developers!

Scrum.org

Of late, I've been noticing an interpretation of the Scrum Master role - the Scrum Master as An FFFCDO for Developers - a Fierce, Ferocious, Fearsome Chief Defense Officer! Anytime, anyone provides any feedback that might cause Developers any kind of discomfort, the Scrum Master steps in fiercely, ferociously, fearsomely defending the righteousness of the Developers, putting an end to the conversation.

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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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2021 Guide to Inventory Management – Introduction, Types, Benefits, and Methodologies

nTask

No matter the size of your company or the industry you are in, you have to have a firm grasp on the inventory of your business since it drives the processes around you. Inventory Management forms an essential part of businesses in that regard. Keeping in view the importance and benefits of inventory management, we created this post to detail the fundamentals of inventory management, its various types, benefits, ideal features, and different methodologies.

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Let it be mensurable!

Musings on Project Management

To be mensurable is to be MeasurableCalculableEstimableDeterminableAnd, why do we care?Enter: risk managementTo compare two dissimilar risks violates the rule that risks to be compared must be similarly mensurable.In a recent post, Matthew Squair, writing at 'critical uncertainties' makes the point that early on.(and I quote Squair)". lockdown sceptics were pointing out that your risk of.

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How Marketing Teams Use ProjectManager

ProjectManager.com

Marketing teams are constantly juggling an array of projects and working with one another to keep things running smoothly. These are complex departments with different sides and many different team members, making them a perfect candidate for excellent project management software. It’s this need that has driven ProjectManager to create a robust suite of work management features for marketing teams.

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Zu viele Meetings in Scrum!?

Scrum.org

“Ich bin ja ein großer Fan von Scrum, aber. viel zu viele Meetings!”. "Ich komm vor lauter Meetings nicht zum Arbeiten!". "Unsere Entwickler halten nichts von Dailys - und die Retrospective machen wir nur alle paar Monate.". Sätze, die ich häufiger von Vorgesetzten, von Entwicklern und auch von Scrum Mastern und Product Ownern höre. Daher diskutieren wir in meinen Professional Scrum Master Trainings immer wieder darüber. wie wir die eingesetzte Meeting-Zeit „verrechnen“. wie wir Entwickler motiv

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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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Efficiently Manage Your Records with Top 7 Note-Taking Apps Of 2021

nTask

If you have been using a paper pad or sticky notes to jot down your ideas or important pointers then, it is time that you reconsider manual note-taking and transition to the digital world, offering simpler, easier, and more flexible note taking options. An excellent idea you thought of, an order from your boss, or an important point in a meeting, if you do not take note of the same, it is highly likely that you will forget it within 30 seconds.

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5 Best Wrike Alternatives Compared In An Honest Review

The Digital Project Manager

The post 5 Best Wrike Alternatives Compared In An Honest Review appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Project Baseline: A Starting Point to Monitor Your Project Performance

Epicflow Blog

It’s hardly possible to stick to the initial project plan without making any changes to it through the whole project lifecycle. In most cases, changes are inevitable and even necessary, as they allow the project team to deliver a product that will meet the customers’ needs to the fullest extent. However, we know that uncontrolled changes can put the successful project delivery in doubt.

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[VLOG] How To Do Daily Scrum With Kanban | Scrum Guide 2020

Scrum.org

What's good this week awesome people? As you know, in Scrum Guide 2020 there is no more prescriptions on how to run the Daily Scrum. It's up to the developers how to run it as long as the Daily Scrum focuses on creating plans for achieving the Sprint Goal. In today's video I share with you practical tips on how to run the Daily Scrum with Kanban. From my experience if you follow the approach in this video, it should not take more than fifteen minutes to do the Daily Scrum.

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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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How To Get Work Done On Time Without Burning Out Your Team?

Teamweek

Getting work done on time is the number one challenge for agency managers. To meet deadlines, team members often have to work odd hours and sacrifice their off time. As a result, over 50 percent of your team experiences burnout. In this article, you’ll learn about five best practices on how to get work done without overwhelming your team. Bring clarity to your team’s schedule Plan around your team availability Monitor team workloads Keep task-related information in one place Reduce unproductive

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Essential Leadership Skills To Lead A Hybrid Team Efficiently

Proofhub

Must-Have Leadership Skills for Running a Hybrid Team Source: [link] A good manager can help their team weather almost any storm, but what happens when the entire staff is facing a brand new situation? This is what happened at the start of the pandemic last year as countless leaders found themselves forced to help their teams transition to remote work.

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How to make a project schedule you’ll stick to in 9 steps (with free template)

Planio

The most productive people all follow a simple rule – if it’s not on their calendar, it won’t happen. The same goes for your team. But instead of a calendar, your ‘must-have’ tool is a project schedule. A project schedule is more than a calendar or timeline. It’s a manual of what needs to be done, by whom, when, and which resources you require. Your schedule is a guide, but it’s also a tool to push back against scope creep or fight for more help.

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Cornerstones of Coaching

Scrum.org

I have recently started down the path of certification with Co-Active Coaching as I wanted to improve my coaching skills; to know more about what great coaching looks like, to immerse myself in a community that will help me improve my abilities and to have credibility in my own mind about my own skills. . Co-Active Coaching has 4 cornerstones that underpin the coaching relationship between coach and coachee. .

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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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Don’t Let Data Loss Be the Demise Of Your Enterprise

Trello

It may not be the spiciest item on the agenda, but data security is the backbone of any online business. When we think of cybersecurity, we often think of major data breaches aimed at governments, hospitals, and large corporations. Yet—data loss is actually just as common—and disrupts business just the same. An accidental deletion, a mistake by a new team member, a spilled cup of coffee, a Power-Up integration that didn’t exactly go as planned; data loss can happen in a variety of ways.

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Ushering in a New Era of Agile

Leading Agile

Business now moves faster than ever. Some call it market speed, others call it Business Agility. But i f your company can’t deliver an ever-evolving set of customer-facing, customer-satisfying functions that support the core mission of the company, someone else is working hard to make sure that they can. And how is management looking at the world? Through metrics that tell you what happened in the past.

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Improve Performance by Tapping into the Power of Collaborative Intelligence

PM Times

Decisions drive performance. When making important decisions, take the time to consider multiple perspectives, facts, opinions, and feelings. “If you rely only on your own knowledge and experience when tasked with deciding, you are missing an opportunity to get to an optimal outcome. As smart as you may be, you can only gain by getting […].

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Scrum en Côte d’Ivoire : Quel mélange !

Scrum.org

. Rien n’est ce qu’il semble être – Photo Roland Flemm. Quand on parle de Scrum et d’Agilité, nous sommes habitués à penser à l’Amérique et à l’Europe, et non à l’Afrique. Je dois avouer que je suis totalement ignorant du niveau de Scrum et de l’Agile en Afrique. Inutile de dire que j’étais excité d’être invité en Côte d’Ivoire pour une formation PSM-1 et PSPO-1 dans la ville d’Abidjan.

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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.