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Agile Teams: Roles & Structures That Work

Rebel’s Guide to PM

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Are you being (responsibly) transparent?

Kiron Bondale

We might assume that transparency should be a given when delivering value through our projects so why is it that the actions of teams or the stakeholders supporting delivery don’t always demonstrate that basic hygiene factor? Transparency is so critical that the Scrum Guide lists it as one of its three pillars and it is similarly echoed in the reference materials for many other agile delivery methods as well as in PMI’s Code of Ethics.

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10 Marketing Tips for Small Businesses That Cost $0

ProjectManager.com

Marketing your small business doesn’t have to take a huge budget with thousands (or millions!) of dollars. As a small business owner, you likely don’t have the budget anyway. Before spending money on marketing projects that could be spent on something else, consider trying these ten marketing tips for a small business that cost nothing but the time it takes to learn and maintain them. 1.

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Taking Action After a Project Management Symposium

Project Risk Coach

You've just invested your precious time in a project management symposium, conference, or training class. Congratulations on being proactive in your project management development. But how can you take action after a symposium to obtain the full benefits of your learning? Project Management Symposium Why You Should Take Action Soon? Here's the problem we all face when attending a project management symposium.

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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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7 Secrets to Successful Project Manager/Team Collaboration

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This is a guest post from Elisa Cepale. Elisa Cepale. As project managers, it’s important that we know how to best support our development teams (and vice versa), especially in Agile environments. At White October we continuously reflect on our process to refine the way we work. Here is what we learned from an invaluable brainstorming session with our Tech Lead.

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How to Have Fun at Work While Staying Productive

ProjectManager.com

Work can be fun, though often it isn’t, and that goes for both team members and their managers. How can you have fun at work and be productive? Jennifer Bridges, PMP, shows you and gives practical examples. Here’s a screenshot of the whiteboard for your reference. In Review – How to Have Fun at Work While Staying Productive. It might be expected to hear team members complain that work is no longer fun, but Jennifer said that she’s heard the same complaint from managers.

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Against the Gods -- a review

Musings on Project Management

"Against the Gods, The remarkable story of Risk" by Peter L. Bernstein is an excellent read and ambitious premise well delivered. Perhaps the best general history of risk -- and presentation of the major concepts of risk -- that is understandable by all practitioners at any level. The content is presented in a general historical order in major sections by epoch.

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Why are Soft Skills so Hard to Develop?

Scrum.org

In today’s complex ever-changing work, we need to make full use of the collective intelligence of the whole team, even if the whole organization to be able to solve and deliver on these needs. Collective intelligence is more than the sum of the individuals. Everyone having a voice is important, but not sufficient in itself. We need a culture of safety, learning, and collaboration.

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Services all around the Implementation of Project Management Software

Inloox

Current study results Based on a study by PWC, project management software demonstrably increases project performance: 77 percent of all above-average successful projects are handled with software support. Furthermore, in a survey conducted by the Access Group, 66 percent of project managers surveyed stated that a very important factor for investing in new software was the level of support provided by the company. ( Hive ) Services supporting the successful implementation of PM software Numerous

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

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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A Quick Guide to User Story Mapping

ProjectManager.com

The idea of user story mapping can be traced back to Jeff Patton. He literally wrote the book about it, It’s All in How You Slice It , which came out in 2005. Patton is a consultant who helps companies work in a way that’s focused on building great products, not just improving production speeds. He achieves this with a mixture of agile, lean and lead, UX design and design thinking startup frameworks.

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GitScrum Review: Better Than Free Project Management Software

The Digital Project Manager

The post GitScrum Review: Better Than Free Project Management Software appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Getting to 85 - Agile Metrics with ActionableAgile

Scrum.org

The topic of Agile Metrics inevitably comes up in many situations and conversations. I have been hiring Scrum Masters lately. One of my screening questions read, “What standard metrics would you track if any and for what purpose?” I cannot tell you how many candidates mention Velocity, Burndown and Burnup charts. Very few can reasonably explaining the meaning and use for those.

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Services all around the Implementation of Project Management Software

Inloox

Current study results Based on a study by PWC, project management software demonstrably increases project performance: 77 percent of all above-average successful projects are handled with software support. Furthermore, in a survey conducted by the Access Group, 66 percent of project managers surveyed stated that a very important factor for investing in new software was the level of support provided by the company. ( Hive ) Services supporting the successful implementation of PM software Numerous

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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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What Is Synergy, and How Can It Help My Management?

ProjectManager.com

Synergy might be one of the original buzzwords, but that doesn’t mean it’s not without value for you and your management style. Jennifer Bridges, PMP, explains how synergy can help your management. Here’s a screenshot of the whiteboard for your reference. In Review – What Is Synergy, and How Can It Help My Management? Jennifer said that synergy, like any buzzword, can turn people off.

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Strategic Planning: The Types of Planning That Bring Your Strategy to Life

Planview

In this blog series, we are providing an overview of the seven planning types to help you deliver on strategy with a dynamic and continuous approach. In part one, we started with the basics of strategic planning and the need for a flexible and long-term approach, so you can zig when the market, competition, or internal issues zag. In these next couple of installments, we’re going to look at the different types of planning as they relate to your desired outcomes referenced from the eBook “ Planni

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Getting to 85 - Agile Metrics with ActionableAgile (p. 2)

Scrum.org

In the first part of Getting to 85 – Agile Metrics with ActionableAgile we looked at the Cycle Time Scatterplot as generated by ActionableAgile software. That piece also discussed some ideas the scatter plot could bring about and conversations that potentially might occur. Let’s take a look at another important chart and set of metrics the ActionableAgile can produce based on sample or custom loaded data – Cumulative Flow Diagram (CFD). .

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Resist Business B.S.—Why Wouldn’t We Rebel When Strategies Fail?

LiquidPlanner

According to executives, nearly half of all strategic initiatives fail. Various studies conducted since 1995 consistently show executives will admit their strategic objectives have failed on some level almost half the time. I am not surprised by the failure rate, but I am thrilled by the honesty. When we can admit a problem, we can begin looking for a solution.

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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 Make a Disaster Recovery Plan

ProjectManager.com

Whether a disaster is man-made or of natural origins, if you don’t react quickly then it’ll get worse. Jennifer Bridges, PMP, shows you how to make a disaster recovery plan. Here’s a screenshot of the whiteboard for your reference. In Review – How to Make a Disaster Recovery Plan. Disasters happen, Jennifer said, but recovery must be planned. Just like any plan, a disaster recovery plan is made up of pieces.

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Expert tips for becoming the most ‘favorite’ manager

Proofhub

The Mindset Shift: How to become a good new manager You’d probably be excited about your new gig. Becoming a successful manager (a leader of other individual contributors) can be deceptively difficult. The transition is precarious. Research shows going from an individual performer to a manager is one of the most difficult and stressful times in a career.

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Getting to 85 - Agile Metrics with ActionableAgile Part 1

Scrum.org

The topic of Agile Metrics inevitably comes up in many situations and conversations. I have been hiring Scrum Masters lately. One of my screening questions read, “What standard metrics would you track if any and for what purpose?” I cannot tell you how many candidates mention Velocity, Burndown and Burnup charts. Very few can reasonably explaining the meaning and use for those.

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An Approach for Sustainability for Everyone – The Scout vs. the Warrior

Green Project Management

“A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.” William James, 1879 For those who have accepted and endorsed the importance of sustainability and social responsibility issues like the importance of dealing with anthropogenic climate change, livable wages, the problems with waste etc., there […].

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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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How to Prep for Vacation So Nothing Goes Wrong

ProjectManager.com

Do you resist taking a vacation because you’re scared that something will go wrong in your absence? You need a break without stress, and Jennifer Bridges, PMP, shows you how to prepare for a vacation without problems. Here’s a screenshot of the whiteboard for your reference. In Review – How to Prep for Vacation so Nothing Goes Wrong. Jennifer said she knows a lot of people who complain that they can’t go on vacation.

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Mike Cottmeyer at Innovate Virginia 2019

Leading Agile

Whitepaper Lead a Structured and Disciplined Agile Transformation Download Now. In order to achieve business Agility, Agile has to be applied in a certain context. You have to be able to form the right kinds of teams, build the right kinds of backlogs, and produce working, tested increments of product. The problem is that this context doesn’t exist in larger, more complex enterprises.

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Transforming to an Agile Enterprise

International Institute for Learning

By Sandeep Shouche Most executives will hear the Agile buzzword and ask their teams to “do this agile thing.”. For many executives, Agile only means: Do it even faster than before. Deliver whenever I want it. Don’t question when I want to change it. True “Agility” is a much deeper change and most enterprises will underestimate the amount of change they will experience when they adopt Agile.

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Project Implementation: Your Guide to What it Involves

Online PM Courses

Project Implementation (aka project delivery or execution) is when things get going. After definition, scoping & planning, it's time to make things happen. Here's where you implement your project, execute your plan, and deliver the benefits your sponsor commissioned. So, although I'd argue that this is the easy bit, you have to get it right. The post Project Implementation: Your Guide to What it Involves appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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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.