Project Bliss
JANUARY 30, 2022
Many organizations don’t fully understand the benefits of project management. Here’s how your skills and expertise help organizations deliver greater value for their efforts. This article was originally published on September 30, 2016, and has been updated. Can you easily explain the value you provide to an organization as a project manager?
Project Risk Coach
JANUARY 31, 2022
Some Project Management Offices (PMOs) never get off the ground. I've seen others that are implemented and a year or so later die a slow, painful death. So, how can you build a PMO, one that thrives? Why Are There So Many Troubled PMOs? Many PMOs fail to realize their potential. Why? There are several reasons, but one of the top reasons is the failure to engage key stakeholders.
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Inloox
JANUARY 31, 2022
Worst practice in 4 steps What is worst and best practice anyway? Perhaps some of you are now wondering what worst and best practice actually is. Let's start with a brief definition of these two terms: Best Practice is mainly used in benchmarking processes. In this context, best practice represents the best realized solution for an issue or a project.
ProjectManager.com
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
Projects need approval before they can be executed. A project charter is a project planning document that sells the project to stakeholders and sponsors. If you’re able to show its viability and return on investment, the work will get the green light to move forward. But there are a lot of elements to any successful project charter. If you’re new to project management , a project charter template can set you up to make sure you’re hitting all the major points.
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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.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
FEBRUARY 1, 2022
Are you aiming to achieve your PMI Agile Certified Professional ( PMI-ACP )®? Then you’ll be looking for a course that will give you exam confidence and fits the way you want to study. I’ve rounded up the best PMI-ACP training courses below based on my knowledge of the industry and working with providers and students as a project manager and trainer.
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Kiron Bondale
JANUARY 30, 2022
Having recently finished Adam Grant’s latest book, Think Again, I decided to read his first book Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success. Like all of his books, Adam provides good insights into our interactions with others along with multiple examples and case studies supporting his assertions. In case you haven’t read the book, Adam believes that people will default to one of three stances: takers, matchers or givers.
ProjectManager.com
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
Uncertainty is a certainty in projects. Risks will arise and threaten the successful delivery of your project. Using a risk breakdown structure (RBS) is how you prepare for the unexpected. A risk breakdown structure is great for identifying and prioritizing risks so you know which will be more or less impactful. That’s the first step in planning, managing and mitigating risk in your projects.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
If I’m honest it has been a while since I’ve worked on a project that has gone totally off the rails. We’ve had little disasters here and there. Perhaps experience helps me frame and deal with these as not the end of the world but rather a problem to be got around. Whether it’s a big problem or a small issue doesn’t actually matter. What matters is whether it feels as if your project is under control and whether your stakeholders believe it is under control.
Scrum.org
FEBRUARY 2, 2022
Currently, I am an “active” stakeholder for 4 Scrum Teams. And, when I say active I mean I actually care deeply about the outcomes, will invest time and effort preparing for the reviews, and when I attend I do not do email, Slack or even look at my phone during the event. But I have an admission, I am also the person paying for these Scrum Teams as CEO of Scrum.org.
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
Leading Agile
JANUARY 30, 2022
Once we get started on the journey toward becoming Agile—whether we’re at the start or further along in the process—we often notice there’s conflict between different parts of the organization. This is usually because we start with team-level Agility thinking that’s all we need. But what we may have failed to consider is how the rest of the organization will need to change to exploit this new delivery capability.
ProjectManager.com
FEBRUARY 2, 2022
Projects are a series of decisions. Each decision should, ideally, be the result of thorough research, counseling from the team and historic data. Project managers use a decision log to keep stakeholders updated on who authorized a decision and how it came about. A decision log is a critical communication tool that all project managers need to understand.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
FEBRUARY 4, 2022
On Agile projects, business representatives work alongside developers so scope unfolds as the project progresses. In this environment it is acceptable to have ambiguous requirements as the collaborative working techniques mean that clarity comes from working with and continually testing iterations of the end product until it meets the business requirements.
Scrum.org
JANUARY 30, 2022
Scrum uses an iterative, incremental approach to deliver value to the business through the medium of the Sprint. The purpose of each Sprint is to deliver a Done, usable increment. It sounds straightforward, but it can be tricky to achieve. Here are the three steps to Done in Scrum: ensure your Scrum Team has a workable Definition of Done, a well-refined Product Backlog, and uses the Sprint Retrospective to identify improvement opportunities. . .
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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.
The Digital Project Manager
FEBRUARY 2, 2022
Have you ever hit a part of your project where you need a certain specialist, but they’re not available? Or where you needed a physical space that should have been booked 6 months in advance? On the flip side, have you ever had project team members sitting on their hands waiting for a dependent task […]. The post What Is Resource Planning In Project Management, And Why Is It Necessary?
ProjectManager.com
FEBRUARY 4, 2022
The best project planning software gives managers the means to build a project plan , manage team members, control costs and stay on schedule. To do that, it’s equipped with project scheduling, time tracking, task management and resource management features. Yes, project planning software is massive. It’s an umbrella under which a number of team collaboration and project planning tools reside, such as Gantt charts , task lists, kanban boards, reports and more.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
JANUARY 30, 2022
I’m not a great one for making resolutions so this year I thought I’d take a different look at things. Instead of setting myself up for failure by making promises to do new things, I wanted to turn it on its head. Let’s look instead at the things to stop doing. Here are the 5 habits I am going to ditch this year. Will you join me? 1. Wasting time. Oh, goodness.
Scrum.org
FEBRUARY 1, 2022
Would you be interested in increasing your chances of success following through on your New Year’s resolutions by 12%? Researchers at Stockholm University and Linköping University in Sweden analyzed resolutions made by 1,066 people and had some fascinating results that might impact not only your New Year’s resolutions but decision-making in general.
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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.
nTask
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
Effectively organizing your team can be tiresome, but the best online project management system can help you manage the most effectively. An online project management tool provides the best tools for organizing tasks, increasing productivity, and boosting the company’s overall growth. Moreover, project management systems have also proved fruitful for managing remote teams and projects much better.
The Strategic Project Manager
JANUARY 30, 2022
It can be a daunting task to look for an agile project planning tool. You will find a plethora of option – even free agile project management tools. This article focuses on three hosted agile project management software tools – from Atlassian, Microsoft, and Google. You will find comparisons of key attributes, pricing, and strengths against market competitors.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
FEBRUARY 1, 2022
Are you aiming to achieve your PMI Agile Certified Professional ( PMI-ACP )®? The most successful students also include reading a range of PMI-ACP books in their exam prep, as well as a training course, just as that little bit of extra comfort. It’s also useful to have books to carry around with you for reference when you can’t access your training materials.
Scrum.org
FEBRUARY 1, 2022
A while back I have shared a video about what to focus on when you join a new team as a Scrum Master. It’s time to share some of the new insights I’ve gathered over the past few years. In this blog post, I’ll walk you through some important steps you need to take in your first days to set a strong foundation for your long term success. Let’s start with a disclaime.
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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.
nTask
FEBRUARY 2, 2022
Agile project management has become one of the most efficient methodologies, and it continues to rake in huge profits for companies. In fact, research showed that adopting the Agile methodology helped 60% of companies increase their profits. Owing to the ease of use and efficiency of the methodology, countless companies worldwide are slowly adopting the methodology, preferring it over waterfall methodology.
Management Yogi
JANUARY 31, 2022
Many project managers utilize a Lean-Agile approach when there is high change or churn in project requirements, significant lack of clarity in scope, high complexity to their projects, and/or a larger number of risks associated with such. As these approaches have gained wide acceptance in a number of industry verticals, there has also been an increase in the problems being reported.In this.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
FEBRUARY 1, 2022
You’re here because you are planning to take your PMI Agile Certified Professional ( PMI-ACP )® exam. Well, you’re in the right place! As well as a PMI-ACP training course, the most successful students also include a study guide in their exam prep because those books are designed to help you get ready for the test. Below, I list the best PMI-ACP study guides for your agile certification studies.
Scrum.org
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
Diese Frage habe ich neulich in einem meiner . Professional Scrum Product Owner . Trainings bekommen. Wo soll ich anfangen? Man kann vieles falsch machen, und vieles hängt vom Kontext ab! Aber dann dachte ich, es gibt schon einige kapitale Fehler, die ich in verschiedenen Kontexten immer wieder gesehen habe. Also hier kommt meine Top 5 Liste: . Mechanischer Scrum .
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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