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Estimating Agile Projects.Or Not

Leading Answers

Project managers generally like plans and estimates so we can forecast when things should be done and how much they may cost. It helps manage client expectations and answer the type of questions they ask, such as " When will it be done? " and " How much will it cost? " So, when project managers hear about ideas such as "let's stop estimating," it can trigger a knee-jerk reaction.

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How to Take a Digital Break When Your Job is Online

Teamweek

Illustration: Kezia Gabriella. I’ve been working from home as a freelance journalist for two years and I’m acutely aware of how my work hours have only increased in the past few months. My days have melted into nights and at one point I was waking up at 4 a.m. to answer emails because it was only afternoon somewhere else in the world. These days, when I’m not on my laptop working, I’m probably on my phone scrolling through the news or social media.

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12 Sure-Fire Ways to Improve Project Risk Management

Project Risk Coach

Mike was a functional project manager in an organization where I managed a PMO. He was winsome and a hard worker. But his projects were trending in the wrong direction and his manager was not happy with Mike's performance. In a one-on-one meeting, I asked Mike how he was identifying, analyzing, and managing his risks. His response revealed his belief in risk management but a lack of actual application with his teams.

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5 Types of Project Meetings

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In Collaboration Explained: Facilitation Skills for Software Project Leaders there’s a whole section on different types of meetings, what they are for and how they work. I read it and thought, ‘Everyone knows how to run a meeting, surely?’ Having said that, I’m spending a lot of time in and chairing meetings at the moment, and actually it wouldn’t hurt to brush up my skills.

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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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Agile Metrics — The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Scrum.org

TL; DR: Agile Metrics. Suitable agile metrics reflect either a team’s progress in becoming agile or your organization’s progress in becoming a learning organization. At the team level, qualitative agile metrics often work better than quantitative metrics. At the organizational level, this is reversed: quantitative agile metrics provide better insights than qualitative ones.

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A Simple Recipe For Creating A Killer Project Management Checklist

Proofhub

How to create one small checklist to save you a tonne of effort. “In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.”?—?Dwight D.Eisenhower. I am a big fan of lists, to-do lists, pros and cons lists, or checklists. They give me a chance to be thorough, not miss out on important information, and also finish everything up in the intended time.

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The Ultimate Guide to Running a Successful Project Kickoff Meeting

Planio

When you’re heads-down working on a huge project, it’s easy to forget that the smallest things can sometimes have the biggest impact on your success. Let’s say you’re working for NASA and your job is to get a rocket to the moon (no biggie, right?) But during your pre-launch checklist, you discover that you’re off target by 0.1 degrees. There are so many other major factors to worry about.

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5 - Evénements Scrum : Sprint Planning

Scrum.org

Le Sprint Planning est le premier évènement d'un Sprint. Son objectif est de collaborer à la planification du travail à effectuer durant le Sprint. C'est un timebox de 8 heures pour un Sprint d'un mois, proportionnellement moins pour un Sprint plus court. Toute la l'Équipe Scrum y participe. Un Sprint Planning est composé de deux parties principales. 1 - QUOI FAIRE ?

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Key Personal Qualities of an Excellent Project Manager

Epicflow Blog

To be an expert in any field, you should possess professional knowledge, hard skills, specific background, and professional experience. Read more: What Do Companies like Apple, Amazon, and Google Look for in Project Managers? But what about personal traits and qualities? Do they play a significant role in your career? Let’s immerse deeper into the sphere of project management from the perspective of character traits that assist in gaining your occupational success.

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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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What is the role of the RTE release train engineer?

Agilemania

Release Train Engineer (RTE) is a coach and servant leader for the Agile Release Train (ART). Agile Release Train (ART) is a self-organising team of Agile teams. It is a virtual organisation that commits, plans and executes together. Agile Release Train is the primary value delivery construct in Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). Some of the major responsibilities of RTE include… The post What is the role of the RTE release train engineer?

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Essentials Your Employees Need to Work From Home Permanently

Ganttic

This is a guest post by Ashley Kimler. Before the coronavirus pandemic struck, only 7% of Americans were able to work from home in the private sector and 4% in the state and local government sectors. In 2020, 66% of employees are now working from home at least some of the week, a situation that has been precipitated by COVID-19. Remote working certainly has its benefits.

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In-Depth: What a Social Systems Perspective Teaches us About Change

Scrum.org

In this series of ‘In-depth’-posts, we take time to consider the bigger picture. This series is not about easy answers or practical tips, but to develop a more complete understanding of what may be going on. If you take the time to fully read and digest this post, you will (hopefully): Understand how a social systems perspective gives you a better way to understand change, how it happens and what you can do to facilitate it.

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Oath for an Agile Coach

Growing Agile

I was browsing LinkedIn recently and came across a post by the legendary Alex Sloley where he stated that he had signed the Oath for an Agile Coach. I was curious, looked into it and decided it was good. The Oath is modelled on the Hippocratic Oath taken by physicians, and whilst it is just a bit of fun, I find the values to be worth remembering and indeed living by as we go about our business day to day.

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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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How Much Time Is Required for PMP Exam Preparation?

MPUG

A short answer to the question stated in this article’s title is that it can take between eight to twelve weeks to prepare for the PMP Exam. Before elaborating, I’d like to address a completely different question. That is, how much time is required for preparation for running a marathon? Assuming that you are a novice runner, you may need five hours of preparation time per week in the initial weeks, but later an increase to about twenty hours per week.

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3 MindGenius templates ideal for starting University (they’re free!)

MindGenius

Starting university is one of the most enjoyable feelings in the world. Regardless of whether you’re going straight from high school, from college or any other route, the start of your journey through university is a very exciting time for all. I myself came straight from high school, and while I had worked hard to get to university, I did not appreciate the amount of individual learning there would be from the very beginning.

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How Done is your Definition of Done?

Scrum.org

In every Professional Scrum class, we talk about Done as an important concept in Scrum. And very often some students would get surprised when we tell this simple truth: The whole point of Scrum is to have a Done product at the end of a Sprint. And Done means potentially releasable – no more work needs to be performed for us to release the product into the hands of our customers.

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Product Manager vs Project Manager: The Main Differences

Techno-PM

Product Manager vs Project Manager The essence of being an effective project manager or product manager can be summed up in four words: “The buck stops here!” That quote, popularized by U.S. President Harry Truman, refers to the ability of leaders to make decisions, work collaboratively with trusted advisors, and – ultimately – take responsibility for the outcome of those decisions.

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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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19 Best Tools to Support Agile Project Management

Scoro

Leading a project management team is not for the faint of heart. Between coordinating your team in focusing on the actual work, things can get overwhelming pretty quickly. Luckily, there are many different project management styles and approaches, so everyone can find their ideal workflow. One approach that has become popular in recent years is an Agile methodology that has expanded from its original use in software development to a wealth of other industries.

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What is Statement of Work and How to Write a Great SoW

EasyProjects

If you’re starting to explore the concept of creating a statement of work, it’s important that you understand what the process entails. SoWs are powerful tools. They help define a project’s expectations– and they leave almost nothing to the imagination. Project proposals , statements of work , and all the other components of a project play key roles in successful business endeavors.

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Usar la velocidad en puntos de historia no es obligatoria en Scrum

Scrum.org

Scrum se ha convertido en el marco ágil de trabajo más usado en el desarrollo de software en el mundo. Uno de los beneficios de Scrum es la entrega de incrementos de producto en periodos de tiempo cortos. El trabajo se basa en la colaboración y trabajo en equipo. Algunos aspectos como el descubrimiento, el empirismo y la inspección continua son claves para lograr un proceso de mejora continua y de innovación en el producto a construir.

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Agile| 6 Ways to Keep Agile Teams on Track

Stepping Into Project Management

This was first published on projectmanagement.com Agile teams are being tested. The world has changed, and many teams—no matter what their structure was prior to the pandemic—are working from home, on top of dealing with increased COVID-19 challenges. While the demand for deliverables and work continues, the roles, responsibilities and efficiency of agile teams come into question.

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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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MPUG’s New Website is Live

MPUG

The new MPUG.com is live! We are excited about improved usability and making learning about project management easier than ever for you across all platforms. If you missed it, check out our previous article on the topic for a preview of our website’s new design. Now that we’re live, let’s take a deeper look at a couple new features that are now available.

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Top Tips for Change Request Management

Wrike

As a project manager , you know that mid-project pivots are just part of the game. Often, it’s not the change itself that causes the most disruption; it’s the process — or lack thereof — for requesting and implementing the change that throws a wrench in things. That’s why proper change request management is so critical. . In this post, we’re breaking down precisely what change request management is, why it’s so important to have a change request process that includes change request forms, and ho

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Redefiniendo el liderazgo

Scrum.org

¿Alguna vez te has preguntado qué hacen los gerentes en Scrum? O tal vez hayas oído hablar de Management 3.0 y ¿cómo puede ayudar al liderazgo organizacional? ¿Deseas conocer prácticas actualizadas para proveer un liderazgo de próxima generación que inspire a los equipos ágiles a dominar la complejidad de la entrega de software o el desarrollo de servicios centrados en el cliente?

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How do you build your brand as a project manager?

Kiron Bondale

The restrictions resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic have resulted in more project managers working remotely. While this keeps everyone safe, it also means that there is a larger supply of project managers available to lead a given project since location is less critical. So long as a project manager is temporally close to key stakeholders, in many situations they should be able to get the job done.

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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.