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Agile Project Management: The new go-to for marketing teams in 2020

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This is a guest contribution from Monica Georgieff, Agile Coach and Trainer at AgileSherpas. Monica Georgieff. What does this new decade have in store for marketers running projects? So far, a turbulent pandemic, uncertainty, crisis, and a volatile global situation. However, beyond the bad news we’ve had to deal with since the beginning of this year, these changing circumstances have ushered in a different kind of enthusiasm for making process improvements in how we work together as well.

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How to Run a Planning Meeting (Checklist Included)

ProjectManager.com

Meetings—there can be too many. Meetings are sometimes held to discuss when to meet: it can feel absurd. However, meetings are not some useless artifact from business past. They are an important means of communication. That’s why a planning meeting in project management is key to kicking off a successful project. Like any meeting, there are guidelines that must be followed.

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Student Syndrome in Project Management: Real Constraint or Just Human Factor?

Epicflow Blog

Probably everyone has ever been a student. Countless lectures, seminars, home tasks, projects, etc. Sounds familiar? Then you also remember that often all learning activities were postponed to the last to have more leisure time. It’s in our human nature. We enjoy having rest and are burdened with work. Let’s take a look at how this procrastination manifests in the field of project management, and what we can do to reduce it. .

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Are You Ready to be a Project Manager? By Brad Egeland.

MindGenius

I know this probably sounds like a strange question, but it is definitely one that warrants an answer. Are you ready to be a project manager? Are you being thrust into the role, or do you desire it (and yes, some of us made a conscious choice to become PMs)? Do you have the experience needed? Are you a leader or a follower? Does your background match up well with the types of projects you’ll be leading?

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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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Myth: You Can't Do Projects With Scrum

Scrum.org

Scrum is intended as a simple, yet sufficient framework for complex product delivery. Scrum is not a one-size-fits-all solution, a silver bullet or a complete methodology. Instead, Scrum provides the minimal boundaries within which teams can self-organize to solve complex problems with an empirical approach. This simplicity is its greatest strength, but also the source of many misinterpretations and myths.

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When leadership is autocratic

Musings on Project Management

Autocrates and autocratic leadership -- on the one hand -- and the classic risk management on the other hand. is the latter pointless in the context of the former? And we ask this because: From essayist Eric Grill writing in the leadership blog of St Thomas University we learn that: Autocratic leaders typically make all major decisions on their own, with little or no input from others.

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Dynamic Planning: Refocus, Reprioritize, and Reallocate Rapidly

Planview

Urgency to switch to digital business is just one way organizations are responding to current disruptions, highlighting the need for dynamic planning. After a virtual meeting with 40 CEOs recently, Fortune CEO Alan Murray wrote: “Companies that previously had been slow to adopt to digital transformation now find themselves on a ‘burning platform.’”.

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How to lead "Live Virtual Class" like a pro- part one (Preparation)

Scrum.org

Are you working remotely during the COVID-19 outbreak? Are you looking for some tips/tactics to lead virtual training for your teams? . Based on the lessons learned from attending and leading virtual sessions, I am very humbled to create a two-part blog series as an experience report to help my fellow colleagues from the Agile and Scrum community to lead live virtual classes like a professional.

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Remote Lean Coffee

Growing Agile

This morning we hosted a Lean Coffee session. It was my first time hosting a virtual lean coffee. I thoroughly enjoyed connecting with others and learning from each other. My first experience of a lean coffee was with Karen and Sam many years ago, I really enjoyed the loose structure and got so much of value that it soon became one of my favourite facilitation techniques.

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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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State of the practice: Agile

Musings on Project Management

I was looking back at some prior essays on Agile and came across the April 2012 PMNetwork magazine. Specifically I was attracted (again) to page 58 for an interview with some agilists on the state of the practice. Here are a couple of quotes from Jim Highsmith worth tucking away: Agile project management embraces both “doing” agile and “being” agile—and the latter is the hardest.

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How to Create a Successful Procurement Management Plan

MPUG

Having a detailed procurement management plan in place is essential to the overall success of a project. As well as enabling you to identify and document how the project will conduct its procurements, a plan will also outline the overall strategy and management approach with vendors, suppliers, and contractors. You should list all the procurements necessary for the project and identify the requirements associated with each of them.

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The Sprint Goal lifecycle

Scrum.org

In this blog post I explain why the Sprint Goal is key for an effective implementation of Scrum and how it is widely present in the Scrum framework by exploring its “lifecycle”. . Scrum is defined as a framework to address complex problems while delivering products of the highest possible value. A good Sprint Goal is, then, the one focusing to validate value assumptions to help achieving what Scrum is meant for (maximizing the value of the product iteratively and incrementally).

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Stay Productive Amid COVID-19 Epidemic With Foolproof Work From Home Tips

ProProfs Project Management

Employees have always been the lifeblood of businesses, as they unlock the door of success by combining their dedication with multitasking skills. This is the main reason why companies, especially global ones, strive to maintain healthy relationships with their top-performing employees. Can you guess the major factor that keeps employees connected with brands, besides a good salary package?

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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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Working Remote: Fortunate or Frustrated with Family

LiquidPlanner

While working from home, a shocking reality has emerged for many of us as we share space not designed for — or intended as — our fulltime office. How will we navigate this new reality? Are we doomed to daily frustration or fortunate to spend more time with those who love we most — even if they’re not ideal office mates? We are now imminently accessible to a spouse, partner, child or pet seeking support or attention.

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Reasons You Should Stop Using Excel for Lab Equipment Management

Ganttic

The future of science depends on what researchers are doing now, so it’s imperative that labs have the proper equipment. But the best computers, bunsen burners, and beakers in the world won’t help if you are managing your equipment with outdated software. So isn’t it time to upgrade from disorderly spreadsheets to something that will actually help? In this article we’ll go through some common problems that lab workers might encounter using Excel and how they might be rectified with the proper so

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Responding to the "New Normal" with Business Agility

Scrum.org

COVID-19 and the corona virus currently occupies our daily lives. All news outlet report on it almost 24/7. What used to be smalltalk about the weather is now about this horrific virus. I do want to talk about the virus, but more in the context of agile transformation and business agility. If you are interested in the role of an agile transformation coach , here is a starting point for that journey.

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8 Tools to Quickly Turn Your Classroom Remote

Proofhub

Teaching students is already difficult enough, but in times of crisis when schools are closed, and you cannot have classes in person, it tends to become even more troublesome. That’s primarily because many schools are not prepared to quickly turn their classes into remote platforms. While there are countless online schools, and over 15.7% of all students take distance education courses exclusively, most of the traditional schools don’t have the right systems and technology in place to offer onli

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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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COVID-19 Sustainable Lessons 07: Dealing with Cobb’s Paradox

Green Project Management

“We know why projects fail; we know how to prevent their failure—so why do they still fail?” Martin Cobb, Treasury Board Secretariat 1995 Cobb’s Paradox and the Solution This paradox has been frequently raised again and again in the project management community over the years. A generally accepted solution to it though seems particularly appropriate […].

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10 Steps to Becoming a Great Agile Coach

Leading Agile

Do you want to be a great Agile coach? This talk can help you get there. In Mike Cottmeyer’s remote talk from TriAgile 2020, he uncovers the 10 steps you can take to become the great Agile coach you always wanted to be. He also reveals the four primary skill areas that make a great coach, and the hard skills you’ll need to develop to get there.

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Remote Agile (Part 5): The Remote Retrospective with a Distributed Team

Scrum.org

TL; DR: A Remote Retrospective with a Distributed Team. We started this series on remote agile with looking into practices and tools, followed by exploring virtual Liberating Structures, how to master Zoom as well as common remote agile anti-patterns. This fifth article now dives into organizing a remote Retrospective with a distributed team: practices, tools, and lessons learned.

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How to Estimate Project Costs | Video

Online PM Courses

Cost estimation is critical for project managers. But, it’s hard to estimate project costs well & poor estimates cause project budget over-runs. The post How to Estimate Project Costs | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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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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Why your people could benefit from professional certificates

Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

Employees may want to pursue a certificate for a number of reasons , including curiosity, career development, a desire to bolster their credibility, as well as increased responsibilities and pay. From an organisational perspective, there are a few factors to consider when supporting them in this. First, which professional certificates are regarded as effective within your industry and why?

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With Hindsight: Toggl Plan’s Quarter 1, 2020

Teamweek

Who says you can only set goals and start anew at the beginning of the year? Today, at the beginning of Q2 2020, we’re starting something new. Our “something new” will be a series of Toggl Plan updates, both about the product, and life here in general. We want to be more transparent with showcasing what we’ve done and also help you get more out of Toggl Plan.

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The Stages of Scrum Mastery

Scrum.org

. Good Scrum Masters are passionate. Great Scrum Masters are dispassionate. . Noel Burch, a psychologist, created a learning model to describe how humans go through four stages of learning when introduced to a new skill. When we learn new skills, we experience different emotions at different stages of the learning process. In the beginning, we may not realize how much we need to learn.

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Business Agility model

Henny Portman

My quest continues. The Business Agility model is the next one to add to my Bird’s eye view on the agile forest. The Business Agility Model (developed by the Business Agility Institute) consisting of twelve interacting domains across four dimensions to take into account when transforming your organization. These are the essential building blocks for an agile organization.

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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.