Musings on Project Management
MARCH 14, 2022
Number One: It's a bell, unless it's not For nearly all of us when approaching something statistical, we imagine the bell-shape distribution right away. And, we know the average outcome is the value at the peak of the curve. Why is it so useful that it's the default go-to? Because many, if not. most, natural phenomenon with a bit of randomness tend to have a "central tendency" or preferred.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
MARCH 12, 2022
Project governance is an important part of project management processes – even if it’s not the most exciting part of getting work done. As a project manager, part of your role is shepherding the work through the project lifecycle. That means moving it on from idea to done and keeping it all on track as you go. Governance is a key part of that, and gate reviews are part of navigating through the project.
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Kiron Bondale
MARCH 13, 2022
There are three commonly referenced approaches for reducing schedule duration: crashing, fast tracking and scope reduction. Crashing is the addition of labor or equipment to effort-driven activities in the hopes of shortening their durations. Fast tracking involves executing activities which had discretionary dependencies in parallel (either wholly or partially).
LiquidPlanner
MARCH 16, 2022
Project management is a lot more complicated than relying on the luck of the Irish to ensure people are working on the right priorities at the right time. As we all know – relying heavily on luck can have serious ramifications to our project plan. Luck comes along suddenly and unexpectedly in managing priorities without a project management tool. But it’s nothing you can try to repeat without the right resources.
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Scrum.org
MARCH 14, 2022
Scrum is simple, but that simplicity means that each of its elements is essential. The values, accountabilities, artifacts and events are all part of the framework for a reason. Teams that mess with the framework are messing with Scrum. Teams that make changes to the elements limit Scrum's effectiveness and aren't really using Scrum. . Below are some of the things in the Scrum framework teams shouldn't mess with but often do. . .
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Proofhub
MARCH 17, 2022
How Time Management Can Help Reduce Your Stress at Workplace As a project manager, there are many challenges you face while leading your team. Sometimes it can be exceedingly overwhelming as project managers have to fulfill many demands. Image Source: ProofHub They have to deal with priorities, keep a close eye on what their team needs as well as what the customers and stakeholders want.
LiquidPlanner
MARCH 14, 2022
March Madness – that crazy college basketball time of year when 64 teams play for the national championship. One winner, 63 losers. Everybody and their brother fill out their own “bracket” pre-tournament in office and friend pools all over the US hoping to win the jackpot of $5, $10, or maybe even $1000. The madness emerges as Cinderella teams advance, upsetting highly-ranked and favored teams as they fail to deliver. .
Scrum.org
MARCH 17, 2022
Die gute Nachricht: Scrum ist ein Rahmenwerk, in dem sich Methoden wie Design Thinking und Lean Startup gut integrieren lassen. . Insgesamt sieht ein mögliches Bild so aus: . Um Innovationen zu schaffen braucht es drei Komponenten: . Eine Innovation hilft Kund:innen ein Problem besser, sicherer, schneller oder kostengünstiger zu lösen. Wenn eine Innovation das leisten kann, dann begeistert eine Innovation die Kund:innen.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
MARCH 17, 2022
“The successful project communicator is a good networker and builds effective working relationships within the project, across the wider organization of which the project is a part and sometimes externally,” writes Ann Pilkington in her book, Communicating Projects. You need good communication skills in order to be able to do that, but what are ‘good communication skills’?
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
MARCH 17, 2022
Spike solutions are one of the ways extreme programming teams “ figure out answers to tough technical or design problems “ Their use has evolved over the years and as they’ve been adopted by Scrum Teams. There are also many teams out there who may be using spikes in a way that creates more work without solving problems. In this episode of SoundNotes, Stephen Cavaliere joins Dave to talk all about Spikes.
MPUG
MARCH 13, 2022
Projects are essential to all organizations’ goals and objectives. Successful project completions according to targeted purposes account for optimum company performance. But only through a robust project management plan can companies perform better, accomplish goals faster, and be more efficient. Thus, when reviewing monthly project management reports, organizations want the best project management techniques.
Scrum.org
MARCH 18, 2022
In Scrum soll ein verwendbares Increment und in Design Thinking sollen nur Prototypen erstellt werden. Wie kann das trotzdem zusammen passen? . Dazu schauen wir uns zunächst grundlegende Prinzipien an und schlussfolgern wie mögliche Integrationen aussehen. . Prinzipien für Scrum und Design Thinking. Scrum ist ein Rahmenwerk, das Teams hilft Wert durch adaptive Lösungen für komplexe Probleme zu generieren.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
MARCH 16, 2022
This is a guest article from Paul Pelletier, PMP and author of Workplace Bullying – It’s Just Bad for Business. Paul Pelletier. Project managers establish and foster workplace behavior expectations through their own leadership values and actions. Simply put – I believe that we learn from the examples set by those above. That leads to two clear choices: do you commit to a positive, respectful model for workplace culture or a disrespectful, bullying model?
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Leading Agile
MARCH 15, 2022
Achieving lasting change to an organization through an Agile Transformation or increasing Business Agility is not for the faint of heart. There are tomes written about the best way forward. Stages, steps, processes–and in many cases—the “solution” is to plan more, track more, and deliver on time. In contrast, Business Agility is intended to be flexible.
nTask
MARCH 17, 2022
Project management is a tricky business, the slightest negligence on your part can set off a chain reaction ultimately ending in failure. To make sure everything is prim and proper through and through, you can use the Go/No Go decision. Go/ No Go decision determines whether a project is worth all the effort and investment or should it be halted. The criterion for the decision is set by the organization itself and is tailored to the needs of the business.
Scrum.org
MARCH 18, 2022
Prior to reading this blog, please read the introduction to this series here. Professional Teaching is a complex skill that requires practitioners to probe, sense and respond to a changing learning environment. As Scrum Masters, we are naturally at home within complexity, and therefore the ability to apply empiricism to learning should be simple. However, for many reasons, teaching is often forced upon unwilling (or unwitting) Scrum Team members causing the outcome to be less valuable than inte
Rebel’s Guide to PM
MARCH 15, 2022
This is a guest article from Andy Kaufman, PMP. Andy Kaufman. I work with project managers around the world, and increasingly there’s one success trait that I find could use a tune-up. In a word, it’s assertiveness. Some of this is unquestionably cultural. Part of the problem could be perception. Some people view assertiveness at work as aggression, and that can hold them back.
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Leading Agile
MARCH 14, 2022
Change isn’t something you do to an organization, but with an organization. To progress your Transformation, you need to create trust with your people, get leaders on board, and understand the problems you’re fixing. Without a change management plan, it’s hard to create a safe space for people to want to change. Change is hard, and people are comfortable.
nTask
MARCH 16, 2022
Albert Einstein once said, ‘I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.’ and that forms the very core of project-based learning. Practice and actual implementation are at the heart of this approach. Project-based learning involves active participation from individuals. They learn by actually interacting and engaging with the project.
Scrum.org
MARCH 18, 2022
Hoy he venido profundo y filosófico. Siempre en mis formaciones comento la diferencia entre ordenar y priorizar. Ahora que me he puesto profundo, os pongo la definición de ordenar de la RAE , colocar algo o a alguien de acuerdo con un plan o de modo conveniente. Después lo vamos a confrontar con la definición de prioridad, que recae en la anterioridad de algo respecto de otra cosa, en tiempo o en orden.
The Strategic Project Manager
MARCH 12, 2022
The Prisoner’s Dilemma is a well-known game where we can learn about human behavior. It is part of the area of Game Theory. This post looks at what the Prisoner’s Dilemma is, how it applies to strategy and project management, and how insights from it can be used to improve outcomes. Basic Prisoner’s Dilemma Explained. The above figure illustrates the basic Prisoner’s Dilemma.
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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.
Management Yogi
MARCH 13, 2022
Imagine the following situation:You’re working on a large-scale system integration project using MS Project as the project management tool, but a component team for this project has been using Jira for legacy reasons. You want to have your overall project plan, including this component team’s work, in MS Project, though the component team will continue to work with Jira.
Planio
MARCH 14, 2022
A great user experience (UX) is one of the largest drivers of growth , revenue, and customer happiness. Yet, for some reason, user research is still one of the first things dropped when budgets get squeezed and timelines are tight. Most project managers get stuck chasing milestones and short-term goals instead of using research to uncover user insights and design better apps, sites, and products.
Scrum.org
MARCH 16, 2022
In Kürze: Die Scrum Master Zertifizierungen PSM I, PSM II und PSM III bestehen. Im ersten Artikel dieser Miniserie wurde festgestellt, dass man kein Zertifikat braucht, um gut in dem zu werden, was man tut, zum Beispiel als Scrum Master zu arbeiten. Sich zertifizieren zu lassen, kann jedoch ein guter Ratschlag sein, wie der Scrum Master Salary Report 2022 belegt: Es besteht eine statistische Korrelation zwischen dem Gehalt und den Zertifikaten, die Sie besitzen.
Resource Guru
MARCH 18, 2022
Resource management is already complicated – you don’t need to add more stress by using tools that hinder more than help you. But frustration and mistakes are inevitable for resource managers using cumbersome spreadsheets or task-based apps with limited capabilities. IBM found that 88% of spreadsheets contain at least one error (largely because of manual data entry), and task-based apps often force you to rely more on guesswork than hard data when assigning workloads.
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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