Sat.May 27, 2023 - Fri.Jun 02, 2023

article thumbnail

The Dark side of Project Managers no one talks about

Celoxis

Project management is a crucial aspect of any organization that aims to achieve its goals and objectives. A project manager is responsible for planning, executing, monitoring, controlling, and closing projects within the allocated time and budget. However, the role of a project manager is not without its challenges, and there are some dark sides that are not commonly talked about.

article thumbnail

10 Reasons Why Teamwork Matters in Project Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

We know instinctively that it’s worth working together to get projects done. But when you have to convince others of the benefits of working together… well, it’s not always easy. Here are some clear and compelling reasons why it’s important to collaborate on projects. Teamwork makes the dream work isn’t just a corny saying!

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Transform Your Project Planning with ChatGPT: A How-To with Examples

MPUG

Introduction I’m sure by now you have heard the buzz, there is a new AI in town! A new chatbot has exploded on the scene, and the hype is like no other. But for die-hard followers of MPUG, you’ve read about project chatbots years ago here on MPUG: Rise of the Project Bots. In that article, I explored what a project bot would look like, and the implications of such a tool for Microsoft Project planners and all planners alike.

ChatGPT 111
article thumbnail

What Does Being a Cross-Functional Team in Scrum Mean?

Scrum.org

A central feature of the Scrum framework is the concept of a cross-functional team. But what exactly is cross-functionality, and how is it beneficial? Let's explore this topic in an agile software development context. Traditional project management approaches often organize teams based on specialized roles and responsibilities. You have developers who write code, testers who ensure quality, designers who create user interfaces, etc.

SCRUM 201
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

A creativity explosion?

Musings on Project Management

There are endless headlines and debates about the downside of the A.I. revolution that is (likely) coming, some of which is upon us. Since most project people are knowledge workers or skilled trades workers, the seeming threat of A.I. job replacement is always just hanging a bit off stage-left.

170
170

More Trending

article thumbnail

Milestone-Kanban: A Hybrid Project Scheduling Technique

The IIL Blog

By Alan Zucker The Milestone-Kanban Schedule (MKS) is a hybrid project scheduling and management technique that combines traditional and agile best practices. The technique is well-suited for simple and complicated projects where the required deliverables are clear, but the time and effort needed to create them are not. It embraces iterative planning, uses milestones to establish a project roadmap, a Kanban board to manage the work, and stand-up meetings to track progress.

article thumbnail

How to Write a Health & Safety Plan for Your Project | Video

Online PM Courses

Health & Safety is another responsibility for a Project Manager. If you need one, how do you write a Health & Safety Plan for Your Project? The post How to Write a Health & Safety Plan for Your Project | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

article thumbnail

Beyond Traditional Metrics: Why Adaptive KPIs are the Future of Project Management

PM Times

In a recent engagement with a government client, I came across an intriguing yet common conundrum regarding the enforcement of KPIs. Individual projects within their diverse portfolio were flagged ‘red’, signalling they were off course, yet the overall portfolio surprisingly reflected a ‘green’ status, implying smooth operations.

article thumbnail

Is the IBM IT Project Manager Certificate worth it?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Note: The IBM IT Project Manager Professional Certificate opens for enrolment on 30 June 2023. I have pre-registered to take the course, so I’ll update this article later with my experiences. Are you considering the IBM IT Project Manager Professional Certificate ? I’ve done a lot of project management training in my 20+ years as a project manager, and those courses helped me understand the skills, tools and techniques required to succeed leading projects.

article thumbnail

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

article thumbnail

Monday.com Gantt Chart: How to Make a Gantt Chart With Monday.com

ProjectManager.com

If you’re working in project management, then you know about Monday.com. You’re probably getting a ton of online ads. The company has invested a ton of money in its marketing to people working on projects. But is there a Monday Gantt chart? Let’s take a look at this popular project management software and see if it delivers on one of the most essential project management tools.

Software 291
article thumbnail

How Poor Facilitation Of The Scrum Events Can Cause Zombie Scrum

Scrum.org

In the past years, Johannes Schartau, Christiaan Verwijs, and I wrote many articles on Zombie Scrum. Heck, we even wrote a complete Zombie Scrum Survival Guide ! I’d like to believe that since our book, Zombie Scrum completely disappeared. That it’s something we can now all laugh about and has become this silly way of working we only know from the dark old days.

article thumbnail

Emergent methods

Musings on Project Management

The influence of A.I. on project methodologies and process steps is yet to be defined, practised widely, and understood in the context of what most of think of when we think of project methods and processes, skills, risks, and predictable and planned outcomes.And so, we are told to brace for emergent outcomes, not entirely predictable at the outset.

article thumbnail

Project management degrees: Do you need one and what you can do with it

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Are you wondering whether it’s worth getting a degree in project management? Or what you can do with a project management degree for a job once you finish your bachelor’s or master’s studies? This article is for you! You’ll learn: What job titles to look for once you graduate What industries you can work in What you can expect to earn How to transition from another industry via a degree Lots more!

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

General Conditions in Construction: Definitions & Best Practices

ProjectManager.com

The general contractor is responsible for all the construction contracting activities that occur on a construction site. These professional services range from supervising the site and the work being done to ensuring that work is carried out safely. These general conditions in construction are varied and costly. If you’re a general contractor working in construction project management, you’ll need to know about general conditions.

article thumbnail

Scrum: The Goldilocks Agile Framework

Scrum.org

In the agile world, Scrum stands out as a Goldilocks framework. Scrum strikes a delicate balance, providing enough structure to guide teams without stifling their creativity and adaptability. Unlike traditional project management methodologies with rigid processes and exhaustive documentation, Scrum empowers teams to find what works best in their unique environments.

SCRUM 173
article thumbnail

Radical Simplification: Letting go to Let-in

The IIL Blog

By Deepak Bansal <This article is inspired from David Whtye’s life and his reflections called, “ Beginning. “> “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” — Confucius. Simplification starts with a deeper wish for a new beginning. Whether it’s a journey of personal change, or organizational transformation, we want to let go of old because it has expired its time and not serving us anymore.

article thumbnail

10 Simple Tips for Better Meeting Minutes

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Meeting minutes help with communication at work — they ensure people have a common understanding of what the meeting was about and what they should be doing next. In this article we’ll look at why minutes are worth doing and then dive into the 10 simple tips for taking effective meeting minutes. Why bother with minutes? Minutes are particularly helpful for formal meetings like Project Boards as they serve as a permanent record of the discussion and the decisions that were taken.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Ultimate Guide to Setting Up a PMO in Your Business

WorkOtter

Think about the growth trajectory of a successful business. In the beginning, you can do everything yourself. As you grow, things get hectic. You need other people to work on projects to free up your time. Then you grow and things get even more hectic. All of a sudden, you need project managers to manage the projects that other people are working on.

PMO 78
article thumbnail

Scrum: An Evidence-Based Management Approach

Scrum.org

How to Problem Solve with a Professional Scrum Master In today's rapidly changing and complex business environment, the need for an evidence-based, flexible strategy is paramount. At Agile-ity , we offer guidance through this complex landscape with Scrum's evidence-based management approach — a strategy built on empirical observation, experience, and continuous adaptation.

SCRUM 167
article thumbnail

Don’t Risk Being Left Behind: Understand the July 2023 Changes to the CAPM Exam Now!

Online PM Courses

The CAPM is PMI’s entry-level certification for Project Managers. So, PMI's big 2023 revision to the exam syllabus is an important event. The post Don’t Risk Being Left Behind: Understand the July 2023 Changes to the CAPM Exam Now! appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

2023 124
article thumbnail

Everyday Agile Practices

Project Management Essentials

Agile seems like a mystery to many. It has an unfamiliar vocabulary and practices. To outsiders, it feels like an exclusive club. However, when we step back and inspect agile, we see that it follows common, recognizable patterns from our daily lives. Imagine it is Thursday evening. Your family is planning the upcoming weekend. There is a fixed amount of time and many things to do.

Agile 98
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

12 Ways In Which Agency Recruiters Can Boost Their Productivity and Ensure Business Growth

Productivity Land

Being an agency recruiter is not easy. With tight deadlines, demanding clients, and the pressure to find the perfect candidate, finding ways to boost productivity and ensure business growth is essential. In this article, we will explore 12 innovative strategies that can help agency recruiters enhance their efficiency, streamline their processes, and achieve outstanding results.

article thumbnail

Forecasting in a VUCA world

Scrum.org

Answering the question, “when will it be done?” in the VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) environments that agile was designed for has always been problematic. Afterall, the future is unknown. And yet, we are still expected to provide an answer. Many techniques and fads have emerged from the agile community to try and help teams provide some sort of answer, despite all of the uncertainty and unpredictability.

Estimate 156
article thumbnail

Enabling Change with Data Modeling & Forecasting

Leading Agile

Our guest, Troy Magennis, has been described as a national resource in the Agile community. He’s a published author and frequent speaker on forecasting and modeling Agile projects. Today, Troy joins us to discuss how many of the metrics the Agile industry uses actually prevent companies from achieving the change they so desperately desire. Together, we’ll explore some ways the industry gets metrics and forecasting right and where it tends to go wrong.

Agile 62
article thumbnail

The Courage to Try Something Old – Use Cases

PM Times

There are many articles about project management trends for 2023. Among the common threads are a focus on AI and more automated PM tools. There are also contradictory trends like workers returning to the office or continuing to work from home. What I find most interesting, though, is that many of the trends have been […] The post The Courage to Try Something Old – Use Cases appeared first on Project Management Articles, Webinars, Templates and Jobs.

2023 92
article thumbnail

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.