Rebel’s Guide to PM
JANUARY 24, 2022
In case you’ve only just stumbled across this blog, in 2021 I celebrated 15 years of blogging about project management. I thought it was time to look back and see what the stand-out articles were over the years. Here are the top 15 articles year by year. 2006. I reported on the state of the Gypsy Moth IV project : the restoration of a historic yacht.
Project Risk Coach
JANUARY 24, 2022
Poor risk management is costly. Program managers are caught off guard by emerging risks. And these risks may turn into issues costing more time and money. But, it doesn't have to be that way. We can identify risks early. We can assess and prioritize our risks, allowing us to make better use of our limited time. Let's look at the cost of poor risk management through the example of Tom Whitley.
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LiquidPlanner
JANUARY 26, 2022
When you work through manufacturing projects, you face some unique challenges, often with a lot at stake. You have to deliver your product at consistently high-quality standards, navigate end-to-end supply chains and manage strict time-to-market deadlines driven by eager customers or seasonal demands. In some cases, the entire project might be following a process where design, scope, cost, and time scales were fixed at the very beginning.
ProjectManager.com
JANUARY 27, 2022
It’s not easy for construction companies to make accurate budget forecasts. There are many variables to consider, from market to labor costs and always-fluctuating prices. But creating a detailed budget is key to successful construction project management. One way to control your project billing is by defining the hard costs vs soft costs on a construction project.
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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
JANUARY 24, 2022
There’s no denying that project management today looks different to how it did even 5 years ago. Project management trends shape our profession. We see technology evolving, new tools, consolidation, innovation and more. Trends come and go, or they stay with us and evolve into new ways of working that stick around and become “the way we do things around here.”.
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Kiron Bondale
JANUARY 23, 2022
In a presentation I gave to the members of a PMI Chapter on the topic of psychological safety, one of the attendees asked a great question. If a team possesses a high level of psychological safety, does this increase the likelihood that one of its members might feel safe taking a risk which goes beyond the risk tolerance of the team, the line of business or the organization as a whole?
ProjectManager.com
JANUARY 26, 2022
A project is often considered something purely physical, like construction. The truth is, a project can be any work that has a beginning and an end. To that end, the legal industry has projects, too. Legal project management is well familiar to lawyers, even if they don’t necessarily use that phrase. The end result of their projects are typically a contract, a will or any number of results.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
JANUARY 26, 2022
Andrew Trainer. This is a guest post by Andy Trainer of Silicon Beach Training. Project management is a field that is becoming increasingly valued within both large and small organizations – our project management training has never been so much in demand! It’s now widely recognized that having employees with great project management skills leads to more efficient processes, better uses of time, and less wastage than without.
Scrum.org
JANUARY 23, 2022
Als Steward für das Scaled Professional Scrum mit Nexus Training habe ich vor einiger Zeit an einer Podiumsdiskussion von Scrum.org über die Skalierung von Scrum mit dem Nexus Rahmenwerk teilgenommen. Bei dieser Diskussion konnten Yuval Yeret, Ravi Verma, Magdalena Firlit, Patricia Kong und ich nicht alle Zuschauerfragen beantworten, deshalb möchte ich das jetzt nachholen.
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
Online PM Courses
JANUARY 24, 2022
Project Failure is a favorite topic for project managers. From pub conversations to formal reports, we love to discuss failed projects. The post Failure and Blame: Learn to Avoid Project Failure | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.
Agilemania
JANUARY 24, 2022
What is Scaling in Agile? Agile is a set of values and principles. Agile is an umbrella term for a group of iterative product development frameworks. The Agile approaches such as Scrum framework, DSDM, Kanban, Extreme Programming (XP) provide rules, practices, and guidelines to build products and solutions using the Agile values and principles. . Product development evolves through the collaborative effort of self-organizing and cross-functional teams and their customers and end-users with these
Rebel’s Guide to PM
JANUARY 28, 2022
Martin Webster. This is a guest post by Martin Webster from The Lazy Leader. Search for project management training on Google and you’ll find lots of courses on the topic. Many refer to APMP, MSP, PRINCE2® or even agile project management. What most have in common is an emphasis on project management accreditation, project planning, risk management , reporting progress, controlling change, managing and escalating issues and suchlike.
Scrum.org
JANUARY 22, 2022
Existen cuatro habilidades clave del líder cambio que son habilidades de Enseñanza, Tutoría, Facilitación y Coaching Profesional pueden considerarse profesiones en sí mismas. Además, estas habilidades se pueden dividir en dos áreas temáticas; basado en el contenido y basado en el proceso. Las habilidades clave del agile coach. La enseñanza y la tutoría se basan en el contenido.
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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.
nTask
JANUARY 28, 2022
Real estate development is not for the faint-hearted, considering the truckload of work you have to oversee at every step of the way. Be it meeting with the clients and discussing their needs, planning, and construction, managing the finances, or keeping an eye on legal matters, real estate development makes sure your hands are full all day, every day.
The Strategic Project Manager
JANUARY 26, 2022
Innovation and new ideas are great – but how do you get the word out? This is a challenge, especially for implementing innovation strategies. This post examines a widely held theory about how innovations are absorbed and accepted by people, and the implications for implementing strategy. Diffusion Innovation Theory Model. Diffusion of innovation theory is about how an idea, product, or message disseminates, or diffuses, through a target community, population, or social system.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
JANUARY 26, 2022
There’s only one thing worse than being told bad news, and that is being told about bad news late. When a program is failing, you should define the problem and potential solutions, and alert stakeholders at the first sign of trouble, according to LeRoy Ward, Executive VP at ESI. I attended ‘Managing and Saving Programs in a Changing World’, an audio/Webex conference with Ward recently.
Scrum.org
JANUARY 28, 2022
„Warum müssen wir unsere Arbeitsweise ändern? Ich bin Führungskraft in einem durchschnittlichen Unternehmen und nicht in einem Tech-Giganten im Silicon Valley.“ . Das ist die mit Abstand häufigste Frage, die ich in meinem Professional Agile Leadership Training gestellt bekomme. Ich stimme den Teilnehmern zu, dass sie einige Zeit erfolgreich sind, wenn sie nicht wie Amazon alle 11,7 Sekunden eine neue Version ihres Produkts bereitstellen.
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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
JANUARY 24, 2022
2022 seems to be another excellent year for online businesses. In the last couple of years, Lockdowns and quarantines have forced many companies to build and strengthen their presence on the internet. This year again, online trading will take itself to a whole new level, and if you want to participate in the race, you have got to bring your A-game because online marketing management will play the winning card.
TrustRadius Project Management
JANUARY 27, 2022
Project management software is essential for helping your team collaborate. Before committing to a project management tool, however, you need to ensure that it has the right features and capabilities to suit your team’s needs. A startup working on several projects simultaneously will need software that can keep up with its rapid pace. A client-facing small business may prefer an all-in-one project management and CRM solution.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
JANUARY 27, 2022
If you Googled PDU and found a bunch of articles about electronics then you are finally in the right place! Here we’re talking about Professional Development Units. What’s a Professional Development Unit? Professional Development Units is a term for measuring time spent on professional education. In particular, it’s PMI’s ® method of talking about professional education.
Scrum.org
JANUARY 27, 2022
You should expect the use of Scrum to become more successful when the Team lives the Values of commitment, courage, focus, openness and respect. Then empiricism starts to work and trust is being built. . ?? The more people become proficient in living the Scrum values, the more successful the use of Scrum will be. . Let's have a look what living the Scrum Values can bring to the Daily Scrum.
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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
JANUARY 24, 2022
A good marketing plan will help you be organized, aligned, and productive to achieve your goals and objectives. However, most people don’t know how to create a marketing plan. Thus, in this blog, we have discussed in detail what a marketing plan is, its benefits, things to be included in a good marketing plan , and how to create a marketing plan using nTask.
Management Yogi
JANUARY 23, 2022
Work breakdown structure (WBS) is a key element for management planning, monitoring, and control of a project or a program scope. Regardless of the chosen life cycle (predictive, iterative, incremental, adaptive, or hybrid), WBS plays a role in almost every project. A WBS is important to further estimation—cost, duration, or resources, planning for resources, risk identification, schedule.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
JANUARY 23, 2022
This is a guest article by Paul Pelletier, LL.B., PMP. Neutrality isn’t an option. If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. Desmond Tutu, Social Rights Activist and retired Archbishop, South Africa.
Henny Portman
JANUARY 27, 2022
The book The good mate – How understanding team relationships can make you happier and more productive , by James Johnson and Evan Sorensen, offers the tools and shows the needed skills for successful team relationships. The book combined two decades of research (Standish Group) on emotional intelligence behavior of project teams with 40 years of research on successful marriage and family dynamics.
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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