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How to be a Superhero Project Manager

LiquidPlanner

In honor of National Superhero Day on April 28th, this article gives tips on how we can rise to “superhero status” as project managers. Successful projects can make you feel extraordinary, while failed ones can leave you feeling like the villain. At times, it can seem like projects are doomed from the start, and the outcome is completely outside of your control.

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7 Reasons Why Multitasking Doesn’t Work

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This is a guest article by Kristy Gayton from STARTplanner. Multitasking has been praised by many as the secret sauce to reaching success at record speeds. But over the years, the multitasking myth has been dispelled. Studies aimed at disproving the claimed advantages of multitasking have popped up, urging individuals to actually turn the process of multitasking inside out to see if it’s an ally or an enemy.

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Scrum: 20 Sprint Planning Anti-Patterns

Scrum.org

TL; DR: Scrum Master Anti-Patterns. The Sprint Planning is a core event that defines how your customers’ lives will improve with the following Product Increment. Learn more on how to improve its effectiveness by avoiding 20 common Sprint Planning anti-patterns. ???? Zur deutschsprachigen Version des Artikels: 20 Sprint Planning Anti-Patterns. ?? Shall I notify you about articles like this one?

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Project Documentation: 10 Essential Project Documents

ProjectManager.com

Project managers know the importance of having project documentation. Project documents must be accurate and constantly updated to keep current with the project. Creating and managing project documentation throughout the project life cycle is critical for project success, but where to start? This guide will define what project documentation is, why it is important and what are the top 10 project documents that you should always create to plan and execute your projects.

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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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Review Agile Portfolio Management

Henny Portman

There are not that many books on agile portfolio management, so I am curious what the book Agile Portfolio Management – A guide to the methodology and its successful implementation “knowledge that sets you apart” written by Klaus Nielsen, offers. The book is divided into nine chapters, starting with project portfolio management, and ending with case studies on agile portfolio management.

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How to increase UX Design maturity for Scrum teams

Scrum.org

In this article you will learn: Why enabling Scrum Teams with UX Design capabilities is important. Why introducing UX capabilities to Scrum team is frequently hard. What is the job of an UX Leader in a product development organization. How to use a UX Design maturity level to coach teams to deliver better outcomes. . ?? The job of a Scrum Team is not just to deliver a product, but to solve user problems.

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Time is Money: The Importance of Earned Value Management

MPUG

In my previous article , I discussed the importance of a baseline, and how, without one, a PM doesn’t have a yardstick, per se, to measure with. Project Management presents many tools and techniques for the management of a successful project. Today, I’d like to continue this conversation on how to achieve success in a project by going back to another basic concept: Earned Value Management (EVM).

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Become a Modern PMO That Empowers Your Organization

Planview

In this post, we’ll show you how to become a modern PMO that enables your organization to adapt to an ever-changing professional landscape. You’ll learn how to adopt a modern approach that keeps up with the speed of business. That way, you can ensure alignment, drive continuous improvement, and help your company become more responsive to change and disruptions.

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Managing Change Using the Kubler-Ross Change Model

The Strategic Project Manager

The Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Change Curve has come to be widely accepted as a model for the stages of change. It provides a useful perspective that is helpful in identifying where people are on their change journey. This post explains the Kubler-Ross Change Model, explores its foundation, identifies strengths of the model, and identifies how strategists and project managers can apply it in practice.

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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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Wenn die Sprint-Planung schief geht: 20 vermeidbare Fehler

Scrum.org

In Kürze: 20 Sprint Planning Anti-Patterns. Das Sprint Planning ist ein zentrales Scrum-Ereignis, welches entscheidet, wie sich das Leben Ihrer Kunden mit dem nächsten Inkrement verbessern wird. Erfahren Sie mehr darüber, wie Sie Ihren Kunden durch die Vermeidung von 20 gängigen Sprint Planning Anti-Patterns helfen können. ?? Update : Join the poll and its lively discussion on LinkedIn. ??

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How To Successfully Manage Your Project’s Budget

Scoro

You’ve just got a project off the ground and your client is expecting great things. But do you have a firm budget management plan? If you don’t, there are a number of things that could go wrong. You could end up overdelivering and wasting precious resources. Worse yet, you could end up underdelivering, because you didn’t set aside enough time for project planning and budgeting.

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Fast, Cheap, and Good: How to Master the Triple Constraint of Project Management

Planio

Fast, Cheap, Good… Pick two. Every freelancer, business owner, and car mechanic knows this phrase. If you want something done good and fast, you’re going to be paying a premium. If you want it cheap and fast… well, you get what you pay for. Projects operate under similar limitations called the triple constraint of project management. Scope, time, and budget–any change in one of these factors will impact the rest.

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The John Kotter Change Management Model for Strategic PM’s

The Strategic Project Manager

John Kotter’s 8 step Change Management Model is a strong framework that has been used to implement change in many organizations. This post examines the model, its advantages and disadvantages, and its value to strategists and project managers. What Is the John Kotter Change Management Model? John Kotter , a change management expert and Harvard Business School professor, developed a now well-known 8-step change management model, published in his 1996 book “Leading Change.” Kotte

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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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Tipps zur Vorbereitung auf die PSM I Zertifizierung ????

Scrum.org

Toll, die PSM I Zertifizierung gilt lebenslänglich, d.h. man muss sie nicht erneuern. Und wie schafft man das? . Gar nicht so einfach, denn man muss . ganz schön schnell sein bei 80 Fragen in 60 Minuten (Ø 45 Sekunden pro Frage) . eine ganze Menge wissen - siehe PSM I Leseempfehlungen. Das klingt jetzt erst mal abschreckend. Nein, bitte nicht entmutigen lassen.

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Negotiating for Optimal Outcomes With Paul Nichols

International Institute for Learning

About the Webinar. This webinar covers how negotiation is defined and the phases of negotiation from preparation through measuring the outcomes of the negotiation. In addition, we will explore common approaches to negotiating and an-in depth review of the rules of principled negotiation. What You Will Learn: After this one-hour session, you will be able to: Prepare for an upcoming negotiation.

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Scoro: Extending Your Capabilities Beyond Project & Time Management

Scoro

“Having one solution for every aspect of our business has saved us time, money and confusion.” This is just one G2 review from our many happy customers who use Scoro not just for project management, but as an end-to-end collaborative work management (CWM) platform. In other words, a solution that improves productivity, profitability and employee satisfaction across all areas of the organization.

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Kanban Boards: Why To Use Them For Excellent Project Management

Proofhub

Kanban boards have proven to be quite useful in project management since they provide managers and teams with a clear view of the status of tasks and projects. Project management and team collaboration software help project managers and their teams execute enthusiastic ideas into actionable plans. These applications allow large and complex projects to be divided into manageable tasks and subtasks, assign them to the right people, track time spent on performing tasks, and much more.

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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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Rethink Your Rework: Embracing Healthy Rework to Maximize Effectiveness [Video]

Scrum.org

In this video, Mark how healthy rework can maximize learning and, ultimately, effective value for your customers. We'll explore two principles of healthy rework and two principles of unhealthy rework you can use to lean into learning! Join me in an upcoming Professional Scrum Master or Professional Agile Leadership course - see my class list here. You can sign up for my newsletter to get: A regular stream of content, videos, and blogs from Mark.

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4 tips that will help you with challenging conversations

Susanne Madsen

​ How to have challenging conversations Working effectively on a project, interacting with stakeholders and leading the team to deliver the best outcomes, require hundreds if not thousands of conversations. Not all of these conversations are going to be easy or pleasant. Customer expectations need to be managed and the team needs to find its feet.

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Risk Attitude and Risk Attitude Spectrum

Management Yogi

Risk attitude, risk appetite, risk tolerance, and risk threshold are all separate and distinct terms. Understanding of these terms are foundational in risk management and do proper risk management in the real-world. In this article, we will see these terms with examples, figures, explanations and video. The content for this article is taken from my new course, RMP Live Lesssons.

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Everything You Need to Know About Project Cost Management in 2022

nTask

One of the most essential qualities of successful organizations that operate in the organizational paradigm is the ones that aim to be successful in everything they do by meeting all of the clients’ expectations and the internal objectives sent for the company. That’s all well and good in theory, but what are the actual statistics […].

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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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During your Sprint Retrospective, what self-management is taking place? ?? - Back to the foundations of the Scrum framework (48)

Scrum.org

We started this Scrum foundation series explaining we see four underlying concepts of the Scrum framework. In the past series of blog posts we covered the three pillars of Empiricism, and we covered the Scrum Values. Now that we understand that we need trust, which is built up by living the Scrum Values, to bring transparency and as such have a good basis to inspect and adapt, we can have a look at the self-managing aspect of the Scrum Team. ??

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How to Choose a GanttPRO Plan

GanttPRO Project Management

We developed a new approach to positioning plans of GanttPRO online Gantt chart maker. Let’s take a closer look at this update. New plans There are four pricing plans which […]. The post How to Choose a GanttPRO Plan first appeared on GanttPRO.

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Managing a Project with a Volunteer Team

PM Times

You’re a project manager, right? So, when you’re at home, you take the project management hat off, right? Wrong! You apply similar principles that you use in your organization to getting projects done at home. Case in point: I recently reorganized/refurbished my home office. I had a small idea of what this project would entail, […]. The post Managing a Project with a Volunteer Team appeared first on Project Management Articles, Webinars, Templates and Jobs.

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Digital Decluttering: What is it and How to do it in 2022

nTask

You must be familiar with decluttering your room and your house to make it look more presentable. This decluttering also helps in making sure that you can maximize the usage of your total house or room space, and make sure that no unwelcome guests are living in that pile of clutter. This is also the […].

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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.