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People Aren’t Resources! Or Are They?

Epicflow Blog

There are the following types of resources in project management: Services. Equipment. Materials. Money. Space. Time . Labor. If the first 6 above-mentioned kinds of resources are clear and are beyond exception, but the last one is quite controversial. Is it appropriate to consider people resources in the era of a hostile work environment? Let’s try to grasp the idea of ‘human resources’ in a company and make sense of it. .

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Setting Standards For Your Internal Communication: 9 Tips For Maximizing Team Communication

Proofhub

There are two things about the functionality of an office that are certain: a business cannot operate successfully without effective internal communication, and the way an office communicates internally affects every single other aspect of the business. Let those two thoughts sink in. It’s a harsh truth, but that doesn’t make it any less true. And unfortunately, office communication can become such a habitual part of our day to day lives that we rarely stop to think about whether or not we are d

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Overcoming collaboration overload: How to choose (and use) the best collaboration tools for your team

Planio

Collaboration overload and why to avoid it? It’s become a bit of a running joke in modern office environments that “work” gets in the way of actually doing any work. There are plenty of scapegoats when it comes to busywork, but there’s no denying that the increased use of collaboration tools hasn’t helped. I’m talking about the huge proportion of our day that we spend on email and chat, in meetings, writing documentation and doing administration work—in other words, the collaboration overload th

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Various Approaches For Agile Transformation

Agilemania

Often, we encounter questions such as- How are organizations transforming in the name of agile? What patterns have you seen so far? Which one works better? Explore my experience on this in the briefing below: Educate employees: It is essential to educate the employees on agile related approach and letting them decide what they want to do; meanwhile creating a… The post Various Approaches For Agile Transformation appeared first on Agilemania.

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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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Agile| Why Agile is a Humane Way to Work

Stepping Into Project Management

Hello there. This article was published in Project Management.com Years ago, when I first heard of agile making waves, I was curious enough to pay for a class out of my own pocket to learn more. By the end of the two-day session, I knew I wanted to be associated with agile. It wasn’t just its merits that convinced me—it was the basic philosophy of trusting another being, of being open to communication and most of all, respecting another’s opinion.

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How to Use a Work OS to Supercharge Your Project Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Have you ever wanted a superpower? Maybe the power to look through meeting room walls? Or to teleport yourself between locations to support your virtual team? Personally, I’d settle for knowing what my team were doing without having to constantly chase – perhaps that’s some kind of mindreading superpower. You don’t need a superpower to supercharge your project.

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The only thing we have to fear on projects is…

Kiron Bondale

“ … the only thing we have to fear is…fear itself. ” When FDR spoke those words as part of his presidential inaugural address in March 1933, it was meant to inspire a nation to recover from the depths of the Great Depression. But looking at global reactions to the new 2019-nCoV Coronavirus, I wonder if it would have been better stated as the only thing we have to fear is our reactions to fear itself.

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How to Make a Resource Breakdown Structure (RBS)

ProjectManager.com

There are many aspects to planning a project. They tend to revolve around the triple constraint of time, cost and scope. One such orbit is resources. Resources can be impacted by all three of those constraints and therefore require a method to control them—sometimes even a resource management software. “Resources” is a broad term, of course, and speaks to not only materials and equipment used in a project, but the human resources.

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Upskill of the Workforce

Scrum.org

. A topic at the World Economic Forum (WEF) at Davos this year was the question "How do we upskill a billion people by 2030?". Product Owners and Scrum Masters are specifically named on the WEF list of Jobs of Tomorrow. All the other skills that Development Teams need in the digital age, especially software development, data science and cloud computing, needs upskilling of not only the workforce, but also our education systems and the cultural circumstances. . .

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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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All About Project Deliverables & How to Manage Them

ProProfs Project Management

“Success in life is about project management. Determine deliverables, make milestones, and always pursue the critical path.” . ? Ryan Lilly. It wouldn’t be wrong to say that ‘Deliverable’ is the favorite word of every project manager, as they use this term multiple times in a day. . For project managers, attaining project deliverables is significant because that’s how they can maintain client relationships in the long run.

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The 20-Percent Startup Solution

MPUG

How to stop playing games with your project schedule. Most baselined project plans are inaccurate because they have unrealistic start dates, finish dates, work hours, costs, and/or durations. The following are examples of this age old problem and how the 20% startup solution can be applied to build more accuracy and creditability into your project plans.

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The Best Asana Alternatives You Need to Try in 2020

ProjectManager.com

Asana has positioned itself as a work management platform. It can be used by teams to help them stay on top of their assignments, whether those are project tasks or daily tasks for everyday business. Of course, Asana doesn’t own the patent on productivity. There are many Asana alternatives that help teams stay on track and control their work—without the downsides of Asana.

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Creating Transparency with the Stakeholder Distance Metric: An experiment to recover from or prevent Zombie Scrum symptoms in working with stakeholders

Scrum.org

This post is an excerpt from the book that we’re writing, the ‘ Zombie Scrum Survival Guide ’. It’s our way of delivering small increments and involving our stakeholders: you, the reader. So we’d love to hear your feedback, encouragements and wild ideas. One of the best remedies to start recovering from Zombie Scrum is to start including the voice of your stakeholders.

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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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Top 5 Tips for Implementing OKRs on Your Team

LiquidPlanner

I’ve always been a productive person , but coming up with long-term, meaningful goals has never been my strong suit. So whenever New Years would come around, I always felt like my resolutions were typical and easy to forget after two months: Improve my Japanese speaking skills… Learn how to be a better Strategic Planner … . Over the last year, our leadership team introduced a goal-setting framework called OKRs, which stands for Objectives and Key Results.

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PMP or PRINCE2? Unraveling the Knot

Online PM Courses

PMP or PRINCE2? is a common question from project professionals who want a qualification to strengthen their resumé. We'll give you the answers. The post PMP or PRINCE2? Unraveling the Knot appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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How to Execute a Needs Assessment

ProjectManager.com

What does your project need? It’s not a simple question. It is a springboard that launches the planning of any successful project. You can have all your resources lined up and ready to go, but the plan is the rule by which everything else is measured and ordered. But a plan is empty of value if it’s not directed towards the needs of the organization.

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A More Effective Sprint Retrospective? Do it the Fish!y way!

Scrum.org

Choosing how you will walk through your day, having fun with your colleagues and clients, actively listen and participating in collaborations, and ensuring others also have a great day. I have written a short story a while ago about the basics of the Fish! Philosophy for being an outstanding team member. Now let’s have a look at how this could fit within a Scrum Team.

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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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Tying the Investment Tier Back to Agile Delivery w/ Matt Smith

Leading Agile

Listen to the SoundNotes Podcast on the go! Find and subscribe to SoundNotes on: Apple Podcasts. Google Play. Spotify. Soundcloud. RSS. In this episode of SoundNotes, LeadingAgile Managing Consultant, Matt Smith, joins Dave for a conversation about why we need to make sure that the investment made in portfolio tiers of the organization ties directly back to Agile delivery, and how we can make sure that is happening.

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Overseeing 135 book reviews, what stands out?

Henny Portman

I provided book reviews for all eight issues of a Dutch Project Management Magazine (Vakblad Projectmanagement). I used, for these eight reviews, book reviews that I wrote for this blog and www.managementboek.nl. On request of this Dutch PM magazine, I was asked whether one or more common threads could be discovered in all these underlying books. Since the first issue of this magazine appeared in 2017, I took the approximately 135 reviews that I posted on my blog in 2017-2019 as a starting point

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What is a Minimum Viable Product – MVP? | Video

Online PM Courses

The term MVP has become common in Agile project management. In this video, I answer the question, 'What is a Minimum Viable Product, or MVP?'. The post What is a Minimum Viable Product – MVP? | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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Scrum in a non-IT context – the Increment in Police work

Scrum.org

In this post I want to explore whether the Increment, a core concept to Scrum, needs to be changed for Scrum in a non-IT context. In future posts, I will do the same for the Definition of Done, or other concepts that may provide a better understanding of Scrum when applied to non-IT context. Please ask questions and make suggestions in the comments!

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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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Demystifying the PMBOK Process Groups

Wrike

Generally speaking, projects require five process groups — initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing. These are known as the PMBOK (Project Management Body of Knowledge) process groups. Though widely used, this form of process management can often be confusing for managers and team members who are new to formal project management. .

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Maintain your Motivation and Achieve your Goals.

MindGenius

Banishing the Blues. As February gets underway, many of us have already given up on our previously well-thought out, “achievable” goals for this year. In fact, research would suggest that 80% of us give up on our New Year’s resolutions by February. However, it’s not too late to get back on track and there are many ways to increase your motivation and productivity, both in the workplace and at home.

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What To Look For In A Sales Report Template

Techno-PM

Importance of Sales in Business In any organization, Institution or corporate, sales play a vital role in the success of the organization and thus sales report. The unique function of sales is to fill the distance among potential buyers’ needs that the business provides to fulfill their needs. As a business person, it is very essential to maximize sales for the company to be profitable and survive in a competitive market and for this, it is important to use the sales report as it helps business

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The Second Of Four Things You Do To Prevent Value Delivery

Scrum.org

Background . On November 22nd, 2019, I gave the closing keynote at Scrum Deutschland, a talk called ‘The Four Things You Do To Prevent Value Delivery.’ In this keynote, I discussed the trends I found during my research at multiple organizations. . For background, I’m often called into organizations to investigate their ability to deliver. Such a study is holistic; it involves looking at the organizational design, technical capabilities, culture and knowledge, and type of control and metrics used

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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.