Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Last week’s webinar was awesome! I truly appreciate every question, comment and social media shout out. I knew this would be a popular topic – but this really blew me away! (As you can see by the ridiculous smile on my face when I look at the chat and see all of your comments!). I think quite a few lightbulbs went off! Watch the replay here. And…. I’m excited to be opening up registration for my new course: Mastering Multiple Projects.

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Proofhub

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

As a project leader, you’re faced with the mammoth task of being the intermediary between clients and your team. As such, you must ensure that both parties are happy with the way the project is going. One particular area that clients and project teams tend to be at loggerheads is that of project deadlines. Sometimes clients want their projects completed in unrealistic time frames, while project teams want as much time as possible to produce the best results.

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ProProfs Project Management

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

No matter if you are a solopreneur who has just ventured into the business world, or the owner of a multi-million-dollar company, you need to diligently track how your business manages projects. . Evaluating how well your projects have met their objectives is an integral part of successful project planning. . With the help of project evaluation, you can collect and examine information about a project, its various sub-tasks, as well as your team members.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The power of a simple to-do list can take your productivity to new heights. With them you can organize all the work that needs to be done for your project and strategize a way to tackle it. That’s the value that the Wunderlist software, a well-loved cloud-based to-do list app, brought to the table. Unfortunately, Wunderlist shut down in 2020, much to the disappointment of its users.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Can you believe the Agile Manifesto has been around 20 years? What astounds me is that it’s in my lifetime: in my working career, actually. Project management has changed a lot since I started working: We’ve got better collaboration tools We’ve adapted to remote working as the norm, not an exception There is greater awareness of the benefits of diverse teams More project teams include overseas colleagues and suppliers as the world gets smaller Companies can no longer mandate women to wear high h

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: What Does a Scrum Master Do with a Quiet Team? Another day, another YouTube viewer question. This time a fellow Scrum Master wants to know what to do when working with a quiet Scrum Team. Todd and Ryan have been in this situation many times. Something to consider is whether or not you actually have a team??? Check out the rest of the video for more suggestions and Ryan's thoughts about the 90's era Chicago Bulls.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Projects are prone to change. There might be inclement weather that causes delays, stakeholders with changing expectations or supply chain issues that strain your schedule and budget. Change is almost certainly going to occur, so how do you manage it and keep your project from going off the rails? The answer is by using a change request form. Capturing the change, defining it and then having it authorized or rejected keeps the scope of the project in check.

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nTask

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Are you swamped with the number of things to do and tasks on your plate you need to juggle? As a project manager or team leader, you have many aspects to stay on top of but have you ever thought of delegating tasks to the team you are working with? If you are overworked and falling short it might be time to consider delegating tasks to your team. But how?

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GanttPRO Project Management

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

It is not a secret that JIRA is one of the most popular project management tools worldwide. Currently, it takes almost 37% of the whole PM software market. According to […]. The post Top 10 JIRA Alternatives for Agile Project Management in 2021 [+Free and Open Source Tools] first appeared on GanttPRO.

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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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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

TL; DR: Forensic Product Backlog Analysis. Garbage in, garbage out: No matter whether your team chose Scrum for the right purpose—solving complex, adaptive problems. No matter whether your Scrum Team’s product quality is top-notch or whether your teammates embrace self-management to the fullest. If your Product Backlog is not up to the job, all of these accomplishments will account for little, as your team will provide less value to its customers than possible.

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Ganttic

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

COVID-19 has had a significant and long-lasting impact on businesses and workers around the world. And as a result, there have been some major shifts in work trends from remote working and flexible hours, to how to monitor and manage productivity and performance. Although some businesses have adapted quickly and emphasized employee wellbeing during the pandemic, others have struggled to adjust to restrictions and new ways of working.

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

How do we decide what’s most valuable to the organization, and then how do we make trade-offs with scarce resources to pull from to achieve our most valued goals? . To figure out how to deal with this and find the answers, we need some sort of governance model. Governance speaks to how we coordinate and manage the flow of work, decompose requirements, and make prioritization decisions and economic tradeoffs—all in the face of uncertainty. .

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Green Project Management

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

We in the Project profession must rethink what leadership means. The textbook dictionary definition of “leader” is a person or thing that leads or a guiding or directing head, as of an army, movement, or political group. “Directing hand” is close but doesn’t quite exemplify what we need in order to raise capable successors. We […].

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

On today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: How Should Organizations Treat Agile Consultants? Today's question is about how contractors and consultants are treated in Agile organizations. It's a great question that brought up a lot of past stories for both Todd and Ryan. Long story short, treat agile consultants like people. If your agile consultants are treated differently than your other Scrum Team members, how are they ever supposed to work together?

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Teamweek

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

A project is nothing but a set of tasks. Project teams execute and complete tasks to deliver projects. That’s why a project task list is the foundation of any project. Tasks are nothing but the activities you need to execute to deliver a project. Big tasks are difficult to estimate and execute. On the other hand, make them too small, and you’ll end up micromanaging a project.

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Henny Portman

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

My quest for agile frameworks, ways-of-working or methods is finished. In 1986 Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka published in the Harvest Business Review their article ‘ The New New Product Development Game’. This was the starting point for the development of Scrum by Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland. Some years ago, you could say “ Scrum is agile ” and ask “ is Agile Scrum?

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GanttPRO Project Management

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

It is not a secret that JIRA is one of the most popular project management tools worldwide. Currently, it takes almost 37% of the whole PM software market. According to […]. The post Top 10 JIRA Alternatives for Agile Project Management in 2021 [+Free and Open Source Tools] first appeared on GanttPRO.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

On today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: How does a Scrum Master help a blocked Scrum Team? Barbara sent in a question asking what to do when, as a Scrum Master, when an impediment blocks the Scrum Team. The most critical piece of advice we give in this situation is this: A Scrum Master has ZERO tolerance for organizational impediments. Period. End of sentence.

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Agilemania

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Personal Agility System a coaching and prioritization framework, co-created by the scrum coaches Peter Stevens and Maria Matarelli, which helps people who to do more what matters and with a greater impact through their actions. In today’s life, many of us… rather I should say almost all of us have more things to do than the time we have, to do them.

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ActiveCollab

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

How many times have you been more engaged in pointing fingers and blaming other teams for project failure than actually trying to solve the problem? Post mortem meetings are tricky because people tend to be more focused on blame than learning from their mistakes. Post mortem analysis helps your project stay on track, but what if you had one before initiating a new project?

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PM Times

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Written by: George Pitagorsky Do you find yourself distracted, jumping from one thing to another, unable or unwilling to stay focused?

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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.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

On today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: What are the pros and cons of capacity sprint planning vs velocity sprint planning? A YouTube viewer sent a question asking about the pros and cons of Capacity Sprint Planning vs. Velocity Sprint Planning. After discussing each one, Ryan and Todd talked about each option and then gave a few different ideas to investigate!

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The Digital Project Manager

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Learn to hire and grow DPMs who are technical enough to own complex projects with. The post How To Find And Develop DPMs Who Can Own Technical Complexity (with Matthew O’Bryant from Oomph Inc.) appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Agilemania

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

As a Professional Scrum Trainer and a Scrum Master, I often get this question – What is the difference between the Definition of Done and Acceptance Criteria? Though the question might sound very simple to some, it still exists, appears now and then on many platforms, and at times is a point of discussion. Let me start with a short and smart answer that was once shared with me by a fellow PST, and then I will dive into some more explanation on each term.

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GanttPRO Project Management

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Efficient resource management requires detailed planning so that each resource would be aware of what and when they should do to bring the most value to the project. In theory, […]. The post How to Professionally Manage Resource Workload with GanttPRO first appeared on GanttPRO.

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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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