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The Complete Guide to Time Management

Teamweek

Illustration: Hanna Lee Joshi. Do you ever wonder how some people manage to get so much work done, while the rest of us barely make it halfway through our to-do list? If you identify more with the latter, you’re not alone. According to The Busy Person’s Guide to the Done List , 41% of to-do list tasks never get crossed off. For those of you at the back, we’ll say it louder: Four out of ten tasks go uncompleted.

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Project Management Collaboration Tools FAQ

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I ran a subscriber-only webinar a while back about trends in project management collaboration tools and the barriers to adopting new technology in a project environment. I think people had a great time and the feedback was fantastic. I certainly got a bigger buzz out of presenting my own webinar than I was expecting! The only problem was that we ran out of time to get through all the questions so I wanted to address some of them here.

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Traditional or Agile? - 10 Questions to Find Out Which PM Method Is Right for Your Project

Inloox

Traditional vs. agile project management. The discussion about the right method has divided the industry. The answer to this question is usually a list of the differences, followed by the note: It always depends on the specific project. Your project determines the project management method and not the other way around. The key question is therefore: Which method fits your specific project?

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The 12 Agile Principles. Part Four.

Growing Agile

This is the fourth and final part of the blog series were we discuss the 12 Agile Principles. In this post we will focus on principles 10-12. 10. “Simplicity–the art of maximizing the amount of work not done–is essential. “ When I was an Analyst back in the day before I discovered Scrum, or even knew what agile was, I would write down the findings of my analysis in a document called a Business Requirements Specification.

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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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3 Must-Have Project Management Tools for Startups

ProjectManager.com

Starting a new company, or working for a startup, is equal parts exciting and nerve-wracking. In a startup environment, budgets are often tight and the typical processes that keep companies running are often missing. Such a dynamic work environment can be punishing for even the most experienced employees because there will always be new problems to tackle and limited resources to tackle them.

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What Is & How To Create A Risk Management Plan

The Digital Project Manager

The post What Is & How To Create A Risk Management Plan appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Low psychological safety might be why planning assumptions remain unstated

Kiron Bondale

Scott Adams does a good job above of illustrating one of the many perils of low levels of psychological safety within a team. Dilbert is trying to raise reasonable doubts with his leader, the Pointy-Haired Boss, but his concerns are met with the threat of losing his job. How likely is it that Dilbert will raise such concerns in the future? While this scenario has been dramatized for comedy purposes, it sometimes ends with tragic results.

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Product Ownership - Top Ten Points

Scrum.org

In May 2019, I spoke at the Agile Manchester conference, where I presented my talk "The Product Owner's Toolbox". I asked the audience a question, "What is the main worry for a Product Owner?". Then gave people them 1 minute to thinking about what their answer would be. Using the Liberating Structure 25/10 , the audience identified the common issues that Product Owners face and how they potentially could be solved. . . n.b.

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Why Don’t 50% of People Do Stakeholder Engagement?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I ran a survey about stakeholder management (thanks, by the way, if you were one of the people who filled it out) and the results surprised me. I have done a bit of analysis on the results and I wanted to share what I know so far with you. The biggest reason we do stakeholder engagement activities on projects is because they help us get the resources we need for the project.

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Strategic Finance Essentials: A Project Manager’s Guide to Financial Impact

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 expendi

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The Twins – Communications Management and Stakeholder Management

MPUG

The following true story was shared in one of my classes by a senior manager from a global corporation in South Korea. The manager’s team had worked over six months and was gearing up for a firmware release with a specific set of features. The recently new Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the organization participated in a pre-release meeting, and had dropped a bombshell, cancel the project!

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12 Vital Project Management Rules You Need to Follow

Online PM Courses

When you have been managing projects for a while, you will start to notice that some things are always true. Each of these ‘Project Management Rules‘ reminds us of something important about Project Management, so I have been collecting them for nearly 20 years. I am sure the list in my notebook is far from […]. The post 12 Vital Project Management Rules You Need to Follow appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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Focus on Steps, not Leaps

Scrum.org

We often try to make massive change once we realize something isn't right and this doesn't normally go so well. When it comes to making progress everyone wants to LEAP; take BIGGER steps. The bigger the improvement, the happier we are. But it doesn't work like that in reality. Yes, it would be : Great to run 10 kms in 35 mins, every time you get out to run.

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Teamwork without email is a reality now!

Binfire

The email has been hailed as the greatest communication tool, and at the same time the ravager of productivity in teams. Time has come for teamwork without email. One of our competitions, Asana, calls itself a productivity tool for teamwork without email. We beg to differ, Asana is hardly the right tool to reduce the dependency of email. In fact, Asana uses email extensively.

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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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PMP Exam Changes in 2021: Are You Ready?

MPUG

It is said that “change is the only constant.” The PMP exam is no exception. In fact, it changes roughly once every two years, and we are seeing a change coming up in about six months. PMI will start conducting the exam based on a new pattern as of January 2, 2021. The PMP exam change has created quite a stir in the certification community. Many aspirants are confused about the changes.

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Review People Over Process

Henny Portman

Michael K. Levine wrote with People Over Process – Leadership for Agility a very pragmatic and down to earth book about leadership and agile projects. The classic formulation of agile in the Agile Manifesto has no role for leadership. In fact, it is explicitly anti-leadership, encouraging self-managed teams, reliance on motivated individuals, leaving them alone and trusting them to get the job done.

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The Magic Framework

Scrum.org

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times : Bruce Lee. This morning, at the close of my metabolic conditioning workout, my Coach Arvind said " Hey, I have a magic training plan, that would get you closer to your goals ". It will give you the bare-bones structure, will empower you to self organize and chart out your own course to get closer to your strength and endurance goals.

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Epicflow Summer 2020 Updates: Skill Management, Multigroups, Unit Pool, and More

Epicflow Blog

We at Epicflow are doing our best to provide you with the best opportunities modern technologies can suggest. As businesses are growing and their project management efforts and demands are increasing day by day, we as multi-project management software developers are striving to meet challenges and trends and offer unique solutions for your better efficiency.

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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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The Twins – Communications Management and Stakeholder Management

MPUG

The following true story was shared in one of my classes by a senior manager from a global corporation in South Korea. The manager’s team had worked over six months and was gearing up for a firmware release with a specific set of features. The recently new Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the organization participated in a pre-release meeting, and had dropped a bombshell, cancel the project!

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How to Stay Productive While Working from Home

Proofhub

The idea of working at home isn’t new. According to GetVoIP , the remote workforce has increased by 140% over the last 15 years, 43% of US employees work remotely from time to time, and 79% of employees claim they would be more loyal to a business if it offers more flexibility. With the spread of COVID-19, many businesses have switched to working remotely, so the number of newly remote workers has increased.

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Experiment: Make the Cost of Low Autonomy Transparent with Permission Tokens

Scrum.org

In our book?—? the Zombie Scrum Survival Guide ?—?we dive deep into what causes Zombie Scrum; something that looks like Scrum from a distance, but lacks a beating heart. We also offer 40+ experiments to recover from Zombie Scrum. In this series, we share some of the experiments from the book and many that didn’t make the final cut (but are still very useful).

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Project Leadership: What Is It and Which Skills Are Required?

ProProfs Project Management

Project management turns into a nightmare in the absence of project leadership. . Picture a cruise ship that is sailing without a captain. Ask yourself – ‘will it reach its destination?’. No, obviously! . Behind every successful project, there is a leader – who has the right skills and qualities required to steer the team. . A project leader keeps their team motivated and ensures that each task is executed perfectly during the development process.

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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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Adapting to a Virtual High School Classroom

Teamweek

As a high school teacher, I knew I was lucky in that I could keep my job and work from home during the coronavirus pandemic. At the same time, trying to manage my newly virtual classroom and figure out what my new work day should look like has not been easy. In addition to my job as a teacher, I’m also a mom with an active preschooler at home. I’ve found that it’s almost impossible to balance my work and his needs (physical, emotional and educational).

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60+ Best Xero integrations for Running Business Smoothly!

TimeCamp

The automation process is not only related to marketing activities, but it also improves the work of other departments. The same is with business administration; the market is full of tools that streamlines the processes from bookkeeping to HR. One of them is Xero, complete accounting software that eases the payroll headache. Today we’ll tell.read more.

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Business Agility in the 21st Century

Scrum.org

Why Businesses Must Change their Definition of Agility. Since the Industrial Revolution, increasing competition has driven businesses towards strategies that preserve and increase their market share. Over 100 years ago, Henry Ford revolutionized industrial productivity with his assembly line technology. In time, countless others have improved it, finding ways to adapt and forever change the ‘status quo’.

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PMP Exam Changes in 2021: Are You Ready?

MPUG

It is said that “change is the only constant.” The PMP exam is no exception. In fact, it changes roughly once every two years, and we are seeing a change coming up in about six months. PMI will start conducting the exam based on a new pattern as of January 2, 2021. The PMP exam change has created quite a stir in the certification community. Many aspirants are confused about the changes.

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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.