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The Ultimate Guide To Team Project Management

Trello

Imagine that you want to prepare a delectable brunch. You’re planning on homemade quiche, bacon, pancakes, parfaits, and mimosas. The works!

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Deadline Management: How to Ensure Your Team Delivers on Time

Proofhub

Many factors contribute to a project’s success, and the timely delivery of tasks is one of the most important ones. Sticking to deadlines and providing quality work on time is not easy for everyone, but it’s essential. Managing deadlines is something every person dreads, the word ‘deadline’ is such that it creates anxiety, and you’re stressed to complete the work within the stipulated time, but it doesn’t have to be so stressful and difficult.

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5 Insider Tips and Tricks for Working Well as a Remote Team

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This is a guest article by Jane Courtnell of Process Street. January 2020, I was in a minority. By March, I was joined by the majority of workers transitioning into a work-from-home lifestyle. The COVID pandemic had only perpetuated an already present trend. Since 2005, the number of WFH employees had grown by 173%. By 2028, it is estimated that 73% of all departments will have remote workers.

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Putting 2020 in the Rearview Mirror

Green Project Management

When COVID-19 decided to lay claims to 2020, every organization on the planet was impacted. As we search for the light at the end of the tunnel (and hope it is not an oncoming train), we are all faced with the question, “what now?” I am sure many of us during this pandemic have felt […]. The post Putting 2020 in the Rearview Mirror appeared first on Delivering a better world, one project at a time.

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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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What Is Work Management? How to Manage Work for Your Team

ProjectManager.com

Project management spends a lot of time on the work that must happen before any project can be executed. Researching the feasibility of the project, planning for its success, scheduling tasks, organizing resources and building a budget are all important. Then comes the execution phase and often much of a project manager’s attention is focused on monitoring, tracking and reporting on progress and performance.

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Top 11 Cities for Project Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

What are the top cities for project management in the world? We looked at hotspots for megaprojects and compared them to the outlook for project management careers. In this article, you’ll learn: Where in the world pays project managers the most How many jobs are available in top cities Which cities made it into the Global Liveability Index Which city made it on to the list… even though it hasn’t been built yet Which city tops the list for EU investment.

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10 Best Project Management Tools For Remote Teams In 2020

The Digital Project Manager

The post 10 Best Project Management Tools For Remote Teams In 2020 appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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The Scrum Accountability Game - How to evaluate the accountabilities in Scrum

Scrum.org

. Recently the new Scrum Guide came out, and one of the updates is the switch from Development Team to Developers. This change is done to emphasize that within a Scrum team, there are no sub-teams or hierarchies. It is a cohesive unit , one (Scrum) team of professionals who are focused on one objective at a time, the Product Goal. . Because of this change, some activities have shifted among the roles, and we’ve received many questions about accountabilities and responsibilities.

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Sequential vs Cumulative

Musings on Project Management

I'm a sequentialist.When planning a project, I think first about how to sequence the scope: do this first, then that. Or, do these things in parallel, followed by this or that.MS Project, and similar tools, are the sequentialists go-to tool for planning sequences and establishing the sequential order of the project. Not so fast!What about cumulative, non-sequential, scope and effects?

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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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The 2021 Project Management Report

Rebel’s Guide to PM

We surveyed 220 project managers to better understand what it’s like to work in project delivery. In this original research, we share some brand new project management statistics. You’ll learn: What delivery approach is the most common How many project managers have considered leaving the profession Why the top career goal for project managers is not what experienced professionals want How many projects a project manager runs How many people in an average project team What keeps project managers

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What Is Streamtime? Overview & Tour Of Features

The Digital Project Manager

Discover how Streamtime works—what problems it can help you solve and who uses it, along. The post What Is Streamtime? Overview & Tour Of Features appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Scope of Resource Planning in Project Management for Agile Teams

nTask

Resource Planning in project management has been gaining traction for a while now. Since the pandemic started, its importance has amplified many times over. Moreover, since the concept of resource planning is generating so much noise, the project management has responded in kind and that’s why the qualifications regarding the people that are considered experts in the field have evolved and become more complex.

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Get Right Back On Track

Scrum.org

It's totally okay that you spent, the weekend eating, drinking and making merry. That's what festivals are for. But don't undermine the power of jumping right back on track. Get that workout in, get back to your training zone, clean up your pantry, start checking off that to-do list for the week and get back on track. Nothing has been lost and nothing much has been gained - all you need to focus on is just getting right back on track without letting the weekend turn into an entire week and then

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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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The Right Way to Think About Cost Savings with Agile

Leading Agile

Cost savings is a tricky subject with Agile. But it’s not because Agile can’t impact cost savings. It’s because Agile has very little impact on direct and immediate cost savings. The problem is, most people think the wrong way about how to save on cost with Agile. They usually say Scrum is how they realize cost savings—but they’re missing something. .

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Velocity!!

Musings on Project Management

"At every turn, leaders chose velocity and production over efficiency, thrift, safety, and even prudence" Ian Toll, HistorianWell, of course, Toll is describing the build-up in the western Pacific in the closing year of WW II. Most, but not all of us, will not have projects in which velocity is prioritized over safety.Most of us, but not all: In the last 20 years, such has been the case in not a.

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10 Best Resource Planning Tools of 2021

nTask

An essential part of delivering successful projects is connecting work with the right people. Resource planning includes a lot of variables. Fortunately, there are multiple resource planning tools available to simplify and streamline the process and make project scheduling a breeze. Here are our picks of the top resource planning tools available. But first, let’s learn a little more about resource planning, and just how resource planning tools can help you.

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How to Turn a Project Around

MPUG

One of the hardest things to do when you are deep into managing a project is to see precisely when it is going off the rails. Meaning, you are so busy working the project day-to-day that it could start to have significant issues, and you won’t notice. Or you do see you are having problems, but you don’t know what to do to recover the project. Well, the project recovery process does not have to be that hard, and you do not necessarily need high priced consultants to come in and fix it for you.

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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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What is the Agile Triangle – Value, Quality, and Constraints | Video

Online PM Courses

The Agile Triangle is the equivalent, in Agile Project Management, of the better known Iron Triangle. So, what is it and how is it used? The post What is the Agile Triangle – Value, Quality, and Constraints | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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The Evening Daily Scrum

Scrum.org

According to the Scrum Guide, the purpose of the Daily Scrum “is to inspect progress toward the Sprint Goal and adapt the Sprint Backlog as necessary” and “it is held at the same time and place every working day of the Sprint.”. Scrum does not tell us at what point in the day to carry out the Daily Scrum. The most common pattern I see is for Developers to hold it first thing in the morning in order to plan the work for the current day.

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Keeping Life-Critical Decision Support Applications Shippable

Leading Agile

Webinars Learn the Physics of Agility Sign Up. In an earlier life, I coded several different life-critical applications that aided decision support in complex domains. Domains where a mistake could result in people being injured or dying. As the code was written, new use cases were discovered. What if there is a 2,000-pound baby with kidney failure?

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What is Sprint Retrospective? How to Improve Your Sprint Retrospective?

Agilemania

As a Scrum Master, what has been your biggest struggle? I struggled to create a culture of continuous improvement within the team. And you might think what is to struggle there, run a Sprint Retrospective and get your improvements, so easy or is it? Let me ask a few questions/statements and see if any of it resonates with you. Does… The post What is Sprint Retrospective?

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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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9 Transactional Analysis Tools that All Project Managers Must Know

Online PM Courses

Transactional Analysis remains one of the supreme toolsets for Project Managers to use. Indeed - for all managers, leaders, and professionals. The post 9 Transactional Analysis Tools that All Project Managers Must Know appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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What is the ROI of a Project Management Tool?

Workzone

High atop the list of questions we receive about our project management tool is: “What is the ROI of your solution?”. Over the years we’ve found that measuring project management ROI can mean more than just time and money. How teams measure improvement, and the cost of achieving it, can vary largely from team to team. Some teams will primarily judge themselves on raw data – to see if they have completed more work in the same amount of time as last year.

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How to Track your Digital Channels with Digital Marketing KPIs

Wrike

In the good old days of digital marketing circa 1971 (when the first ever email was sent), the best indicator of campaign success was whether or not someone looked at what you put out into the world. Now that technology is more advanced and the market is flooded with content, marketers need to use a more sophisticated approach. Enter digital marketing KPIs. .

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Coaching Conversation: DEMO

Agilemania

Description: Scrum masters are agile coaches or at least they are team coaches. But do they know what is coaching or they just use the umbrella term of coaching? What is a good source to learn the art of coaching? ICF has been the de-facto standard for coaching but it is not necessary to go through an extensive coaching program… The post Coaching Conversation: DEMO appeared first on Agilemania.

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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.