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Five Essential Things Needed for Agile Transformation

Scrum.org

If someone can give you the answer easily for: What is Agile Transformation? And how do we do? I bet that they don’t completely understand the question or don’t have enough experience. Transformation or change in a group or organization is always a challenge. It is complex work and needs a lot of effort. The un-knows are anywhere, and uncertainty can affect your success or failure.

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The Tale of Two Risk Owners

Project Risk Coach

In this article, we will look at what a risk owner is and why they are needed. Have you ever had a really bad day as a project manager? Imagine that you are managing a software development project. Several simultaneous events have occurred that put your project at great risk: The defect level of source code has risen well above the defined threshold or trigger point for the third consecutive week The test region has been very unstable (and is going down once or twice per day) Your best developer

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7 Best PRINCE2 Books for 2021 (Including PRINCE2 Agile Books)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The PRINCE2® certification exam is tricky to pass because of the style of objective testing and the number of questions you have to answer. But PRINCE2 itself is not a difficult method to learn – and the official manual is actually pretty easy to follow and understand. When I did my Foundation and Practitioner exams, I only used the two official PRINCE2 handbooks: Managing Successful Projects with PRINCE2. and the partner book: Directing Successful Projects with PRINCE2.

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Mastering the Workback Schedule: 5 Essential Tips

ProjectManager.com

Have you ever gotten stuck trying to schedule a project? If you’re like most of us, the answer is yes. It’s the project management equivalent of writer’s block, and it can majorly slow down your planning. The good news is, there is no shortage of methods designed for tricky scheduling situations—whether it’s a lack of information, inspiration or anything else.

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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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How To Measure The Success Of A Scrum Master?

Scrum.org

Recently, we hosted an “ask-me-anything” session with Jimmy Janlén. Jimmy is an Agile coach & trainer based in Stockholm. Before starting his own company “ Agile With Jimmy ”, he worked at Crisp and supported organizations like Spotify, Casumo, KRY in their quest to increase agility. Jimmy is the author of the book “96 Visualization Examples — a toolkit for the Agile coach”.

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What can I do with a degree in project management?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Are you wondering whether it’s worth getting a degree in project management? Or what you can do for a job once you finish your bachelor’s or master’s studies? This article is for you! You’ll learn: What job titles to look for once you graduate What industries you can work in What you can expect to earn How to transition from another industry via a degree Lots more!

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How to Assemble a Project Team

ProjectManager.com

Projects, no matter the size and scope, are complex. If they weren’t, they might as well just be tasks on a to-do list. Luckily, projects are also a group effort—for every project, there is a project team working together to make deliverables a reality. How do these teams come together? Not on their own! There are many ways to form project teams and many factors to take into account.

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What is Manager’s role in Scrum?

Scrum.org

There is one frequent question that I encounter in my workshops. There is a piece of information that is missing in the Scrum Guide. Interestingly, It is regarding the managers. Where is the role of Manager in Scrum? The missed-out information makes many organisations confused if they have a similar place and adopts Scrum or present an Agile transformation.

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7 Data Entry Tools for Automating Data Entry Tasking in 2021

nTask

Collecting and organizing data especially when you are a behemoth of a company, is tremendously difficult. No one wants to input data day in and day out, of so many different projects in the company’s roster. But this is the 21 st century and you have a lot of different applications on the market that can help you make sure that all of your data is entered properly into the system so that it can be easily filed and managed later.

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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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From To Do to Done: Book Review

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Have you ever wondered if there is a better way to manage your actions and control your To Do list? If you have, this book from Maura Nevel Thomas will give you the tools to evaluate how you organize and track tasks efficiently. Like, super-efficiently. From To Do to Done : How to go from busy to productive by mastering your to-do list, is part of the Empowered Productivity series from Ignite Reads.

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How Many Online Tools Does The Average Digital Project Require?

The Digital Project Manager

The post How Many Online Tools Does The Average Digital Project Require? appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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What Makes Scrum Teams Effective? A scientific investigation of 1.200 Scrum teams

Scrum.org

This post is a non-technical version of an academic paper about Scrum teams that I wrote with Daniel Russo. Daniel is a Professor at the University of Aalborg and is specialized in empirical software engineering. I am an organizational psychologist and Scrum practitioner with a love for survey development and statistics. Please note that our paper is currently reviewed by academic peers. .

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10 Best Applicant Tracking Softwares to Use in 2021

nTask

As we know that the most important resource in the resource pools of our companies is a good employee. Roughly 250 applicants apply for a job opening in a company, daily. So it is a good time for us to discuss some of the best applications to track those applicants. The truth about applicant tracking is that it is an extremely tricky affair. On average, less than half of the percentage of the applicants that apply for jobs meet the requirements of the company or the job role, and nearly 70% of t

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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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Building a Project Plan – Conversation with Kristina Kushner | Video

Online PM Courses

Kristina Kushner spans the spectrum from Agile and Traditional project management. So, we speak about building a project plan in both domains. The post Building a Project Plan – Conversation with Kristina Kushner | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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Epicflow Summer 2021 Updates: Generic User, Budget Task and Budget Distribution, Meeting View

Epicflow Blog

Our team keeps working on improvements to our system’s functionality to make the process of managing projects even more efficient and streamlined, as well as optimize user experience. This summer, we are ready to present several new features: Budget Task and Budget Distribution make it easier to plan and monitor the project flow; the Generic User feature works as a backlog for the tasks that have no available resources to assign to; and Meeting View shows the tasks performed by selected users, w

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 What happens to Product Backlog Items that you can’t complete by the end of the Sprint?

Scrum.org

The purpose of the Sprint is to deliver a ‘done’ increment which meets the Sprint goal. At the Sprint Planning event, the Product Owner and the Scrum team collaborate together to create a Sprint goal - which describes why the Sprint is valuable - after which the Development team selects Product Backlog Items which describe what will be delivered and creates a plan for how to deliver them. .

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Email Marketing Task Management: Tips and Practices

nTask

Managing the tasks can be overwhelming as many little bits and pieces need to come together for a successful outcome. But, if done right, you and your team can complete many great projects together. Overall, task management deals with the maintenance of the workload, task separation, and scheduling. From to-do lists to vision-oriented goals, projects can be divided to suit everyone in the 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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Astonish Your Stakeholders… with a Stakeholder Listening Plan | Video

Online PM Courses

You know about a Stakeholder Communication Plan. But it can easily miss out something vital. Why not create a Stakeholder Listening Plan? The post Astonish Your Stakeholders… with a Stakeholder Listening Plan | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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With Hindsight: Toggl Plan’s Quarter 2, 2021

Teamweek

Welcome back to another quarterly summary! In the last three months, our focus was on getting to know our customers better, fitting this research to our workflow as an ongoing process and setting the stage for future improvements. Continue reading below to find out what’s new and what’s to be expected in the upcoming months. The Product. It’s time for spring cleaning — dealing with inconsistencies that have accumulated over time.

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6 Tips for Leaders as a Coach

Scrum.org

In the face of rapid, disruptive change, organisations realise that leaders do not have all the answers. Yet, leaders play a vital role in building Organisations that are humane and capable. So, in short, the role of the leader is changing. In my view, leaders are expected to have coaching skills to build competent and agile organisations that are fully resilient.

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5 reasons why you should choose Twproject

PM Times

In my next installment of this ongoing “5 Reasons Why…” series I’d like to discuss 5 reasons why you should be checking out Twproject for all of your project management needs whether your projects are traditional waterfall projects or you prescribe to an agile methodology for managing your project. Twproject works with both… which is […]. The post 5 reasons why you should choose Twproject appeared first on Project Management Articles, Webinars, Templates and Jobs.

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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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Kurt Lewin’s Freeze Phases Model: How to use it to Guide Change

Online PM Courses

Every change agent and Project Manager should be aware of Kurt Lewin’s Freeze Phases model. It offers a classic three-part model of change. The post Kurt Lewin’s Freeze Phases Model: How to use it to Guide Change appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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Unpacking Agile Transformation: The System of Delivery

Leading Agile

So if we agree that Agile Transformation is worth talking about, we need a better way of talking about it. A clear way to differentiate between what we are trying to build and what it takes to get there. You see, over the past 20 years, the general hypothesis has been to train people on Agile methodologies and trust everything else will emerge. Teams will magically form.

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Sustainable Agility at the Enterprise Level — Jorgen Hesselberg at the Agile Camp Berlin 2021

Scrum.org

TL; DR: Sustainable Agility at the Enterprise Level w/ Jorgen Hesselberg — ACB21. In this highly engaging speaker session on sustainable agility from the Agile Camp Berlin 2021, Jorgen Hesselberg delves into the root cause of failing agile transformation efforts: Rejection by the organization as the transformation does not address the organization’s needs.

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How To Get Motivated When Everything Feels like a Grind

Teamweek

Even if you’re living out your dream career or studying something you’re passionate about, productive work can feel like a grind. Maybe you’re dealing with the tedium of working on a spreadsheet. Or maybe you’re simply distracted by summer sunshine. Or maybe you’re super stressed by a looming deadline or exam. In any case, your to do list items aren’t always attractive.

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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.