The Digital Project Manager
OCTOBER 9, 2018
We’ve all been there—you’re trying your best to avoid micromanaging your team, but the way. The post How to Manage People Without Them Even Knowing It appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.
LiquidPlanner
OCTOBER 11, 2018
All projects—especially large, complex projects—need clear priorities. Easier said than done. You can count on technical projects, no matter how well-planned, to involve change orders, re-prioritization and the regular appearance of surprises. It’s just the natural order of things. But still. Knowing how to prioritize work affects the success of your project, the engagement of your team, and your role as a leader.
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ProjectManager.com
OCTOBER 12, 2018
Paid time off (PTO) policies are central to achieving work-life balance. PTO should be a refuge for people to unplug and re-center, so they can return to work feeling refreshed and productive. In today’s society, paid time off is seemingly more valuable than ever, as the line between a person’s professional life and their personal life continues to blur due to rapidly advancing technology and an expectation to be “always on.” .
Project Risk Coach
OCTOBER 8, 2018
Fixed date projects occur often these days. The project sponsor picks a date and hands you the project. So, what's a project manager to do? How can we manage fixed date projects? First of all, don’t freak out. Some things are unrealistic, but others are not. Be positive and ask for some time to do some analysis. Let your sponsor know that you will come back in a week or two with the results.
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Project Bliss
OCTOBER 8, 2018
The CTQ Tree is a simple tool to tell you exactly what your customer wants. Have you ever asked a client or customer what they want, and when you deliver it, they tell you it still doesn’t meet their need? Or pulled together a focus group to help improve a product, but got vague responses on how to make it better? You thought you knew what the customers wanted, but they had something completely different in mind.
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ProjectManager.com
OCTOBER 10, 2018
Everyone negotiates. When there is more than one person involved, actions are almost always preceded by negotiations, whether that’s with friends, family or coworkers. The question isn’t whether you negotiate, but how well do you negotiate? Negotiation is critical for any group project, be it a picnic or an email campaign, but in the workplace your ability to negotiate is equal to your success and happiness on the job.
The Digital Project Manager
OCTOBER 8, 2018
The post The Best Workflow Management Software To Boost Your Team’s Efficiency appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.
Scrum.org
OCTOBER 10, 2018
"…and the little one said: ‘Roll over! Roll over!’" - traditional children's song. Monte Carlo or bust. A couple of weeks ago we looked at Monte Carlo analysis. We saw how this technique can be used to forecast Sprint capacity, and to anticipate the likely completion schedule for a given backlog of work. Perhaps our most important "take-away" was that providing a range of estimates is not necessarily a matter of being vague.
Planio
OCTOBER 9, 2018
Few companies fail because of a lack of good ideas. But choosing the wrong idea? That can sink your ship faster than an iceberg on a dark night. In fact, according to CB Insights, the #1 reason startups fail is because they built the wrong thing and there’s no market need for it. But it’s not like you can sit back and not choose a feature or product to build.
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
ProjectManager.com
OCTOBER 11, 2018
Criticism is everywhere. Who hasn’t heard something like, “That’s not how you make a hamburger,” or, “You lost the game for us with that lousy pitching!” But that’s not constructive criticism. Those are just negative responses that lead to dead ends, and that kind of disruption isn’t going to get you very far in business. The object of any successful enterprise is to make things better.
nTask
OCTOBER 9, 2018
Monday.com, formerly known as DaPulse, has been around the project management block for quite some time. Bagging some major clients including Fiverr, Discovery, McDonald’s and more, Monday has surely made its mark as a great productivity and project management tool , with over 10 years of history. Monday is a project management tool with a multitude of features for team management and project delivery.
Scrum.org
OCTOBER 8, 2018
Last week I co-taught scrum.org's new Professional Scrum Master II course with fellow Professional Scrum Trainer (PST) Todd Miller. This 2-day advanced Scrum Master class is designed to be the next step that a Scrum Master takes on their journey towards Professional Scrum. We had a wonderful mix of students with varying levels of experience and past certifications.
LiquidPlanner
OCTOBER 9, 2018
The dream of an extra day off each week is more plausible than you think. More companies are investigating the idea of a four-day workweek after a New Zealand trusts firm found its employees were happier, more efficient, and more productive after its two-month trial of a 20-percent shorter week. Andrew Barnes, CEO of Perpetual Guardian, implemented the trial after discovering research that showed the average British employee is productive only 2.5 hours per day while other studies showed this nu
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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.
ProjectManager.com
OCTOBER 8, 2018
Is leadership good and management bad? Of course not, both are important. Jennifer Bridges, PMP, explains their roles in project management in this short tutorial video. Here’s a screenshot of the whiteboard for your reference! In Review – Leadership vs. Management, What’s the Difference? Today’s video topic is surprisingly controversial, Jennifer noted.
Binfire
OCTOBER 11, 2018
Getting free stuff always feels good. Getting free project management software feels even better. This offers feels even better if you are a small team with limited funds. If you are a small team of three or fewer people, you qualify automatically. Free Project Management Software offer: We want to help our community of small businesses and startups.
Scrum.org
OCTOBER 8, 2018
In Scrum, Product Owner is responsible for maximizing the value of product being developed by Development Team. This implies that a product’s success relies heavily on the Product Owner role. I have consolidated the attributes from Mike Cohn’s book “Succeeding with Agile” with few more must-have attributes for this role: Visionary - Product Owner must have a solid vision on what (s)he would like to deliver to the customers.
PM Basics
OCTOBER 9, 2018
You look at the requirements of an entry-level Project Manager , and it is frustrating! They want a Junior PM to have one or two years of experience. Additionally, the one should also know what a mid-level PM does. Is it that difficult to become a Project Manager? Here is the real story: Recruiters and interviewing PMs have a hard time expressing the skillset.
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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.
nTask
OCTOBER 10, 2018
The pyramids are one of the wonders of the world – magnificent and complicated. Archeologists still argue how the Egyptians managed to build such a masterpiece. How about the Great Wall of China? The Emperor had employed millions of people in its construction: soldiers, common people, and criminals. The emperor sure did know how to make the most of his resources.
Leading Agile
OCTOBER 8, 2018
My home office has a window. The window has plantation shutters. When I work at home, I usually open the shutters all the way to fill the room with natural light. One fine day not too long ago, I opened the shutters just a little. The room was lighted more softly. I felt energized and I had a great work day. On an internal Slack channel, I told my colleagues that I had Hawthorned myself.
Scrum.org
OCTOBER 8, 2018
Scrum Master. One of the mandatory Scrum roles. Ever important to dictate the Development Team what to do. Keep track of metrics. Gather people to the daily Scrum. Hold performance reviews. Make sure the team improves and that if more Development Team members are needed, you fix that impediment! Right? If you're a Scrum Master reading this right now and think not much of it, it's time to UP your Scrum!
Ganttic
OCTOBER 7, 2018
Ganttic is a resource management software that’s all about making sure you have all the tools to create the best possible overview of all of your resources’ workload and whereabouts. Be that allocating your team, freelancers, specialists, equipment, machinery or rooms. The resource management technique to use with those tools is matrix planning. Matrix planning takes the best of both resource and project management.
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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.
nTask
OCTOBER 11, 2018
With the soaring number of task management applications , finding the ideal tool can be time-consuming and confusing. The criteria for each tool depends on the organization, their needs, and requirements, as well as work processes. A range of features, ease of use, reliability, security, and expense can greatly affect your choice in management tools.
Proofhub
OCTOBER 12, 2018
“A meeting is an event where minutes are taken and hours wasted.” – James T. Kirk, Captain of the USS enterprise. Let’s take a tour in the maze of cubicles and conference rooms in big companies, one thing that they all have in common is that almost everyone in the office is busy attending back-to-back meetings and conference calls. So, what’s the point?
Scrum.org
OCTOBER 9, 2018
The Agile Manifesto statement of “Customer Collaboration over Contract Negotiation” is less than helpful when it comes to writing contracts for projects to be worked in an Agile fashion. Contracting for Agile software development projects continues to be a major organizational impediment. Your legal department is trained to protect the firm from all the bad things that can happen when the unexpected occurs.
Planview
OCTOBER 8, 2018
“WRM is an approach that enables management to better understand how an organization operates and establishes a collaborative environment within which work is assigned and prioritized.”. -Mark Smith, CEO and Chief Research Officer, Ventana Research. In the previous three parts of this series, we have discussed some challenges and obstacles to work and resource management (WRM) faced by executives, how technology is key to a successful execution of WRM, and how aligning WRM to other digital trans
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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