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How to Manage People Without Them Even Knowing It

The Digital Project Manager

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.

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How to Prioritize Work When Everything Is #1

LiquidPlanner

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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Paid Time Off Study – 2018 Statistics & Whitepaper

ProjectManager.com

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.” .

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How To Manage Fixed Date Projects

Project Risk Coach

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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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 Use a Critical to Quality CTQ Tree to Satisfy Customer Needs

Project Bliss

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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How to Negotiate in the Workplace: A Practical Guide

ProjectManager.com

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.

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The Best Workflow Management Software To Boost Your Team’s Efficiency

The Digital Project Manager

The post The Best Workflow Management Software To Boost Your Team’s Efficiency appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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PSM II: Facilitating an Advanced Scrum Master Experience

Scrum.org

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.

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5 of the Best Free Monday Alternatives (formerly DaPulse)

nTask

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.

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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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Constructive Criticism: A Powerful Tool for Managers

ProjectManager.com

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.

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Working for the Weekend: Increasing Productivity, Efficiency, and Profitability with a Four-Day Workweek

LiquidPlanner

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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Attributes of Professional Product Owner

Scrum.org

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.

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Free project management software for small teams

Binfire

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.

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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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Leadership vs. Management, What’s the Difference?

ProjectManager.com

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.

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8 Aspects That Will Make You the Best Entry-level Project Manager

PM Basics

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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Master, UP your Scrum!

Scrum.org

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!

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New in Slack Project Management: nTask for Slack is here!

nTask

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.

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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 Hawthorne Effect:Can You Hawthorne Yourself?

Leading Agile

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.

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An Executive Perspective on the Benefits of Work and Resource Management

Planview

“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

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Contracting for Agile Software Development Efforts

Scrum.org

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.

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Effective Teamwork: Do You Know How to Create it?

Online PM Courses

Projects are collaborative efforts. So, if you want your Project to be a success, you need to be able to create effective teamwork. This is at the heart of your role as a Project Leader. You need to bring people together, facilitate great communication, encourage the right attitudes, and harness the best that effective teamwork can deliver. So, in this guide, we’ll look at all of that with a practical eye, and ask: What can you do, as a Project Manager, to create effective teamwork?

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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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Requirements Breakdown Structure (RBS) in Project Management

Techno-PM

Requirements Breakdown Structure In the process of starting a project, you might need to spend some time defining what the project really is about and what stakeholder’s needs it is going to address, that is, gather the project requirements. To collate these requirements, a requirements breakdown structure (RBS) is of major help. Requirements Breakdown Structure RBS Definition While this work is typically carried out by a Business Analysis team, not all projects have the luxury of those dedicate

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11 Graphic Design Tools to Make Designs Like a Pro

Proofhub

How do you feel when you discover something that makes your life easier, less complex and is more productive? The feeling is definitely unexplainable. That’s the magic of technology. If you prioritize the tools, it will make your life easier and more efficient. “Design is the process of going from an existing condition to a preferred one, observe that there’s no relationship to art.”?

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How to Build Team Unity, Encourage Trust and Help Each Other - In 30 Minutes or less

Scrum.org

This is a great exercise to learn more about your team; to find out more about each other’s concerns and dreams and, importantly, what you can do to support them. . I attended a get together / workshop style event in which we discussed how we could support each other in our day to day lives. I'd like to share with you the exercise that we did. Its beauty is how simple it is and how it focuses on how we can help each other.

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Outsourcing Pros and Cons: Should You Outsource on Your Next Project?

ProjectManager.com

There’s been a seismic shift in business over the past generation. The idea of working one’s way up the corporate ladder at one company, ending in the proverbial gold watch, has gone the way of the horse and buggy. Careerists haven’t been stalled as much as forced onto a different track. It’s more common now to jump from one organization to the next, being loyal only to your advancement.

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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.