Kiron Bondale

JANUARY 27, 2019

A Definition of Ready (DoR) is an agreement established by some agile teams to help them assess if a given product backlog item can safely be accepted by the team to be worked on. It is not expected to be used as a gate but rather as guidance. I frequently hear from teams who are frustrated with one or more of their ceremonies. There can be many reasons for such perceptions but some times the root cause relates more to what wasn’t completed in advance rather than what actually transpired d

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Musings on Project Management

JANUARY 31, 2019

Ever been asked to write an RFP (request for proposal)? It may not be as easy as you think. My metric is about 2-3 hours per finished page, exclusive of specifications. Specs are normally just imported. So, it could take you the best part of a week to put an RFP in place. My outline is given in the Slideshare presentation below Beyond the outline, here's a few things to think about.

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Lynne Cazaly

JANUARY 28, 2019

The runaway success of the sparkling, joyous, tidying queen Marie Kondo via her book ’The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up' and now the success of the Netflix program ’Tidying Up with Marie Kondo' is giving plenty of people lots of joy in tidying up their homes using her Kon Mari method. Some people have suggested we can do the same in tidying up our mindsets, our diets and our relationships.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 29, 2019

Consciousness is a blessing and a curse. Thinking has led to great innovation but has also brought people into disastrous conflict. While thought is neither intrinsically good or bad, it can be used for positive or negative ends. Whatever the cause, big or small, overthinking is proof that there can be too much of a good thing. Sadly, this surplus of mental exertion is practically unavoidable: thinking turns into overthinking before you know it.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 30, 2019

Domenic was very smart, very precise and had a lot of success in his current organisation (as a chemical engineer). He was given the opportunity to act as a team lead, a role he very much wanted and where he felt he could make a difference. He took the role on and was frustrated. Frustrated because he spent hours a week in meetings where he had the solutions to problems, but nobody was listening.

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Project Bliss

JANUARY 30, 2019

When considering your career, you’re likely looking for a way to set yourself apart from everyone else at work. You may be looking for ways to grow in your career. And you’re possibly wondering what skills will be most beneficial. And you want to ensure you have job security, or that you’ll be able to get a job easily if anything happens to the one you have now.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 28, 2019

Jennifer Bridges, PMP, has been an entrepreneur and business owner for about 20 years. In that time, she’s learned plenty about crafting successful growth strategies for businesses, which she shares in this video. Here’s a screenshot of the whiteboard for your reference! In Review – Key Business Growth Strategies for New Businesses. As mentioned, Jennifer has been an entrepreneur and business owner for a long time.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 27, 2019

It’s a great honour to be asked to mentor someone, and whether that arrangement comes about as a result of an informal discussion or a formal corporate scheme, you should take the commitment to be a mentor seriously. It’s also a good career opportunity for you – working with a more junior project manager can give you a different insight into project management topics and they are likely to have different experiences to share with you as well.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 30, 2019

(fyi: this text has been slightly adapted from the original text that can be found at [link] ). Agility is a continuously evolving state that is unique to a specific organization, given that organization’s people, its constructs and its history. A traditional (industrial) approach to becoming more Agile (adaptive) commonly creates no more than an illusion of agility.

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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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Inloox

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

What is a project network diagram? The InLoox project management glossary defines a project network diagram as follows: ". A network in project management displays the duration of project activities and the dependencies between activities graphically or as a table. ". In a network , nodes (rectangles) represent activities and events. Arrows connect nodes with each other.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 30, 2019

So you’ve decided that your business needs an online presence. That’s fantastic! An online presence can connect you with potential customers and increase your overall stature and legitimacy as a business. Consumers tend to trust a business that they can research online, rather than a business with no online presence at all. I’ve helped many businesses join the digital age, and this article will get you on the right path to increase your chances at success.

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nTask

JANUARY 31, 2019

Evernote is a note taking app that is designed to help take notes, organize and prioritize ideas and create lists to keep productive and on track. Although the options Evernote offers can be very helpful, there are some areas where it could introduce potentially more useful features – especially for the price. Some of the more prominent features Evernote lacks and which can be found in other apps include task creation and management including time tracking.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 29, 2019

2018 was a big year for the Scrum Master with Glassdoor describing the importance of the role and LinkedIn listing Scrum Master as one of the most promising jobs of 2019. Slowly, the Scrum Master has moved out of the world of geek to mainstream acceptance. And that is not a surprise. More and more organizations appreciate the importance of agility, to be able to respond more rapidly to ever changing market conditions.

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LiquidPlanner

JANUARY 28, 2019

In the first part of this series on team essentials, I walked you through the LiquidPlanner predictive scheduling engine. This week I’m excited to tell you about one of the unique features of LiquidPlanner: task prioritization. Before we dive in, I want to make sure you are familiar with four of the basic plan items we’ll work with. Project: The project folder contains the items that represent your current project initiative or deliverable.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 31, 2019

The words stakeholder and shareholder are often used loosely in business. The two words are commonly thought of as synonyms and are used interchangeably, but there are some key differences between them. These differences reveal how to appropriately manage stakeholders and shareholders in your organization. For example, a shareholder is always a stakeholder in a corporation, but a stakeholder is not always a shareholder.

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nTask

JANUARY 29, 2019

Over the past few years, Scrum has become the default face of Agile Project Management. One of the most popular Agile frameworks, Scrum is widely adopted by software and non-software development teams alike. Due to its up-roaring popularity, there are numerous tools that have jumped on the bandwagon and have started to recognize themselves as the best Scrum tools.

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Planview

JANUARY 31, 2019

The following content is based on the whitepaper, “Bigger Than a Breadbox: 10 Tips for Better Project Estimates, Part 2,” written by Jerry Manas. For your reading convenience, we’ve decided to give it everlasting life here on the blog. From all the previous six parts of this series, it should be clear that effective estimation is a primary driver of project success, resource planning, and portfolio alignment.

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LiquidPlanner

JANUARY 31, 2019

Enduring the cold winter months can be a drag, but we should remember to stay productive and motivated during this season because we’re setting the tone (and pace) for the rest of the year. Just like in a race, if you go too slowly, you’ll never get into a winning rhythm. Staying indoors more during the shorter days also drains us of energy, causing an increase in mood swings; however, things don’t have to be so grim!

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Inloox

JANUARY 31, 2019

Get to Know the Phase-Milestone-Plan Shortly before the project kick-off , it is often not possible to create a detailed project plan. At this point usually important details are missing. Would you still like to get a rough overview? Then the phase-milestone schedule is your method. The rough planning method uses milestones to divide the project into phases.

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Proofhub

JANUARY 29, 2019

Agile Project Management?—?Best Agile Practices for Teams Lately, the agile methodology is being increasingly adopted across numerous industries. But, what exactly is agile? You might ask. According to one definition, agile methodology is a philosophy that traditionally worked for software development processes and is now being used by the project management community.

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Leading Agile

JANUARY 31, 2019

This episode of SoundNotes features, LeadingAgile Technical Consultant, Rich Dammkoehler in a conversation about why it is so important to make sure your organization is focused on improving their technical practices. If you’re struggling with helping your organization understand why introducing technical practices like collective code ownership, refactoring, pair programming, and test-driven development is such a crucial part of attaining business Agility; this podcast will help you build

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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.

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Teamweek

JANUARY 27, 2019

Whether you are working with just one department or across several groups, team collaboration is a necessity in the workplace. When team members know each other better, they are able to communicate and work together. These collaboration strategies can range from using online tools to playing traditional, in-person games. When people feel free to communicate and express their ideas, they are more productive.

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Inloox

JANUARY 29, 2019

Innovation Digging was developed by Tamer Kemeröz and Benno van Aerssen. As the name suggests, it is a systematic 'excavation' of ideas that can help you to innovate both radically and continuously. Very few people can come up with new ideas on the spot, because idea generation is a process. This process can still be controlled in a systematic way, Innovation Digging can help bring order to creative chaos.

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Online PM Courses

JANUARY 27, 2019

In this guide, we’ll look at all the key elements of project scheduling. We will largely follow the process structure in the 6th Edition of the PMI‘s Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBoK). It’s a reliable guide. But, we’ll also step outside it’s Project Scheduling Knowledge Area (KA), to survey the full scope of the […].

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PM Basics

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Project Management Weekly Reading List #4 is here. 1. Do you take people as they are? I can’t describe this episode better than Ian Cron himself: “The Enneagram is a tool that awakens our compassion for people just as they are, not the people we wish they would become so our lives would become easier.”. If you want to take a granular approach to the motivation of your team – you need to listen to it.

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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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