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Smart Goals for Project Managers

Project Risk Coach

What is the role of the project manager? The PMBOK® Guide, Seventh Edition says, "The project manager is the person assigned by the performing organization to lead the team that is responsible for achieving the project objectives (my italics)." Defining clear objectives and goals is the foundation. Let's look at how to write SMART project goals. "People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

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Four Questions for Every Project Manager

International Institute for Learning

By Catherine Stothart. Project managers are usually naturally task-orientated – they like to get things done, they are used to working to plans and deadlines, and they expect to overcome problems along the way. They have the right mindset. Even so, they can sometimes struggle to stay motivated themselves or to motivate their teams. Motivation comes from having a sense of purpose , being persistent despite difficulties, and being resilient through setbacks.

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Lean Project Management Dashboard

Techno-PM

What is Lean Project Management? Lean project management is a type of project management that is based on the principles of lean manufacturing. Lean manufacturing is a type of manufacturing that is focused on eliminating waste in all aspects of the manufacturing process. The goal of lean manufacturing is to create more value for the customer while using fewer resources.

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10 Project Management Certifications | Upgrade Career Skills

Agilemania

About 97% of organizations believe that good project management skills are essential to their success. Project management certification for project managers is important to IT operations of all kinds. If you are interested in becoming an IT project manager, or just want to add project management to your list of soft skills, these ten certifications will help you add to or boost those skills and increase your value.

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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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Best of PMTimes: How To Be A Better Project Manager – Advice From PM Experts

PM Times

Efficiency, quality, and stability are the core values of every well-devised project. However, these features depend on the knowledge and experience of the person behind the entire enterprise. What makes a PM’s job even more difficult is the fact that often the teams and individuals that participate in the development of a certain business project […].

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A comment on Architecture

Musings on Project Management

"Architecture" has been in the PM-domain commentary more and more as rapid and flexible methodologies compete with more experienced ideas.It's been said, correctly, that architecture is where functional utility is addressed first (*)And it's been said, again correctly, that architecture generally imposes, usually conforms to, and applies the construction and integration rules for the domain of.

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How To Benefit from Asynchronous Communication as A Project Manager?

nTask

Remote work has pushed the boundaries of possibilities. Previously, interaction with colleagues outside the office was nonexistent, and team members communicated and collaborated in real time. The way the world has now transitioned to remote work opportunities, it called into question the legitimacy and efficacy of the remote work environment and whether it will be […].

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What Is a Program Manager? (Job Description Included)

ProjectManager.com

In project management, a program is a set of related projects that are executed simultaneously by organizations to make the most out of their resources and maximize their return on investment (ROI). Program management requires company-wide collaboration and lots of planning. A program manager oversees this process. What Is a Program Manager? A program manager is a leader who oversees the planning, executing and tracking of programs.

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In-Depth: The Evidence-Based Business Case For Agile

Scrum.org

What is the business case for Agile teams? Is it really that important that they are autonomous, able to release frequently, interact closely with stakeholders and spend all that time on continuous improvement? Or is all that just hype? Or maybe even counterproductive? Yes, we believe all these things are important. And so does probably everyone else in our community.

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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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How to win buy-in from senior stakeholders

LiquidPlanner

Ask any project manager why projects fail, and you’ll get a long list of reasons. One of the things at the top of most lists will be people: specifically, not having buy-in for the project. Without support, even the best ideas fail before they really get going. . It’s a common problem, but it doesn’t have to be your problem. In this article, we’ll share 3 easy ways to get stakeholder buy-in for your projects so you can start strong and finish successfully. .

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Modularized megaprojects: Failure of Conventional Approaches (Part 1)

Inloox

Tesla as a pioneer in the modularization of megaprojects In Germany, it is almost a tradition that large public projects fail. A prime example in this context is the BER Airport. Originally, the megaproject was to be completed in 2007 at costs of only 2 billion euros. Instead, it did not open until 2020, at a total cost of over 6 billion euros. A project of similar scope was the first Tesla Gigafactory in Nevada.

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Rough Order of Magnitude (ROM): Understanding ROM Estimates

ProjectManager.com

No one needs to tell you that projects cost money. But how much they’ll cost is an open question. The closer you can come to an accurate forecast of project costs, the more likely you’ll deliver a successful project. Rough order of magnitude (ROM) can help you better estimate project costs. But what is ROM and how can you calculate ROM estimates?

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Template-Sammlung: für Vision, Produkt-Ziel und Sprint-Ziel

Scrum.org

Die Produktvision stellt den Leitstern dar. Allgemein beschreibt eine Vision, wie Erfolg in der Zukunft aussehen soll. Sie ist ein Bild dieses Erfolges. Dabei ist eine Vision kein strategischer Plan, beschreibt also nicht konkret, wie wir erfolgreich sein werden. Und eine Vision ist auch kein Unternehmensleitbild und keine Mission. Da sie den Endzustand darstellt, vergleiche ich sie eher mit einem Nordstern.

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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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5 Hidden Agile Impediments That May Be Blocking Your Transformation

Leading Agile

When it comes to Agile Transformation, every organization has to find a way to overcome whatever is blocking the organization’s ability to be Agile. Agile Impediments exist at many levels, but most large scale Transformations now require that technical practices are more sound than ever. . As strategic priorities shift toward a focus on technology, hiring Scrum coaches just isn’t going to suffice to make Agile work.

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What is Scaled Agile Framework SAFe? | Video

Online PM Courses

Scaled Agile Framework is widely used in organizations. In this video, I want to answer the question, ‘What is Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)?’. The post What is Scaled Agile Framework SAFe? | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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10 Free Manufacturing Excel Templates

ProjectManager.com

Manufacturing requires a lot of attention to detail and coordinating various moving parts to deliver the final product. In order to accomplish those goals and meet a tight deadline and an even tighter budget, you need these 10 free manufacturing Excel templates. ProjectManager has dozens of free templates to download. We curated our template page to select 10 of the essential manufacturing templates for Excel that all manufacturers can benefit from.

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Can Scrum Teams Use Scrum And Kanban, Simultaneously?

Scrum.org

Some time ago, we hosted an experience interview with Daniel Vacanti. Daniel is the co-founder of ProKanban.org, a venture conceived of, by, and for the Kanban community. Its mission is to support all Kanban practitioners (new or old) by providing a safe and inclusive forum to learn about Kanban. He is also the co-author of the Kanban Guide and author of the books “Actionable Agile Metrics for Predictability” and “When Will It Be Done?”.

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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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Your Guide To Achieving Operational Excellence In Project Management

nTask

Project managers are under more pressure than ever to deliver operational excellence. There are many changes to get used to in the post-pandemic world. Profit margins are still fluctuating, employees are still figuring out new ways to work, and clients' hazy futures make it difficult to predict the company's finances. But after more than a […].

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Project Scheduling Methodologies That Drive Results

MPUG

A few years ago, I worked with a Project Manager (PM) who was seen by many as a micromanager. During our weekly schedule tracking meetings, she would go around the room and ask each team member to give progress updates. While a quick recap may have been sufficient for some project managers, this PM was eager for details and peppered team members with questions, no detail too small: How long did each task take?

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What Is a Gantt Chart - Uncomplicated Guide

ActiveCollab

The Gantt Chart is a commonly used term in the workplace. The problem is that not all of us know what it means and how it can improve project planning. At first sight, Gantt charts may seem intimidating, but they aren't as complicated as you might think. This article will explain what the Gantt chart stands for, its basic elements, how it works, and why you should use them instead of other project management tools.

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A deep dive into the purpose of each Scrum accountability

Scrum.org

Scrum Teams that understand the “ why” behind the Scrum framework can better increase value delivery to the organization. Internalizing the purpose behind the events, artifacts and accountabilities of Scrum allows the team to get the most benefit from them. We’ve already discussed the purpose behind each of the events in Scrum. Now let’s turn our attention to the purpose of each of the three accountabilities in Scrum.

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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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A Beginner’s Guide to Resource Management

Epicflow Blog

Successful project delivery is usually a result of efficient management of both workflow and resources. In a multi-project environment, ensuring productive work of team members gains even more importance: resources are shared by concurrent projects, and their fruitful work on them will be impossible without wise resource management. . What do you need to know to manage project resources with maximum efficiency?

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Kanban Project Methodology for Strategic Project Managers

The Strategic Project Manager

Kanban is a great approach for visualizing progress in initiatives involving rapid change. It also provides a foundation for continuous process improvement by executing teams. This post provides an overview of Kanban, the key elements of Kanban boards, and the impact and usefulness of Kanban to strategy and project management. What Is the Kanban Project Methodology?

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With Hindsight: Toggl Plan’s Quarter 3, 2022

Teamweek

Delivering projects profitably is key to growing your agency or consultancy. To deliver projects on time and within budget, you need to: Stay organized Continuously track project progress And optimize team utilization. That’s what we focused on in the last quarter. In this article, you’ll learn about the new features added to Toggl Plan over the last three months.

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Usable, Useful and Valuable

Scrum.org

In the 2020 version of the Scrum Guide , the Developers as one of the accountabilities in Scrum is defined as set of people that are committed to creating any aspect of a usable increment each Sprint. In the same version of the Scrum Guide, it is mentioned that the Scrum Team is accountable for creating a valuable , useful Increment every Sprint.

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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.