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The funnel and the pyramid!

Musings on Project Management

In every book written about project management, the PMO is at the apex of a pyramid. Sometimes, as in Agile project methodology, the pyramid is flatter than most, but always there is an identifiable top figure. Fair enough. But Robert Gates, former Defense Secretary [and holder of many other government titles] writes that he often felt like the pyramid was inverted and thus took the look of a.

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How to Improve the Performance of Your Project Teams

Project Risk Coach

Watch what happens when new teams are formed? Maybe you’ve seen a new team of baseball players, a music group, a civic group, or a business team. The initial dynamics can be rather rocky and uncertain, even with skilled individuals. Let's explore ways to improve the performance of your project teams. Imagine a new project team that was formed to consolidate customer service centers from 20 locations across the United States to five regional locations.

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Successfully Lead Projects Remotely

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Recently I joined Joe Pusz for his podcast, Project Management Office Hours. We talked about how to successfully lead projects remotely. As more and more companies transition to allow their employees to work from home post-pandemic, these skills are going to continue to serve us moving forward. Some of the key takeaways: Joe: How has COVID-19 really changed the way project managers are working these days?

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Best Task Management Software of 2021 for Teams

ProjectManager.com

Task management is essential to project management, teamwork and simply getting work done. Productivity is lost if a team loses control of their tasks and deadlines. Teams use task management software to execute tasks on time, within budget and with the right resources. But there are a lot of task management software solutions to choose from, and it can be hard to know which is the best.

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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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[VLOG] Habits of Highly Effective Scrum Masters

Scrum.org

"The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" is an awesome book. It is one of the biggest inspirations in my life! It is written by Steven Covey. Maybe Steven is sometimes dogmatic or even a bit sectarian as if he was enlightened and the only one who knows how the world works. Maybe sometimes he uses language which is a little bit too "coaching" for me like: "Emotional Bank Account" or "I don't care how much you know until I know how much you care" or my favorite: "The Miracle of The Chinese Bamboo

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Making Workshops Work webinar

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Turn on the auto-created subtitles to follow along, or feel free to watch at 1.5x speed! There is an automated transcript below (so please excuse typos) that starts at 2mins 30 avoiding the intro waffle as we get people into the room. About the webinar. In this webinar, Dr Penny Pullan shares insights into how to deliver lasting results collaboratively through in-person, virtual and hybrid workshops.

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Gantt Chart Dependencies: Understanding Task Dependency Types

ProjectManager.com

Every project is made up of tasks, and the sequence of those tasks are often of the upmost importance. Certain tasks can’t begin until another one has finished, and vice-versa. In order to ensure that tasks are done in the correct order, project managers employ the use of Gantt charts and Gantt chart software to track the dependencies between their project’s tasks.

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Increasing the Velocity of Value—with Dave West (Agile Camp Berlin 2021)

Scrum.org

TL; DR: Increasing the Velocity of Value w/ Dave West — ACB21. In this highly engaging speaker session from the Agile Camp Berlin 2021, Dave West talks about why orienting to value rather than work is a crucial requirement for building an agile capability: Velocity of Value. ?? Shall I notify you about articles like this one? Awesome! You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 31,000-plus other subscribers. ??

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SAFe Simply Explained (Part 1): Core Competencies and Principles

Inloox

Agility should no longer be a new term for most project managers. High flexibility, adaptability and increased communication are just a few of the benefits that have led to significant improvements through the introduction of agile work processes in organizations. So agility in itself is nothing new for many companies. In most cases, however, previous experience is based only on the small-scale use of Scrum or other agile methods in individual departments.

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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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PRINCE2: The Project Management Method Explained

Rebel’s Guide to PM

What is PRINCE2? PRINCE2 is a project management method. It’s structured, and experience-based, created from the lived experience of thousands of project managers and successful projects. PRINCE2 stands for Projects IN a Controlled Environment (Version 2). And it’s not spelled PRINCE TWO! It’s a customizable way of managing and controlling the work.

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Construction Project Manager Job Description (with Free Example!)

ProjectManager.com

The construction project manager role is a unique position, though it shares many of the attributes associated with any kind of project manager. A construction project manager job description seeks a candidate who can plan and oversee a construction project from initiation to close with the help of software , resources and a reasonable budget. If you’re looking for an experienced construction project manager, you need to understand their job.

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The Lack of Agile Leadership Qualities — Making Your Scrum Work #15

Scrum.org

TL; DR: The Lack of Agile Leadership Qualities — When Change Agents Don’t Act as Role Models. There are plenty of failure possibilities with Scrum. Given that Scrum is a framework with a reasonable yet short “manual,” this effect should not surprise anyone. When Scrum becomes an element of an agile transformation, a lack of agile leadership qualities on the incumbents’ side may impede its overall progress significantly despite the best efforts of all other change agents.

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A detailed guide to resource planning for Project Managers

Resource Guru

I am notoriously overbooked, in both my personal and professional lives. I assure you, this is not a humble brag about either my popularity or my skills as a writer. My time and energy are the main —and often only—resources I have to offer both personally and professionally. The inability to allocate either effectively has resulted in missed deadlines, forgotten social events, and completely avoidable double bookings.

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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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Crossing the client–developer divide: 5 best practices for building a better client relationship

Planio

There's an old saying that goes: “You don't want to know how the sausage gets made.” For many agencies, a good client relationship depends on this kind of subtle subterfuge. You want your client to love the final product, so it’s natural not to show them the blood, guts, and mess that went into making it. But here’s the thing we tend to forget: If a client trusts you to take their vision and turn it into a reality, you can be damn well sure they want to see how you’re getting there.

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5 Reasons Why Paymo is One of the Most Versatile Project Management Software Tools

PM Times

In my laser-focused series of 5 reasons to know and try useful project management software, this piece will be featuring Paymo. Paymo is one of the most versatile project management tools out there, a once standalone time-tracking and invoicing app that has developed into a full-grown work management platform, celebrating its 14-year anniversary now in […].

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How to Design An Agile Coaching Alliance With The Designed Alliance Canvas

Scrum.org

MY COACHING FAILURES. Let me share another fruit from my fruitful failure tree. There have been times when I have struggled mightily in my coaching relationships. Whether the relationship is with a person or with a team. The conversations are exhausting, draining for me. Likely for my coachee(s) as well. DANCING IN THE MOMENT. What I learned from the Co-Active Training Institute is that effective coaching could feel like an effortless dance.

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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Agile Transformation: Put First Things First

Leading Agile

Last time we explored Habit 2 – Begin With The End In Mind of Stephen R. Covey’s “ The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” as it relates to Agile Transformation. With Habit 2, we concluded that it’s essential for an organization to begin with the end in mind, their end state vision, for an Agile Transformation to be successful and that they must be proactive (Habit 1) in support of that.

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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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Virtual Team Building: Make Your Remote Teams More Productive

Epicflow Blog

Not that long ago, a number of office workers dreamed of working from home. Isn’t it great to forget about crowds and traffic? To commute from your bed to the couch with your laptop and a cup of coffee? To take a dog for a short walk after lunch or do some exercises? The sweet comes with the bitter – thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, remote work has become our reality.

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Project Closure: How to Miss Nothing when You Shut-down Your Project

Online PM Courses

Project closure is often an afterthought for Project Managers: 'we're done, let's run'. Finishing well is a vital project discipline. But how? The post Project Closure: How to Miss Nothing when You Shut-down Your Project appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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How To Run A Sprint Review, Online?

Scrum.org

Ever since Christiaan and I shifted our focus towards product development — in specific, the Scrum Team Survey — the Sprint Review became an important recurring event. It’s important because the Sprint Review contains an element we can’t go without. It’s our oxygen, our fuel, and the #1 ingredient every recipe needs… Of course, I’m talking about feedback from real users!

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How to Do a Cost Benefits Analysis in Project Management

ProProfs Project Management

Consider this scenario : You just closed a deal with a client to work on a major project. At the time of the project proposal, you had done a random forecast of project duration, price of resources, etc., and had reached a tentative project cost estimate. Based on the same calculation, you go ahead and divide resources and set the project deadline. But halfway through, you find yourself in a situation of project cost overrun.

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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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Toggl Hire: Quarter 2, 2021

Teamweek

Product updates. Since the start of 2021, we’ve added over 5,000 questions to our database! This means plenty of new skills for you to test, and an ever-expanding number of roles you can now hire for. We’ve focused especially on Accounting and Data Science in the last few months. Some of our skills and templates are available on our Premium plan only – they are marked with a (P) below: Skills added.

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Product Review: Moqups

Sarah M. Hoban

Moqups (pronounced “mockups”) is an online mockup, wireframing, and UI prototyping tool that also offers robust collaboration capabilities. Moqups characterizes itself as a Balsamiq competitor ; in fact, Moqups founders explicitly created this product to address what they perceived to be gaps in Balsamiq’s design catalog and collaboration capabilities.

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Resource Managers and Scrum

Scrum.org

"We need to bring the IT resource managers along," I said. "It's important that they understand their role in ensuring the success of the product". . The situation was urgent. We were in the early days of establishing a new product which was critical to the success of the parent organization. More than 50 individuals were identified to participate on Scrum teams in support of this new product, and few of them had experience in Scrum. .

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Project242: Don’t Get Too Wound That You Snap

Bridge the Gap Consulting

Project242 (P242) is my journey to bike 242 miles in 24 hours, across the state of Minnesota on gravel roads, in August, 2021 (the Day Across MN, or the DAMN). I’ve found many lessons experienced riding a bike can be applied to our careers. In these posts, I will share the correlations. Three days ago I biked 62 miles. Two days ago, 30. Yesterday, another 50.

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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.