The Hard Truth About Scalability: What To Know Before Scaling Up
The Digital Project Manager
SEPTEMBER 4, 2019
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Premortem on Projects: How to Do It & Why
ProjectManager.com
SEPTEMBER 5, 2019
You might have heard of a postmortem. It’s a meeting after the project has concluded, during which successes and failures are discussed with the project team. It’s a great way to learn from your mistakes and repeat those actions that worked as planned. The problem with a postmortem is it’s after the fact. Yes, it’s very helpful in setting up your next project to stay on track.
12 Time Management Strategies of Highly Effective People
Teamweek
SEPTEMBER 1, 2019
What is time management? Is it a manager telling you how to manage your time? Or is it simply keeping yourself as busy as possible to ensure you are always performing at peak productivity levels? The reality is there’s a careful balance to managing time wisely enough to get everything done as needed without putting too much pressure on yourself. You’ll find that the hardest workers are not always the best managers of time, but this also doesn’t mean you should work less hard.
Understand Digital Debt, Form a Team, Set Goals, and Plan Roadmap for Transformation
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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.
In The Flow: How To Master Your Brain's Peak Productivity
Trello
SEPTEMBER 5, 2019
The chirp of a bird outside your window breaks you from your trance. You look up from your desk and think: “Where was I?”.
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5 Project Management Techniques Every PM Should Know
ProjectManager.com
SEPTEMBER 3, 2019
The world of project management is vast. It covers many industries and requires a range of skills. But the common thread tying this diverse discipline together are the techniques that project managers use to get the job done. Project management techniques make managing projects easier and more effective. They can be applied to any project, regardless of the field or industry.
How can Agile Leaders create the right context for Ownership?
Scrum.org
SEPTEMBER 5, 2019
. Dispirited, unmotivated, unappreciated workers cannot compete in a highly competitive world. Frances Hesselbein. The core responsibilitie of the agile leader is creating the right context for the agile teams so they can thrive and self-manage. One of the characteristics of this context is all about ownership. In my book ‘Agile Leadership Toolkit’ I dedicate a whole part to this important topic.
Seven Future Trends in Project Management
LiquidPlanner
SEPTEMBER 3, 2019
In this milestone 50th year for the Project Management Institute it’s natural to want to look back at the significant trends have shaped the project management profession over the last five decades, namely globalization of the discipline, and the explosion of methods, techniques and practices being applied to projects. Looking ahead, new trends continue to emerge, however many of these are already having a dramatic impact on the way that project managers go about their work. 1) Artificial Intell
Why Time Management is Important (25 Proven Hacks)
nTask
SEPTEMBER 4, 2019
If we talk in the context of why time management is important, I have to agree that a lot of us waste it as an indispensable resource. Imagine your entire day spent, while you did nothing of value. This could be interpreted as time wasted in the form of doing useless stuff for yourself and for people around you. Wouldn’t you agree and do something better instead?
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
A Complete Guide to PMIS
ProjectManager.com
SEPTEMBER 4, 2019
An abundance of information is created, transferred and stored over the life cycle of a project. It seems people are always communicating and making constant updates. It’s easy for something to get lost in the mix. But what if that lost snippet is an essential direction or change? Without a way of organizing all information a project is doomed to fail.
What's a Manager's Role on a Scrum Team?
Scrum.org
SEPTEMBER 4, 2019
Did you know the word “Manager” does not show up once in the Scrum Guide ? If I were a manager in a fortune 500 organization with a mortgage and two kids in college, I’d be concerned for my job. In this blog post, I’ll explain how it’s possible for managers to work with Scrum Teams so no one has to worry about rebuilding their resume. Scrum is a framework designed to get complex products to market while mitigating the risk associated with building them.
What Is Bridge24? Overview Of The Reporting And Exporting Tool For Project Management
The Digital Project Manager
SEPTEMBER 2, 2019
In a 2000 PMI conference paper, the authors observed that there is a very wide. The post What Is Bridge24? Overview Of The Reporting And Exporting Tool For Project Management appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.
What Should You Know about the PMP Exam 2019 Changes
MPUG
SEPTEMBER 2, 2019
The Project Management Professional (PMP®) examination offered by Project Management Institute (PMI) is changing by the end of this year. PMI made this announcement in June of 2019 and has made the new Examination Content Outline (ECO) available for aspiring PMPs. Why the Change? Project management as a profession is increasing in complexity. It is evolving to meet new challenges of this century—rapid technological changes, expectations and aspirations of a new generation of workers, and of cour
20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers
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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.
Is It Possible To Have Too Much Data?
Meisterplan
SEPTEMBER 4, 2019
Imagine this: Your project landscape is getting more complicated and confusing all the time. Key resources are being booked on multiple projects at the same time. T he amount of overtime your employees are working is having a n e gative e ffect on overall morale. Despite the hard work they are putting in, deadlines are still being missed at an alarming rate and it seems impossible to deliver projects on time. .
How to Foster Motivation and Purpose Through Agility
Scrum.org
SEPTEMBER 3, 2019
“We want to be more agile in our delivery.” “We need to build up our teams.” “How can we do Scrum well?” Companies are asking themselves these questions every day and looking in various places for the answers. Instead of looking at processes, checklists or specific methodologies, let’s talk about what organizations and teams are made of: people. If we want to have great organizations, we need to have thriving teams.
Follow This Project Management Checklist for Foolproof Launches
Workamajig
SEPTEMBER 4, 2019
A project management checklist makes it easy to stay on top of your projects. Learn how to create one in this guide. The start of a new project is a time of excitement and anxiety. You have an entire team waiting for your direction and stakeholders who look to you for results. You’re eager to start, but you also worry whether you’ve covered all your bases.
Why Time Management is Important – 25 Super Tips for Mastering the Art
nTask
SEPTEMBER 4, 2019
If we talk in the context of why time management is important, I have to agree that a lot of us waste it as an indispensable resource. Imagine your entire day spent, while you did nothing of value. This could be interpreted as time wasted in the form of doing useless stuff for yourself and for people around you. Wouldn’t you agree and do something better instead?
The Big Payoff of Application Analytics
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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.
Turning Good Project Management into Great Project Leadership
Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives
SEPTEMBER 5, 2019
In today’s complex business environment, projects are how work gets done – and the only way in which organisations can move the business forward. For an organisation to achieve its goals, projects chosen for their strategic importance need to be executed successfully, and the key way to ensure this is with project workers who understand the strategic importance of their role and their projects.
Scrum Accountability
Scrum.org
SEPTEMBER 3, 2019
TL; DR: Scrum Accountability. ‘Autonomy without accountability equals anarchy’ summarizes an essential design element of any agile organization. Without these checks and balances in place any aspiration to transform an organization is likely to fail. (Or at best level out at a mechanistic level.) Learn more about how Scrum deals with accountability.
Review Agile Governance and Audit
Henny Portman
SEPTEMBER 5, 2019
Christopher Wright wrote the book Agile Governance and Audit – An overview for auditors and agile teams. Auditing of an agile way of working looks like an unexplored corner. There is not that much written about this topic. Agile Governance and Audit gives a short introduction to agile, compares agile with waterfall and looks at audit and agile cultures.
Fire and Forget? Strategic Planning is Broken
Leading Agile
SEPTEMBER 3, 2019
At the Atlanta Scrum meetup, our Chief Methodologist, Dennis Stevens, recently delivered his talk entitled: Assumptions & Ambiguity Be Damned. Over the course of his presentation, he talked about the current state of strategic planning… Spoiler Alert: it’s broken. He also covered some of the challenges large organizations are facing when planning out work, and the things that you can do to make it better.
Acclaim Projects Helps Deliver Innovation Projects on Time and on Budget
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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.
Applying Details to the Task Form View
MPUG
SEPTEMBER 5, 2019
In a recent blog post article, I discussed how to apply and use the Task Entry view. This view, by the way, is a combination view or “split” view that includes the Gantt Chart view in the top pane and the Task Form view in the bottom pane. What I did not explain in my blog post article is how to take advantage of additional functionality available in the Task Form view.
Introducing the Zombie Scrum Symptom Checker
Scrum.org
SEPTEMBER 4, 2019
Is your team suffering from Zombie Scrum ? And if so, what can you do to improve? Do you wonder how other teams work with Scrum? How many members they have? What the usual length of a Sprint is? Is Scrum really helping teams deliver value to stakeholders faster and making them happier as a result? Find out with the first version of the free Zombie Scrum Symptoms Checker.
PMI Goes Agile
Velociteach
SEPTEMBER 3, 2019
The Project Management Institute (PMI) is making a bold pivot toward agile. As a project manager and an agilist, I am excited by these moves. At the same time, it is hard to envision both this transition and the future state. In this article, I share some of my thoughts about the upcoming changes to […] The post PMI Goes Agile appeared first on PMP Certification Exam Prep & Training - Velociteach.
SoundNotes Live at Agile 2019: Day Four
Leading Agile
SEPTEMBER 4, 2019
In the latest batch of videos from SoundNotes Live at Agile 2019, we sat down with eight more guests to discuss their latest projects, thoughts on Agile, and the talks they gave at the conference. Some of the guests included were our very own Heidi Musser who sat down to talk about diversity and inclusion in Agile, as well as people like Diana Larsen and Olaf Lewitz.
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.
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