A Project Manager’s Guide to 42 Agile Methodologies
The Digital Project Manager
DECEMBER 10, 2019
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What are Systems of Delivery and Systems of Transformation—And Why Do You Need Both?
Leading Agile
DECEMBER 11, 2019
To become Agile, your organization needs a way to become an ecosystem where Agile operating models can even work in the first place. The hypothesis amongst many practitioners is,” If I implement Scrum, I will get the Agility on the other side of it.” Usually, it doesn’t happen that fast or easy. It took time and effort to get this way, so it’s going to take time and effort to change. .
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The Case of the Accidental PM
MPUG
DECEMBER 9, 2019
Sure, “The Accidental” this and the “The Accidental” that is such a cliché, yet when you google “Accidental Project Manager,” you get 24 million results. Results like 4 Ways to Succeed as an Accidental Project Manager and 6 Tips for the Accidental Project Manager top the list. Even the PMI Learning Library has an article titled The Accidental Project Manager , wherein lies a listing of survival skills for this flavor of manager.
Everything You Need to Know About Resource Planning
Teamweek
DECEMBER 8, 2019
A few years ago, I worked with a graphic designer named Vanessa. She was brilliant, creative, and outstanding at her job, which proved to be her undoing. Vanessa was invariably a part of our higher-stakes projects because her work was of such a high quality that she made the entire team look good. She never said no, either: if someone needed her help completing a particularly complex interface or other graphics-oriented task, she burned the midnight oil.
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.
What Is The Value of a Project Manager Today?
LiquidPlanner
DECEMBER 10, 2019
With the popularity of Agile, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), and Scrum, organizations are asked to justify the project manager’s role on a project. Scrum purists reject the idea of adding a project manager to the team as the team should be able to solve all the problems with the help of the product owner and scrum master. I’ve had clients ask, “Why do we need project managers in the portfolio since we’re supposed to be Agile?”.
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What Is Lean Project Management? It’s Origin, Principles & Benefits
ProProfs Project Management
DECEMBER 9, 2019
In many ways, project management is a recent craft; but one that has learned a lot from the world of old manufacturing processes. And project managers are constantly finding ways to implement the knowledge and experiences of 20th-century manufacturing to contemporary project management. With that in mind – lean project methodology is a great example!
Risk Analysis 101: How to Analyze Project Risk
ProjectManager.com
DECEMBER 9, 2019
Before you’re able to analyze the risk in your project, you have to acknowledge that risk is going to happen in your project. By planning for risks, you begin the process of knowing how to identify, monitor and close out risks when they show up in your project. Part of that process is risk analysis. It’s a technique that helps you to mitigate risk.
How to Develop the Essential Skills to Be a Project Manager
Wrike
DECEMBER 11, 2019
Whether you’re brand new to the field or have been at this for a while, you’re not content to rest on your laurels — you want to push yourself to become an even better project manager. But how? Improving upon some must-have skills is a great place to start. You’re in luck. We’ll break down several necessary project manager technical skills and soft skills, and provide some actionable advice that you can use to step up your game.
50+ Project Management Quotes to Learn From
ProProfs Project Management
DECEMBER 11, 2019
Motivation knows no bounds. When we talk about project management, there are so many times and situations where teams, managers, or even stakeholders look for motivation on how to go about handling tough situations. Some look for strategies and tips, but sometimes reading a quote from a learned individual gives you all the clarity you need. Right from project management quotes to project success quotes, we bring to you all important PM quotes that will give you insight into: How to plan projects
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
Project Management Conferences and Events 2020
Rebel’s Guide to PM
DECEMBER 9, 2019
Project management conferences are a fantastic way to meet new people and improve your skills. I always come away feeling energised about where I am in my career and relieved having met people with similar problems to me. Many conferences have early bird pricing so it is worth checking out the events that interest you as soon as you can in case you need to get corporate funding to attend.
How to Deal with Difficult Stakeholders
ProjectManager.com
DECEMBER 11, 2019
When you’re leading a project, part of what you’re doing is working with stakeholders who hired you to get that work done they way they want it. This can often be a handful, so we’ve provided you some practical tips on how to deal with difficult stakeholders. 7 Tips for Managing Difficult Stakeholders. We’ve all had to deal with difficult stakeholders, but no matter how difficult they might be there are ways to build better relationships and win over their support.
Early experimentation is key to reducing project risk
Kiron Bondale
DECEMBER 8, 2019
Inspection and adaptation are two of the pillars of the Scrum framework but all agile methods recognize the wisdom of Deming’s Plan-Do-Study-Act cycle. While the Manifesto does not explicitly reference the scientific method, it is implied in the value statement “ Responding to change over following a plan ” and in its final principle “ At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly. ” Agile te
Liberating Structures — an Antidote to Zombie Scrum
Scrum.org
DECEMBER 11, 2019
In collaboration with InfoQ, we wrote the article “ Liberating Structures — an Antidote to Zombie Scrum ”. Scrum.org published the article as a whitepaper. This blog post gives you an overview of the paper. It describes what Zombie Scrum is about and offers tangible examples of how to recognize, treat, and prevent Zombie Scrum by using Liberating Structures.
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.
How The PMP Exam is Changing in 2020
Rebel’s Guide to PM
DECEMBER 13, 2019
It’s widely known that the Project Management Professional (PMP)® exam is changing in July 2020, but what exactly is going to be different? Whoah, the exam is changing? I didn’t know. How did that happen? OK, so maybe it’s not that widely known. Every so often PMI carry out an assessment of what a project manager does all day. In the past these have been Role Delineation Studies (RDS).
Overcoming a Lack of Project Resources
ProjectManager.com
DECEMBER 11, 2019
Resources are limited, but your ability to manage them to fulfill the needs of your project isn’t. One of the many challenges that face project managers is how to guide their project to a successful end without enough resources. The good news: there are ways you can take the resources you have and make them work in your project. The better news: we’ll tell you how to do it.
Through the doors
Musings on Project Management
DECEMBER 12, 2019
A narrative Imagine two doors to the same room: One labeled risk manager; the other labeled decision maker. Though the risk manager's door, entry is for the inductive thinkers: those armed with facts looking for a supporting generality or an integrating narrative Through the decision maker's door, entry is for the deductive thinkers: those visionaries with a capacity to envision specifics.
The Agile museum
Scrum.org
DECEMBER 9, 2019
I’ve been teaching the class Professional Scrum with Kanban (PSK) for the last year now and I strongly believe parts of its content will send some of our current practices and books to the Agile museum. Through the help of the cycle time scatter plot diagram, I believe our decks of poker planning will end up in the Agile museum. Between our actual estimation techniques and the #noestimate movement, I believe the Kanban (or flow) metrics offer a historical perspective based on actual data.
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.
Project Management Best Practices that Need to Be Second Nature
LiquidPlanner
DECEMBER 12, 2019
While modern technology allows us to amplify our abilities and do more than we ever could before, the sheer amount of inputs and information has led us to somewhat of a tipping point. Today, business communication is so ubiquitous that most employees spend the majority of their time responding to emails, answering phones, and participating in meetings, not to mention the time spent on Slack and other forums for discussion—not actually, you know, working.
Project Proposal Template
ProjectManager.com
DECEMBER 12, 2019
Use this template to start a new project –outline project goals, deliverables, timelines, resources and budget. Then, let everyone know what problem your project solves… putting you that much closer to approval and kickoff! Download your template now and start your project off right. Download Now. ? Great! Please check your email for your download link.
Healthcare PMO: BCBS Roundtable Exchanges Thought Provoking Ideas
Planview
DECEMBER 13, 2019
A healthcare PMO today must have a strong constitution. Not only are they faced with challenges unique to healthcare, PMOs are also going through the trends mentioned in our recent post, “ Conquer Your Business Transformation.” These include realizing Agile-at-scale, embracing the changing world of work, and creating an innovation culture. During the recent Planview Horizons Customer Conference in Austin, TX, 25 of our Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) customers from six different affiliates met to
Project Leaders have a positive and empowering mindset
Susanne Madsen
DECEMBER 9, 2019
At the most fundamental level, the quality of your personal and professional life is determined by the quality of your core beliefs. The beliefs you have acquired throughout your life shape your attitudes, which in turn affect the actions and the results that you get, or don’t get. As Henry Ford said, ‘Whether you think you can or can’t, either way you are right’ As a project leader you have to take control of your internal world and thoughts so that they can influence yo
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.
Announcing the book “97 Things every Scrum practitioner should know”
Gunther Verheyen
DECEMBER 11, 2019
During the fall of 2019, I got totally consumed (and sometimes drained and overwhelmed) by an exciting new Scrum book project. Having finalized the manuscript I finally feel comfortable sharing more information about it. O’Reilly Media envisioned adding a book about Scrum to their “97 Things” series and got in touch with me (through Dave West of Scrum.org).
Process Optimization: Get More From Your Processes
ProjectManager.com
DECEMBER 10, 2019
No process is perfect immediately. Perfection is a ceaseless effort that requires honest analysis followed by tweaks and improvements. Process optimization methods can help guide those tweaks and improvements. With process optimization, the ultimate goal is to help you be more efficient by adjusting certain aspects of your project or business—whether it be operating procedures, equipment and resources management, or a control loop—to name a few.
Agile Illustrated – Sample #3
Leading Answers
DECEMBER 9, 2019
This is the third sample from my new Kindle book “ Agile Illustrated: A Visual Learner’s Guide to Agility ”. The book is a graphical introduction to the agile mindset and servant leadership behaviors for working with agile teams. If you missed the first two samples you can find them here and here. Also, just in time for Christmas, Agile Illustrated is now available as a physical paperback book.
What is Configuration Management?
iZenBridge
DECEMBER 12, 2019
Before we set out to define configuration management, it is crucial to understand why we need it in the first place. How does it come into the play? Let us consider a situation wherein you are working on one of the work packages. And, looking at the WBS dictionary for acceptance criteria. You have completed the development of the deliverable and sent it to the Quality Control.
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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