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Projects are life: Think outside of the box.

Sitetracker

Michelle Dinan is a network operations program manager at Swift Navigation. Swift, a San Francisco-based tech firm redefining GNSS and precise positioning technology for automotive, autonomous vehicle, mobile and mass-market applications. Michelle brings over 20 years of experience in various industries, from government to telecom, to the job. When you meet her, you notice her positivity, hard work ethic, and systematic thinking—that, and her fantastic sense of humor.

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Leveraging Agile to Improve Quality

Leading Agile

New Paper Improving Quality Through Intentionally Built Agile Systems Get it Now. In a fixed-time, fixed-cost, fixed-scope environment, time and cost estimates are often wrong and the pressure to deliver and get things into market faster intensifies. When this happens, the delivery teams need an outlet and quality is usually the first thing to go because, in a world of fixed constraints, it’s the one thing that the delivery teams can control.

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3 Ways to Reach Project Decisions

Project Risk Coach

Project managers are faced with numerous decisions. And many times, you need to engage your project team in reaching project decisions. Voting may be used to quickly make a decision. A decision is reached when the largest block of individuals vote for an option is called: A. Majority vote B. Unanimous vote C. Plurality vote D. Autocratic vote PMI-RMP® Exam Series.

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Project Crashing in Project Management: Definition & Best Practices

ProjectManager.com

There’s never enough time when managing a project. That’s why we make schedules—to try and control time, just enough to get your deliverable by the deadline. But even the best laid plans tend to go awry, to paraphrase the poem. Project managers don’t have the luxury to quote poems to stakeholders when going off track. Changes in a project are common, but it’s the project manager’s responsibility to make sure that those changes don’t produce a negative impact on the project schedule.

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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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How to Manage Project Scope Without Scope Creep (with examples)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Most projects don’t deliver their original scope: 54% of projects fail to deliver the agreed-upon functionality. One of the reasons for that is scope creep – and that’s what this article is all about. What is scope creep? Scope creep in project management is where additional requirements are added to the project, beyond what was originally agreed and these additions are not formally authorized.

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5 Reasons You Need Enterprise Agility Consulting

Project Management Update Submitted Articles

The existing situation with COVID-19 has jolted everyone into realizing that enterprises have to be nimble and have the agility to adjust to sudden changes. Many organizations have adopted Agile methodology, but not many have scaled it to an enterprise-level - where Agile is applied from ideation to strategic planning and execution.

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Project Budget Template for Excel

ProjectManager.com

A project budget contains the financial details of your project, including the estimates of all the money you need to layout to lead a successful project, from resources to materials. Monitor project expenses with this Excel budget template. It even includes color-coding to let you know when you’re in the red! The budget is the life’s blood of your project, so you need to monitor it accurately.

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12 Ways to Create A Positive Work Culture

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Anna Erdmanska, PMP. This is a guest post by Anna Erdmanska, PMP. Do you love your job? I assume yes – if you are reading this blog about doing work, you probably are committed to doing your job to the best possible level and that’s because you enjoy it. Projects are about people and the fact that you are enjoying your job does not mean that everyone in your project team feels the same.

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How Can Management Set Measurable Targets For Agile Transformation.?

Scrum.org

Is your management concerned about risking boat-loads of time, money and good-will on an "Agile Transformation" (I prefer "Agile Enablement"), only to have their hearts broken when they see nothing more than a bunch of Jira boards and "Daily Standups"? Are you sick and tired of the hypocrisy in Agile Coaching because we don't hold ourselves accountable to practice empiricism in the context of Agile Enablement?

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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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10 Best Agile Project Management Software [Free & Paid Options]

The Digital Project Manager

The post 10 Best Agile Project Management Software [Free & Paid Options] appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Project Plan Template

ProjectManager.com

Download this free project plan template to scope out your work and break it down into manageable components; then schedule and assign the tasks needed to complete your project. You can also use this template to manage workloads and tasks as changes occur. A project plan is the foundation of all the work you do in leading a project to a successful completion.

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How To Ask To Work Remotely

Rebel’s Guide to PM

During 2020, many of us didn’t have to ask to work remotely. It just happened. However, now that there are calls for office workers to hit their desks again, we have to consider if that’s the life we want. Let’s be intentional about how the ‘return’ to work happens – and I put that in quotes because like many people, I never stopped working. Remote work is the new normal: research from Owllabs shows that 30% of people work remotely full-time (and that was before the pandemic).

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6 Steps To Increase Productivity with Team Goals

Project Bliss

A focussed team is a productive team. And, a productive team is the one that gets things done. Working toward common team goals can help. The following is a guest post from Vartika Kashyap. Have you ever come across an instance where your focus seemed to be shifting from the goal itself? It might be possible that you find yourself putting out fires as they come but you can’t really get back on track to accomplish the larger, shared team goal.

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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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Why Do Large Companies Struggle So Much With "Agile Transformation".?

Scrum.org

Do you know anyone who has scars from trying to help large, multi-billion dollar organizations travel on the path to Agility? Do you know if those scars still hurt? And do you know why helping large travel on the path to Agility (what I used to call "Agile Transformation") can be so scarring.? Well I do know someone who has these scars - me! And I do know if those scars still hurt - they do.

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3 Ways to Get Microsoft Project Online

ProjectManager.com

You need to manage your projects online, so you’re considering the options, including all the Microsoft Project online options. So how do you choose? If you’ve worked with Microsoft Project before, then you are familiar with its powerful planning capabilities but also its many, well… frustrations. For one thing, it’s hard to share files, which are too large for email and only viewable if you have MS Project installed (and not many people do.

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Agile Maturity & Change Management: 3 Steps for Achieving Executive Buy-In

Project Management Update Submitted Articles

Skip to main content. Skip to navigation. Solutions. Agile Portfolio Management. Project & Portfolio Management. Professional Services Portfolio Management. Manufacturing ERP. Success. Services. Customers. Resources. Resource Center. New Features. Pricing. Free Trial. Overview. Service Delivery.

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Global leadership: What you need to consider in multicultural teams

Inloox

Globalization and digitalization enable us to work with employees and partners from different countries. Project and team leaders in particular are constantly faced with new challenges. Besides the obvious cultural and language barriers, virtual communication via modern information media is a special characteristic of multicultural project teams. Global and virtual team leadership inevitably overlap.

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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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How relative estimates can help you play the stakeholders game

Scrum.org

“Better roughly right, than precisely wrong”. Still plenty of teams use hourly estimates for complex work. In my experience this always hurts. I thought plenty was written on this, but maybe some summarizing of what I have learned over the years might help. Relative estimation: takes less time, focuses on team collaboration i.o. relying on individual expertise, we are better in relative estimation than absolute estimation, it helps drive cross-functional behavior, it enables output measures that

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Remote Work and PSTIR w/ Jeff Howey

Leading Agile

Listen to the SoundNotes Podcast on the go! Find and subscribe to SoundNotes on: Apple Podcasts. Google Play. Spotify. Soundcloud. RSS. At the beginning of the pandemic, LeadingAgile published a white paper called Maintaining Momentum in a Remote Agile World. This episode of SoundNotes is a follow up to that whitepaper. In this interview, Jeff Howey and Dave Prior reflect on what they’ve learned about successful remote interaction since the whitepaper was released, how those lessons can im

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Kanban Gantt Project Management

Ganttic

TLDR: Kanban planning is popular amongst project management offices (PMOs) because it’s easily integrated with various project management methodologies. Similarly, Gantt charts are widely used as they are the ideal accompaniment to different kinds of planning methodologies. It is the features and principles of Kanban boards and Gantt charts which also make them a perfect project management pairing.

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How To Manage Freelancers & Remote Contractors Without Losing Sleep

Teamweek

Working with freelancers can save a lot of overhead costs. That’s why 94 percent of organizations surveyed by Upwork report utilizing remote workers. However, managing freelancers remotely can be quite challenging. Common challenges when working with freelancers are: Missed deadlines, Work quality, Lack of communication, Lack of trust, And, hiring freelancers.

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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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Wat doet een Scrum Master?

Scrum.org

Dit is een veelgehoorde vraag van mensen die kennismaken met de Scrum Master rol. En ik merk dat ik het lastig vind om hier een antwoord op te geven. Natuurlijk, het gaat om het ‘continu verbeteren’ van menselijke interactie, vaardigheden, processen en technieken. En dit als ultiem doel om Scrum zo toe te passen dat de organisatie als geheel wendbaarder wordt.

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How to Improve Your SWAG

MPUG

When I turned eighteen, I ran away from a disconnected home and joined the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War. Periodically, I heard the term “SWAG” from officers and didn’t understand what they were talking about. I eventually learned it stood for “Scientific Wild-A** Guess,” which really meant a high-level estimate, a ball-park number, or guesstimate.

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What is a Monte Carlo Simulation? | Video

Online PM Courses

A Monte Carlo Simulation is a way to assess the level of risk across a whole project. So, it's vital knowledge for any Project Manager. The post What is a Monte Carlo Simulation? | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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I Spent a Year Trying to Get Rejected. Here’s What I Learned.

Teamweek

W hy try to get rejected? It all started when I heard stand-up comedian Emily Winter on the podcast Work Life with Adam Grant. Winter wanted to break into comedy writing and had challenged herself to get rejected 100 times in the course of a year. I decided to follow suit, at least until I had a better plan. . I created a spreadsheet called Top Rejections 2019 and began my journey towards rejection.

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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.