Sat.Feb 13, 2021 - Fri.Feb 19, 2021

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3 Performance Domains in Project Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge – ( PMBOK® Guide ) 7 th Edition represents a major shift in the way ‘how to do project management’ is presented by PMI. Instead of the Knowledge Areas , we have the whole body of project management split up into 3 performance domains. This change has been a long time coming, and I welcome the shift.

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Time Anxiety: What it is and How to Deal With It?

nTask

Do you have the recurring thought that you don’t have enough time or that it is too late to accomplish what you want to? If so, you may be suffering from what is referred to as “ Time Anxiety.”. Pretty common, especially in today’s day and age of social media portraying unrealistic expectations and lives rushing us by, time anxiety is no fun and can be weighing you down in your everyday life.

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A Guide to Work Orders & Work Order Management (Sample Included)

ProjectManager.com

A work order is the connective tissue between a customer and the work they want to be done. They’re the paper trail defining what needs to be done, by when and for how much. They’re the lifeblood of many industries that provide service and maintenance. Most of us have signed off on or have been given work order, but like so much of what is commonplace, we don’t really have a firm idea of what it is and why it’s such a crucial link in many business transactions.

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A tool is only as good as the inputs and assumptions for its usage

Kiron Bondale

After I had reviewed how Monte Carlo simulation could help a team to understand the distribution of potential schedule or cost outcomes for a release or project, one of the learners in the class I was teaching pointed out that while such techniques can be helpful, they are only as good as the inputs provided. When Monte Carlo is used in project contexts, these inputs are usually expected duration or cost ranges for the activities.

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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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Book review: How To Be A Productivity Ninja

Rebel’s Guide to PM

“Time management is dead,” writes Graham Allcott in his book, How To Be A Productivity Ninja. The old time management concepts don’t work anymore, he says, because we don’t have the same working environment. The number of information sources has gone up, and we’re expected to juggle more and manage more complex jobs while our jobs are less defined. “All of this means you have to come to terms with one important thing: you will never get everything finished. &#

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The Daily Scrum Stand Up

Growing Agile

The purpose of the Daily Scrum is to inspect progress toward the Sprint Goal and adapt the Sprint Backlog as necessary, adjusting the upcoming planned work. The Daily Scrum is a 15-minute event for the Developers of the Scrum Team. To reduce complexity, it is held at the same time and place every working day of the Sprint. If the Product Owner or Scrum Master are actively working on items in the Sprint Backlog, they participate as Developers.

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Why People Are the Most Important Resource in the Company

Inloox

What do you think of when you hear the word resource? Perhaps natural resources in the form of oil or gold, hidden in the earth beneath our feet. Or do you have a project budget in mind that is running low? We've all heard phrases like "our resources are depleted" However, in HR, phrases like "we need more resources for our software engineering team" are also quite common.

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7 Steps to Building a Collaborative Plan

Susanne Madsen

Whenever I train, coach or consult in project management, it always surprises me how few people plan in a truly collaborative manner. I’ve trained senior project professionals with fifteen to twenty years of experience who don’t appreciate the importance of fully engaging the team in the planning process. They see it as the project manager’s responsibility to plan, and forget that today’s workforce wants to be involved in the work it’s expected to deliver.

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YDS: Can the Sprint Backlog Change During a Sprint?

Scrum.org

On today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: Can the Sprint Backlog Change During a Sprint? A YouTube viewer (Kaleb) asked whether or not the Sprint Backlog could change during a Sprint. Todd and Ryan discuss how a Sprint Backlog is emergent and how the Developers are encouraged to update the Sprint Backlog as new things are learned about their Product. Check out the video for more tips on how to manage complexity during your product development efforts.

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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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Self-Starter Guide on How to Present a Project Plan

nTask

After drafting an impeccable project plan, the next step is to present it to your clients. This is the turning point, as PMs have to deal with the age-old ‘ How to present a project plan efficaciously ?’ dilemma. Presenting a project plan requires more than just PowerPoint slides. Since a good presentation can win you a deal with your clients, you need to be prepared for everything.

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Top 5 Resource Management & Planning Tools

Teamweek

Resource planning, along with the right tools, are key aspects of project management. It doesn’t matter how well you define and plan tasks if you don’t have the right resources when needed. This gets even a bit more complicated when teams share resources. Take for example: developers or copywriters for design and marketing teams. It’s crucial that team tasks assignments do not overlap.

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How to Use Technology to Increase Your Productivity?

ProProfs Project Management

Since the commencement of the Industrial Revolution of the 18th century, technology has been the driving force behind improved workplace productivity. . Fast forward to a few years, and all of us are carrying highly smart and advanced computers in our pockets or wearing them on our wrists. . Whether you have to attend an online meeting with overseas team members or track your productivity using an app- technology has made our lives easier. .

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YDS: Does a Scrum Master Need Technical Skills?

Scrum.org

On today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: Does a Scrum Master Need Technical Skills? Today's question is from a viewer who wants to know whether or not a Scrum Master NEEDS technical skills to be successful in their role. Ryan and Todd go back and forth on this one on today's episode of Your Daily Scrum. Ryan Ripley and Todd Miller are the author of Fixing Your Scrum: Practical Solutions to Common Scrum Problems.

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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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What Is A Project Task? And How to Get Things Done In an Agile Environment

nTask

Project tasks, in their entirety, can be daunting, if they are not managed properly. It can be difficult to surmise the outcomes if these tasks are treated as such. Therefore, it’s better to break a project into smaller chunks rather than processing it all together. In other words, if you have kicked off simultaneous project activities , take a step back and divide your project into smaller, achievable, and deliverable chunks.

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Culture makes or breaks your agile transition

Henny Portman

We all know Peter Drucker’s famous quote ‘Culture eats strategy for breakfast’ and I transformed that into ‘Culture makes or breaks your agile transition’. For me this is reason number one why so many agile transitions fail. In this article I explain what I mean with culture, I make some references to books or articles explaining culture and I make a reference to my Bird’s eye view on the agile forest and elaborate on the, what I call, culture targeted frameworks or ways of working.

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Time Management Strategies for a Chaotic World

MPUG

If you have trouble managing your time, you’re definitely not alone. Washington State University recently reported that over 7 billion dollars is lost every day due to unrecorded work activity and productivity issues. Our world is stressful and busy, which means that we all need to find strategies that work to keep us on track. Whether you’re working from home or at the office, you need to be able to resist distractions and focus on work.

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New: The (Free) Scrum Team Survey Now Includes Stakeholders

Scrum.org

With the Scrum Team Survey , you can create transparency with your team around five core questions: Are you building what stakeholders need? Are you shipping fast enough? Are you improve continuously? Do you have the autonomy to organize in the way that works best? And do the outcomes you generate actually add something valuable. To date, over 3.450 teams participated (and over 5.281 team members) Until last week, our tool only allowed an inside-out perspective on these questions.

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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 Much do You Know about the Top 10 Project Management Organizations?

Online PM Courses

There are many Project Management Organizations - and many reasons to engage with them. But how much do you know about the top ones? The post How Much do You Know about the Top 10 Project Management Organizations? appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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How To Carry Out a Requirements Analysis

Wrike

If you begin a new project without gathering project requirements from sponsors and end users, you’re setting yourself up for failure. Projects are successful when they deliver positive outcomes and satisfy stakeholders’ expectations. If your project does not meet project and user expectations , it has failed no matter how fast you completed or kept it within budget. .

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5 Reasons to Choose Birdview PSA as Your Go-to Solution in the Professional Services Industry

EasyProjects

Professional services companies are a part of a rapidly changing ecosystem – one where new challenges, expectations and opportunities are being presented all the time. Birdview provides services companies with an adaptable, scalable and interconnected platform that enables them to navigate and grow within an increasingly challenging and competitive environment.

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YDS: Can a Manager Be THE Scrum Master?

Scrum.org

On today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: Can a Manager Be THE Scrum Master? Today's question is from a viewer who wants to know if a manager can also be the Scrum Master? While the Scrum Guide does not forbid it, having a manager in the Scrum Master role can cause many anti-patterns. Watch the video to learn more about how Ryan and Todd have tried to fulfill both roles and have both failed in epic ways!

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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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Chess and Project Management

MPUG

Many kids learn to play chess in school or after school. I was a member of my school’s chess club when I was in the 7 th and 8 th grades. I only played chess a few times since those junior high days, but that has changed over the past several months. When the Covid-19 pandemic started, I began working on a few 1,000-piece puzzles, but was really getting bored.

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How To Create A Project Timeline In 8 Actionable Steps

Teamweek

This guide is about how to create a project timeline in 8 steps. Whether you’re new to project management or an experienced manager, you’ll find this guide useful. In this guide, you won’t just learn the theory about timelines, but also how to make a timeline in 8 actionable steps. Using a simple web design project as an example, you’ll learn everything from establishing the scope to building a timeline.

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5 Reasons Services Companies Choose Easy Projects

EasyProjects

Professional services companies are a part of a rapidly changing ecosystem – one where new challenges, expectations and opportunities are being presented all the time. Easy Projects provides services companies with an adaptable, scalable and interconnected platform that enables them to navigate and grow within an increasingly challenging and competitive environment.

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Increase transparency with outcome-focused product roadmaps

Scrum.org

Product roadmaps provide a way to understand where a product is headed, but the information provided on most of them doesn’t help to clear the clouds of confusion about whether the product is heading in the right direction; even after viewing product roadmaps, customers can still be confused about whether future releases are valuable and relevant to their needs.

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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.