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Project Management Update Submitted Articles
JULY 21, 2021
Rebel’s Guide to PM
JULY 20, 2021
GetApp’s survey of over 1,000 managers, decision-makers and SME owners has revealed that despite the proven benefits project management software brings to businesses, more than half of employees opposed their managers’ suggestion to implement PM software. A whopping 55% of employees were against the implementation of project management software in their company. 25% of employees believed that PM software would give them too much work and would therefore not be worth it 14% didn’t see the value o
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ProjectManager.com
JULY 21, 2021
Level of effort (LOE) is a project management term that refers to a specific type of project activity called support activities. Support activities do not yield deliverables, but rather fuel tasks that do. Therefore, the level of effort is how much work these tasks will take to complete. This work can take many forms, such as updating project documents, maintaining equipment, submitting expenses, etc.
Musings on Project Management
JULY 23, 2021
Number One: It's a bell, unless it's not For nearly all of us when approaching something statistical, we imagine the bell-shape distribution right away. And, we know the average outcome is the value at the peak of the curve. Why is it so useful that it's the default go-to? Because many, if not. most, natural phenomenon with a bit of randomness tend to have a "central tendency" or preferred.
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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.
Scrum.org
JULY 21, 2021
More than ever, organizations must focus on their investments and efforts. The ability for organizations to be agile is what will help them pivot and sustain. However, defining success of an organization’s agility by output metrics like “number of agile coaches”, “number of people trained in Agile”, or “velocity” often results in what agilists refer to as Zombie Scrum (superficial agile transformation) because there is no real invitation for improvement, or even a notion of what improvement woul
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Online PM Courses
JULY 21, 2021
Epics, User Stories, and Story Points are three terms that are widely used in Agile Project Management and some of its methodologies. The post What are Epics, User Stories, and Story Points? | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.
Proofhub
JULY 22, 2021
Source: [link] Research has shown that profits and morale are inextricably linked. But costly morale boosters can reduce that extra profit, even turning it into a net loss. It’s even worse for small businesses, who can’t afford morale-boosting programs or events because of narrow margins, even at the best of times. The good news is there are plenty of morale-boosting options that won’t break the bank.
Scrum.org
JULY 21, 2021
I remember when I got a brand-new racing game for the Xbox a few years ago. My sons and I unwrapped it, popped it in, and marveled at the amazing graphics. The cars and scenery looked so real, so amazing! In our first race, we all excitedly chose supercars.and struggled mightily to control their enormous power just to get around the racetrack. We wrecked often and hilariously.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
JULY 21, 2021
What is hybrid project management? Hybrid project management is a trending topic at the moment. It refers to the tailoring of the project management approach in use to deliver work. Instead of rigidly adhering to a waterfall (predictive) or Agile (iterative) method, project teams pick and choose elements from the range of approaches to choose a way of working that suits them.
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
Epicflow Blog
JULY 22, 2021
A project manager’s expertise is one of the essential prerequisites that determine success of a project delivery. Their responsibilities involve such activities as conducting meetings (e.g. project planning sessions), managing diverse teams, building and maintaining relationships with stakeholders and customers, making decisions, initiating new projects, etc.
PM Times
JULY 20, 2021
For my next “5 Reasons Why…” installment, I am presenting to you Float – the #1 rated tool for resource management on G2. With Float, you can directly integrate with your project management tools like Jira, Asana, WorkflowMax, Trello, QuickBooks, and more. Let’s consider my 5 reasons why… 1.It’s easy-to-use with powerful scheduling capabilities Scheduling […].
Scrum.org
JULY 21, 2021
Today, Scrum.org launches the new Professional Agile Leadership - Evidence Based Management ™ (EBM) training course. The ideas of EBM came from a simple idea that Ken Schwaber had when looking at the medical profession and the similarly named Evidence-Based-Medicine :-). An article in BMJ describes Evidence-Based Medicine as “ the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current based evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients ” Ken pondered how that would apply to a
nTask
JULY 19, 2021
The success or failure of a project is largely dependent on the resources allocated to it. For resource allocation in project management, PMs have to keep an eye on all the aspects of the project. Resources in project management include employees, equipment, budget facilities , etc. Optimizing the use of these resources is the first and foremost important step in project management.
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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.
Proggio
JULY 22, 2021
Podcasts are Not Just for Learning . At Proggio, we love podcasts. Sometimes for learning, and sometimes not. And since we know that it can be easy to get lost in the sea of podcasts when you want to find something new, we figured that we’d scour the net looking for relevant podcasts for project managers and project portfolio leaders. The list includes a curation of Spotify podcasts that are interesting, helpful, and fun to listen to on the go, or while you’re being productive.
PM Times
JULY 21, 2021
When managing major organizational change and improvement, programmes remain the most effective framework for achieving success. The level of complexity and risk involved in shifting an enterprise into a new phase of development and operation – and the associated investment – means the process has to be managed properly and improvement measured. However, programmes remain […].
Scrum.org
JULY 19, 2021
TL; DR: Ignoring Self-Management — Undermining Scrum from the Start. 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. One of Scrum’s first principles is self-management. It is based on the idea that the people closest to a problem are best suited to find a solution.
Teamweek
JULY 22, 2021
Maybe you just got promoted, or maybe you’ve been a manager for a while now. Either way, you probably have your own personal approach to leading a team. And you’re most likely learning new things about what it means to be a great leader every day. You might even find that being a leader isn’t exactly what you thought it would be. What have been your biggest learnings?
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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.
Leading Agile
JULY 19, 2021
We are at the midway point in our Agile Transformation-focused exploration of Stephen R. Covey’s “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” with Habit 4 – Think Win/Win. I’m sure we’ve all said it in business and even relationships, but how does Covey intend it towards being highly effective and what does it mean to an Agile Transformation? Before we explore the answer to that question, it seems appropriate for a quick refresher on the first three habits.
Proggio
JULY 22, 2021
Podcasts are Not Just for Learning . At Proggio, we love podcasts. Sometimes for learning, and sometimes not. And since we know that it can be easy to get lost in the sea of podcasts when you want to find something new, and since we are always looking for ways to help project portfolio leaders save their valuable time and remain focused, we figured that we’d scour the net for you.
Scrum.org
JULY 18, 2021
Agile Leadership: How to Close the Knowing-Doing Gap. Almost all organisations we help are looking for faster, smarter ways to deliver their mission critical programmes and/or recovering programmes that have stalled or even failed to deliver. The majority of these firms have used classical approaches to delivery which we know don’t work well in a complex working environment.
Bridge the Gap Consulting
JULY 21, 2021
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. I checked my Garmin. It was a fast 10.3 miles done in 27 minutes and 47 seconds.
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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.
MPUG
JULY 19, 2021
Most PPM administrators who are managing projects are using a combination of Agile (Jira) and Waterfall (Microsoft Project Online) methodologies. These two combined can produce efficient, reliable collaboration across many departments within an organization, but PMO directors and PPM administrators are still facing some challenges such as those listed following: Updates and communication of the latest information must be done manually.
Admation
JULY 19, 2021
Admation is a marketing project management tool and approval workflow software that helps marketing and digital teams, ad agencies, brands and compliance teams to manage the creative project life-cycle. Admation is an end-to-end solution that incorporates project briefing, document management, task and resource allocation, online proofing, review and feedback process, project approvals, team collaboration and management of brand assets.
Scrum.org
JULY 21, 2021
In industries ranging from financial services to consulting and defense, we can find countless examples of how organizations employed incentive plans that produced behavior not aligned to the organization's desired strategic goals. The items that we measure should be based on our goals. We want these measures to drive people's actions and behaviors.
Teamweek
JULY 19, 2021
With such a heavy focus on hiring great talent, recruitment teams rarely put much effort into onboarding their newly acquired staff. We think that’s a mistake – and we’re backed up by the facts, too. Research shows new staff are 2x more likely to look elsewhere following poor onboarding. But don’t worry, we’re here to provide some awesome new employee onboarding ideas to ensure your onboarding process is as good as it can be.
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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