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What Is Stakeholder Management?

Project Smart

Simply put, a stakeholder is anyone who has an interest in your project or who will be affected by its deliverables or output. Managing stakeholders effectively requires you to not only understand the values and issues that stakeholders must address but also keep all stakeholders on board for the project's duration.

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Hybrid is the norm, not the exception

Kiron Bondale

I frequently see questions asked in project management discussion groups about hybrid projects. As I wrote in last week’s article, projects themselves can’t be waterfall, agile, traditional or hybrid but how we approach them can be. But what does “hybrid” really mean? The Oxford English Dictionary’s first definition relates to the zoological use of the term which isn’t too helpful, but the second is: “ A thing made by combining two different elements; a

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Why Performance Goals Are So Important (And How to Set Your Own)

Trello

Ah—performance review season. Around the world, at this very minute, employees are working on their self-reviews and performance goals, all while preparing for that anxiety-inducing meeting with The Boss.

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How to Manage Ad-Hoc Projects and Ad-Hoc Requests

ProjectManager.com

Projects rarely go as planned. There is always the potential to get new data, project or product updates, reviews or any number of last-minute requests. How do you deal with these ad-hoc requests? Ad-hoc means that it’s specific—something that will not be repeated. Ad-hoc projects and ad-hoc requests will occur in project management and you need to know how to deal with them.

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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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Definition of Done - Where to Start?

Scrum.org

Often after exploring the definition of done in our Scrum.org training, and exploring its importance to promote transparency and is a commitment to the increment every Sprint. A common question we get asked is how do we get started with creating a Definition of Done ? It's not surprising a common question. Often when working with Scrum teams, we'll ask, "Where's your current Definition of Done (DoD)?".

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LiquidPlanner Named a Top Solution for Portfolio Management

LiquidPlanner

Digital.com , a leading independent review website for small business online tools, products, and services, recognized LiquidPlanner as one of the best project portfolio management software options of 2021. Experts at Digital.com evaluated project portfolio management (PPM) software based on the capacity to track progress and status in relation to milestones, time, and expenses.

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10 Best Free Workflow Software For Small Teams

The Digital Project Manager

This free workflow software review covers 10 tools and all the info you need: pros and cons, pricing, features, integrations, and screenshots to help you choose something that fits your needs. The post 10 Best Free Workflow Software For Small Teams appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Sometimes ‘Transparency’ Just Means Not Lying

Scrum.org

The facts of this article are true but I have changed names and some details to protect the identify of a former client. Victor’s Shell Game. Victor, a CTO, was a skilled swindler and played a marvelous shell game with his executive colleagues. Here’s how the game is played: Let’s say the priorities this quarter are initiatives A, B, and C. And the end of the quarter: neither A, B, nor C are done; Victor explains that A, B, and C are in fact done and we’re already reaping the benefits; believing

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Building an Effective Agile Transformation Consultant Team

Leading Agile

An Agile Transformation Consultant who wants to lead a successful Transformation is going to need more than a deep understanding of Agile. Simply knowing the methodologies and teaching them to other people is insufficient. In a recent blog post, we discussed the various types of Agile Transformation Coaches needed to run a sustainable Transformation.

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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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Review Project Management Maturity Model Fourth Edition

Henny Portman

Project Management Maturity Model Fourth Edition, written by J. Kent Crawford, is a comprehensive but complete guide to understand and use the maturity model PMMM. The PMMM is based on the knowledge areas of the 6 th edition of the PMBoK guide and the five levels of maturity from CMMI. Each knowledge area is broken down the into specific key components.

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10 Best Enterprise Content Management Systems in 2021

The Digital Project Manager

Enterprise content management software to dress up your system—for when your project content finally outgrows its CMS britches. The post 10 Best Enterprise Content Management Systems in 2021 appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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5 Scrum Myths – Busted

Scrum.org

Myth 1 – Scrum is a Methodology. To bust this first myth, I would prefer to differentiate between the concepts of methodology and framework. Methodology Vs Framework. A specific methodology is a well-defined set of principles, concepts, tools, and associated practices that guide processes to meet a focused goal. The methodology is fundamentally more prescriptive.

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Agilemania 2.0: How We Became the Scaled Agile Gold Partner?

Agilemania

Scaling the Mt. Everest is certainly not for the faint-hearted. How much preparation does it take to achieve this feat? Does it take days? No. Months? Not a chance. A year? Probably. Years? The odds are higher. The long hours of hard work pay off. Today, we at Agilemania are proud to share that we have become a Scaled Agile Gold Partner. Since our inception in 2014, we have been constantly exceeding expectations and delivering value.

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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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The Job of a Resource Manager: Role and Responsibilities

Epicflow Blog

Are you thinking of hiring a resource manager but would like to learn more about the ways they could contribute to your projects? Or maybe you’re thinking of becoming a resource manager but not sure if it’s the right choice for you? . Read further to get a comprehensive idea of this job position and how resource managers can assist with successful delivery of your projects. .

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Best Project Management Timeline Tools: How to Choose Between Them

GanttPRO Project Management

Nothing can be achieved at work without rigorous planning. No matter how small or big your goals are. Completing tasks in time requires planning them individually as well as from […]. The post Best Project Management Timeline Tools: How to Choose Between Them first appeared on GanttPRO.

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Guía para la autoselección de equipos ágiles

Scrum.org

¿Qué es el autodiseño de equipos? La autoorganización es un proceso en el que alguna forma de coordinación surge de las interacciones entre los componentes de un sistema inicialmente desordenado. . En las empresas de organización jerárquica , el diseño de la organización y su coordinación la realiza el management, por lo tanto no existe la autoorganización , aunque habitualmente sí existe en aquellas actividades que son delegadas por el management.

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The Roles and Responsibilities of a SAFe Agilist You Never Knew

Agilemania

Large organizations face challenges to respond to change with speed and relative ease. Be it monitoring and control, collaboration, stakeholders onboarding, change management, and governance methods, the problems only keep increasing. From not being able to manage inter-team dependencies to handle multiple sources of requirements to ensuring alignment between teams in both business & technical to delivering an increment or increasing value delivery, the challenges are a zillion.

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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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My Top 6 Stakeholder Analysis Tools | Video

Online PM Courses

I wrote an article with 20 Stakeholder Analysis techniques, but here, I want to share with you my favorite 6 Stakeholder Analysis Tools. The post My Top 6 Stakeholder Analysis Tools | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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The BCG Growth Share Matrix Diagram

The Strategic Project Manager

The BCG Growth Share Matrix is a simple but powerful conceptual framework for businesses, large and small. It is still very much applicable today, and well worth mastering for strategic portfolio managers, project portfolio managers, program managers, and project managers. This post provides an introduction to the BCG Growth Share Matrix Diagram, digs into the detail of each element, and reviews impacts to strategists and project managers.

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Persigue el aprendizaje, no la formación

Scrum.org

Cuando se persigue el aprendizaje, pasamos por tres etapas: Shu, ha y ri, un marco tomado de las artes marciales japonesas. ? Shu, la primera etapa, sigue instrucciones a ciegas. Digamos que estás aprendiendo a cocinar y nunca has cocinado lasaña en tu vida. Así que sigues la receta al pie de la letra. No innovas, porque ni siquiera sabes contra qué estás innovando todavía.

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Ace Your Events With the Best Event Planning Software in Town For 2022

nTask

No matter what task you are undertaking, you need a solid plan to back up all the steps in the process. Having a firm and reliable plan means you have laid out a blueprint of the whole process and are fully armed to counter any situation that poses a threat to the successful progression of your task. Much like any other process in the business arena, event management requires a detailed plan that outlines every phase of the event.

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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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Stories about Stories in Agile for Product Managers

Management Yogi

“The most powerful person in the world is the story teller.”– Attributed to Steve Jobs, Co-founder Apple Inc.Nearly three decades ago, I remember my father taking me to a tailor’s shop for a pair of shorts to be worn as a high-school uniform. The tailor measured and made notes, and then he finally asked if they are alright with me. I wanted the length to be shorter.

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A Simple Prioritization Matrix for Strategy and Projects

The Strategic Project Manager

This post lays out a simple way to identify the highest priority – or highest value – solutions to problems. It then extends that simple model from prioritizing solutions to prioritizing strategies and projects. The best tools are usually the simplest, and that is the case with this simple prioritization matrix! A Simple Prioritization Matrix.

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How the Sprint Backlog supports Adaptation - Back to the foundations of the Scrum framework (29)

Scrum.org

Remember that Scrum is founded on empirical process control, and that adaptation is the third pillar, following transparency and inspection. Each of the Scrum Artifacts is adapted in one or more Scrum Events in order to minimise deviations to acceptable limits which they have learned during inspection. . Adaptation is making adjustments in order to minimise any deviations to acceptable limits concerning agreed goals. .

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Automatically Back Up Project Files in Microsoft Project

MPUG

Background Information. A recent post in Microsoft’s Project Group user forum prompted me to write the below article. A user posted a question, stating that he has been working with a Microsoft Project file, and then recently could no longer open the MPP file. He asked us what he needed to do to reopen this project file successfully. Several of us tried to help the user, but to no avail.

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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.