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Top 8 Benefits of Project Management Software for Your Company

Inloox

Content. Benefits for team members. Benefits for project managers. Benefits for executives. Benefits of project management software Every company, large or small, is faced with a multitude of projects on a daily basis. The complexity of projects requires teams to take a structured approach. Where once there was only pen, paper and a method, today there are highly functional applications.

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How to provide constructive criticism

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This is a guest post by Sarah Clare. As a manager, there is sure to come a time when you have to address poor performance or substandard work. We all make mistakes, and we can all find ways to improve our work. When you are a project manager, it is your responsibility to make sure that you help your team to learn from those mistakes and to find ways to improve the quality of their work.

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Architectural Design Process: A Quick Guide

ProjectManager.com

Just as we only look at the building and often neglect the foundation that supports it, the architectural design process is the bedrock of construction project management. It’s a lengthy process that follows the construction project from inception to completion. As the construction project unfolds, there may be external impacts, regulations and other forces in addition to internal forces.

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5 Things To Share When Onboarding Team Members

Project Risk Coach

From time to time, project team members are replaced or additional members are added. How can project managers ensure that the new members are on the same page with the other team members? In this article, I will present five questions that I answer with new team members in the onboarding process. Whenever a new team member is assigned to your team, the individual has questions.

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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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Stakeholder-Vertrauen

Scrum.org

In Kürze: Stakeholder-Vertrauen. Vertrauen ist der Anfang von allem. Ich zögere, einen alten Slogan eines Bankinstituts zu übernehmen. Im Zusammenhang mit der Entwicklung zu einer lernenden Organisation und dem Streben nach von geschäftlicher Agilität fasst er jedoch die größte Herausforderung perfekt zusammen: Wie können wir die Etablierten der Organisation, die ein Interesse am Status quo haben, davon überzeugen, die neue Arbeitsweise zu akzeptieren?

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Master Construction Procurement With These Methods

ProjectManager.com

Construction procurement can maximize the efficiency of a construction project. While construction project management includes all plans and schedules for the project, without the goods and services provided by procurement in construction, it’s only an idea and not a structure. The importance of proper construction procurement cannot be overstated as the process of getting those goods and services to the construction site efficiently can make or break the project.

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Applying project management to an election run (part one)

Kiron Bondale

Last year I wrote three articles about the project management tools and techniques I used for managing our inter-city relocation. Every four years, the municipalities within the province of Ontario hold elections for city council, the role of mayor, school board trustees and regional councillors. With the elections coming up this October, I decided a few weeks ago to run for one of the two city councillor roles within my ward in Welland (for more information about my platform, feel free to visit

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How Scrum with Kanban works

Scrum.org

Scrum and Kanban are two different frameworks. But did you know that your Scrum Team can use some of Kanban’s crucial elements to optimize workflow and deliver value sooner? Combining Kanban with your Scrum practice doesn’t involve replacing events, accountabilities or artifacts. It’s about integrating Kanban’s complementary tools to achieve better outcomes with Scrum.

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Intelligent Collaboration for Predictive Insight & Competitive Advantage

LiquidPlanner

In the COVID recovery era, many people and organizations are no longer distinguishing between office-based, remote or hybrid work. Today, it doesn’t matter where you are located to perform project work. In the twentieth century, the means of production were fixed and immobile. Success used to be defined in terms of scope, scale, and efficiency. “While the twentieth century was the century of industrial conglomerates, the twenty-first century is the century of ideas.” 1 In the modern era, the mea

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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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Cloud Security Architecture in the U.S. Government

Musings on Project Management

Have you got a project providing software services to the civil agencies of the U.S. Government? If so, you should be aware of a new 'technical reference architecture' authored jointly by CISA, USDS, and the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program.(*) Some of its provisions are likely going to find their way into RFPs and RFIs from the civil agencies.From the document, we get this.

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What Is An Agile Organization?

Leading Agile

When working toward becoming an Agile Organization, many companies begin by applying Agile methodologies at the team-level and then call the Transformation done. The problem is that even when you do it perfectly, establishing a team-level Agile Delivery Model is almost always insufficient. It’s insufficient because the rest of the organization isn’t built to be Agile.

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Cuando usar Agile y cuando no

Scrum.org

En cada formación, consultoría o acción de acompañamiento que llevamos a cabo surge la misma pregunta, cuando usar Agile y cuando no. También por lo que vemos, hay mucha organización que le han vendido que se transformarán completamente en una organización agile. Cuando digo completamente digo la totalidad de sus departamentos y la totalidad de sus empleados.

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Back to Basics: What is the Role of a Project Manager?

MPUG

There are a few reasons you may wish to understand the role of a project manager more fully. Perhaps it is because you are looking for a project management job and want to have a career in project management. Alternatively, you may be applying for the PMP or a similar project management exam. If your reason is the former, I must warn you that project management (PM) is not for the faint hearted.

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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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Top 5 Benefits of SAFe® Scrum Master Certification

Agilemania

According to a recent study, the percentage of people who are getting SAFe® scrum master certified is on the rise. It is shown that the number of people who are certified has increased by 41% since the beginning of the year. The study also found that the number of companies that have implemented SAFe® scrum master practices has also increased by 73 %.

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GanttPRO Gets Awards as the Best Product Roadmap and Strategy Planning Tool

GanttPRO Project Management

GanttPRO continues to win industry awards and professional recognition in prestigious categories. We have recently shared the news about G2 summer 2022 awards. This time the Gantt chart maker was […]. The post GanttPRO Gets Awards as the Best Product Roadmap and Strategy Planning Tool first appeared on GanttPRO.

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What does Cross-Functional really bring to your Sprints? ?? (60)

Scrum.org

We started this Scrum foundation series explaining we see four underlying concepts of the Scrum framework. In the past series of mails we covered the three pillars of Empiricism, the Scrum Values, and Self-Management. A self-managing team is taking decisions about who does what, when, and how. This ensures the team can move forward without unnecessary waiting time.

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Productivity Tips for Better Time Management Solutions

LiquidPlanner

Asking yourself the right questions, and getting all the help you can is key to productivity. Leading projects is a challenging but rewarding experience. But when you ask most project management professionals what the number one challenge is, they will, almost certainly, say time. This includes the lack of time allocated to work, conflicts on their time from many stakeholders and team members, and the increasing time demands throughout the project lifecycle. “The key is in not spending tim

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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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5 Reasons Why You Should Get a SAFe® Program Consultant (SPC)?

Agilemania

It’s no secret that SAFe® is the talk of the Agile town these days and there is a huge demand for SAFe® Program Consultants (SPCs) to be catalysts of SAFe® implementation. Since its release in 2016, the number of people getting SAFe® SPC Certified has been increasing each year. There are around 18,193 people who have received SAFe® Program Consultant (SPC) credentials since certification began in 2016.

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Effective Project Management Without Micromanaging

Ganttic

As a project manager, you naturally want your team, and the projects you’re all working on, to become successful. To do that, you need to ensure that everything—from the budget to the timeline—is on track. However, when a project strategy is results-oriented, it often leads to micromanagement. Something that doesn’t always guarantee project success.

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How do you measure value in scrum?

Scrum.org

How do I measure value for a major IT infrastructure piece of work? How do I measure value? Before I even get into, how do I measure value? What is value? A lot of people struggle with this. I wrote an article about this here, what is value really? I think one of the reasons why the world is in the way it is, is because we over-indexed on a couple of meanings for that.

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10 Project Management Tools the World’s Top Companies Actually Use

PM Times

Netflix uses ProofHub, Uber uses Asana, Sony uses Podio. Almost every successful business uses one or the other project management tool to handle their tasks, track their time, and manage their work in general. Even numerous studies indicate that using project management tools increase performance and productivity. If you’ve also just started up a […].

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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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The Evolution of Agile with Mike Cottmeyer

Leading Agile

Agile methodologies have gradually emerged over the past 30 years but really became a thing with the signing of the Agile Manifesto back in 2001. When the Manifesto was signed, most Agilist were talking about small teams, embedded customers, and deploying working tested software on regular—and very short—intervals. Fast forward 20 years, and we have large mega-corporations attempting to unlock the secrets of agility in businesses with tens of thousands of people, heavyweight governance, high-com

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Everything You Need to Know About Value Stream Mapping

nTask

Improvements are always good for new opportunities and setting better goals. Value Stream Mapping is one way to do it. Most of us might have heard of this term but won't know what it is. This blog explains everything you need to know about value stream mapping and its benefits for your organization. What Is […].

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Infinitas razones para que no uses User Stories en tu equipo

Scrum.org

En una iniciativa reciente en la que colaboré como Agile Coach , insistí en no plagar el Product Backlog solo con historias de usuario. . ¿Por qué hice eso? Al final y al cabo, cada tarea que no era una historia de usuario tenía que reformularse. En otras palabras, que no tenía ningún valor. Creo que esto no tiene sentido, déjame explicarte por qué.

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How to Write Effective Project Management Emails

PM Times

There is a-l-o-t involved when running a successful project: the manager and team relationships, the myriad of tasks that need to be completed, the budget, the deliverables, etc. With all the moving parts that ought to be handled effectively, project managers can’t afford to have poor communication skills, especially when sending emails. When project managers […].

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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.