PM Basics
DECEMBER 4, 2018
It’s always interesting to compare how other PMs manage projects , isn’t it? So, let’s see how we collected stakeholder requirements on a real project. It’s a software project. Rather big for a fast-paced project life cycles that we have. Interesting to notice that our clients were from a large enterprise organization. It did software development for many years already.
Kiron Bondale
DECEMBER 2, 2018
We hope that by conducting effective ceremonies we will achieve the agile trinity of improved value delivery, better quality and more fun. But these objectives might be reached via multiple paths so we might not be able to prove causality between our ceremonies and those objectives. We could ask our team members to tell us whether they see the value in the ceremonies and their perceptions are certainly important but is that enough?
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Project Risk Coach
DECEMBER 3, 2018
Have you ever conducted a project brainstorming session and found yourself drowning in a cloud of ideas? Not a bad thing, but how can we make sense of the ideas? Well, let's see how to create a project affinity map to sort your ideas. As a bonus, we'll also look at Dot Voting , a simple and quick way to prioritize your ideas. What is an Affinity Map?
ProjectManager.com
DECEMBER 5, 2018
Everyone could use a little more time in their day to focus on what they care about. Time blocking is the practice of scheduling out everything in your entire day, including meals, work projects and personal time in order to better manage time and discover where precious hours are either being wasted or underutilized. The Road Warrior blog credits Cal Newport with the idea with his article back in 2013, but of course, this productivity method has surely been used before then.
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Rebel’s Guide to PM
DECEMBER 3, 2018
Is it too early to be thinking about your professional goals for next year? I don’t think so. If you’re anything like me, the first few weeks of January are so hectic with back to work and school, new projects at the office and the general downer from the holidays that I don’t have the focus to spend January planning out my next 12 months.
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Zen Project Management
DECEMBER 4, 2018
I was in the Moab, Utah area last weekend and got some mountain biking in. I haven't spent a lot of time mountain biking this year so I was a bit rusty. By the second day I was starting to get my rhythm but it took a little time. Just like mountain biking, our agile skills can get rusty. I ran a Lean Coffee last week and before it I read a couple articles because I hadn't done a Lean Coffee in a while and wanted to make sure I didn't miss anything.
ProjectManager.com
DECEMBER 4, 2018
Intuition is an important part of decision making. There’s a reason why we use phrases like “listen to your gut” or “let your heart speak.” Both our gut and our heart have complex networks of nerve cells. Medical scientists even talk about a “gut brain.”. Although your gut brain (properly, your enteric nervous system) doesn’t do thinking, it does control your digestive system, and interacts with your brain.
LiquidPlanner
DECEMBER 6, 2018
Dear Elizabeth: My project is struggling, but no one except me can see it. I don’t have the authority to cancel the project, but I don’t think it’s worth my team working on it. On top of that, my project sponsor has unrealistic expectations, and those demands keep changing. We can’t keep up with new demands, and I know that carrying on is not the right thing for this business.
Inloox
DECEMBER 7, 2018
Flatter, more open hierarchical structures and agile collaboration increasingly determine the daily routine of the project. This means that communication needs to be more and more emotional and motivating. The storytelling method helps you motivate employees and - more importantly - keep them motivated during the often lengthy course of the project.
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
Scrum.org
DECEMBER 3, 2018
(Inauguration speech of Franklin D. Roosevelt, president of USA during WWII). The end of the year is only two sprints away. We are in a refinement session. “So, would it still be feasible to deliver the ‘A+flow’ by the end of the year if we do it like this?” The PO asks the team. He is standing in front of a white board full of scribbles holding a marker in his hand.
ProjectManager.com
DECEMBER 6, 2018
Project management is a process of finding the best method to manage and control work through its every stage. There’s never just one way to accomplish this mission, and thus there is never just one methodology for project managers to use. Different methodologies work for different projects, industries, tools and teams. Methodologies can be approached rigidly, as a discipline without any deviations, or more à la carte, where a hybrid of two or more are used to respond to the unique aspects of a
LiquidPlanner
DECEMBER 4, 2018
Building a Community of Engaged Customers, Stakeholders, and Employees with Tod Leiweke. I was super excited to sit down with Tod Leiweke, the first CEO of NHL Seattle, just a week before Seattle was awarded its new NHL franchise today. As a former professional hockey player and an avid fan, hearing Tod’s plan on how he’s going to make Seattle a world-class hockey city is very exciting for me.
Planio
DECEMBER 2, 2018
Nobody’s perfect. And no matter how long you spend combing through your code and testing your software, it’s inevitable that a few bugs will make it through to launch day. While bugs are just part of the territory for technical teams, that doesn’t mean you can treat them as just business as usual. Your users want software that works. And with competition heating up in pretty much every industry, you can’t leave issues unchecked.
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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.
Scrum.org
DECEMBER 3, 2018
Marketing Backlogs in the Trenches. When I work with my clients on Scrum in a Marketing context the discussion about the Marketing Backlog and how to move from a big bang marketing campaign to a more iterative approach via smaller slices of stories is naturally a key area we focus on. . In those discussions User Stories which are the most popular way to represent Product Backlog Items (PBIs) in the Agile world and are also very popular in the Agile Marketing space inevitably come up.
Ganttic
DECEMBER 2, 2018
Anyone that works in marketing or advertising knows that there’s always something happening and there’s never enough time. You have multiple projects on the go and a team to manage, often including freelancers working remotely around the country. You are coordinating in-house resources with designers, copywriters, digital media specialists, illustrators, and animators.
Gunther Verheyen
DECEMBER 7, 2018
While developing my book “ Scrum – A Pocket Guide ” (2013) I described how there is value in the Scrum Values. In 2016 the Scrum Values were added to the Scrum Guide. I am gratified that Krystian Kaczor delivered the work for a poster of the Polish version of the Scrum Values, available as a free download (PNG): The Scrum Values (Polish poster).
Binfire
DECEMBER 2, 2018
If you do any meaningful work in life, you do create and manage tasks. It is that simple! Task management is what all of us do at work and home. . Every day you have a huge list of tasks to manage. Granted, some days more and some days less, but work means working on tasks given to you or created by you. So if everybody is doing tasks and are familiar with them, why so many few people manage tasks properly?
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Scrum.org
DECEMBER 6, 2018
As of November 2018, there are 181,000 certified Professional Scrum Masters (PSM I) around the globe, but only 2,400 individuals that went for the next level Scrum Master certificate, often referred to it as an advanced Professional Scrum Master or PSM II. The large discrepancy of certificate holders might have several reasons, one being that many might not be aware that the PSM II even exists.
Teamweek
DECEMBER 6, 2018
Looking for a classy invoice that will keep you organized and impress clients? Teamweek’s new budget calculator is the perfect tool for you. The budget calculator is easy to use and creates a professional-looking PDF invoice that you can download instantly and send to your clients. With this plug-and-play tool, simply enter tasks, dates, and rates and click “Download to PDF” to create your custom invoice.
Leading Agile
DECEMBER 6, 2018
? ?. This talk covers techniques and approaches to developing and communicating roadmaps to your organization. Balancing Agility and predictability in a roadmap is a challenge, and stakeholders require transparency in order to effectively drive organizations forward. Product teams that efficiently deliver value to market require the flexibility to make decisions using the latest discovery and learning, while giving their team time to plan for the product’s direction.
Project Management Essentials
DECEMBER 2, 2018
“All good lessons come at a cost. Try to learn them inexpensively.” Howard Zucker. When I made a mistake as a child, my father would remind me that all lessons come at a cost. The goal was to learn them cheaply. I did not always follow this maxim. But, this pearl of wisdom stayed with me throughout my life. I have passed it on to my children. It also shaped my approach to management and leadership.
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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.
GanttPRO Project Management
DECEMBER 3, 2018
Projects may take weeks, months, and even years. There is no ideal situation when a plan goes as it has been drafted. Any manager will be happy to avoid risks […].
Teamweek
DECEMBER 6, 2018
It’s not always easy to gather a team together for a meeting or event. In today’s digital world, teammates are no longer just a carpool away. They are scattered across the globe , in separate time zones, with entirely different schedules. You likely find yourself having to go through the hassle of sending separate emails and tracking everyone down, just to have a quick meeting.
Leading Agile
DECEMBER 6, 2018
A few weeks ago, Dennis Stevens and I recorded a podcast called Building an Organizational System That Can Embrace Change. The podcast introduced three critical concepts which we are exploring at a deeper level in additional interviews. In this episode of SoundNotes, Dennis Stevens, LeadingAgile’s co-founder and Chief Methodologist, and Dave Prior, dig into one of those key concepts: How to design an execution model that can provide feedback which can then be incorporated back into the strategic
Lynne Cazaly
DECEMBER 2, 2018
'A bad system will beat a good person every time' - so said W. Edwards Deming. You've got some great people in your team, on your project, in that meeting, attending the workshop. You really have. Great people. The thing is. the system - whatever system is at play in the project, meeting, workshop -often isn't working to support those great people. It may well be stifling them, stopping them, slowing them down or just slowly breaking their spirit, enthusiasm and sense that they can achieve somet
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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