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Are you Batman? If not, get a real charter!

Kiron Bondale

In the project management world, being a vigilante is rarely advisable. Managing a project without proper authorization is not keeping Gotham or your company safe. And the Commissioner Gordon of your organization is more likely to put you in Arkham Asylum than congratulate you for showing initiative. So what prompted this week’s Dark Knight analogy?

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A Framework for Managing Multiple Projects

Rebel’s Guide to PM

How do you start to get your work under control when you are juggling several projects at once? That’s the question I answer in my book, Managing Multiple Projects. The starting point is knowing how all the different parts of your workload fit together so you can manage them in an efficient way. And do not worry, I have a simple 5-step framework that will guide you through.

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Keep It Organized with Top 9 Online Address Book Software for CSRs And Agile Teams

nTask

The sole focus of a CSR’s job is engaging clients and making as many sales as possible. They have to get in touch with as many prospects as possible, be it over the phone, email, or social media to market their company’s goods and services and attract as many clients as they can. This feat […].

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How to Overcome the “Zoom Ceiling” and Get Promoted as a Remote Worker

ProjectManager.com

Everyone is talking about hybrid work. Having the flexibility to work remotely seemed like a workers’ dream. No more commuting. No more office politics. No more managers breathing down your neck. Studies, such as this one from Stanford , sweetened the deal by noting remote workers showed an increase in productivity by 13 percent. There’s just one problem, though; the so-called “Zoom ceiling.

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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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Your Daily Scrum: Why is the Scrum Master Role So Uncomfortable?

Scrum.org

On a recent episode of Your Daily Scrum , Professional Scrum Trainers Todd Miller and Ryan Ripley address a very popular question in Scrum circles: Why is the Scrum Master Role So Uncomfortable? During their discussion, Ryan and Todd talked about the incredibly busy life of a Professional Scrum Master and the challenges they face when confronting complexity in an organization.

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5 Successful Methods of Project Estimation

LiquidPlanner

Project estimation is hard. Why? Because the only time you know precisely how long it takes to complete a project is when it’s done. Up to the point of delivery, teams use educated guesswork to predict the future. And the bigger and more complex a project is, the hazier that future is. Faulty estimates mean missing deadlines and breaking budgets—two of the main symptoms of project failure.

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A Strategic PM’s Guide to the Satir Model for Change

The Strategic Project Manager

The Satir Model for Change provides a very personalized approach to the stages that we as individuals, teams, and even organizations pass through during times of change. This post examines what the Satir Change Model is, how it is an important consideration for strategy, and how project managers can leverage it to provide leadership. What Is the Satir Model for.

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?What does it mean to be Agile on a large scale?

Scrum.org

First, in a blog series about the upcoming book: Creating Agile Organizations - A Systemic Approach by Cesario Ramos & Ilia Pavlichenko. ?. According to Craig Larman, a renowned consultant, reducing switching costs by learning is resisted most by any organization. Speed of delivery can be quickly "sold" to management. But speed is by far insufficient to be Agile at the organizational level.

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Project Management Beginner’s Course: How to Get Started in PM

Online PM Courses

If you want to get started in Project Management, you need to learn the basics. And one way is a basic Project Management beginner’s course. The post Project Management Beginner’s Course: How to Get Started in PM appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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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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How to Go Green in the Office

Ganttic

Every year on April 22 the world comes together to appreciate this big blue sphere we call home. Earth Day is an annual event that gives everyone a chance to reflect on our own actions and creates an opportunity to start making a change. No matter how small. Here at Ganttic we want to make our own small contribution to our favorite planet by sharing some ways to go green at the office.

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Strategic PM and the ADKAR Model of Individual Change

The Strategic Project Manager

Change initiatives face many hurdles at both the strategic level and project level. There are many frameworks and methods to help implement change successfully. This post examines one method – the ADKAR Method – for implementing change. The ADKAR Method is focused on the individual. The post explores details of the ADKAR Method, advantages and disadvantages, and application and impacts to strategy and project management.

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20 Hilferufe von Scrum Mastern

Scrum.org

In Kürze: Scrum Master Fehlverhalten. Die Gründe, warum Scrum Master den Geist des Scrum Guides verletzen, sind vielschichtig. Scrum Master Fehlverhalten reichen von unpassenden persönlichen Eigenschaften über die Verfolgung persönlicher Agenden bis hin zur Frustration mit dem Scrum Team selbst. Lesen Sie weiter und erfahren Sie in diesem Beitrag über Scrum Anti-Patterns, wie Sie erkennen können, ob Ihr Scrum Master Unterstützung benötigt. ??

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New Updates | Release 28 Summary

LiquidPlanner

Release 28 | April 11, 2022. Here’s a small but mighty release that delivers a powerful boost for your planning and tracking. Swap Assignments. Use Swap Assignments in the bulk editor to quickly change existing task assignments and finalize your project plan by reassigning work from placeholders to your actual team members. NEW: Reassign existing assignments in Project and Assignment Grid Views.

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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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Display Actual Duration in Calendar Days and Not in Working Days

MPUG

Background Information. Last month there was a fascinating “brain teaser” question posted in the Project and Planner User Group on LinkedIn. The user wanted to know if there was a way to display the Actual Duration value in calendar days (including weekends and company holidays) and not in working days. At least one other group participant tried to answer the question, but the answer given was not correct.

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Intaking More Projects in Aerospace and Defense: How Resource Management Solution Can Help

Epicflow Blog

Today, in times of war and crisis, companies dealing with aerospace and defense projects have to timely react to arising challenges and suggest the best solutions possible to meet the consumers’ requirements and stay competitive in the market. This contributes to the growth of the number of initiatives that have to be delivered synchronously. Read the article to learn how to deliver more projects on time and within budget by efficiently managing your people with the help of resource management s

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What is the Daily Scrum and how Does it Connect with the other Elements of Scrum

Scrum.org

Welcome to Scrum Sutra – a blog series where I shall share a 3-min overview of each element of Scrum and how it connects with the other elements in the bead to form Scrum Sutra. Today, it's about the Daily Scrum. The purpose of the Daily Scrum is to establish a shared and common understanding between Developers on how they are progressing w.r.t. the Sprint Goal, make necessary adaptation to their upcoming planned work which reflects in the Sprint Backlog.

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Hybrid Agile Discussion

Leading Answers

Upcoming Presentation: “Hybrid Agile, Stepping Stone or Quicksand?”. How do you feel about hybrid agile – mixing agile approaches with non-agile approaches? Can it be useful sometimes, or is it the path to compromise and failure? (A great way to separate agile purists from pragmatists is to ask them what they think about hybrid agile.). Please join me on April 26 to discuss hybrid agile with PMI San Diego Chapter.

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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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What is a Sprint Retrospective? | Video

Online PM Courses

In the Scrum framework, a Sprint Retrospective is the last step of a sprint. But what exactly is a Sprint Rerospective? The post What is a Sprint Retrospective? | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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Building an Agile architecture

International Institute for Learning

By Darrell K. Rigby, Steve Berez, Greg Caimi and Andrew Noble. This blog is part of an article that was originally published at www.bain.com/insights/agile-innovation. It has been reposted here with permission. . In IT, architecture refers to the standards and technologies that enable collaboration across the enterprise. Agile software development is often inhibited by a company’s legacy architecture, because the new software can’t easily plug into the rest of the system.

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What is Daily Scrum and how it connects with the other elements of Scrum

Scrum.org

Welcome to Scrum Sutra – a podcast series where I shall share a 3-min overview of each element of Scrum and how it connects with the other elements in the bead to form Scrum Sutra. Today, it's about Daily Scrum. The purpose of Daily Scrum is to establish a shared and common understanding between Developers on how they are progressing w.r.t. the Sprint Goal, make necessary adaptation to their upcoming planned work which reflects in the Sprint Backlog.

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Problem Solving at Work: Crucial Skills for Managers and Employees Alike

Teamweek

Research has shown that interpersonal and problem-solving skills are the main drivers for workplace performance, not IQ. If you’re looking to build a kickass team, we think you should pack it full of great problem-solvers, and in this article, we’ll convince you of that too. After we’ve looked at what problem-solving skills actually are and why they’re so important, we’ll look at four great problem-solving techniques your team can use straight away.

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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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Critical Steps to Handling Project Progress Reporting

Traxidy

Critical Steps to Handling Project Progress Reporting. How a Project Manager handles the progress reporting of project work items, from the team members, is crucial to project success and the relationships with the team members. Trust is something that can get a Project Manager into trouble. Respect is something the Project Manager (PM) earns through their interaction with team members and key stakeholders.

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Managing Stress in Challenging Times

International Institute for Learning

Managing Stress in Challenging Times Webinar: April 26, 2022, 6:00 AM or 1:30 PM EDT with Susan Croft. Stress can affect your ability to think clearly, rationally, and perform well, particularly as we cope with the challenging times in which we live. Learn to reduce stress and optimize your work-life balance. Join our free webinar on April 26, 2022, at 6 AM or 1:30 PM EDT with Susan Croft, international speaker, public speaker, corporate trainer, and public relations practitioner.

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[Podcast] How Scrum Master Can Bring Change By Being A Role Model For Agility

Scrum.org

What's up awesome Scrum Masters? I hope you all had a great week. Many of you know that the Scrum Master is described as a true leader who serves in the Scrum Guide. Early last year (2021), I wrote a blog post on what does it mean for the Scrum Master to be a true leader who serves. In the comment section, one of the reader asked me an example (or more) how the Scrum Master can be the mirror of agility.

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Better Teams Lead To Better Transformations

Leading Agile

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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.