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Marketing Implementation 101: How to Implement Your Marketing Plan

ProjectManager.com

You’ve made the product or developed a great service, now you need to create a marketing plan. Your marketing plan defines the strategies that your organization will use to reach target customers, outperform competitors and position your brand. There are many ways to approach marketing your product or service, but they all share one thing in common— they need an implementation plan.

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What if? 10 Things to Build into Your Project Contingency Plan | Video

Online PM Courses

A contingency plan is a valuable part of risk management. It won’t stop a risk happening, but it gives you steps to follow if it does. The post What if? 10 Things to Build into Your Project Contingency Plan | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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Business Analyst vs Project Manager: The Differences To Know

Rebel’s Guide to PM

What does a business analyst do on a project, and how is that different to the role of the project manager? The headline is that the two roles serve different purposes but a lot of the skills used are similar across both positions. Let’s dive into the jobs and see how they work together to successfully deliver a project. The responsibilities of a BA and PM on a project.

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Forming, storming, norming and performing for Agile teams

Scrum.org

In a recent class, a student asked, “What are the common difficulties teams face when starting with Agile?” To answer this question, I refer to the Tuckman Model of group development, shown below. . Tuckman. 1965. . The Tuckman model describes the phases that groups of individuals go through when they first begin working together as a team. In the first phase, Forming , teams are uncertain about the team goals and how to work together.

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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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How to Make Your Virtual Meetings More Engaging

Project Bliss

It can be tough to make your virtual meetings more engaging. But doing so can ensure you’re getting the most value from the session, and creating an experience your remote meeting participants will enjoy. Meeting participants are by now accustomed to meeting online. But meeting virtually isn’t the same as sitting across the table from your teammates.

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The 5-Step Expert Guide To Choosing Project Management Software

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Since my book Collaboration Tools for Project Managers came out, one of the things I’m asked frequently is ‘how do I choose the right collaboration tool for my team?’. I’m delighted to be partnering with Genius Project today to bring you The 5 Step Expert Guide To Choosing Project Management Collaboration Tools. It’s everything you ever wanted to know about how to pick a project management tool for your team!

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If the Empire had used Scrum.

Scrum.org

Have you ever completed a multi-billion-dollar project only to see it blow up in your face? Twice? If you answered yes, you’re in good company with the Galactic Empire. . The Rebel Alliance destroyed two Death Stars as well as their successor, the Starkiller Base, using similar tactics. If the Empire had used Scrum, the Death Star might never have been destroyed at all. . .

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Management Basics: The 5 Principles of the Kaizen Philosophy

Inloox

Kaizen is a life and work philosophy that originated in Japanese manufacturing technology, particularly in the post-war automotive industry. Today, this way of thinking is also considered an important pillar of long-term competitive strategies in the Western business world. In English, the concept has been adopted under the term Continuous Improvement Process (CIP) and is an essential component of innovation and quality management.

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What Is Cronograma and Why Is It Important for your Project(s)?

nTask

A project has multiple moving parts and individuals. It is a complex process to complete and deliver what can be seen as a successful project. Therefore, many elements can help you and your team reach this outcome. One such thing is the project cronograma. The project cronograma helps organize the events of the project in light of the project completion date.

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Strategic Finance Essentials: A Project Manager’s Guide to Financial Impact

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

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Should I take CAPM or PRINCE2?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Recently I was contacted by someone who wanted advice about which project management certification scheme to pursue. She asked whether she should take the Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM®) or the PRINCE2 Foundation. Is it possible to take CAPM and then PRINCE2 Practitioner or are the standards different, she asked? And are the Project Management Professional (PMP® ) and PRINCE2 seen as equivalent by employers in the UK?

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Product Owners - Stakeholders Are People

Scrum.org

Recently, I spent some time with a few Product Owners (POs) who work at large financial services companies. I love spending time with people supporting the accountabilities of the Product Owner because I consider myself a product person and love listening to how others have solved many of the problems I still encounter when working on delivering products.

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Scaled Agile Framework: Understand SAFe® and Its 4 Core Values

Agilemania

Core Values of Scaled Agile Framework ®. Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®) is the world’s leading framework for business agility. SAFe integrates four primary bodies of knowledge, namely Agile development, Lean product development, systems thinking, and DevOps, to help businesses deliver innovative products faster, predictably, and with the highest quality.

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Event Project Management – Your Ultimate Guide to Organizing Successful Events In 2021

nTask

Event planning is an exhausting process, you have to pay attention to the tiniest details to make sure everything goes according to the plan on the D-day. Even with acute planning and careful deliberation every step of the way, you cannot overrule the possibility of a setback so you have to be ever ready to tackle such a situation. Event management and project management are quite similar when it comes to the fundamentals.

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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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Guide to project onboarding (checklist and common problems)

Resource Guru

Years ago, I was handed a brand-new project to manage and needed to get my team up-to-speed—with a tight two-month deadline to launch and no room for errors. In order to onboard my team, I linked everyone to the project brief, added them to the project task board, and held a hasty all-hands meeting imparting the urgency of the deadline and asking everyone to let me know if they had questions after they read through the project docs.

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Your Scrum Career Can Take Off With This One Simple Tip

Scrum.org

I've been fortunate enough to have enjoyed a great Scrum career and, as I look back over the past two decades plus, I note that there is one thing, more than anything else, that took my career in Scrum to a whole new level. Not just a step change. I mean a massive leap forward! . The harder I worked, the luckier I got. Like most people I've met, I ended up finding Scrum by accident!

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Preparing and Planning

Growing Agile

Failing to plan is planning to fail. That mantra has been drilled into me for many years by many managers, and has proven somewhat useful as a habit. Sometimes however, I do fall into the trap of planning and not preparing… what’s the difference? Planning is good because it sets you up in a direction. Helps you understand where you need to go, and can give you a rough idea of how to get there.

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A 2021 Guide to Kanban Terminologies that You Can Use Right Now

nTask

Kanban is king. Well, if ‘king’ in your language means an incredible workflow management method that can foster continuous improvement and help you visualize all of the tasks and processes that you have to perform as a part of the project development process. It doesn’t? Thought so (Lol). This workflow management tool is a Japanese word that literally means a card or a visual signal to make your work easier.

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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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How to Build a RACI Chart | Video

Online PM Courses

The RACI Chart is one of the most important Project Tools. Also called RACI Matrix, Responsibility Matrix, or LRC. Let’s see how to build one! The post How to Build a RACI Chart | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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The Colossal Danger inherent in Velocity

Scrum.org

Many Scrum Teams make use of Velocity. In the right hands, it's an incredibly useful measure. In the wrong hands, it can become a tool of obfuscation and even oppression. Here's how: Velocity as a Measure. In the Professional Scrum Master course, there's an exercise that asks students what a desirable Velocity is. They work on this exercise in their teams and the answers they produce are always insightful.

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10 Best Online Project Management Software for Startups [Including Free]

GanttPRO Project Management

If you are a part of a startup or a small business, every minute and dollar is precious for you. Therefore you need intuitive, cost-effective, and secure project management software […]. The post 10 Best Online Project Management Software for Startups [Including Free] first appeared on GanttPRO.

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Focus on Delivering Value – PMBOK 3.4

Bridge the Gap Consulting

“Continually evaluate and adjust project alignment to business objectives and intended benefits and value.” PMBOK pg. 34. This is my favorite principle out of the 12. When I first started my career, the focus was on scope. I would be handed a project and told to get it done. GO! Scope is still important, but the value and outcomes a project delivers are more important.

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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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Work Plans Must Account for Friction

PM Times

I overheard this conversation at work one day: Manager Shannon: “Jamie, I know you’re doing the usability assessments on the Canary project right now. Several other projects are also interested in usability assessments. How much time do you spend on that?” Team Member Jamie: “About eight hours a week.” Manager Shannon: “Okay, so you could […].

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Is Agile the right fit?

Scrum.org

Agile isn’t the right fit for every business problem–it’s simply a tool in the toolkit–one of many. . Agile frameworks should be used to solve business problems in complex environments where more is known than known. For simple problems, where more is known than unknown, an alternative approach – such as Lean or Waterfall – should be applied. In this context, “simple” does not mean easy, instead it refers to the fact that more is known than unknown. .

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How to Customize Projects with GanttPRO: Updated Custom Fields

GanttPRO Project Management

Do you enjoy using custom fields in the online Gantt chart maker? We believe you do: they give the flexibility to plan and manage projects with a customized approach. However, […]. The post How to Customize Projects with GanttPRO: Updated Custom Fields first appeared on GanttPRO.

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Roles Clarity in the Product Management

Agilemania

Straightforwardly if I have to explain the Product Management, then I would say, “The activities performed throughout the Product Lifecycle is the Product Management.” and the Product Manager is accountable for those activities.Let’s dive into understanding a few roles that have created a few confusions in Agile Product Management.

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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.