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15 Clever Ways to Save Time at Work

Rebel’s Guide to PM

There are no shortcuts in project management really, but wouldn’t it be nice if we had a few ways to speed things up? I’m delighted to be partnering with BrightWork today to bring you 15 of my favorite time-saving tips for work and productivity hints (and there are some free templates for you to grab – scroll down). 1. Call people before meetings. Give people a ring before a meeting.

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We Asked, You Answered: Your Top Project Management Resource Issues

LiquidPlanner

According to research, 70% of organizations have suffered at least one project failure in the prior 12 months. Over the years we’ve talked to many people who managed these projects to better understand their needs and what could have helped them succeed. Most have counted on traditional project management software to align their projects and teams, but they have consistently attributed four common problems to their failure: resources, visibility, alignment of priorities, and scheduling issues

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What's a Sprint Board?

Project Management Update Submitted Articles

In agile theory, you plan only one single sprint ahead. But as we all know — theory and practice don't always align. The sprint board is designed to overcome this potential limitation. This blog post deals with the idea of the sprint board and approaches on how you can make the best use of it in agile planning.

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MoSCoW Prioritization Method-A Simple Guide

Project Bliss

The Moscow Prioritization method can help you and your product team decide what you need to focus on for your project. If you’ve got multiple key stakeholders lobbying for various features, having a way to score them can help determine which product features to focus on first. What is the MoSCoW Prioritization Method? Dai Clegg created the MoSCoW prioritization method while working at Oracle to help his team prioritize project requirements.

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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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PRINCE2 and PMBOK: How They Compare

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I was interviewed by Diego Nei for the Brazilian blog, Papo GP (Talking PM – I think I’ve got that right). We were talking about PRINCE2®, what it means to get qualified and how it compares to the PMBOK Guide. If you’re up for it, you can read the interview in Portuguese , but Diego has also sent me the interview in English and let me reproduce it here.

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Does a fully predictive life cycle ever make sense for a project?

Kiron Bondale

One of the misconceptions I like to clear up with learners in the project management fundamentals courses I teach is that there is no such thing as a “waterfall” or “agile” project. Stakeholders might choose to use a predictive or adaptive life cycle or specific methods associated with either of these approaches for delivering the scope of their project, but using these terms as an adjective furthers the erroneous perception that there are only two options available to us

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3 Ways Organizations Use Measures Poorly

Scrum.org

I am often asked what Scrum Teams and organizations should measure. And while measurement is important, it's not just about what we measure. It's about understanding why we measure and how we use those measures. And well, that's what actually helps you figure out what to measure. In this post, I will share some common patterns I have noticed that lead to using measures poorly.

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How to Add Projects in LinkedIn: A Step-by-Step Guide

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Did you know that you can add projects to your LinkedIn profile? Yes, you can add a different section to your LinkedIn page that talks about your professional profile in a new way: via the projects you worked on. And you definitely should. Let’s find out why and how you can use this powerful feature to boost your professional profile and make it more attractive to potential clients and hiring managers.

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Management Tips: 6 Pitfalls When Managing Your OKRs

Inloox

Objective and Key Results (OKR) are a widely used agile planning and management method in which sub-goals of individual employees and teams are aligned with the holistic corporate strategy at regular intervals. The OKR method aims to achieve cross-departmental alignment with long-term corporate strategic goals. As far as possible, measurable sub-goals (key results) are formulated for each department or employee, which are to be achieved by a specific 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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Just what we need: another reorganization!

Musings on Project Management

"Whether in government or private business, office reorganizations are invariably touted as efficiency moves, when just as invariably—as anyone who has experienced one can attest—their short-term effects are redundancy and paralysis. Naturally, the extent of these ill effects correlates to the amount of thought and planning—or lack" Scott Anderson “The Quiet Americans".

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Why the Nexus Daily Scrum is not Scrum of Scrums: 4 Differences Every Scrum Master Needs to Know

Scrum.org

Scrum of Scrums describes one of the first approaches to scale Scrum and is often confused with Nexus Daily Scrum. . Even experienced Professional Scrum Trainers, which I encounter in the Scaled Professional Scrum Train the Trainer, sometimes confuse this. I think this confusion is because Jeff Sutherland and Ken Schwaber had a different view of what Scrum of Scrum means from the beginning. .

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How to Steer Your Team Away From the 2021 Burnout Epidemic

Proofhub

How To Steer Your Team Away From The 2021 Burnout Epidemic Source: [link] In May 2019, The World Health Organization (WHO) characterized “burnout” as “chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed,” and emphasized that the term “burnout” shouldn’t be used to describe experiences in areas of life outside of the workplace. By the end of 2019, WHO’s focus was on a virus in Wuhan, China that would soon trigger a global pandemic and profoundly change how people work and live around

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7 Habits of Highly Effective Agile Transformation: Synergize

Leading Agile

Habit 6 – Synergize, in our exploration of Stephen R. Covey’s “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People”, is quite significant when it comes to effective agile transformation. This habit, considered the “principles of creative cooperation” by Covey, is the culmination of all the prior Habits 1 through 5. As we’ve seen, each habit builds upon the last, and now with Habit 6, we are at the peak of what it takes to be highly effective.

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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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Weighted Shorted Job First (WSJF) – The Prioritization Technique used in SAFe®

Agilemania

Prioritization is the activity that organizes a set of items or work in order of importance relative to each other. While prioritization is crucial in all aspects of life, it is a vital capability required in complex product development for ensuring the best possible economic outcomes. Given the fixed capacity available and the multitude of constantly changing requirements, prioritization helps focus energies on what needs to get done now versus what can be done later.

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The Obsession with Commitment Matching Velocity

Scrum.org

TL; DR: The Obsession with Commitment Matching Velocity. Despite decades-long efforts of the whole agile community—books, blogs, conferences, webinars, videos, meetups; you name it—we are still confronted in many supposedly agile organizations with output-metric driven reporting systems. At the heart of these reporting systems, stuck in the industrial age when the management believed it needed to protect the organization from slacking workers, there is typically a performance metric: velocity.

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Empower your Jira Environment with Advanced Project and Resource Management Capabilities

Epicflow Blog

Have you been using Jira throughout your company, but now realize that your business needs have changed, and it’s functions are not enough? . Let’s say, your company has expanded, and now you have to manage your globally distributed resources. Or your projects are accompanied with numerous risks and uncertainties, and you’d like to make your decision-making process more informed by means of analyzing possible consequences. .

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7 Proven Project Management Tips For Small-Team Project Managers

Teamweek

Small teams face very different challenges delivering projects compared to larger teams. In this article, you’ll learn proven project management tips that you can implement in your creative, consulting, or implementation projects. As a project manager, you’re constantly balancing work quality, deadlines, and budgets. Smaller teams have very little wriggle room.

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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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Waterfall vs Agile: The Big Principle at Stake | Video

Online PM Courses

You're probably seeing it too. I am talking about the constant flow of 'Agile versus Waterfall' arguments. The post Waterfall vs Agile: The Big Principle at Stake | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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Darth Vader and the Product Owner Role

Scrum.org

If the Empire had used Scrum, then Darth Vader would surely have been considered the Product Owner for the Death Star. While Darth Vader does appear to have engaged in some of the traditional activities of a Product Owner, such as stakeholder engagement, his methods and his lack of faith in the Scrum framework are… disturbing. . . Living the Values.

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Chess and Project Management: Part 2

MPUG

A previous article, Chess and Project Management , explored the similarities between the game of chess and project management. A professional chess player who is also a PMP found the first article to be unique and interesting, which made my day. If you haven’t read it, you might consider it before reading Part 2 here. Basic chess is quite easy to learn, and I daresay, it would benefit any project manager to do so.

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Your 2021 Best Guide to Hybrid Teams in Workplace

nTask

Before we embark on the journey of exploring hybrid teams in the workplace, let us explain what is meant by the term hybrid team. A hybrid team is an amalgamation of employees working in the office and remotely. Basically, this adaptive workspace is taken up to provide a flexible working environment to the employees. In return, the business will improve its productivity because the employees will choose to work according to their ease and comfort.

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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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How to Manage Project Delays: 10 Really Working Tips for Efficient Managers

GanttPRO Project Management

If everything goes according to a plan, it means that you are living in an ideal world. However, we plan, God laughs. Let’s notice: collapses and failures occur. Project delays […]. The post How to Manage Project Delays: 10 Really Working Tips for Efficient Managers first appeared on GanttPRO.

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Applying Professional Scrum is Scrum 101 and beyond!

Scrum.org

The Applying Professional Scrum class is frequently overlooked when it comes to public classes. People tend to go for the Professional Scrum Master class or the Professional Scrum Product Owner class instead. And those are really great classes. That is… they’re great for those who already have an understanding of the Scrum framework. . What is the Applying Professional Scrum class?

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New Updates | Release 21 Summary

LiquidPlanner

Release 21 | September 28th, 2021. We released a few items this week – simple additions for you to enjoy. Navigation. Right-click on the breadcrumb to open a view in a new tab. The order of Dashboards and My Work has been changed in the left side navigation. As of this release, the top to bottom order is Academy, Projects, Dashboards, Workspace, Timesheet Review, My Work, My Favorites.

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A 2021 Guide to Engineering Project Management that You Can Use Right Now

nTask

Project management is fast becoming the most important, and in most cases, the only way to achieve success in the organizational paradigm in 2021. So, when it comes to engineering projects, project management is an incredible way to manage all of the different tasks and processes included in the development process. You should know that project management in the engineering paradigm uses the same standard processes and methodologies that are included in any other form of project 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.