LiquidPlanner

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

In a previous post, 5 Tips to Build Confidence in Yourself As a Project Manager , we looked at how to build confidence in ourselves. In this updated post, we change the focus and look at how to build confidence in your team. As project management professionals, one of our most important roles is to bring out the best in our team. This includes not just building a great team, but encouraging collaboration and empowering people around us.

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Kiron Bondale

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

One of my parents’ sayings which used to irritate me when I was much younger was “Act your age!” In those days, it was usually a critique of some immature behavior or action on my part. As project managers, we usually are “acting our age” but might there be some benefits in channeling the child within us? See the forest from the trees.

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Leadership 348

Musings on Project Management

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

The first rule of data: Don't ask for data if you don't know what you are going to do with it Or, said another way (same rule) Don't ask for data which you can not use or act upon. And, your reaction might be: Of course! But, alas, in the PMO there are too many incidents of reports, data accumulation, measurements, etc which are PMO doctrine, but in reality, there actually is no plan for.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Planning poker® is a great technique for scrum teams. It is a team-based estimating approach to work out the efforts involved for achieving business goals. Even serious developers like gamification! Our company is a part of Wisebits Group and develops an online entertainment streaming service. The organization consists of several software dev teams that develop different parts of our product.

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Planning

ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Before defining an issue log, let’s define project issues. An issue is any roadblock or unintended impact that directly affects your project’s timeline and or performance. It’s different than a risk, which can be defined as a potential problem or future issue that might happen in your project. An issue is something that has already come up in your project, and you need to identify and track that issue immediately.

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Monitoring Software Review Closing Defining 352

Inloox

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Does this sound familiar: A manager calls an employee in and proudly informs them about new challenges, ideas and projects. But first of all, they need a concept, and the employee has to create one. Back at the desk, the employee sits in front of a blank sheet of paper or an empty Word file. What now? Following various analyses (e.g. risk analysis ), concepts are usually created as a starting point for important and large projects, as well as other endeavors.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

You think you know what your stakeholders want. Emad Aziz has a model that will make sure you do. He shared it with delegates at the PMI Global Congress EMEA in 2015 (it’s still relevant today) and it will give you a huge degree of clarity when starting to work with a new group of project stakeholders or a new sponsor. Emad Aziz, at the PMI Global Congress.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

All of your resources need to be in top form to achieve the goals and objectives of your work. When it comes to equipment, there’s an approach to this called total productive maintenance (TPM). Total productive maintenance helps you achieve equipment reliability and keeps your machines always working at their best. Whether you’re a project manager, facility manager or part of a maintenance team, you need to know what TPM is and employ it keep your business productive.

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Manufacturing Software Review Lean Technical Review 308

Project Risk Coach

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

I have had the privilege of managing three Project Management Offices (PMOs), composed of several project managers. The best project managers were the ones who had a habit of identifying and managing risks. Let's look at three ways you can improve your risk identification and reduce major misses. Wise project managers know that there are unknown risks lurking in every corner.

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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

Finance

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Welcome to Scrum Sutra — a 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. “Successful use of Scrum depends on people becoming proficient in living five values.” — Scrum Guide 2020. Scrum as a framework has no prescribed rule for every interaction and collaboration within and outside the Scrum Team.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

At the social media webinar I gave for the PMI LEAD Community of Practice one of the main themes coming out of the comments and questions from participants was how to deal with the extra information channels that social media tools offer. People generally seem quite worried about how to handle information overload, to the point that it creates a panic or stress and they stop using tools that could actually be quite helpful if they were only used in the right way.

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2014 Controlling PMI Closing 341

LiquidPlanner

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Risk and uncertainty are inherent parts of all project work, making project risk management an important topic for teams to address. Which is why so many projects—especially large technology projects—run into trouble. When studies tell us that easily half of all IT projects run over budget and past deadline , we see how easily risk turns into real trouble for projects and their organizations.

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Inloox

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

In the last parts of our blog series on innovation management with the Stage-Gate® process, we looked at the basics such as the definition, strengths and weaknesses, and the basic principles. In this article - the third part - we dive even deeper and look at the basic structure as well as exemplary the idea-to-launch model, which structures and accompanies projects from the idea to the market launch.

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Underperforming Technical Team Process 2018 Technical Review 219

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Certification

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Es tentador imaginar un mundo en el que todos los proyectos a precio fijo se inicien sin plazos y continúen hasta que las partes interesadas decidan que se ha entregado suficiente valor. . En algunas organizaciones esta es la realidad, dicen que hacen Agile así. . Pero en otras organizaciones del mundo real, los equipos a menudo deben lidiar con: Proyectos de fecha fija en los que se debe entregar un producto nuevo o mejorado en un plazo definido.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

I spoke at an event for women in construction management and I was a bit put on the spot when they asked me to share a tip that had helped me most in my career. I said: Assume you’ve got permission until told otherwise. Own it. Don’t wait to be given the authority if it’s within your gift to take it. On the way home I realized that is not the tip that has helped me most in my career.

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Underperforming Technical Team 2016 Construction Executing 264

Growing Agile

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Part 1. AGILE MINDSET: “Mindset” – is this a buzz word or is this truly possible? . Scrum master that is good adopts the responsibilities of the role/ great scrum master adopts the mindset and skills. One of the big buzzwords in the Agile world, is adopting an “Agile mindset”. It doesn’t help to just DO agile, you need to BE Agile. But what does that really mean?

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SCRUM Energy Agile Process 117

nTask

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Every day we get to see a lot of excellent ideas surfacing in the market. They are brilliant and insightful, and they show a lot of promise regarding the future of the projects of the company they belong to. But what if they just stay as words and are not put into action by the company? As you know that coming up with a brilliant and innovative idea is hard but it is still easier than actually executing that idea.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Many well-meaning practitioners have misconceptions about Scrum. Scrum is a framework for doing complex work, not a how-to playbook. It’s incomplete by design because there are no simple best practices to fit all situations in complex environments. As the 2020 Scrum Guide puts it, “Rather than provide people with detailed instructions, the rules of Scrum guide their relationships and interactions.

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SCRUM Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Technical Review 156

Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

People who know me will understand why I love Sherlock Holmes. I watch enough procedural crime drama – the modern day TV equivalent – to be able to work out whodunnit long before the last commercial break. The Arthur Conan Doyle novels that I read as a child are formulaic in a similar kind of way to the structure of an episode of CSI. Holmes has a particular approach to solving cases whether it’s why a bell rope goes nowhere or if the Baskerville family is actually cursed.

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2015 Budget Planning Process 264

Growing Agile

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Recently we decided to get together as the full Growing Agile team, all four of us now! There was one main reason for this, to meet in person for the first time. Well saying that, I have met Rebecca many times, in fact we’ve been doing quite a bit of training together over the last year or so, but it’s always nice to meet up and catch up.

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Agilemania

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Scrum is a lightweight agile framework that encourages team members to work on a problem together. It helps teams to gather knowledge from experience and learn self-organization through working on an issue. . Scrum is based on Empiricism, which means knowledge comes from experience. Scrum encourages teams to improve by reflecting on their success and losses. .

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SCRUM Development Team Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 98

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Budget

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

LET’S APPROACH THIS FROM A SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT ANGLE BY LOOKING AT HOW SCRUM WITH KANBAN CAN HELP PEOPLE DEAL WITH COMPLEXITY. . Complexity often requires collaboration, not necessarily between teams, but between groups, crews, or individuals. Scrum already helps teams deal with complexity, so what does Kanban bring to the mix? Scrum with Kanban includes a definition of workflow, four practices, and four measures.

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Resource Guru

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

As a project manager, you know time is money. In fact, it’s nearly impossible to stay within budget if you miss multiple deadlines. Yet only about 34% of PMs say they regularly complete projects on time, according to a Wellingtone survey. So, what’s causing this disconnect? Unrealistic project scheduling ruins even the simplest projects. When juggling multiple projects and client needs, it’s easy to find yourself relying on instincts or educated guesses when making project schedules.

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Software Review Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team 2012 98

nTask

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

No matter what industry you are in, having good relations with your clientele is a given. The success of your business, it’s current standing in the market, promotion, and profits are all pretty much dependent on the words of your clients. Maintaining a good relationship with all clients can boost your sales and improve your position in the market.

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2022 Software Agile Finance 78

The Strategic Project Manager

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

A Project Manager’s job is to manage projects that create value. However, Value is not a fixed thing; Value changes all the time. This post explores the idea of Value now and in the future – and managing projects not so much where the Value is, but where it will be. A Definition of Value Migration. Value migration was first coined as a phrase by Adrian Slywotsky in his 1996 book entitled “Value Migration: How to Think Several Moves Ahead of the Competition” A good definit

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Lean Healthcare Risk Management Closing 98

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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