Project Risk Coach
NOVEMBER 30, 2020
Are you guilty of using project management jargon and acronyms? Do your team members understand what you are saying? If not, perhaps you have fallen under the curse of project management knowledge. Can I be painfully honest with you for a minute? What I am about to say may not feel good. In fact, I am certain that you will NOT enjoy it. I have been hoping someone else would do the dirty work.
ProjectManager.com
DECEMBER 2, 2020
Risk is always present. This is true in life and projects alike. If we were to try and avoid all risks, it would be paralyzing—not to mention impossible. We couldn’t step out of the house, let alone embark on a project. There’s just too much that could go wrong! Project managers don’t have the luxury of locking the door, turning off the lights and hiding in a corner.
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GanttPRO Project Management
DECEMBER 2, 2020
From the early 2000s to today, the Agile methodology continues to be popular in project management. Now, it even extends past its software development roots to encompass other non-software industries […].
Kiron Bondale
NOVEMBER 29, 2020
After I had finished presenting on how to build psychologically safe virtual teams at a conference earlier this week, one of the delegates asked me what suggestions I’d have to help her with a team where some of the members refused to turn their cameras on during video meetings. I’m not going to challenge the reasons as to why some team members might be reluctant about being on camera.
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Scrum.org
NOVEMBER 28, 2020
On November 18, 2020, Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland released an updated version of the Scrum Guide. In this blog post, I will share what you need to know about the 2020 Scrum Guide. I will start with the most important things you need to know, and then I’ll get into a little more nuance for the Scrum nerds. First of all, Scrum is still Scrum. The Scrum Guide is not updated frequently (the last update was 2017).
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Project Bliss
NOVEMBER 30, 2020
Photo by Nick Morrison on Unsplash. This list of project management job titles can help if you need to find other names for the role. When you’re thinking about moving into a project management career, you’re likely looking for jobs with the title “project manager.” But do you know about other searches you could be doing to expand your job search and give you more options?
Inloox
DECEMBER 3, 2020
The creators of Scrum , Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland, developed the concept in the early 1990s. In 2010, they published the first Scrum Guide, a guide to the method with the intention of providing people, teams and organizations with a framework to master complex tasks and create products with the highest possible value. You can read all the basics about the agile method Scrum in this blogpost: The Scrum Methodology.
Scrum.org
NOVEMBER 30, 2020
If you are looking to fill a position for a Product Owner in your organization, you may find the following 71 interview questions useful to identify the right candidate. They are derived from my fourteen years of practical experience with XP and Scrum, serving both as Product Owner and Scrum Master and interviewing dozens of Product Owner candidates on behalf of my clients.
Musings on Project Management
NOVEMBER 29, 2020
You've got a job to do; you've sequenced and scheduled itBut, in the middle of your critical path there is another independent project (or task) over which you have no control. In effect, your schedule has a break in its sequence over which you have no influence.Yikes! This is all too common in construction projects where independent "trades" (meaning contractors with different skills, like.
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
nTask
DECEMBER 3, 2020
Project management is a complex beast. There are so many activities in project management that delivering a successful project and quality outcomes can become difficult. That is why we have written this post to highlight the activities in project management to highlight what needs to get done and what to look out for. Let’s get to it! What are ‘Activities’ in Project Management?
Ganttic
DECEMBER 1, 2020
Running a startup can be a costly venture. And finding the right tools for the right price can be a challenge. Especially when time and resources are limited. In this article, our guest author Ayomide Joseph, recommends some of the tools he's used to grow his own business. Giving you a list of 10 free business tools for startups. This is a guest post by Ayomide Joseph.
Scrum.org
NOVEMBER 28, 2020
"I see Wicked Questions everywhere now", confided a Scrum Master in us when we helped her become aware of them. . One of the characteristics of complex work is that it is full of contradictory and competing goals. Although each is equally valid and worthy of pursuit, they create tension or open conflict when they are pursued together. In a simple world, we can resolve this tension by letting go of one goal over the other.
Planio
DECEMBER 3, 2020
There’s no denying that Trello is one of the best project management tools ever created. Until it’s not. While it might have been the perfect option for you early on, every growing team hits a moment where they need to start looking for a Trello alternative. In fact, you’re probably here because you’re feeling that way now. Let’s see if any of these sound familiar: Trello is too simple.
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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.
nTask
DECEMBER 2, 2020
Improving how you work is a common goal for many organizations. With agile teams, this is usually done through retrospectives. In other words, with agile retrospectives, you can focus on how your work is going and take things that are learned from success & failure for further implementation. Such agile retrospectives help to improve processes, methods, and teamwork.
MPUG
NOVEMBER 30, 2020
Imagine this scenario. You are going to a friend’s house for an important event. It is scheduled with a hard start, meaning you can’t have delays, but as you start traveling, you notice that your vehicle is running low on gasoline. A few options come to mind: Continue driving because you think your available gasoline will suffice. Fill-up your gasoline tank at a nearby gas station and then continue to travel.
Scrum.org
DECEMBER 2, 2020
In the 2020 Scrum Guide Ken and Jeff introduces the idea of the Product Goal. The Product Goal is a commitment to ensure transparency and focus against progress. The Product Goal describes a future state of the product which can serve as a target for the Scrum Team to plan against. The Product Goal is in the Product Backlog. The rest of the Product Backlog emerges to define “what” will fulfil the Product Goal.
Agilemania
DECEMBER 1, 2020
What is an Agile Coach? An Agile coach is responsible for Agile transition/transformation within teams and an organization. Agile coach gets identified or hired while transitioning from their existing working practices, such as Waterfall, into working with the Agile values and principles. They usually have much experience with different Agile methodologies, such as Scrum, XP, Kanban, Large-Scale Scrum, and Scaled… The post Top 15 Agile Coach Interview Questions appeared first on Agilemania
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nTask
NOVEMBER 30, 2020
If you are a project manager who uses software to plan different projects in a seamlessly structured way, then you may know about the software Microsoft Project Server/ Project Online (PPM). And if you know about these software, then you know that these tools are not designed to handle the small personal jobs that are added below the task-related projects.
Wrike
DECEMBER 3, 2020
Looking for a more accurate way to forecast projects, predict effort, and manage resources? Making a velocity chart in Agile is one of the easiest ways to do all of that and more. Discover everything you need to know about how to calculate velocity, maximize the usefulness of this data, and what project managers can do with this information. . What is velocity in Agile?
Scrum.org
NOVEMBER 28, 2020
Scrum 2020 Poster and "Agile On" Sticker We are wrapping up a long Thanksgiving weekend in the United States with Cyber-Monday. To give thanks to the Scrum community in the US, we offer a free bundle of 2 Scrum posters, 2 Scrum sheets and 2 Stickers and send them for free right to your doorsteps. Give one of the two sets away to a colleague, friend or keep them both for your home office and office away.
Binfire
DECEMBER 1, 2020
Today, it’s difficult not to hear about big data and data-driven decision making. The term alone has become something of a buzzword in business recently, and for very good reason. Data allows business owners to leverage the endless digital insights that are now available at their fingertips and embrace the power of data-driven business intelligence to make more informed decisions that are better for business growth and evolution, plus increasing profits.
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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.
nTask
DECEMBER 3, 2020
Creating an Agile project management office from scratch and managing in such a way that it prospers in the organizational paradigm is a real challenge, especially in the current market where we see successful businesses failing due to poor management. There are many different schools of thought that are helpful for you if you want to overcome this challenge with ease, but not all of them are completely successful or even a little bit helpful.
Teamweek
DECEMBER 3, 2020
Planning a construction schedule can quickly become complex. Client priorities, budget, legal compliance are just some of the many things to consider. In this article, you’ll learn how to make a construction schedule in 7 simple steps. You’ll learn: What is a construction schedule, it’s functions & types? Why do you need a construction schedule?
Scrum.org
NOVEMBER 30, 2020
In our book?—? the Zombie Scrum Survival Guide ?—?we dive deep into what causes Zombie Scrum; something that looks like Scrum from a distance, but lacks a beating heart. We also offer 40+ experiments to recover from Zombie Scrum. In this series, we share experiments that didn’t make it to the book but are still very helpful. This post was written collaboratively by Christiaan Verwijs, Barry Overeem, and Johannes Schartau.
Leading Agile
DECEMBER 3, 2020
Agile in general, and Scrum specifically, is predicated on the idea that each team has everything they need to deliver an increment of value. But unless you’re a small team or a new startup, that’s usually the furthest from the truth. When a team doesn’t have everything it needs to deliver an increment of value, that’s a dependency. And dependencies come in many forms.
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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