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Virtual Meeting Etiquette?—?33 Golden Rules to Follow

Proofhub

Virtual Meeting Etiquette?—?33 Golden Rules to Follow Source: [link] The global pandemic undeniably caused a huge shift in working habits. After more than a year of work from home, a whopping 74% of employees said they expect remote work to be the new normal. Additionally, most opting to come into the office again want to do so on a part-time basis.

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Managing Project Dependencies In a Multi-Project Environment

Epicflow Blog

In the present-day business environment, which is dynamic and uncertain, multiple projects management (MPM) as well as project portfolio management (PPM) are becoming common practices. High standards of managing multiple projects ensure that all the projects within a company contribute to achieving business objectives. At the same time, managing multiple projects is undoubtedly challenging.

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Why Every Project Needs A Formula One Style Pit Stop

PM Times

As a bit of a motor head, I was excited to watch the inaugural Formula One sprint race format at the British Grand Prix recently. I was pondering Formula One and how efficiently the teams work to make sure that everything comes together so that teams can perform at their peak and achieve success in […]. The post Why Every Project Needs A Formula One Style Pit Stop appeared first on Project Management Articles, Webinars, Templates and Jobs.

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Monday.com vs. ProjectManager: Which Is Best for Project Management?

ProjectManager.com

If you’re looking for project management software, you’ll find countless options. This can make narrowing the search feel like an insurmountable task. Ultimately, choosing the right project management software comes down to identifying your needs and finding a good fit. Which one is the best for you? Let’s look at two of the top options, Monday.com and ProjectManager.

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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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There is only one number one in your Product Backlog

Scrum.org

One of the things you do as a Scrum Master is help your Product Owner in different aspects of their role. It doesn’t mean that you need to know how to do their job yourself, but you should be able to bring valuable practices and techniques to their attention. One of the constant struggles is, of course, effective Product Backlog management. I’ve seen teams with empty backlogs.

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Quick and Easy: This is New in the PMBOK Guide Edition 7

Inloox

Founded in 1969 in the USA, the Project Management Institute is a global non-profit project management association. In 2020, the institute counted more than 600,000 members in over 200 countries, making it the PM organization with the largest membership worldwide. Besides certification programs and extensive market research programs, PMI has been publishing its PMBOK guide (Project Management Body of Knowledge) since the late 1990s by setting standards for project, program and portfolio manageme

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How to Calculate Cost Variance for a Project (Formula Included)

ProjectManager.com

Throughout the life of a project, project managers check in on progress and compare it to the project plan—comparing their predictions to reality. If they don’t do this regularly, odds are the budget will suffer and their project will fail entirely. Luckily, these deviances from the plan, such as cost variance, don’t have to sink a project. In fact, they can actually strengthen it.

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Abandoning Scrum: Can a Scrum Team Decide to Quit Scrum?

Scrum.org

TL; DR: Abandoning Scrum. Can a Scrum team simply decide to abandon Scrum? After all, the Scrum team is self-managing, according to the Scrum manual, also known as the Scrum Guide. So, let’s explore this question at the very heart of team autonomy. ?? Shall I notify you about articles like this one? Awesome! You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 32,000-plus other subscribers. ??

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Level Up Your Business with The Best Document Management Software

nTask

Technological advancements in recent years have made the digitalization of business processes an inevitable feat. Companies all over the world endeavor to transform their business, equipping it with the latest technologies and machinery in an attempt to stay abreast with the rapidly transitioning world. The transition from the physical to the digital world is unavoidable, the same goes for paperback documents.

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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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The best thing you can do to manage risk?

Musings on Project Management

You ask: What's he best thing I can do to manage risk?Answer:Make time your friend. Insert time buffers in your schedule around every uncertain event, around milestones that are critical to success, and around major blocks of scope that determine whether project objectives will be met.Time is your friend if it is allocated in your schedule to give you space to work, and rework, mitigations.

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10 Startups With The Best Company Culture in 2021

Proofhub

What’s the one thing you are Photo by RF._.studio from Pexels looking for when searching for a job? That’s right. Company culture. A Glassdoor’s Mission & Culture Survey in 2019, found that over 77 percent of people across four countries?—?US, UK, France, and Germany, would consider company culture as an important factor for applying for a job, while almost 80 percent would consider a company’s mission and purposes before applying.

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Do we need a Scrum Master forever?

Scrum.org

Does the role of the Scrum Master go away with time? For addressing the doubt, first, understand the role of a Scrum Master clearly. . Suppose you go by the Scrum Guide , the person accountable for ensuring that everyone in the Organisation understands the purpose of the Scrum Framework. Thus, the Scrum Master serves not only the team but also the Product Owner and the Organisation.

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What Is MoSCoW Method, and How Does It Help Prioritize Tasks in Projects?

nTask

You deal with hundreds of tasks daily, and each task takes up a valuable part of your time. Dealing with all the tasks at once would be an unwise move, you need structure and order in your life to make sure you stay on top of your A-game. As an Agile professional, you must bring the same orderliness to your work. One way of doing that is to prioritize your tasks , but how?

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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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Use Multivoting to Simplify Group Decision-Making

Project Bliss

If you’re working with a group trying to choose among a large number of options, multivoting is an easy, structured approach to help your team make a decision. It’s a great tool to use with brainstorming sessions , but there are many times it can be useful. It’s a handy tool for your problem-solving toolbox. What is Multivoting? Multivoting is a way for a group to vote on a long list of ideas and narrow the list down to a few options for deeper analysis or final decision.

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Project Change Control: What You Need to Know to Make it Effective

Online PM Courses

When a project stakeholder wants something different, what do you do? You can't just say 'yes'. or 'no'. You need Project Change Control. The post Project Change Control: What You Need to Know to Make it Effective appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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Dear Scrum Team, Does Your Product Make Your Users Happy? 6 tips for more customer focus.

Scrum.org

Every company has customer focus in its vision or mission statement, but is it really? As an employee of a development team, how do I know if this is the case? How do I know we are are customer obsessed company? How do I sense it? . These are the questions we want to explore in this post. Let's start with a simple question for the team: The Customer .

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7 Best Practices for Overcoming Teams Working in Silos – Clarizen

Planview

Across the enterprise work landscape, the idea of completely eliminating the existence of silos is more of an idealistic aspiration than a realistic goal. However, the good news is that there are practical ways to overcome teams working in silos. Here are seven best practices to keep in mind and apply as needed. Generally, a top-down approach works most effectively to prevent or reduce silos, provided that a roadmap is well-developed and truly supported by leadership.

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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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All About Scope Creep: Causes, Consequences, and Tips on Preventing It

Epicflow Blog

Scope creep is a common challenge that project managers have to deal with. In an effort to make the project’s final outcome perfect and satisfy customers, project managers/team members/stakeholders may be unable to leave it well enough alone. This results in making too many or too significant changes to the project until its scope goes far beyond what was agreed upon initially.

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Change Management in Projects – The Overlooked Methodology

PM Times

The Scenario The decision to implement a new technology solution is a significant one and, in many cases, a project that typically an organization is unlikely to undertake often. It is a project that requires a significant investment of money, time, and effort and so, return on investment (ROI) represents an important set of metrics […]. The post Change Management in Projects – The Overlooked Methodology appeared first on Project Management Articles, Webinars, Templates and Jobs.

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How To Create Transparency in the Workplace

Teamweek

Workplace transparency has become increasingly valued both by employers and employees. So much so that there are now rankings of companies that actively and purposefully make transparency part of their mission and vision. But exactly what is transparency in the workplace? Is it worth overhauling your existing policies just to create it? Here, we’ll help you gain a clear understanding of workplace transparency, explain why it’s important, and give you tips on how to encourage it in your organizat

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What do your stakeholders need to know about your project?

Planview

Of all the things a project manager needs to manage—timelines, budgets, change orders and so on—the most important of all may be stakeholders’ expectations. After all, completion of any project depends on stakeholders doing what they’re expected to do, and the final determination of whether a project is a success or failure is made by stakeholders as well.

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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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Optimal Size of a Scrum Team

ActiveCollab

A typical scrum team needs to have the necessary skills to carry out tasks efficiently while taking care of product quality and productivity. Whether you are working in a small startup or a large company, you are more likely to come to a point when you have too many members in one team. That's why identifying this issue early on can save you a lot of trouble.

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What Is Cost Overrun? How to Prevent It

Wrike

Project planning is all about accuracy. With about 28% of projects failing due to imprecise cost estimates, it’s clear that your project plan deserves time and attention. Inaccurate forecasts about costs, resources, benefits, and estimated durations can bring project risks that could impact your organization’s profitability and growth opportunities.

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Candidate 101 – How Long Should Video Answers Be?

Teamweek

As digital technology becomes more powerful and the world continues to adapt to remote working, the use of video interviews has increased by 67%. Whether preparing for a 1-2-1 video interview or some pre-recorded questions, candidates often ask – how long should video answers be? The truth is, there’s no clear answer, but let’s run through the type of questions you could be asked and how best to respond to them in either 30, 60 or 90 seconds.

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Formal vs. Informal Project Management: Which is Right for You?

Planview

Have you ever heard a project manager refer to “formal” project management and wondered what exactly makes it formal? While different organizations might have their own definition of the term, formal project management is the area of interest to professional project managers, and is the preferred style of management for most enterprise projects.

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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.