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Top 12 Agile Retrospective Tools to Use in 2022

nTask

To take full control of your Agile retrospective and to take full advantage of the interaction, you need the perfect tool at your disposal, but what is Agile Retrospective? Let’s find out. What is Agile Retrospective? An Agile retrospective is a meeting or an interaction between the team members of the project development team. It is a meeting that is conducted at the end of an iteration or a sprint in the Agile software development process.

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What Is a Turnaround Strategy? Tough Prescriptions. Tough Projects.

The Strategic Project Manager

You can manage projects in some tough environments – and one of the toughest is a turnaround environment. This post asks what is a turnaround strategy, outlines structured approaches to turnarounds, and reviews implementing through a focused and well-structured portfolio of programs and projects. What Is a Turnaround Strategy? Turnarounds are needed when an organization is under duress.

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What’s a Talent Pipeline and Why Should You Build One?

Teamweek

In the brutal war for top talent, those who succeed are those with a range of weapons in their armory. So, if you’re one of the 72.8% of recruiters struggling to find relevant candidates, we’re about to equip you with a new tool for your belt – a talent pipeline! . Specifically, we’ll look at what a talent pipeline is, why you need one, and its key differences from other talent frameworks.

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Matrix Organizational Structure – A Quick Guide

ProjectManager.com

It’s recommended to have a matrix organizational structure in place to define how your project team will function. Projects have many activities, from resource planning to task management and everything in-between. Therefore, that organizational structure shouldn’t be rigid, but flexible and efficient. Every organization is structured in some way, and that structure is determined by its business goals and project objectives.

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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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“Long-term consistency beats short-term intensity”

Kiron Bondale

Bruce Lee might have been referring to improvement in one’s mastery of the martial arts when he uttered the title of this week’s article, but when Daniel Pink referenced it in his latest Pinkcast , it reminded me of how apropos it is to many things. With gyms closed in Ontario due to the soaring cases of the COVID-19 Omicron variant, I haven’t been witness to the usual annual phenomenon of fitness newcomers doing excessive work outs for the first couple of weeks of January only

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How the Scrum Master supports Adaptation - Back to the foundations of the Scrum framework (33)

Scrum.org

Remember that Scrum is founded on empirical process control, and that adaptation is the third pillar, following transparency and inspection. Each of the Scrum accountabilities participates in one or more adaptations. If you feel that something needs to be adapted to any aspect of your initiative, check who could best start taking action. . ?? Adaptation is making adjustments in order to minimise any deviations to acceptable limits related to agreed goals. .

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7 Essential Steps to Robust Project Scheduling

nTask

Project scheduling is a critical part of the project life cycle. It determines if the end results of a project will be achieved within the set timelines. However, project managers often face challenges when they start scheduling their planned work, as it requires careful consideration of various underlying factors. But it doesn’t have to be so challenging.

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The Mad Hatter: How Many Hats Do Project Managers Have to Wear?

LiquidPlanner

If you’re a project manager – and if you are reading this you probably are… or deal with them often on a team – then you know that you often need to be a jack of all trades in order to get things done for your projects. The project manager must wear a number of “hats” in order to successfully lead the project team, customer and stakeholders and to bring home a successful project.

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How to Create a Gantt Chart in 9 Easy Steps | Video

Online PM Courses

In an earlier video, I describe what a Gantt Chart is. But I keep getting asked how to create one. So, here's how to make a Gantt Chart. The post How to Create a Gantt Chart in 9 Easy Steps | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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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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Why is Cognitive Diversity important? How to promote it?

Scrum.org

Did you join the meeting to find out the solutions, but no one has a new idea? Your Scrum team has NO innovative idea to solve the customer problems in many Sprints? Nowadays, innovations, new values are the key to success. Customers always want more than they had and frequently look for new values. Therefore, the organization that can't continuo u sly bring new values to customers can't be a leader , have to give the space for those who have the innovation in leading the market. .

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Your 2022 Guide to Critical Path Generator For Project Management

nTask

A project is often always divided into tasks and subtasks. The more the tasks, the harder it is to manage everything. While some of the tasks need immediate attention, others do not so much. With all the talks thrown haphazardly, it is not uncommon to lose your qualms and mess up everything even more. Enter Critical Path Method. What Is the Critical Path Method?

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Using the Triple Constraint of a Project

The Strategic Project Manager

The Triple Constraint, or Iron Triangle, is a great tool for implementation. It applies well in practice especially to project management – but also is useful in the practice of strategy. While it originated in project management lexicon, it has strong applicability in the two-way dialog between strategists and project managers. What Is the Triple Constraint of a Project?

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Modified Agile for Hardware Development (MAHD) Framework

Henny Portman

My ‘bird’s eye view on the agile forest’ gives a fairly complete picture of the different agile frameworks. I only adapt it when I come across really deviant frameworks. This time it’s MAHD. Modified Agile for Hardware Development (MAHD) Framework was developed by Gary Hinkle and Dorian Simpson. It is similar to agile for software methods, but with critical differences.

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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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Team Coaching Canvas

Scrum.org

. One of the powerful stances the Scrum Master's takes to serve is Coaching Stance. Scrum Master's coach the Scrum team, the Product Owner and the Organisation. Coaching stance can do wonders if the right professional coaching skills are leveraged. . With that in mind, I am coming up with Team Coaching Canvas, a toolkit that helps Scrum Masters or Agile Coaches to get started with their Team Coaching.

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The Value of an Agile Project Management Office in 2020s

Management Yogi

Imagine this scenario as you start-off your day: You open your business site and the message says: “it doesn’t exist.” You then try to login to your email account, which also displays the same message. Your heartbeat goes up and you rub your eyes in disbelief. You remember receiving emails from customers about payments via payment apps, but there too, the same message is displayed, “this account.

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The 5 Best Free Project Management Software

TrustRadius Project Management

Project management software is a valuable tool that can help you organize and collaborate on projects of any type or scale. You may need a customizable tool with plenty of automation. You may prefer a simple and intuitive interface, or software that is well suited to your development team’s agile workflow. You can take advantage of these useful features at no cost with free project management software.

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Review IPMA Organisational Competence Baseline – for developing competence in managing by projects, version 1.1

Henny Portman

IPMA OCB offers insights for all interested in understanding how to improve the way projects, programmes and portfolios are managed in an organization. The IPMA OCB provides a standard for organizations to analyse their context, to identify relevant trends and to develop their strategies, processes, structures, cultures and project, programme and portfolio competences.

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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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STOP! Using parent as an analogy to describe the Scrum Master

Scrum.org

Hello awesome people. I hope you had a great holiday break and ready for 2022. Just before the holiday break, I overheard some people in the agile community use parent as analogy to describe the Scrum Master. Some people use analogy to describe something that is uncommon or relatively new in the society. However, using parent as analogy to describe the Scrum Master is a bad choice as from my observation in the company I have worked with, it created unintended behaviour & misperception from the

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2022 Aerospace and Defense Industry Trends

Epicflow Blog

Aerospace and defense industry is gradually recovering from the pandemic consequences, but still remains vulnerable as the world hasn’t fully overcome this crisis yet. Nevertheless, this year, the industry is going to focus on implementing innovations and searching for more opportunities for growth. So, what trends are expected to shape the industry this year?

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What Is Team App? – Everything You Should Know About It In 2022

nTask

Have you ever thought about developing your very own app but didn’t due to the lack of skillset or capital? If the answer is in affirmation, then worry no more because Team App is here to help you with app development. What is a team app? Team App is a platform that helps teams and social groups improve communication by creating their own smartphone apps.

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7 Surprising Ways a Certified Scrum Master (CSM) Certification Can Benefit Your Career in 2022

Agilemania

The Scrum is still the most popular framework per the 15th State of Agile Report. However, with the agile adoption rate going from 37% in 2020 to 86% in 2021 , more companies are set to join the bandwagon. . With this, the Scrum Master job requirement has increased significantly. Glassdoor ranked Scrum Master No.40 in the list of 50 Best Jobs in America.

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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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???? [VLOG] Le principe d'unicité

Scrum.org

J'entends beaucoup parler de différents framework pour l'agilité à l'échelle. Personnellement j'ai toujours aimé travailler avec des équipes d'une dizaines de personne au maximum, avec un parcours qui leur permet de comprendre Scrum et l'utiliser à son plein potentiel. Il faut du temps pour y arriver et quand on y arrive c'est un vrai plaisir de voir un groupe de personnes devenir une Scrum Team !

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Top 10 JIRA Alternatives for Agile Project Management in 2022 [+Free and Open Source Tools]

GanttPRO Project Management

It is not a secret that JIRA is one of the most popular project management tools worldwide. Currently, it takes almost 41,17% of the whole PM software market. According to […]. The post Top 10 JIRA Alternatives for Agile Project Management in 2022 [+Free and Open Source Tools] first appeared on GanttPRO.

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6 ways to develop a Project Scope Statement with MindGenius

MindGenius

In project management, a project scope statement is a useful tool to outline the project’s deliverables and identify the constraints, assumptions and key success factors of a project. The scope statement defines the boundaries of this project. However, prior to getting the project underway, the project team and its stakeholders need to agree to the scope statement before its execution.

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Xivic: It’s So Easy To Communicate Asynchronously With ActiveCollab!

ActiveCollab

_Written by Malinda Lloyd [[link] Product Strategy and Management_ I’ve worked professionally in digital since the late ’90s - I started my journey as an assistant at a software and design agency. I learned on the job and taught myself the basics of coding and digital design tools like HTML, JavaScript, Authorware, PhotoShop, Illustrator, Flash, Action Script, etc.

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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.