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10 Best Tracking Tools for Project Management

nTask

Are you a project manager looking for the best tracking tools for project management to ensure that your team remains productive and on track? Are you unsure of how to fit them all into your day and make sure none of them slip through the cracks? Look no further!

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Rapid Project Decisions: Do You Know How to Make them with Confidence?

Online PM Courses

How can you maintain the rigor, transparency, and reliability of your project decisions, while turning up the speed fof decision-making? The post Rapid Project Decisions: Do You Know How to Make them with Confidence? appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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Why do we need flat head screwdrivers?

Kiron Bondale

After taking a break from writing for a few weeks, I was planning to write about the importance of conversation in the work we do, but a late day Mastodon toot caught my attention today: “ Gantt charts are lies “ Based on the hashtags accompanying the post, the author works in the software development domain using adaptive approaches. While I can empathize with the frustration underlying the post, it resonated with me in the same manner as if someone had written “ Flat head scr

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10 Free Product Management Templates for Excel, Word and More

ProjectManager.com

Product management is a way to organize the development, position and pricing of your product. It helps you manage every step of the process that sees your product go from concept to market. As you might imagine, having project management software helps plan, manage and track this work, but if you’re not using such tools, there are product management templates that can help you steer the course.

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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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What’s The Scope of Professional Services In Project Management

nTask

Projects involving the delivery of professional services present their special difficulties. Professional service organizations have a double burden, as they must accomplish both their own goals and the clients. The stakes increase as more organizations and people become involved.

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Resource Availability: All You Need to Know In Outline

Epicflow Blog

Resource availability is a critical component of effective resource allocation: you need this data to assign the right people to the right task for timely and successful project delivery. But despite its importance, resource availability data is not always centralized and easily accessible in organizations, which creates hurdles for effective project planning and resource allocation.

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Club Scrum: What Are You Doing all Day, ChatGPT — as a Scrum Master?

Scrum.org

TL; DR: Club Scrum — You, too, ChatGPT? A few years ago, I ran a survey to figure out what Scrum Masters serving a single Scrum team do all day. Now that we have a new kid, pardon: a new LLM, on the block, I reran the old questionnaire: Club Scrum: What Are You Doing all Day, ChatGPT — as a Scrum Master? Based on the survey results from 2018, the normalized total amount of time spent on Scrum events, educating themselves, or coaching teammates and stakeholders, respectively, was approximately

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Unlocking ASEAN’s Sustainable Performance with the GPM P5 Standard

Green Project Management

The ASEAN region has consistently been one of the most supportive areas in terms of adopting and integrating our tools and methods. In fact, my personal journey with GPM began five years ago when I took a training course and was inspired to take action. As someone who is passionate about sustainability, I believe that […] The post Unlocking ASEAN’s Sustainable Performance with the GPM P5 Standard appeared first on Driving Sustainable Change.

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Create Sloppy schedules -- on purpose

Musings on Project Management

Be a sloppy scheduler.Really?Yes, do that.Why?Because sloppy schedules are schedules that are naturally risk averse; they have risk mitigation built in. With slop here and there, things can move around, expand, contract, and react to unforeseen dependencies.And so what is sloppy?

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Strategic Project Finance Essentials: A Project Manager’s Guide to Financial Metrics

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

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10 Manufacturing Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

ProjectManager.com

Manufacturing is based on delivering quality and quantity products to the market on schedule. Using manufacturing KPIs can help you determine strengths and weaknesses that can direct you toward improvements in all phases of your production cycle. Manufacturing KPIs are key performance indicators and we’ll go into greater detail about the definition and why manufacturing KPIs are so important.

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What Is A Resource In Project Management? 7 Key Types To Know

The Digital Project Manager

Managing resources is a key part of project management—things like people, materials, and equipment are required for executing deliverables and tasks. Understanding what a resource is and how they play into your overall project is key to ensuring the proper planning of your project. So what is a resource in project management? A resource can […] The post What Is A Resource In Project Management?

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From feature owner to product owner

Scrum.org

Agile frameworks such as Scrum have revolutionised the way products are developed and delivered. One of the key concepts behind these frameworks is the role of the Product Owner. As stated in the Scrum Guide, the Product Owner is responsible for maximising the value of the product resulting from the work of the Scrum Team. In other words, the Product Owner is the person who ensures that the product being developed is aligned with the overall vision of the company and delivers value to the end us

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What is a Pre-mortem? …and how do you run one?

Online PM Courses

In this short video, I answer two questions: 1. What is Garry Klein's Pre-mortem and 2. How do you run a Pre-Mortem? The post What is a Pre-mortem? …and how do you run one? appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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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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TOP DIGITAL PROFESSIONS WITH A LOW ENTRY THRESHOLD

Binfire

The digital labor market is changing and developing as fast as digital technologies themselves. Professions are being transformed, the demand for employees of individual specializations is changing, and completely new specialties are emerging. We have prepared a pool of digital professions that do not require compulsory special higher education and have a low entry threshold.

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Resource Estimation in Project Management: Ultimate Guide

WorkOtter

As a small business, the success of your projects is detrimental to your success. Unfortunately, over 50% of projects fail. Developing better project management skills is key to ensuring the success of future projects. But where do you start? Resource estimation is an integral part of project management that often gets overlooked. Here’s your guide to resource estimation in project management and other factors, such as resource costs.

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Stakeholder Persona Canvas: A Tool For Understanding Stakeholders Better

Scrum.org

Understanding stakeholders is really important for product owners or managers to engage them in the right manner. In this article, I am talking about a tool that use a lot to understand my stakeholders. “Stakeholder.” What does It Mean? Product Owners can’t know everything and they need help for the success of the product in delivering value to customers or users.

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11 Best Tools for Employee Management of 2023

nTask

As the digital workplace evolves, so too do the tools and systems that help manage and track employee performance. In this article, we will explore the 11 best employee management tools of 2023 that can help you build a successful team, optimize processes, and enhance productivity. Read on to find out more!

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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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Want More Business Value? Align Your Product and Technology Roadmaps.

Leading Agile

When Product roadmaps are aligned with the business strategy, they’re a reference point for staying on track with the direction and priorities of the product, how it’s progressing over time—and how that tracks against your overall business goals. Then there’s the Technology roadmap, which can be an important element for the success of a Product roadmap.

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6 Ways Your Organizational Culture Affects Project Management

Productivity Land

Project management is a complex discipline requiring technical skills, leadership abilities, and effective communication. However, one often overlooked factor that can have a significant impact on project management outcomes is organizational culture. Understanding and aligning organizational culture with project management goals is critical for project managers and organizations seeking to improve project outcomes.

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Theory of Constraints - What to Improve and What Not to Change

Scrum.org

Today, I want to share with you the biggest inspiration in my life - the Theory of Constraints. Although it may not sound as glamorous as Scrum or Kanban, it's definitely a topic worth exploring. The beauty of the Theory of Constraints lies in its ability to bring about changes while delivering much more value in less time and with less workload. Before we delve into the topic, let me surprise you with something.

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Why Great Leaders Are Also Great Listeners

International Institute for Learning

By Ben Chodor It’s a well-known fact that great leaders possess various skills and qualities to help them succeed. One of the most important traits of an effective leader is their ability to listen: listening to the needs of their team, adapting to changes, and actively participating in conversations. Listening can make the difference between teams that are empowered to grow and those that stagnate.

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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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Collaborative Relationships Between Project and Functional Managers

PM Times

Project Management texts usually assume we’re starting at the beginning of a project, with control over scope, schedule, and resources. Frequently, project scope, resources, and schedule are already determined through strategic planning, Project Portfolio Management (PPM), or the project charter process. In other cases, we take on projects that are in progress.

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Benefits to equipping your staff with community support skills 

Productivity Land

Research shows that half of Canadians aged 40 and older have had mental health struggles. Having support in place in the community to help these people overcome their challenges is essential. Whether it is addictions or helping older people navigate their lives, community support skills are some of the most valuable ones to have. But did you know that community support worker courses can also benefit any business?

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Are you familiar with Agile Organization Design?

Scrum.org

What is Agile Organization Design ? It's a powerful approach to designing organizations that allows for adaptability to customer demands. According to organizational design expert Jay Galbraith, there are five key components that make up an effective organizational design: strategy, structures, processes, reward systems, and people practices. When these components are aligned and support each other, the organization is most effective, as people get a consistent message about the appropriate be

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Feature Tip #8: Create Projects & Tasks From a Template

LiquidPlanner

As a project manager, you’re always looking for ways to improve efficiency. A huge part of that process is automating as many repetitive tasks as possible, which can include the work it takes to create and initialize new projects in LiquidPlanner. Do you manage many projects with a similar structure? Perhaps your: marketing team has a set of common deliverables for each campaign professional services team has a standard procedure for customer implementations engineering team has specific steps

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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.