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7 Quality Improvement Tools To Improve Workflow

nTask

Improving your workflow can seem daunting, but it doesn’t have to be! Utilizing quality improvement tools is an easy and effective way to streamline processes and improve efficiency.

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How To Make 2023 A Successful Year for Your Projects

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Would you like to make 2023 a successful year for your projects? I’m sure you do. Especially as the last few years haven’t been exactly stellar years for many of us! But what does it take to get there?

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11 Examples of Project Risks And How to Avoid Them

Teamweek

Struggling with keeping your project on track? Are deadlines constantly being pushed back? Are your project profits slowly evaporating? We often plan a project with this overly optimistic mindset — never considering the myriad of project risks out there.

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17 Best Project Scheduling Software 2023

nTask

Project scheduling software is an essential tool for any project manager. Not only does it make it easier to stay on top of tasks, but it also helps keep projects running smoothly and efficiently.

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Everything You Need to Know About Crypto

Speaker: Ryan McInerny, CAMS, FRM, MSBA - Principal, Product Strategy

This exclusive webinar with Ryan McInerny will teach you all about cryptocurrency and NFTs! Register to learn more about identifying crypto transactions, crypto asset market trends, managing risk and compliance, and supporting customers and partners using crypto-based payments.

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15 Free IT Project Management Templates for Excel, Word & More

ProjectManager.com

IT projects are unique. IT teams plan hardware and software installations, upgrades and rollouts, and the tools they use are specific to working with infrastructure, information systems and computers. These IT project management templates are essential to get those jobs done properly.

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What is a Statement of Work? A Guide for Project Managers

Teamweek

Nobody likes doing paperwork, no matter what services you sell or the industry you’re in. But the most important document of any client project is a statement of work (SOW). Getting it right is an essential first step in a client relationship.

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What Is Change Management? Process & Models Explained

ProjectManager.com

One thing is certain: change is going to happen in your organization or project. To best plan and respond to change, first, a clear definition of change management must be understood. What Is Change Management?

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Rookie mistakes in Risk Management

Musings on Project Management

First comes the planningYou've followed all the standard protocols for setting up your risk management program.You've put slack in your cost estimates, and you've put slack-buffers in your schedule plan.All good.Risks have been listed, prioritized, and the minor ones to be 'unmanaged' set aside (minimize distractions)Otherwise, mitigation planning has been done.All good.Now comes executionThere Risk Management

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How to Write a Project Description: A Quick Guide

ProjectManager.com

A project description seems self-explanatory, but don’t underestimate a well-written project description as it sets your project up for success. It acts as a communication tool for stakeholders and shares the project vision in a clear and actionable fashion.

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Exploring the Overlap: Cost Optimization and Digital Transformation

Speaker: Alex Jiménez, Managing Principal, Financial Service Consulting for EPAM

The largest banks have increased reserves for protection against deteriorating economic conditions. Should banks delay their digital transformation investments and focus on cost reductions? In this webinar, Alex Jiménez will walk us through that question and examine the prudent course of action.

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Office Timeline Pro+ Review [2023]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Office Timeline is a powerful PowerPoint plugin for creating professional timelines and roadmaps. The Pro+ edition is aimed specifically at project managers needing to create timeline slides for executive briefings and project reviews.

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Agile Transformation: ChatGPT or McBoston?

Scrum.org

TL; DR: Agile Transformation with ChatGPT or McBoston? This article is another excursion into this nascent yet fascinating new technology of generative AI and LLMs and the future of knowledge work.

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How To Best Apply The Agile Manifesto To Deliver Digital Projects

The Digital Project Manager

True fact: a lot of people don’t understand the Agile Manifesto, and therefore they don’t understand agile. It doesn’t help that there’s a huge amount of variance in what people who think they are “agile” are doing.

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Risks in the project: an overview

Inloox

Know the risks in your project! Risk management plays an enormously important role in project management. The task here is to identify, analyze, control and ultimately minimize risks. Although some risks can be eliminated with a suitable solution strategy, certain risks can never be completely avoided in the project context. Consequently, these must be kept as low as possible.

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The Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020: Initial Catalysts, Current Implications, and Future Impacts

Speaker: Elizabeth "Paige" Baumann, Founder and CEO of Paige Baumann Advisory, LLC

In this session, Elizabeth “Paige” Baumann will cover the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020, which also includes the Corporate Transparency Act. She'll take a deep dive into the catalysts that brought on the act, the current implications of the act, and what impacts the act has on the future of banking and finance.

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13 Reasons to Choose Agile Project Management Methods

LiquidPlanner

Are you thinking about introducing agile processes to your project management methodology? You’ve a few case studies, you’ve perhaps even seen agile working effectively at other companies. But now it’s time to dive into the details and decide.

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Lean Startup and Scrum

Scrum.org

I remember the first time I heard about Lean Startup. I was an analyst for Forrester research on a panel at the Agile conference in Orlando. A member of the audience asked, “What do you think about Lean Startup?”. Honestly, I had not heard of Lean Startup.

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How To Use Smartsheet For Project Management: Expert Tips & Tricks

The Digital Project Manager

Have you ever been asked to create a project plan for a new project in under 30-minutes? How about when the ask comes from a c-level executive and it’s 4:30 pm on a Friday? This has happened to me.

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The Tuckman  Model: How to Get Better Results from your Team

Online PM Courses

The Tuckman Model of Group Development is one of the most useful tools for understanding how a group becomes a successful team. The post The Tuckman Model: How to Get Better Results from your Team appeared first on OnlinePMCourses. Team Leader Teambuilding Tuckman Model

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The Definitive Guide to Embedded Analytics

Data-driven decisions are no longer reserved for the few. Everyone needs data insights from the applications they use every day. Learn how embedded analytics is boosting user adoption, creating apps people love, and changing the game for software and SaaS providers.

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6 Highly Effective Project Plan Examples To Guide Your Next Venture

nTask

Creating an effective project plan is essential for any business or endeavor. It lays out the various tasks needed to ensure your venture is a success, as well as provides a way to track progress and measure results.

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Self-managing: Scrum’s most misunderstood phrase 

Scrum.org

According to the Scrum Guide, Scrum Teams are “self-managing, meaning they internally decide who does what, when, and how.” It seems straightforward. And yet, this simple phrase is one of the most commonly misunderstood in the Scrum Guide.

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SlideKit: Google Slides Add-on

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I create a lot of slide decks, for work, for training materials and just because I like making graphics in PowerPoint. I love a good template. It can make creating decks so much easier, and we all know how much senior execs like a good presentation.

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5 Main Challenges in Project Portfolio Management in 2023

WorkOtter

The main challenges of enterprise project portfolio management vary from enterprise to enterprise.

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Level up Culture & EQ | Sign up for the #CultureDrop

Once a week, culture & leadership expert Galen Emanuele gives free, actionable EQ training in 5 minutes or less. Subscribe to the #CultureDrop and access free resources & content.

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Tuesday Tip #4: Align Priorities Across Teams & Stakeholders

LiquidPlanner

As a project manager, part of your job is figuring out how to maximize the efficiency of your team. This involves making sure everyone is working on what’s most important right now, and they’re always up to date about changing priorities.

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What is the Increment?

Scrum.org

We have a Product Owner, a Product Goal, and a Product Backlog in Scrum. Why don’t we have a Product but an Increment? The answer is both historical and essential. Scrum started as an iterative and incremental approach for software product development.

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Top ProofHub Alternatives to Give a Try in 2023

GanttPRO Project Management

ProofHub is a trustworthy software solution that enables teams to plan and manage their projects in a single workspace. However, it might not be the right choice for your business. […] The post Top ProofHub Alternatives to Give a Try in 2023 first appeared on GanttPRO Project Management Blog.

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Benefits of Portfolio Management: Why is it So Important?

WorkOtter

If you are a small or medium-sized business, you should know the benefits of project portfolio management. Suppose you want to maximize your business’s overall success and financial growth.

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Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualization Will Never Be Enough

Five years ago, data visualizations were a powerful way to differentiate a software application. Today, free visualizations seem to be everywhere. Two trends are forcing application providers to rethink how they offer analytics in their products.

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A Beginners Guide to PTO Planning

nTask

Paid time off (PTO) is an important part of any employee’s compensation and benefits package. But, for many employees—especially new hires—it can be confusing to figure out exactly how it works. Do you have to track hours? How do you use your PTO? What happens when you don't use all of it?

2023 78
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The importance of Transparency and the Sprint Backlog (07)

Scrum.org

Scrum is founded on empirical process control, and transparency is one of the three pillars. Each of the Scrum Artifacts exist to bring transparency to the Scrum Team and the stakeholders.

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The Continuity Of Moving Into A New Year (e.g. 2023)

Gunther Verheyen

Although I don’t have fixed moments at which to do it, I like to also regularly reflect and look back in my personal life or when operating my one-person company called Ullizee-Inc (my vehicle to deliver value in four Scrum Service Areas). [It

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