Proofhub

MAY 2, 2023

Time Management Do you often find yourself running behind deadlines at work? Do you feel you lose control over your work more often than not? Do you feel stressed because of not being able to manage your time effectively? If your reply to one or more of the above-mentioned questions is “yes” then you need to get your act together. In today’s extremely competitive workplace environment, only smart professionals can survive and thrive.

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Scrum.org

MAY 1, 2023

Teams are more effective when they have more control over how to do their work and in what order. This is the essence of "self-management", and it is critical to Scrum teams and other kinds of Agile teams. Self-managing teams are central to Scrum and other Agile methodologies. Teams need high autonomy in complex environments, like product development.

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nTask

MAY 2, 2023

Project Management Budget Tracker is a crucial tool for any project manager to keep track of expenses and ensure that the project stays within budget. The Budget Tracker helps managers to stay on top of costs and allows them to make informed decisions about where to allocate resources.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 30, 2023

You probably already know that how you say something is just as important as what you say. And you can control and influence how you say something by understanding paraverbal communication. Paraverbal community is a powerful tool to help you land your messages more effectively and be more influential – crucial when your team doesn’t work for you. But what is this science, you ask.

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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.

Planning

ProjectManager.com

MAY 2, 2023

Resource optimization is key to delivering a successful project. Resources, of course, are anything used to execute the project, including human resources and non-human resources. Resource management techniques keep a project on schedule. To have the right resources at the right time, project managers need to understand resource optimization techniques.

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LiquidPlanner

MAY 3, 2023

Both project (PM) and portfolio management (PPM) are core processes for driving growth in many businesses – large and small. While it’s easy to confuse the two, they serve very different purposes. So what exactly is PM and PPM, and what are the key differences between the two processes? Project Management vs Portfolio Project Management One of the best ways to visualize the difference between PM and PPM is to put yourself at sea on a boat.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 2, 2023

Do you get to the end of the week and wonder what you’ve spent the days on? Your To Do list on a Friday might not look that much different to how it did on Monday, and yet you’ve barely had time to grab a coffee because you just haven’t stopped. You’ve got so many balls in the air. However, juggling will only get you so far. There are strategies you can use to help you streamline your projects and combine work across stakeholders and teams.

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Leading Agile

MAY 3, 2023

If you could magically create a new world where large organizations had overcome the barriers to Business Agility and Agile came naturally, what would have to be true about that world, the organizations, and the people working there? To make your new world a reality, what beliefs and worldviews would need to get left behind? What would the organizations have to look like?

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International Institute for Learning

MAY 3, 2023

By Cyndi Snyder Dionisio Projects are getting more complex. One of the ways we see this manifesting is with the increasing utilization of hybrid approaches in delivering projects. Hybrid approaches provide a framework for value delivery while balancing the need for discovery and evolving scope. One of the more daunting aspects of working on a hybrid project is figuring out how to build a schedule that shows the sequence and duration for predictive approaches [1] while remaining flexible enough

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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

Finance

ProjectManager.com

MAY 3, 2023

Task prioritization is a powerful tool when executing a project. There are so many different tasks it can look at if your work-life balance is tilting towards never having any time off. But project managers understand that applying task management and time management methods will both boost team morale and productivity. That’s why it’s essential to understand what task prioritization is, why it’s important and how project management software can help teams work more efficiently while

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Scrum.org

MAY 2, 2023

A good Scrum Master is like a Swiss army knife, able to adapt to any situation and provide the team with the tools it needs to succeed. A Scrum Master that focuses solely on Scrum event facilitation to ensure they “follow the rules,” and start and end on time is like a chef trying to prepare a gourmet meal using just one ingredient. Yes, Scrum events are important, but they are just one part of the Scrum Master accountability.

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nTask

MAY 2, 2023

Businesses often have multiple projects that need to be managed at the same time. Managing multiple projects can be very challenging and is made more difficult when each project involves a different team, timeline and deliverables.

Planning 141

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Leading Agile

MAY 5, 2023

LeadingAgile has worked with lots of clients 13 years into our existence. In our experience, the number one barrier to doing Agile at scale, to running a successful Enterprise Transformation, to achieving true Business Agility is creating complete cross-functional teams at the lowest levels of the organization. What do I mean? If we can’t create complete cross-functional teams at the work surface, where code actually gets written and deployed, how do we expect to run a successful Transformation

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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.

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WorkOtter

MAY 4, 2023

There are a few main differences between a Project Management Office vs a Program Management Office. While it may seem like splitting hairs between the two to pick out the differences, they are actually quite different in terms of their contribution and roles to a business. Program Management What is a Program Management Office? It can often be viewed as a group of related projects that are coordinated in a specific manner to achieve certain goals and benefits that cannot be achieved without.

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Scrum.org

MAY 4, 2023

By Lavaneesh Gautam , Professional Scrum Trainer Effective Stakeholder Engagement is key to the success of the product and one of the essential skills all product people should have. This article is part 3 of the Effective Stakeholder Engagement series. So far we have covered 2 steps of engaging stakeholders. First, Stakeholder Exploration and Stakeholder Analysis & Mapping.

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nTask

MAY 1, 2023

Project time tracking is a major concern, regardless of the shape and size of the organization. Of course, as much as managers like to liberate team members in terms of flexible work hours, there’s always an accountability factor in specific scenarios. The latter refers to deadline-oriented projects sourced through 3rd party contractors.

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Leading Agile

MAY 4, 2023

When organizations set out to adopt Agile, they always have a business reason. It’s never just because they really love Scrum, or SAFe, or LeSS. But when the teams start doing all the Agile things, and they’re met with resistance from the organization around them, it’s hard to point to success because not much changed. So, we start defining success as “do the roles and ceremonies exist and are we following all the Agile dogma.

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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.

Planview

MAY 3, 2023

The world of project management is rapidly evolving, with an increasing emphasis on the role of the PMO in enterprise transformation. At the same time, automation is dominating conversations about the future of work. Which begs the question—how can today’s project managers leverage automation to drive maximum value for their organizations? With many years of experience in working with enterprise customers to unlock transformational value , Blumhorst and Derbyshire have decades of experience driv

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Scrum.org

MAY 4, 2023

Scrum impacts the entire organization. To unlock your Scrum team’s superpowers, improvements are necessary within and especially around teams. The Scrum.org PSM II class contains multiple exercises that make visible where improvement is needed in order to use Scrum more effectively. In particular the exercise “Management in Scrum”. In this blog post, I describe how Scrum teams can use it with managers, leaders, and coaches in their organization to effectively remove impediments.

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nTask

MAY 1, 2023

In today's ever-changing world, staying on top of tasks and projects can be a challenge. Fortunately, with the advent of online timesheets software, it's now easier than ever to stay organized and keep track of your team's productivity. Timesheets software makes it easy to track hours worked, assign tasks, and monitor progress.

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Proofhub

MAY 1, 2023

We survived the COVID-19 pandemic. Does that mean that employees nowadays do not get burned out? Boosting Employee Morale and preventing burnout is not something that we need to address during critical situations alone. Being a manager, it is one of the toughest situations to see your employee go through burnout. I strongly believe in the methodology of building a workplace that offers a healthy environment for boosting employee morale at all times.

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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.

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Resource Guru

MAY 2, 2023

The big news in the last few months has been the release of two hotly anticipated new features – Approval Workflow and email notifications (which we’ve expanded to include time off events too). But there’s been much more bubbling away beneath the surface. Read on for a roundup of some updates and enhancements we’ve made in the last few months: See what’s changed when bookings are modified.

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Scrum.org

MAY 3, 2023

„Wie kann ich eine Retrospektive online durchführen?“, lautet eine Frage, die ich in letzter Zeit oft gehört habe. Die Fragenden suchen nach einem einfachen Format, welches sich online bewährt hat. Nach jahrelangen Erfahrungen mit Online-, Offline- und hybriden Retrospektiven lautet der wichtigste Grundsatz für erfolgreiche Retrospektiven im Onlineformat: Wir arbeiten als Team zusammen, aber jeder denkt für sich!

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nTask

MAY 1, 2023

Staying productive and organized can be a challenge, especially in the digital age. To help you stay on top of all your projects, tasks, and deadlines, we have compiled a list of the top 5 productivity tracking software of 2023.

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Online PM Courses

MAY 3, 2023

In this video, I will take you through my 5 stages and 21 steps for how to create a Project Schedule. This is core PM knowledge. The post How to Create a Project Schedule – 21 Steps in 5 Stages | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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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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