ProjectManager.com
AUGUST 25, 2021
Marketing can feel more like an art than a science. How can you do market research to see opportunities in the marketplace that will make money for your company? What are the best ways to brand the business and its products or services to meet the customer needs? There are ways to manage the marketing in your company to discover and take advantage of opportunities in the marketplace.
Project Risk Coach
AUGUST 23, 2021
Project managers, team members, and other stakeholders have disagreements. Some are heated, some not. Let's look at the top reasons for conflict and five ways to resolve conflict. Successful project managers do not run away from conflict; they run toward it. And they quickly engage the appropriate stakeholders in order to discuss and resolve the issues.
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Scrum.org
AUGUST 23, 2021
TL; DR: Should Managers Attend Retrospectives? There are plenty of failure possibilities with Scrum. Given that Scrum is a framework with a reasonable yet short “manual,” this effect should not surprise anyone. A classic discussion is whether it is appropriate that (line) managers attend the Retrospectives of the Scrum team. Probably, making their attendance a regular habit—or even a requirement—is not a good idea.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
AUGUST 26, 2021
My first job applications were a mess. I clearly remember being asked who was the Governor of the Bank of England during an interview with a bank – obviously I was faking being interested in the finance sector as I had no clue. I learned a lot from that experience: I went on to a career in financial services after all, but with much better prep before I met a potential employer!
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ProjectManager.com
AUGUST 27, 2021
Businesses are constantly pulled between supply and demand. But this seemingly simple concept can be difficult to navigate effectively. How do you meet demand and not overstock your inventory? That’s where a process called demand planning comes in. It’s a way to boost profits and keep overhead costs down. What Is Demand Planning? Demand planning is a cross-functional process that businesses use to meet customer demand while avoiding supply chain or inventory management disruptions.
Project Management Update brings together the best content for project management professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Scrum.org
AUGUST 22, 2021
The role of Agile Coach is growing in prominence in many organisations. From software development through to marketing and HR, whole organisations are now seeing benefits from agile adaptive approach to work, and are building internal positions for new Agile Coach roles. . The Scrum Master and Agile Coaching. In the agile enterprise, a Scrum Master has three key areas of accountability [1]: Coaching teams by promoting cross-functionality and helping them to self-manage and self-organise within g
Rebel’s Guide to PM
AUGUST 25, 2021
Are you an expert in change management or feel that you have solid strategies with outstanding results? Do you have a wealth of experience with agile /lean project management? MMU would love to hear from you. Manchester Metropolitan University is undergoing a study of lean/ agile methodology with the aim to help project managers and their team members cope with change.
ProjectManager.com
AUGUST 26, 2021
Construction projects will never get off the ground without financing. Money sets the gears of construction management in motion. Creating a construction budget, therefore, is one of the most important pieces when developing a construction plan. How do you create a construction budget, anticipate the costs for a project and track them to make sure you’re not overspending?
nTask
AUGUST 26, 2021
Your workflow guides most of your projects, it is how you schedule your tasks, assign resources and keep up with the deadlines of the project. But sometimes your workflow might not be it, it might need little tweaks here and there for more optimal working. What if you could optimize your workflow and improve your productivity? What if workflow optimization helps you become more efficient?
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
Scrum.org
AUGUST 27, 2021
This workshop was delivered on 19th August 2021 and focused on introducing the core concepts of Scrum & Empiricism. I used a combination of Liberating Structures, Microsoft Teams, and Mural to deliver an interactive session. Topic(s): Agility. Audience: Teams. Subscribe to A Wee Dram! Get all our posts straight to your inbox by subscribing to the latest posts.
Online PM Courses
AUGUST 22, 2021
Nothing gets done unless people do it. And people need tools, materials, and a place to work. So, Project Resource Management is an essential skill set. The post Project Resource Management: Part 1 of Your Comprehensive Guide appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.
Proofhub
AUGUST 24, 2021
Onboarding helps new employees fit into your culture and integrate into the work environment. The responsibility for that falls onto a good onboarding strategy. A great addition to your strategy is using online tools. Different tools can help make your onboarding strategy more effective and run smoother for employees who implement it. Further, you’ll find nine examples of such software.
nTask
AUGUST 26, 2021
Project management is all about working together in a team. However, it is not as easy as it seems since coordination and collaboration between a team is highly crucial. Unfortunately, most of the time, there is a lapse in communication. Out of the many challenges faced by the project managers, coordination within a team is quite a stress. Meeting deadlines, keeping everyone connected, and keeping a track of the progress of a project and communication are some of the issues faced in project mana
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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.
Scrum.org
AUGUST 21, 2021
Llevo mucho tiempo ayudando a un product owner y me he encontrado similitudes con otras situaciones de ayuda y acompañamiento a otras personas que han estado en el mismo rol. Scrum ha existido durante muchos (más de 20) años y es genial ver que muchas organizaciones están o han estado implementando Scrum para ofrecer mejores productos a sus clientes. .
Musings on Project Management
AUGUST 25, 2021
Here's the challenge: On your project, can you spend $1M in a month?Take a minute and think about it.Consider:If you've got 100 people with an annual payroll of $15M, then yes, it's possible, even likelyIf you've got 20 people with an annual payroll of $3M, then maybe, with overtime and some material charges.Got your answer?Good!
PM Times
AUGUST 25, 2021
User adaptation is one of the major hurdles faced by the digital workplace today. As the work and the workplace continue to adopt and adapt new technologies available, employee usability lags. Sure, some organizations adapt faster than others, but for the long haul, digital dexterity helps organizations to acclimatize faster amid disruption and digital transformation. […].
nTask
AUGUST 23, 2021
Work from home has become a new normal for employees as well as employers. With the changing needs and trends, companies have become more adaptive to remote working. The transition from office to remote work has proved beneficial wherein companies have become more productive, efficient, and creative. Probably the most enticing feature of remote working is that the employees work with greater efficiency hence increasing the profitability of the business.
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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.
Scrum.org
AUGUST 26, 2021
Scrum is founded on empirical process control, and inspection is one of the three pillars. During each of the Scrum Events, and throughout the Sprint itself, the Scrum Team and the stakeholders inspect based on a common understanding. Without this transparency, one cannot perform a valuable inspection. Inspection is about detecting undesirable variances in progressing towards agreed goals. .
Musings on Project Management
AUGUST 21, 2021
This is not about the A/B argument in Agile methods. This is about get the elements of project scope sequenced in the right time order Does "A" come before "B", or not, and Is there a dependency between "A" and "B"? If not, then the sequencing question may be moot.
Leading Agile
AUGUST 25, 2021
Listen to the Agile Unplugged Podcast on the go! Find and subscribe to Agile Unplugged on: Apple Podcasts. Spotify. Soundcloud. RSS. We know process doesn’t matter if your organization isn’t aligned to your customers and markets. Most large-scale organizations aren’t aligned in this way. We also know that the Agile Manifesto says, “We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it.”.
Trello
AUGUST 26, 2021
Strategic planning. It’s a popular term in corporate leadership and a task that enterprises can spend significant time, effort, and money on. And yet, an overwhelming number of corporate strategies fail. After weeks or months of hard work, leadership will unveil their strategic plan, only to have its beautifully crafted long-term goals fall by the wayside.
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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.
PM Times
AUGUST 24, 2021
KeyedIn is an established PPM software provider that is designed to help PMOs get to the next level of PPM maturity. They do this through software products combined with services offerings that configure to user needs. Rich in functionality in all the critical PPM components – portfolio management, resource planning, project management, dashboards and analytics, […].
Techno-PM
AUGUST 24, 2021
Checklists are the must-have of anyone who likes structure and organization so if simply hearing the word gets you excited, you came to the right place. When it comes to project management processes, benefits realization management remains one of the most challenging ones for many reasons. Many organizations acknowledge the importance of benefits realization management for the appropriate selection and initiation of projects and programs, yet many more struggles to do benefits realization manage
MPUG
AUGUST 23, 2021
In case you aren’t familiar with GitHub, I’ll start with a short introduction. Microsoft acquired GitHub in 2018. From Microsoft, “GitHub [is] the world’s leading software development platform where more than 28 million developers learn, share and collaborate to create the future” (source: [link] ). Before you click away because you saw the word “developers” in the above sentence, please remember you’re reading a quote from an article published when GitHub was first acquired.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
AUGUST 23, 2021
The Lazy Genius Way by Kendra Adachi is a book that will prompt you to embrace what matters, ditch what doesn’t and get stuff done. It’s a productivity book, packed with personal stories and anecdotes. The book feels more relevant and achievable than Thursday is the New Friday. It’s about mindset. Mindset is not my thing – but I did not find this book ‘woo’ or difficult to get behind.
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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