Bridge the Gap Consulting
MAY 17, 2022
A good friend of our family is an EMT (Emergency Medical Tech). Somehow, we got on the topic of multitasking. As she put it, if she loses focus and starts multitasking on things not directly related to a patient, someone could die. That got me thinking, do I multitask? Hell yeah I do!! Every project manager I’ve ever known multitasks. And you know what?
International Institute for Learning
MAY 17, 2022
By David Daly. If you ask an executive why they want to adopt an agile approach, the chances are they will say they want to deliver things faster. Dig a little deeper, and you might find out that their goal is to reduce lead times (from asking for something to getting it). Or they may want to deliver more “stuff” in the same amount of time. This “need for speed” may be driven by having to keep up with (or overtake) competitors, or to respond more quickly to changing market demands.
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Rebel’s Guide to PM
MAY 17, 2022
Elisa Cepale. As project managers, it’s important that we know how to best support our development teams (and vice versa), especially in Agile environments. At White October we continuously reflect on our process to refine the way we work. Here is what we learned from an invaluable brainstorming session with our Tech Lead. A lot of the points below relate to teams in Agile environments , but can apply to any type of project team.
ProjectManager.com
MAY 19, 2022
Is your organization failing to close the gaps between strategy and project execution? Fortunately, there are strategies ( and tools! ) you can use to help you close those gaps, yet it isn’t easy. And you’re not alone in this challenge. Let’s review strategies and tools you can use, and learn how they can help you close that gap to promote successful project execution.
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Scrum.org
MAY 15, 2022
This article is also available as a free PDF. It’s a nicely styled paper and allows you to easily share it with others. You can download the PDF here or check the package that includes 30 Quickstart workshops ! . Does your team struggle with using Sprint Goals? We wrote this guide to help you get the dialogue started in your team. Sprint Goals help teams understand what is valuable in a Sprint, and thus help them make decisions about what to spend time on (and whatnot).
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Rebel’s Guide to PM
MAY 14, 2022
This is a guest article by Joel “Thor” Neeb from Afterburner. In school, we were taught that 99% was an A+, and if you were the recipient of such a grade you would probably be accused of “blowing the curve” on the test for everyone else. Well, in today’s business world, 99% business execution is no longer good enough. In fact, it’s an “F”. Take, for instance, Amazon Web Services (AWS).
ProjectManager.com
MAY 18, 2022
For as long as there has been manufacturing, people have been working to increase efficiency. Faster and better products lead to greater profits and brand loyalty. Using technology to achieve efficiency is called advanced manufacturing. As technologies have become more innovative, advanced manufacturing technology also improves. This creates better products, as well as the process that is used to create them.
Scrum.org
MAY 20, 2022
Some time ago, we hosted an experience interview with Bas Vodde. Together with Craig Larman, Bas developed Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS). A framework for scaling Scrum to medium to large products while staying true to the original Scrum principles. During this meetup, Bas answered a wide variety of questions raised by our Patreon community. For example: What would be a 2-minute explanation of LeSS?
nTask
MAY 20, 2022
Regardless of how much planning you do, whenever you are executing a project, you may still face plenty of challenges. The idea is that you will eventually want to have the tools in place that helps to assess the requirements. Understanding whether or not your project is on the right track with effective progress is […].
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
Rebel’s Guide to PM
MAY 20, 2022
Meeting a project sponsor for the first time is an opportunity to impress. It’s also your chance to start the project off well by understanding exactly what it is that your sponsor wants from you. You can start to get an idea of how the two of you will work together to achieve those objectives. But what do you actually talk about when you meet a project sponsor for the first time?
ProjectManager.com
MAY 18, 2022
For as long as there has been manufacturing, people have been working to increase efficiency. Faster and better products lead to greater profits and brand loyalty. Using technology to achieve efficiency is called advanced manufacturing. As technologies have become more innovative, advanced manufacturing technology also improves. This creates better products, as well as the process that is used to create them.
Scrum.org
MAY 18, 2022
In Kürze: 21 Sprint Retrospektive Anti-Patterns. Welches Ereignis könnte das Empirieprinzip von Scrum besser verkörpern als die Sprint Retrospektive? Ich nehme an, alle sind sich einig, dass selbst die einfachste Retrospektive – wenn sie nur regelmäßig stattfindet – weitaus nützlicher ist, als ab und zu eine ausgefallene zu haben, ganz zu schweigen davon, dass man überhaupt keine Retrospektive hat.
Planview
MAY 20, 2022
In this post, we’re going to show you how to execute a project. You’ve initiated your project, created an in-depth plan, and secured stakeholder buy-in. Now it’s time to execute. Simple enough, right? Except that, as every PMO knows, project execution is the most challenging stage of the project life cycle, and it’s only gotten more difficult in a world of hybrid and remote work.
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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.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
MAY 18, 2022
Help! I’m an accidental or new project manager. How do I get started? In this article we’ll help you understand what to focus on as you take on your first projects. Simon Harris. What is an accidental project manager? Definition: An Accidental Project Manager is a subject matter expert and/or someone who is known for getting things done. Managing projects is a secondary part of their role, at least to start with.
ProjectManager.com
MAY 17, 2022
Lean management originated in Japan, where it grew out of the Toyota Production System. This led to lean manufacturing, but today lean is used in more industries, such as project management, software development, construction and more. Lean principles come from the Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI), where founders James P. Womack and Daniel T. Jones declared that there were five key lean principles.
Scrum.org
MAY 16, 2022
TL; DR: Sprint Retrospective Anti-Patterns. What event could better embody Scrum’s principle of empiricism than the Sprint Retrospective? I assume all peers agree that even the simplest form of a Retrospective—if only held regularly—is far more helpful than having a fancy one once in a while, not to mention having none. Moreover, I am convinced there is always room for improvement; just avoid dogmatism.
Henny Portman
MAY 16, 2022
The book Remote Team Interactions Workbook – Using Team Topologies Patterns for Remote Working written by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais explores several aspects of team-first remote work including highlighting poor team interactions, the usage of the team-API pattern to define and communicate the focus of teams, to remove team-level dependencies, to design inter-team communications and make use of the three team interaction modes from Team Topologies to help.
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Rebel’s Guide to PM
MAY 19, 2022
Are you guilty of using your email inbox as a To Do list? You get sent a message that needs actioning, but right now you’ve got to dash to a meeting or deal with a query. And the email sits there until you decide to have an inbox clear out and realize you should have done something with it. So how do you manage all the tasks? In this article I’ll share some of the ways I keep action items out of my inbox.
Online PM Courses
MAY 15, 2022
There is a bewildering array of modern Project Management software tools. We look at the three Big Beasts: Asana, Jira, and Monday. The post Asana, Jira, Monday: the Big Three Modern PM Software Tools appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.
Scrum.org
MAY 19, 2022
One of the primary purposes of a retrospective is to create action items, but it’s not uncommon to come up with action items that aren’t actionable. They’re aspirational. Aspirational items might never be addressed, and it might not be possible to know when they are addressed. Aspirational items are like saying, “I want to lose weight”: pretty fuzzy.
Trello
MAY 19, 2022
There’s an old sailor’s proverb you could just as easily apply to project risk management: “When the boat reaches mid-stream, it is too late to stop the leak.” In other words, hindsight is 20/20. While no project manager , no matter how skilled, is a fortune teller, smooth sailing for any project requires foresight, experience, and a healthy fear of risk.
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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.
Ganttic
MAY 18, 2022
For over 10 years, California-based Sunstall has been building clean and efficient solar energy solutions for their clients. With a business model based on continuous improvement, sustainability, and streamlining their work processes they were able to quickly expand from a West Coast startup to an industry leader. And as long-time Ganttic users, our resource planner has been helping Sunstall for much of their journey. .
nTask
MAY 18, 2022
Release management tools are an indispensable part of the software development machinery. These tools are an effective way of improving your productivity and working more efficiently. One of the things about release management is that you have to be on your toes all the time to make sure that all processes are running smooth and […].
Scrum.org
MAY 19, 2022
We started this Scrum foundation series explaining we see four underlying concepts of the Scrum framework. In the past series of blog posts we covered the three pillars of Empiricism, and we covered the Scrum Values. Now that we understand that we need trust, which is built up by living the Scrum Values, to bring transparency and as such have a good basis to inspect and adapt, we can have a look at the self-managing aspect of the Scrum Team. ??
PM Times
MAY 17, 2022
With 2 plus decades experience in the project management and organizational development world, I am incessantly amazed on how a project is so closely linked the Project Sponsor, instead of the organization and the business goals it is set to achieve or influence. When the “why”, purpose of a project has been well documented and […]. The post RIP – Rest In Place Projects appeared first on Project Management Articles, Webinars, Templates and Jobs.
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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