Kiron Bondale

JANUARY 28, 2018

Changing mindset is all the rage in the agile community. Years of failed transformations which started with practice, methodology or tooling changes are convincing many that changing the hearts and minds of all stakeholders involved in value delivery provides a more safer road to organizational agility. But how do we change people’s minds? We aren’t trying to change what they do as that results in superficial agility, we want to change how they think about what they do.

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Musings on Project Management

JANUARY 27, 2018

Garbage in; garbage out. GIGO to the rest of us Re GIGO, this issue is raised frequently when I talk about Monte Carlo. simulation, and the GIGO thing is not without merit.

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Project Bliss

JANUARY 29, 2018

Does work always take longer than you expect it will? You make a commitment or plan a task, and it always takes twice as long as you thought it would? I became more aware of this when I had a daughter. Just getting out the door in the morning suddenly took ten times longer than before. But I’ve also noticed this is the case with many other things.

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Zen Project Management

JANUARY 31, 2018

I had an interesting experience recently. I was working with a team as they went thru their sprint planning. They had figured out their capacity based on yesterday's weather and their average amount of interrupt. The product owner suggested the sprint goal and they started picking stories based on the goal. They reached the point where one more story met the sprint goal, but put them over their estimated capacity.

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Binfire

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

No, this article is not about the book called Hamlet, the anatomy of tasks by Ann Louise Hentz or a review of the very popular ABC network’s show called Grey’s Anatomy , but rather it refers to the specific unit of work called a task in project management. Every day we all do all sorts of tasks if we like or not. Our lives are filled with doing this task or another.

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Online PM Courses

JANUARY 29, 2018

As your experience as a Project Manager grows, you will be increasingly called upon to manage multiple projects. And this does not just apply to full time Project managers… Over the years, I have been asked about this by a lot of managers and professionals. They have been tasked with two or more projects to manage, on top of their day-to-day job.

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LiquidPlanner

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Leadership is one of those words that we come across that has a multitude of meanings. Does it mean to give direction? Does it mean to set a vision and motivate others? Or, does it mean what it meant to Eisenhower: “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”? How about it means all of these, and much, much more when it comes to project leadership.

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Digite

JANUARY 29, 2018

Introduction. More and more Agile teams have started to adopt Kanban as a way to improve beyond what Scrum enabled them to do, as also to address some of the challenges that Scrum presented them with. As a result, many people have attempted to compare and contrast Scrum and Kanban in a variety of “Scrum vs. Kanban” sessions in conferences, webinars and online posts.

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Velociteach

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

A big thank you to one of our very own Velociteach Instructors, Alan Zucker, for creating the content for this blog. You can subscribe to his blog and see the sources of this content by following this link: [link] Organizations starting their Agile journey are confronted with an array of choices. One early decision is, what […] The post Scrum vs.

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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

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Online PM Courses

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Kanban originated in the manufacturing sector. But, recently, it has become a popular approach to managing projects. This is especially as it has been developed into an Agile Project Management methodology. So, what is Kanban? So, what is Kanban? Dr Mike Clayton is founder of Online PM Courses.com. Here, he answers this question, in under 5 minutes.

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Prince2

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

It’s Super Bowl weekend, so (naturally) we’re thinking about project management. We’re not, however, going to discuss the processes and logistics that go into organising an event like this. We’re going to outline why a football game is just like a project. How so? We hear you ask. Well, as anyone who’s studied project management will know – its processes and themes all find mirrors in everyday life.

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GanttPRO Project Management

JANUARY 29, 2018

It’s difficult to find a project where no problems occur. There will always be issues with tasks, deadlines, and assignees. No one and nothing will secure your plans from poor […].

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 29, 2018

There's a popular notion in Agile that says Focus on Value. The principles of microeconomics of decision making in the presence of uncertainty mandates you make estimates of how to achieve that Value in terms of cost and schedule, those three (and all) variables are random variables, usually driven by a stochastic process. This process can be stationary (unchanging distribution) or non-stationary (a changing distribution function).

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Celoxis

JANUARY 30, 2018

Celoxis has been identified as one of the best software and services companies in India, based on its high levels of customer satisfaction and likeliness to recommend ratings from real G2 Crowd users. India’s B2B tech scene is infused with the country’s advancements in artificial intelligence, digital payments, and other technologies.

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Workzone

JANUARY 29, 2018

Now’s the time. Change is possible. You can communicate more effectively, be more efficient with your work and get faster approvals–possibly with even fewer meetings. Too good to be true? It depends on if you establish your processes and the work you put in to manage your actual work. To help you do that, we asked our project management support specialists and customer success managers at Workzone about ways to improve (see their answers below).

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Appfluence

JANUARY 30, 2018

Email Management. The Pervasiveness of Emails. Managing emails effectively is a vital part of workplace communication in this day and age. The purpose of emails is to allow for quick communication and an easy-to-access record of your conversation. However, while email allows you to reach virtually anybody, whether the person you are reaching is in your office or across the world, email seems to universally cut into productivity.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 28, 2018

When you use a technology term to describe a customer value you've lost the customer. And you've made 1000 assumptions without knowing! Without a domain and context, this statement has no meaning. . Let's say we use a technical term like Command & Data Handling. . The Command and Data Handling subsystem is essentially the "brains" of the orbiter and controls all spacecraft functions.

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Celoxis

JANUARY 29, 2018

The experts from B2B software directory CompareCamp performed a thorough analysis of Celoxis, examining all aspects of our product — from main functionalities and collaboration features to integrations and ease of use. Celoxis generated highly positive remarks, thus their experts awarded us their Great User Experience and Rising Star awards.

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Workzone

JANUARY 30, 2018

So, where should you start searching for project management software? How do you sift through all the choices available to you? You probably already have…. …but don’t just Google “project management software”. It’s going to hurt your brain. There’s so many choices out there that serve every industry imaginable (or say they do) and track projects in different ways.

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TimeCamp

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Small businesses may have it difficult to stand out in the market, taking into.

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The Digital Project Manager

JANUARY 29, 2018

Project Portfolio Management (PPM) is a fancy term to describe how we manage the often-confusing mix of interrelated, dependent, and connected projects. PPM considers the. The post A Quick Guide To Project Portfolio Management (PPM) appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Brightwork

JANUARY 29, 2018

We have found that the folks who find themselves easily distracted are the ones who have not set goals, have not organized their schedule to live their lives on purpose. Below is a summary diagram of our 5 step approach to time management. You’ll see you should be very deliberate in setting your personal and professional goals, before planning out your week to achieve these goals – they cannot happen by accident!

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GanttPRO Project Management

JANUARY 29, 2018

It’s difficult to find a project where no problems occur. There will always be issues with tasks, deadlines, and assignees.

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TimeCamp

JANUARY 30, 2018

One of the challenges every company, or a freelancer working individually, has to face is.

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Musings on Project Management

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

A simple but profound observation: When change is easy, the need for it cannot be foreseen; when the need for change is apparent, change has become expensive, difficult and time consuming. David Collingridge "The Control of Technology". Read in the library at Square Peg Consulting about these books I've written Buy them at any online book retailer! Read my contribution to the.

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Speaker: Ketan Jahagirdar - Sopheon’s Director of Product Management

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