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How is Design Thinking Used to Get Project Results?

Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

Design thinking is a non-linear process, which allows businesses and their project teams to embrace design concepts, in order to solve complex, ill-defined problems. It is especially useful for situations where project managers need to re-frame the way they view an issue, challenge internal assumptions, or truly innovate. While the concept of design thinking has grown in popularity, some remain unsure of precisely how it works and what the benefits of a design thinking course are.

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5 Ways to Give (And Receive) Negative Feedback

Planio

Feedback rules everything around us. Whether it’s talking to your customers about what features they want or getting feedback from your boss on a website redesign , we all benefit when we step out of our own heads and hear what others think. But feedback can’t be limited to just back slaps and high-fives. Negative feedback is just as, and sometimes even more important than its more positive counterpart.

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I may be a “Crazy Fool” but I consider the A-Team to be agile!

Kiron Bondale

When teaching agile classes, I’m occasionally asked if I could provide an example of an agile team from cinema or television. While the first Avengers movie does a good job of illustrating Bruce Tuckman’s stages of team development (especially storming!), they are far from being agile. The example I most frequently provide is that quintessential 1980’s TV show, The A-Team.

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Phase-Gate Process in Project Management: A Quick Guide

ProjectManager.com

Whenever there’s a project, there should be a plan. There are many different ways to plan a project, each with their own advantages and disadvantages. Choosing the right planning method ultimately depends on the complexity of your project and your organization. When you have a long-term project that needs to be evaluated regularly, and you’re dealing with numerous stakeholders, the phase-gate process could be an ideal fit for your organization.

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Understand Digital Debt, Form a Team, Set Goals, and Plan Roadmap for Transformation

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.

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The Complete Guide to Project Risk Assessment (Free Template)

Workamajig

Project risk assessment is an essential part of any project management plan. This guide shares 6 key steps in assessing project risk. Running a project can sometimes feel like the plot of a Final Destination movie. No matter how much you prepare for it, disaster is always right around the corner. Anything can - and often does - go wrong during a project.

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Look for the Request Behind the Complaint

Bridge the Gap Consulting

Let’s face it, we all know that person, or people, who it seems do nothing but complain. Beautiful, sunny day and they say it’s too hot. Cool fall morning and it’s too cold. The coffee is not the perfect temperature! Why do you have to drive so fast!? Do you have to drive so slow!? Why are those kids so loud!? It never ends. In the working world, we have them too.

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Conflict Management Tips That Every Manager Needs to Know

Teamweek

Have you ever disagreed with someone about something and had to resort to conflict management? Probably once or twice, right? Disputes are happening all around us. There are so many differing opinions and beliefs across the world it’s nearly impossible to avoid conflict at all times. But even though these disagreements arise, it doesn’t mean the individuals with opposing views can’t find common ground.

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Contingency Plan Vs Fall Back Plan

iZenBridge

Seldom people feel satisfied after the creation of plan B but what if that plan B is not enough to drive those projects. This can be understood by a below real-life scenario. We had a planned vacation to Kerala last year in the month of June. It was expected to rain and I thought I have prepared it by taking Umbrella to the beach but I haven’t prepared for winds though it was predicted in weather forecast and as expected I got drained with water and got the fever.

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Resource Leveling: How Can You Use it in Project Management?

MPUG

A person inexperienced in project management may think that resource leveling is a method of making use of resources having the same height. Most experienced project managers know that it is a resource optimization technique which tries to make the best use of available resources to create a workable project schedule. Resource leveling is often misconstrued as the only resource optimization technique, but there is another one—resource smoothing.

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Strategic Project Finance Essentials: A Project Manager’s Guide to Financial Metrics

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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Top 9 Project Management Word Templates (Updated Nov. 2019)

ProjectManager.com

There are many ways you can gather all the data required to start, run and complete a project. But as involved as any project is, whether it’s big or small, there are fundamentals that remain the same. Instead of reinventing the wheel each time you start a new project, wouldn’t it be great to have a resource that collected a bunch of documents that have been already outlined to serve the purpose of managing a project?

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Backlog management

Musings on Project Management

Yikes! My backlog is blocked! How can this be? We're agile. or maybe we've become de-agiled. Can that happen? Ah yes, we're agile, but perhaps not everything in the portfolio is agile; indeed, perhaps not everything in the project is agile. In the event, coupling the culprit Coupling? Coupling is system engineering speak for transferring one effect onto another, or causing an effect by.

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Top 10 BPMS (Business Process Management Systems) In 2019

The Digital Project Manager

You're asking, "Are there any better alternatives for Microsoft Project out there?" Yes! We've reviewed the best Microsoft Project alternatives that are more powerful, easier to use and cheaper. Choose from this list of the best MS Project alternatives for creating Gantt charts, project plans, and other PM essentials. The post Top 10 BPMS (Business Process Management Systems) In 2019 appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Business Efficiency? Watch the Ball, not the Player

Scrum.org

In football, the team that wins is the one that gets the ball in the other team’s goal most times. Not the one that runs the most. What matters most is what is happening to the ball. So, we need to watch the ball, not the player. Business is no different. In Knowledge Work what matters most is what is happening to the work , not what the workers are doing.

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

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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Why Everyone in the Workplace Needs Project Management Skills

LiquidPlanner

In the business world, where processes are becoming more technically sophisticated, lead times for product development are getting shorter, and work is becoming increasingly cross-functional, it’s no real surprise that demand for sound project management skills is on the rise, and not just from the dedicated project management team. “The need for high caliber project management capability transcends sector and function,” says Heide Abelli, SVP of content product management at S

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Meet Fall 2019 Epicflow Updates: Material Resources, UI/UX Enhancements, and Performance Improvements

Epicflow Blog

This autumn has turned out to be super-productive for us and full of good news for our users. Our team has been working like a well-oiled machine to improve the software functionality and make the process of managing multiple projects as comfortable as possible. So, let’s examine what’s new Epicflow crew has prepared for your safe and pleasant PM voyage this time. .

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How Corporate Website Projects Go Wrong: A Cheat Sheet for Project Managers

The Digital Project Manager

The post How Corporate Website Projects Go Wrong: A Cheat Sheet for Project Managers appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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How the Organization Can Help Empower the Product Owner Role

Scrum.org

While working with plenty of Scrum Teams and teaching Professional Scrum Product Owner classes, I observed a similar anti-pattern regarding Product Owners, which resembles anti-patterns of Scrum Masters who are not empowered. . Through many years of my professional collaboration with companies, I have rarely seen Product Owners who could wholly fulfill their role.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

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.

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Five Favorite Dashboards from LiquidPlanner!

LiquidPlanner

As LiquidPlanner employees, we are all pretty well versed in our product (we have to be!). In working with over 1200 customers, each of us has a favorite Dashboard that brings tremendous value to the teams we speak with. Here are five favorite Dashboards from some of our team members that stand out. 1. New Member Dashboard . – Drew Leavy, Customer Success Manager.

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All Set For International Project Management Day 2019? The Only Project Management Guide you Need

Taskque

When Lori Milhaven collaborated with Laverne Johnson, the result was the first IIL (International Institute of Learning) conference. Men and women from all over the globe came together to share ideas, discuss problems with experts and meet project management professionals to pick their brains. The below guide is for all the project management professionals who are willing to grow and succeed and aspire to make the most of International Project Management Day, without actually having to visit the

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Video: Which Agile Project Management Tools Should I Use? 

The Digital Project Manager

The post Video: Which Agile Project Management Tools Should I Use? appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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What's the right Scrum training for me? Professional Scrum Foundations (PSF) or Professional Scrum Master (PSM)?

Scrum.org

Scrum.org?offers different courses to provide you the best learning experience based on your focus of Scrum. The variety of courses makes choosing the best course difficult sometimes. This blog post aims at helping you choose the best course for you. We will look at the differences between the Professional Scrum Foundations (PSF) and the Professional Scrum Master (PSM) course, as these are the two courses we get the most questions about.

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Acclaim Projects Helps Deliver Innovation Projects on Time and on Budget

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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Key Themes at IPM Day 2019

International Institute for Learning

By J. LeRoy Ward, IIL Executive VP of Enterprise Solutions and Sander Boeije, Program Manager – IIL Online Conferences . On November 7, 2019, IIL will celebrate the 16 th anniversary of International Project Management Day, also known as IPM Day. Initially conceived by Frank P. Saladis, and made possible by IIL, this important day recognizes the incredible and valuable work that project managers do every day.

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How an organization can avoid SDG-washing. Yes, it is a thing…

Green Project Management

This post provides concrete steps to align project work with SDG Targets and goals. The post How an organization can avoid SDG-washing. Yes, it is a thing… appeared first on Delivering a better world, one project at a time.

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Digital Agency Growth Secrets From A Digital PM

The Digital Project Manager

The post Digital Agency Growth Secrets From A Digital PM appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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How to Master the 5 Phases of the Project Management Life Cycle

Wrike

Every project your team works on feels drastically different. Different team members. Different timelines. Different requirements. Different goals. But, those varying projects have more in common than you might think. They all have a beginning, middle, and end that follow a repeatable process. So how can you make the most of this consistent sequence and nail each and every stage, regardless of the specifics of your project?

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From Concepts to Actionable Insights: Powering Digital Transformation Success

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.