March, 2024

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Project Management Job Titles: Understanding the Types of Roles in Project Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

If you’re searching for a project management job, you’ve no doubt come across a range of different job titles. Which one should you go for? The ‘project manager’ job descriptions have a wide variety of roles and duties, which can make it hard to know what’s right for you. And therein lies the challenge. What ‘project manager’ means to one business will be slightly different to how another company uses the term.

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What Is Organizational Strategy in Business? (Examples Included)

ProjectManager.com

The most successful companies always have one eye on the future so they can not only survive but thrive. That doesn’t happen without an organizational strategy to plan for the organization’s long-term success. Organizational strategy has many layers. We’ll first define the term and then go into the organizational strategy levels, as well as explain its importance in business.

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Planned Obsolescence: An Unsustainable Business Model

Green Project Management

Let’s start by defining some terms. Planned Obsolescence involves designing products to quickly break or become obsolete in the short to mid-term, with the general goal of encouraging sales of new products and upgrades. This business model thrives on consumer dissatisfaction and the constant need for newer, shinier products. However, this approach is ultimately unsustainable […] The post Planned Obsolescence: An Unsustainable Business Model appeared first on Insights into Sustainabil

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Some Big Words about the Risk Register

Musings on Project Management

Every PMO plan includes some form of risk management, and a favorite way to communicate risk to your team, sponsors, and other stakeholders is the (ageless) risk register.So much has been written about the ubiquitous risk register, it's a wonder there is anything more to be said.

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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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Can Kanban Revolutionise Your Workflow?

Scrum.org

In my journey through the realms of Agile and project management, I've encountered numerous strategies and philosophies aimed at refining the process of work delivery. Yet, one philosophy that consistently stands out for its flexibility and profound impact on workflow efficiency is Kanban. This approach, far from being just another methodology or a set of best practices, offers a unique lens through which to view our existing systems and processes.

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57 AI in Project Management Statistics

Rebel’s Guide to PM

We gathered 57 of the top AI in project management statistics to help understand this key development in technology. Recent advancements in tech have changed how project managers work in 2024. Using our 20 years of project management experience, we reviewed AI statistics and trends from trusted third parties, which forms the foundation for this list.

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How to Build and Implement a Project Strategy

ProjectManager.com

Every project is different. While they all have a timeframe and end with a deliverable, they require unique methodologies and steps to reach their goals. Project strategy is the plan that defines a project, which is why project management strategy is so important. To better manage projects, one must clearly understand project strategy, who’s responsible for it in the organization and the steps to create a project strategy.

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Using Generative AI to Drive Corporate Impact

TechEmpower - Project Management

Generative AI is revolutionizing how corporations operate by enhancing efficiency and innovation across various functions. Focusing on generative AI applications in a select few corporate functions can contribute to a significant portion of the technology's overall impact. Key Functions with High Impact Generative AI is revolutionizing sales by enabling dynamic pricing and personalized customer interactions, boosting conversion rates and customer satisfaction.

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Help coming: IT Risk Management

Musings on Project Management

Risk Management in IT projects For years (a lot of years) IT companies have been paying bounties to hackers to find vulnerabilities in target IT systems and report them to bug fixers before they become a business hazard.

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

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 expendi

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Durch die Agile Jobkrise navigieren: Strategien für den Erfolg ??

Scrum.org

In Kürze: Die Agile Jobkrise – Wie Sie eine herausfordernde Situation meistern Während die derzeitige Agile Jobkrise offensichtlich ist, gibt es auch Hoffnung für Praktiker, die bereit sind, ihre Fähigkeiten zu verfeinern, Wissen zu teilen und sich mit Gleichgesinnten zu vernetzen. Dieser Artikel skizziert umsetzbare Strategien, um in schwierigen Zeiten erfolgreich zu sein, und betont, dass Wachstum und Erfolg durch die Nutzung der Stärke der Gemeinschaft und leicht zugänglicher Ressourcen errei

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Transitioning from Waterfall to Agile: Strategies for Success

NimbleWork

As the Agile project management framework reaches adoption maturity at lean, progressive and disruptive startup firms, many teams at established organizations are struggling to fully embrace the Agile project management framework at scale. This is substantiated by the fact that large enterprises are slow to embrace change, and Agile is predominantly driven by a shift in mindset, culture and process of operating at speed.

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BEE Methodology Practitioner Course Review

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Change management is often part of a project manager’s role, but we don’t get a lot of formal training in how to make it happen. I’ve taken lots of training courses over the years, but most of the project management classes haven’t focused on change management at all, so I’ve been basically making it up and learning on the job (and I’ve written before about how change management fits into projects ).

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Tableau Gantt Chart: A How-to Guide With Pros, Cons & Alternatives

ProjectManager.com

Tableau is an analytics platform that allows organizations to visualize their data on powerful yet user-friendly data analysis charts and diagrams powered by machine learning, natural language processing and predictive analytics. While Tableau doesn’t have project management features, you can still use it to make a Gantt chart. In this blog, we’ll learn how to make a Gantt chart in Tableau and explore its key features and limitations.

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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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Benefits Of The Strategy Canvas Tool For Strategic PM’s

The Strategic Project Manager

This post explains what the Strategy Canvas tool is, and how to create a basic Strategy Canvas. It then walks through several examples – generically and for two real companies. Finally, it details the use and benefits of the tool for practicing strategy and project management. What is the Strategy Canvas Tool? The Strategy Canvas tool is a management tool introduced by W.

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From soda straws to 'constant stare'

Musings on Project Management

Does your project have proprietary or other intellectual property that is, of necessity, our of doors?Specialized antennas, telescopes, and other sensors?Unique infrastructure or private facilities?Proprietary ground or air or even space and underwater vehicles, or vehicle performance?New, competitive installations?

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Entlassungswelle bei Agile Coaches: So nutzt du als Scrum Master diesen beunruhigenden Trend zu deinem Vorteil

Scrum.org

Anfang letzten Jahres bahnte sich ein bedenklicher Trend an: Das bekannteste Beispiel hierfür war Capital One, das mehr als 1100 Stellen im Technologie-Bereich strich. Dies war Teil einer breit angelegten Maßnahme zur Kostensenkung und Effizienzsteigerung. Capital One schrieb : „Die agile Rolle in unserer Tech-Organisation war für unsere früheren Transformationsphasen von entscheidender Bedeutung, aber mit zunehmender Reife unserer Organisation ist der natürliche nächste Schritt die Integration

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5 Key Statistics on How the PMP Certification Will Boost Your Salary and Career

The IIL Blog

By Nicholas Mendez March 13, 2024 Are you ready to take your project management career to the next level? In today’s rapidly evolving professional landscape, staying competitive and advancing your career in project management requires more than just experience and skills. One significant way to distinguish yourself is by obtaining the well sought after Project Management Professional (PMP) ® certification.

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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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What’s Limiting Your Agility?

Leading Agile

We’re going on record to tell you that dependencies will be your biggest challenge along your Agile Transformation journey. Dependencies reach far beyond the delivery teams and have most likely taken root in all aspects of the business. Your organization probably looks something like the picture below. When you try to apply Agile in an organization that looks like this, it creates a lot of cognitive dissonance for the people in the organization because these dependencies are incongruent wi

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Resource Requirements in Project Management: A Quick Guide

ProjectManager.com

When a project is planned, a set of steps are outlined to deliver a product or service. Resource requirements need to be identified and allocated for those steps to be executed. Think of resource requirements as the fuel that drives all project activities. Once one understands what resource requirements are in project management, next there is estimating what those resources will be and managing them.

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What is the Rational Unified Process – RUP?

Online PM Courses

In this video I want to answer the question, what is the Rational Unified Process, RUP? And how does it work? The post What is the Rational Unified Process – RUP? appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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Project Decision-Making

Velociteach

Making good decisions is a critical project management skill. The challenge is to create a fair, efficient, effective, and transparent process for our teams and stakeholders. In a McKinsey survey , only 20% of respondents stated their companies excelled in decision-making. The path to the answer is often as important as the solution. Making better decisions requires understanding the organization and establishing context-sensitive processes.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Agile Revolution in the Defense Industry

Scrum.org

The Ukrainian defense against the Russian invasion has revealed one thing: the undeniable advent of the drone era. These striking innovations, which look like toys, are the facade of a profound shift in the industrial paradigm based on speed of change, open-source, decentralization, and composability. These innovative agile practices are a departure from the Taylorist traditions of the defense industry, which is grappling with continuous inflation and delays, impacting national security and huma

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The Bespoke Business Model: Developing Your Own Marketplace Platform

Binfire

In today’s digital age, the concept of custom marketplace development has revolutionized the way businesses operate and connect with consumers. These platforms act as intermediaries, facilitating transactions between buyers and sellers in various industries. From e-commerce giants like Amazon and eBay to niche platforms catering to specific services or products, marketplaces have become an integral part of the modern business landscape.

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The Rhinoceros In The Room (Risk Analysis and How to Tame Your “Unicorn”)

PM Times

Imagine going to the pet rescue organization in your town to get a new pet, and you look at several adorable dogs and cats, and then the staff person says, “Well, there’s one that we’re not sure we’re going to be able to find a home for. Would you like to see him?” You’re there […] The post The Rhinoceros In The Room (Risk Analysis and How to Tame Your “Unicorn”) appeared first on Project Management Articles, Webinars, Templates and Jobs.

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Asana Gantt Chart: A How-to Guide With Pros, Cons & Alternatives

ProjectManager.com

Asana is project management software that offers a variety of easy-to-use tools like timelines, task lists and kanban boards which are mainly used for managing simple projects, everyday tasks and team workflows. It’s a good alternative for small teams that need to manage their workload and collaborate online. In this blog, we’ll show you how to make a Gantt chart in Asana and we’ll do an in-depth analysis of its features, benefits and limitations.

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From Complexity to Clarity: Strategies for Effective Compliance and Security Measures

Speaker: Erika R. Bales, Esq.

When we talk about “compliance and security," most companies want to ensure that steps are being taken to protect what they value most – people, data, real or personal property, intellectual property, digital assets, or any other number of other things - and it’s more important than ever that safeguards are in place. Let’s step back and focus on the idea that no matter how complicated the compliance and security regime, it should be able to be distilled down to a checklist.