2023

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Risk Mitigation in Project Management

ProjectManager.com

Risk is something every leader knows well. No decision in any organization occurs without some potential for loss. We all need to become comfortable with some risks. We are never going to eliminate all risks. So our best course of action is to prepare a risk mitigation plan so that we can manage those risks that are the most dangerous to our organization effectively before they have the opportunity to negatively impact us.

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Fundamentals of Project Planning and Management: UVA Darden Course Review

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Recently I audited the Fundamentals of Project Planning and Management course from University of Virginia Darden Business School. It’s one of the most popular project management courses on Coursera. I’ve put together this Fundamentals of Project Planning and Management course review to answer all your questions so you can save time deciding whether it is right for you.

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Uncovering the Role of Risk Owners in Agile Projects

Project Risk Coach

It's a simple question, "Who owns the risks in agile projects?" However, I find many people need help when I ask. In this article, let's uncover the role of risk owners and how to perform risk management in agile projects. What is a Risk Owner? A risk owner is an individual who is responsible for identifying and responding to potential risks that could affect the success of a project.

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The Illusion of #Velocity ?

Scrum.org

TL; DR: Why Velocity Is a Useless Metric from a Management Perspective Typically, the obsession with velocity doesn’t originate from the team itself. It trickles down from management. Equipped with spreadsheets and performance dashboards, leaders often turn to easily quantifiable metrics like velocity to gauge progress. But what if this managerial focus on velocity is a fata morgana obscuring the path to true agility and value?

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Project Team Engagement in the Context of Human/AI Hybrid Teams

The leadership style that the leaders adopt during engagement is critical in gaining team member support for building a positive thinking team. The challenge is in deciding whether to adopt an engagement focused leadership style that emphasizes human behavior characteristics such as personalities, or to a task-oriented leadership style that focuses on the work needed to be performed and the tools to be used.

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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower - Project Management

At TechEmpower, we frequently talk to startup founders, CEOs, product leaders, and other innovators about their next big tech initiative. It’s part of our job to ask questions about their plans, challenge their assumptions, and suggest paths to success. The conversations are interesting and varied because they’re about new, exciting, different things.

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13 Reasons to Choose Agile Project Management Methods

LiquidPlanner

Are you thinking about introducing agile processes to your project management methodology? You’ve a few case studies, you’ve perhaps even seen agile working effectively at other companies. But now it’s time to dive into the details and decide. Additionally, it may not be enough for you to know that agile methods are a logical addition to your toolset at work.

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Unique Ways of Incorporating Branding in Your Business: Expert Tips and Strategies

Binfire

Businesses are always looking for new and innovative ways to stand out from their competitors. One way to do this is by incorporating branding into every aspect of the business. From the products and services offered to the way the business is presented to the public, branding can make a significant impact on the success of a business. One unique way to incorporate branding is through the packaging of products.

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4 Common Misconceptions About Agile Transformation

Leading Agile

As a community, we have developed a handful of team-based Agile approaches over the years; some of which we would consider scaled. But here we are. More than 20 years past the signing of the Manifesto, and we still don’t have this whole thing nailed. Implementing Agile, especially in larger, more complex organizations, still seems to be a black art.

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PMI-RMP: All you Need to Know about PMI’s Risk Management Certification

Online PM Courses

One Project Management certification that is growing in popularity is the PMI-RMP. This is PMI’s Risk Management certification. The post PMI-RMP: All you Need to Know about PMI’s Risk Management Certification appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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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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16 Top Recruitment Skills That All Great Recruiters Have

Teamweek

For any company to grow and succeed, you need someone on board with top-notch recruitment skills. But what does that mean, exactly? We’ll explore the core recruiting skills that make up this skillset, so you’re equipped to pick not only a good recruiter but a great one. TL;DR — Key Takeaways What does a recruiter do ? They’re responsible for sourcing and screening talent matching a company’s growth needs.

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10 Project Meetings to Guide Your Project Management Team

ProjectManager.com

Project meetings often feel as if they’re in the way of your work. If you’re not working from an agenda or you don’t manage those meetings, that can be true. But meetings are critical for project planning and team collaboration. That’s why there are so many project meetings and each has its own focus and importance. Let’s take a look at 10 different types of project management meetings and define them, and we’ll start with the definition of what a project meeting is.

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Google Project Management: Professional Certificate Review

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Are you ready to dive into my Google Project Management: Professional Certificate review? I’ve done a lot of project management training in my 20+ years as a project manager, and those courses helped me understand the skills, tools and techniques required to succeed leading projects. Luckily, many of those training programs have been paid for by my company over the years, or provided as internal courses.

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Ad Hoc Project Management: The Art of Chaos and Confusion

MPUG

In the world of project management, a methodology stands out like a sore thumb, and that’s the notorious ad hoc project management. Suppose you’ve ever had the misfortune of encountering a project managed in this haphazard manner. In that case, you’ll understand why it’s often the subject of derision and eye-rolling among seasoned project professionals.

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The Essential Guide to Analytic Applications

Embedding dashboards, reports and analytics in your application presents unique opportunities and poses unique challenges. We interviewed 16 experts across business intelligence, UI/UX, security and more to find out what it takes to build an application with analytics at its core. No matter where you are in your analytics journey, you will learn about emerging trends and gather best practices from product experts.

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Lean Startup and Scrum

Scrum.org

I remember the first time I heard about Lean Startup. I was an analyst for Forrester research on a panel at the Agile conference in Orlando. A member of the audience asked, “What do you think about Lean Startup?”. Honestly, I had not heard of Lean Startup. After the conference, I bought Eric Ries’s book - Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses.

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A Comprehensive Guide on Delegating Roles In a Team Project

nTask

Working on a team project can be daunting, especially if you’re unsure of delegating roles. How do you decide who should handle which tasks? What do you do if someone isn’t pulling their weight? These are just some questions that can come up when taking on a group project. The key is having a plan […].

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You’ve Chosen a Career in Project Management…Now What?

The IIL Blog

By Veronica Thraen September 20, 2023 In a previous article, I provided three ways to test your readiness for a career in project management when you are looking for a change or just starting your professional career journey. Choosing to embark on a career as a project manager could be one of the wisest and timeliest decisions you make. The Project Management Institute (PMI), the world’s leading certification body for project managers (PMs), predicts that the global economy will need 25 million

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Comprehensive Comparison of Project Management and Portfolio Project Management

LiquidPlanner

Both project (PM) and portfolio management (PPM) are core processes for driving growth in many businesses – large and small. While it’s easy to confuse the two, they serve very different purposes. So what exactly is PM and PPM, and what are the key differences between the two processes? Project Management vs Portfolio Project Management One of the best ways to visualize the difference between PM and PPM is to put yourself at sea on a boat.

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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.

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Episode 185 – Redefining Project Success through Sustainable Project Management

Velociteach

The podcast by project managers for project managers. Projects are instrumental in defining an organization’s vision for a more sustainable future. Dr. Joel Carboni talks about Sustainable Project Management, and the goal to achieve a stated objective while considering the project outcome’s entire lifecycle to ensure a net positive environmental, social, and economic impact.

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Is SAFe Agile?

Leading Agile

I don’t spend a bunch of time on LinkedIn, but the other day, I was scrolling around and happened to catch a thread where some folks in the Agile community were debating if SAFe was actually Agile. People have been debating this topic for as long as SAFe has been around. The post generated a lot of good conversation, so I thought I’d take a minute and share how I think about this.

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The Iron Triangle: Is it Time to Improve the Triple Constraint?

Online PM Courses

The Iron Triangle, or Triple Constraint, is one of the best-known ideas in Project Management, and it is fundamental. The post The Iron Triangle: Is it Time to Improve the Triple Constraint? appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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Project Team Engagement in the Context of Human/AI Hybrid TeamsBy Harold Kerzner, Ph.D. and Elissa Farrow, Ph.D.

International Institute for Learning

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How to Battle Layoffs: The Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp

Facing layoffs in your organization? Support your team members' career transition with Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp: Custom Resume & LinkedIn Revamp + 6 Weeks of Career Coaching. Our certified resume writers will create job search-winning resumes and LinkedIn profiles while they work with a career coach to learn unique strategies to stand out, attract the right employers, automate their job search, and land their dream job.

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100+ Project Management Terms: PM Terminology Explained

ProjectManager.com

Everything you need to know about project management terms is here in one list! Plus we’ve added handy links to help you dive deeper into different topics with videos, articles and even our round-up of all resources so you can put these important terms into practice with your projects. Check back often, as this list of project management terminology is ever-evolving, just like project management itself!

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The Best Free Online Project Management Certificate Courses (2023)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Project management is a great career. But how do you know it’s for you? And how do you show prospective employers that you are keen to commit to the job and you know enough about the role of a project manager for them to take a chance on you? A certificate course helps you stand out from the crowd. I’ve taken plenty of project management certificates over the years – but mostly, they cost money.

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Building A Practical Portfolio Roadmap with Microsoft Project

MPUG

Project creates, program guides, portfolio decides. – Quote from the book, “I Want To Be A PfMP – The Plain and Simple Way To Be a PfMP” Project is all about deliverables and it creates a unique product, service, or result. Program is all about getting benefits by coordinating the components within its scope. Portfolio, on the other hand, is about meeting the strategic business objectives of an organization with a collection of the right portfolio components.

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Has Agile Stalled?

Scrum.org

Sitting at lunch during Agile 2023, I felt deja vu. I have attended many Agile conferences. My first was in Chicago in 2009. I have only missed two during those fourteen years. I have witnessed the growth of Scrum, the rise of DevOps, the impact of XP, the expansion of SAFe, and the growing connection to professional coaching. I have seen tool vendors come and go.

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Unlocking Business Agility: Leveraging the Power of Strategy Execution

True business agility is impossible if execution is disconnected from strategic planning. Download this eBook to learn about the 12 key imperatives every organization must address, and discover how they impact the capabilities you’ll need to effectively deliver execution across all investments.

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Situational Leadership & Goals Alignment in Project Management (*Updated 2023 Guide)

nTask

A leader might employ a variety of leadership approaches to be more productive at work. You may have met a leader or manager who explains things to you, helps you, and progresses you during your PM profession. This management style might well have improved your productivity and professional advancement when you lacked experience. Different skill […].

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What Topics Will Be Covered at This Year’s IPM Day 2023?

The IIL Blog

By Cynthia Snyder Dionisio August 23, 2023 Blended Remote/In-Person Teams More than ever, project managers are leading blended remote and in-person teams. According to WFH Research, of the overall workforce, 13% of employees work from home full-time, and another 28% work from home part-time. By 2025, the percentage of people working from home full-time is expected to climb to 22%.

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5 Project Management Trends You Should Know in 2023

LiquidPlanner

If there’s one thing that my career as a project manager has taught me, it’s that while the fundamentals of delivering a good project don’t change much, the environment in which we have to do the delivery is constantly changing. I don’t think I could have predicted how different the technological landscape would look to what I started out using. Equally, the economic and political landscapes that also shape the context of our work are hugely different to what life was like 20 years ago.

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