Proofhub

MAY 11, 2021

In these turbulent times, there is hardly any industry that isn’t struggling while trying to adjust to the social distancing norms enforced to prevent the spread of COVID19. Enterprises around the globe are also facing a unique set of challenges. The biggest one amongst these challenges is to ensure that every employee has access to the right set of tools while working remotely so that the business operation remains unaffected.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 10, 2021

I recently spoke with Anna of Women in PM Network on Clubhouse about project management career tips. These are the notes from that conversation. What do you think of the Google certification? Wendy @woshifodunrin asked about the Google certification. Anna recommends it. Lydiah @lkimberly1 also shared her experience of taking the course and was positive about it too.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 11, 2021

A project is a vehicle to deliver benefits to their stakeholders. These benefits include improved quality, reduced cost of production, better customer service, increased customer retention and so on. Identifying, describing and measuring these benefits is called benefits management. Having a benefits management plan lets project managers maximize these outcomes for the organization and stakeholders, and it’s part of any successful project management plan.

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Scrum.org

MAY 8, 2021

The term Office politics is taboo for many professionals, as it is pervasive at any workplace. To put it simply, workplace politics centres on differences within employees at the workplace, differences in views and opinions, conflicts on various interests and perspectives, etc. Everything boils down to communications and relations in-between humans. .

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Kiron Bondale

MAY 9, 2021

An HBR article piqued my interest: “Your Board Needs a People Committee” In it, the authors provide services which a talent-focus on the part of a subset of the board could bring to helping the leadership teams they support in attracting, retaining and developing their #1 asset. The authors assert that the typical annual reviews of people data conducted by most boards are insufficient as these only provide lagging evidence of where corrective change might be needed.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 12, 2021

There are two ways owners can pay for work done on a project. One is by a fixed price, where a contract defines what will be done and sets a specific and final price for that work. If the team takes too long to complete their tasks or requires more materials than outlined in the contract, they eat those costs. The other is a time and materials contract.

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Scrum.org

MAY 14, 2021

On today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: When does UAT happen in Scrum? Today's question is all about User Acceptance Testing (UAT). UAT is an anti-pattern in Scrum. There.we said it. It's just a bad idea. You're creating a phase gate that makes your agile practices look a lot like a waterfall. All of this and more are discussed in today's episode of Your Daily Scrum with Todd Miller and Ryan Ripley.

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nTask

MAY 10, 2021

Netflix’s 2019 series Tidying Up with Marie Kondo gave birth to our inner organizer, our very own Marie Kondo. The series was not only a commercial success but also gave rise to a whole movement of the systemic organization. The infamous KonMari method hooked us all and sucked us into this whirlpool of organization and micromanagement. People promptly started incorporating the method in their lives to create more space and get rid of the unwanted.

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The Digital Project Manager

MAY 13, 2021

The post How To Adapt Agile And Kanban For Remote Teams appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 13, 2021

Managing a project is complex. Project managers are trained to plan schedules and allocate resources to meet deadlines and stay within budgets. But once you’re contracting with people outside of your organization, the legal and logistic issues can be overwhelming. Companies employ contract managers to manage this often-complicated contract process. While not every organization has a contract manager, everyone who is leading a project that employees vendors and contractors needs to have an unders

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Scrum.org

MAY 13, 2021

TL; DR: Gold-Plating Beyond Done. There are plenty of failure possibilities with Scrum. Given that Scrum is a framework with a reasonable yet short “manual,” this effect should not surprise anyone. However, creating Product Increments that “over-deliver” in scope or quality — also known as gold-plating — with regard to the previous refinement agreement demonstrates that the Developers need to acquire a more entrepreneurial mindset and embrace their responsibility.

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Teamweek

MAY 10, 2021

Nothing has ever awakened my senses more than the sweet aroma of coffee. Who can resist the cocoa flavor, nutty texture, and overall “happy feeling” you get when you take your first sip? . Not many. For hundreds of years, coffee has spread its rich flavor around the globe—so much that many of us can’t live without it. In a survey of 2,199 Americans, 62% of them agreed that they “cannot function” without a cup of joe.

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Leading Agile

MAY 11, 2021

In today’s environment, organizations are striving for business Agility, or else they risk being put out of business. This makes it imperative that Business and IT work together in a solid partnership based on trust. It is not a tenable position to say ‘just trust us’ when the conditions necessary to build trustworthy systems and teams are non-existent. .

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 14, 2021

This is the first step towards building a viable project schedule is organizing activities. One way to do it is by using a network diagram. This is a tool for visualizing activities over the course of the entire project. There are two main types of network diagrams: the arrow diagram and precedence diagramming. Let’s take a look at the former, also called activity on node or activity on arrow.

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Scrum.org

MAY 9, 2021

We’ll go walking out. While others shout. Of war disaster. Oh, we won’t give in. Let’s go living in the past. Jethro Tull – Living in the Past. Does an organization live in the present or in the past? This question was prompted by Samo Burja’s tweet. The answer seems obvious: of course in the present! Right now we are in the office, developers are developing, managers are managing, directors are directing.

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Teamweek

MAY 13, 2021

Planning is critical to most work, including web design. Without a website project plan, you’ll have a website that yields poor results, disappoints clients, and frustrates the development team. This article will help you plan web design projects so you can deliver them successfully. Here’s what you’ll learn: Why do you need a website project plan? How to plan a website project?

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Henny Portman

MAY 10, 2021

Honored to be interview by Yu Yanjuan, Journalist of Project Management Review (PMR, China). The interview is republished with the permission of PMR in the PM World Journal (PMWJ). To see the original interview with Chinese introduction, visit PMR at [link]. PMR (2021). Agile is a Mindset: Interview with Henny Portman; Project Management Review ; republished in the PM World Journal , Vol.

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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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Leading Agile

MAY 10, 2021

I walked into the conference room to meet with the VP of enterprise Agile Transformation. It’s been three weeks since I joined a team of highly experienced Agile coaches. As the newest person on the ground, I was looking forward to getting to know the ‘Boss’ better so I could, along with the team, deliver the outcomes we were committed to delivering. .

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Scrum.org

MAY 13, 2021

Your team most likely is making a lot of assumptions. In a complex world, they have to. Whatever we do, we first have to make some assumptions. But there are two key things to take into account: Are you gathering the information from your actual (or future) customers to help you make assumptions? Do you validate your assumptions before proceeding? As a Scrum Master your role is to help your team navigate complexity by following Agile values and principles.

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Online PM Courses

MAY 12, 2021

On a project, we can end up in all sorts of trouble, if we have multiple versions of the same document. So, we need document version control. The post How to Maintain Document Version Control on Your Project | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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MPUG

MAY 14, 2021

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Fletcher Hearn’s session, Project Performance Measurement – Part 2: What to Measure and How to Report, being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content.

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PM Times

MAY 12, 2021

What defines a project’s success? An ideal scenario would be when the project deliverables meet the client’s expectations and are completed within time and budget. However, it is not as easy as it sounds. Project managers need to meticulously plan every nitty-gritty and track the performance at every level to come out successful. As Thomas […].

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Scrum.org

MAY 11, 2021

. . 52 Scrum Master Interview Questions. . Want to be ready for that tough Scrum Master interview? Here are 52 questions that will help you really ace the upcoming interview and give you confidence during your Scrum Master interview. The Scrum Master Questions. What is the Agile Manifesto? Four values and principles behind the Agile philosophy. Individuals and interactions over processes and tools.

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Management Yogi

MAY 10, 2021

After availability of two new courses on Risk Management Professional (RMP) exam - RMP 30 Contact Hours Online and RMP Live Lessons, I’ve been getting these two questions from aspiring PMI-RMPs. These are important and pertinent questions.Which course to go for RMP - RMP 30 Contact Hours or RMP Live Lessons? What are the differences?Do note that both these courses are unique and are ONLY such.

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MPUG

MAY 11, 2021

A typical project management methodology (PMM) will facilitate knowledge management, repeatability, comparability, quality, and future impact. An organization that fails to develop and implement a PMM may jeopardize its productivity and potentially its overall success. A common scenario for small- to mid-sized, and indeed even some large companies, is to have a few components of a PMM that arise organically over time, but lack a comprehensive, planned methodology that enables end-to-end manageme

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