Project Bliss

JANUARY 20, 2020

Communication skills are critical for your career. And great active listening skills can serve you in valuable ways you may not have considered. It seems everyone spends a good chunk of their day with their eyes glued to a cell phone. Even when co-workers, spouses, or – saddest of all – kids are speaking, we’re not really engaged. And often, even when someone is speaking to us about something important, we’re often not really listening, but instead thinking about what we&

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Proofhub

JANUARY 20, 2020

What Are Project Activities In Project Management There is no point in oversimplifying project management. It’s rarely simple and straightforward. There are so many factors and activities involved that it often becomes impossible for the manager and the team to deliver quality performance and outcome. In this particular post, we’re going to dig deep into various fundamentals and activities that are a great deal of consideration for everyone during the project management life cycle.

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Workamajig

JANUARY 23, 2020

Project kickoff is one of the most important stages in the lifecycle of a project. Learn how to excel at this stage in this article. Well begun, they say, is half done. Nowhere is this more applicable than at the start of a project. How you start often sets the tone for how the rest of the project unfolds. Kickoff, thus, is a critical time in the life of a project.

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Project Risk Coach

JANUARY 20, 2020

The Project Management Institute says, "high-performing companies manage risk in conjunction with projects and programs far more often than low performers do." How can you help your company manage risks and become a high performer? Let's look at ways to become a project risk management evangelist. The lack of senior management support is one of the primary barriers to effective organizational risk management.

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The objective of this research is to dispel misunderstandings about crucial project management terms and their definitions. It aims to accurately place these terms and facilitate a comprehensive global understanding of their meanings.

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 20, 2020

Do you want to improve communication on your projects? And yet make it easier to do at the same time? In this article I’ll share 15 tried-and-tested tips for effective project communications. 1. Use a milestone tracker. The milestone tracker I use is a simple Excel spreadsheet. It lists the milestones in one column, organised by project phase.

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Taskque

JANUARY 23, 2020

You are planning to launch a new product. From creating the hype to announcing the launch event date and everything in between, you have done everything to make the product launch a success. Your product launch event made the headlines and received a great response from the audience. As the marketing hype starts to settle after a few weeks, you start to receive customer complaints about defects in products.

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Planview

JANUARY 24, 2020

Today’s enterprises are increasingly looking to the PMO to boost the bottom line. Inadequate resource planning practices make it difficult to quickly deliver innovative products, services, and customer experiences. “The risk of poor capacity is the inability to resource projects. We have a ‘need for speed’ and need the right resources at the right time in the life cycle of a project.

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Epicflow Blog

JANUARY 24, 2020

Project Management web resources are awash with articles about 2020 project management trends. Almost on every page, they write about AI in PM, the increased significance of soft skills and emotional intelligence, and hybrid frameworks in project management as a new tendency. Practically, some of them are a little perverted, and some of them – exaggerated.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 21, 2020

Gantt charts have been around for a long time, but since they migrated from analog to digital, their ease of use has made them a staple of project management. There can be misconceptions about Gantt charts, but plainly stated, a Gantt chart shows tasks over time. On the left of a Gantt chart is a list of the tasks, and to the right is a timeline in which those tasks are placed according to when they occur in the project.

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Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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Kiron Bondale

JANUARY 19, 2020

I wrote two weeks back about Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) and the benefit of models such as Cynefin and the Theory of Constraints for being able to understand them. What I didn’t focus on in that article was how important the people element is when dealing with CAS. Two HBR articles published this week reminded me of that critical ingredient.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 22, 2020

Scrum, in its more general definition, is a simple framework to help us address complex challenges. Product development is the subset of complex problem domains where Scrum took root first; by explicitly acknowledging software and new product development to be complex work, serving to deliver complex products in complex circumstances. Scrum is increasingly being discovered as a simple framework to address complex problems and situations other than software and product development.

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LiquidPlanner

JANUARY 23, 2020

Tech teams are comprised of creative individuals, each with their own ideas on how things should work. A good project manager should allow team members to express their creativity, but also keep them focused on the main goal at the same time. The PM is the team member who brings all the creative forces together. Below are the most important project management tips that will make you a more successful manager in the tech industry: 1.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 20, 2020

At the beginning of each year we all reflect on the past and make resolutions for the future. It’s not a bad practice, but why save it for once a year? There is no time like the present for looking backwards and planning forwards. Luckily for project management professionals, there are ample opportunities throughout the year to hunker down with colleagues, network and learn about new techniques and project management technologies in the industry.

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Proofhub

JANUARY 20, 2020

What Are Project Activities In Project Management There is no point in oversimplifying project management. It’s rarely simple and straightforward. There are so many factors and activities involved that it often becomes impossible for the manager and the team to deliver quality performance and outcome. In this particular post, we’re going to dig deep into various fundamentals and activities that are a great deal of consideration for everyone during the project management life cycle.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 22, 2020

Overview. Whilst in a meeting I heard a colleague explaining to another colleague. ".that within Scrum a Development team commits to deliver what they bring into the Sprint Backlog". Listening to the conversation a little longer the same belief was expressed again. At this point I had to interject explaining that the Scrum Team do commit, but they commit to the Sprint Goal and that the Sprint Backlog contained a forecast of work for the sprint. . .

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LiquidPlanner

JANUARY 21, 2020

“Dear Elizabeth: I ran a kick-off meeting for my project, and it was a disaster. I tried to do the detailed planning, but the group wouldn’t focus, and no one seemed to share the same view about what the project was going to deliver. The experience has put me off running kick-off meetings in the future, but I have another project starting soon, so I’m going to have to do it.

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ProProfs Project Management

JANUARY 21, 2020

Project managers , who have just begun working on a project, may find it really stressful and time-consuming to manage multiple tasks, especially if they don’t know the basics. . Imagine you get a promotion as a project manager and are now solely responsible for various management tasks. If you have just entered this field, there is a lot you don’t know and, instead of covering the basics, you take all the responsibilities head-on. .

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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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MPUG

JANUARY 20, 2020

Gantt charts are very popular with project managers and senior managers. They are primarily used to create and communicate project schedules but they can also be used for preparing status reports and giving presentations. They can be combined with project milestones to create richer status reports and presentations. Gantt charts can be easily prepared in MS Project (MSP), but they are very plain and rudimentary in their default form.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 21, 2020

When it comes to Product Ownership, there are a couple of things that are essential to get the job done right. Effective stakeholder management is one of them! In this blogpost, I’d like to outline a few tips that I found helpful being a Product Owner myself or when coaching and mentoring others in the role. . What the Scrum Guide says. So what does the Scrum Guide have to say about stakeholder management?

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Online PM Courses

JANUARY 22, 2020

No one wants their project to fail. But, project failure is all too common. And, when your project starts, you barely recognize the possibility of failure. The post Avoid Project Failure: 5 Top Tips | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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ProProfs Project Management

JANUARY 22, 2020

Many project managers tend to skip analyzing project scope when they take up on a project or when they brainstorm on ways the end-goal can be achieved. Even if the project scope is defined right from the start, there can always be a situation where it needs to be updated or redefined. Having said that, project creep is seen as the main reason that leads to project failure.

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Agilemania

JANUARY 23, 2020

Introduction to digital transformation Digital transformation in simple words is the process of utilising technology to comprehensively change your. The post Agile Leadership and Challenges in Digital Transformations appeared first on Agilemania.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 19, 2020

Often we work harder in Scrum teams, but not necessarily smarter. Therefore the way we work has to change. Five tips for more effective agile work. As a technical Scrum Master and technical Agile Coach, I travel a lot with teams and accompany them on their adventures. The adventure consists of regular deliveries of valuable software for effective product development.

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Online PM Courses

JANUARY 20, 2020

As project managers, we are constantly faced with the Need for Speed. Because one of the biggest challenges is the pace of change. The post The Need for Speed: How to Increase the Pace of Your Project | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

JANUARY 21, 2020

As we enter 2020 and the beginning of a new decade, many people will naturally find themselves focusing on ways they can improve their lives. Of course, your career is one of the most important areas for self-improvement, whether you want to start a new career, move up the ladder with your current employer, or simply become better at your job. From taking an online project management course to making adjustments to your own habits, there are many ways to go about this, but you will need to know

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