MPUG
AUGUST 26, 2019
Having been a project manager for all of my working life and now a teacher of project management skills for more than a decade, I always tell my students to follow sound project management principles and to manage risks proactively. Proactive project risk management is integral part of project management. In fact, I think good risk management is half of project management.
Project Risk Coach
AUGUST 26, 2019
There may be inherent risks when we make project assumptions. We assume certain things to be true when in fact, they may not be. Consequently, we fail to challenge assumptions and continue planning and executing based on false notions. This can be costly. An Example of Wrong Assumptions So, how does this happen? In her book—Thinking in Bets—author Annie Duke shares an illustration: Suppose someone says, "I flipped a coin and it landed heads four times in a row.
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Binfire
AUGUST 28, 2019
In the project management and software development fields, Agile project management principles realized and practiced. . Companies are making huge investments in Agile and DevOps tools and training. The benefits of Agile are well known. Agile helps with speedy roll-outs, continuous improvement, flexibility and reacting to market or customer changes.
Online PM Courses
AUGUST 25, 2019
Do your projects over-run, go over budget, or fail to delight your clients? You can get rapid Project Management results, with my top ten PM tools. The post 10 Tools for Better Project Management Results appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.
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ProjectManager.com
AUGUST 27, 2019
Project personnel, such as a project sponsor, are given specific titles and responsibilities and exist in a bureaucratic structure. Projects would quickly spin out of control without a bureaucratic structure to organize action and authorize change. A bureaucracy creates order and delivers efficiency through charting action and sharing knowledge. In that spirit, we’ll look at a critical role, one that’s near the top of the totem pole: the project sponsor.
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Inloox
AUGUST 29, 2019
Organize your studies with the InLoox Project Campus InLoox now! is our collaboration solution in the cloud with server locations in Frankfurt am Main and Magdeburg. With this flexible planning tool, you can quickly and easily coordinate all the challenges of your everyday university life: Course enrollment. Exam registration. Seminar and group work.
Musings on Project Management
AUGUST 29, 2019
Are you on one of those death march projects about to burn out. Want some time off? Perhaps it's in the plan Formula solution Google among others -- Microsoft, etc -- are well known for the "time off, do. what you want toward self improvement and personnel innovation" model; formulas like that lend objectivity to the process (not playing. favorites, etc).
ProjectManager.com
AUGUST 29, 2019
Influence and persuasion start with confidence. If the people around you don’t detect that you are confident in yourself and what you are saying, then neither will they be. This means conveying confidence is an essential trait for a project manager because a large part of our work is in winning over team members, stakeholders, and clients to our point of view.
Scrum.org
AUGUST 28, 2019
. . Being a Scrum Master requires to take many different stances and approaches when working together with teams and individuals. Two of them that are probably used most are “Coaching” and “Mentoring”. Choosing consciously between those stances is something that we cover in our PSM courses. But what are the differences between them and how can you illustrate those to people that aren’t yet familiar with them?
Speaker: Chris Townsend, VP of Product Marketing, Wellspring
Over the past decade, companies have embraced innovation with enthusiasm—Chief Innovation Officers have been hired, and in-house incubators, accelerators, and co-creation labs have been launched. CEOs have spoken with passion about “making everyone an innovator” and the need “to disrupt our own business.” But after years of experimentation, senior leaders are asking: Is this still just an experiment, or are we in it for the long haul?
Teamhood
AUGUST 30, 2019
These days just creating a great tool is not enough. There are million competitors and alternatives on the market, meaning focusing solely on functionality will not cut it anymore. To make sure you truly stand out you need to think, and I mean really think, about the end user. What is it they want and … The post Top 3 Principles to Ensure Great Customer Experience appeared first on Agile Blog.
Project Bliss
AUGUST 29, 2019
When you set out on a problem-solving effort, it’s important to be clear about the problem you’re going to solve. Even if the whole team knows there’s a problem, you can’t be sure you’re all focused on solving the same problem until everyone comes to an agreement on just what the problem is. Here’s an example of what I mean… Your team wants to undertake a problem-solving effort because they’re working long hours handling a large number of customer
ProjectManager.com
AUGUST 28, 2019
We are very excited to announce our August release for the new version of ProjectManager.com. In this release, we introduced easy-to-use project templates, improved our import functionality and added the ability to include tags on reports. We take customer feedback into careful consideration when designing new features, and this release was no exception.
Scrum.org
AUGUST 27, 2019
In this series of posts, we share our favorite strings of Liberating Structures for Scrum Events. In this post, we share the design for a Sprint Review. All the strings are freely available on this board in Trello. For the sake of readability, we will focus this post on the flow and considerations behind the string. For detailed step-by-step instructions and timings, please take a look at the Trello-board.
Speaker: Dylan Secrest
Construction projects are high-stakes operations where even minor inefficiencies can lead to costly delays, safety concerns, and budget overruns. Managing risk in construction has always been a challenge, but as projects grow in complexity, traditional methods no longer cut it. Enter Digital Transformation - a game changer approach that replaces inefficiency with AI-powered analytics, real-time monitoring, and automated workflows to proactively manage risk.
LiquidPlanner
AUGUST 27, 2019
The PMP, also known as project management professional certification, is unbiased proof of a person’s project management talents and expertise. It is accepted worldwide and gives better career opportunities, credibility, and increased income for those who have acquired it. As a PMP, an individual can work in virtually any industry or location. While you need to complete a few steps to acquire it, it can be a rather powerful tool.
Planview
AUGUST 26, 2019
As we finalize our six-part blog series on how to become agile, let’s take a look back at the previous five blogs and provide you with a brief summary of their key points. Throughout this series, we’ve discussed the five ways to become agile, addressed the primary issues and roadblocks, as well as the critical steps required to transform the PMO, all based on the whitepaper, The Agile PMO: 5 Steps to Driving Agility at Scale.
Inloox
AUGUST 29, 2019
We approached our first explanation video: We made a first short video about the very popular topic of the project kick-off. Kick-off Meetings briefly explained In project management, the kick-off event is usually regarded as the official start of the project. In the video you will learn more about the definition, the components and how to easily plan a project kick-off.
Scrum.org
AUGUST 30, 2019
¿Por qué este artículo? Tanto el desarrollo de software Agile como el diseño de experiencia de usuario (UX) tienen como objetivos comunes entregar antes sistemas más usados y valiosos para el cliente. Sin embargo en muchas ocasiones ambas no consiguen estos objetivos porque trabajan por separado. En una serie de dos artículos vamos a proponer medidas para facilitar el trabajo conjunto de diseño y de desarrollo, y así mejorar el valor obtenido.
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Kiron Bondale
AUGUST 25, 2019
Completion of a project usually focuses on financial and administrative activities such as transitioning verified and accepted deliverables to customers, getting final sign off on the project, closing open contracts, recognizing team accomplishments, survey stakeholder satisfaction, archiving key project outputs and so on. But with an adaptive life cycle, the approach taken when performing certain activities might vary.
nTask
AUGUST 26, 2019
Wanting to know how your business is going to turn out in the future, has become a mandated requirement these days. Although founding and starting a business has become more of a common ritual these day, very few people actually scucceed in the long run. The best way to do that is with the help of case studies. Business case studies have crucial importance in the development and functioning of a successful enterprise.
Inloox
AUGUST 28, 2019
The future of trade fairs In the B2B sector, trade fairs and congresses have always been an important instrument for image building and sales support. Depending on their size and duration, even recurring expo participations rank among the larger projects in companies. In addition, we often hear: "Before the fair is after the fair" Once the trade fair has been successfully completed, the planning and preparation for the next participation continues directly.
Scrum.org
AUGUST 30, 2019
En el artículo anterior. Este artículo es la segunda parte de otro donde hablaba de como integrar el trabajo de los especialistas de UX y los desarrolladores de software. Puedes leer la primera parte aquí: Como integrar UX y Scrum - ¿Dual Track Scrum? . Backlog y PBI de diseño (tipos de actividad). El backlog es el repositorio de trabajo del equipo Scrum.
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Green Project Management
AUGUST 28, 2019
I went bungee jumping over twenty years ago in Ottawa at the Great Canadian Bungee Jumping site at Wakefield, Chelsea Quebec. During that memorable experience I was reminded of several important lessons that I believe are valuable for change initiatives. For context, “Visualize an amphitheater of solid limestone, 200 ft. high, surrounding a 160 ft. […].
Proofhub
AUGUST 28, 2019
7 Time Saving Tools To Help You Work Efficiently Ever feel like you’ve bitten off more than you can chew at work? Struggling to complete things on time is highly stressful, and can lead to us feeling snowed under. Most of us are trying to do a hundred things at once, and particularly if you’re working in a small team or freelancing, you may feel like you’re spread too thin.
Epicflow Blog
AUGUST 29, 2019
What Is Gantt Chart Software and Why Is It Significant for Project Management? Every project manager faces challenges of overload, time limitations, project slippage, and bottlenecks. These challenges can result in complete failure of a project. . To prevent this, you should use the proper tools – for example, Gantt chart software – to predict and solve problems your business might confront.
Wrike
AUGUST 28, 2019
Did you know that according to most marketers, 79% of their leads never convert to sales ? It’s clear that traditional lead generation tactics aren’t cutting it for marketing professionals. That means it’s time to think a little outside the box. Project management has a lot to teach marketers about nurturing customer relationships, scaling lead generation efforts, and producing better, more organized systems for success.
Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali
As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.
International Institute for Learning
AUGUST 26, 2019
By Bob Umlas, Excel MVP. After reading this blog you should be an expert in Excel’s Dates and Times. If you enter the number 1 in cell I1, for example, then look at the Home tab’s Number Format’s dropdown, you’ll see this (without the arrows!): Notice that the number 1, formatted as a short date (dates as month/day/year), is January 1, 1900! (Also notice the time is 12:00:00 AM, but I’ll cover that later).
Proofhub
AUGUST 26, 2019
11 Attributes of a High-Performing Project Team Team leaders and managers keep striving to have high-quality team members on their team. But, sometimes they forget to understand the importance of their own contribution to turn their teams into high-performing teams. As a team leader, you can consolidate the attitude and potential of your team members to reap great outcomes.
Leading Agile
AUGUST 29, 2019
A few weeks ago, the biggest conference in the Agile industry took place in Washington DC at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center. We were proud to be a sponsor and we were even more excited about catching up with friends—both old and new. For those of you who couldn’t make it, we wanted to give you a little taste of what it’s all about.
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