Workamajig
JANUARY 15, 2020
What are some of the top project management trends agencies need to watch out for? Find the right answers in this article. As a project manager, you have your work cut out for you. It’s not enough to master the nuances of managing projects in the creative field - a tough ask in itself - you also have to stay abreast of the latest developments in project management.
MPUG
JANUARY 13, 2020
Watch for these warning signs, so you don’t end up twisting in the wind! As a project manager (PM) for an international consulting firm, I was once assigned to a very large account that taught online classes through the internet. The company was called the High Intensity Teaching Corporation or HIT. This is the pseudonym used throughout, and for reasons that will soon be obvious, I found it managed to fly into some of the most dangerous red flags that warn of project trouble: a virtual office, a
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Inloox
JANUARY 15, 2020
Imagine the following situation: You have just moved into your first own apartment and some of your friends have helped you. Now you want to assemble the new furniture together. In doing so, you realize that you only have a spoon as a tool. It will work somehow, you think to yourself and just get started. A few hours later, all the furniture is actually in place and it was quite funny to have turned the spoon into a hammer and screwdriver.
Kiron Bondale
JANUARY 12, 2020
It is a common challenge for anyone who has managed projects for a meaningful amount of time. One or more of your key stakeholders who are integral to the successful completion of the project appears unwilling to engage as expected. It could be the project sponsor who ignores your pleas for assistance with a project issue, the functional manager who turns a blind eye to your requests for staffing support or the executive who never seems to have the time to review and sign off on a key deliverabl
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LiquidPlanner
JANUARY 14, 2020
With the increase in cloud-based platforms and web-enabled devices such as smartphones and laptops, remote collaboration has become more than just an option. Both freelancers and corporate teams collaborate on a plethora of projects and daily work-related activities constantly. According to Business 2 Community , 93% of organizations report using standardized, traditional project management practices, while management software adoption remains at low 22%, with 55% of organizations lacking any fo
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Teamweek
JANUARY 12, 2020
In our day-to-day lives, it’s easy to reach a stalemate and feel like we aren’t making any progress. You get bogged down in the minutiae of each project, not realizing how much you have accomplished since you began. Over time, this can be incredibly disheartening and demoralizing for you and others on your team who feel the same way. For most managers, the issue isn’t whether you are making progress or not.
ProProfs Project Management
JANUARY 12, 2020
Are project goals and project objectives both the same thing? Yes? Then, why so? . If not, then again, why do you think these two terms are different? Taking a broader outlook, most people tend to use the words ‘project goals’ and ‘project objectives’ interchangeably. But, there is a world of difference between the two. Let’s take an example: “Our client needs us to build a new building on their campus for IT teams.” .
Proofhub
JANUARY 13, 2020
8 Proven Leadership Ways to Build High-Performing Teams A high performing team is a blend of goal-oriented professionals , experts in their respective fields, responsible for planning, executing and yielding outstanding results. Excellent performance can be only achieved if there is powerful thought leadership, goals shared, clear communications, interpersonal conflict resolution, harmony and trust among team members.
ProjectManager.com
JANUARY 13, 2020
Ask a dozen people what agile is and you’ll get a dozen different answers. But it’s best defined by scrum as a model. Scrum is a way to manage a project within an agile framework and is made up of three roles: product owner, scrum master and team. The product owner is focused on the business side of the project, the scrum master is the expert, who acts like a coach.
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?
Scrum.org
JANUARY 15, 2020
This post is an excerpt from the book that we’re writing, the ‘ Zombie Scrum Survival Guide ’. It’s our way of delivering small increments and involving our stakeholders: you, the reader. So we’d love to hear your feedback, encouragements and wild ideas. The Scrum Framework urges teams to involve stakeholders. But many Scrum Teams struggle to do so.
LiquidPlanner
JANUARY 16, 2020
In the New Year, businesses are eager to dive into new tasks and goals. Project managers are the first in line to have a full understanding of the intentions of the company going forward. It’s their job to take the companies’ new challenges and get them accomplished in the best way to achieve the desired goals in a timely manner. All around the world, work productivity is generally getting lower.
Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives
JANUARY 16, 2020
As we move into 2020 and the start of a new decade, it is important to take the time to consider how your industry and workplace may have changed in recent years, and how they will continue to evolve in the future. Crucially, you also need to gain an understanding of what businesses actually need from their employees in this modern age. From participating in project manager training, through to online personal development efforts, there are numerous ways to improve your skills and deliver greate
ProjectManager.com
JANUARY 14, 2020
So, you’ve got a project approved, and you’re ready to kick off the first phase. But have you worked through project development yet? Pause what you’re doing and take a look at how your project has been developed. It might sound like an unfamiliar phrase, but it matters. Think of it this way. If project management is the house that you’re building, then a project development process is the blueprint your contractors need to get started on everything.
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.
Scrum.org
JANUARY 15, 2020
The most important question to stakeholders is often “When can it be done?” There is a lot that goes into answering that seemingly simple question. What is involved in the work? What else are we doing? What risks are there? The questions go on and on. Traditional estimation processes are so time-consuming, and often inaccurate, that an entire #noestimates movement has been started.
Musings on Project Management
JANUARY 15, 2020
Many creative people will tell you that new ideas begin -- often spontaneously -- with a mind's sketch that they then render in some kind of media. Fair enough -- no news there. We've talked about storyboards, etc before. But then the heavy lifting begins. How to fill in the details? Where to start? My advice: Draw it first. If you can't draw it, you can't build it!
ProProfs Project Management
JANUARY 16, 2020
Imagine this: You take up a new project with a new client. You set up meetings to understand and plan the project execution strategy. You adopt a project management software to ensure workflow is streamlined and all project deadlines are met. But, you overlooked a few factors: The software didn’t have a reporting feature , making it difficult to track team productivity and project execution.
Teamweek
JANUARY 16, 2020
Google is the most popular search engine in the world. You know that something has become a phenomenon when it’s also used as a verb. Ask someone to Google something for you, and they’re on it. Ask them to ‘Yahoo’ something and -you guessed it- they’ll Google what that means. Because it’s so pervasive, a lot of project managers assume that Google has its own project management apps and tools.
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Scrum.org
JANUARY 13, 2020
Collaboration is key to solve complex problems. I’ve always suffered from the evident lack of collaboration between people. It’s professionally frustrating when you’ve experienced effective teamwork. ???? Article en français sur notre site web ????. Think to the best team you worked with, what were the specificities? How a Scrum Master can help people, teams and organizations to become highly collaborative?
Musings on Project Management
JANUARY 12, 2020
Most of the posts I read are about scaling up to ever larger projects, but what about scaling down? What if you are doing bug fixes and small scale projects with just one or two people? Is a methodology of any help, And if you're working with software, can Agile be helpful scaled down? Methodology To the first point, my answer is: Sure! A methodology -- which is just a repeated way of.
Proofhub
JANUARY 13, 2020
8 Proven Leadership Ways to Build High-Performing Teams A high performing team is a blend of goal-oriented professionals , experts in their respective fields, responsible for planning, executing and yielding outstanding results. Excellent performance can be only achieved if there is powerful thought leadership, goals shared, clear communications, interpersonal conflict resolution, harmony and trust among team members.
MPUG
JANUARY 15, 2020
We CAN! We WILL! . With either of those word pairings, you can set yourself off on the right foot for your next presentation. But, with the wrong opening, you can kill it with equal levels of ease. We’ve all been there. It’s the presentation from Hades. The speaker seems a bit confused and ducks behind the podium or refuses to turn on his/her web camera.
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Scrum.org
JANUARY 11, 2020
When Scrum Teams discuss too many problems during the Retrospective they may lose focus. That results in shallow decisions that barely scratch the surface. Teams are disappointed and lose faith in the Sprint Retrospective. Let’s see how to improve the event with the Scrum Patterns. Too Many Improvements Uphold New Challenges. I want to share a story of the Scrum Team I have been working with as a Scrum Master long time ago.
Teamweek
JANUARY 13, 2020
I sat at the pottery wheel, my thighs braced against its plastic tub and my hands cupping a ball of wet clay, as the wheel started turning faster and faster. I ran through a checklist of my teacher’s instructions: keep my elbows braced, press my pinkies down, push my thumbs into the rotating mound of clay hard enough to start eking out an opening but not so hard that the fragile walls rising slowly between my pointer finger and thumb would break.
Project Management Resource Network
JANUARY 13, 2020
When you start a project the first question should be “what is the objective?” The next set of questions will be “how” and “when” you will reach the objectives. The answers will be the basis of your project schedule. A project schedule is commonly referred to as the project plan but technically the schedule is a project document not the project plan. .
MPUG
JANUARY 16, 2020
Background Information. One of the challenges for project managers is understanding “what changed” after they approve pending task updates in the Approval Center page in Project Web App. In the current versions of Project Online and Project Server, it is not easy to determine the schedule changes in the enterprise project after approving the pending task updates in Project Web App.
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.
Scrum.org
JANUARY 13, 2020
TL; DR: Product Mindset and OWnership in Scrum Teams. There is one product, one Product Owner, one Product Backlog — a simple rule. How is that supposed to scale, you might ask, isn’t that approach turning the Product Owner into the Scrum team’s bottleneck, impeding value creation rather than spearheading it? Well, cargo cult Scrum might end up in that dead-end.
Teamweek
JANUARY 12, 2020
In our day-to-day lives, it’s easy to reach a stalemate and feel like we aren’t making any progress. You get bogged down in the minutiae of each project, not realizing how much you have accomplished since you began. Over time, this can be incredibly disheartening and demoralizing for you and others on your team who feel the same way. For most managers, the issue isn’t whether you are making progress or not.
Agile Coach
JANUARY 16, 2020
Lamest blog post title ever. I started running my Lean Change Agent workshop in 2014 and have never offered a certification. I provided a Certificate of Completion because I have never believed that anyone should be ‘certified’ in anything for attending a 2-day course. This is a long post, structured like this and I wrote it mostly for myself, but thought the greater community could benefit: Backstory : My history with certs (to explain how my thinking about certs evolved).
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