Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 3, 2020

We aren’t managing projects now in the same way that people managed projects years ago. The approaches taken by many companies and professional bodies to managing projects are different now to when I first started out in the field in 2000ish. So why has that happened and what have been the biggest shifts in how project management has evolved? There are a number of things that to focus on, even just comparing my own experiences from when I started managing projects over 10 years ago to the

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2008 Leadership Manufacturing PMI 361

Leading Agile

JUNE 2, 2020

When a team does not keep rigor, discipline, and quality in making the work-ready, it doesn’t just impact that team – it impacts all the dependent teams and ultimately the return on investment. *The team names have been changed to protect the learning, but the learning needs to be shared. The mobile team is a nimble team. Why wouldn’t they be? They’re running with full continuous deployment and the latest technology, so they get to brag – they are Agile, right?

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Kiron Bondale

MAY 31, 2020

A few years back, I wrote an article in which I provided some gardening tips to developing good teams. I’m spending more time tending my garden these days so I decided to share a few more lessons for those wishing to cultivate a team building “green thumb” Fertilization should be regular, but situational. Grass lawns need to be fertilized at regular intervals but the composition of the fertilizer (the proportions of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium) varies by season and by th

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Energy Defining Risk Agile 189

ProjectManager.com

JUNE 3, 2020

There are many kanban tools on the market today, and they all have different feature sets. There are simple drag-and-drop tools for organizing to-do lists, planning systems for agile teams and hybrid tools for robust project management. After reviewing dozens of these tools, we’ve found that there are four specific features of a kanban tool that are must-haves for any serious user.

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Development Team Review Software Review Agile Manufacturing 290

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?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 1, 2020

Have you ever thought about how to prepare to leave your job gracefully? What should you do before quitting your job? I’ve got all the answers for you! I’ve always tried to keep half an eye on the door. Even if you’ve got a great position right now, it might not be a great position in six months. All kinds of things can change: you get a new manager , someone you don’t like as much.

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Planview

JUNE 5, 2020

PMO leadership today is about more than being a purveyor of governance and delivering projects on time and on budget. The Savvy PMO fosters organizational agility, cultivates efficiencies, and drives growth strategies. They meet executive expectations for informed counsel on vital business decisions such as which projects to prioritize, where to focus spending, how to align and realign the workforce in response to change, and much more.

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PMO Leadership Governance Government 142

Growing Agile

JUNE 2, 2020

Blogging doesn’t come naturally for me, I find it hard to find topics to write about that I think other people will find interesting. Why would anyone read something I wrote? Imposter Syndrome hits us all in different ways I guess. So I am following the advice of a dear friend who said ‘just do it’…. Now you may have stopped reading already, but for those that haven’t, I’d like to take you on a journey of Shu-Ha-Ri.

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Agile 191

Musings on Project Management

JUNE 5, 2020

"We study natural stupidity rather than artificial intelligence" Amos Tversky Tversky--now deceased--was a partner with Daniel Kahneman, who together wrote some of the most influential papers about biases in our observations and the biases that affect decision making under uncertainty. If you're a project manager or business manager, then you encounter these influences routinely.

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Artificial Inteligence Influencer Risk Management Risk 170

Scrum.org

JUNE 4, 2020

Many teams and organizations struggle to get the most out of Scrum. In a previous post “Don’t blame “agile” for existing problems” I shared my analysis why agile or Scrum itself often gets the blame. In this third post out of three I will focus on what the most common mistakes are with Scrum that lead to dysfunctional Scrum. But this time we take the perspective of the Scrum Master.

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SCRUM Agile 201

Speaker: Timothy Allsopp

Payment challenges often lead to delayed projects, financial bottlenecks, and strained relationships. With construction projects becoming more complex, outdated processes are no longer sustainable. By refining financial workflow, companies can improve cash flow, reduce error, and foster trust between stakeholders. Discover practical strategies for redesigning payment systems to overcome workflow challenges while creating a smoother, more reliable process for contractors and subcontractors alike.

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Leading Answers

JUNE 5, 2020

It is a dilemma. We need to move forward. Not just to make progress on projects, but also to give people something else to focus on beyond the tragedy and fear filling the news. At the same time, we need to be sensitive to how people have been impacted. We need to demonstrate support and empathy. We need to be available to listen and help wherever we can.

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Underperforming Technical Team Risk Initiating Planning 113

MPUG

JUNE 1, 2020

MS Project (MSP) is an excellent tool for preparing and tracking project schedules. Excel is also a great tool for analyzing any type of data. So, which one should you use for schedule analysis? You probably know that MSP has a whole host of features for analyzing project schedules like Task Filters, Sorting, and Reports. It also provides different views like Resource Usage View and Tracking Gantt View for analyzing different aspects of a project schedule.

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Musings on Project Management

MAY 30, 2020

Almost anyone who's been around projects for a few years has experienced hierarchy: it's like a pyramid, with one person at the apex and a number of layers spreading out below, interconnected, for the most part, top-down. On the other hand, another structure is like a mesh, wired for the most part peer-to-peer, and mostly flat -- few hierarchical titles and few top-down controls, and lots of.

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Risk Management Risk Controlling 170

Scrum.org

JUNE 1, 2020

Open Space is one of the 33 Liberating Structures listed in the Book "The Surprising Power of Liberating Structures " (2014), but because Open Space has been around for quite some time, the power of Open Space did not come as a surprise for many. . Being thrown into the same bag with some straight-forward liberating structures (e.g. 1,2,4,all) is a pro and con for Open Space.

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Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

JUNE 1, 2020

I recently asked an executive where their organisation would be in 2 years’ time. After some tapping on their laptop, they proudly showed me their new corporate webpages, proclaiming their ‘strategy’, ‘vision’ and ‘mission’ statements. [1] So far so good – we’re halfway there. All we need to do now is execute that strategy! Presumably, it will just happen now that senior management have expressed the strategic direction?

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MPUG

MAY 31, 2020

Are you feeling a sense of exhaustion, low-grade anxiety, and burnout? You’re not alone. We’re living through tough times right now with the coronavirus pandemic—our lives and work projects have been upended, and it takes everything we’ve got to keep things afloat. Keeping a positive attitude with all of the challenges and uncertainties can be difficult.

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Controlling Budget Defining Planning 111

Proofhub

JUNE 1, 2020

8 Tools To Effectively Manage All Your Social Networks Under One Roof It’s a crazy time, isn’t it? More people are active on social media compared to the previous year with more than 4.5 billion people using the internet at this time. That means more audience to target for your brand! The worldwide use of social media is growing with Facebook being the most popular social media platform.

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Monitoring Influencer Technical Review Software Review 109

Scrum.org

JUNE 3, 2020

I was once told that we have one mouth and two ears and that we should use them in those proportions. Now, those who know me will know that I struggle with that. Over the past few months I've been spending time exploring professional coaching via Co-Active coaching. One of the things a Scrum Master should be doing, is to practice, improve and refine the coaching skills.

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SCRUM 241

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.

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ProProfs Project Management

JUNE 2, 2020

A skilled and diligent project manager is the crucial component to making business projects successful. It could be the primary reason why businesses take the hiring process so seriously and set a high salary bar for job candidates coming for the role of a project manager. . As per the industry reports, companies have to fill 2.2 million new project-oriented roles every year, starting from 2027.

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Prince2 Underperforming Technical Team Certification Software Review 99

Leading Agile

JUNE 4, 2020

Listen to the SoundNotes Podcast on the go! Find and subscribe to SoundNotes on: Apple Podcasts. Google Play. Spotify. Soundcloud. RSS. This week in LeadingAgile’s SoundNotes, we’re focusing on Objectives and Key Results. Andrew Young joins Dave to talk about this history of OKRs, why they have become such an important part of how we track and measure performance, why they matter to Executives, and why teaching Executives about OKRs requires a very specific approach.

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Executing PMO SCRUM Agile 136

Teamweek

JUNE 4, 2020

But what exactly are project milestones? How are they different from deliverables or a bunch of tasks? What are the best practices for identifying project milestones? In this article, we’ll cover everything you need to know about milestones. What is a project milestone? How are milestones different from deliverables and tasks? Reasons why milestones are critical to project planning.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 3, 2020

. In our professional world of software development, it is very common someone asking “What is this Agile?” And I have heard people debating on the definition of Agile using heavy weight words like it’s a mindset, it’s a culture, way of leadership, methodology, manifesto, group of practices etc. Nothing wrong with these definitions, they are all good but a bit difficult to explain to someone who is new to this concept.

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Software Review SCRUM Agile Software Development 164

Speaker: Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions

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Scoro

JUNE 1, 2020

It’s odd – we’re always talking about the healthy work-life balance and know that working long hours can lead to stress, anxiety , and depression. Yet, we continue to dedicate more and more time to our jobs. In fact, research shows that 80% of workers answer emails and return phone calls after hours. For one, people believe long hours on the job to be proof of their work ethic.

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Technical Review Energy Sustainability Planning 102

Online PM Courses

MAY 31, 2020

ITTOs - Inputs, Tools and Techniques, and Outputs. They contain the 'How to' of the PMI's Project Management Body of Knowledge. The post Answered: Your Burning Questions about the PMBOK Guide’s ITTOs appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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PMI 110

Henny Portman

JUNE 2, 2020

In January 2019 I published a blog about Evidence-Based Management. When I spoke at the Agile Tour 2019 in Vilnius, Lithuania, I met, among others, Magdalena Firlit as one of the other speakers. She mentioned a card deck she developed to support her classes regarding Evidence-Based Management. I just received some copies of that deck (really appreciated).

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Scrum.org

JUNE 1, 2020

Self-organizing teams are all the rage. Organizations aim to become Teal or shift traditional structures to entirely self-steering teams. When done for the right reasons, these shifts are something I encourage. It seems like a good way to appreciate the autonomy and intelligence that we all have. . But one pattern I’ve observed is that this shift is often so abrupt that it leaves teams gasping for air with a degree of autonomy they aren’t used to.

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This text offers practical guidance for project managers navigating diverse frameworks. It covers topics like centralized reporting, standardized metrics, communication, training, risk management, and alignment reviews. By implementing these strategies, project managers can improve efficiency and achieve their project goals.

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