Runrun.it

AUGUST 9, 2018

Until the mid-2000s, it was very difficult to hear about agile project management methods. The most modern IT teams in more flexible companies were probably testing these methods in software design and maintenance. After over ten years, we can only hear of agile methods. If you do not have agile principles in managing your projects, […]. The post A new era of project management for service companies appeared first on For Managers | Personal Development Hacks.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 5, 2018

This is a guest post by Laura Brandenburg, describing how to get the best out of the project manager and business analyst relationship. Before I forget, I want to be sure you know about Laura’s Quick Start to Success as a Business Analyst training (it’s free) that’s designed to help you business analysts achieve more success on their projects. . We all want more successful projects – projects that deliver their intended business value and are delivered on time and on budget.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 9, 2018

There’s a hugely successful book that you’ve probably heard of and may have read called The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey. It identifies seven habits that can help people be more effective in personal and professional environments. But what habits apply specifically to successful project managers? Well, let’s start by acknowledging the value of good habits in general.

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The Lazy Project Manager

AUGUST 10, 2018

And the clock is ticking …. Too late, you have missed the moment since your clients and executive’s attention span is reducing rapidly! A Canadian survey of media consumption, commissioned by Microsoft, noted that the average attention span had fallen yet again, it was now just eight seconds. In 2000 it was recorded as twelve seconds but is seems we may now have an even shorter attention span than a goldfish (or is that memory?

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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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Project Risk Coach

AUGUST 6, 2018

You've heard the war stories of companies that tried to implement commercial software solutions or build new systems. Maybe you've even participated in one or two? Many of these endeavors took longer and cost more than expected. Others were outright failures, adversely impacting the company's bottom line. Let's look at 3 reasons that IT software projects may be challenged or fail.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 8, 2018

There’s a great way to stop procrastinating, and we’ll tell you about it in a minute. First let’s straighten up our desk, maybe get another cup of coffee and then check social media to see what our friends are having for lunch. Oh, it’s lunchtime now! We’ll get to that anti-procrastination technique after we eat. Well, then we’ll likely be tired and need to digest.

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Software 257

Kiron Bondale

AUGUST 5, 2018

(If the title of my article for this week has you confused gentle reader, fret not – I’m just merging two distinct topics into a single post). In 2003, Barry Boehm and Richard Turner coined the acronym C.R.A.C.K. (Collaborative, Representative, Accountable, Committed, Knowledgeable) to cover key characteristics of an effective Product Owner (PO).

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 7, 2018

Finally! With the “embargo” lifted by Scrum.org, we can now share with you the incredible journey that Christiaan Verwijs and I have been on for the past months. The bottom-line is that Scrum.org has acquired our “Scrum Master Advanced”-class. We’ve been spending the past eight months turning it into the official, brand new Professional Scrum Master II-class (PSM-II) for Scrum.org.

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Planio

AUGUST 6, 2018

Nearly a century ago, economists and philosophers speculated that by the year 2000, industrialized nations might have workdays as short as 4 hours a day. And while we’ve come a long way from the 12–14-hour average working day of the first half of the 19th century, we’re still nowhere close to those predictions. In fact, I’d wager most people feel like they’re working more now than ever.

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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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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 6, 2018

How do you know when your business is ready to scale up? Jennifer Bridges, PMP, asks the right questions and gives you practical advice on how to scale your business successfully in this short tutorial video. Here’s a screenshot for your reference! In Review – How to Scale Your Business. What are the common problems of trying to scale a business? Jennifer started by noting two scenarios: Overspending and scaling too early.

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Musings on Project Management

AUGUST 10, 2018

"Alasdair MacIntyre argued many years ago, you can’t know what to do unless you know what story you are a part of. Story is more important than policies." "You can get a lot of facts wrong if you get your story right." Quoted by David Brooks That last observation -- good story, wrong facts -- sounds off key, but consider: facts are in the rearview mirror; only estimates lie ahead.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 6, 2018

The Scrum Master role is a difficult one. Often, they are the ones driving agility into the organization, making the agile practices stick and ensuring that teams, products and the organization are using an empirical process, supporting self-organization and continually improving. The Scrum Master does this using any techniques necessary. Sometimes Coach and mentor, at other times manager and teacher.

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Zen Project Management

AUGUST 9, 2018

I'm on my way home after spending the week at Agile2018. It's been a great conference. I reconnected with old friends, met some new ones, and attended some great presentations. Monday's keynote was Dom Price (@domprice) from Atlassian. He shared how Atlassian tracked team health via their playbook. One interesting statistic he shared was that 78% of people don't trust their team mates.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 7, 2018

Even under the most ideal circumstances it can be difficult to stay afloat at work with all of the tasks that you’re responsible for completing in a day. Add the mucky waters of office politics to the mix, and you might find yourself drifting so far from shore that you’ll never get back. Related: Task Management Software. It might have a negative connotation, but office politics isn’t inherently a bad thing.

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Project Bliss

AUGUST 6, 2018

When considering ways to become a more respected leader, does emotional intelligence in the workplace come to mind? Or does thinking about emotions seem to be something that only applies to your private life? For some, emotions may not seem like something that we really care about at work. Instead, we should be focused on profits, productivity, and the bottom line.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 4, 2018

This is the fourth in a series of posts exploring Scrum Mastery. In our first post, we introduced the four dimensions of Scrum Mastery: Team Identity, Team Process, Product Value, and the Organization. In this post, we will explore the product value dimension. Are you building the right thing to create value for the organization? How do you know?

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LiquidPlanner

AUGUST 7, 2018

Dear Elizabeth: I am a project manager for a company that builds education software. I am also the Operations Director, Customer Services Manager…you name it, I’m getting involved with it. The company is in startup mode. We’re doing everything fresh, and there is a lot of document creation and defining processes. On top of that, we’re constantly developing new offerings, onboarding new employees, pitching for work, and more.

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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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Ganttic

AUGUST 5, 2018

As a manager or an employee that cares, there are times when you feel like things aren’t going the way they should be going. Whether it’s something big or small things, you know that the only solution that there is, is to be proactive. But… There’s a but. Let’s say you are a project manager. You feel like a lot of your energy is going on resolving conflicts that start from resource constraints.

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Inloox

AUGUST 5, 2018

PMI’s most recent Pulse of the Profession is about how to succeed in a disruptive world, with challenges being, among others, new technologies (like autonomous vehicles), artificial and data intelligence and big data. Also, it stresses the importance of investing in skilled and experienced project managers to meet these challenges and become one of the champions in project management – meaning that at least 80% of your projects are completed on time, on budget, meting business intent, and having

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Underperforming Technical Team 2018 Telecoms Healthcare 100

Scrum.org

AUGUST 8, 2018

This week Scrum.org launched the brand new Professional Scrum Master II class! For the past eight months, together with the Scrum.org staff we’ve been turning our “Scrum Master Advanced”-class into an official Scrum.org course. As described in the article “ The Making of the PSM-II Class ” it was an incredible journey! As new course stewards , we are now responsible (with Stephanie Ockerman and Simon Reindl ) for the entire Professional Scrum Master curriculum (both PSM-I and PSM-II).

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Teamweek

AUGUST 7, 2018

Randy Soderman, the founder of Soderman Marketing, once said, “A great leader understands that it is the people they lead that ultimately determines the success or failure of any venture.”. The truth of Soderman’s statement resonates with any successful company, as it is the employees who have aided them in their pursuit for that success. Many leaders of these businesses tend to have similar qualities that set them apart from the crowd.

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Speaker: Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions

Is your manufacturing operation reaching its efficiency potential? A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) could be the game-changer, helping you reduce waste, cut costs, and lower your carbon footprint. Join Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions, in this value-packed webinar as he breaks down how MES can drive operational excellence and sustainability.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 7, 2018

The Talk, The Presentation, and The White Paper. First, we’d like to thank all of you that were able to attend Mike’s talk at Agile 2018. We know that it was a a lot of information to digest, so we wanted to send you home with a little something extra to make sure that all the ideas and concepts remain fresh in your mind. That’s why we’re giving you his deck to take with you, and a white paper that will continue to build the case that a systems-first Transformation is tru

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GanttPRO Project Management

AUGUST 10, 2018

Updated: July 10, 2019 What is the most crucial concern when you work with a team on a project? We can count 3 or 4, 6 or 8 things, etc. […].

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2019 85

Scrum.org

AUGUST 6, 2018

Working with the Professional Scrum Trainer community, and particularly with Ken Schwaber as one of the Professional Scrum Master Stewards has been a very rewarding learning journey. Helping with the launch of the new PSM II course invited me to reflect even more on what it is to be a Scrum Master. . Being a Scrum Master is a craft, as it is combination of knowledge, skill and experience that enables you as a Scrum Master to be effective.

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PM Basics

AUGUST 7, 2018

“It looks like a micromanagement to me,” Corwin said just as we left the room. “What’s the problem?” I asked. “Micromanagement is a bad technique, isn’t it?” Corwin was surprised. Micromanagement got a bad reputation. It is a tool of evil project managers ! Only despotic leaders use it! Nevertheless, I believe the micromanagement technique is a powerful tool.

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