Sitetracker

OCTOBER 26, 2020

From pureplay grass and steel towercos to diversified infracos, and from companies building their business from scratch to towercos being carved out of MNOs, Sitetracker has a history of working with some of the biggest names in the sector. TowerXchange speaks to David George, Sitetracker’s Vice President for EMEA & APAC about the challenges for some of the different business models, key considerations in defining KPIs and ensuring user adoption as strategies evolve and the tangible benefits

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Project Risk Coach

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Years ago, I had a great job managing about 50 Information Technology professionals. However, I wanted to become a project manager. Therefore, I made a difficult decision to change companies and jobs. Consequently, I needed ways to learn project management quickly. Perhaps you're looking for ways to boost your project management knowledge and skills.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Communication is about 80% of my job. I don’t profess to get it right all the time, but over the years I’ve built up a few solid techniques that work in most situations. Today I’m letting you in on how I do it. These are the tips and tricks I use to communicate with my stakeholders and project customers. The tools I use. I rely heavily on paper and pens for my personal note-taking.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Trello is an online tool that creates kanban boards, which allow project managers to organize projects. The kanban boards offer a visualization of your work, and allows you to easily see a project’s workload at-a-glance. The software has grown in popularity as users have taken to the kanban board’s ability to visualize the workflow of a project.

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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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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Transparency is critical for agility, but often the power of transparency is challenged by long-hold cultural norms. This article shares examples of the power of transparency and how it can be used to create breakthroughs in performance. Situation. I was helping an organisation adopt agile ways of working across six teams. We had started well. We had a shared vision for the change and everyone felt excited.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 26, 2020

What is a fixed date project? A fixed date project is one that has a defined — and often unmovable — end date for delivery. Hitting the date is compulsory, which means we can’t plan the project as we would normally do using best practice scheduling techniques. Here are some examples of fixed date projects: Legal and compliance projects to help the business comply with things like new regulations introduced on a certain day Construction work where the project is happening in an

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Kiron Bondale

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Emphasizing flow through the reduction or elimination of batching of work items is desirable but this is not always efficient or practical. So what are some of the factors which might force us to batch work items? Whether it is equipment, materials or people’s time, constraints are a common reason for batching work. Let’s say we wanted to build a fence for a customer.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 30, 2020

How do you break down a large item on your Product Backlog? How can you get a more valuable Sprint Goal? And how can you help people see what is right in front of them? Often, all you need is to ask the right question at the right time. That is why we spend a lot of time compiling a huge deck of Powerful Questions for you. We know from experience that the best way to unleash teams is to ask questions instead of giving (your) solutions.

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nTask

OCTOBER 28, 2020

With the increased popularity of social media sites, social media marketing is also on the rise. This phenomenon calls to question: how you can manage social media marketing for your company. Project management tools are a great way to help you manage social media marketing. In this post, we will tell you everything you need to know to successfully manage media marketing with your project management tools.

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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.

Construction

Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 27, 2020

If you are like many Project Management Professional ( PMP )® certification holders, you might be finding it hard to source enough quality learning materials for your Leadership PDUs. Panic no more, I have all the details you need below. In this article we’ll look at what Leadership PDUs are and how many you need, and what activities count towards your PDU total in the Leadership category.

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Henny Portman

OCTOBER 28, 2020

B eing a Project Manager – A different Book on Project Management by Hamutal Weisz and Daniel Zitter focuses on the essentials and practice of project management. . I love the process of baking bread as a metaphor for project management and all those related colorful pictures throughout the book. . Project management is the ‘flour’, the base; its function is to create the path to the goal.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 26, 2020

TL; DR: The Cargo Cult Agile Checklist for Download. You want to know the state of agility in your organization? Here we go: Download the checklist, distribute it generously among your colleagues, and run a quick poll. It will only take 5 minutes of their time–and then analyze their feedback. If the average number of checkboxes marked is higher than nine, then you are probably practicing cargo cult agile in one form or another.

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nTask

OCTOBER 29, 2020

According to surveys conducted, as of 2016, 66% of enterprises run a business process improvement program occasionally or never. Of the 20% that undertake process improvements , 5% record little to no success, 28% experience success limited to individual departments but do not record enterprise-level success, and 19% experience success after significant difficulties.

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Leading Agile

OCTOBER 28, 2020

When teams aren’t formed in the right way in your organization such that they’re encapsulated to create working tested increment of product in a given time frame, they become a dependency. . Without encapsulated teams, you’ll find yourself with many dependencies. And dependencies kill Agility. To watch the entire webinar series, you can sign up for the On-Demand version and watch at your leisure by clicking this link: [link].

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Scoro

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Managers should always focus on what really matters – getting work done. But as we’re all expected to get more done in less time, doing everything manually doesn’t cut it anymore. Thus, in an effort to improve daily operations and boost efficiency, businesses have quickly realized the benefits of a dedicated workflow management software. What is workflow management software?

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 28, 2020

. Un Equipo de Desarrollo en Scrum no tiene sub equipos, roles o títulos. En el equipo pueden y es bueno que existan especialistas como expertos en pruebas, desarrollo, arquitectura, etc. Pero estos especialistas aportan para que el equipo pueda lograr el objetivo del Sprint y del producto como equipo complementando sus competencias. En este equipo un miembro del equipo no es dueño de las tareas de su especialidad, como equipo todos son responsables de realizar el trabajo necesario para lograr

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EasyProjects

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Best practices to prioritize projects. Suppose your organization’s annual planning exercise comes up with 50 projects that would cost perhaps $10 million, but you have the capacity and financial resources for only $2.5 million, you are in great shape, right? You have a wealth of possibilities from which to choose. Well, no–not in great shape yet.

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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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Leading Agile

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Agile Transformation is fundamentally about Three Things: forming teams, building backlogs, and having the ability to produce working, tested software. If we don’t these Three Things then Transformation fails. . To uncover everything you need to know about The Three Things, check out LeadingAgile CEO Mike Cottmeyer’s on-demand webinar series Preparing for Agile Transformation here: [link].

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Proofhub

OCTOBER 29, 2020

SEO Project Management?—?Here’s How You Can Make It Effective SEO is a long game. That’s what everyone who knows anything about SEO will tell you. Perhaps, that’s exactly what you tell your clients. Naturally, many SEO strategies are spread out over weeks and months. Developing such a strategy is one thing and executing it, making sure you are able to keep up with your commitments to your clients is an entirely different ball game.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Ser un Scrum Master puede ser una carrera divertida, emocionante y muy gratificante. Pero, ¿cómo consigues un primer trabajo de Scrum Master si aún no tienes experiencia? . Poder mirar hacia atrás en un proyecto exitoso y pensar, “Mira lo que ayudé al equipo a crear” es muy satisfactorio. Vamos a compartir siete consejos que pueden ayudar a obtener ese primer puesto de Scrum Master que estás buscando, incluso si no se tiene ninguna experiencia como Scrum Master.

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nTask

OCTOBER 27, 2020

To work together, you need to communicate, and to work together really well , you need to communicate at the same wavelength. But what makes for good communication? Is team communication different than communicating otherwise in your daily life? This guide to team communication tells you the what, why, when, and how to get your team communicating effectively.

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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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Gunther Verheyen

OCTOBER 25, 2020

October 1995. After a few years of searching and experimenting, “Scrum” was documented and presented to the general public. October 2020. Scrum turns 25. Hip hip hooray! I record a few highlights of “My life of Scrum”, a few aspects from the past 17 years of the life of an independent Scrum Caretaker. September 2003. The founding managers of the company that employs me, ask me to have a look at the challenge of delivering the core server platform for a digital television

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PM Times

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Written by: Sean Lowe After six plus months of working from home, many remote workers are starting to feel like there’s no delineation between the office and what used to be the solitude of their comfy home.

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TeamGantt

OCTOBER 27, 2020

See what types of risk to look out for in project management, and get 5 simple tips to help you identify, monitor, and manage common project risks.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 25, 2020

This month’s free template is a project initiation checklist. This is the first page of the Project Initiation Checklist. It’s a quick way to speed up finding out what you need to know from your project sponsor when you meet for the first time. Covering everything from what they think success looks like to who else needs to be involved, you can use it as a prompt to help you get your project off to a great start.

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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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