MPUG
JULY 8, 2019
One of the most frequently asked questions when someone is about to start a new task is likely, “how much time will it take?”. Time is limited. Our lives are limited, and unfortunately, we just cannot wish away time limitations. That is why duration estimation is one of the most important aspects of project management. Sometimes, the above question is not directly asked; however someone still imposes a deadline.
Wrike
JULY 9, 2019
If you’ve ever opened a Sunday paper and headed straight to the comics section, you’ve no doubt enjoyed the sardonic humor of Dilbert. . (Source: Dilbert.com ). And many of us can relate! When collaborating with others, we have to deal with a lot of different personalities. One of the most critical skills we can learn is how to relate to, work with, and leverage the strengths of our team members.
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Project Smart
JULY 7, 2019
There's no one-size-fits all solutions for project management. In fact, project management types vary greatly. Fundera is here to break them with this a helpful visual.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
JULY 12, 2019
You’ve got responsibility for a project. And yet… somehow the organisation doesn’t have the documentation you need to get it started, keep it on track and close it down successfully. So you turn to the internet to find the paperwork you need. Let me make it easier for you. I have researched the best places to get free project management templates for download online.
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ProjectManager.com
JULY 10, 2019
Leadership might be hard to define, but it’s easy to recognize. That doesn’t mean leaders are passive, resting on inherent abilities. True, some are born leaders and others learn how to become effective leaders. Both take work. Leaders know that to lead they must keep up their leadership skills. But leadership isn’t only about inspiring others, it’s about knowing oneself.
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Scrum.org
JULY 8, 2019
TL; DR: Agile Leadership. I recently started aggregating my notes, links, and references related to agile leadership to understand better what it — in the context of an agile transition — may look like. In the end, becoming agile is not the goal of a transition; surviving as an organization is. Hence I appreciate whatever appeals to business leaders and their motivation to delve into agile ideas, frameworks, or practices.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
JULY 8, 2019
Backlog (from Nulab) is a project management tool for prioritising and tracking work. This is a review of the product using my laptop and Chrome browser, and my iPad with Safari, in June 2019. General Information. Name: Backlog. Vendor: Nulab. Hosting options: Online and enterprise version which is self-hosted. Cost and plans: There’s a full free trial for 30 days, and a free plan (1 project, 10 users, plenty to give it a test drive).
ProjectManager.com
JULY 11, 2019
In the quest for greater productivity, people have started to think outside the box—that is, the cube. Just as the office space calcified into an open plan that is endlessly partitioned into a maze of cubicles, the walls started to come down. With companies championing team collaboration , the conventional wisdom lead to removing the barriers that blocked people from sharing ideas and brainstorming, in order to come up with greater efficiencies and boost productivity.
Project Bliss
JULY 10, 2019
You may not realize it but as a project manager, you are also in sales and marketing. Sure, your primary job may be to plan and execute projects that are delivered on time, and within budget and scope. But if you’ve created a great product and nobody uses it, have you really delivered to value? If you’ve made something but it’s sitting on the shelf not being used, the intended value is never realized.
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
JULY 10, 2019
You Are not Doing Scrum. "You are not doing Scrum." How many times have you heard that? Scrum Police are a legion. If you are not doing , you are not doing Scrum. Whether you should be doing Scrum, whether it applies to your environment and context, whether your organizational capacity for change is capable of absorbing the shock Scrum framework will inevitably introduce (notice, that shock, in this case, is not mandatorily a bad thing), is not the focus of this post.
Kiron Bondale
JULY 7, 2019
Harvard Business Review published an article this week covering six causes of burnout and how we can reduce these. Let’s consider these through the lens of agility. Having an excessive workload over a prolonged period of time is one of the most common causes of burnout. The eighth principle of the Manifesto argues against this: “ Agile processes promote sustainable development.
Musings on Project Management
JULY 11, 2019
Everyone has oceans to fly, if they have the heart to do it. Is it reckless? Maybe. But what do dreams know boundaries? Amelia Earhart This month we celebrate the Apollo program and the flight of Apollo 11 specifically, the first man-to-land-on-moon mission completed 50 years ago this month. (*) Surely Apollo was our ocean of the times, 50 years ago.
LiquidPlanner
JULY 9, 2019
Convincing Your Team That LiquidPlanner Is the Perfect Solution. You’ve looked through dozens of task and project management tools and have finally found LiquidPlanner—the perfect project management solution for your business. Now, you have to convince everyone else. Where do you even start? During my three years on the sales team, I worked with thousands of prospective customers evaluating project management tools.
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
JULY 9, 2019
Scrum Masters lead by serving others; It sounds paradoxical, but it works. This is a blog about leadership: leadership in Scrum teams, communities, and businesses. It is also a blog about personal growth and offers a complimentary “action approach” to Scrum Masters, inspired by the book The Serving Leader. The book covers five principles you need to know to implement servant leadership in your Scrum team and your organization.
nTask
JULY 10, 2019
We often hear people throw in a famous catchphrase, ‘the bigger the better’ during a conversation, wherever they can. Now unless we’re talking about food here, the statement doesn’t really fit with everything – especially if it is modern productivity techniques. “If you’re an advocate of productivity in bigger teams, don’t judge too quickly – hear me out!
MPUG
JULY 7, 2019
Turning Project Financial Analyses into a Painless Exercise. Introduction. “No Pain, No Gain” is a popular exercise slogan that promises greater rewards for the price of hard work to achieve physical excellence. In the field of information technology (IT), most people think that performing financial analyses on new projects is hard work, but it doesn’t have to be if you know what you are doing.
ProProfs Project Management
JULY 12, 2019
Technology is what unites the corners of the world. It is the driving force for building a highly networked environment around us. This networked environment has made a major disruption across diverse businesses by bringing teams together with enterprise collaboration software. Across the world, we understand that only 42% of small & medium companies rely on office cloud applications to streamline their work routines.
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Scrum.org
JULY 7, 2019
“Can the Scrum Master also be the Product Owner?”. This is a common question in my Professional Scrum classes. The topic of combining Scrum roles often comes up early when we are still learning the basics of the Scrum framework. It comes up because people are already wearing two hats or are being told that they will be. The short answer is: Scrum does not have a rule against sharing roles.
GoSkills
JULY 12, 2019
Want to ace the interview for an agile scrum position? Check out these top agile scrum interview questions and answers.
Planview
JULY 9, 2019
This blog is part of a series on Lean portfolio management for the enterprise. If you haven’t already, we recommend reading: Part 1: What is Lean Portfolio Management? Part 2: Lean Portfolio Management: Lean Budgets and Investment Funding. If you’ve read the first two parts in this series, you understand that traditional approaches to portfolio management may no longer be able to keep up with the blistering pace of the global economy or of digital disruption.
Online PM Courses
JULY 10, 2019
When you are planning and scheduling your project, there will be sequences of activities that you need to respect. They are generated by task dependencies. The post What are Task Dependencies in Project Management? | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.
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Scrum.org
JULY 11, 2019
Who wouldn't want to achieve awesomeness at work? Great Scrum Masters help make this a reality. The world is changing more rapidly than ever, bringing with it more unknowns than known. And without strong leaders to guide our teams through this time of complexity and uncertainty, we won't fare very well at all. But I can let you all in on a little secret: The key to enduring success in leadership is the ability to stay nimble and to "Leadershift," as John C.
nTask
JULY 8, 2019
A project manager (male or female) cannot expect to make his project a skyrocketing success without investing in a simple project management software. There are innumerable advantages associated with using a project management software for project delivery — one of them is the provision of a streamlined way to collaborate on project goals and objectives.
Teamweek
JULY 10, 2019
What is brainstorming? Simply defined, it is the process of coming up with new ideas or answers to problems. More specifically the concept of brainstorming in a business setting is the exchange of views amongst peers or teammates that are designed to generate creative ideas to improve procedures, fix issues, and increase productivity. While this may sound like a simple task of sitting in a room and having a quick chat to cure all of a team’s problems, anyone who has ever been in a brainstorming
Henny Portman
JULY 12, 2019
On request of several of my followers I created a mini webinar of the PRINCE2 Agile Agilometer. According to the official PRINCE2 Agile manual, the Agilometer is a tool that assesses the level of risk associated with using agile in combination with PRINCE2. This allows PRINCE2 to be tailored in such a way that best mitigated the level of risk. The Agilometer should evolve to suit the needs of each organization.
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
JULY 8, 2019
La velocidad es uno de los temas de Scrum más discutidos online y offline. Sólo hace falta acercarse a la comunidad de Scrum Masters en Facebook para comprobar como muchas de las cuestiones planteadas están en la linea de la velocidad de entrega de los equipos de desarrollo de Software. En muchas compañías, existen sofisticados métodos de estimación basados en la velocidad y yo mismo he tenido la oportunidad de usar -y odiar- hojas de excel que hacen estimaciones basadas en Puntos de Historia de
Epicflow Blog
JULY 9, 2019
Crozdesk, one of the top software review platforms, has named Epicflow a top resource management tool in its latest software buyer guide. Epicflow is also named as a “product leader,” meaning that it focuses on a niche and might disrupt the market. Epicflow is built for managing multiple projects and is based on years of research. We’re happy to be recognized as a leader in our niche.
Proofhub
JULY 11, 2019
8 Best organizational tools to Get organized and sorted out In today’s world where being chaotic is more common than being poetic, nurturing the habit of being an organized person can be a golden thing. Neatly arranged work desks, bags, even computer, and mobile screens can boost your productivity without you realizing it. When your surroundings are well-organized, you spend less time searching for things, which means you can get to work quicker and in a better mood.
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