LiquidPlanner
MARCH 29, 2022
6 ways to stay in control when your project isn’t. In celebration of National “ I Am In Control Day ” we thought it would be fun to explore the dynamics of “control” that we experience as project managers. National “I Am in Control Day” has a fascinating history. The holiday was commemorated because there was an assassination attempt made on Ronald Reagan, the president of the U.S. on March 30, 1981.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
MARCH 30, 2022
Watch my free webinar training on the 3 critical skills you need to manage multiple projects. Learn the skills you really need to juggle all your work! “There’s another project I’m just waiting to hear about,” said my sponsor. I silently groaned. I was already managing a couple of projects and while I probably could take on the workload of this additional small piece of work, the mental overload of juggling so many things was getting too much.
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Kiron Bondale
MARCH 27, 2022
In 2003, Barry Boehm and Richard Turner coined the acronym C.R.A.C.K. to remind us of the key characteristics of an effective Product Owner: C ollaborative – Are they able and willing to negotiate with stakeholders about needs, wants and priorities to come up with an optimal product scope? R epresentative – Are they able to “walk a mile in the shoes” of a given stakeholder to help team members and others understand the context behind a particular need?
Musings on Project Management
MARCH 27, 2022
In project management school, the lesson on Critical Path includes Rule #2: Apply resources first to the critical path, and subordinate demands of other paths to ensure the critical path is never starved.But, of course, Rule #2 follows from Rule #1Rule #1, if you haven't guessed is: Create a schedule network so that the critical path is revealed. But here's an issue: If you're only working with.
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Scrum.org
APRIL 1, 2022
Long has spoonfeeding solutions and off-the-shelf feature descriptions prevailed in many development teams. We seek out frameworks in the hope of solving our issues. Although some issues might have been fixed, I rarely see the full potential of a Scrum Team being achieved. And quite often, I see the main reason is worrying about repercussions when things get awry.
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LiquidPlanner
MARCH 31, 2022
What’s the purpose of April Fool’s Day? The idea is to pick someone as the focus of your prank and make a fool out of them for a good laugh. One of the best ones ever played on me was when I returned to my dorm room in college while attending the University of Iowa and a few of my friends had turned everything – and I do mean EVERYTHING – upside down.
Musings on Project Management
MARCH 31, 2022
I'm a sequentialist.When planning a project, I think first about how to sequence the scope: do this first, then that. Or, do these things in parallel, followed by this or that.MS Project, and similar tools, are the sequentialists go-to tool for planning sequences and establishing the sequential order of the project. Not so fast!What about cumulative, non-sequential, scope and effects?
Scrum.org
APRIL 1, 2022
Quando si cerca di prevedere il futuro, si è raramente nel giusto. Le stime probabilistiche aiutano a migliorare le previsioni di uno Scrum Team. Foto di Brian McGowan su unsplash.com Questo articolo da per scontato che il lettore conosce e pratica già Scrum, i concetti di velocità, story points e le problematiche legate alle stime. Questa è la trascrizione ( ndr. adattata da Fabio Panzavolta ) dell'intervista di Michael Forni , nella quale ha condiviso la sua esperienza nell'uso di stime probab
Rebel’s Guide to PM
MARCH 27, 2022
In 2012, Helen Mason stood outside her home and looked at the road. Every day there were more frogs and toads that hadn’t made it to the other side. The increasing numbers of dead amphibians made her feel that the local population of frogs and toads needed a helping hand to cross the road. So she set up a project to do something about it. The frog-saving team.
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?
Proofhub
MARCH 31, 2022
As we know, the global pandemic Covid 19 has changed the scenario of every business sector. However, it has also changed the workflow patterns. Companies have started working remotely for the past two years and it has indeed become a new normal! When we say remote work, there are numerous questions in mind. Like, will the work go on smoothly? How can the teams communicate with each other and so on?
Leading Agile
MARCH 28, 2022
To make a meaningful change requires people to think, feel, or do something different—and usually all three simultaneously. But people are naturally resistant to change. We become comfortable in what we know, and moving into an unknown experience can be scary. There are many reasons people resist change, particularly in a work environment. There are the people who “have always done it this way” and are hard to convince that doing things a different way will create a better outcome.
Scrum.org
MARCH 29, 2022
The concept of iterative, incremental Product delivery is included in the Scrum guide. But did you know that the Agile Manifesto refers to incremental, iterative delivery in at least 3 of the principles? (Share your thoughts in the comments below - are there other principles or values which allude to iterative, incremental delivery?) . . . What is iterative, incremental delivery?
Rebel’s Guide to PM
MARCH 29, 2022
I have been a bit lax with project management reading recently but one book that I have made time to review again is The Conscious Project Leader: How to Create a Culture of Success for Your Projects, Your Team and Yourself. Colin Ellis. I was lucky enough to find Colin D Ellis through talking to Ellen Maynes. It didn’t take much browsing on his website to realize that it was going to be my kind of book.
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.
Online PM Courses
MARCH 31, 2022
PRINCE2 Agile is a Project Management methodology designed to create a high-governance framework for traditional predictive projects. The post What is PRINCE2 Agile? …and Does it Make Sense? | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.
International Institute for Learning
MARCH 29, 2022
IIL’s 6th annual Agile and Scrum Online Conference: Co-Create for Greater Value opens on June 3, 2021. Our theme this year is Co-Create for Greater Value. In this article, we’ll preview what you can expect to take away from this unique learning event. View full event and registration details here. Agile has become one of the hottest topics in the project management world, mainly due to its proven success in software projects and its ability to deliver quick and real value to customers.
Scrum.org
MARCH 28, 2022
Lately I had an epiphany, realising that most of my writing has been for Product Owners and how to they should interact with the environment, but what about how to interact with Product Owners? What are some characteristics and traits you may encounter as a stakeholder, manager or leader of a Product Owner. Disclaimer: “All models are wrong, some are useful”.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
APRIL 1, 2022
I work in a virtual team. In both my jobs, as a project manager and as a writer, I work in virtual teams, sometimes leading them, sometimes not. That’s why I was keen to read Virtual Leadership by Dr Penny Pullan. I read it in one sitting on a long train journey — it’s easy to get into so it doesn’t feel like hard going to plough through it.
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Online PM Courses
MARCH 27, 2022
It's time to round-up the best Project Management YouTube Channels. There's a wealth of valuable material out there. And it's all free. The post Project Management YouTube Channels: All the Ones We Love the Best appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.
The Strategic Project Manager
APRIL 1, 2022
Every organization possesses core capabilities. Those ‘human’ capabilities can be captured and managed through a Universal Competency Framework. That means an organized product that incorporates capabilities that are core to the organization’s mission – PM and otherwise. Let’s take a look at the nuts and bolts. Let’s Define Competency Framework.
Scrum.org
MARCH 31, 2022
In Kürze: 28+2 Sprint Anti-Patterns. Willkommen zum Sprint Anti-Patterns-Artikel aus meiner Serie über Scrum-Anti-Patterns. Ich adressiere in diesem Artikel sprintbezogene Fehlverhalten der drei Scrum-Rollen, der Stakeholder bzw. Interessenvertreter sowie des IT-Management. Außerdem habe ich einige Denkanstöße hinzugefügt. Könnte zum Beispiel ein einmonatiger Sprint zu kurz sein, um etwas Sinnvolles zu erreichen?
Rebel’s Guide to PM
MARCH 28, 2022
Henrique Moura’s PMP ® study guide is simply called PMP Exam Complete Guide. It’s a complete guide to preparing for the exam. It starts with a framework and overview of the whole thing to set the context, then dives into the process groups followed by the knowledge areas – in other words, it covers the content of A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge ( PMBOK Guide ®) – Seventh Edition and the PMP Exam Content Outline as you’d expect from a quality exam prep guide.
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nTask
MARCH 30, 2022
With the changing marketing trends and rapid digitalization, agile and user-friendly agency project management tools are predominant. Various parameters are crucial for the success and growth of your agency. The changing marketing requirements demand software that can work on rapid marketing trends, forecast issues, create effective workflows and assign tasks effectively.
Management Yogi
MARCH 31, 2022
Let’s consider the following scenario based true events which occurred within an organization I worked closely with recently. This company had a long-running project with a number of uncertainties. Risks were identified, then qualified, and risk responses planned. For implementation of these risk responses, a number of actions were needed. Some were taken, but most ignored or overlooked because.
Scrum.org
MARCH 29, 2022
It sounds obvious that you should include your stakeholders. But who are they? Are we talking about users? Customers? Internal or external customers? Product Managers? While some organizations work exclusively for external customers, many also have people inside the organization that should be included in deciding what is valuable. And in other organizations, the term ‘customer’ is not something that people are used to, like in NGOs and governmental agencies.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
APRIL 1, 2022
In the past I have interviewed Susanne Madsen on the topic of project leadership and her book, The Power of Project Leadership. I read it prior to our interview and it wasn’t at all what I expected. The second edition is out now, and it’s even better. I expected a book about leadership theory but what I got was a hugely practical guide to actually doing leadership with plenty of stories, examples and exercises.
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.
Resource Guru
MARCH 28, 2022
Like it or not, calendars are at the heart of most of our working lives. With that in mind, we’re very excited to introduce our new two-way sync for Google Calendar. This new feature allows you to synchronise your Resource Guru schedule with Google Calendar, so you can have full visibility of team availability, all in one place. With this integration, you can cut down the time you spend jumping between calendars and reduce the risk of unexpected meetings throwing your plans off track.
nTask
MARCH 31, 2022
Big surprises in the budget are never something we are all fond of. It just puts the whole project off track and demotivates the team, too, more like reverse gear. Thus, cost estimation in project management is essential for predicting the project’s scope. The big difference between a project with and without cost estimation is that you’re somehow prepared for the latter as you’d have already predicted the budget constraints in your cost estimation process.
Scrum.org
APRIL 1, 2022
In my recent post, I discussed the value of Scrum certifications. In this post, I will focus on the value of the advanced Scrum certifications from Scrum.org. These currently include Professional Scrum Master level III (PSM III) and Professional Scrum Product Owner level III (PSPO III). To date, less than 1500 people have passed these assessments and gained the associated certifications.
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