MPUG

MAY 1, 2022

Are you a user of Project Online desktop client (subscription version) and wondering how to best manage an Agile project in Microsoft Project? I’ve written an entire chapter on Agile features in my latest Microsoft Project Step by Step book (just published in April) and spent months testing and evaluating various features for this purpose. I’ve shared feedback (both good and bad) through multiple channels at Microsoft, and have boiled it down to my top takeaways, which address the following acti

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Project Management Essentials

APRIL 30, 2022

Agile teams are described as “self-organizing” or “self-managing.” But what does that really mean? The terms are frequently used but not widely understood. For teams to “be” Agile, they need to know how to act. Behaviors describe actions. They are observable and universally evident to all team members. To “be” Agile, teams should identify and clearly label the desired actions and interactions.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 2, 2022

A project portfolio is all about prioritizing. Together with the common-sense notion that you can’t just pursue your main goal and leave behind all that is secondary, the main reason to use a portfolio is the assumption that no organization has enough resources to fulfill all of its goals simultaneously. The mission of a project portfolio manager is clear enough: maximize the business benefits of projects.

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Technical Review Risk Management Governance Government 365

ProjectManager.com

MAY 4, 2022

ProjectManager’s May release provides two new highly-requested features that further enhance the user experience—new keyboard shortcuts and customized project views. These new features make it easy to locate the information most important to you. These new keyboard shortcuts and customized project views are designed to improve software adoption and appeal to all roles within your organization.

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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?

Innovation

Scrum.org

MAY 2, 2022

The third blog, in a blog series about the upcoming book: Creating Agile Organizations - A Systemic Approach , by Cesario Ramos & Ilia Pavlichenko. Most customers we work with organizing teams around smaller areas of functionality with no straightforward customer or value proposition. In these cases, you find that the teams are working on just a part of the real product.

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Defining Sustainability Energy Agile 224

Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 4, 2022

Whether it’s a statement of work, a business case, or project requirements, there are lots of documents produced by projects. And it falls to the project manager to produce most of them, or at least oversee and coordinate their production. Documents are mainly used for communicating: upwards to senior managers, sideways to project stakeholders, and down to project team members who are responsible for delivering the work.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 3, 2022

Construction estimating is one of the most important parts of landing a construction project. Bid too high and you lose money. Bid too low and you lose the job. It’s also one of the more complicated aspects of all the costs to consider, from equipment to crew and more. That’s why you need construction estimating software to make your forecast as accurate as possible.

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Construction Estimate 2022 Software Review 223

Scrum.org

MAY 2, 2022

This article is also available as a free PDF. It’s a nicely styled paper and allows you to easily share it with others. You can download the PDF here or check the package that includes 30 Quickstart workshops ! . Is psychological safety in your team low? We wrote this guide to help you get the dialogue started in your team. Psychological safety is defined by Amy Edmonson as the degree to which people are willing to take interpersonal risks.

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Inloox

MAY 5, 2022

Content: The importance of a well-run complaint management system. The complexity of complaints. Project management as a success factor. Wherever transactions take place between buyers and sellers, complaints are an integral part of everyday life. You have probably had negative experiences with companies yourself and may have addressed a complaint to them.

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Software Review Defining Software Budget 246

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

MAY 3, 2022

Your project management plan is more than just a schedule of work. Although I am guilty of using ‘plan’ and ‘Gantt chart’ interchangeably. A project management plan is a document that sets out how you are going to do what you’re going to do. It’s a guide to how the project will be managed. And as a project manager, it provides the guardrails and guidelines for how you are going to do your job.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 5, 2022

When working in an agile environment, teams take sprints, a short period of time in which you complete tasks. Scrum teams choose this work by looking over their backlog. The backlog is a prioritized list of deliverables that must be completed during the project. A scrum framework allows teams to execute in agile project management, the backlog is very important and backlog refinement keeps work flowing.

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Scrum.org

MAY 6, 2022

Why many Scrum teams struggle with continuous improvement, and how you can do better. Do your Sprint Retrospectives feel like a waste of time? Are members of your team wondering what the point is of talking about improvement when nothing ever happens? Are you struggling to improve with your team, even though the whiteboard, Mural, or desk is littered with stickies with improvement ideas?

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LiquidPlanner

MAY 2, 2022

The economy is hot right now. Unemployment levels are exceptionally low, at 3.6% in the US. In April 2022, The Wall Street Journal described that “the demand for workers is so intense that companies have listed millions of unfilled job openings.” So, this begs the question: are you doing all you can to attract and retain top talent ? There are three things to consider to ensure you’re making the best use of your team members and their resources. 1.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 6, 2022

“How can I manage my stakeholders when there isn’t enough time for meetings?” a project manager asked me recently. She had ruled out emails and wanted another option for communicating (preferably asynchronous) that wouldn’t involve sitting in project meetings. I had a couple of options for how to communicate effectively with her team that I shared with her, and today I’ll share them with you.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 3, 2022

Industrial processes are used in heavy manufacturing industries during large-scale projects. Having robust and efficient industrial processes is instrumental in a modern manufacturing business. Let’s explore a deeper definition of industrial processes and then break it down into different types. We’ll also look at what materials are used in industrial processes, offer some examples and look at how software can facilitate the process.

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Process Manufacturing Software Review Technical Review 195

Scrum.org

MAY 2, 2022

Schon seit Jahren beobachte ich bei Scrum Teams dieses Phänomen: Die Einträge im Sprint Backlog bewegen sich tagelang gar nicht. Und dann wird in letzter Minute doch alles fertig. . Es ist immer das Gleiche: Egal, wie gut der Scrum Master die Entwickler daran erinnert, ganz gleich, ob das Scrum Team viele oder wenige Tasks parallel im Sprint bearbeitet, unabhängig davon, wie klein die einzelnen Aufgaben im Sprint Planning gemacht wurden – Fortschritt zeigt sich nicht am Sprint-Board.

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Kiron Bondale

MAY 1, 2022

Whether we are looking at project or operations, understanding what progress has been made with the individual work items owned by your team is part of a normal day or week’s work for most leaders. This information is critical to using tools such as earned value management and information radiators such as burn down or burn up charts. But how you ask for work item updates will influence the quality of the work performance data you receive.

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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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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 1, 2022

In this video I share my four favorite books for women in leadership and women in project management positions. Watch the video, or scroll down to read more about these book choices and a few extras that I love! 1. Getting It All Done by HBR Press. This book is from the Harvard Business Review Press Working Parents series and it includes tips, stories and strategies for the job that never ends.

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Proofhub

MAY 3, 2022

Why Workers Are Disengaged and How Employers Can Win Them Back There is no doubt that employers do everything possible to boost their employee engagement ; whether it is spending countless hours or spending a great amount of money. But, despite all of this, they are not successful in engaging their employees. So, they need to use effective methods to measure dedication instead of using traditional methods.

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Scrum.org

MAY 5, 2022

According to the 2020 Scrum Guide, “Product Backlog items that can be Done by the Scrum Team within one Sprint are deemed ready for selection in a Sprint Planning event.” But how do you know whether you’ve sized your Product Backlog items such that the team can complete them within one Sprint? The Scrum Guide leaves that up to you. . One way is to estimate Product Backlog item (PBI) size.

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Estimate SCRUM 2020 Agile 184

Online PM Courses

MAY 1, 2022

Important project decisions: what development approach to take, what methodology to base it on, and how to structure your project life cycle. The post PMBOK 7 Development Approach Performance Domain: Is it a Missed Opportunity? appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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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.

Sustainability

MPUG

MAY 2, 2022

Over a decade ago, I was put in charge of a group of projects. One of the projects had been running for almost a year, but had never seen a single live release to the customer! I realized there were too many unresolved risks, and asked the concerned project manager to put risk management, a new concept in the organization, as a top priority. Post identification and qualification of risks, any risk above the risk threshold value had to be brought down.

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Agilemania

MAY 3, 2022

Agile product management is the most preferred approach to developing new products, services, or solutions. It should come as no surprise since the Agile adoption rate increased from 37% in 2020 to 86% in 2021. . The 15th State of Agile Report revealed the benefits of Agile adoption, including increased productivity, managing changing priorities, improved delivery time to market, managing distributed teams, and much more. .

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Scrum.org

MAY 5, 2022

In Kürze: Product Owner Fehlverhalten. Keine andere Rolle in Scrum kann so sehr zu mittelmäßigen Ergebnissen beitragen wie der Product Owner — Garbage in, Garbage out. Die folgende Liste mit den häufigsten Product Owner Fehlverhalten könnte daher ein Ausgangspunkt sein, über die Tätigkeit als Product Owner nachzudenken; vielleicht gibt es Verbesserungspotential?

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Resource Guru

MAY 6, 2022

Oyster mushrooms start to grow when you shock them by moving them from a dark and dry room to a bright and humid one. Unexpectedness is part of the plan. Your projects and employees need a scheduling plan to grow, too—but preferably one that doesn’t include shocks. Only 52% of projects are delivered within their planned schedule. Common reasons include unclear goals, overallocation of resources, poor prioritization of tasks, and budget overruns.

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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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