Inloox

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Time tracking in project management has been the subject of intense discussions for some years now. The reason: This is not only about recording basic working time, but rather about booking time for specific tasks. The aim of the companies is to subsequently compare estimated and booked expenses and thus optimize processes and workflows. In doing so, many project members fear that this granular time recording makes it possible to compare the efficiency of resources.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Wouldn’t life be better if your team were, well, just a little bit more productive? If there was less chat and more doing? It is possible to create an environment where project team members can be more productive, by creating good habits. You’ve read all the articles, you’ve got ideas about how things could be better. But no one is telling you HOW to get your team to adopt new ways of working.

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Project Risk Coach

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Most of your project problems can be avoided or greatly reduced through risk management. The simple act of identifying and discussing risks goes a long way towards reducing problems in your project. Let's look at how to develop a project risk management plan. As a bonus, I will provide a risk management plan example and a risk management plan template.

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Kiron Bondale

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

In 2013 I wrote an article about the advantages and disadvantages of contract project managers. Competent agile coaches have been in high demand for many years due to the large number of companies across multiple industries who are going through agile transformations. Scrum asserts that the role of the Scrum Master includes coaching activities and this is fair in small contexts, but in larger organizations early in their journeys to greater agility, a Scrum Master is likely to find they have lim

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As prospects define their problem, search for solutions, and even change jobs, they are generating high-value signals that the best go-to-market teams can leverage to close more deals. This is where signal-based selling comes into play. ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck recently broke down specific ways to put four key buying signals into action with the experts from 30 Minutes to President’s Club.

Musings on Project Management

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Ideas about extreme risk management have been around a long time. No news there, so let's press on. Here's a working definition: Extreme risks are those for which the consequences are nearly irreversible, and the impact is near-catastrophic. And, fortunately, in most cases, the likelihood of the event is low. Because the expected value is nearly zero, but the threat so high, people are.

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The Digital Project Manager

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

You know the drill. You’re updating your plans and timelines, and yet you’ve got a. The post 3 Ways A Work OS Can Make You A PM Superhero appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

If you’re searching for a project management job, you’ve no doubt come across a range of different job titles. Which one should you go for? Even the jobs called ‘project manager’ seem to have a lot of variation in roles and duties. And therein lies the challenge. What ‘project manager’ means to one business will be slightly different to how another company uses the term.

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The Lazy Project Manager

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

[link]. This one day workshop is being delivered in Geneva on 27th February, a few places left only – see link above. Or talk to Peter Taylor about delivering it for your project team [link]. Benefits: At the conclusion of this full-day interactive classroom training, you will be able to: Understand the ‘backbone’ of smart/agile working whilst managing projects.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Construction projects are notoriously difficult, and they’re known for encountering delays. They involve a lot of moving parts, teams, equipment and materials. If any discipline needs a well-thought-out schedule, it’s construction project management. Tools that are embedded in construction project management software , such as Gantt charts and resource management, are key features to control the many phases of a construction product.

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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

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

What is a Scrum Master? What are the differences between a Scrum Master and Project Manager? Isn’t a Scrum Master some kind of an Agile Project Manager? These are some of the questions we often get from people in our Scrum.org classes. Before we dive into an overview of the differences between a Scrum Master and a Project Project Manager, let’s start with the conclusion, which is: The Scrum Master is not an Agile Project Manager.

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Binfire

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Microsoft project has been around forever. It has been updated occasionally, but it is still an old-style project management tool. Lots of people who used Microsoft project are looking for Microsoft project alternatives. To say the market for project management software is crowded in 2020 is the understatement of the century. By the last count, there are around 120 vendors who sell some type of project management software.

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The Digital Project Manager

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

For most pros climbing the corporate ladder like you, the only thing more cluttered than. The post The Top 6 Work Operating Systems Compared appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Inloox

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

In the first article of this series we came to the conclusion that time tracking should be understood and used as a tool to improve planning and resource allocation in projects. Time tracking helps to identify those projects that generate extra work compared to the planned effort. How can executives now credibly communicate this approach? First, say goodbye to these opinions: High effort means inefficiency.

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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

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Good news! You’ve become the owner of a pizzeria. Gone are the days of writing code, being a Scrum Master or deciding over the Product Backlog. Instead, you are now responsible for a small Italian-themed restaurant. From now on, your world revolves around anchovies, mozzarella, tomatoes, and basil. But there’s one thing you took with from your job as a Scrum Master; use empiricism to drive decisions.

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LiquidPlanner

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Being put in charge of the money end of a project is a big responsibility. Done well, you could help to find major success for your team and to save everyone a lot of heartache, headache and, well, money. Done badly, you can single-handedly derail the whole thing. It’s pretty evident then that it’s an important part of the job that you need to do well or else you could find that you’re in a difficult predicament.

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Workamajig

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

How to become a project manager? This guide answers all your questions about becoming a project manager and landing a great job. Great pay, exciting work, unlimited growth opportunities - does this sound like an ideal career to you? If yes, then you should consider becoming a project manager. A project manager manages, well, projects. They’re the go-to people for getting work done in any kind of project-based organization (which is most organizations).

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Musings on Project Management

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

So, we occasionally get silliness from serious people: ". many enterprise architects spend a great deal of their time creating blueprints and plans based on frameworks. The problem is, this activity rarely leads to anything of genuine business value because blueprints or plans are necessarily: Incomplete – they are high-level abstractions that omit messy, ground-level details.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Hello awesome people. How was your week? In today's vlog I would like to talk about one of the most important aspects of Scrum, that is the Definition of "Done". Whenever I went into companies who complaint that either Scrum failed because the quality of the product is worse or Scrum did not make their company much more agile, I have found one of the most common reason is. there aren't technical excellence in their product's Definition of "Done".

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ProProfs Project Management

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

A good plan can help you in risk analysis, but it can not guarantee that your project will run smoothly. If you are associated with any stage of software project development life cycle, you most probably agree with this quote. It is important to have a smartly constructed plan in place to complete a software project on time. In addition, it is essential to rethink that plan at many stages so as to make sure it works!

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Online PM Courses

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Risk is inherent in the nature of a project. So, that makes project risk management a central part of the project management toolset. The post Ultimate Guide to Project Risk Management appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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MPUG

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Satya Narayan Dash’s PMI PMBOK Guide 7th Edition Standard – What’s New? webinar being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content.

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Sales and marketing leaders have reached a tipping point when it comes to using intent data — and they’re not looking back. More than half of all B2B marketers are already using intent data to increase sales, and Gartner predicts this figure will grow to 70 percent. The reason is clear: intent can provide you with massive amounts of data that reveal sales opportunities earlier than ever before.

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The Scrum.org Professional Scrum Master II class contains an exercise called “Management in Scrum”. It explores how management is an integral part of Scrum, and how this is often different in ‘real-life’. It also shows how it impacts the empirical process of Scrum and what a Scrum Master can do to remove any limitations. This article describes how this exercise can be used for job interviews for Scrum Masters.

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PM Basics

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Product Manager versus Project Manager, who wins? What should you choose as a career path? How do they interact? Okay, they almost sound the same. But believe me, these are completely different professions, and they require completely different skillsets and knowledge. Product Manager focuses on developing a product or service, increasing profit, and customer satisfaction.

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Planview

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

This blog series is part of our quest to help you enhance your resource planning, no matter where you are on the resource management and planning capacity curve. In part one of this blog series, we covered the first two guidelines, which are all about your people: Focus on your key resources first. Assign and allocate resource roles and team assignments.

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MPUG

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

How do you expect MS Project (MSP) to behave when you enter an Actual Start date for a task? You would likely expect it to store the date in the ‘Actual Start’ field and stop there, but MSP does something more than that. MSP also changes the ‘Start’ date field if the Actual Start is different from the Planned Start. Let us do a small exercise to illustrate the best practices for dealing with dates in MSP. 1.

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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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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

THIS IS A REPOST ARTICLE DETAILING THE KEYNOTE I CO-PRESENTED AT THE LESS CONFERENCE IN 2019. This article is about how we improved on the Spotify inspired model in one tribe inside a Large Dutch Bank. Our Business Lending product is being developed by more than 20 teams spread across 3 sites. Each team contains business, IT and operations skills. In this configuration we are able to deliver valuable product increment to our customers every 2 weeks.

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Proofhub

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

9 Easy Management Hacks for Remote Teams The remote work trend is on the rise. It is serving as an excellent opportunity for individuals and organizations to excel in terms of both productivity and profit. The culture of remote work is allowing professionals and teams to make the most of their work and working hours without getting distracted, working from home.

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Agilemania

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

I was invited to share my knowledge on agile to the management team today in fast-moving consumer goods at FMCG (a popular beer company). The post I failed again – I talked about why agile but they wanted “how to Scrum” appeared first on Agilemania.

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