Musings on Project Management
MARCH 14, 2022
Number One: It's a bell, unless it's not For nearly all of us when approaching something statistical, we imagine the bell-shape distribution right away. And, we know the average outcome is the value at the peak of the curve. Why is it so useful that it's the default go-to? Because many, if not. most, natural phenomenon with a bit of randomness tend to have a "central tendency" or preferred.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
MARCH 12, 2022
Project governance is an important part of project management processes – even if it’s not the most exciting part of getting work done. As a project manager, part of your role is shepherding the work through the project lifecycle. That means moving it on from idea to done and keeping it all on track as you go. Governance is a key part of that, and gate reviews are part of navigating through the project.
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Kiron Bondale
MARCH 13, 2022
There are three commonly referenced approaches for reducing schedule duration: crashing, fast tracking and scope reduction. Crashing is the addition of labor or equipment to effort-driven activities in the hopes of shortening their durations. Fast tracking involves executing activities which had discretionary dependencies in parallel (either wholly or partially).
Scrum.org
MARCH 14, 2022
Scrum is simple, but that simplicity means that each of its elements is essential. The values, accountabilities, artifacts and events are all part of the framework for a reason. Teams that mess with the framework are messing with Scrum. Teams that make changes to the elements limit Scrum's effectiveness and aren't really using Scrum. . Below are some of the things in the Scrum framework teams shouldn't mess with but often do. . .
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?
LiquidPlanner
MARCH 16, 2022
Project management is a lot more complicated than relying on the luck of the Irish to ensure people are working on the right priorities at the right time. As we all know – relying heavily on luck can have serious ramifications to our project plan. Luck comes along suddenly and unexpectedly in managing priorities without a project management tool. But it’s nothing you can try to repeat without the right resources.
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Proofhub
MARCH 17, 2022
How Time Management Can Help Reduce Your Stress at Workplace As a project manager, there are many challenges you face while leading your team. Sometimes it can be exceedingly overwhelming as project managers have to fulfill many demands. Image Source: ProofHub They have to deal with priorities, keep a close eye on what their team needs as well as what the customers and stakeholders want.
Scrum.org
MARCH 14, 2022
The first article of this mini-series established that you do not need a certificate to become good at what you do, for example, working as a Scrum Master. However, getting certified may be a piece of sound investment advice, as documented by the Scrum Master Salary Report 2022: There is a statistical correlation between your remuneration and the certificates you hold.
LiquidPlanner
MARCH 14, 2022
March Madness – that crazy college basketball time of year when 64 teams play for the national championship. One winner, 63 losers. Everybody and their brother fill out their own “bracket” pre-tournament in office and friend pools all over the US hoping to win the jackpot of $5, $10, or maybe even $1000. The madness emerges as Cinderella teams advance, upsetting highly-ranked and favored teams as they fail to deliver. .
Rebel’s Guide to PM
MARCH 17, 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! A reader got in touch to ask me how I manage my personal project To Do list. “I assume you have multiple projects running at the same time,” she said. “I struggle with how to manage my project-related tasks, beyond dealing with the crisis of the day.”.
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.
Leading Agile
MARCH 17, 2022
Spike solutions are one of the ways extreme programming teams “ figure out answers to tough technical or design problems “ Their use has evolved over the years and as they’ve been adopted by Scrum Teams. There are also many teams out there who may be using spikes in a way that creates more work without solving problems. In this episode of SoundNotes, Stephen Cavaliere joins Dave to talk all about Spikes.
Scrum.org
MARCH 14, 2022
Ich bringe Teams bei, wie sie UX-Praktiken und Scrum verbinden können. Die 4 Fragen, welche in jedem Training auftauchen, lauten: . Sollen Designaktivitäten nicht einen Sprint vor der Entwicklungsarbeit stattfinden? Gilt die Definition of Done auch für die Entdeckungsarbeit? Was soll ich machen, wenn es keinen dedizierten Designer für unser Team gibt?
MPUG
MARCH 13, 2022
Projects are essential to all organizations’ goals and objectives. Successful project completions according to targeted purposes account for optimum company performance. But only through a robust project management plan can companies perform better, accomplish goals faster, and be more efficient. Thus, when reviewing monthly project management reports, organizations want the best project management techniques.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
MARCH 18, 2022
Recently someone got in contact with me to ask about how to become a project manager. I thought I’d repeat here what I said to her, in case anyone else finds it useful. She wrote: I have been advised that you have to do a degree in a particular subject e.g. engineering, do project management training e.g. PMI®, PRINCE2® etc and work your way up in order to become a project manager.
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Leading Agile
MARCH 15, 2022
Achieving lasting change to an organization through an Agile Transformation or increasing Business Agility is not for the faint of heart. There are tomes written about the best way forward. Stages, steps, processes–and in many cases—the “solution” is to plan more, track more, and deliver on time. In contrast, Business Agility is intended to be flexible.
Scrum.org
MARCH 18, 2022
In Scrum soll ein verwendbares Increment und in Design Thinking sollen nur Prototypen erstellt werden. Wie kann das trotzdem zusammen passen? . Dazu schauen wir uns zunächst grundlegende Prinzipien an und schlussfolgern wie mögliche Integrationen aussehen. . Prinzipien für Scrum und Design Thinking. Scrum ist ein Rahmenwerk, das Teams hilft Wert durch adaptive Lösungen für komplexe Probleme zu generieren.
nTask
MARCH 16, 2022
Agile methodology is becoming more and more important and popular in modern workspaces. The complexity of projects and the need for continuous modifications have shifted the project management methodology from traditional to agile. However, to thrive agile methodology in your organization, you need to have an adaptive and flexible team to sudden changes and new requirements.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
MARCH 17, 2022
“The successful project communicator is a good networker and builds effective working relationships within the project, across the wider organization of which the project is a part and sometimes externally,” writes Ann Pilkington in her book, Communicating Projects. You need good communication skills in order to be able to do that, but what are ‘good communication skills’?
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.
Leading Agile
MARCH 14, 2022
Change isn’t something you do to an organization, but with an organization. To progress your Transformation, you need to create trust with your people, get leaders on board, and understand the problems you’re fixing. Without a change management plan, it’s hard to create a safe space for people to want to change. Change is hard, and people are comfortable.
Scrum.org
MARCH 17, 2022
Die gute Nachricht: Scrum ist ein Rahmenwerk, in dem sich Methoden wie Design Thinking und Lean Startup gut integrieren lassen. . Insgesamt sieht ein mögliches Bild so aus: . Um Innovationen zu schaffen braucht es drei Komponenten: . Eine Innovation hilft Kund:innen ein Problem besser, sicherer, schneller oder kostengünstiger zu lösen. Wenn eine Innovation das leisten kann, dann begeistert eine Innovation die Kund:innen.
The Strategic Project Manager
MARCH 12, 2022
The Prisoner’s Dilemma is a well-known game where we can learn about human behavior. It is part of the area of Game Theory. This post looks at what the Prisoner’s Dilemma is, how it applies to strategy and project management, and how insights from it can be used to improve outcomes. Basic Prisoner’s Dilemma Explained. The above figure illustrates the basic Prisoner’s Dilemma.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
MARCH 16, 2022
This is a guest article from Paul Pelletier, PMP and author of Workplace Bullying – It’s Just Bad for Business. Paul Pelletier. Project managers establish and foster workplace behavior expectations through their own leadership values and actions. Simply put – I believe that we learn from the examples set by those above. That leads to two clear choices: do you commit to a positive, respectful model for workplace culture or a disrespectful, bullying model?
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.
Management Yogi
MARCH 13, 2022
Imagine the following situation:You’re working on a large-scale system integration project using MS Project as the project management tool, but a component team for this project has been using Jira for legacy reasons. You want to have your overall project plan, including this component team’s work, in MS Project, though the component team will continue to work with Jira.
Scrum.org
MARCH 18, 2022
Prior to reading this blog, please read the introduction to this series here. Professional Teaching is a complex skill that requires practitioners to probe, sense and respond to a changing learning environment. As Scrum Masters, we are naturally at home within complexity, and therefore the ability to apply empiricism to learning should be simple. However, for many reasons, teaching is often forced upon unwilling (or unwitting) Scrum Team members causing the outcome to be less valuable than inte
Resource Guru
MARCH 18, 2022
Resource management is already complicated – you don’t need to add more stress by using tools that hinder more than help you. But frustration and mistakes are inevitable for resource managers using cumbersome spreadsheets or task-based apps with limited capabilities. IBM found that 88% of spreadsheets contain at least one error (largely because of manual data entry), and task-based apps often force you to rely more on guesswork than hard data when assigning workloads.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
MARCH 15, 2022
This is a guest article from Andy Kaufman, PMP. Andy Kaufman. I work with project managers around the world, and increasingly there’s one success trait that I find could use a tune-up. In a word, it’s assertiveness. Some of this is unquestionably cultural. Part of the problem could be perception. Some people view assertiveness at work as aggression, and that can hold them back.
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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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