ActiveCollab
JULY 27, 2023
In the dynamic world of project management, delays can often become an unwelcome yet recurrent reality. These unexpected hiccups not only disrupt timelines but can also have a significant impact on overall productivity and profitability. This article aims to delve into the complex issue of project delays, unraveling their causes, implications, and potential solutions.
TechEmpower - Project Management
JULY 24, 2023
At TechEmpower, we frequently talk to startup founders, CEOs, product leaders, and other innovators about their next big tech initiative. It’s part of our job to ask questions about their plans, challenge their assumptions, and suggest paths to success. The conversations are interesting and varied because they’re about new, exciting, different things.
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Planview
JULY 26, 2023
In its conventional sense, project management has been marked by rigorous methods and stringent controls. But in the wake of generative AI technology, we’re on the brink of a transformative change in how projects are managed. As chatbots pervade all aspects of our digital lives — from banking to education to shopping — those who plan and run projects for a living will expect the same intelligence, ease of use, and real-time explanations from our project management solutions.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
JULY 22, 2023
Let me tell you about a project decision that was awkward for me — then I’ll share some tips on how to do decision-making better. We were due to go live with our pilot software launch but things didn’t feel right. We had the go/no go meeting and as I sat in the office, it just felt like we weren’t ready. My project sponsor was on holiday in Canada.
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?
ProjectManager.com
JULY 25, 2023
A Project managers can’t do it alone. When the project is larger and more complex, the organization often employs someone called a project officer. This person is tasked with helping ensure the project is delivered successfully. To better understand what a project officer is, let’s define the profession and explain what it is they do in relation to the overall project.
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Online PM Courses
JULY 24, 2023
Project Managers and clients want to deliver social value in projects. What is Social Value? and how can we measure it in our projects? The post What is Social Value? And How Can You Measure it in Projects? appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.
Inloox
JULY 25, 2023
The importance of responsibilities in the project Every project team brings with it a certain social complexity. Different people with different backgrounds and ideas come together. Without a certain degree of coordination, effective collaboration in this constellation is difficult to implement. To bring social complexity under control, a project organization is defined in advance of the project.
Musings on Project Management
JULY 25, 2023
Cost, schedule, scope, and quality. Everyone in this business has a familiarity with those four parametersEveryone knows that even if they are fixed on paper in the project plan, they are fluid in practice.How fluid? And who manages the fluidity?The answer to the second part is easiest to say: You do the managing, meaning you as PM or PEO.
Scrum.org
JULY 24, 2023
TL; DR: Product Discovery for Scrum Teams While Scrum excels at building and releasing Increments, it does not guarantee that those are valuable—garbage in, garbage out. Scrum teams can equally make things no one is interested in using at all. The critical artifact to create value is the Product Backlog, “an emergent, ordered list of what is needed to improve the product.” ( Source.
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.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
JULY 26, 2023
Carole Osterweil Managers should have a basic understanding of how the human brain works because it helps you navigate difficult situations. A bit of brain science goes a long way. Unconvinced? Think about the projects you’re working on. How often have you seen a team member becoming defensive or a client getting wound up and quite aggressive over something relatively minor?
ProjectManager.com
JULY 26, 2023
Before you can start a project — even before you can plan it — you first need to define the project in detail. This allows the project manager to get buy-in from the project’s key stakeholders and ensure all the research has been done to move into the planning phase without any hiccups. That’s why a project initiation document (PID) is so important.
The IIL Blog
JULY 26, 2023
The World’s Leading Framework and Certification for Agile Project Management By APMG International July 26, 2023 Agile’s influence on the project management industry continues to rise at pace. Organizations and project professionals are embracing Agile tools and frameworks as they aim to increase the success of – and return on investment from – projects and other change initiatives.
Scrum.org
JULY 25, 2023
As Scrum.org trainers, we often come across common misconceptions from course attendees about Agile and Scrum. We tend to hear red flags of misalignment when we explore folk's current definitions and understanding of Agile and Scrum at the start of our courses. Here are a few but certainly not an exhaustive list of misalignments: Agile: Agile is thought of as a methodology.
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Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?
Rebel’s Guide to PM
JULY 22, 2023
Every journey starts with the first steps and every project with a plan. In order for stakeholders and executives to get onboard with a certain initiative, PMs (project managers) must draft a compelling overview covering all the bases: objectives, necessary resources, tasks, schedules, milestones, deliverables, so on and so forth. At this early stage in the project, we’re mainly dealing with ballpark figures like a rough order of magnitude estimate and educated guesses based on previous similar
Inloox
JULY 25, 2023
Transparency and clear allocations through InLoox Recently, we wrote about the use of the RACI matrix in project management and highlighted the importance of clear responsibilities on our project management blog. The transparent presentation of responsibilities can be facilitated by project management software. InLoox offers features that make the management of responsibilities much easier for you as a project manager.
WorkOtter
JULY 26, 2023
Did you know 39% of organizations don’t provide project management training? That makes it pretty hard to manage or even understand an efficient project management workflow. After all, if you’ve ever worked on a project, you know how important it is to have a plan. From start to finish, you need a clear idea of who needs to do what and by when.
Scrum.org
JULY 26, 2023
The Product Owner accountability is critical for the success of the Scrum team. And yet, the characteristics of the Product Owner are not described in the Scrum Guide. Product Owners must understand the organization's business strategy and use that information to create the Product Goal. The Product Owner decides what is the most important thing to do next, and creates a single, ordered list from which the Scrum Team pulls its work - the Product Backlog.
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.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
JULY 22, 2023
You want to get some professional development time on your calendar. But the budget is tight. Your manager says there isn’t a lot of money to spend on career development activities. And frankly, you don’t have a lot of time to dedicate to it either. It’s important, but not ‘I’m going to get an MBA’ important. In this article I’ll share 15 easy ways to develop professionally.
LiquidPlanner
JULY 26, 2023
Looking for the best way to organize and schedule your project tasks in LiquidPlanner? Consider using sub-folders to break your project into phases. There are many advantages to utilizing sub-folders as phases that could benefit your team and help meet your deadlines: Breaking down work into phases effectively groups important work together within the project hierarchy.
The IIL Blog
JULY 26, 2023
By Cynthia Snyder Dionisio July 26, 2023 In Getting to Know the PMBOK Guide 7 th Edition , I focused on the structure of the PMBOK Guide – Seventh Edition. Now I want to move into how you can use the 7 th Edition. I want to share with you a story that happened while we were adjudicating comments from the public exposure draft of the Standard. It was March of 2020; I am sure you remember that was the beginning of the pandemic.
Scrum.org
JULY 27, 2023
It baffles me how some agile teams, who claim to be the pioneers of modernity, are living in archaic times where usable working products are as rare as unicorns! Just a heads-up, my dear agile practitioners: the linchpin of Agile is a Usable Working Product. Yes, you read it right! TL;DR; The only way to mitigate risk when employing Agile practices is by continuously delivering a usable working product.
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.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
JULY 28, 2023
Have you seen project status reports with colored boxes in different shades of green, amber, and red? Or project names written in those colors where the rest of the text is black? That’s the RAG status of the project. According to PMI, 11.4% of investment is wasted due to poor project performance. RAG reporting is a good way to draw management’s attention to projects that need support.
Productivity Land
JULY 26, 2023
Network security has become an increasingly complex and critical aspect of modern business operations. TechTarget reports that there is a growing trend of malicious attackers targeting internet-connected systems and inadequately protected web applications. A survey conducted in late 2021, with the results published in 2022, revealed that 43% of the 2,031 cybersecurity professionals surveyed noted an uptick in attempted cyber attacks within their organizations.
Leading Agile
JULY 26, 2023
The Agile industry seems insistent that practices, agile methodologies, and frameworks will be how large organizations achieve Business Agility. But, the clients and companies we talk to seem to have a different opinion. Many of them are saying, “yeah, we tried Agile. It didn’t work.” And they’re looking for something else. Is the Agile industry in a rut?
Scrum.org
JULY 26, 2023
User Experience Personas -- What Problem do you solve? 4 Ways the User Experience Is the Cornerstone of Scrum Product Success Just as a hearty meal satisfies hunger, a product that offers a top-tier user experience (UX) satisfies the users' needs. In the realm of Scrum, a methodological framework popular in Agile product development, the significance of UX is often overlooked.
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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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