Musings on Project Management
SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
If there's no Plan B, then the first rule is "Make Plan A work!"And it might require that you be aggressive about making Plan A work. no fooling around.No Plan BWait! Isn't there always a Plan B somewhere?A general officer once told me: If there's no Plan B, invent it!Insure for failure?Maybe you can insure against the failure of Plan A.
Online PM Courses
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
There are many different Agile methods. In this video, I want to answer the question, what is the PMI's Disciplined Agile, DA? The post What is Disciplined Agile (DA)? | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.
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LiquidPlanner
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
There are so many impactful quotations about planning. Here are just a few that you might recognise: “If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail!” Benjamin Franklin. “An hour of planning can save you 10 hours of doing.” Dale Carnegie. “A goal without a plan is just a wish.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. “Plans are nothing; planning is everything.” Dwight D.
The Strategic Project Manager
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
What is the difference between project and product management? This post explores the similarities and differences between the two, the competencies required, building teams for each, the comparative life cycles, and strategic impacts. It also explores how program management interacts with both. Project and Product Management Functions. There are many similarities – but also many differences.
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?
Epicflow Blog
SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
Do you know your organization’s project management maturity level? If not, it’s high time to change the situation: project management maturity has a direct impact on a company’s competitiveness and business success. . What is project management maturity exactly, and how to define its level? What are project management maturity models? Find answers to these questions in the article. .
Project Management Update brings together the best content for project management professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
PM Basics
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
As a project manager , you should facilitate and organize the efforts to collect requirements. However, from time to time you may need to write requirements yourself. So, below I’ll explain everything a project manager needs to know about collecting project requirements. Collect requirements is the process of identifying, documenting, and controlling changes to the project requirements.
ProjectManager.com
SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
As projects are all about the bottom line, you can imagine the importance of project profitability in project management. Being able to determine beforehand whether a project will turn a profit is how organizations can decide which projects to initiate and which ones to skip. But what exactly is profit profitability and how does it relate to professional services teams, consultants, CFOs and accountants?
Scrum.org
SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
TL; DR: Elements of Empiricism. In its theory section, the Scrum Guide refers to the three elements of empiricism: transparency, inspection, and adaptation. However, a fourth element, foundational to enable empiricism, is hidden in a sentence on Scrum Values. Read on and learn more about the complete picture of Scrum’s empiricism. ???? Zur deutschsprachigen Version des Artikels: Die 4 Säulen der Scrum Empirie. ??
Inloox
SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
Deadlines play a central role in the project context. They ensure that tasks are completed on time so that subsequent tasks can start according to plan and the project is completed by the agreed deadline. A lack of deadlines can lead to chaos, as coordination of tasks and processes becomes almost impossible. Setting deadlines is a useful tool in project management that gives a certain degree of structure.
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.
Musings on Project Management
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
Are you on one of those death march projects about to burn out. Want some time off? Perhaps it's in the plan Formula solution Google among others -- Microsoft, etc -- are well known for the "time off, do. what you want toward self improvement and personnel innovation" model; formulas like that lend objectivity to the process (not playing. favorites, etc).
ProjectManager.com
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
It’s easy to get lost in the weeds when you’re managing a project. There are day-to-day operations that the project manager obsesses over, but they also need to see the big picture. That’s why a business requirements document is so important. To prove this point, let’s define what a business requirements document (BRD) is and what its components are.
Scrum.org
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
Im August hat Scrum.org ein neues Assessment zusammen mit einem neuen Kurs veröffentlicht. Das Professional-Scrum-Facilitation-Skills-Assessment (PSFS) hilft dir, dein Facilitation-Wissen zu evaluieren. Ich habe bei der Vorbereitung mitgewirkt und kann deshalb wertvolle Einsichten in Scrum und die Facilitation mit dir teilen. Wenn du vorhast, dich an die Prüfung zu wagen, dann lies weiter. . .
PM Times
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
Managing multiple projects at the same time can be an absolute n-i-g-h-t-m-a-r-e. You need to keep track of your projects’ moving parts, ensure you’re using the right processes and strategies, stay within deadline, keep your employees motivated, and be mindful of your expenses. Data even shows that on average, 88% of remote workers experience miscommunications and […].
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International Institute for Learning
SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
By Dr. Elissa Farrow. Views on Artificial Intelligence (AI), its future use and impact on organisations and society are often polarised (Farrow, 2019; van Belkom, 2020). It is a swinging narrative of either AI being human’s salvation and great hope, or being the enemy that brings vulnerability, enhanced discrimination to workers and pain (ibid). Given the widespread implications of AI on the deeper and fundamental challenge of concepts of the human’s contribution to the nature and concept of wor
Traxidy
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
Automated RAID logs & Action logs versus Spreadsheets (Part 1). By: Steve McBroom, CEO, Traxidy. (Click to follow me on LinkedIn). A RAID log is the best place for Project Managers (PM) to organize, track and manage all the smaller, but key work items that support the project schedule and plan. Items like actions and dates, risks and issues that arise almost daily, during a project.
Scrum.org
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
In Kürze: Die 4 Elemente der Scrum Empirie. In seinem Theorieteil verweist der Scrum Guide auf die drei Elemente der Scrum Empirie: Transparenz, Inspektion und Adaption. Ein viertes Element, das die Grundlage für die Empirie bildet, ist jedoch in einem Satz über die Scrum-Werte versteckt. Lesen Sie weiter und erfahren Sie mehr über das vollständige Bild des empirischen Modells von Scrum. ??
Agilemania
SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
As the technology is growing and evolving, the demand for SAFe® Product Owners is also increasing. Organizations are also transforming, initially, companies transitioned from waterfall to agile now they are implementing SAFe®-. SAFe® isn’t something related to safety but SAFe® means a scaled agile framework. It provides structured guidelines on roles and responsibilities, works planning, and values to follow.
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.
International Institute for Learning
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
By Dr. Elissa Farrow. Views on Artificial Intelligence (AI), its future use and impact on organisations and society are often polarised (Farrow, 2019; van Belkom, 2020). It is a swinging narrative of either AI being human’s salvation and great hope, or being the enemy that brings vulnerability, enhanced discrimination to workers and pain (ibid). Given the widespread implications of AI on the deeper and fundamental challenge of concepts of the human’s contribution to the nature and concept of wor
Proofhub
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
Top 13 Tools For Remote Employee Onboarding The number of remote employees in the workforce is on the rise as companies are realizing the benefits of distributed teams. Remote employee onboarding is crucial to ensuring that employees feel like they belong to a company and have all the tools they need to do their best work. The remote employee onboarding process can include many stages, from a simple welcome video and introduction to key team members to details about getting set up for daily work
Scrum.org
SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
Anyone working as a Product Owner with multiple stakeholders having diverse opinions has their hands full. The Scrum Guide states that the Product Owner is accountable for effective Product Backlog management, including developing and communicating the Product Goal, Creating Product Backlog items, Ordering the Product Backlog, and ensuring that the Product Backlog is transparent and understood.
PM Basics
SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
I’ve seen different requirements gathering processes throughout my 11+ years as a software project manager. Nevertheless, they all have the same structure. I’ll show you an example. . Requirements gathering is a process of identifying detailed requirements for the product, service, or results that the project team needs to create. The outcome of this process is specifications and other requirements documentation.
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.
International Institute for Learning
SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
By Zena Everett. Do you need people to share more ideas, challenge the status quo, point out opportunities and generally speak up more? . This is a common challenge I’m encountering now: employees need to be coming up with suggestions but seem to have become passive. Worse case, they are quitting for greener pastures rather than influencing change where they are. .
Agilemania
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
Scaled Agile Framework, SAFe® is the world’s leading framework for Business Agility. SAFe® is built around seven Core Competencies with Customers as a focal point in the center. The seven core competencies each have three dimensions making it a total of twenty-one dimensions to enable Business Agility. These dimensions contain some of the practices, patterns, and guidelines to Scale Agility across the enterprise.
Scrum.org
SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
Am 22. August wollte ich einen neuen Kurs launchen. Ich habe die Trainingsunterlagen angefertigt, die Trainingsbeschreibung geschrieben und Blogartikel zur Ankündigung vorbereitet. Sonntagabend war alles im Content-Management-System eingepflegt. Montagmorgen drückte ich den Button „veröffentlichen“. Es passierte nichts. Die Beiträge wurden zwar veröffentlicht, allerdings nicht über die Social-Media-Kanäle ausgespielt.
MindGenius
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
For many, mind mapping is a fantastic tool for creating projects and collaborating with your team. However mind mapping can be a great way to organize, prioritise and structure your ideas in a better way. This is something that massively benefits the assisted learning community, particularly those who have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, better known as ADHD.
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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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