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8 Reasons Why Project Managers Need to Work on Branding

Proofhub

Branding has a significant impact on how the intended audience receives your project. Go off-brand? Prepare to alienate loyal customers, but stay on brand? Build momentum and perceived value instantly with your loyal audience and tap into new audience members as you go. It’s easy to see why some project managers might think branding has no impact on their project delivery, but they’d be wrong.

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10 Best Agency Management System Tools Of 2021

The Digital Project Manager

The post 10 Best Agency Management System Tools Of 2021 appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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How to Handle Negative Emotions at Work so You’re Always Calm Under Pressure

Project Bliss

Knowing how to handle emotions at work can help you navigate tough situations. Humans are emotional creatures and embracing emotions as a part of daily life can help better you perform better when things get tough. Emotions are part of human nature, and they serve a purpose. Emotions can move you to action. They help you make decisions quickly without having to spend a lot of time thinking.

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How to Create a Master Production Schedule

ProjectManager.com

Manufacturing is a complex process. It requires a balance of production capacity and the necessary materials to fulfill orders. Once you’ve got your inventory secured, you need to schedule your production. Creating a master production schedule is crucial in ensuring your supplies match demand. A robust master production schedule also supports your sales force and strengthens your businesses’ capacity to meet the needs of your customers.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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9 Essential Project Management Competencies

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Project Management Rebels is a teaching-led group mentoring programme. It’s a library of curated resources with something new added each month. There are dozens of training videos at your fingertips from Day 1. It is open for enrolment through 16 April. Join today ! We’re almost through Quarter 1 and you’re thinking what a great year it’s been so far at work.

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The allure of #NoEstimates

Kiron Bondale

A project manager asked me a question which I’ve frequently been posed over my career. How should I deal with a stakeholder who, when I provide a rough order of magnitude ranged estimate early in the life of a project, insists on holding me accountable to the lower end of that range later on even when sufficient evidence has emerged to contradict that value?

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Best Smartsheet Alternatives of 2021

ProjectManager.com

Smartsheet is a popular project management tool that describes itself as a “work execution platform.” This web-based application is best known for its unique use of spreadsheets. These spreadsheets or “sheets” are the foundation of the tool’s project management capabilities. But Smartsheet isn’t the only spreadsheet software on the block. There are many project management software tools on the market that offer similar feature sets.

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The Best PMP Exam Simulators for 2021

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Here’s the TL;DR: the best PMP exam simulator is the PM Exam Simulator from the team at the Project Management PrepCast. I have used it and can vouch for it, and that’s what I’d buy if I were you. If you want to know why that’s my top choice, and check out some other options, read on for my independent reviews! It won’t come as a surprise to you that using an exam simulator for your Project Management Professional® exam is a key criteria for successful prep and a massive boost to your chances of

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YDS: How Does a Scrum Team Handle Unexpected Work?

Scrum.org

On today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: How does a Scrum Team handle unexpected work? Today's question asks Todd and Ryan to weigh how a Scrum Team should handle unplanned/unexpected work during a Sprint. Todd cut straight to the point and wants teams to remove the need for work. Ryan and Todd both believe that asking if such work needs to be done in the first place is also important.

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The 2nd Generation of Innovation Management: A Survival Guide

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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Who Approves Your Project Change Requests?

Project Risk Coach

Who approves your project change requests? On one project, the sponsor tells the project manager to make the decisions. On other projects, the sponsor makes the decisions. And yet, in other cases, senior management gets involved. Your project may morph into a two-headed monster without an integrated change control process, resulting in adverse impacts to schedule, cost, and scope.

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A Quick Guide to Punch Lists: Checklist & Items Included

ProjectManager.com

It can feel like the tasks never stop when you’re managing a project. Not only are there new ones to tackle, but some of the old ones may require a revisit. Maybe a stakeholder changed their mind on the color of a wall, or an inspector says your insulation isn’t up to code. How can you wrangle in all that work, organize it and make sure that you’ve completed everything required of you to complete the project?

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Using Video for Communications [Project Case Study]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I like doing the communication bits of projects, and when I worked on a large software rollout there was plenty of opportunity to create buy in and engagement through communication. In this article, I’ll share a project management case study: a time when we used creative solutions for project comms and got creative with video. The project was going to fundamentally change the way people did their jobs.

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Using Scrum for Improving Operations

Scrum.org

I'm encountering more and more people that are trying to solve different kind of problems with Scrum: People designing Consumer Goods. Accounting professionals focused on Revenue Accounting. Marketers of many kinds. Healthcare professionals. I've been having some interesting discussions with them that I thought I might share. One of the key questions I start a conversation about Scrum with is Why - Why do we need Scrum?

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The Constructor's Digital Transformation Playbook: Reducing Risk With Technology

Speaker: Dylan Secrest

Construction projects are high-stakes operations where even minor inefficiencies can lead to costly delays, safety concerns, and budget overruns. Managing risk in construction has always been a challenge, but as projects grow in complexity, traditional methods no longer cut it. Enter Digital Transformation - a game changer approach that replaces inefficiency with AI-powered analytics, real-time monitoring, and automated workflows to proactively manage risk.

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When there's no Plan B

Musings on Project Management

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.

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10 Most Influential Tactics for Ramping Up Your Project Proposals In 2021

nTask

When you think of a great proposal, you may think of clever salesmen like ‘ Mad Men’ They are stealthily tapping into the inner psyche of their target audience to close the deal. As a result, the effortless marketing campaigns, Don Draper’s audience bubbles over with enthusiasm because the presentations are always compelling and out-of-the-box.

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IR35: The biggest shakeup in project management careers for a decade

Rebel’s Guide to PM

What is IR35? The IR35 we’re all talking about at the moment is off-payroll legislation. It’s all about whether or not someone is considered an employee of the company, taking into account certain factors around employment status. Why is IR35 happening? Because there’s more tax to be had if employers acknowledge that certain contractors are ‘employees in disguise’.

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YDS: Can We Do Scrum with a Distributed (Remote) Scrum Team?

Scrum.org

On today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: Can we do Scrum with a distributed (remote) Scrum Team? Today's question is all about distributed Scrum Teams. What do you do when you cannot have everyone in the same room? How do you help your teams work well together when they are distributed across multiple timezones. Todd and Ryan tackle this interesting and highly relevant topic on today's show.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

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?

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Risking the team

Musings on Project Management

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).

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7 Ways to Keep Remote Teams Connected and Engaged

nTask

Among the many challenges currently facing businesses is the move to either fully remote work or a hybrid model. Even before the pandemic, remote working had grown by a massive 91% over 10 years. This meant that around 3.4% of the US workforce was already working remotely prior to COVID-19 making that number soar. Once the pandemic was here, around 88% of organizations globally moved to a remote working model, either mandatory or voluntary.

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Encapsulation of Value

Leading Agile

Agile transformations are hard. Creating an ecosystem where teams with the appropriate skills and resources are able to organize around a well-prioritized backlog to build working, tested product sounds simple but can quickly become mired in the nuances and details that manifest as all sorts of complexities in product development organizations. Those organizations that invest the blood, sweat, tears (and money!

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The Value in the Scrum Values

Scrum.org

Somewhere along my journey of Scrum, that started in 2003, I started calling myself an independent Scrum Caretaker on a journey of humanizing the workplace with Scrum. Because there is more to Scrum than ‘process’. There is more to Scrum than rules, roles, practices and techniques. If called a process, then Scrum is a servant process. The process serves the people employing it.

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The GTM Intelligence Era: ZoomInfo 2025 Customer Impact Report

ZoomInfo customers aren’t just selling — they’re winning. Revenue teams using our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform grew pipeline by 32%, increased deal sizes by 40%, and booked 55% more meetings. Download this report to see what 11,000+ customers say about our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform and how it impacts their bottom line. The data speaks for itself!

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19 Expert Hacks for Jumpstarting Your Personal Productivity

ProProfs Project Management

No matter what type of job you have, productivity is essential to your success. Accomplishing more work in less time helps you stay on top of things throughout the day and makes you more likely to earn more. However, staying productive is often easier said than done. You may set out to have a genuinely efficient workday, only to discover later in the evening that you hardly managed to make a dent in your to-do list.

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13 Best Tips For Increased Productivity In Video Marketing Projects

nTask

You already know that a picture speaks a thousand words! That’s the core reason why visuals and graphics have become an integral part of today’s digital marketing strategies. Even your audiences (who seem to be the busy people), their attention seems fleeting. And it’s never that simple to create quality content that engages audiences, drives traffic, and converts leads.

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Support Organizational Change: A Complete Guide to What You Need to Know

Online PM Courses

One of the primary roles of Project Management is to support organizational change. This may seem like a niche role, but no: it's core. The post Support Organizational Change: A Complete Guide to What You Need to Know appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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YDS: Is It OK to Ignore the Scrum Guide?

Scrum.org

On today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: Is it OK to ignore the Scrum Guide? Today's question asks whether or not it's ok to not follow the Scrum Guide. Todd and Ryan have some fun with this one because it does come up in class and on podcasts from time to time. Of course, it's OK to ignore the Scrum Guide. Check out the video for Ryan and Todd's take on this topic.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

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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The Complete History of Agile Software Development

Agilemania

In the early 1990s, PC computing began to rise in organizations, but software development faced a hurdle. At that time, people used to call this crisis the “application delivery lag” or “the application development crisis.” At that time, organizations used to estimate three years between a validated business need and an actual application in production.

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What Is Poka Yoke | How to Use It & Why Is It Important?

nTask

Mistakes are an inevitable part of production and management. Companies, all over the world, at one time or another, face issues that need immediate attention and resolution. To make sure that the results are perfect, these businesses go over the whole process with a fine-tooth comb to ensure the impeccability of their products and services. Proofing and error analysis are important parts of end-stage management.

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The online workshop of Gunther Verheyen to discover “The value in the Scrum Values” is now available

Gunther Verheyen

I have created a new, 3-hours workshop to guide people in the discovery of the value in the Scrum Values. The workshop includes cases I selected from my “Scrum Caretaker Book of Exercises” and will be followed by an informal, 30 minutes after-chat. Find all planned sessions of this specific Scrum Values workshop at my webshop. Allow me to share why I created this workshop.

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