Proofhub
APRIL 1, 2021
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.
The Digital Project Manager
MARCH 30, 2021
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Project Bliss
MARCH 28, 2021
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.
ProjectManager.com
APRIL 1, 2021
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.
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?
Rebel’s Guide to PM
MARCH 29, 2021
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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Kiron Bondale
MARCH 28, 2021
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?
ProjectManager.com
MARCH 31, 2021
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.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
MARCH 31, 2021
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
Scrum.org
MARCH 30, 2021
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.
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.
Project Risk Coach
MARCH 29, 2021
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.
ProjectManager.com
MARCH 30, 2021
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?
Rebel’s Guide to PM
APRIL 1, 2021
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.
Scrum.org
MARCH 30, 2021
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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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?
Musings on Project Management
APRIL 2, 2021
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.
nTask
APRIL 1, 2021
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.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
APRIL 2, 2021
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’.
Scrum.org
APRIL 1, 2021
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.
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.
Musings on Project Management
MARCH 27, 2021
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).
nTask
APRIL 1, 2021
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.
Leading Agile
MARCH 31, 2021
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!
Scrum.org
APRIL 1, 2021
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.
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.
ProProfs Project Management
MARCH 31, 2021
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.
nTask
APRIL 1, 2021
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.
Online PM Courses
MARCH 28, 2021
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.
Scrum.org
APRIL 1, 2021
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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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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