Kiron Bondale

JUNE 12, 2022

I’ve often referenced Dr. David Hillson’s definition of risk as “ uncertainty that matters ” in my articles about project risk management. The last word in that short sentence is critical. If stakeholders don’t feel that the information presented to them about a risk matters to them, they will ignore it. At best, this means the effort which the project team spent on identifying, analyzing, and communicating risks was wasted, but at worst, it could result in a stakeh

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Leading Answers

JUNE 11, 2022

Thanks to Improving for inviting me to speak at the recent Improving Edge Summit. It was a great conference dedicated to leadership this year. A topic near and dear to my heart and the focus of my Leading Answers blog. My talk was on the Evolution of Leadership and featured ideas from my Beyond Agile book about how organizations are moving from Agile’s empowered-teams/Green/values-driven leadership model to Organic/plural/Teal/shared and host-leadership models.

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Taskque

JUNE 14, 2022

As a project manager, you must juggle many tasks, responsibilities, and people. You must know how to manage time and resources, and you need to be a great communicator. But one skill that’s not often discussed is public speaking. Public speaking skills are essential because you need to present the status of a project, give presentations about the project’s vision and mission, present information about the budget and scope of a project, or persuade stakeholders and executives to take action

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 14, 2022

I love things that make my job easier. A statistical model for estimating isn’t normally something I’d put in the ‘make my job easy’ box, but I might just have found one that works. William W. Davis, MSPM, PMP and Project Management Superhero. I caught up with William W. Davis, MSPM, PMP and Project Management Superhero. He’s taken the PERT (Project Evaluation and Review Technique) estimating approach to the next level by letting you add a dash of professional judgement in with the numbers

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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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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 15, 2022

Software development estimation is an essential part of many projects. Even before the planning stage , it’s critical to create an accurate forecast of the project’s duration, costs and more. Despite its importance, software development estimation is often overlooked. Maybe that’s because it’s difficult to estimate properly. Software development estimation requires an understanding of all parts of your software development project and the time needed to successfully complete the work to me

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LiquidPlanner

JUNE 14, 2022

The French sculptor Auguste Rodin once said, “Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.” That may be true, but the reality is that your time is a scarce resource that must be cherished. Effective time management skills are much more than the concept of improving productivity. Many assume that small tweaks to regain focus during your workday won’t necessarily result in massive breakthroughs in productivity. .

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 15, 2022

The big risk as a project manager is that you hit all the project management success criteria: being on time and on budget, but what you deliver doesn’t meet the customer’s requirements. That can happen for a lot of reasons, but one of the main causes is that you didn’t know what good looked like before you started. A project quality management plan can help with that.

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 14, 2022

It’s a cliché to say that projects rarely deliver as planned, but it’s only a cliché because it’s true. As project issues arise, it’s important to take action. But how do you know what action to take? That’s where an exception report comes in, a tool to help you figure out how to get back on track. What is an exception report in project management and how do you use one?

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Scrum.org

JUNE 16, 2022

In Kürze: Scrum Entwickler Fehlverhalten. Nachdem wir bereits Fehlverhalten von Scrum Mastern, Interessenvertretern und Product Ownern beschrieben haben, befasst sich dieser Artikel mit Fehlverhalten der Scrum Entwickler, wobei wir alle Scrum Events sowie das Produktbacklog berücksichtigen. Erfahren Sie mehr darüber, worauf Sie achten sollten, wenn Sie Ihre Teamkollegen, die das Produktinkrement erstellen, auf dem Pfad der kontinuierlichen Weiterentwicklung unterstützen wollen. ??

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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.

Construction

Musings on Project Management

JUNE 13, 2022

In my experience, a lot of projects operate more or less on the edge of risk, with no real plan beyond common sense and a bit of past experience to muddle through if things go wrong.Problematic, as a process, but to paraphrase the late Donald Rumsfeld: You do the project with the resources and plan you have, not the resources or plan you wantYou may want a robust risk plan, but you may not have.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 13, 2022

When I asked over 200 project managers what task they would most like to drop, meetings were near the top of the list (just after project documentation). So what would life look like if it was easier to have meetings and take notes afterward? That’s what I use Otter for. Let me tell you why it’s so great. What is Otter? Otter.ai is an artificial intelligence tool for productive, collaborative meetings.

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LiquidPlanner

JUNE 13, 2022

Remember that hit from the ’80s, “Who Can It Be Now”? The vocalist seems racked with paranoia, wondering who could be knocking on his door. “Is it the man come to take me away?” And later in the song, “go away, don’t come around here no more.” These feelings are sometimes our reality in the project management world. We dread that next call from our customer, the project management office leader, or a company executive looking for answers or updates on our latest project.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 11, 2022

Why is the Product Goal important in Scrum? What is a Goal? . How do we know that we are getting closer to what we need to achieve? Goal gives us purpose, direction, and alignment to foster collaboration. Vision: I wanted to be a recognized Agile Coach or Scrum Master. The Goal: Get the PSM certification in three months. This the first step toward our vision.

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Leading Agile

JUNE 17, 2022

Many large-scale Agile Transformations are struggling. Some have failed. Others can’t figure out why things aren’t working after multiple attempts. It’s easy to blame the people, the process, and the culture. It’s especially easy to blame management. However, the underlying problem is that most large organizations weren’t built to be Agile. Organizational Barriers to Agile.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 17, 2022

Beverly Flaxington. We all like a good chat about our colleagues, don’t we? On challenging projects with big teams there is always plenty to comment about, from why so-and-so was late to work to whether someone else is doing a good job. A while ago, I spoke to workplace behavioral expert Beverly Flaxington from The Collaborative about gossip, and how we can use it as a way to improve productivity and solve problems.

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Online PM Courses

JUNE 14, 2022

What is Andy Kaufman's best Project Management advice? His best tips, tools, & insight? We talk Risk Attitude, Stakes, Relationships, & more. The post Andy Kaufman’s Best Project Management Advice: Risk Attitude, Stakes, & Relationships appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 11, 2022

The eighth blog, in a blog series about the upcoming book: Creating Agile Organizations - A Systemic Approach , by Cesario Ramos & Ilia Pavlichenko. In this blog, a short description of one workshop from Chapter 11: Guiding The Product Ownership. Avoid Product-Part Owners. Misconceptions about the Product Owner (PO) role often lead to reduced agility, development bottlenecks, and teams that do not understand the customer domain well enough to make autonomous decisions during a Sprint. .

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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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Musings on Project Management

JUNE 16, 2022

Are you doing a project under a contract from a sponsor?When did you do the cost estimating for the price you signed up for?Is there a clause for "force majeure" (Look in the fine print in the contract's boilerplate)A lot of contractors (and their lawyers) are spending time on "force majeure"Three elements required:(1) unforeseeable event, (2) outside of the parties' control, that (3) renders.

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Scoro

JUNE 14, 2022

As the founder and CEO of Scoro , I’m incredibly excited to announce that we will be switching to a 4-day work week from July 1, 2022. This applies to our entire global staff of 140, with no compressed hours and no change in salary. . As a concept, the 5-day work week is rather outdated. It’s been the ‘norm’ for a century and hasn’t been questioned since. .

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Epicflow Blog

JUNE 17, 2022

For the growing companies, it’s crucially important to keep track of all their products and make sure they are in demand and meet customers’ needs. A good way to increase profitability is to work on the products that will definitely bring revenue and make the right improvements that people are expecting. Product portfolio management can make this happen.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 16, 2022

We started this Scrum foundation series explaining we see four underlying concepts of the Scrum framework. In the past series of mails we covered the three pillars of Empiricism, and we covered the Scrum Values. . Now that we understand that we need trust, which is built up by living the Scrum Values, to bring transparency and as such have a good basis to inspect and adapt, we can have a look at the self-managing aspect of the Scrum Team. . ??

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Speaker: Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions

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PM Times

JUNE 14, 2022

As successful project management is integral to thriving in today’s environment, what could be considered a lingering recession or somewhat of a recovery, the company that can deliver project results with absolute assurance will lead the race. Since I’ve seen too many businesses with fabulous ideas and limited ability to deliver project results, I thought […].

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Scoro

JUNE 13, 2022

The transition to a 4 day work week is a fundamental change for Scoro – we’re essentially compressing our usual 40 hours a week to just 4 days. This means we need to be as efficient as possible, making the most of the days we do have and giving our team a solid foundation to thrive. With this in mind, we’ve developed a set of time-saving methods that will enable us to deliver the same level of outcomes – if not more – as we did previously.

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nTask

JUNE 17, 2022

Embarking on a lean transformation journey requires some deep thinking and planning. Even though the concept of lean has been there for a long time now. However, lean transformation in project management is different. That is why we’ve gathered here a full guide on the different phases, models, and benefits of lean transformation. So, let’s […].

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Scrum.org

JUNE 13, 2022

TL; DR: Scrum Developer Anti-Patterns. After covering the anti-patterns of the Scrum Master, the Product Owner, and the stakeholders, this article addresses Scrum Developer anti-patterns, covering all Scrum Events and the Product Backlog artifact. Continue reading and learn more about what to look out for if you want to support your teammates who build the Increment. ????

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