PM Basics
DECEMBER 4, 2018
It’s always interesting to compare how other PMs manage projects , isn’t it? So, let’s see how we collected stakeholder requirements on a real project. It’s a software project. Rather big for a fast-paced project life cycles that we have. Interesting to notice that our clients were from a large enterprise organization. It did software development for many years already.
Kiron Bondale
DECEMBER 2, 2018
We hope that by conducting effective ceremonies we will achieve the agile trinity of improved value delivery, better quality and more fun. But these objectives might be reached via multiple paths so we might not be able to prove causality between our ceremonies and those objectives. We could ask our team members to tell us whether they see the value in the ceremonies and their perceptions are certainly important but is that enough?
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Project Risk Coach
DECEMBER 3, 2018
Have you ever conducted a project brainstorming session and found yourself drowning in a cloud of ideas? Not a bad thing, but how can we make sense of the ideas? Well, let's see how to create a project affinity map to sort your ideas. As a bonus, we'll also look at Dot Voting , a simple and quick way to prioritize your ideas. What is an Affinity Map?
ProjectManager.com
DECEMBER 4, 2018
Intuition is an important part of decision making. There’s a reason why we use phrases like “listen to your gut” or “let your heart speak.” Both our gut and our heart have complex networks of nerve cells. Medical scientists even talk about a “gut brain.”. Although your gut brain (properly, your enteric nervous system) doesn’t do thinking, it does control your digestive system, and interacts with your brain.
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Rebel’s Guide to PM
DECEMBER 3, 2018
Is it too early to be thinking about your professional goals for next year? I don’t think so. If you’re anything like me, the first few weeks of January are so hectic with back to work and school, new projects at the office and the general downer from the holidays that I don’t have the focus to spend January planning out my next 12 months.
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Inloox
DECEMBER 5, 2018
Nowadays we can do a lot on just one device - the smartphone - for which we previously needed several devices: watching TV, listening to the radio, sending emails, taking photos and videos, setting your alarm, and so on and so forth. So it’s not far-fetched that sooner or later we’ll also be planning and controlling projects with our phones. InLoox users could already work on the go with InLoox Web App, but InLoox 10 offers users a new possibility: native apps for iOS and Android devices.
ProjectManager.com
DECEMBER 5, 2018
Everyone could use a little more time in their day to focus on what they care about. Time blocking is the practice of scheduling out everything in your entire day, including meals, work projects and personal time in order to better manage time and discover where precious hours are either being wasted or underutilized. The Road Warrior blog credits Cal Newport with the idea with his article back in 2013, but of course, this productivity method has surely been used before then.
LiquidPlanner
DECEMBER 6, 2018
Dear Elizabeth: My project is struggling, but no one except me can see it. I don’t have the authority to cancel the project, but I don’t think it’s worth my team working on it. On top of that, my project sponsor has unrealistic expectations, and those demands keep changing. We can’t keep up with new demands, and I know that carrying on is not the right thing for this business.
Scrum.org
DECEMBER 5, 2018
Many Agile coaches and Scrum Masters believe they know best. They believe teams must follow a certain set of steps and do things a certain way, and if they do, those teams will be more productive, happy, and successful than ever. There's a problem with thinking that way. That style of thinking is part of what got many organizations into the mess they're in today.
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?
Leading Agile
DECEMBER 3, 2018
In slide #9 of this deck about using cycle time analytics in forecasting, Troy Magennis shows that when four people plan to meet for dinner, there is only one chance in 16 that all four will arrive on time. Typical corporate management thinking would solve this problem by creating a Department of Dinner Planning and promulgating detailed procedures, based on Industry Best Practices, to ensure people arrived on time for each dinner.
Zen Project Management
DECEMBER 4, 2018
I was in the Moab, Utah area last weekend and got some mountain biking in. I haven't spent a lot of time mountain biking this year so I was a bit rusty. By the second day I was starting to get my rhythm but it took a little time. Just like mountain biking, our agile skills can get rusty. I ran a Lean Coffee last week and before it I read a couple articles because I hadn't done a Lean Coffee in a while and wanted to make sure I didn't miss anything.
Planio
DECEMBER 2, 2018
Nobody’s perfect. And no matter how long you spend combing through your code and testing your software, it’s inevitable that a few bugs will make it through to launch day. While bugs are just part of the territory for technical teams, that doesn’t mean you can treat them as just business as usual. Your users want software that works. And with competition heating up in pretty much every industry, you can’t leave issues unchecked.
Scrum.org
DECEMBER 2, 2018
Scrum is based on self-organized teams. Self-organized teams are able to evolve and adapt quicker in today’s highly complex working environments than traditional command-and-control management structures. At the same time, self-organized teams are more robust to external disturbances, are faster and more creative in problem solving as they use the full potential of the team and not only one single decision making (and often bottle-necked) brain as seen in hierarchical command-and-control structu
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.
Gunther Verheyen
DECEMBER 7, 2018
While developing my book “ Scrum – A Pocket Guide ” (2013) I described how there is value in the Scrum Values. In 2016 the Scrum Values were added to the Scrum Guide. I am gratified that Krystian Kaczor delivered the work for a poster of the Polish version of the Scrum Values, available as a free download (PNG): The Scrum Values (Polish poster).
Ganttic
DECEMBER 2, 2018
Anyone that works in marketing or advertising knows that there’s always something happening and there’s never enough time. You have multiple projects on the go and a team to manage, often including freelancers working remotely around the country. You are coordinating in-house resources with designers, copywriters, digital media specialists, illustrators, and animators.
Teamweek
DECEMBER 6, 2018
Looking for a classy invoice that will keep you organized and impress clients? Teamweek’s new budget calculator is the perfect tool for you. The budget calculator is easy to use and creates a professional-looking PDF invoice that you can download instantly and send to your clients. With this plug-and-play tool, simply enter tasks, dates, and rates and click “Download to PDF” to create your custom invoice.
Scrum.org
DECEMBER 3, 2018
Marketing Backlogs in the Trenches. When I work with my clients on Scrum in a Marketing context the discussion about the Marketing Backlog and how to move from a big bang marketing campaign to a more iterative approach via smaller slices of stories is naturally a key area we focus on. . In those discussions User Stories which are the most popular way to represent Product Backlog Items (PBIs) in the Agile world and are also very popular in the Agile Marketing space inevitably come up.
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Binfire
DECEMBER 2, 2018
If you do any meaningful work in life, you do create and manage tasks. It is that simple! Task management is what all of us do at work and home. . Every day you have a huge list of tasks to manage. Granted, some days more and some days less, but work means working on tasks given to you or created by you. So if everybody is doing tasks and are familiar with them, why so many few people manage tasks properly?
Leading Agile
DECEMBER 6, 2018
? ?. This talk covers techniques and approaches to developing and communicating roadmaps to your organization. Balancing Agility and predictability in a roadmap is a challenge, and stakeholders require transparency in order to effectively drive organizations forward. Product teams that efficiently deliver value to market require the flexibility to make decisions using the latest discovery and learning, while giving their team time to plan for the product’s direction.
Proofhub
DECEMBER 2, 2018
Let’s admit it. As business people, we all have the annoying habit of overcomplicating things, particularly when it comes to running a business or a project. Whether its work allocation, quality inspection, project monitoring, or simply going through a to-do list, project managers and teams often complicate processes which are easy to implement. Now, the easiest way to make things right is to put a work management software in place, identify where you are wasting your time, streamline the work p
Scrum.org
DECEMBER 3, 2018
(Inauguration speech of Franklin D. Roosevelt, president of USA during WWII). The end of the year is only two sprints away. We are in a refinement session. “So, would it still be feasible to deliver the ‘A+flow’ by the end of the year if we do it like this?” The PO asks the team. He is standing in front of a white board full of scribbles holding a marker in his hand.
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Wrike
DECEMBER 3, 2018
So you’ve successfully onboarded your team to a new project management software (hopefully, Wrike ), and you’re ready to start planning your first project. Before you start assigning due dates and deliverables, do you know how you’re going to visualize your project management timeline? Who’s going to be responsible for making sure the timeline is up to date?
TimeCamp
DECEMBER 6, 2018
What Is Dropbox Paper? Dropbox Paper is a tool created by Dropbox, one of the.
Teamweek
DECEMBER 4, 2018
To be a successful at project planning, you need to be able to deliver quality work while balancing a budget and sticking to a deadline. This can be a tricky process even for simple projects, which is why advance planning and organization are essential. The tips below can help you accomplish your project planning goals and set you up for ongoing success in the field.
Scrum.org
DECEMBER 6, 2018
As of November 2018, there are 181,000 certified Professional Scrum Masters (PSM I) around the globe, but only 2,400 individuals that went for the next level Scrum Master certificate, often referred to it as an advanced Professional Scrum Master or PSM II. The large discrepancy of certificate holders might have several reasons, one being that many might not be aware that the PSM II even exists.
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.
The Lazy Project Manager
DECEMBER 4, 2018
Can I borrow you for a sec because I’m stacked? It will be a win-win situation. I have been blue sky thinking and want to keep you in the loop on my thinking outside of the box, as well as picking your brains, I’m just playing devils’ advocate on this teamwork/dreamwork idea. Will it work? Well how long is a piece of string? Have I lost you? I suspect I have as the above paragraph includes all ten of the most annoying things people say in the office according to a survey of 2,000 people by recru
Project Management Essentials
DECEMBER 2, 2018
“All good lessons come at a cost. Try to learn them inexpensively.” Howard Zucker. When I made a mistake as a child, my father would remind me that all lessons come at a cost. The goal was to learn them cheaply. I did not always follow this maxim. But, this pearl of wisdom stayed with me throughout my life. I have passed it on to my children. It also shaped my approach to management and leadership.
Teamweek
DECEMBER 3, 2018
Every year, the manufacturing company where I used to work had a holiday party. In addition to drinks, dancing, and dinner, it featured an awards ceremony where employees received prizes for “Best Smile,” “Microsoft Master,” stuff like that. I can’t remember now what awards I got, but none of them were ever for “Best Team Leader.”. After a certain work-related debacle, there was no way my name would ever come up on that nomination list.
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