ProProfs Project Management
MAY 27, 2020
‘Let’s stamp this year with success,’ thoughts my business friend shared with me recently. I kept thinking about a few things, and the thought that kept hammering my brain was, ‘how can he manage business projects amid COVID-19 pandemic?’. So I shared my concerns with him openly. Contrary to what I had thought, he smiled and then revealed some fantastic tips on how to organize a project.
PM Basics
MAY 26, 2020
People often ask me what is a digital project manager ? And they ask because this role assumes fully online and remote work. On normal days without pandemics, everyone wishes to work remotely and have freedom. Let’s review what is a Digital Project Manager. What is a Digital Project Manager? First of all let’s separate typical project managers working in the IT industry from a Digital PM.
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Proofhub
MAY 26, 2020
Micromanagement At The Workplace: Here’s How It Is Destroying Your Team Micromanagement at the workplace is the worst thing that you can do to a team. The article discusses everything from the signs of a micromanager to tips on how to stop micromanaging your team. Are you never satisfied with your team’s work? Do you always feel frustrated that you would have employed a different approach for a task than your team member?
Kiron Bondale
MAY 24, 2020
Sabina Nawaz’s article “ In Times of Crisis, a Little Thanks Goes a Long Way “, which was published this week on HBR.org, is a great reminder of the need we all have to be appreciated. In a blog post from a few years back I’d written that team members need to possess sufficient Capacity, Capability and Commitment to contribute towards the success of the team.
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Teamweek
MAY 28, 2020
Trello is a task management tool for agile teams. Despite Trello’s popularity as a simple, Kanban tool, it has some major shortcomings. There are three main reasons why users look for Trello alternatives: No planning features : Trello is great a simple task management. But it has no features for project planning. Trello makes it difficult to plan projects longer than a couple of weeks.
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The Lazy Project Manager
MAY 26, 2020
Not a Project Manager? But you are a Project Manager? Then book your place on this Free webinar. [link]. The Informal Project Manager. There are three strata inside organisations today. There is ‘Business As Usual’ (BAU) what your business is all about, what do make, what you sell, what you offer, there are ‘Projects As Projects’ (PAP), the big scary changes that demand a full-time project manager, and ‘Projects As Usual’ (PAU).
Scrum.org
MAY 27, 2020
This piece was co-penned by Alex Kudinov and Erica J Henson. Shu-Ha-Ri has been a frequent topic within Agile communities for years to capture the essence, the progress of the journey we embark on as we grow and learn better ways of working. Many Agile leaders have written about Shu-Ha-Ri, from Martin Fowler to Alistair Cockburn—both creators of the Agile Manifesto.
The Digital Project Manager
MAY 26, 2020
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Planio
MAY 27, 2020
There’s a saying in the music industry that the easiest way to ruin a song is to keep working on it. Add enough effects, extra guitar parts, or more cowbell, and you’ll turn Woody Guthrie into Guns N’ Roses. Knowing when a piece of art is “done” is subjective and often difficult to define. But that can’t be the case with your project. Without a clear definition of done , your development team doesn’t know what they’re working towards, your stakeholders are free to increase the scope, and your us
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
MAY 26, 2020
When I first thought of writing this article, I struggled with how best to talk to these perceived different approaches. Questions of how does Agile apply to infrastructure and what does TBM have to do with Agile were in my mind. A simple google search reveals just a slim number of articles and these are mainly based on the theory of how these concepts come together vs. real-life learnings.
Scrum.org
MAY 29, 2020
What's up awesome people! I hope you are staying safe and healthy. In 2018, I wrote a blog about Scrum and DevOps. Interestingly, many people shared that blog on the internet. But on the other spectrum, many people today still asked me whether they should choose Scrum or DevOps if their organisation wants to go towards agile transformation. One of the reason they wanted to go with DevOps is because they assume DevOps is only about using tools hence they think it is easier to do while using Scrum
Planview
MAY 29, 2020
Does your PMO generate portfolio dashboards for stakeholders and executives? If so, do those portfolio dashboards offer the right insights and data to help inform and empower your business leaders to make quick decisions? Does it help your PMO be seen as a value driver? In a 2019 Deloitte survey of 1,000 U.S. executives, 67% revealed they are not comfortable accessing or using data from their tools and resources.
LiquidPlanner
MAY 28, 2020
“Dear Elizabeth: I am working with a vendor and they have sent over a statement of work (SOW) for me to review. The problem is that I don’t know what I’m looking for. What should I take note of in the document so I can give them feedback and also protect the interests of the company and project going forward?”. Statements of work are very common in project management, so you are going to come across many more in your career.
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.
MPUG
MAY 24, 2020
In our current, fast-paced world, businesses need to be flexible to stay competitive. It isn’t the best who prevail, but those who can quickly adapt to new requirements. In IT—especially software development—traditional project management approaches are too rigid and out-of-date. Even if a customer requirement appears straightforward, it is very difficult to estimate a forecast on effort and necessary development time.
Scrum.org
MAY 29, 2020
Neither does Throughput. Most scrum teams use a metric called velocity as their primary metric. Velocity is commonly defined as the number of story points you finish over time, usually measured by sprints. The input of story points is assigned by scrum teams, using the Fibonacci sequence , to pieces of work based on their relative complexity. A simple piece of work might be assigned 1 story point while a really complex piece of work could be assigned 13 points or more.
Musings on Project Management
MAY 27, 2020
There's a new tension in town. Remote v Local 30M+ Americans have jobs and are working from home (the Remotes) 60M+ Americans can't work from home (the Locals), and 50% of them may not have jobs. If that's not enough to amp the tension between the haves and have-nots, then consider the risk management regime of each: The Remotes have a much lower risk environment from Covid-19, but also.
PM Basics
MAY 27, 2020
I’m so glad to see you here because I want to discuss how to be a good project manager. Or how to become a better project manager. So I’ll share some tips and my observation from my nine years of practical experience as a PM in the software industry. . Okay, first of all, and it’s one of the most important things that I am going to tell you today: 1.
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International Institute for Learning
MAY 26, 2020
By Scott Ambler | Vice President, Chief Scientist of Disciplined Agile at Project Management Institute. [This post is a supplement to Scott’s upcoming keynote at IIL’s Agile & Scrum 2020 Online Conference ]. The DA tool kit supplies straightforward guidance to help you, your team, and your enterprise increase your effectiveness. The DA tool kit shows you how to apply and evolve your way of working (WoW) in a context-sensitive manner with this people-first, learning-oriented hybrid agil
Scrum.org
MAY 29, 2020
Introduction. I was asked by at a client to help them with delivering customer-validated products faster and with more flexibility. To better understand the problem at hand, I collected data from the teams doing company-wide retrospective and awareness sessions. We used this data to craft a possible future state of the development organization inspired by the LeSS principles.
Musings on Project Management
MAY 24, 2020
The oldest technique in the book, indeed before there were even books, is "acceptance" To drive a car is to accept the risk that the other driver isn't too drunk, too sleepy, too unskilled, too distracted, too whatever To take on debt is to accept the risk that you'll have the means to repay without bankrupting yourself To take on unsecured credit is to accept the risk (trust, really) that.
Teamweek
MAY 28, 2020
Tax time cometh. A bit later this year, at least for Americans, since in light of the coronavirus pandemic, the IRS extended the deadline to file and pay federal income taxes for 2019 to July 15 th , 2020, but it comes all the same, as it does every year. If you’re a freelancer or sole proprietor of a business, or a W-2 employee who needs to keep track of billable hours, and you haven’t already set up a system for tracking your work income, it might be a little late in the game to do so for last
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Henny Portman
MAY 29, 2020
It looks like my forest is changing into a jungle. This time I added Agile PM 2. Agile PM 2 is an extension of PM 2 (initiative of the European Union, see: [link] ). To be honest I have some problems with this initiative. As a European citizen, I ask myself, looking at my agile forest, why do we need to spend tax money to develop a new (agile) methodology when there are already so many frameworks and methodologies available?
Scrum.org
MAY 29, 2020
Neither does Throughput. Many scrum teams use a metric called velocity as their primary metric. Velocity is commonly defined as the number of story points you finish over time, usually measured by sprints. The input of story points is assigned by scrum teams, often using the Fibonacci sequence , to pieces of work based on their relative complexity.
Proofhub
MAY 28, 2020
What Types of SaaS Tools Do I Need for My Company? According to statistics, 38% of companies have been doing business almost completely relying on SaaS applications, on average using 34 different tools. Nothing explains the importance of SaaS solutions like the statistical data and reports based on the numerous users’ experience. And, the ones that are using them are reaping the benefits.
MPUG
MAY 25, 2020
There have been times throughout my career that I was given a “project,” but soon realized that it was really a group of related projects or a portfolio. In MS Project, a master project (or consolidated project) is the easiest way to work with a group of connected, large projects (or sub-projects) at the same time. You can create a master file, and then insert the sub-project files into it to consolidate them into one huge file.
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.
Henny Portman
MAY 25, 2020
Many organizations are struggling with their business agility transformation. One of the reasons is the way they have organized their teams. The focus was probably on efficiency and if these teams start to use agile ways of working, this doesn’t make the organization agile. The book Team topologies – Organizing business and technology teams for fast flow , by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais, will help you to design a team organization structure that helps you to become more agile.
Scrum.org
MAY 28, 2020
With the new normal, online training has exploded, but potential students are confused about what makes a great online training course and the results seem hit and miss. No one wants to sit through a 400 page, death by PowerPoint ordeal, so what should you look for when you’re looking for a great online Scrum Training experience? 1. Zero Powerpoint, tailored training.
Leading Agile
MAY 28, 2020
Listen to the SoundNotes Podcast on the go! Find and subscribe to SoundNotes on: Apple Podcasts. Google Play. Spotify. Soundcloud. RSS. Getting a few teams up and running using Scrum, Kanban or some other form of Agile is great. But that doesn’t necessarily mean your organization has become Agile. This week in SoundNotes, Dragos Dumitriu joins Dave for a conversation about the difference between spinning up a few teams and truly achieving business Agility.
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