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The Curse of Project Management Knowledge

Project Risk Coach

Are you guilty of using project management jargon and acronyms? Do your team members understand what you are saying? If not, perhaps you have fallen under the curse of project management knowledge. Can I be painfully honest with you for a minute? What I am about to say may not feel good. In fact, I am certain that you will NOT enjoy it. I have been hoping someone else would do the dirty work.

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Risk Mitigation Plan: Definition & Top Strategies

ProjectManager.com

Risk is always present. This is true in life and projects alike. If we were to try and avoid all risks, it would be paralyzing—not to mention impossible. We couldn’t step out of the house, let alone embark on a project. There’s just too much that could go wrong! Project managers don’t have the luxury of locking the door, turning off the lights and hiding in a corner.

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Why Agile is so Popular in Project Management

GanttPRO Project Management

From the early 2000s to today, the Agile methodology continues to be popular in project management. Now, it even extends past its software development roots to encompass other non-software industries […].

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How do you hold safe meetings when some team members are invisible?

Kiron Bondale

After I had finished presenting on how to build psychologically safe virtual teams at a conference earlier this week, one of the delegates asked me what suggestions I’d have to help her with a team where some of the members refused to turn their cameras on during video meetings. I’m not going to challenge the reasons as to why some team members might be reluctant about being on camera.

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Enterprise ABM Marketing Tools: A Marketer's Guide

Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.

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What You Need to Know about the 2020 Scrum Guide

Scrum.org

On November 18, 2020, Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland released an updated version of the Scrum Guide. In this blog post, I will share what you need to know about the 2020 Scrum Guide. I will start with the most important things you need to know, and then I’ll get into a little more nuance for the Scrum nerds. First of all, Scrum is still Scrum. The Scrum Guide is not updated frequently (the last update was 2017).

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Alternative Project Management Job Titles

Project Bliss

Photo by Nick Morrison on Unsplash. This list of project management job titles can help if you need to find other names for the role. When you’re thinking about moving into a project management career, you’re likely looking for jobs with the title “project manager.” But do you know about other searches you could be doing to expand your job search and give you more options?

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Tackling Challenging Activities in Project Management Like a Pro?

nTask

Project management is a complex beast. There are so many activities in project management that delivering a successful project and quality outcomes can become difficult. That is why we have written this post to highlight the activities in project management to highlight what needs to get done and what to look out for. Let’s get to it! What are ‘Activities’ in Project Management?

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71 Scrum Product Owner Interview Questions

Scrum.org

If you are looking to fill a position for a Product Owner in your organization, you may find the following 71 interview questions useful to identify the right candidate. They are derived from my fourteen years of practical experience with XP and Scrum, serving both as Product Owner and Scrum Master and interviewing dozens of Product Owner candidates on behalf of my clients.

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Quick and Easy: This Is New in the Scrum Guide 2020

Inloox

The creators of Scrum , Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland, developed the concept in the early 1990s. In 2010, they published the first Scrum Guide, a guide to the method with the intention of providing people, teams and organizations with a framework to master complex tasks and create products with the highest possible value. You can read all the basics about the agile method Scrum in this blogpost: The Scrum Methodology.

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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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Critical path: who's in charge?

Musings on Project Management

You've got a job to do; you've sequenced and scheduled itBut, in the middle of your critical path there is another independent project (or task) over which you have no control. In effect, your schedule has a break in its sequence over which you have no influence.Yikes! This is all too common in construction projects where independent "trades" (meaning contractors with different skills, like.

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Guide to Agile Retrospectives for Aspiring Project Managers

nTask

Improving how you work is a common goal for many organizations. With agile teams, this is usually done through retrospectives. In other words, with agile retrospectives, you can focus on how your work is going and take things that are learned from success & failure for further implementation. Such agile retrospectives help to improve processes, methods, and teamwork.

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Make The Wicked Question Of Your Scrum Team Transparent

Scrum.org

"I see Wicked Questions everywhere now", confided a Scrum Master in us when we helped her become aware of them. . One of the characteristics of complex work is that it is full of contradictory and competing goals. Although each is equally valid and worthy of pursuit, they create tension or open conflict when they are pursued together. In a simple world, we can resolve this tension by letting go of one goal over the other.

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10 Free Business Tools for Startups

Ganttic

Running a startup can be a costly venture. And finding the right tools for the right price can be a challenge. Especially when time and resources are limited. In this article, our guest author Ayomide Joseph, recommends some of the tools he's used to grow his own business. Giving you a list of 10 free business tools for startups. This is a guest post by Ayomide Joseph.

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Breaking Ground on Better Payment Processes: Strategies for Construction Pros

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.

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Life After Trello: The 9 best Trello alternatives for your growing team

Planio

There’s no denying that Trello is one of the best project management tools ever created. Until it’s not. While it might have been the perfect option for you early on, every growing team hits a moment where they need to start looking for a Trello alternative. In fact, you’re probably here because you’re feeling that way now. Let’s see if any of these sound familiar: Trello is too simple.

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What is the Importance of Integrating Jira with Work Management Tools?

nTask

If you are a project manager who uses software to plan different projects in a seamlessly structured way, then you may know about the software Microsoft Project Server/ Project Online (PPM). And if you know about these software, then you know that these tools are not designed to handle the small personal jobs that are added below the task-related projects.

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THE PRODUCT GOAL IS A COMMITMENT FOR THE PRODUCT BACKLOG

Scrum.org

In the 2020 Scrum Guide Ken and Jeff introduces the idea of the Product Goal. The Product Goal is a commitment to ensure transparency and focus against progress. The Product Goal describes a future state of the product which can serve as a target for the Scrum Team to plan against. The Product Goal is in the Product Backlog. The rest of the Product Backlog emerges to define “what” will fulfil the Product Goal.

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Probabilistic Branching and Analysis in Risk Management

MPUG

Imagine this scenario. You are going to a friend’s house for an important event. It is scheduled with a hard start, meaning you can’t have delays, but as you start traveling, you notice that your vehicle is running low on gasoline. A few options come to mind: Continue driving because you think your available gasoline will suffice. Fill-up your gasoline tank at a nearby gas station and then continue to travel.

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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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Top 15 Agile Coach Interview Questions

Agilemania

What is an Agile Coach? An Agile coach is responsible for Agile transition/transformation within teams and an organization. Agile coach gets identified or hired while transitioning from their existing working practices, such as Waterfall, into working with the Agile values and principles. They usually have much experience with different Agile methodologies, such as Scrum, XP, Kanban, Large-Scale Scrum, and Scaled… The post Top 15 Agile Coach Interview Questions appeared first on Agilemania

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10 Ways Agile PMOs are Comparable to Hummingbirds

nTask

Creating an Agile project management office from scratch and managing in such a way that it prospers in the organizational paradigm is a real challenge, especially in the current market where we see successful businesses failing due to poor management. There are many different schools of thought that are helpful for you if you want to overcome this challenge with ease, but not all of them are completely successful or even a little bit helpful.

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Scrum Upgrade Kit (Cyber Monday) - US Only

Scrum.org

Scrum 2020 Poster and "Agile On" Sticker We are wrapping up a long Thanksgiving weekend in the United States with Cyber-Monday. To give thanks to the Scrum community in the US, we offer a free bundle of 2 Scrum posters, 2 Scrum sheets and 2 Stickers and send them for free right to your doorsteps. Give one of the two sets away to a colleague, friend or keep them both for your home office and office away.

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What Is a Velocity Chart in Agile?

Wrike

Looking for a more accurate way to forecast projects, predict effort, and manage resources? Making a velocity chart in Agile is one of the easiest ways to do all of that and more. Discover everything you need to know about how to calculate velocity, maximize the usefulness of this data, and what project managers can do with this information. . What is velocity in Agile?

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4 AI Hacks to Make Sales Teams More Efficient

Over the last two years, there’s been a 76 percent increase in AI adoption across sales organizations. The reason for its rise? AI increases teams’ productivity by predicting and automating actions that require manual effort. In other words, the research that takes reps hours, AI can do in seconds. For sales teams, AI opens up a world of new possibilities, including automating outreach, identifying best-fit buyers, and keeping CRMs flush with fresh data.

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Get 2021 off to a great start with these 3 tips.

MindGenius

It’s fair to say that this year hasn’t been great for a large majority of us over the world. As many of us have begun adjusting to the new way of working, and getting used to a world with constant restrictions in place. However, at the turn of the year there is always hope that “this year will be better than the previous one” and in the case of 2020, it wouldn’t take much.

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Why Data-Driven Decision Making is So Important

Binfire

Today, it’s difficult not to hear about big data and data-driven decision making. The term alone has become something of a buzzword in business recently, and for very good reason. Data allows business owners to leverage the endless digital insights that are now available at their fingertips and embrace the power of data-driven business intelligence to make more informed decisions that are better for business growth and evolution, plus increasing profits.

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Experiment: Reiterate the Purpose of the Product at the Start of Each Scrum Event

Scrum.org

In our book?—? the Zombie Scrum Survival Guide ?—?we dive deep into what causes Zombie Scrum; something that looks like Scrum from a distance, but lacks a beating heart. We also offer 40+ experiments to recover from Zombie Scrum. In this series, we share experiments that didn’t make it to the book but are still very helpful. This post was written collaboratively by Christiaan Verwijs, Barry Overeem, and Johannes Schartau.

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How To Make A Construction Schedule For Clients (Includes Templates)

Teamweek

Planning a construction schedule can quickly become complex. Client priorities, budget, legal compliance are just some of the many things to consider. In this article, you’ll learn how to make a construction schedule in 7 simple steps. You’ll learn: What is a construction schedule, it’s functions & types? Why do you need a construction schedule?

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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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Overcome the #1 Agility Killer

Leading Agile

Agile in general, and Scrum specifically, is predicated on the idea that each team has everything they need to deliver an increment of value. But unless you’re a small team or a new startup, that’s usually the furthest from the truth. When a team doesn’t have everything it needs to deliver an increment of value, that’s a dependency. And dependencies come in many forms.

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Dodging the pandemic

Musings on Project Management

If you're a PM running a project during the pandemic, you probably have one or more of these problems:Supply chain issues: stuff is out of stock; stuff is not available on time; stuff costs moreVelocity and throughput issues: Throughput is slower to achieve; there's more overhead and NVA (non-value added)Communication errors: Remote work is really work with restricted bandwidth; nothing really.

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Self-Organizing Groups in Zoom

Scrum.org

Breakout rooms in Zoom were a life-saver for many facilitators, trainers and Scrum Masters in recent months. As many of you probably already know, those breakout rooms aim to allow smaller groups to work independently. That increases engagement of each participant. That said, until version 5.3 of Zoom, the facilitator had only two options to "assign" participants across breakout rooms.

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