Workamajig
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
Learn to create more streamlined remote management workflows for your agency in our latest blog post. As many project managers have learned by now, managing a remote team is distinctly different than managing a team on-premises. The communication cadence is completely different. There is no popping into the office next door to resolve an issue, nor are there chance encounters at the watercooler.
Techno-PM
NOVEMBER 17, 2020
Configuration Management Plan If your business utilizes a systems engineering process known as configuration management in order to maintain the consistency of a project with regards to performance and physical attributes throughout the production process (and often for the projected lifetime of the product), then your business also needs a configuration management plan for that project.
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Project Risk Coach
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
Project managers spend a large part of each day communicating—facilitating meetings, emailing stakeholders, responding to texts, writing reports, and having one-on-one conversations. We are so busy, we rarely take the time to improve the effectiveness of our communication. How can we become a better project communicator? 1. Join Toastmasters Howard Hendricks said, “Practice doesn’t make perfect.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
NOVEMBER 20, 2020
How are you doing with your Christmas shopping? If your Christmas project planning has gone a bit awry and you still have gifts to buy, here is my list of what to get the project managers in your life. Or you could suggest that people buy these things for you! There are so many cables on my desk at the moment. My skills at managing cables are non-existent.
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?
ProjectManager.com
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
A program is a collection of projects that relate to one another, and are therefore managed together in order to achieve maximum efficiencies. The advantages of managing these similar projects make them stand better together than by themselves. However, that doesn’t mean they don’t programs don’t require the same laser focus on planning that individual projects require.
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Scrum.org
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
. Technology, globalization, the environment and society are more closely linked than ever before: Technological advances are driving globalization, changing our environment and influencing society which in turn calls for new solutions to these challenges. This cycle is happening at an increasing pace and is making our world ever more complex. The COVID-19 pandemic is just one current example of a change with complex global consequences.
Leading Answers
NOVEMBER 20, 2020
We intuitively know that a successful agile adoption requires more than copying agile practices. It needs more than just working in short iterations and having daily stand-up meetings. But can we label those missing ingredients? You may have seen the “agile iceberg” model that shows the visible practices agile teams perform as the tip of an enormous iceberg supported by a mindset, values and principles.
Kiron Bondale
NOVEMBER 15, 2020
Harvard Business Review published an article by Sabina Nawaz this week on some challenges managers face when they delegate work to their staff. The gaps identified with team members being able to perform the tasks successfully included a lack of critical thinking, a lack of initiative, a lack of quality and a lack of speed. While these are valid concerns, some times the issue is that we avoid delegating activities to team members.
The Digital Project Manager
NOVEMBER 19, 2020
The 10 Best Resource Scheduling Software Tools of 2020. The post The 10 Best Resource Scheduling Software Tools of 2020 appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.
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.
Scrum.org
NOVEMBER 14, 2020
Doing Scrum is not enough! The precious result will not be achieved just by understanding and following the rules and principles of the Scrum Framework. Every day organisations are starting and failing with business agility, praise and blame Scrum. And everyday organisations are succeeding with Scrum! So what is the difference? Learning the rules and principles of Scrum, understanding the “Why” and “What” of Scrum is essential.
Musings on Project Management
NOVEMBER 17, 2020
" [The concern my some is] that with all good intentions, some project managers might start cutting corners. It's easily done. Don't be fooled by the trappings. This sort of success comes with a lot of pressure. There are deadlines, penalties, [finances], and [executive changes]. [PMs] are stuck in the middle. Priorities can become murky.
Leading Agile
NOVEMBER 17, 2020
Listen to the Agile Unplugged Podcast on the go! Find and subscribe to Agile Unplugged on: Apple Podcasts. Spotify. Soundcloud. RSS. Welcome to our latest episode of the Agile Unplugged podcast with host Mike Cottmeyer, LeadingAgile’s CEO. In each episode of Unplugged, Mike and a special guest explore LeadingAgile’s freshest ideas, mental models, frameworks, and solutions with the people that are actually doing the work of leading large-scale Agile Transformation in the real world.
Ganttic
NOVEMBER 17, 2020
COVID is changing the way the world works. As opposed to being tethered to a desk for 40 hours a week, many companies have adopted a work from home policy for the time being. And some for the unforeseeable future. But even this trend is beginning to shift. In the past few weeks, companies such as Google and Microsoft have announced new workplace hybrid models.
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Scrum.org
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
On November 18, 2020 Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland published an update of the Scrum Guide. According to the co-creators, the Scrum Guide 2020 aims at “bringing Scrum back to being a minimally sufficient framework by removing or softening prescriptive language”[1]. To help you see and understand these changes, we created this side-by-side comparison of the Scrum Guide 2020 and the Scrum Guide 2017.
Teamweek
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
We are very excited to announce updates to our subscription plans – a name change, new features to our Standard (previously Premium) plan, and a fresh out of the oven subscription choice, Business. In short, our existing Standard plan users now have access to two new paid features without any changes to billing. People with higher privacy and control needs can opt for the Business plan.
Proofhub
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
Remote work is here to stay. Even before the pandemic, an increasing number of employees were already working from home. A study done by Flexjobs found that the number of people working remotely has increased 44% just in the last five years alone. Giving employees the option to work from home leads to greater job satisfaction and has even been shown to increase productivity.
Henny Portman
NOVEMBER 19, 2020
Yesterday, November 18th, there was a 3-hour virtual event to celebrate the launch of the 2020 Scrum Guide with nearly 20,000 registrants. I connected 15 minutes before the start but received a message that the limit of 1000 participants was reached, and I couldn’t participate. Luckily the event was streamed, and you can now watch it on demand (see below).
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.
Scrum.org
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
TL; DR: The Scrum Guide 2020. The Scrum Guide 2020 is available now: Change is coming to make Scrum more accessible and inclusive beyond software development. Learn more about the changes, download the brand new and free Scrum Guide 2020 Reordered to spot patterns quickly, and join the Scrum community discussion. Do you want to get this article in your inbox?
Teamweek
NOVEMBER 15, 2020
Ever heard the term relationship marketing before? If not, you just might be throwing a good chunk of your company’s hard-earned cash out the window, because relationship marketing is a core marketing strategy. But fear not! We’re here to put those bills back in your pocket. After reading this blog post, you’ll have a deep understanding of what relationship marketing is, why it matters, and how to successfully implement it at your company.
Function Point
NOVEMBER 17, 2020
Life’s too short to churn out projects that miss the mark. For a creative brief to be the most effective, it should be completed at the beginning of a project so that it’s streamlining the timeline and not interfering with it. A good creative brief helps set you up for a great rhythm by outlining: what you’re making. when it’s needed. who it’s for. why you’re doing it. how it’s going to get done.
nTask
NOVEMBER 17, 2020
Task management is one of the most important activities that you perform on a daily basis. But have you noticed that the process is taking you a long time just because you are keeping all your thoughts in your mind instead of writing them down? It’s called projecting “stuff” on a piece of paper or within an app where you can easily plan and execute your workflow.
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.
Scrum.org
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
You can also listen to this post in our ongoing podcast. Are you excited about the new Scrum Guide? We certainly are, if only because every version makes it more clear what Scrum is really about?—?which is also our mission. The Scrum framework itself is subject to empiricism too, as evidenced by the new version of the Scrum Guide that was released on November 18.
Planview
NOVEMBER 15, 2020
There is a myth in planning circles that more detail is better and more accurate. In resource planning this looks like huge spreadsheets with people’s names assigned to specific projects across the months or weeks for at least a year. If we can plan out that much detail that far, it must be accurate, right? Well, not so fast. There are three main problems with this approach: It takes a long time to create and modify those spreadsheets.
Agilemania
NOVEMBER 17, 2020
Agile coaching skills is one of the most in-demand skills nowadays. Agile coaching is an essential skill for scrum masters, agile coaches, and leadership coaches to support self-managed teams. Agilemania has been facilitating Agile Coaching classes since 2017 and has been well appreciated by participants. We started our online agile coach course for India long back, and participants from Bangalore,… The post What is an agile coach?
Wrike
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
Learning how to create product roadmaps will enable you to communicate your vision and high-level product plan quickly and efficiently. . Product roadmap tools enable you to display the goals, direction, and priorities of a product in a visual way that viewers can easily understand. For this reason, product roadmaps are valuable communication tools and an integral part of new product planning. .
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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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