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What Is Marketing Management? An Essential Introduction

ProjectManager.com

Marketing can feel more like an art than a science. How can you do market research to see opportunities in the marketplace that will make money for your company? What are the best ways to brand the business and its products or services to meet the customer needs? There are ways to manage the marketing in your company to discover and take advantage of opportunities in the marketplace.

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How Do You Respond to Project Conflicts?

Project Risk Coach

Project managers, team members, and other stakeholders have disagreements. Some are heated, some not. Let's look at the top reasons for conflict and five ways to resolve conflict. Successful project managers do not run away from conflict; they run toward it. And they quickly engage the appropriate stakeholders in order to discuss and resolve the issues.

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Should Managers Attend Retrospectives? — Making Your Scrum Work #19

Scrum.org

TL; DR: Should Managers Attend Retrospectives? There are plenty of failure possibilities with Scrum. Given that Scrum is a framework with a reasonable yet short “manual,” this effect should not surprise anyone. A classic discussion is whether it is appropriate that (line) managers attend the Retrospectives of the Scrum team. Probably, making their attendance a regular habit—or even a requirement—is not a good idea.

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How to Include Projects on Your Resume/CV

Rebel’s Guide to PM

My first job applications were a mess. I clearly remember being asked who was the Governor of the Bank of England during an interview with a bank – obviously I was faking being interested in the finance sector as I had no clue. I learned a lot from that experience: I went on to a career in financial services after all, but with much better prep before I met a potential employer!

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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What Is Demand Planning? Tips, Strategies and Tools

ProjectManager.com

Businesses are constantly pulled between supply and demand. But this seemingly simple concept can be difficult to navigate effectively. How do you meet demand and not overstock your inventory? That’s where a process called demand planning comes in. It’s a way to boost profits and keep overhead costs down. What Is Demand Planning? Demand planning is a cross-functional process that businesses use to meet customer demand while avoiding supply chain or inventory management disruptions.

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Is a Scrum Master an Agile Coach?

Scrum.org

The role of Agile Coach is growing in prominence in many organisations. From software development through to marketing and HR, whole organisations are now seeing benefits from agile adaptive approach to work, and are building internal positions for new Agile Coach roles. . The Scrum Master and Agile Coaching. In the agile enterprise, a Scrum Master has three key areas of accountability [1]: Coaching teams by promoting cross-functionality and helping them to self-manage and self-organise within g

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Change Management in Agile – Seeking Expert Knowledge

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Are you an expert in change management or feel that you have solid strategies with outstanding results? Do you have a wealth of experience with agile /lean project management? MMU would love to hear from you. Manchester Metropolitan University is undergoing a study of lean/ agile methodology with the aim to help project managers and their team members cope with change.

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Construction Budget: A Quick Guide (with Examples)

ProjectManager.com

Construction projects will never get off the ground without financing. Money sets the gears of construction management in motion. Creating a construction budget, therefore, is one of the most important pieces when developing a construction plan. How do you create a construction budget, anticipate the costs for a project and track them to make sure you’re not overspending?

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Project Resource Management: Part 1 of Your Comprehensive Guide

Online PM Courses

Nothing gets done unless people do it. And people need tools, materials, and a place to work. So, Project Resource Management is an essential skill set. The post Project Resource Management: Part 1 of Your Comprehensive Guide appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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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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Free Workshop 02: Introduction to Scrum & Empiricism [Review & Retrospective]

Scrum.org

This workshop was delivered on 19th August 2021 and focused on introducing the core concepts of Scrum & Empiricism. I used a combination of Liberating Structures, Microsoft Teams, and Mural to deliver an interactive session. Topic(s): Agility. Audience: Teams. Subscribe to A Wee Dram! Get all our posts straight to your inbox by subscribing to the latest posts.

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How To Choose the Best Project Management Software for Your Business?

nTask

Project management is all about working together in a team. However, it is not as easy as it seems since coordination and collaboration between a team is highly crucial. Unfortunately, most of the time, there is a lapse in communication. Out of the many challenges faced by the project managers, coordination within a team is quite a stress. Meeting deadlines, keeping everyone connected, and keeping a track of the progress of a project and communication are some of the issues faced in project mana

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A cold lesson in secondary risks…

Kiron Bondale

Secondary risks are those which arise based on the implementation of a response to an identified risk. Similar to other risks, secondary risks can fall into known-unknown and unknown-unknown categories. I’ve never liked the term “secondary risk” as it creates the perception that these are not as important as “primary” ones and this is not the case.

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9 Tools to Help You Better Onboard Your Employees

Proofhub

Onboarding helps new employees fit into your culture and integrate into the work environment. The responsibility for that falls onto a good onboarding strategy. A great addition to your strategy is using online tools. Different tools can help make your onboarding strategy more effective and run smoother for employees who implement it. Further, you’ll find nine examples of such software.

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The Constructor's Digital Transformation Playbook: Reducing Risk With Technology

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.

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Cómo ayudar a la persona que toma el rol product owner

Scrum.org

Llevo mucho tiempo ayudando a un product owner y me he encontrado similitudes con otras situaciones de ayuda y acompañamiento a otras personas que han estado en el mismo rol. Scrum ha existido durante muchos (más de 20) años y es genial ver que muchas organizaciones están o han estado implementando Scrum para ofrecer mejores productos a sus clientes. .

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Can you spend $1M in a month?

Musings on Project Management

Here's the challenge: On your project, can you spend $1M in a month?Take a minute and think about it.Consider:If you've got 100 people with an annual payroll of $15M, then yes, it's possible, even likelyIf you've got 20 people with an annual payroll of $3M, then maybe, with overtime and some material charges.Got your answer?Good!

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Why do businesses need digital dexterity now more than ever?

PM Times

User adaptation is one of the major hurdles faced by the digital workplace today. As the work and the workplace continue to adopt and adapt new technologies available, employee usability lags. Sure, some organizations adapt faster than others, but for the long haul, digital dexterity helps organizations to acclimatize faster amid disruption and digital transformation. […].

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SaaS Management Software: Benefits, Features, & SaaS Management Platforms

Proofhub

When it comes to making business management decisions that count, staying with the times and implementing innovative tech solutions should be your number one move. Mixing up additives like certain software platforms can help you automate your business, streamline your work processes and ease up the load that lies on the shoulders of your workforce. In this article, I aim to spill the beans about what changes SaaS tools can bring to the functioning of your work and your organization as a whole.

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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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Back to the foundations of the Scrum framework (15) - How the Sprint Retrospective supports Inspection

Scrum.org

Scrum is founded on empirical process control, and inspection is one of the three pillars. During each of the Scrum Events, and throughout the Sprint itself, the Scrum Team and the stakeholders inspect based on a common understanding. Without this transparency, one cannot perform a valuable inspection. Inspection is about detecting undesirable variances in progressing towards agreed goals. .

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Which comes first. A or B?

Musings on Project Management

This is not about the A/B argument in Agile methods. This is about get the elements of project scope sequenced in the right time order Does "A" come before "B", or not, and Is there a dependency between "A" and "B"? If not, then the sequencing question may be moot.

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Agile Unplugged EP 06 | Organizations to Summits | Mike Cottmeyer & Chris Beale

Leading Agile

Listen to the Agile Unplugged Podcast on the go! Find and subscribe to Agile Unplugged on: Apple Podcasts. Spotify. Soundcloud. RSS. We know process doesn’t matter if your organization isn’t aligned to your customers and markets. Most large-scale organizations aren’t aligned in this way. We also know that the Agile Manifesto says, “We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it.”.

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A Comprehensive Guide to Understanding Project Backlogs in 2021

nTask

In the world of Agile project management , a product backlog is an incredible list of items that you have to make sure are developed in the project development process. You have to do this because these are the most important items in the project’s structure. You can compare this list to your wish list on the Amazon website where you add all of the items that you think that you need the most, the project backlog is like that in regards to project development.

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The GTM Intelligence Era: ZoomInfo 2025 Customer Impact Report

ZoomInfo customers aren’t just selling — they’re winning. Revenue teams using our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform grew pipeline by 32%, increased deal sizes by 40%, and booked 55% more meetings. Download this report to see what 11,000+ customers say about our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform and how it impacts their bottom line. The data speaks for itself!

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How to Translate Your Organization's Strategic Plan Into Teams' Day-to-Day Work

Atlassian Blog

Strategic planning. It’s a popular term in corporate leadership and a task that enterprises can spend significant time, effort, and money on. And yet, an overwhelming number of corporate strategies fail. After weeks or months of hard work, leadership will unveil their strategic plan, only to have its beautifully crafted long-term goals fall by the wayside.

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5 Reasons KeyedIn is the PPM Software of Choice for Strategic PMOs

PM Times

KeyedIn is an established PPM software provider that is designed to help PMOs get to the next level of PPM maturity. They do this through software products combined with services offerings that configure to user needs. Rich in functionality in all the critical PPM components – portfolio management, resource planning, project management, dashboards and analytics, […].

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The Lazy Genius Way (Book Review)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The Lazy Genius Way by Kendra Adachi is a book that will prompt you to embrace what matters, ditch what doesn’t and get stuff done. It’s a productivity book, packed with personal stories and anecdotes. The book feels more relevant and achievable than Thursday is the New Friday. It’s about mindset. Mindset is not my thing – but I did not find this book ‘woo’ or difficult to get behind.

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Efficient Remote Working with The Best 8 Miro Alternatives

nTask

Work from home has become a new normal for employees as well as employers. With the changing needs and trends, companies have become more adaptive to remote working. The transition from office to remote work has proved beneficial wherein companies have become more productive, efficient, and creative. Probably the most enticing feature of remote working is that the employees work with greater efficiency hence increasing the profitability of the business.

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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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Benefit Realization Management Process Checklist: A Checklist for Your Project Management Keep all the Benefits on Track

Techno-PM

Checklists are the must-have of anyone who likes structure and organization so if simply hearing the word gets you excited, you came to the right place. When it comes to project management processes, benefits realization management remains one of the most challenging ones for many reasons. Many organizations acknowledge the importance of benefits realization management for the appropriate selection and initiation of projects and programs, yet many more struggles to do benefits realization manage

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GitHub…More MS Project Than You Think

MPUG

In case you aren’t familiar with GitHub, I’ll start with a short introduction. Microsoft acquired GitHub in 2018. From Microsoft, “GitHub [is] the world’s leading software development platform where more than 28 million developers learn, share and collaborate to create the future” (source: [link] ). Before you click away because you saw the word “developers” in the above sentence, please remember you’re reading a quote from an article published when GitHub was first acquired.

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S-Curve in Project Management

ActiveCollab

S–Curve is one of the essential elements of project management, and it's used to track the general progress or a project's progress. Usually, S-Curve will measure work progress, make cash flow estimates, and evaluate performance. One of the reasons industries use S-Curve is its ability to showcase real-time cumulative data drawn from different project elements and compare it with the projected data.