ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Where it once implied daydreaming, now it is the realm of innovative businesses and forward-thinking leaders. While cloud storage has become a given for both personal and business use, before exploring how organizations are using the technology in innovative ways, it’s important to take an unbiased look at the service.

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Project Bliss

JANUARY 30, 2020

Design Thinking is a human centered approach to innovative problem-solving. His company works with clients to successfully solve problems using innovation and Design Thinking approaches. Anyone who wants to solve a problem can use Design Thinking to find innovative solutions. Risks to Productive Design Thinking.

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Innovation Leadership Defining Lean 280

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

BAU (Business-as-Usual) workbug fixes, maintenance, and tech debtis a silent killer of product innovation. The best product teams dont just balance BAU and innovationthey use BAU to accelerate innovation. Measure Innovation RateOr Lose Control You cant win on tech debt. Its about managing risk and opportunity.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

In complex environments, the time it takes to deliver value is affected by uncertainty, effort, risk, and other factors. Reduces Risk: Sticking rigidly to a roadmap increases the risk of delivering a product that doesn’t meet user needs or business goals. Scrum embraces empiricism to help teams navigate these complexities.

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2024 SCRUM Innovation Agile 194

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 2, 2024

Creativity is the cornerstone of innovation. It turns your work from average to outstanding, fixes problems, anticipates risks , and delivers better products and services, supporting the creation of superior solutions for customers and businesses. Getting innovative solutions often means empowering your team to be more creative.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 12, 2024

The earlier problems are spotted, the easier it is to implement corrective measures and reduce risk. This means its easy to identify issues early and make data-driven decisions regarding budget adjustments, resource allocation or risk mitigation efforts. This is information that resource utilization can provide.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Proactive Risk Management: Exceptional Scrum Masters possess the foresight to identify potential risks before they become issues. This proactive approach minimises disruptions and keeps the team on track, ensuring that risks do not inhibit creativity or slow progress. © 2024 wowefy.com

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The IIL Blog

JULY 24, 2024

These new projects are strategic in nature, such as innovation, research & development, new product development and strategic planning initiatives. Many of the traditional project management processes, tools, and techniques used in operational projects do not apply to strategic or innovation projects. Project Management (PM) 4.0

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 14, 2025

Are Your Traditional Portfolio Processes Inhibiting Innovation and Agility? Teams operate in silos, unable to adapt or innovate. Missed Opportunities : You see competitors pivot and innovate while your organization struggles to maintain the status quo. Decision Paralysis : Uncertainty brings your business to a standstill.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Do they have task, resource, risk and portfolio management all in one tool with a mobile device that works on iOS and Android? Capterra: 4.2 Are they SOC 2 compliant to ensure project data is safe? We’re as collaborative as they are, with email and in-app notifications.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

It's no longer innovative, exciting, worthy of keynote talks or passionate meetups. Agile is no longer innovative as it was when the Manifesto was established. I highlight the dependencies and risks at Scrum of Scrums. They need to continuously find ways to innovate themselves to create valuable products.

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The IIL Blog

JULY 10, 2024

IPM Day is not only a day of recognition, but also a day of learning, networking, and innovation for project managers, teams, and executives around the globe. They have shown passion, innovation, and resilience in dealing with the huge challenges of the pandemic and the recession in recent years.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 8, 2024

An effective Sprint Retrospective ensures the team remains cohesive and aligned, leading to sustainable development and innovation. Risk Management: By regularly examining past actions and outcomes, teams can proactively identify potential risks and devise mitigation strategies. © 2024 wowefy.com

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Underperforming Technical Team 2024 Innovation Sustainability 195

Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

The goal of a SM is to grow the teams to thrive, innovate, and deliver exceptional products. The essential advantage here is the broad exposure to diverse team dynamics and challenges, which enriches the Scrum Master's toolkit for problem-solving and innovation. This article was first published in the AskScrum.com newsletter.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 23, 2024

In the rapidly evolving business landscape, the shift from intuition-based decision-making to innovation-driven leadership is not just beneficial—it's essential. Evidence-Based Leadership: Steering Toward Innovation EBM-based leadership takes this concept further by integrating evidence into the leadership ethos itself.

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Innovation Leadership 2024 Retail 177

Scrum.org

JUNE 19, 2024

With its flexible and iterative nature, Scrum helps identify risks in product development. Events are feedback loops and opportunities to mitigate risks through transparency, inspection and adaptation. Scrum addresses this risk through regular sprint reviews where stakeholders provide feedback in shorter loops.

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Risk Management Risk SCRUM 2024 203

Scrum.org

AUGUST 2, 2024

It encourages innovation: solving new problems with new ideas that the organisation (or competitors) haven't tried, providing a competitive advantage beyond just operational efficiency. By aligning product strategy with technology strategy, organisations can fundamentally transform their approach to innovation and value delivery.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 29, 2024

This trust enables open communication and risk-taking, essential components of innovative and efficient teams led by influential leaders. This commitment to personal and professional development keeps leaders at the forefront of their fields, encourages innovation, and sets a positive example for their teams.

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Musings on Project Management

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Recently heard: this lament from IT innovation workers:[We] encounter ironclad corporate hierarchies and resistance to change, a paradox in [our] industry that thrives on innovation and risk-taking."They" They" want things in a particular order; they want case studies and past experience. IT doesn't work like that.

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Inloox

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Companies that fail to bring innovative products and services to market in short release cycles are not truly agile. Projects without concrete evaluations are a luxury that many companies will no longer be able to afford in the future. Because: agility shamanism in the form of philosophical feel-good phrases will be discontinued.

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Inloox

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Know the risks in your project! Risk management plays an enormously important role in project management. The task here is to identify, analyze, control and ultimately minimize risks. Although some risks can be eliminated with a suitable solution strategy, certain risks can never be completely avoided in the project context.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 15, 2021

There is a need for collaboration, innovation and competitive advantage to make supplier relationship management work. Sometimes, these are the suppliers you spend more with, but they can also be smaller, yet critical suppliers who can help deliver innovation. This is why the supplier relationship management process is so important.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 21, 2021

The innovation that your work as a project manager can bring to life. We should be focusing on enhancing our ability to adapt, adjust to risks, and changes we were not expecting. Never stop innovating. Innovative projects are constantly happening. What do you like most about being a project manager? Google everything.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Organizations have to explore the proposal and determine if its a good fit for them in terms of risk, reward, resources and so on. A feasibility report in project management is a detailed analysis that evaluates the practicality, risks and potential success of a proposed project before committing significant resources.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

From hiring choices to project planning and team dynamics, these biases, deeply ingrained through culture, experience, and cognitive shortcuts, can impact fairness, efficiency, and innovation. Lets explore how unconscious bias shows up in projects, the risks it poses, and what we can actually do it about so you can mitigate its effects.

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Technical Review Lean Sustainability Construction 231

Scrum.org

OCTOBER 15, 2024

A Scrum Master skilled in understanding risk and uncertainties ensures that the team is not caught off-guard by challenges but is prepared and resilient, capable of navigating uncertainties confidently and quickly. It's about cultivating an ecosystem where innovation, collaboration, and resilience are valued.

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SCRUM 2024 Risk Management Innovation 189

Scrum.org

JANUARY 4, 2025

This mindset enables fast pivots, minimising the risk and maximising openings. Encouraging diverse perspectives to help foster innovations. These empowered teams are more engaged and innovative and will possess better problem-solving abilitiesall things that every start-up needs to be set up for scale.

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Leadership Agile Sustainability Innovation 200

Binfire

JANUARY 13, 2025

Huge risks are at stake; project-specific losses and the firms reputation and financial status could be compromised in a data breach. Also, cloud providers have an appreciation of the issues at risk. The Ongoing Role of Cloud Services in Cybersecurity While cyber threats get innovative, cloud services continue to change.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Risk Management Certification 147

Scrum.org

MARCH 9, 2025

Success depends on trust, collaboration, risk navigation, and focusing on outcomes over outputs. Embrace Slack Time: Request 20% of unplanned capacity to enable adaptation to operational challenges and innovation. Risk Navigation: Using alignment and validation to reduce uncertainty.

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Underperforming Technical Team Lean SCRUM Risk Management 169

Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Unsurprisingly, the most successful, innovative organizations have excellent teams with a clear line of sight to the problems they are solving. By enabling product teams to deliver frequently and learn, organizations create an environment where innovation grows as the knowledge of the user and problem comes into focus.

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Agile ChatGPT Governance Government 127

Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 31, 2024

Factors such as risks , resources (human and otherwise), expectations or even R&D or technology issues for ground-breaking tech projects can be considered as constraints. The 6 project constraints are time, cost, scope (as per the triangle) and then quality, risk and resources. Going live with innovative new solutions?

Risk Management 381

Risk Management Budget Risk Sustainability 381

Scrum.org

JULY 30, 2023

Now, they must discover innovative ways to deliver enhanced value to customers while differentiating themselves from competitors. That means taking calculated risks that can lead to either success or failure. The post-COVID business landscape is pushing companies to strategically position themselves and seek new opportunities.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

I don’t know yet what this would look like in a project setting beyond the innovations we are seeing in AI, particularly in the PMO. While I still remain positive about the role of the project manager, I think other jobs you routinely interact with, like system testers, could be more at risk of being automated. But it’s coming.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

If this person is arguing, say, why a project must be aware of a certain risk, and you dismiss them because they’re always complaining, you’re making a logical fallacy. Plus, being innovative requires taking risks and being aggressive. That means a retreat from innovation, which is bad business. Argument from Authority.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Trust enables open communication and risk-taking, which are essential to innovative and efficient high-performing teams. While the Scrum Team delivers flexibility and commitment to the goals, the stakeholders deliver the stability and valuable feedback the team needs to inspect and adapt.

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MPUG

OCTOBER 15, 2024

While these innovations have brought about remarkable advancements, they have also, at times, diverted attention from the core principles of project controls: Schedule Management, Cost Management, Risk Management, and Quality Management. This is a misconception.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 30, 2022

Identify and mitigate issues and risks. Innovation is also important. Seeking an innovative, organized, strategic-minded and dependable program director. Identify and mitigate program risks. Improve program functions through innovative planning and processes. Plan and monitor program execution. Job Summary.

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