ProjectManager.com
JANUARY 16, 2025
Not all projects are the same, so project management software comes in different varieties. Smaller projects dont require advanced tools, but larger, complex projects or managing a project portfolio demands enterprise project management software. But which enterprise project portfolio management software is the right fit for ones organization? Were here to help.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
JANUARY 4, 2025
I remember that a few weeks after I started back at work after maternity leave, one of my long-time stakeholders sent a message to someone pretty high up in the business saying, " project communication was so much better when Elizabeth was around". Its nice to hear people say I was doing something right, although it was a bit of a shame that she hadnt realized I was already back at my desk.
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Scrum.org
JANUARY 2, 2025
As the new year begins, its the perfect time to reflect on how we can improve as Agile practitioners. This isnt about sweeping overhauls or lofty ambitionsits about making small, focused improvements that bring big results over time. Below, youll find a list of Agile New Years resolutions to inspire your team. Heres how to use them: Pick One Resolution: At your next retrospective, review these ideas together and identify one resolution that resonates most with your team.
Planio
JANUARY 6, 2025
When life gets busy, it can feel counterproductive to step back and take the long view. Instead, most of us are used to putting our head down and focusing on the task at hand. But, without even realizing it, taking the short-term view is killing your productivity. The most productive people are ruthlessly organized but this doesnt happen by accident.
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Incorporating generative AI (gen AI) into your sales process can speed up your wins through improved efficiency, personalized customer interactions, and better informed decision- making. Gen AI is a game changer for busy salespeople and can reduce time-consuming tasks, such as customer research, note-taking, and writing emails, and provide insightful data analysis and recommendations.
Binfire
JANUARY 13, 2025
The digital age has brought tremendous advantages to businesses, particularly in project management. In particular, cloud services have revolutionized how teams collaborate, store data, and execute projects. However, with this increased reliance on technology comes heightened concerns about data security. Ensuring the confidentiality and integrity of sensitive information is paramount.
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Green Project Management
JANUARY 8, 2025
We need to talk about Greenwashing in projects. In the GPM P5 Standard for Sustainability in Project Management, we provide prescriptive guidance on 49 sustainability topics. Among them is one thats critical in todays world: green claims and greenwashing. This issue has become increasingly prevalent as organizations rush to signal sustainability without committing to the […] The post How to Recognize Project Greenwashing: A Case Study appeared first on The GPM Blog.
Planview
JANUARY 7, 2025
With business disruptions now constant, organizations must continuously evolve how they deliver projects to anticipate market shifts. To explore this challenge, I sat down with Andy Jordan, President of Roffensian Consulting S.A., to discuss the key project management focus areas for 2025. In this article, I offer a quick glimpse into that discussion and some closing thoughts on how you can embrace, adapt, and move forward.
The IIL Blog
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
By Jeff Zircher February 12, 2025 In todays fast-paced world, there is an increasing emphasis on quick decision-making. We often hear phrases like “trust your gut” or “act fast before it’s too late.” Early in my career at Caterpillar, I created a self-induced need or compulsion to make decisions quickly. There was a feeling of needing to get on with it or quickly make a decision to demonstrate decisiveness.
NimbleWork
JANUARY 2, 2025
Agile is more than a methodologyits a mindset that has revolutionized how organizations deliver value, adapt to change, and foster collaboration. From Software development to enterprise-level transformations, Agile has become the cornerstone of modern work, empowering teams to be flexible, iterative, and customer-focused. At its heart, Agile thrives on continuous learning, shared knowledge, and the passionate contributions of its practitioners and thought leaders.
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?
MPUG
JANUARY 27, 2025
When organizations adopt Jira for project management, they face critical questions about aligning traditional project management concepts with Jira’s framework. In a recent MPUG webinar, Atlassian experts J. Caldwell and Vlad Petrescu shared insights drawn from their combined 25+ years of experience supporting Fortune 500 companies and small teams alike.
ProjectManager.com
JANUARY 14, 2025
Organizations that manage multiple projects need to understand the project prioritization scoring model. Without a project scoring matrix to help them select the projects that align with their business goals and when to implement them, theyre not managing but leaving everything to fate. Thats not a good place for a business to be. Therefore, well define a scoring model in project management and when to use project scoring.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
How often does your brain take shortcuts? If youve ever questioned if you really did clean your teeth this morning, youll realize that your brain takes shortcuts all the time. Unconscious bias is another shortcut. It shapes many of our decisions without us even realizing it. 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.
Scrum.org
JANUARY 29, 2025
Sprint Retrospective - The event to tap into your improvements. Sprint Retrospective is the concluding event on the Sprint, timeboxed for 3 hours or less for 1 month Sprint. This is an Inspect-Adapt opportunity for the Scrum Team to figure out how they could become more effective in the upcoming sprint. It begins by exploring the current sprint, its outcome, the way team members interacted, the processes-the tools used and all the interconnections between them.
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.
Planio
FEBRUARY 17, 2025
Lack of consistency, frequent scope changes, and poor governance are three of the most common reasons that projects fail. If you recognize these challenges, a structured project methodology, such as the Stage Gate process, can help you overcome them, by bringing control and consistency to your deliveries. The Stage Gate process breaks projects down into distinct stages and gates.
Online PM Courses
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
Agile projects are like any other, in that they need a communication plan. But you will want to adapt your approach to suit the fact you are working in an Agile way and also the particular agile methodology you have chosen. This video is safe for viewing in the workplace. This is learning, so, sit […] The post Agile Project Communications: How to Adapt Project Communications to an Agile Environment appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.
Alan Parker Blog
JANUARY 13, 2025
Securing Information in Cloud Services: Best Practices and Strategies The rapid adoption of cloud services has revolutionised organisational operations, offering unparalleled flexibility, scalability, and cost-efficiency. However, these advantages come with unique information security challenges that demand robust management. Organisations must implement structured processes for acquiring, managing, and exiting cloud services to protect their information assets and adhere to stringent security s
Lodgify
JANUARY 23, 2025
The new year is now in full swing! And you know what that means: Its time to start looking ahead and planning how to make the most of 2025. If one of your goals for the new year is to grow your skills or business, attending a short-term rental conference should form part of your plans. Short-term rental conferences create a great learning environment where you can educate yourself on the most up-to-date technologies, develop new ways to maximize your income, and connect with colleagues and indus
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Green Project Management
JANUARY 27, 2025
We Build Against Nature. Its Costing Us. Our cities flood, our buildings consume vast amounts of energy, and our supply chains accelerate biodiversity loss. These crises arent inevitablethey are the result of design choices that ignore natures intelligence. The past few years have made it painfully clear that the way we build, produce, and consume […] The post Design as Nature: A Call for Regenerative Leadership appeared first on The GPM Blog.
The IIL Blog
JANUARY 15, 2025
By Dr. Harold Kerzner January 15, 2025 What is meant by project management complexity or project complexity? Why is it important to know now? How will knowing this make my life (as a project professional) easier? Organizational projects are by nature far-reaching and complex. Understanding how corporate projects start and take shape, and recognizing different types of complexity can help you determine the appropriate methodology for the project.
NimbleWork
JANUARY 26, 2025
To thrive in the field of project management, it is important to stay informed about the latest trends, effective techniques, and industry best practices for ongoing professional development. One of the most effective ways to do this is by attending leading industry conferences. These events provide a unique opportunity to learn from experts, network with peers, and gain hands-on experience with new tools and techniques.
MPUG
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
One might conclude that agile approaches to project management, such as Scrum, mean there is no need for gate reviews. We suggest blanket statements like that are of little use and amount to checking our brains at the door. We say the same thing if one adopts gate reviews for every product development project. In product development, project gates stand as crucial checkpoints, like the Roman god Janus, looking both backward and forward.
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.
ProjectManager.com
JANUARY 15, 2025
Making sure that work is being done as planned and meeting deadlines is how projects stay on schedule. Job tracking software is designed to help. But what kind of features should users look for and which software products are best? We review the top ones, including pros, cons, price and more to help one make the right decision. What Is Job Tracking Software?
Rebel’s Guide to PM
FEBRUARY 17, 2025
Are you looking for the next step in your career? Project managers who want to move more into a strategic delivery role dont always have that many choices. Career paths tend to lean towards larger, more complex and more strategically important projects, or program management. Have you thought about moving into portfolio management? What does a portfolio manager do?
Scrum.org
JANUARY 14, 2025
Most organizations wait way too long to adopt some portfolio-level agility practices. Theyve been told, You cant scale whats broken, so they wait until they nail agile at the team and product group level. What if fixing whats broken REQUIRES focusing on the upstream thats shaping the work and context of these teams? Back in 2012 or so, I met an SVP responsible for a 1000-person delivery organization that was working in a traditional waterfall.
Ganttic
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
Ever needed to schedule a task for multiple people or resources? Instead of adding the same task again and again for each person, why not do it all in one go? Multi-resource scheduling lets you assign a single task to multiple team members, equipment, or locationskeeping everything in sync without the extra clicks. What is Multi-Resource Scheduling?
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.
Online PM Courses
JANUARY 8, 2025
PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) is PMIs certification for Agile Practitioners. What do you need to know about PMI-ACP in 2025? The post PMI-ACP: What are the Top 10 things to know about the Agile Certified Practitioner for 2025? appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.
Alan Parker Blog
JANUARY 14, 2025
Maintaining Information Security During Disruptions Organisations face a myriad of challenges that can disrupt operations, ranging from cyberattacks to natural disasters. Ensuring the security of information during such disruptions is critical to safeguarding business continuity and maintaining stakeholder trust. This article outlines the importance of planning for information security during disruptions and offers actionable guidance for organisations.
Leading Agile
JANUARY 13, 2025
Video Transcript What is it that we’re actually going to change and how we’re going to get it there? Okay? We have to be really, really clear. This isn’t like make people aware of Agile and then they’ll just figure it out. All self-organized, right? We have to have a hypothesis. We have to have a point of view on what it is that we’re actually going to impact and how we’re going to impact and how the things we’re changing are going to tie back to our bus
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