2020 was challenging for most of us in various ways, from dealing with health and economic worries along with missed social connections with friends and family. Use these six tips to boost your resilience in 2021 and beyond.
Stakeholders are not all created equal, but that’s often how project management is taught. If you are a stakeholder supporting a new project manager, there are a number of things you can do to make life easier.
You have a wealth of expertise and attributes. Take these steps to select the best topic and prepare an interesting and valuable presentation for other project managers who can benefit from what makes you unique!
Citizen development has the potential to unleash productivity gains across an organization by giving the employees the tools and skills to take an idea and develop it themselves. It also brings a number of organizational, IT and employee benefits.
In a world where social distancing has become the new normal, product teams are learning how to stay efficient despite an almost instantaneous shift to remote working. But what impact has this shift to remote working had on product teams? And what tactics should we be adopting?
It is one thing to manage or lead in a professional setting. It is an entirely different thing to lead in a volunteer setting. Volunteers are there of their own free will, and choose whether (and how much) to participate in any given project. Their choice to be involved is wanting to contribute, to be a part of something and to make a difference. They will only be present to the extent that they believe that is true. The experience is also a social one; it is where people look to connect, to find community and to find like minds. That means that leading in a volunteer situation requires a deft touch. We can't require, expect or demand. And while we often don't have much control at work, no where is that reality more clearly demonstrated than in a voluntary setting. This presentation explores successful strategies for leading volunteers.
by Dave Wakeman Well, we’re about to turn the page on 2020. And while I’m hopeful that 2021 will be much less disruptive, I did want to share a few lessons I hope we take with us into t ...
hello- i am planning on taking the new version of the PMP exam in 2021. What prep books do you recommend? The exam outline states that there will be noticeable differences from the PMBOK Guide. thank ...
(Image credits: Warner Bros. & Chuck Jones) When I was a small child, one of the things I looked forward to every weekend was the chance to watch Saturday morning cartoons on TV. Unlike tod ...
When is a good time /not a good time to go live with your ERP system? Let's consider accounting periods, a fiscal year, and other factors. What are your lessons learned? ...
Self explanatory but since there's all this extra time at home, what are people here trying to learn. I'll go first, I'm doing part-time evening classes in data analytics just so I can get some fa ...
Welcome to my 3-part series on how citizen development is impacting projects and project management. Through the lens of citizen development, I’ll be looking at the areas of: Leadership &n ...
Ever notice how sometimes doing one thing wrong can mess up a situation but doing one thing right doesn't necessarily fix this? That’s because there is an asymmetry in cause and effect. If o ...
2020 is over. Supposedly the PM exam has changed. Where id the new pmbok? ...
In my prior post (Understanding Simple Isn't Simple) I talked about what we really want is not "simple to understand or simple in design" but simple to use, simple to expand and/or chang ...
Curious about what other organizations are doing in the low-code/no-code space? Be inspired by these examples from a wide variety of sectors, from energy to retail.
How do we increase our chances of success in following through on our New Year’s resolutions and not end up fading out and accepting failure by February as so many others do? These four tips will help you stay on track.
Read a weekly digest of highlights and a selection of articles being published about Citizen Development from around the world. Check in every week for new insights!
2020 was challenging for most of us in various ways, from dealing with health and economic worries along with missed social connections with friends and family. Use these six tips to boost your resilience in 2021 and beyond.
Project managers are expected to set an example for their teams, and 2021 will test that to the limit. Resilience is about showing your team a positive but realistic attitude. Use these tips to help.
In his “Conversations about Citizen Development” series, Ron Immink explores transformation through citizen development as he continues his conversation with Alwin Magimay.
When you look at some of the numbers being forecast around the low-code space, they’re mind-boggling. Citizen development is arriving.
Sunil Prashara, President and CEO of the Project Management Institute, and Praveen Seshadri, Distinguished Software Engineer at Google, discuss Praveen’s experience in creating AppSheet, a no-code platform acquired by Google in 2020.
For some, Agile started in 2002 as a revolution against "waterfall" with both (Agile and "waterfall") wrongly considered Project Management methodologies. While the Manifesto for Agile Software Development (aka THE "Agile Manifesto") was an important step in agile adoption, the reality is that most concepts considered "Agile" were in use for decades. Incremental and iterative software development had more than 3 decades of documented use, and the dreaded "waterfall" was more Agile than many modern frameworks. This webinar is a retrospective of Agile and Lean practices that were rediscovered when teams wanted to scale Agile towards the Enterprise level with the aim of learning from mistakes already made by others.
It is one thing to manage or lead in a professional setting. It is an entirely different thing to lead in a volunteer setting. Volunteers are there of their own free will, and choose whether (and how much) to participate in any given project. Their choice to be involved is wanting to contribute, to be a part of something and to make a difference. They will only be present to the extent that they believe that is true. The experience is also a social one; it is where people look to connect, to find community and to find like minds. That means that leading in a volunteer situation requires a deft touch. We can't require, expect or demand. And while we often don't have much control at work, no where is that reality more clearly demonstrated than in a voluntary setting. This presentation explores successful strategies for leading volunteers.
In this presentation, Uri discusses the changes that COVID-19 is likely to bring about in our Project Management job market.
This webinar takes a step back and looks at Agile as a team, company, and personal philosophy. The Agile Manifesto and Principles will be explored and analyzed for the intent behind them. We will look at Agile in terms of its adaptability, flexibility, and structure for concepts of risk mitigation, communication, and cost savings. We will discuss the broad ideas of, and distinct differences between, collaboration, negotiations, and interactions. Finally, the webinar will dive a little into project methodologies to see how they bring the philosophy of Agile into practice.
Prior research suggests that information technology (IT) project managers (PMs) often fail to take adequate steps to manage project risks and that this may contribute to the high failure rate associated with IT projects. In this presentation, I will discuss PMI-funded research that explores how IT PMs’ mental construal affects four key IT project risk management activities: (1) risk identification, (2) risk impact assessment, (3) risk response planning, and (4) risk response enactment. This research contributes to our understanding of IT project risk management and suggests ways for improving IT project risk management practices
This webinar presents different perspectives to project success and introduces Benefit Realization Management as one of the emerging concepts in project and program management.
Working on social good projects has always propelled individuals and organizations with the satisfaction of giving back but also created the much necessary positive impact for the society, resulting in community development and growth. The year 2020 has been the darkest in the history, among many adversities that hit mankind, COVID-19 has been the deadliest. The need for creating connections (and retaining the existing ones) has never been that immense before not only to learn how to survive but to transform, to adapt and more importantly keeping a tighter grip on our sanity by helping each other and providing that feeling of togetherness in the wilderness.
This webinar will start with defining the 3Rs of listening: relate, reflect and reshape as a technique for you to gather valuable customer insights. We will use this feedback to introduce the value proposition canvas as a tool to analyze your customers’ pains and gains. Once you understand the customer problem, it is time to identify the product features that will address the problem. In the end, you will be able to build the link between your customer, your product and your project, to better position your organization for a successful delivery.
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