PMOs are becoming increasingly significant contributors to organizational value, but are they being perceived that way elsewhere in the organization?
By going out of our way to make studying pleasurable, we begin to dread it less, then feel neutral about it and eventually enjoy it. But how the heck do you enjoy learning about earned value or resolving team conflict? The key is to separate our emotions about the subject matter from the learning experience.
Start your agile development team with the mantra: No manual test cases! Quality comes from collaboration and rapid feedback, not documentation. Let’s take a look.
Every project manager is familiar with the project management triangle, comprised of scope, time and cost. Quality, resources and risk are additional factors that must be accounted for to achieve project success. The focus here is to understand how these constraints are still relevant in the age of agile.
Project Constraints on a Journey Toward Being Agile
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When the new year rolls around, people inevitably think about their careers and how they want to see them advance. How much control do PMs have over that in today’s environment?
The current model is challenging. We keep creating products that no one really needs that produce waste that nobody wants. Furthermore, we need to start concentrating on the conditions that people live in and what goods and services meet those conditions. This webinar will describe to you what frugal innovation is, why this is important, and the approaches a Project Manager can take to master such projects. What you will get: * An understanding what frugal innovation is about * Why we can expect such projects escalating * What approaches a Project Manager must take with such initiatives * Hopefully broaden your ability to take on such projects in the future.
by Dave Wakeman Where do you stand on the value vs. benefits debate? As someone who spends most of my time managing projects in marketing and revenue-generating roles, I likely see the ide ...
Does anyone have recommendations to design and establish a Government Framework for Agile Projects? The interest is to govern and focus on: a) Potential risks. b) Deviations. c) Control of the ...
Can anybody explain the Salience Model to Classify Project Stakeholders ...
Holding a Risk Assessment meeting prior to implementing a modification to a process or system that could result in loss of productivity to a business unit. Invite business units with a stake in the im ...
Which of the following is NOT part of the Quality Management plan? A. Strategies for handling defects and other quality problems B. Guidance on how the project team will implement the company’s qualit ...
For example services, business processes, construction, non-profit, education, anything non-tech and non-software related. If you have experience with or knowledge of Scrum implementations in thes ...
by Dave Wakeman Where do you stand on the value vs. benefits debate? As someone who spends most of my time managing projects in marketing and revenue-generating roles, I likely see the ide ...
When Gene Roddenberry staffed the U.S.S. Enterprise with a highly diverse set of races, species & genders, he used Star Trek as his soapbox to challenge pervasive social injustices of th ...
I am trying always to read a book not related to management and this month I am reading Great Expectations for Dickens and it is the best for this year so far , so how about you ? ...
Since the author's last popular look at helpful study tips, the Project Management Institute (PMI) has published A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide)—Sixth Edition, and there are just as many questions this time around. It's time to crack the code...again!
Project management is more than leadership. Can you perform the tasks of the role of project manager consistently—and at a high level? Are you aware that there’s a certain degree of duality that comes with the role? Let's dig a little deeper into each side of the PMI Talent Triangle® to help you improve your skills.
We all know the importance of the initiation stage...right? So why do some companies utilize all of the project stages except initiation? Here, the author tackles some common misunderstandings.
Successful management in organizations is the result of a willingness by senior managers to distribute authority to those who are responsible for “getting the job done.” Learn how results can be improved when authority, responsibility and accountability work together on a project.
The series La casa de papel (Money Heist) has garnered fans across the world because of its captivating story line—and illustrates many concepts and practices of project management. Here the author looks at some parallels, divided by groups of PM processes.
Corporate culture is typically stifling and unwilling to change. People often lose their voice and much of what they hoped to achieve. In order to support others or to achieve our potential, we must be at our optimum selves and find our own voice.
Building and sustaining relationships with key stakeholders in a project or program is crucial for its successful delivery. Often, we see a project derail due to a gap in the level of engagement from key stakeholders. Here are some steps you can take to successfully build, engage and sustain relationships with key stakeholders throughout the project.
Asking the right type of questions will ensure that PMs receive relevant and accurate information. However, a lack of training in this skill set—the ability to ask simple questions to acquire correct information—has complicated the issue.
This webinar will provide a full view and understanding of Risk Management. New practitioners will find this webinar informative and immediately useful in their work. Experienced project managers will benefit from a refresher on risk management, as well as receive actionable best practices they can put to work today.
LEAN has been used primarily in manufacturing industries, however, recent trend is to use it for service industries as well, for identifying waste in processes and making the process robust and efficient, which in-turn drives the business requirements, aligning the requirements to project objectives thru LEAN.
An explanation of blockchain both on the technical level and the business level. This technology will be described and explore the business use cases where blockchain technology is seen to be of great value. Blockchain projects will grow exponentially in the future; as such, project managers will benefit from better understanding the technical and business sides of blockchain.
Introductory webinar for the April 2018 Book Club - Collaboration Tools for Project Managers: How to Choose, Get Started and Collaborate with Technology
The Gahcho Kué Project created the largest new diamond mine constructed in the world since 2003. In one of the world’s harshest climates, the project was successfully completed two months ahead of schedule. This project achieved its goals even with several chilling challenges. The Gahcho Kué project was awarded as a 2017 PMI Project of the Year Finalist. Learn about this awarded project’s challenges, best practices, and lessons learned in this webinar.
The Manifesto for Agile Software Development might have been written for software development, but did you know that agile was based on lean, servant-leadership and other principles which can be applied to any type of project? This webinar will cover agile behaviors, practices and techniques which can be used regardless of industry or project delivery approach.
Kaizen simply means "change for better". When Kaizen is applied through a consistent and sustained program of successful Kaizen events, it teaches employees to think differently about their work.
Gantt Charts are a fine mechanism for planning projects that have well bounded activities with a clean start and end point, and with understood dependencies and sequences. But in the non-linear, sometimes chaotic world of Product Development, Gantt Charts can be inadequate, cumbersome, or even misleadingly inaccurate. In the session, we will explore an alternative using mechanism of Agile product development - a Backlog of value to deliver with estimations of size (effort) and a reality-based Burndown that shows a plan with visible assumptions. Together these mechanism provide an effective way to plan, track, and replan a complex Product Development effort.
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