In project management, essential skills include making rapid adjustments when reality changes—and motivating your project team to deliver. Here are a few of the most valuable skills to focus your effort on to inspire you to get started.
Does a project delay of a few days really matter? Yes! Schedule delays are often treated as no big deal, but that’s a dangerous approach. We need to view the schedule as a guideline, not as a weapon.
Project leaders have a key role to play in innovation. It starts with giving teams the flexibility to be creative and develop unexpected results. Facilitating customer interaction helps teams explore what is actually needed and get in the mindset to deliver it. And stakeholders must be prepared for change and ambiguity, instead of predictability.
If you have been thinking of getting started with no-code tools but you’re just not sure where to start, then this first video in our three-part series is for you. Max Mirho shares his tips for getting started with no-code.
When customers are reluctant to embrace a project team’s agile approach, should the organization modify the approach to accommodate them, or should they press on and “prove” it is the best way to deliver what they want?
Disciplined play is a proven way to push the boundaries of creativity, innovative thinking, and skill-building inside the agile enterprise.
During the long duration of the pandemic, each of us had to shift our work/life balance. We had to curate a new workday schedule, perhaps adding more flexibility to support multiple needs between work ...
Hi, Is reading the Scrum guide from Scrum.org and taking the open assessment (until you score 100%) enough to take PSM I certification? How can you assess if you are ready? Are there other recom ...
We’ve all experienced the call and/or email requesting that you do something immediately or within a short amount of time. Project team members may be asking for something that you simply do not have ...
Project budgeting seems to be a topic that worries project managers more than any other. Perhaps it’s because people don’t feel comfortable doing it, as many project managers actually don& ...
We recently released the 5.2 version of the Disciplined Agile (DA) tool kit, and in that release we added three new process goals: Intake Work, Organize Metrics, and Measure O ...
By Soma Bhattacharya Never fear challenging the norm. A standup seems like the norm for any agile team, part of the identity associated with being agile. As many of us all now work remote ...
I just joined a new organization, and there is so much exchange of documents between Stakeholders before the same document is approved.. I end up having 1 document saved multiple times. I just want a ...
You probably saw that the seventh edition of the PMBOK is released today. I am curious to read your feedback here. On my side, I just started reading, and my first impression: many good additions inc ...
We recently released the 5.2 version of the Disciplined Agile (DA) tool kit, and in that release we added three new process goals: Intake Work, Organize Metrics, and Measure O ...
We have put together our first list of low-code/no-code platforms that offer free trials. Download our list to help you get started on your citizen development project.
There are many ways that citizen development can improve reporting. Here are six practical examples from companies worldwide to inspire you.
How can we meet the need for fast-paced, yet reasoned, innovation? As we face a changing, adaptive business environment, "compelling events" can help organizations achieve the vision of the product that they want, while also serving as an effective device for agile project teams.
Curious about what other organizations in the law sector are doing in the low-code/no-code space? We’ve rounded up some really interesting real life examples for you.
The new PMI Citizen Developer Partner Program is the latest addition to PMI’s Citizen Developer product suite, which enables organizations and individuals to unlock the full potential of citizen development.
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!
There's a sudden renewed focus on empathy in the workplace, but what exactly is it and why does it matter? Even more fundamentally, is it really anything new? Here’s some suggestions for how empathy should guide projects.
Minimizing the number of times that a resource has to switch between projects and activities can help mitigate negative impacts, but it’s only a short-term solution. There also has to be a permanent solution—or the project risks failure.
Every project has multiple work streams that project manager must ensure are ready to help deliver the promised benefits of the initiative. A managed OCM workstream is the most effective means of ensuring successful adoption of the work. However, there are OCM specific tools and techniques the project manager can use to effectively deliver this workstream. This presentation will explore those technical details and also discuss a communication strategy, so all stakeholders are aware of the workstream and the value it adds to the project.
For some agile teams, especially software development teams, the term "Change Management" is associated with the ITIL style Change Control, an engineering process created to manage risks associated with production deployment. Despite the optimistic view presented by most agile frameworks, Organization Change Management is hard. The transition to agile is often harder than any other transformation because it requires a mindset change at all levels, supported by a huge shift in the organizational culture. This webinar is a practice-based presentation on the importance of Organization Change Management in Agile Transformations and the critical role that the Project Manager must play.
The PMI membership comprises students, seniors, aspiring Project Managers looking to explore potential development opportunities, Project Managers and certified Project members. This seminar is aimed at members that want to become Project Managers but do not know how to do it. This webinar will address how to become a Project Manager.
Your professional needs evolve, and PMI continually evolves our offerings to help you work smarter. No matter what phase of your career you are currently in, your PMI membership has benefits and tools that can help you learn, build skills, and advance in your career journey. Spend an entire hour with three of your very own PMI Product Specialists - Kate Castiglione, Ed Cooney and Kevin Lynch to hear what’s new, what’s hot and what’s next, plus ask those burning questions.
This webinar will start with an explanation of what agility is and how it applies in organizations in concepts like business agility, product agility or team agility. Next we will focus on two aspects of agility for projects. The first is where projects need to be able to adapt to the changing business and customer needs, in order deliver products that provide value. The second aspect is how to manage your project to adapt to the environment of changing customer expectations, risks, constraints, people, and technology.
This webinar is a survey of some of the more common (if we can think of them that way) real-world challenges that project managers encounter, and what we might do with them. Whether you are a new project manager or you already have the scars of real-world experience, you will find content of value and ideas you can use.
The complexity faced by organizations today requires teams of people working and learning together so that we may address the dynamically evolving demand of our customers. Yet our organizations are struggling to attract, grow, and retain the right people with the right skills at the right time. To address this dynamic situation we must embrace an agile approach to HR.
Enterprise architecture (EA) can potentially promote a common business vision within your organization, provide guidance to improve both business and IT decision making, and improve IT efficiencies. Unfortunately many EA teams struggle to provide these benefits, often because they are perceived as ivory tower or being too difficult to work with.
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