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We were building an online stock trading system and desperately needed her. I was managing the project. We had extremely aggressive deadlines, so when this online transaction expert said she was "already busy" and didn't want to work on the project, and upper management seemed to support her, ...

“I saw a Fortune 500 financial services organization implemented a new solution for portfolio and project management. As stakeholders had fewer and fewer of their questions about the future state answered, they began to assume it meant that the new system would lead to layoffs. Several senior project ...

On this episode of the Actionable Marketing Podcast, Andrea Fryrear from AgileSherpas explains how marketers can use agile project management processes.

But with the right set of values, government IT leaders can begin to inject agile development methods into their operations, according to a report released late last year by the National Association of State CIOs. Agile is “an iterative project management methodology that delivers differentiated, high-value ...

Agile, by contrast, works by making a series of small changes, testing and re-adjusting on the fly. This means that features can be added and bugs can be squashed much quicker than with other forms of software development. This focus on tight turnaround times and the ability to change a project's ...

Traditional project management approaches focused on measuring motion/activity with metrics such as task completion, and percentage complete. But, when dealing with unknown work those metrics do not make sense. In response, the agile community has described many different measures focused ...

Through this detailed real-world example, you will see how lean management posture and problem solving concretely help agile teams: this mobile ... Let us take a real-world project: we worked for an energy company which wants to digitalize its whole business, from the subscription to the billing and ...

the PMI Agile Practice Guide states on page 31 the project specific blending of agile practices. The Scrum Guide issued November 2017 by Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland stipulates on page 19 that "Scrum's roles, events, artifacts and rules are immutable" and "Scrum exists...as a container for other ...

Fortschrittsdiagramm, Story-Punkte und Teamwork – Scrum beinhaltet schon heute einige Gamification-Elemente. Wir untersuchten, wie sich weitere Motivatoren aus dem Spiele-Kontext integrieren lassen. Unser Ergebnis: Gamification und Scrum passen sehr gut zueinander, wenn man gewisse ...

Märkte sind in Bewegung, Technologie ist günstig, Fachkräfte sind rar. Wie können wir darauf reagieren? Wie kann uns Agilität helfen, diese Herausforderungen zu meistern? In seinem visuellen Vortrag von der JAX 2017 zeigt Wolfgang Pleus, zertifizierter Scrum Master und Scrum Professional, warum ...

Für wen lohnt sich die Einführung von Kompetenzmodellen und das systematische Management von Kompetenzen? Für alle Unternehmen, die ein Interesse an ihrer Zukunftssicherung haben. Jedes Unternehmen muss für sich selbst ermitteln, welche Cluster sinnvoll sind und welche Kompetenzen für ...

Zeniths for employee hustle and productivity are Mondays before 11am in October, according to a study by California-based project management platform Redbooth published in November. The firm analysed project data from hundreds of thousands of users who used the service to plan and track their ...

Software for project management, such as the popular Basecamp or Teamwork Projects products, is becoming ubiquitous in the creative services industries. Designed to help teams accomplish tasks and meet deadlines, both tools offer activity tracking, task management, to-do lists, commenting, chatting ...

QASymphony: QASymphony's qTest Pulse is a continuous testing solution for teams practicing DevOps. It features agile test planning, source code traceability, real-time updates, and JIRA integration. Additionally, QASymphony's qTest is a Test Case Management solution that integrates with popular ...

Johanna Rothman works with companies to improve how they manage their product development. She is the author of Manage Your Project Portfolio: Increase Your Capacity and Finish More Projects, 2nd edition, Agile and Lean Program Management: Scaling Collaboration Across the Organization as ...

Estland gilt als Musterbeispiel für eine rasch fortschreitende Digitalisierung: Die Menschen in dem baltischen Land haben ein Grundrecht auf Internetzugang, gewählt wird online, schon Grundschulkinder lernen das Programmieren, die Regierung arbeitet papierlos. Alle Esten verfügen über eine ...

Stadtwerke stehen in Zeiten der Digitalisierung vor erheblichen Herausforderungen. Einerseits müssen sie sich zunehmend regulatorischen Vorgaben, andererseits hoch-dynamischen Marktveränderungen anpassen. Neue Geschäftsmodelle werden aufgrund sich ändernder Marktteilnehmer und ...

Vernetzte Produktionssysteme können die Flexibilität und Effizienz rasant steigern, aber Industrieunternehmen müssen dafür neue Security-Herausforderungen meistern. (Bild: Pixabay / CC0).

I work for an events management company. My relationship with my boss follows the same trajectory as a relationship with a friend that started out great and then went sour. When she hired me a year ago my boss "Kristin" was my biggest supporter. We had lunch together at least twice a week. We talked ...

If you haven't already, implementing a reliable project-management and collaboration system can really help your business when it comes to communication and productivity. Given all the software solutions now on the market, finding the perfect one to fit your needs will likely require some research.

Take care of your business's project management needs with Apptivo, a collection of small business management apps, which handle project management, collaboration, timesheets and expense reports. With Apptivo you can also manage CRM, including tracking complete sales processes.

We rejected project managers coming in with end-to-end schedules describing what we should develop, when applications should ship, and sometimes even how to structure the code. We were terrible at hitting the three- and six-month schedules they drafted and unceasingly updated. Instead, we ...

It's a complex process and Karen excels in resolving a wide range of issues and handling in-depth negotiations with a diverse mix of people to maximise the prospect of a successful outcome for projects. This reflects one of klr Planning's values of being solution-focused. Whether dealing with a local ...

Globalisierung und Digitalisierung gelten als Treiber eines immer ungerechteren Steuersystems. Doch jetzt dreht sich der Wind globale Kooperation und die Möglichkeiten der Digitalisierung bei der Steuerfahndung und Steuervollzug werden zu einem immer schärferen Schwert zur Bekämpfung der ...

Die digitale Transformation, in der Stoff- und Informationsflüsse stärker und effizienter denn je koordiniert werden, könnte der „Missing Link“ zur Umsetzung der Kreislaufwirtschaft und einem erhöhten Einsatz von hochwertigen Sekundärrohstoffen sein“, erklärte der Leiter des Geschäftsfelds ...

Der Schwerpunkt der deutschen Patente liegt im Bereich Anwendungen und dort insbesondere bei den Fahrzeug- und Infrastrukturtechnologien sowie bei den Patenten für die fertigende Industrie. Frankreich hingegen ist stark bei den Grundlagentechnologien aus den Bereichen künstliche Intelligenz, ...

So you have project managers who create very detailed project plans. Then they spend a lot of time trying to get people to look at the project plans. But those people are busy doing – they don't have time to look at the plans. Then they spend a ton of time trying to get status updates from people, so they ...

Within this landscape, it is essential to have a culture of organisational agility that enables flexibility and promotes the use of the right approach for the right project. As the leading association for numerous projects, programmes and portfolio management professionals around the world, Project ...

Plexpack, like many manufacturers and OEMs, considers project and operations management an important position that requires a comprehension of all of the moving parts in an organization. While engineers have an intricate knowledge of how things work, and are very analytical, many companies ...

Dear reader, I came across with this article to tell you about an experience that I've been living since a few months now — the experience of moving from a waterfall to an agile environment. I'm not an Agile nor a Scrum guru, but I'll be giving you what I have been learning both from my experience and ...

With the complexity of products being built today, no one person can understand all the pieces. Yet everyone involved is still responsible for ensuring their work is compatible with co-workers and aligns with the company's strategy. The only way to keep everyone moving toward the same goal is to have a ...

Open Source Tools Will Win Over the World: It's already a fact that more and more companies accept Open Source services for the execution of test management and automation, Agile and DevOps tactics and the defect management. Digital testing will soar: Almost all organizations have begun the ...

Dear PM community, what experience (good or bad) can you share on the topic of scaled agile framework? What approach did you use/ can you recommend from your experience (Nexus, Less, SAFe, DAD,...)? Related to scaling, do you think there is a certain borderline, where scaling comes to a limit in ...

This last step is often easily forgotten, as I've seen some projects get the necessary buy-in and funding only to falter in execution. Your business case with all its stated objectives and enablers should serve as a guidepost for successful project execution that can be sustained over time. However, when an ...

Notwendig sind eben auch die gesellschaftliche Akzeptanz, der politische Wille und die ökonomische Überzeugung, Digitalisierung als historische Chance für eine komplett andere Arbeitswelt als die der Industrialisierung zu verstehen mit einer gänzlich anderen Arbeitsteilung zwischen Mensch und ...

Leonhard unterscheidet hier die Industrie 4.0 – Deutschlands Wirtschaftsthema Nummer eins, aber auch international teilweise kontrovers diskutiert – die sich in diesem exponentiellen Schema bewegt, der Industrie 2.0, wie sie von den meisten Mitarbeitern wahrgenommen wird (lineare Strukturen), und ...

As a project manager, no matter what project management training you have completed it is likely that you are going to have a number of difficult conversations. After all, there are going to be moments whereby you are unable to meet the client's demands or you need to talk with your team members ...

Laut einer repräsentativen Umfrage der Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft Ernst & Young (EY), Stuttgart, kommen Industrie-4.0-Techniken in 45 % der deutschen Unternehmen aus dem verarbeitenden Gewerbe zum Einsatz. Das sind nur 4 Prozentpunkte mehr als vor einem Jahr und 6 Prozentpunkte ...

Jever - Digitalisierung ist eine Daueraufgabe. An seiner Einstellung zu den Veränderungen in der Bankenwelt lässt Michael Engelbrecht, Vorstandsvorsitzender der Volksbank Jever, keinen Zweifel. Die jeversche Genossenschaftsbank hat nach seinen Worten mittlerweile eine dreigeteilte Kundschaft.

Change Management wird in manchen Fällen zwar als zeitlich begrenztes und schnell abschließbares Projekt gesehen – wie ein Modetrend eben. Um am heutigen Markt jedoch langfristig konkurrenzfähig bleiben zu können, muss sich ein Unternehmen den ständigen Veränderungen anpassen.