Satya Narayan Dash

Learn risk management with Primavera P6 software in this live webinar and earn 1 PDU covering threats, opportunities, and practical applications.

Learn how to manage project risks effectively using Primavera P6 Professional, from risk identification and scoring to implementing response strategies for threats and opportunities.

Learn how the new PMBOK Guide 8th Edition incorporates Artificial Intelligence across process groups and performance domains, preparing project managers for AI-driven project management.

Discover key insights from Satya’s introduction to the CIPSA Framework, a practical approach to scaling Agile that maintains simplicity while coordinating multiple teams through minimal roles, meta-events, and integrated increments.

Learn about Certified In Practical Scaled Agile (CIPSA) framework’s key roles and goals, including how to implement them using MS Project Agile’s resource management capabilities.

Learn the fundamentals of Scaled Scrum using the CIPSA Framework, including artifacts, events, roles, and comparisons with Kanban in this PDU-eligible webinar replay.

Learn the fundamentals of Scaled Scrum using the CIPSA Framework, including artifacts, events, roles, and comparisons with Kanban in this PDU-eligible webinar replay.

Learn the fundamentals of Scaled Scrum using the CIPSA Framework, including artifacts, events, roles, and comparisons with Kanban in this PDU-eligible webinar replay.

Learn the fundamentals of scaling Scrum, explore various scaling frameworks, and discover how the CIPSA framework compares to other methodologies in this insightful webinar replay.

A practical guide to managing backlogs across multiple Scrum teams using the CIPSA framework, with step-by-step instructions for creating Product, CIPSA Sprint, and Team Sprint backlogs using MS Project Agile.

Learn how to implement Scrum at Scale using MS Project Agile, synchronizing multiple teams and sprints for efficient large-scale product development.

The ‘black mountain’ forced in,    broke Konark’s iron gates,Drank the water of Mahanadi river,     and ate from the golden plates. – Narrated by my parents in Odia, loosely translated into […]

Learn a simple method for tracking retrospective items in a Hybrid-Scrum project using a separate board within MS Project Agile.

This lesson teaches how to use Kanban ceremonies and leverage MS Project Agile to optimize planning, conduct efficient daily stand-ups, and execute insightful reviews and retrospectives.

This lesson covers Kanban artifacts and harness the power of MS Project Agile to master Kanban backlogs, definition of done, cumulative flow diagrams, and effective work-in-progress management.

This lesson explores Kanban fundamentals, the Kanban Framework, roles, and its application in Project Management, emphasizing the effective use of Kanban in MS Project, uncovering key views, tables, and filters, all while earning valuable PMI PDUs in Ways of Working, Power Skills, and Business Acumen.

Explore the transformative power of Kanban with MS Project Agile in a three-part webinar series, unraveling the intricacies of planning, backlog creation, and seamless integration into project management.

Learn step-by-step guidance, dependencies, and customized fields to visualize and manage portfolios effectively with MS Project.

In this session we cover: why should you pursue PfMP, what’s the value of PfMP as you grow in your career, PfMP Exam Domains, PfMP Exam Content Outline (ECO), Five Must-Dos to be a PMI-PfMP, key action items to crack the PfMP exam. Includes experiences from successfully certified PfMPs.

A portfolio roadmap is a key deliverable in portfolio management, providing a visual representation of an organizations strategic intent. Learn how to build a practical portfolio roadmap using Microsoft Project, including adding components, differentiating them, tracking progress, and displaying dependencies.

Preparing for the PMP exam requires practicing high-quality questions that test your ability to apply project management concepts in real-world scenarios. Learn why quality matters more than quantity in question practice, and how it can improve your understanding and performance on the exam.

Agile and hybrid concepts play a significant role in the PMP exam, accounting for a large portion of the questions. Learn why understanding these methodologies is crucial for success, and discover practical learning resources to enhance your knowledge and preparedness.

Discover how the principles, performance domains, and artifacts of PMBOK7 work together in this comprehensive article.

PMP certification is a valuable asset for project managers, leading to career growth and increased earnings. Learn about the benefits of PMP certification, including its global recognition, proven track record, and potential salary increases.

The Sprint Retrospective is a key event in Scrum for continuous improvement. Learn about its purpose, participants, timing, and how it helps Scrum teams enhance their process quality and effectiveness.

Learn what you need to know, what you need to study and how you can best prepare to take the PMI-PMP exam and succeed!

The Product Backlog is a prioritized list of items to build and improve a product in Agile development. Learn how to build a product backlog with Microsoft Project, including creating and prioritizing backlog items.

Learn about the Scrum Methodology’s Sprint planning event, including refining the product backlog, creating the Sprint goal, and establishing the Sprint backlog.

Agile methodology emphasizes collaboration and feedback. Sprint review is a time-boxed event where stakeholders provide feedback on product increment developed during the Sprint.

What steps do you need to take in order to get certified as a PMI-PMP and increase your chances of passing the test

The Product Backlog is a prioritized list of items to build and improve a product in Agile development. Learn what it is, who owns it, and how it is refined and used in the Scrum framework.

This webinar explores how to use Microsoft Project with Scrum. Learn how to create and navigate a Scrum project, manage sprints, and customize views and boards to align with Agile methodologies.

Agile project management has become increasingly popular in recent years due to its ability to adapt to changing project requirements and customer needs. One of the key components of Agile […]

Learn the steps for adjusting a Sprint in progress with Microsoft Project Agile. Modify the Sprint Backlog and perform operational tasks.

In this webinar, we will learn about Sprint ceremonies including sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review and sprint retro.

In this webinar, we will learn the following: Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Definition of Done (DoD), Burndown Chart

Learn about scrum fundamentals, the Scrum Framework, Scrum Roles and how to use MS Project with Scrum.

This three-part webinar series dives into the practical application of Scrum using MS Project Agile. Learn how to create and manage product backlogs and sprint backlogs, implement Scrum ceremonies, and generate reports like burndown charts.

The PMI-RMP® credential certifies that Risk Management Professionals have the knowledge to apply project risk management principles, tools, and techniques. This article will assist you in preparing for the PMI-RMP Exam, covering the exam pattern changes, blueprint, content, and reference materials

The PMI-RMP® certification signifies that an individual has the skills and knowledge to effectively manage risk in organizations. Holding this credential can help advance your career, improve your earnings potential, and stand out from other candidates. Learn about the value of the PMI-RMP certification and how to become certified

Managing and tracking Hybrid-Agile projects can be complex. This article explains how to track a Hybrid-Scrum project in MS Project Agile, covering baselining, setting the status date, creating custom fields, and tracking both the predictive and adaptive parts of the project.,

Event Description: The Risk Management Professional (RMP®) certification from Project Management Institute’s (PMI®) has seen rapid growth in the last couple of years: 2020-2022. While in September, 2020 the number of […]

The biggest risk in any project is not to act on the risks in a project – From the Book, I Want to Be A PMI-RMP Every project is risky […]

A Sprint is considered to be a mini-project within a Scrum project. Like every project has to be closed, a Sprint, also has to be closed. However, many Agile practitioners […]

We need a leader. Courageous, sacrificing for the people, setting examples for all of us. Everybody loves a leader, people line up for ’em, cheer for ’em, scream their names, […]

Ever tossed a fair coin? I’d bet you have! At least in your childhood days while deciding which team would bat first in a baseball or a cricket match, or […]

Over a decade ago, I was put in charge of a group of projects. One of the projects had been running for almost a year, but had never seen a […]

A project, unlike an operation, is a temporary endeavor. Because of this fact, every project will have a beginning and an end. There can be multiple projects launched within a […]

Like Sprint or Release Burndown charts in Scrum, cumulative flow diagrams (CFDs) are frequently used in projects using a Kanban framework. This is because one of the fundamental aspects of […]

Many times, managing a Hybrid-Agile project with a sole Lean-Agile approach doesn’t meet the needs of an organization, the expectations of stakeholders, required delivery frequency of customers, or address uncertainties […]

Two frequently and widely used charts in projects using Agile frameworks are the Burndown and Burnup Charts. These can be generated at the Iteration (Sprint) level or Release level. You […]

While Scrum and Kanban are two frequently used, individual Lean-Agile frameworks, many management practitioners use Hybrid-Agile approaches. This is because a number of organizations, across industry verticals, don’t explicitly follow […]

One of the key artifacts in a Scrum Project is the Sprint Backlog, with others being the Product Backlog and (Product) Increment. The Sprint Backlog is prepared during the Sprint […]

The Microsoft Project software tool comes with a number of view options, which, at a high level, can be thought of as Task Views and Resource Views. While views such […]

While interacting with MS Project users across a couple of industry verticals recently, I encountered a question from a senior mechanical engineering lead regarding Planned and Actual Percent Complete fields. […]

Odissi is one of the classical dances of India from the coastal state of Odisha. Based on archeological evidence, it’s possibly the oldest living classical Indian dance. The Massachusetts Institute […]

Imagine you are managing a large project, which is strategically important and complex. At the outset, you realize there will be a number of risks, which if not managed well, […]

Let’s consider the following scenario based true events which occurred within an organization I worked closely with recently. This company had a long-running project with a number of uncertainties. Risks […]

Many project managers utilize a Lean-Agile approach when there is high change or churn in project requirements, significant lack of clarity in scope, high complexity to their projects, and/or a […]

Imagine this scenario as you start off your day: You open your business site and the message says: “it doesn’t exist.” You then try to log in to your email […]

Event Description: With the COVID-19 pandemic, risk management is taken with increased interest by professionals, communities and organizations across industry verticals. Particularly within the Project-Program-Portfolio (PPP) community, risk management has […]

“Project Creates. Program Guides. Portfolio Decides.” – from the book, I Want To be A RMP. As I interact with various project, program, and portfolio (PPP) management professionals who use […]

A new version of Scrum guide was released last month. There are quite a few changes in the guide, as well as new additions. While the outline and structure of […]

Imagine this scenario. You are going to a friend’s house for an important event. It is scheduled with a hard start, meaning you can’t have delays, but as you start […]

  Project Management Institute (PMI)® Professional Development Units (PDUs): This Webinar is eligible for 1 PMI® PDU in the Technical category of the Talent Triangle.   Event Description: In schedule […]

In one of my earlier articles, The Twins–Communications and Stakeholder Management, I outlined how deeply and closely these two knowledge areas of the PMBOK® guide interact with each other. We […]

In schedule management, one of the scheduling approaches to develop a project or program schedule is the Critical Path Method (CPM). This is one of the oldest and widely used […]

Project Management Institute (PMI)® Professional Development Units (PDUs): This Webinar is eligible for 1 PMI® PDU in the Technical category of the Talent Triangle. Event Description: The Agile Certified Practitioner […]

Those who adapt, survive. Those who adapt and act, thrive. This is the essence of Agile. –from the book, I Want to Be An ACP. Project Management Institute’s (PMI®) Agile […]

In this article, we are going to explore Earned Value Management (EVM), a widely used traditional management technique, but we are going to look at it within the context of […]

  Project Management Institute (PMI)® Professional Development Units (PDUs): This Webinar is eligible for 1 PMI® PDUs in the Technical category of the Talent Triangle.   Event Description: Among all […]

There are many knowledge areas, such as integration management, schedule management, cost management, quality management, risk management, etc., that a project manager needs to thoroughly consider when managing a project. […]

Work breakdown structure (WBS) is a key element for management planning, monitoring, and control of a project or a program scope. Regardless of the chosen life cycle (predictive, iterative, incremental, […]

The following true story was shared in one of my classes by a senior manager from a global corporation in South Korea. The manager’s team had worked over six months […]

“I keep six honest serving-men,They taught me all I knew, Their names are What and Why and When,And How and Where and Who. I send them over land and sea,I […]

Let’s say you awarded a contract of $1M to a vendor to deliver a critical component for your project. The contract with your vendor is set up with a fixed […]

Working with projects, programs, and portfolios, generates a lot of data. For example, in project management you have data such as planned start, planned cost, planned story points, total number […]

There are certain questions that usually surface in almost every project regardless of the type, domain considered, technology used, complexities associated, or strategic significance. These questions are: When will the […]

Project Management Institute (PMI)® Professional Development Units (PDUs): This Webinar is eligible for 1 PMI® PDU in the Strategic category of the Talent Triangle. Event Description: The exposure draft for […]

The preparation for the new Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®) Guide, 7th edition is currently underway, and the Project Management Institute (PMI®) has made the draft for the standard […]

Let’s consider two real-world scenarios. In one, a product manager is asked to work on the top priority items in his project’s product backlog for an upcoming iteration. The product […]

Let’s say an organization is taking initiative to build a Smart Website for its internal and external stakeholders which employs artificial intelligence (AI). Two project managers are shortlisted to manage […]

Two woodcutters were assigned to chop wood in a forest. Both formed a team and started early and earnestly. Although working a distance from each other, they felt the competition […]

The Project Management Professional (PMP®) examination offered by Project Management Institute (PMI) is changing next year. PMI first made this announcement in June of 2019 and has made the new […]

“The most powerful person in the world is the storyteller.”– Attributed to Steve Jobs, Co-founder of Apple Inc. Nearly three decades ago, I remember my father taking me to a […]

Imagine the following situation: You’re working on a large-scale system integration project using MS Project as the project management tool, but a component team for this project has been using […]

I’ve compared projects with living entities (like human beings), and the life cycle of a project with life cycle of a person. Similarly, the PMBOK guide, when expanded, is called […]

Project Management Institute (PMI)® Professional Development Units (PDUs): This Webinar is eligible for 1 PMI® PDU in the Technical category of the Talent Triangle. Event Description: Zooming in: What it […]

During the end of January, I received a call from a person just leaving the PMI examination center. A few weeks before, another person had called…they too having just cleared […]

Imagine the following scenario. You are working on a software implementation project, which has 10 modules to complete. The cost of each module is US$100,000, and you want to complete […]

Paraphrasing a well-known concept in project management, one might say, “Planning is indispensable, but plans are useless. Hence, inspect and adapt.” Traditional plans are driven by dates – most likely […]

1999. October 29. A super cyclone measuring 160 mph hit Gopalpur in Odisha, a coastal state of India, with horrifying fury. It resulted over 10,000 people losing their lives and […]

Project Management Institute (PMI®)’s Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®) Guide has seen continuous upgrades since its publication for the first time in 1996. Every four to five years, aspiring […]

Project Management Institute’s (PMI®) Professional in Business Analysis (PBA®) is relatively a new certification as compared to others. Though young, it is one of the fastest growing areas of certification. […]

Let’s say you are going to a friend’s house, and you expect it to take about an hour to get there. In your city; however, traffic is known to cause […]

Imagine the following scenario. You are in charge of managing a big match in a stadium. The venue can hold over 100,000 people. The audience is as passionate about watching, […]

Projects, like human beings, are living entities. Just as every human being goes through a life cycle, so does a project. To understand life cycles, let’s break down a real-life […]

Decisions and uncertainties abound in life. Take something as simple as deciding where to go for a short vacation. Do you go to a nearby mountain because your friends like […]

Early in my career I was assigned a project that had been running for almost a year, but had never seen a single live release to the customer. On my […]

Let’s say you were to meet gold medal sprinter Usain Bolt and say to him, “Here’s a great track in front of you. You run. We’ll monitor your running and […]