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The 12 Agile Principles: Definitions & How to Use Them

ProjectManager.com

Agile principles are the foundations of agile. Agile is a project management methodology that allows development teams to set up a dynamic work management framework. This method is based on 12 guiding principles, known as agile principles. In addition, there are also core values, techniques, ceremonies and tools that make up the agile project management approach.

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Refusing to accept facts doesn’t change reality

Kiron Bondale

This article was originally supposed to have been based on a poll I conducted this week on schedule compression techniques. However, a discussion from a project management fundamentals course I taught was too compelling to not share! While teaching the basics of the critical path method, I asked the learners whether it was possible to have more than one critical path in a project’s activity network diagram.

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How Do You Identify a Successful Scrum Master?

Scrum.org

TL; DR: Scrum Master Success — My Top-Nine Indicators. How would you know that your Scrum Master is competent? What are indicators for Scrum Master success? Is the regular use of the Confluence retrospective template one of the desired signals? Or is the quest to understand contributing factors futile, as success reasons are so diverse? Probably, there is no direct connection between a Scrum Master, not having authority anyway, and the overall Scrum team’s performance.

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Estimate at Completion: A Complete Guide + Template

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Do your stakeholders ask you questions like these? Now we’ve approved the budget and the project has started, how much will it really cost? We had a big delay last month. What has that done to the budget? How much will we have spent on this work by the time this project is finished? Given that plenty of studies show cost overruns, some finding that 9 out of 10 projects go over budget (averaging 28% overspent), it’s not surprising that project sponsors want to keep a tight grip on costs.

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Toward a Unified Project Management Understanding

The objective of this research is to dispel misunderstandings about crucial project management terms and their definitions. It aims to accurately place these terms and facilitate a comprehensive global understanding of their meanings.

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What Is a Stakeholder? Definitions, Types & Examples

ProjectManager.com

Stakeholders are important to every project. They are impacted by the project, be they investor or customer. But what is a stakeholder? There’s more than one answer to that question. Let’s take some time to define what a stakeholder is, examples of stakeholders and free stakeholder templates that can help with stakeholder management. What Is a Stakeholder?

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Scrum Master Choices: Professionalising the ‘Teacher’ Stance

Scrum.org

We all have strengths and weaknesses with the preferred stances of a Scrum Master. Like many of the teams we work with, being ‘key-shaped’ comes to mind – cross-skilled and competent at many things but having a deeper knowledge of certain stances more so than others. Personally, I feel more effective as a teacher and facilitator than when I’m coaching.

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6 Real Project Managers Show You How To Manage Multiple Projects

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Managing lots of projects at the same time is tough. Here’s how 6 project managers stay on top of multiple projects – and keep their sanity. It was fun to talk to them to find out more about their tactics – the tip from Christine about diary management is definitely going to change the way I plan my week. Helen Curel. Get organized, if you’ve got a good system for keeping all your project documentation in one place, use it and block out time either at the end or the beginning of each week to giv

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Resource Management: Process, Tools & Techniques

ProjectManager.com

Resource management is one of the most important aspects of project management. That’s because projects need resources and those resources must be managed. Project resources are all the raw materials, equipment and human resources necessary to execute project tasks. What Is Resource Management? Resource management is the process of planning, scheduling and allocating resources to complete a project.

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How Technology Can Be Used To Enhance Practical Science

TrustRadius Project Management

As technology has rooted its way into our day-to-day existence, education has been changed. Long gone are the times of thumbing through an Encyclopedia. With information at the tips of our fingers, learning is now boundless. Improving education is a huge issue for our society. Test scores, our perceived performance against different nations, and different elements have pushed education to the bleeding edge of national legislative issues, directly behind healthcare reform.

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Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data

Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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Scrum Master Choices: Professionalising the ‘Teacher’ Stance

Scrum.org

We all have strengths and weaknesses with the preferred stances of a Scrum Master. Like many of the teams we work with, being ‘key-shaped’ comes to mind – cross-skilled and competent at many things but having a deeper knowledge of certain stances more so than others. Personally, I feel more effective as a teacher and facilitator than when I’m coaching.

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20 Ways to Celebrate Success at Work

Rebel’s Guide to PM

When was the last time you hit a significant milestone at work and did something to celebrate? Or simply celebrated the fact that you’d made it through another day on a difficult project? I don’t think we do that enough, so here are 20 ways that you can celebrate success at work with your team, including a range of virtual ways to celebrate success.

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Make It Less Stressful Going Back to Office Post-Pandemic

Proofhub

Going Back to Office Post-Pandemic: How to Make It Less Stressful Coronavirus in 2020 caused many changes in our working situations; many people lost their jobs, and most of the companies embraced the work from home idea. While turning our living space into a great place to work, there were many challenges. Image Source: Pexels Now the offices are reopening again as the cases of Covid-19 are finally dropping after the third wave.

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How To Choose The Right SAFe Certification For You

Agilemania

Scaled Agile Framework is rising in popularity. Around 1,000,000 people in 20,000 organizations around the world have used the SAFe. . The reason SAFe has caught the eye of large organizations is no longer a mystery. Large organizations who implemented SAFe reported the following benefits- . 30-75% Faster Time to market . 20-50% Increase in productivity . 25-75% Improvements in Quality. 10-50% Happier and motivated employees .

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Understand Digital Debt, Form a Team, Set Goals, and Plan Roadmap for Transformation

Understanding digital debt is crucial before digital transformation. Assemble a team to assess internal operations, market pressures, and digital debt's impact. Define future digital vision with measurable goals. Refine hypotheses and conduct market analysis. Develop a roadmap for transformation with defined projects, cost estimates, and governance.

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Scrum Master Erfolg: Woran erkennen Sie einen erfolgreichen Scrum Master? ????

Scrum.org

In Kürze: Scrum Master Erfolg — Meine neun Erfolgsmuster. Woran würden Sie erkennen, dass Ihr Scrum Master kompetent ist? Was sind Indikatoren für den Erfolg eines Scrum Masters? Ist die regelmäßige Verwendung der Confluence-Retrospektiven-Vorlage das gewünschte Signal? Oder ist die Suche nach den Faktoren, die zum Erfolg beitragen, vergeblich, da die Gründe für den Erfolg eines Scrum Teams so vielfältig sind?

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The Role and Importance of Scrum Master in Daily Standup Meetings

nTask

Scrum Master role, like the one heading daily standup meetings , is not to be trifled with. In fact, the part pushes a lot of weight on the individual, especially since he is responsible for many things and has to manage everything on his own. Scrum master is the person who ensures that all Scrum guidelines are followed during the implementation of the framework.

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What you need to know before hiring a resource manager

Resource Guru

When you hear “overallocation,” your mind probably jumps to overworked team members. But project managers can burn out just as fast. Wellingtone’s 2021 State of Project Management report found that project management offices can offer as many as 16 core services – and 57% of PMs believe their responsibilities will only increase in the future. Not only is that a lot to juggle, but that volume and variety of work forces PMs to constantly pivot to address time-sensitive demands that can change on a

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TDD vs BDD: Know The Difference

Agilemania

People keep discussing and writing on TDD vs. BDD and their differences in software development. Despite tons of blog posts trying to settle the debate once and for all, they stand with little to no success. . For this reason, we have put together a blog post on TDD vs. BDD explaining it comprehensively. We shall reach the answer in a series of steps.

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Strategic Project Finance Essentials: A Project Manager’s Guide to Financial Metrics

Speaker: Ketan Jahagirdar - Sopheon’s Director of Product Management

Empower yourself as a project manager with insights that directly influence the financial landscape and strategic direction of your organization! Join us for a deep dive into the world of financial strategy, as we dissect key metrics that drive CFOs and business leaders’ investment decisions. This session will equip you with the necessary tools to craft compelling business cases as well as a comprehensive understanding of the crucial distinction between capital expenditure and operational expend

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Vergleich Scrum Guide 2017 & Scrum Guide 2020

Scrum.org

Dies ist die deutsche Übersetzung unseres Blog Posts " Scrum Guide 2020 and 2017: A Side-by-Side Comparison " vom 18. November 2020: Mit dem Scrum Guide Update im November 2020 haben Ken Schwaber und Jeff Sutherland das Ziel verfolgt, „Scrum wieder zu einem minimal ausreichenden Rahmenwerk zu machen“1. Um diese Änderungen besser zu verstehen, haben wir diese Zusammenfassung und einen direkten Vergleich zwischen dem Scrum Guide 2020 und dem Scrum Guide 2017 erstellt. .

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Scrum Effort Points – What Are They and Their Importance in Story Point Meetings

nTask

Newton is the SI unit of force, the current is measured in amperes, and the temperature has three measurements; Fahrenheit, Celsius, and Kelvin. Don’t worry, we won’t teach you Physics today, but think about it, we have standard units to measure almost everything on this planet, so what about our efforts? Are our efforts measurable? If yes, what metrics do we use to measure our work?

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5 ways to solve resource overallocation

Resource Guru

The World Health Organization added “burnout” to the International Classification of Diseases in 2019. Categorized as an “occupational phenomena,” burnout significantly impacts employee wellbeing and the financial health of businesses, costing organizations between $120 to $190 billion annually. Like any other problem affecting mental health, burnout requires a treatment plan to address it and stop it from happening again.

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Customer Segments of the Business Model Canvas

The Strategic Project Manager

The Customer Segments component of the business model canvas is the first component. It drives choices made in all the other components, and thus drives choice of a business model. This post explores Customer segments, how it fits into the business model canvas, and how this strategic choice also drives projects. Perspective on Customer Segments in the Business Model Canvas.

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.

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Objectives and Key Results: 4 Tipps, die Product Ownern helfen, Kundennutzen zu beschreiben

Scrum.org

Nicht nur Google, Amazon und Spotify verwenden sie, sondern auch viele andere erfolgreiche Produktorganisationen. Die Rede ist von Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). Es ist also nicht verwunderlich, dass sich viele Product Owner fragen, wie sie Objectives and Key Results im Produktmanagement gewinnbringend einsetzen können. Was mir dabei häufig auffällt: Die Objectives beschreiben Outputs und die Key Results beschreiben, wie diese erreicht werden sollen.

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Microsoft Project vs. Microsoft Planner

MPUG

In any project management process, there is one shared concept — to define and set clear goals. Achieving the goal may vary depending on which method the PMO director chooses. Some projects may be simple without the need to track data in detail. But some may require deep analysis and resource planning. As a result, PMO directors or PPM administrators should choose a project management system depending on their project portfolio management needs.

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Top 8 Workforce Management Software Of 2022

nTask

When working within an organization, you have to keep regular checks on the employees and their work. Not only that, but employers also have to keep an eye on payroll systems, employee scheduling, onboarding, tracking, and much more. Since managing the workforce is such a complex and demanding job, one cannot simply rely on manual efforts to accomplish the impossible.

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Where To Start Your Agile Transformation

Leading Agile

Where we start our Agile Transformation can make or break how successful it is. People often make the mistake of starting in the wrong place with practices or culture. Unfortunately, we’ve learned that these are not sustainable places to start. That’s why we begin with a systems-first Transformation plan, which builds a healthy foundation for the rest of the changes to thrive in.

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How Embedded Analytics Gets You to Market Faster with a SAAS Offering

Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.