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The Curse of Project Management Knowledge

Project Risk Coach

Are you guilty of using project management jargon and acronyms? Do your team members understand what you are saying? If not, perhaps you have fallen under the curse of project management knowledge. Can I be painfully honest with you for a minute? What I am about to say may not feel good. In fact, I am certain that you will NOT enjoy it. I have been hoping someone else would do the dirty work.

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Risk Mitigation Plan: Definition & Top Strategies

ProjectManager.com

Risk is always present. This is true in life and projects alike. If we were to try and avoid all risks, it would be paralyzing—not to mention impossible. We couldn’t step out of the house, let alone embark on a project. There’s just too much that could go wrong! Project managers don’t have the luxury of locking the door, turning off the lights and hiding in a corner.

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Why Agile is so Popular in Project Management

GanttPRO Project Management

From the early 2000s to today, the Agile methodology continues to be popular in project management. Now, it even extends past its software development roots to encompass other non-software industries […].

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How do you hold safe meetings when some team members are invisible?

Kiron Bondale

After I had finished presenting on how to build psychologically safe virtual teams at a conference earlier this week, one of the delegates asked me what suggestions I’d have to help her with a team where some of the members refused to turn their cameras on during video meetings. I’m not going to challenge the reasons as to why some team members might be reluctant about being on camera.

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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 You Need to Know about the 2020 Scrum Guide

Scrum.org

On November 18, 2020, Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland released an updated version of the Scrum Guide. In this blog post, I will share what you need to know about the 2020 Scrum Guide. I will start with the most important things you need to know, and then I’ll get into a little more nuance for the Scrum nerds. First of all, Scrum is still Scrum. The Scrum Guide is not updated frequently (the last update was 2017).

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Alternative Project Management Job Titles

Project Bliss

Photo by Nick Morrison on Unsplash. This list of project management job titles can help if you need to find other names for the role. When you’re thinking about moving into a project management career, you’re likely looking for jobs with the title “project manager.” But do you know about other searches you could be doing to expand your job search and give you more options?

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Quick and Easy: This Is New in the Scrum Guide 2020

Inloox

The creators of Scrum , Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland, developed the concept in the early 1990s. In 2010, they published the first Scrum Guide, a guide to the method with the intention of providing people, teams and organizations with a framework to master complex tasks and create products with the highest possible value. You can read all the basics about the agile method Scrum in this blogpost: The Scrum Methodology.

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Make The Wicked Question Of Your Scrum Team Transparent

Scrum.org

"I see Wicked Questions everywhere now", confided a Scrum Master in us when we helped her become aware of them. . One of the characteristics of complex work is that it is full of contradictory and competing goals. Although each is equally valid and worthy of pursuit, they create tension or open conflict when they are pursued together. In a simple world, we can resolve this tension by letting go of one goal over the other.

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Critical path: who's in charge?

Musings on Project Management

You've got a job to do; you've sequenced and scheduled itBut, in the middle of your critical path there is another independent project (or task) over which you have no control. In effect, your schedule has a break in its sequence over which you have no influence.Yikes! This is all too common in construction projects where independent "trades" (meaning contractors with different skills, like.

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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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Tackling Challenging Activities in Project Management Like a Pro?

nTask

Project management is a complex beast. There are so many activities in project management that delivering a successful project and quality outcomes can become difficult. That is why we have written this post to highlight the activities in project management to highlight what needs to get done and what to look out for. Let’s get to it! What are ‘Activities’ in Project Management?

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Top 15 Agile Coach Interview Questions

Agilemania

What is an Agile Coach? An Agile coach is responsible for Agile transition/transformation within teams and an organization. Agile coach gets identified or hired while transitioning from their existing working practices, such as Waterfall, into working with the Agile values and principles. They usually have much experience with different Agile methodologies, such as Scrum, XP, Kanban, Large-Scale Scrum, and Scaled… The post Top 15 Agile Coach Interview Questions appeared first on Agilemania

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THE PRODUCT GOAL IS A COMMITMENT FOR THE PRODUCT BACKLOG

Scrum.org

In the 2020 Scrum Guide Ken and Jeff introduces the idea of the Product Goal. The Product Goal is a commitment to ensure transparency and focus against progress. The Product Goal describes a future state of the product which can serve as a target for the Scrum Team to plan against. The Product Goal is in the Product Backlog. The rest of the Product Backlog emerges to define “what” will fulfil the Product Goal.

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What Is a Velocity Chart in Agile?

Wrike

Looking for a more accurate way to forecast projects, predict effort, and manage resources? Making a velocity chart in Agile is one of the easiest ways to do all of that and more. Discover everything you need to know about how to calculate velocity, maximize the usefulness of this data, and what project managers can do with this information. . What is velocity in Agile?

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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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Guide to Agile Retrospectives for Aspiring Project Managers

nTask

Improving how you work is a common goal for many organizations. With agile teams, this is usually done through retrospectives. In other words, with agile retrospectives, you can focus on how your work is going and take things that are learned from success & failure for further implementation. Such agile retrospectives help to improve processes, methods, and teamwork.

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Why Data-Driven Decision Making is So Important

Binfire

Today, it’s difficult not to hear about big data and data-driven decision making. The term alone has become something of a buzzword in business recently, and for very good reason. Data allows business owners to leverage the endless digital insights that are now available at their fingertips and embrace the power of data-driven business intelligence to make more informed decisions that are better for business growth and evolution, plus increasing profits.

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Scrum Upgrade Kit (Cyber Monday) - US Only

Scrum.org

Scrum 2020 Poster and "Agile On" Sticker We are wrapping up a long Thanksgiving weekend in the United States with Cyber-Monday. To give thanks to the Scrum community in the US, we offer a free bundle of 2 Scrum posters, 2 Scrum sheets and 2 Stickers and send them for free right to your doorsteps. Give one of the two sets away to a colleague, friend or keep them both for your home office and office away.

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How To Make A Construction Schedule For Clients (Includes Templates)

Teamweek

Planning a construction schedule can quickly become complex. Client priorities, budget, legal compliance are just some of the many things to consider. In this article, you’ll learn how to make a construction schedule in 7 simple steps. You’ll learn: What is a construction schedule, it’s functions & types? Why do you need a construction schedule?

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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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Overcome the #1 Agility Killer

Leading Agile

Agile in general, and Scrum specifically, is predicated on the idea that each team has everything they need to deliver an increment of value. But unless you’re a small team or a new startup, that’s usually the furthest from the truth. When a team doesn’t have everything it needs to deliver an increment of value, that’s a dependency. And dependencies come in many forms.

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Get 2021 off to a great start with these 3 tips.

MindGenius

It’s fair to say that this year hasn’t been great for a large majority of us over the world. As many of us have begun adjusting to the new way of working, and getting used to a world with constant restrictions in place. However, at the turn of the year there is always hope that “this year will be better than the previous one” and in the case of 2020, it wouldn’t take much.

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Experiment: Reiterate the Purpose of the Product at the Start of Each Scrum Event

Scrum.org

In our book?—? the Zombie Scrum Survival Guide ?—?we dive deep into what causes Zombie Scrum; something that looks like Scrum from a distance, but lacks a beating heart. We also offer 40+ experiments to recover from Zombie Scrum. In this series, we share experiments that didn’t make it to the book but are still very helpful. This post was written collaboratively by Christiaan Verwijs, Barry Overeem, and Johannes Schartau.

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How to Hire a Writer in 2021

Teamweek

We’ve talked in the past about how to hire developers and digital marketers , so we’re taking a different approach in this post to talk about how to hire a writer in 2021. Hiring writers isn’t as clear-cut as you might think, and if you’ve never done it (or if it’s been a while), you may find yourself with a poor fit. . Learn the basics below to steer clear of common pitfalls. .

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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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An Agile Approach to Personal Development w/ Mike Cottmeyer

Leading Agile

Listen to the SoundNotes Podcast on the go! Find and subscribe to SoundNotes on: Apple Podcasts. Google Play. Spotify. Soundcloud. RSS. Dave Prior sits down for a conversation with LeadingAgile CEO Mike Cottmeyer and they explore Mike’s Agile approach to personal development and dig into the details of how and why his approach to growth and development has evolved over time.

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Why Agile is so Popular in Project Management

GanttPRO Project Management

From the early 2000s to today, the Agile methodology continues to be popular in project management. Now, it even extends past its software development roots to encompass other non-software industries […]. The post Why Agile is so Popular in Project Management first appeared on GanttPRO.

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Self-Organizing Groups in Zoom

Scrum.org

Breakout rooms in Zoom were a life-saver for many facilitators, trainers and Scrum Masters in recent months. As many of you probably already know, those breakout rooms aim to allow smaller groups to work independently. That increases engagement of each participant. That said, until version 5.3 of Zoom, the facilitator had only two options to "assign" participants across breakout rooms.

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Scrum vs. Kanban: The Ultimate Breakdown Guide

Wrike

Six Sigma, Lean, PMBOK , Scrum vs. Kanban — there’s a lot of project management jargon and methodology debates thrown around that you may find confusing or unclear. However, there are a few methodologies that come to mind when you’re looking to create an effective project plan. Project management methodologies are meant to provide teams with a framework or theory to base their project planning around.

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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.