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A Quick Guide to Business Process Mapping

ProjectManager.com

Art Spinanger, who graduated from one of Mogensen’s classes, took the discipline to Procter and Gamble and developed a work simplification program called Deliberate Methods Change Program. There’s also compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 , also known as the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002.

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Scrum Methodology: Roles, Events & Artifacts

ProjectManager.com

The scrum methodology was developed as a response to rigid project management approaches such as the waterfall method, which didn’t adapt to the needs of agile product and software development teams. The bad news, it’s hard to master. Scrum is part of agile software development and teams practicing agile.

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The 23 Best Project Management Books For Upgrading Your Career in 2020

Planio

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable. The best books for building better habits (for yourself and your team). Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good habits & Break Bad Ones. Executing: Managing teams and stakeholders and ensuring you hit your deadlines. Gantt Chart. Communication Plan.

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Questioning Agile Dogma

Leading Agile

When I first learned about Agile methods in 2002, the principles seemed to offer an ideal solution to many organizational issues common at the time. Today, some of the same principles seem to present impediments or unnecessary challenges for many teams and organizations. Stable Team. Dedicated Team. Team Spaces.

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Defensive Programming Grows Up

Leading Agile

I remember joining a team in the late 1970s that supported an application used worldwide by a large corporation. The team resolved to drive that number down. I guess that worked out okay for a generation of developers. Developers of client applications have no control over how the microservices will be deployed and operated.

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Why Your Teamwork Sucks… and How To Improve It

Wrike

Anyone who’s ever watched children playing team-based games will understand. They are too distracted about their status as leaders to work harder as team players! Research consistently shows that teams underperform, despite all the extra resources they have. Teamwork is just that — it’s WORK.

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People Versus Process

Herding Cats

People are the raw material for teams, for not only Agile Program Management teams, but for almost every human based endeavor. But teams need a framework in which to work. One of the successful teams developed a data storage system for Northrop Grumman’s B–2 bomber. They are two sides of the same coin.

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