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Project Gates: The Janus-like Guardians of Product Development

MPUG

One might conclude that agile approaches to project management, such as Scrum, mean there is no need for gate reviews. We say the same thing if one adopts gate reviews for every product development project. Let’s explore a typical product development project’s phases, goals, and metrics reviewed at each gate.

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Scrum Master Engagement Patterns: The Development Team

Scrum.org

The first article of this series will address the Scrum Master engagement with the Development Team. Scrum Master Engagement with the Development Team. Following this layout, there are three main scenarios for the Scrum Master’s support of the team: The Co-located, Stable Scrum Team Scenario.

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What Makes A Good Product Owner?

Scrum.org

Which activities can be fulfilled by others in the team, and what is needed for that? One of the reviewers of this article, Maarten Dalmijn , noted that he missed “product discovery” as a core activity in the work by Bass (2018). Maarten, who is an experienced Product Owner, added that he spends a lot of time on this with his teams.

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In-Depth: Stable Or Fluid Teams? What Does The Science Say?

Scrum.org

The professional literature around fluid teaming tends to conceptualize it as a necessary response to the reality that no team is actually stable. Team cognition is similar in the sense that the entire team can be thought of as a body, where each member (the limbs) has to learn how to coordinate their work effectively to move forward.

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30 Simpler Asana Alternatives For Creative Teams

Teamweek

Asana was founded in 2008 by ex-Google and ex-Facebook engineers with the aim to make team collaboration better. Most creative team managers are neither trained, not need to be. Here’s a review from SoftwareAdvice that sums up the frustration that teams have Asana. Particularly, for small teams.

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The Project Communication Plan

MPUG

The legal department gets involved only to work on contracts or to review documents for legal issues. For example, vendors, suppliers, partners, and the project managers who work for them can belong to your core team. The project sponsor prefers to meet in person to review status, issues, and risks.

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How to master release planning (+ Free Agile release plan)

Planio

Review your product backlog and rank features 5. For example, when Airbnb launched in 2008, its product vision might have been: “In 5 years, Airbnb will be the more affordable and enjoyable way to plan a trip.” Ask yourself whether anything has changed since your last review and whether it reflects your business environment accurately.