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ClickUp vs. Monday: In-Depth Software Comparison

ProjectManager.com

ClickUp is a feature-rich, highly collaborative work management tool and Monday is a customizable work management tool designed to help teams work more efficiently by tracking projects and workflows. ClickUp vs. Monday both have weaknesses. Smaller teams who feel this way can probably make do with the free version of Asana.

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Tips & Tricks to facilitate Sprint Planning

Scrum.org

In this blog post, I share some tips and tricks that may help you facilitate strong Sprint Planning outcomes, so that your Scrum Team will have a great start into their Sprint. Your team needs to overcome the Groan Zone to avoid weak outcomes that lead to a poor Sprint! What is facilitation? What is Sprint Planning?

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The ESP connection

The Lazy Project Manager

Does the executive team interact with project sponsors on a regular basis, perhaps are they even the executive sponsors themselves? If you don’t declare a complete and utter ‘No’ then the next step of the ‘ESP’ test is to consider any weak points in this ‘Executive board to Sponsor to Project Manager’ relationship.

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Project Management Statistics: 45 Stats You Can't Ignore

Workamajig

Businesses say that the biggest impact of project management was on team communication (52%). Poor communication (29%). Poor stakeholder-project manager alignment is a big cause of project failure. 17% of IT projects can go so bad that they can threaten the very existence of the company. Capterra ). KMart's massive $1.2B

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The Must-Read Reading List for Project Communication and Collaboration

Rebel’s Guide to PM

. Project teams communicate and collaborate by default, don’t they? That certainly hasn’t been the case for all the teams I have worked on. Don’t assume your project team will know how (or even want to) communicate well and collaborate with each other. Will Kintish: Pearson, 2014. ISBN: 9780814417812. Heavily U.S.

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Why All Entrepreneurs Should Have Project Management Skills

LiquidPlanner

Whether it’s developing a new product or securing investment, where the process involves a series of steps, it should be managed like any other project. The foundation level was fairly straightforward, there’s a lot to learn and an exam, but if you study hard it’s not too bad.”.

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Agile Principles – Simplicity

Scrum.org

If you ask stakeholders what they want, it is likely that in a short time they will come up with a list of features that would take a Scrum Team many years to build. The Product Owner provides an important service to the Scrum Team. Many organisations are fixated on maximising the output from their Developers.

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