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125 Project Management Buzzwords

The IIL Blog

Agile team A cross-functional group of individuals (e.g., Product Owner, Scrum Master, Development team members) who work collaboratively to deliver value in an Agile project. Benchmarking Identifying a project performance indicator or practice, then assessing it against industry standards or best practices.

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Velocity – Measure of Predictability and not Productivity

Agilemania

.” But we are into a world (Software Driven Corporate) that Agility drives. ” In my experience, “Velocity” is used to measure the Productivity of the Development Team. Forecast, therefore, becomes realistic, and teams become more predictable. This is uncertain now. Please help. Author's Bio.

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Gantt Charts vs PERT Charts: Why Project Managers are Crazy about Them?

nTask

PERT stands for the Project Evaluation and Review Technique. Well, that’s how the famous American engineer and management consultant, Harold Kerzner puts it in his book. It also helps you to set a realistic timeframe to complete your project development process in its entirety. Let’s begin. PERT chart. Let us explain.

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Scrum 101: An Introduction to the World of Scrum Project Management

Agilemania

Scrum encourages teams to improve by reflecting on their success and losses. . Software development teams use scrum to deliver working software to the customers. Although the scrum framework was created keeping the software developers in mind, it has nothing to do with your business. Who uses Scrum?

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Running a Successful Creative Agency: New Business

Function Point

They give consultation and convert leads to customers while maintaining strong relationships with existing clients and partners. Business developers are the ones who prepare and respond to RFPs and vendors and search for new sales channels or opportunities that may fit the agency’s services.

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New PM, New Choices

Leading Answers

On the other, media is full of light-touch, self-organizing team advice. Consultants will say,  “Oh, it depends…”  and start a lengthy (aka expensive) conversation. Here, formal planning and estimation are difficult because we don’t know what we will encounter. Consider the process of designing a new car or home.

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4 Fallacious Reasons to Estimate and Why Those Are Fallacious

Herding Cats

There's a recent post titled Four Fallacious Reasons to Estimate. It lists the usual suspects for why those spending the money think they don't have to estimate how much they plan to spend when they'll be done producing the value they've been assigned to produce for that expenditure. Let's look at each one in more detail.