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7 Secrets to Successful Project Manager/Team Collaboration

Rebel’s Guide to PM

As project managers, it’s important that we know how to best support our development teams (and vice versa), especially in Agile environments. A lot of the points below relate to teams in Agile environments , but can apply to any type of project team. Elisa Cepale. Secret #4: Facilitate prioritization.

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7 Secrets to Successful Project Manager/Team Collaboration

Rebel’s Guide to PM

As project managers, it’s important that we know how to best support our development teams (and vice versa), especially in Agile environments. At White October, we encourage direct communication between the development team and clients. This is a guest post from Elisa Cepale. Elisa Cepale.

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A Beginner’s Guide to Scrum Ceremonies

ProjectManager.com

Scrum ceremonies are meetings that are unique to scrum teams. Scrum ceremonies ensure that everyone (the scrum master, product owner and development team) is in-sync. A sprint employs four different scrum ceremonies to ensure proper execution: sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review and sprint retrospective.

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15 Sprint Review Anti-Patterns

Scrum.org

TL; DR: 15 Sprint Review Anti-Patterns. Answering this question in a collaborative effort of the Scrum Team as well as internal (and external) stakeholders is the purpose of the Sprint Review. Given its importance, it is worthwhile to tackle the most common Sprint Review anti-patterns. Are we still on the right track?

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Improving SAFe Through Professional Scrum

Scrum.org

In real life, these Product Owners are typically accountable to the value delivered by these multiple teams and rely upon a lot of assistance from the Development Teams in order to deal with the challenge of scale. . Large Scale Scrum and Nexus prefer to have one Product Owner for the entire product with one Product Backlog.

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Best Project Management Software of 2019

ProjectManager.com

It must be free to try or demo . It must have over 100 positive reviews online, averaging 4 stars or greater. If you’re looking for a comprehensive project management platform to organize teams and plan work, ProjectManager.com is a top choice. The software must be available to the public (ie. no internal company tools).

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Agile Communications Plans

Leading Answers

Demos  – Having the team demonstrate increments of functionality at the end of every iteration shows what the project has achieved to date. Frequent demos mean the project never disappears for long. Instead, the team regularly surfaces from work to show where they are with progress and discuss what should come next.

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