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Agile, Scrum, or Traditional? The Best Certifications for Your Industry

Accidental PM

Agile encourages continuous improvement through short development cycles, known as "iterations" or "sprints." Teams regularly review progress and adjust strategies based on stakeholder feedback. Industries where Agile thrives include software development, technology startups, marketing, and creative agencies.

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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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We are Not Alone: The Intersection of Project Management and Content Strategy

The IIL Blog

The Project Management Institute (PMI), an international association for project, program, and portfolio managers, states that project managers “have a broad and flexible toolkit of techniques, resolving complex, interdependent activities into tasks and sub-tasks that are documented, monitored, and controlled.

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Top 10 Project Management Methodologies – An Overview

ProjectManager.com

The term scrum was introduced in a “Harvard Business Review” article from 1986 by Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka. It became a part of agile when Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle wrote the book “Agile Software Development with Scrum” in 2001. It does require strict scrum roles however.

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5 Tips To Re-Energize Your Daily Standup Meetings

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Even though it’s a short daily get together, it helps to have some fun standup meeting ideas to break the monotony and keep team morale high. In Scrum, the development team attend the daily standup meeting. Depending on your agile team structure , you might choose the attendees at the daily standup differently.

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Making the Difference: Problem Solving vs Decision Making

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Wicked problems need a slightly different approach (PMI has a problem solving training course that is brilliant and will help with that). You could also interview experts, review lessons learned or innovative solutions from previous projects, research what the rest of your industry is doing or consult customers on what they’d like to see.

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Project Management Tools (AI and otherwise) to Transition from Project Management to Project Leadership!

The IIL Blog

In general, the decision to have a tailored solution, ensuring it fits perfectly with company workflows, is strictly linked to the company needs, but it is also determined by the company size, as underlined in an article with a meaningful title When Should Your Company Develop Its Own Software? appeared on Harvard Business Review [7].