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Office Timeline Review: The Pro Timeline Maker [2020]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In this review of Office Timeline Pro, I’ll share the pros and cons of the PowerPoint plugin. Summary review of Office Timeline: Office Timeline is a simple way of creating timelines for anything from inside PowerPoint or your browser. Do you need a timeline maker for project communications or to create executive briefings?

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Otter Review (2022)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I use a lot of technical project management jargon that relates to our projects and industry, and I don’t have to do a lot of editing. If an event has a valid virtual meeting URL e.g. a link to Zoom, Google Meet, or MS Teams, you can toggle on Otter Assistant. I should embrace the AI tech and just go for it! How does it work?

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Scrum Events Reduce Meetings

Scrum.org

One of the first things that I usually hear after describing the Scrum framework and its five events to someone new to Scrum is, “that’s a lot of meetings!” . . Examining the five events, the first thing to point out is that the Sprint is not a meeting; it’s a container for all the other events. The Sprint. Sprint Planning.

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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’s a less technical method of project management that doesn’t put as much emphasis on task order or scheduling, but rather on balancing resources and keeping them flexible. Kanban Methodology.

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What Is Business Impact Analysis & Why Is It Important?

ProjectManager.com

The timing of a disruptive event can have a major impact on the loss suffered by a business. With the due diligence of a business impact analysis in hand, a business has a well-thought-out plan of action to recover from adversity. Review the Information. All this collected data must be documented and reviewed.

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What Is a Risk Register & How to Create One

ProjectManager.com

You’ll never be able to anticipate every risk event that could occur in a project, but by doing the due diligence, you’re able to have a risk management plan in place to respond quickly before project risks become real problems and sidetrack the whole project. Download our free risk register template for Excel.

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A Sprint Review without Stakeholders? Making Your Scrum Work #3

Scrum.org

TL; DR: A Sprint Review without Stakeholders? A Sprint Review without stakeholders may create an unhealthy bubble for the Scrum Team due to the disconnect, thus resulting in lower effectiveness. Why a Sprint Review without Stakeholders Is the Path to Mediocrity. There are plenty of failure possibilities with Scrum.