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Top Project Management Conferences of 2020

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One of the largest series of conferences for project managers in North America, the Project Summit has industry innovators who help professionals be more productive, and learn best practices, skills and strategies to succeed. The event focuses on sustainability in projects, programs and portfolios, with a long-term and enterprise-level view.

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Agile Laws to Help with Transformation

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The idea has been around for several years: design the teams according to the product requirements and give them autonomy to create the best possible solution from both a value proposition and an organizational sustainability perspective. Innovation that happens from the bottom up tends to be chaotic but smart.

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Escape the Rinse and Repeat Cycle with 5 Sprint Retrospective Ideas

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Unfortunately, some Scrum Masters fall into the trap of using the same Retrospective agenda repeatedly, stifling the team's creativity and hindering their ability to generate innovative solutions. I once had the opportunity to work with a Scrum Master who followed an identical Retrospective agenda for over a year.

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Escaping the Feature Factory

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It’s too bad that this shift undermines Agile principles and hampers long-term success and innovation. Short-Term Focus : Driven by quarterly results or immediate performance metrics, these organizations push for quick deliveries, often at the expense of long-term value or sustainable development.

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Organizational Culture Requires Deliberate Effort

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We all know that developing ourselves intellectually requires sustained dedicated effort toward continual learning. We also know that keeping ourselves physically fit requires sustained dedicated effort toward healthy activities like proper nutrition, exercise, and active lifestyles. Photo by Chanan Greenblatt on Unsplash.

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What Does Project Governance Really Mean?

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For this to be effect, those goals must be clear, reachable and sustainable. Carry out scenario analyses and pre-mortem exercises, to ensure your decision-makers can assess the potential impacts of their decisions. Only by knowing this can project governance know the goals that they will task the project manager with achieving.

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71 Scrum Product Owner Interview Questions (2): Internal Stakeholders & Product Roadmaps

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It reflects a non-agile, opportunistic mindset that values instant gratification—more sales—over a sustainable product development strategy. Yes, it would significantly impede the Product Owner’s work, as transparency is required to innovate most effectively within an organization. Nowadays, innovation is a team sport.

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