Scrum.org

MARCH 9, 2025

TL;DR: The Alignment-to-Value Pipeline Effective product development requires both strategic alignment and healthy Product Backlog management. By implementing proper alignment tools, separating discovery from delivery, and maintaining appropriate backlog size (3-6 sprints), teams can build products that truly matter.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 15, 2025

Job tracking software is a tool or system designed to help businesses, teams or individuals monitor, manage and track the progress of tasks, projects or jobs throughout their life cycle. This makes it an invaluable tool for any organization or team that needs to manage tasks, deadlines and workflows effectively.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

The term refers to how the project’s requirements or feature list grows over time without proper control. Scope creep is the more common term but you might hear both, especially if you are working in software development. Ultimately, it isn’t the project manager coming up with new requirements and asking the team to “just do it”.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 24, 2020

Suitable agile metrics reflect either a team’s progress in becoming agile or your organization’s progress in becoming a learning organization. At the team level, qualitative agile metrics often work better than quantitative metrics. A team may have deliberately built some temporary solutions to speed up experimentation.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 12, 2025

New Technology : You might be working on a software program that is more advanced than your ability to support or your team hasnt yet developed the skill set to use it properly. Poor Planning: Sometimes its as simple as a lack of planning, which is why planning thoroughly before executing a project is so important.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 1, 2019

Sometimes leading a team, project or organization goes well. Here’s a screenshot of the whiteboard for your reference. Jennifer noted that whether you’re leading a team , project or organization, things are either going well or poorly. These crises impact teams. Sometimes it doesn’t. It’s rare to land in the middle.

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 20, 2017

This way you begin to define the boundaries of your project and figure out what responsibilities you will task your team with, and the process by which that work will be verified and approved. This paperwork can be called your scope statement or terms of reference, but more often it’s referred to as a statement of work (SOW).

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 21, 2021

Just as a project has a charter to define its scope, so too must your team have a charter to put their work in context. Teams need to know the who, what, why, when and how of the project, and a team charter is the perfect way to feed them that information. Let’s explore how to put a team charter together.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Jennifer Bridges, PMP, discusses common leadership challenges, what the role looks like to the team and the larger organization, and how one must constantly adjust in order to succeed. Here’s a screenshot of the whiteboard for your reference! Create a Development Plan: Know your strengths, but also identify your weaknesses.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 29, 2023

B – Project Management Terms Backlog Backlog is a term from the Agile methodology Scrum, but is also used across industries to track every single thing that is needed to complete a product in development. Its main purpose is to serve as a reference that is compared against the project performance once the execution phase begins.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Here’s a screenshot for your reference! To discern what companies with successful leaders have in common, Jennifer referred to the human capital research and data firm, the Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp). They listed the following: Develop the decision-making ability of leaders. In Review – Leadership KPIs.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Enterprise environmental factors can be defined as conditions that aren’t under the immediate control of the project team. Both being beyond the control of the project team, and even the organization that initiated the project, enterprise environmental factors can affect the outcome of the project, both negatively and positively.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 10, 2022

In Scrum, the Sprint Goal serves as the spotlight that provides transparency to the Sprint Backlog, as the flag that allows the team to rally, and the one thing that provides focus and cohesion. The following nine Sprint Goal principles point at critical issues any Scrum team needs to consider on its path to excellence. ????

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 7, 2024

It’s not only communicative but helps management develop strategic plans so the company can accomplish its goals. Differentiation: Here the company focuses on developing and marketing products that provide greater value rather than cheaper costs for the customer.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

When the leadership team defines an organization’s vision, they look toward the future and identify the goals and objectives they want to achieve. This makes it easier to reference those documents when needed and review them when creating a new long-term plan. This is the start of strategic planning.

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Scrum.org

MAY 22, 2024

Estimates are notoriously bad. In the world of agile development, inaccurate estimates can lead to missed deadlines, blown budgets, and frustrated teams. Human biases, lack of historical data, and the complex nature of software development add layers of difficulty. But why is estimation so challenging?

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Here’s a screenshot of the whiteboard for your reference! There are many questions you need to think about, like what should your team culture be, and what are the best project management tools for your tasks? But how can you develop these skills and set yourself up for success? In Review – Leadership Building Activities.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 16, 2019

Without one or the other, a business will struggle with weak performance. While seemingly impossible, there are principles that guide operational discipline so that a team can achieve these objectives. The methodology moved to the private sector in 1998 and has roots in the agile manifesto created by software developers.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Being able to act as a credible, trusted leader is dependent on you and your team making ethical choices about how you manage and lead the work. If you are getting ready to take the PMP exam , you should know that the Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct is a reference document for the exam questions.

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Kiron Bondale

DECEMBER 20, 2020

What was very surprising to me is that the authors never made any explicit references to psychological safety, and yet that is an effective vaccine to prevent these ailments. This will help staff to become less worried about how to handle the team conflicts which they will inevitably face.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The values put collaboration and business value at the heart of delivery, and you definitely need the people skills to do that, even though there’s less specific reference to them. And what are the weak points? There is a Continuous Professional Development scheme like PDUs, but you don’t have to go for it.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

That applies to processes, organizations, individual team members, whatever or whoever is a risk to the successful completion of the project. A similar concept was developed in Germany in the early 1960s by Wolfgang Mewes. Identify the Constraint: Before you can strengthen the weak link in the chain, you must find it.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 19, 2019

SWOT: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats. The following is a basic outline to follow when starting to develop your business case. Allocate Resources: Decide who will work on what, and then assign team members to those tasks. Here’s a screenshot for your reference. Business description/mission statement.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 14, 2019

Here’s a screenshot of the whiteboard for your reference! You could also look outside your team and ask a coach, mentor or adviser. It might be a customer or a bad boss. There could be criticism from a team member or other peer. Sometimes it comes from a customer or a boss, a peer or team member. What is criticism?

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 4, 2022

The scrum methodology was developed as a response to rigid project management approaches such as the waterfall method, which didn’t adapt to the needs of agile product and software development teams. The bad news, it’s hard to master. Scrum is part of agile software development and teams practicing agile.

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Epicflow Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2024

What exactly are the strengths and weaknesses of matrix organization s? Weak matrix organization. This also means that all the knowledge and experience obtained while working on a project stays within a company and can be used by team members for work on other projects, which facilitates more productive project work.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 10, 2019

As to the latter, there are many ways for a person to asses their leadership qualities and, by so doing, strengthen their weaknesses and buttress their strengths. Related: How Team Leaders Use ProjectManager.com. Everyone has leadership traits that are their strengths and deficits that expose their weaknesses.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 2, 2019

Here’s a screenshot of the whiteboard for your reference. Before you ask for that promotion or get bitter because you’ve not been given one, Jennifer said that you must develop positive work habits. You’ll be the rock that supports the team during good times and bad, and will be rewarded for it.

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MPUG

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Even if the company had taken time to put a complete definition of those terms, having these locked in an online book does not necessarily mean team members have or will visit. Feynman Communication If you have been alive for any time, you have experienced the downside of poor communication. There were two reasons for this.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 5, 2022

Think of the business case as a document that is created during the project initiation phase but will be used as a reference throughout the project life cycle. The following is a detailed outline to follow when developing your business case. The strengths and weaknesses are internal, while the opportunities and threats are external.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Leading the team? They avoided the excessive hours and ‘hero’ culture we so often see in project teams. There was a focus on wellbeing and mental health for the team. It compared us as a group to 70,000 other employees – the General Working Population (which I’m going to refer to as the ‘average’ worker). Is it delivery?

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 23, 2019

They typically refer to conversions, leads, or sales. This tells your website development team that they need to investigate why consumers are bouncing—whether it be website load time, a non-responsive design, etc. Sometimes there are anomalies in the numbers that could be good or bad. Do Be Transparent.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 22, 2022

They are perfect for anyone working in a project environment, but if you are managing teams of any kind you’ll find something useful in here. I’ve met managers who think that project teams communicate and collaborate by default. I read it a while ago and I still refer to it now. Erm, sorry, that’s not right.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Programming and feasibility are where the planning team defines the project’s objectives and goals. This information directs the design development, equipment and materials that will be used in construction. The project team starts preparing for work, setting up the job site so that it’s ready for construction.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 28, 2022

Kanban is a visual workflow tool that, while originally used as a Toyota scheduling system, is now associated with in an agile methodology, especially in DevOps software development. As its popularity has grown, kanban boards have found a use in industries looking for a way to have everyone on the team view the state of their work.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 26, 2021

In simple terms, the project scope refers to all the work that is required to complete a project. Therefore, the project team is expected to complete more tasks, deliverables and milestones with the same resources and in the same time as the original scope. You can discuss them with your project sponsor or at a team meeting.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Like any project manager, they plan, schedule and manage projects, however, the technical part refers to the projects, which tend to be in IT or related to IT. They need to have leadership qualities, manage teams, allocate resources and make project plans and schedules. Establish and train teams on processes and strategies.

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