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Why do projects fail? (Includes examples!)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Here are some high-profile failed projects: Following an internal review, Multiplex, the Australian development company responsible for the reconstruction of the Wembley Stadium, became aware that costs for the project were escalating to the point that the company would make a loss of £750 million on the project. billion to £10.9

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Suitability Filters – Team Discussion Tools

Leading Answers

The Telephone Game and Tree Swing cartoon are classic examples of how even well-meaning interpretations can be distorted, leading to bad outcomes. Team members move their own tasks, select new items to work on, and we can see the impacts on queue length, WIP and maybe cycle time or throughput. Are the assessment parameters complete? 

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Five reasons why Scrum is not helping in getting twice the work done in half the time

Scrum.org

I have listed the top 5 reasons that don’t allow the team to gain such productivity but feel free to suggest more. Scrum doesn’t help complete the product faster rather than how quickly a team can release a product. If you are an old establishment, bad news for you, you have to invest a lot to be like a startup.

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Product-Market Fit: What Is It & Why Is It Important?

ProjectManager.com

That’s the first step of smart product development. Related: The Importance of Customer Development for Startups. The obvious one is the Apple iPhone, a device that wasn’t unique but captured the imagination of customers so effectively that it’s hard to believe it was only introduced in 2007. Know Your Target Customer.

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The Illusion of Velocity

Scrum.org

Moreover, I point to the advantages gained from leadership engaging directly with teams. The core of “Agile” is that the best products and solutions to customer problems emerge from self-organizing, cross-functional teams. 2015): Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World. Collins, T., Snowden, D.

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Velocity Illusionen ??

Scrum.org

Außerdem weise ich auf die Vorteile hin, die sich aus der direkten Zusammenarbeit zwischen Führungskräften und Teams ergeben. Exclusively on my Substack Newsletter: Developer Anti-Patterns — An Excerpt from the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide (3). ? Preorder the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book now for delivery in January 2024! ?️

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Project Management Worker Engagement

The IIL Blog

In the past, engaging team members effectively in project assignments was not given the attention it is receiving today. Projects were often short term and team members were seen as a project expense and to be removed as quickly as possible after the work was completed. How much authority will the worker have?

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