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Spain, Trains, and Incremental Delivery

Scrum.org

A very interesting (and sad) piece of news made headlines in Spain recently that provides some lessons about agile product development and incremental delivery. Consequently, the delivery of the trains is delayed for a few years due to the fact that the designs that were delivered are for the wrong size of trains.

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The 2021 Project Management Report

Rebel’s Guide to PM

You’ll learn: What delivery approach is the most common How many project managers have considered leaving the profession Why the top career goal for project managers is not what experienced professionals want How many projects a project manager runs How many people in an average project team What keeps project managers up at night And lots more.

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5 Best Project Management Certifications and Courses of 2019

nTask

Teams and organizations who were looking to expand, unknowingly adapted to a specific set of daily rituals that were later termed as Agile Project Management, PMP and other such condiments. Today, technology and businesses have gone through a metamorphosis that has led to such organizations in dire need for certified project managers.

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Scrum Master Interview Questions (4): From Metrics to Kicking off Scrum to Scrum Anti-Patterns

Scrum.org

Join more than 100 peers from May 27-29, 2021 , for the Virtual Agile Camp Berlin 2021, a non-profit live virtual Barcamp using open space technology principles and practices. Your Scrum team is consistently failing to meet commitments, and its velocity is volatile. How would you address this issue with the team? Agile Metrics.

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The 27 Most Annoying Business Buzzwords of 2019

TrustRadius Project Management

According to a September 2019 survey run by TrustRadius, nearly 4 out of 10 people hear business jargon, cliches, and buzzwords often in a typical work day. Source: September 2019 survey of 764 business professionals conducted by TrustRadius. Source: September 2019 survey of 764 business professionals conducted by TrustRadius.

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The 2019 Guide to Project Portfolio Management (PPM)

nTask

Your company would have many projects that are being worked on at the same time, and due to the flow of resources from the same source, the client being the same for all of them or any others you might be doing just for some pure innovation, they might be overlapping. It also is helpful in promoting and facilitating team communication.

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The Third Of Four Things You Do To Prevent Value Delivery

Scrum.org

On November 22nd, 2019, I gave the closing keynote at Scrum Deutschland, a talk called ‘The Four Things You Do To Prevent Value Delivery.’ Such a study is holistic; it involves looking at the organizational design, technical capabilities, culture and knowledge, and type of control and metrics used to define success. Background.