Inloox

DECEMBER 4, 2019

8: Objectives and Key Results: How to Set and Manage Goals with OKR Leadership changes in times of agile organizations. 6: Process Optimization in Project Management (3): Lean Project Management Lean Project Management relies on efficient processes: With the customer benefit always in mind, unnecessary efforts are eliminated. . #5:

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 21, 2022

If you want to know what your priorities should be for 2023, look at the way your world was at the end of 2022 and at the start of this year. These translate into the everyday concerns of our employers, clients and sponsoring organizations. The one trend that seems to be 100 percent reliable coming into 2023 is disruption.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 10, 2023

Project meetings often feel as if they’re in the way of your work. You can quickly create a status report for an overview, a progress report to see how you’re doing, a variance report to make sure you’re on track and many more. If you’re not working from an agenda or you don’t manage those meetings, that can be true.

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Scrum.org

JULY 11, 2021

Jimmy is an Agile coach & trainer based in Stockholm. Before starting his own company “ Agile With Jimmy ”, he worked at Crisp and supported organizations like Spotify, Casumo, KRY in their quest to increase agility. Jimmy is the author of the book “96 Visualization Examples — a toolkit for the Agile coach”.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Product management is a way to organize the development, position and pricing of your product. Agile Sprint Plan Template The roadmap is an overview, but it’s not a tool that’ll be used by your development team. It helps you manage every step of the process that sees your product go from concept to market.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 19, 2022

This blog post is also available as a nicely designed PDF. From that moment on, I captured my struggles, failures, and successes in a series of blog posts. Over the years, the sum of these blog posts resulted in the paper “ The 8 Stances Of A Scrum Master ”. So, together, we were able to help the organization work with Scrum.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 7, 2021

TL; DR: Essential Agile Failure Patterns — When Noise Interferes with Signal. When Scrum becomes an element of an agile transformation, the following three common essential agile failure patterns prove to be an exceptionally tough nut to crack for any Scrum Master. Reasons for Becoming a Learning Organization.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 13, 2020

In this article we’ll cover what you need to know about the different categories of PDUs and how many you need to get, plus some simple and free ways to earn PDUs in 2020. Do you need to earn PDUs to maintain your PMI certification? You’re in the right place! Ready to get started? Let’s dive in! What is a PDU ? PDUs are measured in hours.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 28, 2021

But the waterfall methodology is only one way to manage a project. Others still prefer forms of agile software development where they have room to adjust their project plan. That type of agile project management is called rolling wave planning or wave planning. Other project managers prefer a more iterative process, like scrum.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

You’ve made the product or developed a great service, now you need to create a marketing plan. Your marketing plan defines the strategies that your organization will use to reach target customers, outperform competitors and position your brand. That means securing the resources, creating a schedule for marketing activities, and so on.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Andrea Fryrear, Agile marketing guru at MarketerGizmo , agrees. Let’s say for example, that time tracking isn’t important to your organization. It’s important to get buy-in from the people who will be using the tool,” says Maxime, who has 6 years of experience in project management and 10 years in the service and software industry.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

This way risks can be identified at every stage of the project. Then, create a risk management plan to capture the negative and positive impacts to the project and what actions you will take to deal with them. When you start the planning process for a project, one of the first things you need to think about is: what can go wrong?

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Scrum.org

JUNE 4, 2023

Lose weight and increase agility. That would be a good New Year's resolution for many organizations. In the past year(s), I’ve been in touch with lots of teams and organizations. That was the primary purpose of their Agile transformation. That was the primary purpose of their Agile transformation. and patience.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 28, 2021

TL; DR: The Lack of Agile Leadership Qualities — When Change Agents Don’t Act as Role Models. When Scrum becomes an element of an agile transformation, a lack of agile leadership qualities on the incumbents’ side may impede its overall progress significantly despite the best efforts of all other change agents.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 2, 2021

Tasks should be managed as they move through the life cycle of being created, assigned, started, finished and finally verified. Task management is essential to project management, teamwork and simply getting work done. Productivity is lost if a team loses control of their tasks and deadlines. What Is Task Management, Really?

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LiquidPlanner

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Are you thinking about introducing agile processes to your project management methodology? You’ve a few case studies, you’ve perhaps even seen agile working effectively at other companies. Additionally, it may not be enough for you to know that agile methods are a logical addition to your toolset at work. So why choose agile?

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Scrum.org

JULY 17, 2023

Agile has become more than just a buzzword in our complex world. Agility is a mindset, a skillset, a culture, and a driving force behind successful, flexible, and responsive organisations. The Agile Leader's commitment goes beyond mere lip service to the Agile Manifesto. In the Agile world, this couldn't be truer.

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Scrum.org

JULY 10, 2021

In my view, leaders are expected to have coaching skills to build competent and agile organisations that are fully resilient. I am sharing my experience in this blog post on how leaders can leverage coaching to unleash collective intelligence. First, create a psychologically safe environment for the people you are coaching.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 30, 2022

I used the past weeks to re-read it and marked (way too) many pages. There are many ways to get into a pool: you can dip in a toe; you can sit on the edge and dangle your feet; you can walk down the steps; you can perform a smooth, powerful racing dive; or you can do a cannonball, making a lot of noise and getting everyone around you wet.

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LiquidPlanner

JULY 18, 2022

In the COVID recovery era, many people and organizations are no longer distinguishing between office-based, remote or hybrid work. An organization’s competitive advantage now largely rests in it’s ability to communicate effectively, creatively problem solve, and efficiently act on new insight. . Intrapersonal curiosity (ourselves) .

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 25, 2023

Imagine that you’re part of an Agile or Scrum team and you frequently experience how your team struggles to navigate conflict effectively, or the Sprint Retrospective only results in meaningless improvements, or Sprints never have a predefined Sprint Goal. Yet somehow the results indicate the team is doing totally fine in all these areas!

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 15, 2022

Even before the planning stage , it’s critical to create an accurate forecast of the project’s duration, costs and more. Creating such a forecast involves a substantial upfront investment in both time and money, but it pays off through a better product that satisfies its customers’ needs. Learn more.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

As a business grows, it needs to look at new processes or ways to improve the processes it has in place. In addition, we’ll explain what a process implementation plan is and the steps to create an implementation process. Process implementation is a strategic approach to adopting new procedures or business processes in an organization.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 29, 2022

Creating and managing project documentation throughout the project life cycle is critical for project success, but where to start? This guide will define what project documentation is, why it is important and what are the top 10 project documents that you should always create to plan and execute your projects. Get started for free.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 8, 2021

Peer Recruiting is the new hiring: Shortly, all creative, technology-based organizations will need to abandon the command & control structures that served the industrial world of the 20th century so well. You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 30,000-plus other subscribers. Participation is free.).

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Inloox

JULY 1, 2021

Agility should no longer be a new term for most project managers. High flexibility, adaptability and increased communication are just a few of the benefits that have led to significant improvements through the introduction of agile work processes in organizations. So agility in itself is nothing new for many companies.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

OEE was created for TPM and is used when tracking the progress you’re making towards achieving better productivity. All of your resources need to be in top form to achieve the goals and objectives of your work. When it comes to equipment, there’s an approach to this called total productive maintenance (TPM).

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 7, 2019

As we ease into the new year, many organizations’ executive teams are ramping up hiring for new talent. Of course, this assumes that organizations are streamlining processes, using new digital transformation approaches or methods and are assigning competent project managers to lead small, medium and large teams.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Christiaan Verwijs and I created the Scrum Team Survey to support Scrum and other Agile teams in their continuous improvement loop. The first step in that loop is to create transparency around where you are right now, and then to work together as a team to identify improvements and make adaptations. How to prepare? Group Size.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Use our interactive Gantt charts to organize your activities, link dependencies to avoid delays and even filter for the critical path to see what’s essential. Similar to a journey, projects have a beginning and an end. Just like a trip, most projects wouldn’t set off without first having an itinerary. What Is a Creative Brief?

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 2, 2019

If you want to know what your priorities should be for 2019, look at the way your world was at the end of 2018 and at the start of this year. These translate into the everyday concerns of our employers, clients and sponsoring organizations. The one trend that seems to be 100 percent reliable coming into 2019 is disruption.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 8, 2021

However, the larger the goal, the higher the chance that the original intention gets lost while being passed through the structural layers of the organization. This blog aims to shed some light on the underlying forces at play and how good goal setting with well-chosen metrics can help. Is this always the case?

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Inloox

DECEMBER 3, 2020

In 2010, they published the first Scrum Guide, a guide to the method with the intention of providing people, teams and organizations with a framework to master complex tasks and create products with the highest possible value. You can read all the basics about the agile method Scrum in this blogpost: The Scrum Methodology.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 17, 2020

TL; DR: Remote Agile, Part 1: Practices & Tools for Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, and Product Owners. Agile has always been about colocation, about direct communication, physical boards, and all the other haptic and analog moments to create value in the digital realm. Do you want to get this article in your inbox?

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Leading Agile

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

New Paper Improving Enterprise-Level Predictability With Agile Get it Now. We typically think of Agility as being nearly synonymous with adaptability, and that a change in mindset or culture to become more adaptable is the right place to begin Agile Transformation. Different organizations have different needs for predictability.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 6, 2022

There’s no way to have a general dialogue with the project team. Connectivity is key to productivity in project management. Airtable is one of the many project management software solutions that presents itself as the app to connect your data, workflows and teams. Yet, many people are searching online for an Airtable alternative.

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Scrum.org

MAY 5, 2022

Recently, I reread the blog post we published some time ago “ 10 Success Factors To Resolve Zombie Scrum ”. Factors that helped our community to use Scrum more effectively within their team and organization. If only *they* would change their behavior, mindset, and way of working. Critical self-reflection. How zombified are you?

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