Project Risk Coach

DECEMBER 18, 2016

Knowing what your teams really need I recently had a friend ask me — since I have an agricultural background — how to take care of her Christmas poinsettia. She said, “The leaves have been turning yellow and falling off. I think I’m killing it.” Poinsettias have a reputation for being hard to maintain. I asked a few questions such as: How many hours of sunlight has the plant been getting?

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Kiron Bondale

DECEMBER 18, 2016

A good practice with agile delivery is to keep team sizes small to reduce the number of communication channels. But when planning a product release which cannot be delivered by a single pod within a reasonable amount of time, we need to structure the work across multiple pods of five to a dozen team members working in parallel but also orchestrating release cadence and work item priority based on the dependencies between work streams.

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Digite

DECEMBER 18, 2016

One of the important aspects of The Kanban Method is Class of Service (CoS). CoS is a risk categorization mechanism for any work item. We identify 4 Classes of Service – Standard, Fixed Date, Expedite, and Intangibles – depending on customer expectation, value and loss of business value identified as cost of delay. For this blog, cards that are classified as Intangible CoS will be referred to as “Intangibles”.

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 18, 2016

Most people know nothing bout learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb - Thomas More , Utopia. The Fallacy - We can't know much of anything about the FuterThe future is always knowable with some degree of precision and accuracy unless it is truly Unknowable. Software developers and the IT managers they work for operating in the future.

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Stepping Into Project Management

DECEMBER 18, 2016

I have failed a lot. That made me afraid of being a failure. And there have been quite a few times when I have been called one. I have recently realized that my journey in life have been paved through my failures and because I have failed I am doing what I do now. Suddenly I have realized that failure shouldn’t be negative and depressing. It’s part of rethinking and making better decision.

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TimeCamp

DECEMBER 18, 2016

Another week comes with the most popular from our roundups. Make yourself comfortable and read these 10 Most Inspiring Productivity Articles from this week, chosen by our team! Our blog is a place where we provide all the productivity and time management knowledge. We try to do that by writing and posting worth reading articles […].

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PM by PM

DECEMBER 18, 2016

PMP Lessons Learned – Virender’s Certification Journey In this post, I have reproduced PMP Lessons Learned by Virender. He passed PMP exam in first attempt in November 2016. He has kindly documented lessons learned and shared helpful tips to pass PMP exam. I believe his exam prep experience will help other PMP aspirants. I conducted […].

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