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Does a Scrum Master have to be a techie?

Kiron Bondale

Recently I wrote an article about the potential for a Scrum Master to take on additional roles. While I was teaching a class this week, one of my learners voiced a concern about Scrum Masters who didn’t possess deep technical knowledge of the product solution. He felt that without this expertise a Scrum Master would run into difficulties in building credibility with the Development Team.

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Agile Project Management Methodology with Gantt Charts | TeamGantt

TeamGantt

Learn how to use Agile methodology with gantt charts for a blended project management approach, & build an agile project plan that works better for you & your team.

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Project Quality Management: All You Need to Know

Online PM Courses

Project Quality Management can often feel like an unloved part of project management. Too many basic books and guides to project management either mention is only in passing, or not at all. On the smallest projects, with few products, we can probably take quality for granted. By this I mean that we can assume that a project manager will be reviewing the quality of everything you deliver, and making sure it’s right.

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Spreadsheet Detox: How to Create a Project Plan Without Using Excel

Teamweek

When you’re trying to organize data into neat, logical, and formula-boosted rows, Excel spreadsheets are easy-to-use yet powerful tools. But for creating project plans? Not so much. Although Microsoft Project has updated its most popular assets to keep up with evolving user demand, Excel is like that vintage house on the block that always manages to survive even after its neighbors are torn up and reborn.

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Understand Digital Debt, Form a Team, Set Goals, and Plan Roadmap for Transformation

Understanding digital debt is crucial before digital transformation. Assemble a team to assess internal operations, market pressures, and digital debt's impact. Define future digital vision with measurable goals. Refine hypotheses and conduct market analysis. Develop a roadmap for transformation with defined projects, cost estimates, and governance.

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Book of the Month

Herding Cats

Program Management and Systems Engineering are two critical processes for the success of any product or project development endeavor. Programs are mechanisms for implementing the core strategy of an organization to maximize the value and benefits for the business, clients, stakeholders, and society. They are executed through a temporary organization within the enterprise and consist of multiple related projects organized and executed in such a way as to maximize resource utilization and gains [1

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Quote of the Day

Herding Cats

“The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.” — Henry Havelock Ellis, British psychologist.

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