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SCRUM is about people

Musings on Project Management

Looking to hone your people skills and tie into SCRUM? Here's a seminar -- free even you are not a member -- that is more or less on the theme: "SCRUM is about people". Read in the library at Square Peg Consulting about these books I've written Buy them at any online book retailer!

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How to Make Your Project Schedule Work for You

LiquidPlanner

At a recent conference, I was asked, “Why do project managers hate schedules?”. I had to think about this for a while because I don’t think project managers hate schedules. I think what project managers don’t like is the administrative work required to maintain it. A detailed and well thought out project schedule is my #1 tool to use when managing a project.

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Using KPIs to measure a project team's effectiveness

Moira Alexander

Key performance indicators (KPI) serve an essential role as a key measure of how effectively a project has performed in relation to identified, required and agreed-upon strategic objectives. Without KPIs, determining the success of projects and project activities is a guessing game, with no way to quantify goal attainment. The types of KPIs vary, depending on critical success factors (CSF) like industry, product or service, and stakeholder business and operational strategies.

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