Fri.Jan 19, 2024

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5 kinds of Agile bandits. Planning Bandits

Scrum.org

Unveiling the Agile Burndown Trap: A Fresh Perspective on Sprint Planning Agile teams often rely on burndown charts to monitor progress throughout a sprint. Initially, this approach seems logical, a straightforward way to track how tasks diminish over time. However, after years of working with various teams, I've come to realize that this method is not as effective as it appears.

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Video Content Creation: Secrets to Producing High-Quality Videos

Binfire

Introduction Video content has become an integral part of our digital landscape, capturing the attention and engagement of audiences like never before. Whether you are a content creator, marketer, or business owner, producing high-quality videos is essential for standing out in a crowded online world. In this article, we will explore Video content’s secrets to producing compelling and professional videos that captivate viewers.

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Review Mastering Project Uncertainty

Henny Portman

Mastering Project Uncertainty – A Systems Thinking Approach by Paul Cuypers offers a theoretical framework and practical models, tools, techniques, and guidelines to systematically minimize uncertainty, thereby increasing the chances of project success. The book is divided in two parts. The first part offers the theoretical foundation and the second part the strategies.

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Billable vs Non-Billable Hours: Difference, Strategies & More

Teamweek

Making a clear distinction between billable and non-billable hours is a critical skill for any agency owner, but especially those new to the game. Such a lack of clarity in time and materials (T&M) projects can result in inaccurate invoicing and revenue loss. For fixed-price projects, miscalculating hours can lead to overestimations, resulting in lost bids.

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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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Project Management Software for Creatives: 9 of the Best Tools

Wrike

If your creative team is looking for project management software, there are some features that you probably can’t do without. These include: Automated intake and requests : It’s tough to keep track of requests that come via email, Slack, and other channels. The right project management software centralizes and automates work requests, improving visibility and accountability on tasks.

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Managing idle white space

Musings on Project Management

My advice is always to schedule loosely, spreading buffers at strategic points to protect the critical path and even the feeder paths. Strategically: sound advice. But. If you do this, your schedule is going to have idle time or 'white space'. Some would look at that and see schedule dollars slipping by. What's a good tactical thing to do?

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