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100+ Project Management Terms: PM Terminology Explained

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Plus we’ve added handy links to help you dive deeper into different topics with videos, articles and even our round-up of all resources so you can put these important terms into practice with your projects. Find a term you want defined that isn’t on this project management glossary?

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UnSMART Improvements at Retrospectives — Making Your Scrum Work #18

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While the Scrum Guide encourages addressing the most impactful ones as soon as possible, it is up to the Scrum team to figure out how to improve. Scrum Events and Skipping Retrospectives According to the Scrum Guide. Source : Scrum Guide 2020. The aggregation is taken from the Scrum Guide 2020 Reordered.).

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In-Depth: How Scrum Motivates Teams Through Goals And Autonomy

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And that makes sense. We also use these insights to offer practical tips for better goals. In essence, this model states that five job characteristics are essential to motivation: Task Identity : the degree to which a job delivers a visible outcome that can be identified by the person performing it and those they work with.

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Why Great (Scrum) Teams Have A Mind Of Their Own

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Research in this area has much to say about what makes some teams more effective than others. At the end of this post you will have learned: How team cognition is essentially the “mind of a team”, with its own memory and perception of the world. Now suppose that this dark alley isn’t in an unknown city, but right next to your house.

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In-Depth: How To Create Better Work Agreements For Your Team

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If you don’t have one, or when it's mostly in your head, I would recommend you do so with your team. So how do you make proper work agreements? We can use your help. A while ago I was taking a walk with my partner Lisanne. A noisy flock of geese flew overhead in a messy V formation. It all looked very chaotic.

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In-Depth: The Evidence-Based Business Case For Agile

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This allows us to test our beliefs and also makes our case stronger in case they are supported. Throughout this post, we define them as “all users, customers, and other people or groups who have a clear stake in the outcomes of what this team produces, and invest money, time or both in making sure that happens”.

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What is project scope? (Plus 7 steps to help you define project scope)

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The importance of project scope The dangers of not following project scope best practices How to write a project scope: a checklist of what to include How to define project scope 7 project scope steps to get started Project scope example: Website redesign Your project scope will change (and that’s fine). Project goals and objectives.