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Laughter & Leadership – How Humor Can Make You a Better Leader

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Jennifer Bridges, PMP, shows you how leadership is bolstered by laughter. In Review – Laughter & Leadership – How Humor Can Make You a Better Leader. It’s not often brought up as an attribute of leadership , but it’s just the tool leaders need. According a 2001 report , 40 percent of job turnover is due to stress.

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Am I Really Doing Agile?

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Changing requirements, schedules, market conditions, teammates, leadership, customers, organizational structures, you name it. Focus on Agile principles, not practices Let’s go back to 2001 and take a look at the Manifesto for Agile Software Development. It describes four values for software development.

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Agile and Scrum: Unravelling the Misconceptions

Scrum.org

Unaware of the true purpose of the Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective. Scrum is applicable for software development only. We'll review some key concepts to help to dispel any confusion. No validation happens once an increment (product) is released to the market. Agile refers to a mindset, not a set of procedures or tools.

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Top Project Management Conferences of 2022

ProjectManager.com

It’s a great way to further your education and learn about new project management software tools that are on the market. What to Expect: Sessions focus on agility, software engineering and lean business. This is the organization’s first in-person conference since everything changed due to Covid in 2020. ACMP’s Annual Conference.

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How the 12 principles in the Agile Manifesto work in real life

Scrum.org

The word agile came into widespread use following the creation of the Agile Manifesto in 2001. That year, a group of 17 software practitioners looking for a better way to deliver software settled on the the term agile to refer to their more rational, human approach to complex work. It's an incremental approach.

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The Evolution of Project Management

The IIL Blog

Most contractors solved the problem by creating technical writing departments that reviewed all reports prepared by PMs before sending them to the clients. Executives attended project review meetings with the government agencies to make it appear that they were functioning as active sponsors rather than as invisible sponsors.

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What is Taylorism, and why Waterfall is just the tip of the iceberg!

Scrum.org

Reviewer(s): Russell Miller PST. As the world became more complicated, we created automation using machinery with software to control it. Ralph Stacy Model visualised with Leadership styles. This was the birth of the Agile movement with the Scrum Framework (1993), the Agile Manifesto (2001), and later Kanban (2004).

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