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Why Identifying as a Project Business is Critical For Success

The Lazy Project Manager

The following article is the first of four in a series on ‘Project Business’ and is authored by Daniel Bévort. As such I am delighted to share these articles with you. This allows these companies to take advantage of standardized processes and KPIs, automation, and economies of scale more easily than Project Businesses.

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Top 10 Project Management Methodologies – An Overview

ProjectManager.com

The name is apt, as the waterfall methodology is a process in which the phases of the project flow downward. When implementing the agile methodology , project planning and work management are adaptive, evolutionary in development, seeking early delivery and are always open to change if that leads to process improvement.

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Why Productivity in Project Businesses is Flatlining?

The Lazy Project Manager

The following article is the part two in a series of four on ‘Project Business’ and is authored by Daniel Bévort – part one certainly seemed to draw some interest and some comment so please, like, share and comment on this one as well. The key to operational excellence is scalable and predictable business processes.

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Project Boards and Project Steering Groups: An Introduction

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In this article we’ll look at what is a project board, and other names they are known by, who should be there, when to schedule meetings, what to talk about, how to report to this group and lots more so you can make sure it’s working effectively and efficiently. 4 Reasons why your project board isn’t working. Your next steps.

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Agile. Creativity. Innovation.

International Institute for Learning

2009), include eXtreme Programming (XP) (Beck and Fowler, 2001) and Scrum (Schwaber and Beedle, 2002). On this regard, as pointed our by Ted Levitt (2002), a former editor of Harvard Business Review and one of the most incisive commentators on innovation, it has to be stressed that Ideation and Innovation are not synonyms. Kerzner, H.

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

Scrum.org

But adherence to a framework or prescribed process does not guarantee agility. Adherence to a framework or prescribed process does not guarantee agility.”. I prefer a process-based definition of agility. Although we used Scrum teams for our investigation, these processes are generic enough to apply to Agile teams in general.

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What Is MoSCoW Method, and How Does It Help Prioritize Tasks in Projects?

nTask

In this article, we will be walking you through the basics of MoSCoW matrix and how it works. It gained popularity in the early 2000s and was used by the agile project delivery framework Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM) from 2002. Demands a certain level of familiarity from all team members involved in the process.

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