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

Scrum.org

Some find the process of creating them “childish” or “a waste of time”. This is the ability of team members to act in concert without explicit coordination (MacMillan, Entin & Serfaty, 2004). You can fast-track this process with good work agreements. Not everybody sees the value of work agreements. MacMillan, J., Pruitt, D.

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PRINCE2: The Project Management Method Explained

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I took my first Practitioner course in 2004. Because PRINCE2® is a broad-brush approach, it doesn’t cover technical processes or specific techniques, but it will fit alongside them. There’s a process to guide work through the stages so there is adequate control at every point. Who is PRINCE2® for?

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Scrum: A Brief History of a Long-Lived Hype

Scrum.org

In the end, the sources I used for describing the evolutions of the definition of Scrum are: The paper “SCRUM Software Development Process” by Ken Schwaber (1995, 1996). The book “Agile Project Management with Scrum” by Ken Schwaber (2004). The book “Agile Software Development with Scrum” by Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle (2002).

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PRINCE2 and PMBOK: How They Compare

Rebel’s Guide to PM

She first took her PRINCE2 Practitioner exam in 2004. What is the process to become a Certified PRINCE2 Foundation and PRINCE2 Practitioner? Elizabeth is the author of Shortcuts to Success: Project Management in the Real World and writes widely on the topic of project management for a range of publications. Well, thank you!

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Kanban History: Origin & Expansion Across Industries

ProjectManager.com

The kanban board is broken down into columns that represent the different stages of a process, and the kanban cards are individual tasks that move from one column to the next as they move through the process. This created less waste and increased the efficiency of processes. When one bin is empty, the next bin refills it.

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Burnout in Project Management

The IIL Blog

Articles are now appearing addressing burnout specifically in a project management environment [Verma (1996), Haynes and Love (2004), Richmond and Skitmore (2006), Pinto et al., 2014), and Jugdev et al., PMs must recognize the signs of stress and burnout as early as possible in the project’s life cycle. REFERENCES Freudenberger, H.

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PRINCE2: The Project Management Method Explained

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I took my first Practitioner course in 2004. Because PRINCE2 is a broad-brush approach, it doesn’t cover technical processes or specific techniques, but it will fit alongside them. There’s a process to guide work through the stages so there is adequate control at every point. PRINCE2 Processes. Who is PRINCE2 for?

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