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Unlocking ITIL4: Defining Value and Navigating Career Growth

The IIL Blog

The ITIL certification scheme provides a defined learning path benefiting the individual at each designation. Can it support career progression? Georgina and Sophie can attest that the ITIL certification program has supported and enhanced their careers.

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Re-Defining Refining (Let’s make Backlog Refinement Meetings Engaging and Successful)

Scrum.org

Jochen (Joe) Krebs pioneered Agile Portfolio Management in 2008 and has been active in the agile community for almost two decades. He is the founder and organizer of the local agile user group in New York City since 2008, the host of the Agile FM podcast, a Certified Professional Scrum Trainer and founder of Incrementor.

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Top PM 10 Articles of All Time

Rebel’s Guide to PM

It touched on the classic reasons for project failures – poor sponsorship and so on – but also focused on how we define failure on projects. In 2008 I was living and working in Paris, France, which involved several office moves. It’s still something that I don’t think we spend enough time doing.

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What Makes A Good Product Owner?

Scrum.org

Some Product Owners are highly involved with their teams, whereas others consider their work done when the product “is defined”. They are responsible for setting priorities, defining goals, and clarifying which work needs to be done. Judy & Krumin-Beens (2008) offer an interesting perspective on this in a case study.

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

Scrum.org

Before we begin, we need to define some of the terms we will use throughout this post. 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”. The first term is Stakeholder.

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Contingency Plan in Project Management

ActiveCollab

Government institutions, for instance, use it to prepare for an economic crisis, like those we experienced in 2008 or during the coronavirus pandemic. This article will define a contingency plan in business management and what it means. You can apply a contingency plan to any business or organization. WHAT IS A PROJECT CONTINGENCY?

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Leveraging Evidence-Based Management and Achieving Organizational Change through Larman’s Laws

Scrum.org

The ingrained behaviors, beliefs, and values that define an organization's culture can often overshadow any innovative strategy you try to implement. The ROWE Experiment In late 2008, the Gap Inc. Culture over strategy The saying "Culture eats strategy for breakfast" wasn't coined without reason. Let’s see these concepts in action.