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The Standard for Risk Management in Portfolios, Programs, and Projects

Project Risk Coach

There are two PMI risk management standards: The Practice Standard for Project Risk Management (2009) The Standard for Risk in Portfolios, Programs, and Projects (2019) Project managers ask, "Which one should I use to prepare for the PMI-RMP exam?" You should use the Standard for Risk in Portfolios, Programs, and Projects (2019).

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How to Manage Project Scope Without Scope Creep (with examples)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

He didn’t define scope crush in his tweet but here’s how I define scope crush: doing less, better. Paper presented at PMI® Global Congress 2009—North America, Orlando, FL. When the project manager is not actively managing changes to scope, there is no control about what is in and what is out. Basically, anything goes.

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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. I declared 2009 the year of the Office Goddess and I wrote a series of posts about how to excel at work. In September 2007 I published a guide to why projects fail.

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PRINCE2: The Project Management Method Explained

Rebel’s Guide to PM

PRINCE2® was released in 1996 and had major updates in 2009 and 2017. They are: Ensure continued business justification Learn from experience Define roles, responsibilities and relationships Manage by exception Manage by stages Focus on products Tailor to suit the project. Products can be defined in work packages.

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Scrum: A Brief History of a Long-Lived Hype

Scrum.org

So, how was Scrum defined before 2010 then? What else happened along the road to the way that Scrum is defined and represented? The Scrum Guide” by Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland (2009, 2010). The first, official version of the Scrum Guide was released in February 2010.

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Product Discovery for Scrum Teams

Scrum.org

Why the Scrum Guide Lacks Product Discovery as a Concept The Scrum Guide 2020 emphasizes the role of the Product Owner in managing the Product Backlog but does not define the product discovery process. Design Thinking is a good fit when the problem is complex or ill-defined, requiring innovative and user-centric solutions.

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What is the Increment?

Scrum.org

Scrum Guide May of 2009: Sprints deliver an increment of the final product that is potentially releasable. Scrum started as an iterative and incremental approach for software product development. OOPSLA 1995 Scrum Paper: SCRUM is an enhancement of the commonly used iterative/incremental object-oriented development cycle.

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