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Kanban History: Origin & Expansion Across Industries

ProjectManager.com

Feel free to customize it to meet your needs and ensure everyone is on the same page. There are also recurring tasks to make sure that meetings or other repeating activities don’t fall through the cracks. Our site has over 100 free project management templates for Excel, Word and Google Sheets, all available for download right now.

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7 Hidden dangers of project management (Or why even well-planned projects sometimes fail)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

For example, in June 2010 Chrysler merged with Fiat. Pixar, the computer animation film studio, established a group of people called “brain trust” who meet regularly to give some feedback on different stages of project development. However, as much as we would like to keep everything on the same page, changes happen.

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20 Years of The Agile Manifesto

Rebel’s Guide to PM

That meeting in the Aspen Room at The Lodge in Snowbird, Utah, certainly has a lot to answer for. What dropped out of the meeting of the Snowbird 17 was an understanding of what was common between all the different ways of getting software development done. What does the Agile Manifesto say? Is the Agile Manifesto still relevant?

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Scrum: A Brief History of a Long-Lived Hype

Scrum.org

The first, official version of the Scrum Guide was released in February 2010. So, how was Scrum defined before 2010 then? How did its definition evolve before and after 2010 and become the framework that we know today? The Scrum Guide” by Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland (2009, 2010). Phases, meetings, time-boxes, events.

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Top PM 10 Articles of All Time

Rebel’s Guide to PM

My project alphabet was a popular post of 2010 and inspired Derek Huether to write a book about zombie project management. This year, project managers must have been concerned about meeting minutes as the article that was read the most was all about tips for writing better minutes. Don’t know what that is? What are you waiting for?

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Reasons to Adopt AgilePM®

The IIL Blog

Since its introduction in 2010, AgilePM has fast established itself as the leading framework and certification for agile project management. This is a far more efficient approach than rejecting work after it has been created because it doesn’t meet quality criteria that were not clear at the start.

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How to Manage Fixed Date Projects

Rebel’s Guide to PM

It is rarely impossible to deliver on time, given the right amount of resources, an unlimited budget and a tightly controlled project scope, but projects seldom meet these criteria. LeRoy Ward was first published in 2010. If not, move into proactive planning mode and get creative to find a way to deliver on time.

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