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Zombie Projects and How to Kill Them

Rebel’s Guide to PM

One of the first things that project managers learn on training courses is that a project has a start, a middle and an end. Don’t be the project manager that lets a project go on and on by accepting every scope change and picking up all the operational work as well as the requests for new functionality, additions or improvements.

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How to Make Agile Work in Fast-Growing Startups

Scrum.org

From 2010 to 2017, I worked several years in three Berlin-based, fast-growing startups in my capacity as Scrum Master, agile coach, and Product Owner. However, stability also breeds self-interest at all levels, but particularly at the middle management level. And just relabeling the positions of the old middle management rarely works.

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Webinar Recap: Microsoft Project Do’s, Don’ts, and Cool Customizations

MPUG

Hey listen, Kyle is going to manage the questions today. If you’re using project is in a portfolio or PMO, any of the enterprise level projects, consult with your administrator before you just start changing anything in project that you may see here today that you desperately want or desperately need. Here we go.

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Complete Collection of Project Management Statistics 2015

Wrike

Need up-to-date facts and figures for a project management report, article, or infographic? Browse this collection of project management statistics collected from studies and reports from the past five years. Benefits of Project Management. —1A. Project Management Methodologies. —1B. Project Management Best Practices. —1C.

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Webinar Recap: How Innovation & Portfolio Management Office Underpins Corporate Success

MPUG

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Tad Haas’ How Innovation & Portfolio Management Office Underpins Corporate Success webinar being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. With over 20 years in both product and project management, Tad is a passionate technology evangelist and experienced change agent.

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Webinar Recap: Understanding Dependencies, Leads, and Lags with MS Project

MPUG

Satya is a management professional, speaker, coach, and author of six books, including the book I Want To Be a PMP. Time, because you are a management professional, you’ll be knowing is the most important constraint among all the constraints. As early as 2009, 2010, nearly 11 years before I was working as a PMO.

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Webinar Recap: Agile Series Part 2 – Agile Features & Capabilities in MS Project / Project PPM

MPUG

He’s an accomplished speaker, consultant and educator supporting the project management community for over 25 years. And this is important, because if you’ve ever been doing project management before, you’ll find that requirements always change or there’s more that becomes embellished upon that.

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