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Trello vs. Asana: Side-by-Side Comparison

ProjectManager.com

It was created in 2011 by Fog Creek Software. The software immediately gained attention when in the September 2011 issue of Wired magazine it was one of “The 7 Coolest Startups You Haven’t Heard of Yet.” Human resources departments use it for tracking recruitment, employee performance reviews and the onboarding process.

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Reasons to Adopt AgilePM®

The IIL Blog

Organizations and project professionals are embracing Agile tools and frameworks as they aim to increase the success of – and return on investment from – projects and other change initiatives.

2011 148
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The unbreakable bond: How outstanding service = brand loyalty

Rebel’s Guide to PM

All those ideas can also apply to initiatives that support internal project customers – staff need decent self-serve help too! Build in a mechanism for feedback, try a beta launch with ‘friendly’ customers and make sure helpdesk staff have a process for resolving complaints.

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How good are you at starting off your project?

Ron Rosenhead

It is called “Initiating successful projects” and was first published in December 2011. In the executive summary the report says: One clear lesson we have learned from the evidence base which our back catalogue provides is that the quality of project initiation is highly predictive of project success. Summary Page 4).

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We are entering the Deployment Phase of the Digital Age

Scrum.org

Of course, this list changes with the markets, but if you compare that to 2011, the list is 60% different. Many of those initial agile meetups were driven by the need to share a different way of working compared to the waterfall approach, an approach inspired by the industrial, mass-production mindset. But how does that work?

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How I ended up becoming a (Professional) Scrum trainer

Gunther Verheyen

I had been closely following up on the emergence and growth of Scrum.org as it coincided with a personal process of professional recovery. I experienced it as an expression of “Individuals and interactions over processes and tools”. In April 2011, Ken came to Brussels for an event I co-organized for the Agile Consortium Belgium.

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Deciphering Goals

Scrum.org

Having urgency is a great motivator and starting point as shown in John Kotter’s 8-Steps process. . . Figure 5 The 8-Steps Process for Leading Change* * [link]. This process for change is mostly applicable for high level strategic goals like company vision and business strategy. Any initiative without a clear goal is futile.

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