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What Makes A Good Product Owner?

Scrum.org

But as Unger-Windeler and her colleagues write (2019): “While [the] role is supposed to maximize the value of the product under development, there seemed to be several scattered results on how the Product Owner achieve this, as well as what actually constitutes this role in practice.”. And Product Owners certainly seem to play a role there.

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MS Project Exam Changes?! Oh My!

MPUG

Though the exam has been retired as of July 31, 2019, those who have taken the exam will be recognized for competency until June 30, 2020. Originally published and made available in April 2013, this examination has been popular in the project management world, and there are a number of questions about what — if anything — will replace it.

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Project Management Worker Engagement

The IIL Blog

The wage and salary activities for the assigned workers were the responsibility of their functional managers and project managers often had very little input if any in the performance review processes. Team members relied upon their functional managers for encouragement, support, and performance reviews.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Information about key project cost, (technical) performance, and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. Taxonomy-Based Risk Identification,” Marvin Carr, Suresh Konda, Ira Monarch, Carlo Ulrich, and Clay Walker, Technical Report, CMU/SEI-93-TR-6, Software Engineering Institute, June 1993.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Information about key project cost, (technical) performance and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. Taxonomy-Based Risk Identification,” Marvin Carr, Suresh Konda, Ira Monarch, Carlo Ulrich, and Clay Walker, Technical Report, CMU/SEI-93-TR-6, Software Engineering Institute, June 1993.

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On Technical Debt And Code Smells: Surprising insights from scientific studies

Scrum.org

So I was pleasantly surprised when Carsten Grønbejrg Lützen pointed at a peer-reviewed academic paper by Michele Tufano and his colleagues (2015), called “When and Why Your Code Starts To Smell Bad”. This post is ideal for developers with some experience, and for people who support developers in the development of their technical skills.

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What frustrates the Microsoft Project User Community?

MPUG

The SW is designed for experienced PMs and technical users. Project Standard 2019 desktop costs $620/PC and Professional costs more than doubled than that. no more upgrades to Project 2019) to a subscription strategy. Restrictions to share Plan dynamically and easily due to prohibitive License Cost. Steep Learning Curve!