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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. Google Analytics tells me that 6 Things I Didn’t Know About Being a PM was the top post of 2013. In September 2007 I published a guide to why projects fail. I didn’t write it, by the way.).

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Business Analyst vs Project Manager: The Differences To Know

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In the PMI Business Analysis Practice Standard, business analysis is defined like this: The set of activities performed to identify the business need and recommend relevant solutions; and to elicit, document, and manage requirements. They are the people who herd the cats. You’ll both be more productive that way. Interpersonal skills.

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How To Deal With Gossip At Work

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Beverly, how do you define gossip? There are 4 steps: Define what you want. This interview first appeared on this website in 2013 and has been lightly edited since then. What’s the best way to come up with solutions to the problems that people gossip about? Identify the obstacles (i.e. what they are gossiping about).

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In-Depth: The Evidence-Based Business Case For Agile

Scrum.org

Before we begin, we need to define some of the terms we will use throughout this post. Throughout this post, we define them as “all users, customers, and other people or groups who have a clear stake in the outcomes of what this team produces, and invest money, time or both in making sure that happens”. 2013, June).

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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 (2011, 2013, 2016, 2017). The first, official version of the Scrum Guide was released in February 2010.

2010 232
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Time is Money: The Importance of Earned Value Management

MPUG

EVM as a tool that provides visibility into whether or not you’re on track to finish your project within the established cost and timeline baselines defined in the project plan. Let’s define such using PMI as our guide: Earned value (EV) is the measure of work performed, expressed in terms of the budget authorized for that work.

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Scrum: A Brief History of a Long-Lived Hype

Gunther Verheyen

So, how was Scrum defined before 2010 then? What else happened along the road to the way that Scrum is defined and represented? The first, official version of the Scrum Guide was released in February 2010. How did its definition evolve before and after 2010 and become the framework that we know today?

2010 141