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In-Depth: The Science On Sustainable Pace, Stress, And Motivation

Scrum.org

How sustainable is your pace as a developer? What is a sustainable pace? The notion of “sustainable pace” is closely tied to Extreme Programming practices. But that recommendation was updated to “sustainable pace” by Ron Jeffries later. 2013).

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Project Management at the United Nations: Projects Management for Sustainable Social Change

Guerrilla Project Management

and the challenges of development and sustainable social change projects. and the challenges of development and sustainable social change projects. Ricardo Vargas, director of the Project Management Practice Group at the United Nations, on project management at the U.N Ricardo Vargas is the director of the Project Management Practice Group at the United Nations (U.N). His work at the U.N is focused on improving the.

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Tips for Introducing Granular Workload Organization to Your Project Team (Inspired by the Discussion at PMI LA Chapter)

Wrike

– In his awesome best-seller “ Good to Great ,” Jim Collins said, “Sustained great results depend upon building a culture full of self-disciplined people who take disciplined action.” Meet-ups with fellow project managers keep bringing up thought-provoking discussions and interesting ideas on how to maximize the efficiency of project teams. This time, I want to share some notes from the February dinner meeting of the PMI LA Chapter.

2013 28
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Into the Storm: How to Sustain Team Success through the Storms of Adversity, Uncertainty, and Change

Guerrilla Project Management

Author Dennis Perkins shares insights from his book “Into the Storm” on how Project Managers can sustain team success through the storms of adversity, uncertainty, and change. Author Dennis Perkins shares insights from his book “Into the Storm” on how Project Managers can sustain team success through the storms of adversity, uncertainty, and change.

2013 58
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EVM and Agile – Can they work together?

Green Project Management

Context This post was modified from one I developed several years ago for the Mercure AACE 2013 program I took, called W15_PM_EVM-Agile-Considerations. My primary focus is split between sustainable organizational project, programme, portfolio and risk management improvement and organizational sustainable change delivery assessments.

2017 218
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EVM and Agile – Project Reporting

Green Project Management

Context This post was modified from one I developed several years ago for the Mercure AACE 2013 program I took, called W17_PM_EVM-KPI-Reporting. “ Once again, this post is not specifically about sustainable change delivery. It is a follow on to a recent post “EVM and Agile – Can they work together?“ It does provide useful considerations, […]. The post EVM and Agile – Project Reporting appeared first on Delivering a better world, one project at a time.

2017 274
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4 ways to proactively manage stakeholders

Rebel’s Guide to PM

These are: Sustain their position Change their attitude Activate their help potential Reduce their harm potential Let’s look at each of these in turn and see how they could affect stakeholder plans for your project.

2023 362
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How Leaders Can – and Must – Make the Long-term not a Plan, but a Mindset

International Institute for Learning

” What leaders of any stripe want most is not simply to see their organizations survive or succeed in a single moment, but to sustain.

2023 52
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In-Depth: The Evidence-Based Business Case For Agile

Scrum.org

Many studies have identified high autonomy as an important prerequisite for Agile teams ( Moe, Dingsøyr & Dybå, 2010 ; Donmez & Gudela, 2013 ; Tripp & Armstrong, 2018 ; Melo et. 2013 ). 2013, June). 2013). What is the business case for Agile teams?

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Top Project Management Conferences of 2020

ProjectManager.com

For the agile enthusiast, this scrum gathering takes place twice a year since 2013. The event focuses on sustainability in projects, programs and portfolios, with a long-term and enterprise-level view.

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How I ended up becoming a (Professional) Scrum trainer

Gunther Verheyen

It wasn’t too sustainable (I guess). I remember a Wednesday in March 2013. Among many other considerations it would allow me to focus on sustaining and promoting Scrum via the Professional Scrum offering and it would allow Ken to reduce his traveling and other exhausting activities.

2021 103
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Moving Your Scrum Downfield [Paper]

Gunther Verheyen

Having authored the books Scrum – A Pocket Guide (2013, 2019) and 97 Things Every Scrum Practitioner Should Know (2020) I took a step back to consider what it is that makes Scrum work. Apparently, it is easy to get stuck at interpreting the rules of Scrum.

2020 110
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Dependency Management – the Good, the Bad, the Ugly

Scrum.org

There could be many reasons why - perhaps your organization has adopted an Agile framework, but you're not yet structured to support sustainable teams. Sutherland, Scrum Guide, 2013. Does your team struggle to get items to Done?

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Regarding the matter of speaking out publicly (on some things ‘Agile’)

Gunther Verheyen

It is based upon the insights on ‘scale’ that I already shared in the first edition of my book, in 2013, which was even before (or maybe at the start of) the whole scaling hype.

2022 78
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Should we hire full-time or contract agile coaches?

Kiron Bondale

In 2013 I wrote an article about the advantages and disadvantages of contract project managers. Having full-time coaches might prolong the journey to sustainable agility.

2020 41
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How To Build a Strong Company Culture as a Team Who Hardly Meets Face-to-Face

Proofhub

For instance, a 2013 study asked 2500 workers to analyze medical images for objects of interest. As a content writer, a lot of my work focuses on employee wellbeing and business sustainability.

2021 125
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Risk-aware Product Development (a.k.a. Scrum)

Scrum.org

See Chaos Report 2013 ). . When dealing with technology uncertainty and medium/low requirements uncertainty (Sustaining Innovation) and it is desirable to be predictable, use effective agile release planning approaches to setup a reasonable plan with maneuvering space to account for some requirements/execution uncertainty using either a time or scope buffer (a set of features that are considered stretch / extra-weight to be jettisoned in case of problems).

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

Ready & Fit: Understanding Agile Adoption Risk in DoD and Other Highly Regulated Settings,” Suzanne Miller and Mary Ann Lapham, 25 th Annual Software Technology Conference, Salt Lake City, 8-10 April 2013. Nord, CrossTalk: The Journal of Defense Software Engineering , May/June 2013. Quantitative Risk ‒ Phases 1 & 2: A013 ‒ Final Technical Report SERC-2013-TR-040-3,” Walt Bryzik and Gary Witus, November 12, 2013, Stevens Institute of Technology.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Examining the Value of Monte Carlo Simulation of Project Time Management,” Goran Avlijas, Management: Journal of Sustainable Business Management Solutions in Emerging Economies , March 2018. 4, 2013. Roeser et al (eds), Springer Briefs in Philosophy, 2013. Dealing with project complexity by matrix-based propagation modelling for project risk analysis,” Chao Fang and Franck Marle,” Journal of Engineering Design , Taylor & Francis, Volume 24, Issue 4, 2013. “A

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Should You Compare Paychecks at Work?

Brad Egeland

This social media company has had complete salary transparency since 2013. Why you should talk about wagesPay secrecy furthers the wage gap and opportunities for discrimination, including sustaining the gender pay gap and keeping wages lower for people of color.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Examining the Value of Monte Carlo Simulation of Project Time Management,” Goran Avlijas, Management: Journal of Sustainable Business Management Solutions in Emerging Economies , March 2018. 4, 2013. Roeser et al (eds), Springer Briefs in Philosophy, 2013. Dealing with project complexity by matrix-based propagation modelling for project risk analysis,” Chao Fang and Franck Marle,” Journal of Engineering Design , Taylor & Francis, Volume 24, Issue 4, 2013. “A

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Working Remotely? This Will Hit You Next!

Scrum.org

The question on my mind is, if we can sustain this feeling of “it works” in the future. The Role of Fear-Related Behaviors in the 2013–2016 West Africa Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak. The Current Situation.

2020 150
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Scrum Vocabulary (updated)

Gunther Verheyen

Product Backlog : an ordered, evolving list of all work deemed necessary by the Product Owner to create, maintain and sustain a product. I translated my book (2013) to Dutch in 2016 as “ Scrum Wegwijzer “ It was published in German as “ Scrum Taschenbuch ” (translated by Peter Goetz and Uwe Schirmer) in 2017.

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Success in Disruptive Times: PMI’s 2018 Pulse of the Profession

Online PM Courses

in 2013. Climate change and sustainable development. The PMI has titled its 2018 Pulse of the Profession report: Success in Disruptive Times. As with previous reports, Success in Disruptive Times is filled with fascinating data and valuable insights. And, as we have done with the 2016 and 2017 Pulse of the Profession reports, we will take a selective look at the aspects that catch our attention, and encourage you to read the full report for yourself.

2018 64
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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Integrating Agile with EVM , EVM World , 2013. Forecasting ACAT1 Program Performance in the Presence of Statistical Uncertainty , IPMC 2013. College of Performance Management , November 2013. If there is not fit among these activities, there is no distinctive strategy and little to sustain the strategic deployment process.

2019 42
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Monte Carlo Simulation

Herding Cats

Management: Journal of Sustainable Business and Management Solutions in Emerging Economies. [2] Thomopoulos, Springer, 2013. [10] Estimation is part of project management. . The most important estimates for the project manager are related to time and cost. . Since it is easier to estimate small tasks, these estimates are often calculated and performed as point estimates, for example, a task will take 3 days. Or perhaps as an estimate with two-point ranges.

2018 43
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Flexible Leadership in an Era of Constant Change - John Tabis

PM That Works

He he launched in Marina Del Rey California based company, and is now an industry leader in the online floral space that delivers flowers and plants fresh from eco friendly, sustainable farms around the world. So yeah, so we we filmed in the state Summer of 2013 and we're getting we're getting back there in the company's history and then we aired in the spring of 2014. Right, but, but how do we how do we grow and sustain? To get to the web page of the radio show, click here.

2020 40
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Webinar Recap: How Innovation & Portfolio Management Office Underpins Corporate Success

MPUG

During the 2010, 2013, and all of those other fun launches as we’ve gone through and continued to advance Microsoft Project, Project Online, and all of the good Project for the web stuff. 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.

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Learning culture: The culture every modern workplace needs

Runrun.it

This is key to what makes a brand sustain itself through another never-ending process: the constant changes in the market. By 2013, Nokia’s market share fell to just 3%. Check it out what you will find on this article about learning culture : Learning culture is the key to keeping business strong Creating a learning culture Have the right tools for the job. American pioneer Benjamin Franklin famously said: “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”

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Webinar Recap: Agile Series Part 1 – Understanding & Incorporating Agile Project Management

MPUG

” However, in the past, if you even go back into 2013 is probably where we’ll see a big transition in how even Microsoft is developing software is that they go out, talk to all their stakeholders, they define their requirements, figure out what they want to build and they build, build, build, and then three years later there’s a whole upgrade, right?

2019 40
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Limits of a Self-Organizing Team

Leading Agile

The only one that has succeeded in growing and sustaining itself is the Mondragon cooperative in the Basque region of Spain, which has some unique characteristics compared to other examples. In 2013 I described a conference session Pelrine facilitated in which we explored this concept in 2009. The idea of a self-organizing team has been promoted strongly since the Agile movement started to gain popularity following the publication of the Agile Manifesto in 2001.

2018 104