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Tips & Tricks to facilitate Sprint Planning

Scrum.org

In this blog post, I share some tips and tricks that may help you facilitate strong Sprint Planning outcomes, so that your Scrum Team will have a great start into their Sprint. Your team needs to overcome the Groan Zone to avoid weak outcomes that lead to a poor Sprint! What is facilitation? What is Sprint Planning?

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Unlocking the Power and Mastery of Development Approach and Life Cycle

Project Pulse Journal

Malinawan, PMP Navigating the complexities of modern project management demands a sophisticated comprehension of the Development Approach and Life Cycle Performance Domain. Delve deep into this insightful guide crafted to unravel the intricacies of Development Approaches. By: Meredith G.

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Agile Principles – Simplicity

Scrum.org

If you ask stakeholders what they want, it is likely that in a short time they will come up with a list of features that would take a Scrum Team many years to build. The Product Owner provides an important service to the Scrum Team. Many organisations are fixated on maximising the output from their Developers.

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

Scrum.org

How sustainable is your pace as a developer? This has always been a huge struggle for us and most of the teams we’ve been part of. Unfortunately, many developers and development teams still burn more hours than are probably good for them. The initial practice was for developers to work no more than 40 hours a week.

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

Proofhub

You’ll learn the importance of business culture and how this can be degraded from common remote-work challenges , before learning simple, actionable solutions to build a happy, healthy, and productive team. Want to make it easy for your remote teams to stay connected? Sound good? Let’s jump straight to it. Start using ProofHub.”

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Industry, Product, and Technical Knowledge: What Makes a Project Manager an Expert?

Epicflow Blog

As stated in PMI’s Pulse of the Profession® (2014) , inadequate project requirements are the cause of project failure in 37% of organizations. Besides, it will make you better understand the project’s weaknesses and correct them correspondingly. People won’t take you seriously if you don’t understand them. Project Requirements .

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Addressing The Elephant: And Why Most Conflicts In Teams Are Invisible

Scrum.org

Now, this may be the organisational psychologist in me talking, or the facilitator who senses them in the groups I work with. They may not be explicitly expressed by those experiencing it, but they do influence the dynamics of a group. And either the whole group is aware of this, or some are. Conflicts are fascinating.