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Product Discovery for Scrum Teams

Scrum.org

This approach provides fast feedback and reduces the risk of building something not valuable to customers. It helps keep the Product Backlog filled with well-defined and validated items, reducing the risk of wasting effort on unwanted features. Use it to validate assumptions and mitigate risk, especially in highly uncertain projects.

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Catsuits and Parachutes

The Lazy Project Manager

Tailwind Project Solutions was formed in 2014 to provide a bespoke approach to project leadership development. 2014) – author Peter Taylor. [2] 2014) – author Peter Taylor. Does it truly represent the change underway inside your organisation?

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. Risk issues that can be identified early in the program, which will potentially impact the program later, termed Known Unknowns and can be alleviated with good risk management. Effective Risk Management 2 nd Edition , Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to manage the risk encountered on software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. Risk Management is essential for development and production programs.

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The Functions of a Project Management Office

Project Pulse Journal

Risk Management Another critical role of the PMO is identifying and mitigating risks across projects. It implements risk assessment and mitigation strategies to manage obstacles and ensure projects proceed with minimal disruptions. Paper presented at PMI® Global Congress 2014—EMEA, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

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Professionalise Project Management

The Lazy Project Manager

It is not just about the provision of a ‘lean’ framework for these sponsors and project managers to work to – and by ‘lean’ I mean that every part should add value and not create unnecessary waste. Tailwind Project Solutions was formed in 2014 to provide a bespoke approach to project leadership development.

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Agile: Past, Present, & Future. A Conversation with Agile Trainer, Rubin Jen.

International Institute for Learning

Rubin obtained his Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) designation in 2007 and has been teaching Agile and Scrum to enterprise organizations since 2014. For teams, it is about being patient and letting them take risks and ‘failing’ early on (contingent on them having the right skills and abilities). ABOUT THE AUTHOR.

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