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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. Spoiler alert: Facilitating strong Sprint Planning outcomes starts before the Sprint Planning event! What is Sprint Planning?

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Asana vs. Monday: In-Depth Software Comparison

ProjectManager.com

Our Gantt chart leaves the competition behind, with all four task dependencies to avoid delays, filtering for the critical path to identify essential tasks and a baseline to track planned progress and costs against your actual progress and costs. ProjectManager’s Gantt chart helps you plan, manage and track work in real time.

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How to Manage Auditability (and other non-functional, non-technical requirements)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

If your project is replacing a legacy system with a nice, shiny new system, part of your scope may be to create a project plan for retirement of the old system. Make identifying the sources for these requirements part of your planning process, and ensure that your project budget and labor estimates reflect the level of effort required.

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What Project Managers really need to know about leadership

Rebel’s Guide to PM

What most have in common is an emphasis on project management accreditation, project planning, risk management , reporting progress, controlling change, managing and escalating issues and suchlike. A good project schedule or risk management plan may certainly help, but it is project leadership that brings the team back on track.

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Transport for London’s Signal Failure – £886m more than planned*

Ron Rosenhead

As late as June 2014, TfL’s senior management continued to claim that the project could still be delivered by 2018 despite rail experts suggesting that this was impossible. Optimistic planning bias strikes again? The Assembly experienced this first-hand. You can read the full report here. Where is my project update report?

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How to Replan When Project Goals Are Unrealistic

Rebel’s Guide to PM

If you can put your finger on the above information but still feel you’re falling behind, you may have planned goals that are simply unreachable. Apply the same principles to your restructuring plan, and you’ll get through unscathed. This article first appeared in 2014. Then watch your workdays get back on track.

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Public Infrastructure: Project Management as a Key Success Factor

Inloox

However, to finish the project by this date, everything has to go according to plan from now on. If this had been the case earlier, the building would have been completed in 2014 already. External influences Even in the case of almost perfectly planned projects, external circumstances can require adjustments in budgets and schedules.