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

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Consider the following attributes of a modern transaction processing system, whether located on a server in the corporate data center or delivered as Software-as-a-Service in the Cloud. This article first appeared in 2014 and has been lightly edited to update it. In many cases, advocacy must fall to the project manager. Retirement.

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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 Replan When Project Goals Are Unrealistic

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Step 1: Review your current process. Take a look at your current process. Buckle down, read some project management software reviews, and choose a solution that makes the process smoother. Apply the same principles to your restructuring plan, and you’ll get through unscathed. This article first appeared in 2014.

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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.

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

Ron Rosenhead

. · TfL’s external auditors, KPMG, conducted a lessons learned review that found that TfL’s procurement process was not well thought out. · TfL seemed to change its procurement process as it went along. Optimistic planning bias strikes again? The Assembly experienced this first-hand.

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Project Decision-Making

Velociteach

The challenge is to create a fair, efficient, effective, and transparent process for our teams and stakeholders. Making better decisions requires understanding the organization and establishing context-sensitive processes. Move fast and break things” was Facebook’s motto until 2014. What are they interested in knowing?

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