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How We Made Our Customer The Product Owner

Scrum.org

From 2010–2015 I worked as a Scrum Master for a web agency. We developed software solutions for external clients. In this article, I’ll share how we addressed this challenge, what experiments we tried, and what insights I gained from the period after 2015. However, the customer really owned the product budget.

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What is Visual Project Management?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Why do you think projects are still late and over budget when professional project management techniques have been around for years? In a software development organization they increased productivity by more than 500% and achieved 100% release date achievement. A version of this interview first appeared on this site in 2015.

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How To Help Your Team Manage Project Risk

Rebel’s Guide to PM

It could be as simple as a spreadsheet, but if you are using enterprise project management software then explain how to flag the priority of a risk in that. An edited version of this article appeared on the Twenty Eighty Strategy Execution website in 2015. Identify risk response strategies.

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Intelligent Collaboration for Predictive Insight & Competitive Advantage

LiquidPlanner

4 5 Modern, online collaborative software platforms are perfect for realizing this strategy. . Gardner, Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction, New York: Crown Publishing Group, 2015. To reiterate, forecasting should never be seen as a one and done exercise. Accessed 26 June 2022. Tetlock and D.

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What is Project Management

MPUG

The project manager is responsible for coordinating the work of the team, monitoring progress, and making any necessary adjustments to ensure that the project is completed on time and within budget. Constraints typically relate to schedule, resources, budget, and scope. Executing the Project Build the project team.

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2017 Project Management Trends To Watch

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Even the smallest firm (including my own company with all of two part-time employees) can use project management software. The introduction of the apprenticeship levy in the UK next year may well have a significant impact on training budgets even in mid-sized firms. I’ve drunk more tea.

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Industry-Specific PM Tools: Are They Worth It?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Bill sent me this question on email: My organisation and I are looking for project management software that is geared toward research projects or projects where training/education is the final product. I think that, for the most part, project management software should work for any end deliverable. But the language is different.