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A "How to" on Project Closing: Ensuring Project Success

Project Pulse Journal

Imagine steering your project to a successful close, with every stakeholder satisfied and every team member proud of the collective achievement. A thorough analysis of financial information also aids in developing a closing statement, which assists in mitigating future issues.

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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. 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. We developed software solutions for external clients. When I started, Scrum wasn’t used at all.

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How to Make a Disaster Recovery Plan

ProjectManager.com

Companies with a major loss of data, according to research conducted in 2015, often don’t fully recover: some never reopen (43 percent) and others close within two years (29 percent). So research from 2015 shows that companies with a major loss of data 43% never were able to recover and reopen, 29% closed within two years.

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The Power of Project Leadership [Book review]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

These are: Be authentic (she talks about this in her interview with me ) Lead with vision Improve and innovate Empower the team Get close to stakeholders Establish a solid foundation Work with intent. This review first appeared in 2015 in relation to the first edition of the book. Buy on Amazon.

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PRINCE2 and PMBOK: How They Compare

Rebel’s Guide to PM

PRINCE2 is process based, with processes covering starting a project, directing a project, initiating a project, managing stage boundaries (sign off and moving between stages), controlling a stage, managing product delivery (there is an emphasis on product based planning) and closing a project. There are also seven values.

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Top PM 10 Articles of All Time

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The essential docs article topped the list again this year, closely followed by the resource library pages. It’s been reprinted elsewhere and still gets read today. Back then I did have responsibility for hiring (I don’t have a PM team working for me today) so I was speaking from my own experiences. It’s free.

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

Scrum.org

The notion of “sustainable pace” is closely tied to Extreme Programming practices. Clinical burnout is a very severe condition that can put people out of work for the rest of their lives and is often indistinguishable from clinical depression (Bianchi, Schonfeld & Laurent, 2015). Closing Words. What is a sustainable pace?