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Episode 185 – Redefining Project Success through Sustainable Project Management

Velociteach

Projects are instrumental in defining an organization’s vision for a more sustainable future. Dr. Joel Carboni talks about Sustainable Project Management, and the goal to achieve a stated objective while considering the project outcome’s entire lifecycle to ensure a net positive environmental, social, and economic impact.

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15 Non-Academic Project Management Books to Earn PDUs

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Any books about achieving business goals, portfolio management, strategy execution or case-study driven books will count here. Business Resilience is a longer read, but it’s a really interesting guide to how to make sustained progress at pace, whatever pace is appropriate to your organization. PDU claim: 9 hours. PDU claim: 5 hours.

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In-Depth: How To Create Better Work Agreements For Your Team

Scrum.org

Butchibabu and her colleagues (2016) performed an experiment with 13 teams. DeChurch & Mesmer-Magnus (2010) combined the results from 58 scientific studies and found that teams benefit greatly from knowing the skills of each of their members and knowing how to effectively combine those skills for the tasks at hand.

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In-Depth: The Evidence-Based Business Case For Agile

Scrum.org

We will share results from scientific studies that we located through Google Scholar. In a scientific study , we identified five core processes — or factors— that happen in and around Agile teams at varying levels of quality: Teams work to be as responsive as possible through automation, refinement, and a high(er) release frequency.

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Working Remotely? This Will Hit You Next!

Scrum.org

The question on my mind is, if we can sustain this feeling of “it works” in the future. During the Ebola outbreak 2013-2016, people exhibited anxiety-invoked behavior to a large extent. The positive aspects this study found are: Reduction in commuting time. The study [10, p. I suggest we can’t. Effects of Remote Work.

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5 Steps to Finding the Path to Business Agility

International Institute for Learning

The Kaizen loop is one of several improvement processes we use to plan, do, study and act our way to continuous improvement. Managing the change required to comfortably, sustainably and reasonably implement involves the expertise of a coach. Each experiment is supported by the Disciplined Agile goal diagram and corresponding decision.

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How Much Time is Required For PMP Exam Preparation?

Taskque

We conducted a survey in the year 2016 and then published the best responses on the average time of preparation for the PMP exam , which went viral and garnered great appreciation by project managers from all around the world. At least 3 – 4 months with 20 hours of study per week for an Above Target result in all areas.”.

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