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The unbreakable bond: How outstanding service = brand loyalty

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Apply this in your projects Code software to add in customers’ names and default to their location. Apply this in your projects During project execution, use the Voice of the Customer, Product Owner or customer reps to review the deliverables to try to prevent problems in the first place.

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7 Hidden dangers of project management (Or why even well-planned projects sometimes fail)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

After $170m spent on a project to upgrade its computer system, the FBI project crumbled because the requirements were ill-defined from the beginning and the software didn’t function the way the agency had hoped. Take Microsoft, for example (April 2021: link to case study removed as broken).

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What is Large Scale Scrum (LeSS)?

Scrum.org

Large Scale Scrum is still Scrum, although there is one case study that is non-Scrum. I isolated the differences between the 2017 guide and the 2020 guide. LeSS supports the 2017 version of Scrum. If the teams are delivering software, they’ll be using continuous integration and technical excellence.

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Artificial Intelligence and Project Management: The First Step

The IIL Blog

It is able to (with proper prompting) write poetry, generate code, plan vacations, translate languages and do much more. AI enables predictions that are more accurate than traditional software solutions in determining risk responses, probabilities, and their impact. Risk Management. Effective risk management has to be proactive.

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What Makes A Good Product Owner?

Scrum.org

Van Waardenburg & Van Vliet (2013) offer a case study in a large organization and conclude that “The Project Manager focuses on the ’how’ of a project, the Product Owner focuses on the ’what’”. One of the reviewers of this article, Maarten Dalmijn , noted that he missed “product discovery” as a core activity in the work by Bass (2018).

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Project Management software

Binfire

The market for project management software is rapidly expanding. It seems “work management software” is a better name than project management software for some of these applications. Why do we need project management software? Such software should enable diverse groups to work on a common goal and vision.

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

Scrum.org

What do scientific studies have to say about the business outcomes of Agile methodologies, as well as the factors we just mentioned? So we went to Google Scholar and searched for review articles. 2010) reviewed 28 scientific studies that investigated how Scrum is associated with overall business outcomes. Cardozo et.

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