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Top 10 Project Management Methodologies – An Overview

ProjectManager.com

We’ll go through some of the most popular project management methodologies, which are applied in many sectors such as software development, R&D and product development. When to Use It: The practice originated in software development and works well in that culture. How do you know if agile is for you?

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Project Executing: A "How to" Guide

Project Pulse Journal

Effective execution, rooted in the guidelines of the Project Management Institute's (PMI's) - Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK, 6e, 2017) Executing Process Group, is paramount to ensure the project stays on track, mitigates risks, addresses issues, and ensures stakeholder satisfaction. Maintaining stakeholder engagement.

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How to Improve Your SWAG

MPUG

Independent Estimates : This is a process of using a third party to obtain/analyze information which will be used to support prediction of cost, schedule, or other items (PMBOK 2017, pg. This approach is helpful if you have a significant history of project performance, and you know how to extrapolate the cost and duration for a given unit.

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How to Foster Motivation and Purpose Through Agility

Scrum.org

In creative work (which would apply to software development), studies have found that after a certain point, money is a demotivator. So, what does this mean for a software development organization? American Express. Redefining the C-Suite: Business the Millennial Way. Retrieved from AmericanExpress.com.

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Scrum Guide 2020 — Download the Free Scrum Guide 2020 Reordered to Spot Changes and Patterns

Scrum.org

The Scrum Guide 2020 is available now: Change is coming to make Scrum more accessible and inclusive beyond software development. How Scrum Changes with the Scrum Guide 2020. Scrum has witnessed many applications beyond its origins of software development over recent years. TL; DR: The Scrum Guide 2020.

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

Scrum.org

This increases blood pressure, heart rate, and tenses muscles (McEwen, 2017). Neuroscientific research has shown that the neurotransmitter dopamine increases our intrinsic motivation, and is also released upon pursuing that motivation (Di Domenico & Ryan, 2017). Analysis of fault generation caused by stress during software development.

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Quick and Easy: This Is New in the Scrum Guide 2020

Inloox

A lot has happened since the first release, which is why the two inventors are constantly working on their concept and regularly publish updated editions of the Scrum Guide - the last one in 2017. This way the creators of Scrum hope to continue to establish the agile concept in industries outside of software development.

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