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The PMI-SP Certification & uCertify Training Course Review

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The final lesson looks at integrated schedule management and the project management processes that affect the schedule, which is helpful as it gives a ‘real life’ flavour to the material. It’s also good that you get explanations to help you understand what you didn’t get right in the exercises. Project Management Salary Survey (2018).

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Seven Priorities for Project Managers in 2019

ProjectManager.com

If you want to know what your priorities should be for 2019, look at the way your world was at the end of 2018 and at the start of this year. Related: Mastering the Decision-Making Process: A Practical Guide. The best we can do is to recognize that the seed of each new year was planted in the previous year. Personal Resilience.

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Book Review: The Power of Project Leadership

LiquidPlanner

In Susanne’s book, 2018 PMI research shows that only 52% of projects finish on time, only 69% meet their business objectives, and, for every $1 billion spent, organizations are losing $97 million. It’s no longer enough to manage the intricacies of our projects (no matter how strong our processes or intellect).

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

Scrum.org

The neurological processes for this are also well-understood. 2013), and in the workplace (Manganelli, Thibault-Landry & Forest, 2018). This process is both pleasurable and stressful, so it may eventually lead to the same mental issues as stress that is imposed by outside forces. J., & Kee, Y. Maslach, C., Jackson, S.

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How Do You Prioritize Your Work as a Savvy PMO?

Planview

Do you have a process to figure out what to do first or to identify the work that will bring the most value to the business? First, let’s acknowledge that it’s not easy to establish an effective prioritization process when your PMO and teams are in high demand. Let’s start with the first step in the process. Keep in mind….

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

Scrum.org

But adherence to a framework or prescribed process does not guarantee agility. Adherence to a framework or prescribed process does not guarantee agility.”. I prefer a process-based definition of agility. Although we used Scrum teams for our investigation, these processes are generic enough to apply to Agile teams in general.

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Reflection and Takeaways on Agility from the SMC-IT 2018 Space Mission Design conference

The IIL Blog

Case studies on how agile methodologies have been applied to mission planning and how scrum has been used in spacecraft construction were discussed, as well as topics such as developing and delivering software, reliability and reuse of software, onboard processing, and communication. Representing Scrum, Inc.