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How To Motivate Your Project Team

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Ruth Pearce knows everything there is to know about motivating your project team. I caught up with Ruth to find out more about how to motivate teams and why it’s something you should be actively doing. Why do you think motivation on project teams is so important? She’s even written the book on it. So how do we do it? Gertman et.

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#NoEstimates Outlook in 2019: Is It Still Relevant?

Epicflow Blog

The movement aims at increasing productivity in the domain of software development by promoting management agility. To find out what #NoEstimates is about and whether it’s still relevant in 2019, we conducted extensive research and talked to Woody Zuill , the creator of the idea. Here’s a short overview of this trend and its prospects.

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How to Write a Business Case

ProjectManager.com

The need for a business case is that it collects the proposal, outline, strategy and marketing plan in one document and offers a full look at how the project will benefit the organization. SWOT: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats. Financial plan. Project Plan: It’s time to create the project plan.

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12 Resource Allocation Tips for Managers

ProjectManager.com

Resource allocation is just a fancy term for a plan that you develop for using the available resources at your disposal in a project. This is mostly a short-term plan set in place to achieve goals in the future. You live and die by your planning. What plan have you ever created that was set in stone? Track Time.

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Scrum Master Interview Questions (4): From Metrics to Kicking off Scrum to Scrum Anti-Patterns

Scrum.org

Your Scrum team is consistently failing to meet commitments, and its velocity is volatile. How would you address this issue with the team? If a Scrum Team is exhibiting a volatile velocity, consistently failing to meet their forecasts, it suggests that velocity is being used as the prevalent metric for measuring that team’s progress.

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How to Create a Project Management Schedule (Example Included)

ProjectManager.com

Still, there are concrete steps you can take to develop a solid project schedule and ensure all aspects of your project are properly planned and accounted for. The best way around this is to involve the team in constructing the list of tasks. Then get the team together to add to it. Step 1: Write Down Your Tasks.

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Overcoming a Lack of Project Resources

ProjectManager.com

The first thing to do when you notice your resources aren’t covering what you planned for in your project is to identify the context. New Technology : You might be working on a software program that is more advanced than your able to support, or your team hasn’t yet developed the skill set to use properly.