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Useless Agile Metrics

Scrum.org

Learn more about useless agile metrics, from individual velocity to estimation accuracy to utilization rates. ? Join your peers for an advanced Scrum Master class: August 29-30, 2023: Professional Scrum Master II. ? Estimation Accuracy: Agile practices value delivering working software over comprehensive documentation.

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Agile Negotiations — Life Is a Negotiation; Why Would Scrum Be Different?

Scrum.org

Guaranteed : Advanced Professional Scrum Master Online Training w/ PSM II Certificate — May 30-31, 2023 ? Product Backlog refinement : The Product Owner and Developers collaborate to refine, estimate, and order the Product Backlog items based on value, risk, and dependencies. Last week’s most popular discussion on LinkedIn : ?

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How To Improve Employee Productivity – 10 Tested Ways [2024]

Teamweek

When scheduling a project, you estimate how much time tasks should take and who will work on each task. Sometimes it can be difficult to estimate how long a task will take if you aren’t an expert yourself, so it’s best to involve the team or experts in your planning.

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Top 11 Cities for Project Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

A US$1.6bn project, it was delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 and is now set to open in 2023, providing 17,000 seats in the venue. It’s the most ambitious transit expansion in the USA, with the 2021 financial plan budgeting for expenditure of US$3.1bn. Completion is expected in 2023.

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A Comprehensive Guide to Workforce Planning

Teamweek

This matters because 69% of HR professionals surveyed by Wiley at the beginning of 2023 said their organization has a skills gap, up from 55% in a similar survey in 2021. LinkedIn’s 2023 Workplace Learning Report revealed that skill sets for jobs have changed by around 25% since 2015. If not, you may need to make changes.

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Project Management Artifacts: Essential Tools to Enhance Project Management

Project Pulse Journal

Methods vary depending on the project description and scope, ranging from data gathering and analysis techniques to estimation and planning approaches, including collaboration techniques and workflow optimization. These include the means to realize the desired outcomes, results, or deliverables. References: Project Management Institute.

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Three Tips for Recognizing the Influence You Have

International Institute for Learning

Adapted from Don’t Underestimate Your Influence at Work, published in Harvard Business Review, January 6, 2023 ( [link] ) Most people chronically underestimate their influence. Vanessa Bohns is a professor of organizational behavior at Cornell University and author of the book You Have More Influence Than You Think (2021, Norton).