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From ‘Lazy’ to ‘Agile’ Project Management

The Lazy Project Manager

Benefits: At the conclusion of this full-day interactive classroom training, you will be able to: Understand the ‘backbone’ of smart/agile working whilst managing projects. Be effectively ‘Agile’. Close Co-operation – management and the executives, specialist need to work cordially to make an impact on the project on a daily basis.

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Gate Reviews: What Project Managers Need To Know

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Decision gates are part of empowering decision-making and ensuring the right people make the call as to whether a project progresses (or is closed). The phases of a typical predictive lifecycle are: Idea or concept phase Initiate Plan Execute Close. Then we don’t have another review point until we’re about to close.

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A Guide to Project Closure: 12 Essential Things To Do

Rebel’s Guide to PM

That’s the last step of the ‘traditional’ predictive (waterfall) project lifecycle, but even agile projects close. The PMO will want a copy and you should also send one to the project sponsor and any other senior stakeholders. This can simply be a folder called ‘Closed Projects’: there’s no need for anything fancy.

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Teamhood Software Review

Rebel’s Guide to PM

It’s extremely easy to use with a low learning curve, so even if you aren’t (and don’t want to be) agile experts, you can quickly improve productivity and collaboration. Summary review of Teamhood: Teamhood is perfect for companies looking to work in more agile ways but without adding the overhead of ‘learning agile ’.

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How to Build and Implement a Project Strategy

ProjectManager.com

Project Management Office (PMO): A PMO is responsible for defining and maintaining the standards for an organization’s project management. There are also agile practices, which are more iterative and collaborative with cross-functional teams. The following professionals will handle the actual creation of the project strategy.

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Top Project Management Conferences of 2020

ProjectManager.com

Laszlo Bock, formally on the senior management team of Google, will be the closing speaker of the event. For the agile enthusiast, this scrum gathering takes place twice a year since 2013. Agile & Beyond . Agile continues to be on the ascent in project management, and this is the place to stay current and not be left behind.

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2019 Project Management Conferences You Won’t Want to Miss

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The focus will be taking Agile to the next level in your organization. SGAUS19 has a number of themes including Champions of Agile, Organizational Transformation: the Learning Curve, Scrum in Hard Places, Scrum in My Heart, Scrum Tool Kit and Scrum in Weird Places. Agile and Beyond: Detroit, Michigan, USA, 30-31 May 2019.

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