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Project Management Job Titles: Understanding the Types of Roles in Project Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The ‘project manager’ job descriptions have a wide variety of roles and duties, which can make it hard to know what’s right for you. What ‘project manager’ means to one business will be slightly different to how another company uses the term. That’s what a project is.

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Agile Teams: Roles & Structures That Work

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Agile methods need Agile teams — teams that think differently and work in ways that support responsive delivery. An agile mindset, and a set of shared values, principles, and often Agile tools, help Agile teams succeed. So why are agile teams different to other types of ‘classic’ project team?

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How to Overcome 12 Common Requirements Mistakes

Project Risk Coach

How will you elicit, analyze, document, and validate requirements? What project lifecycle—predictive/plan-driven, adaptive/agile, iterative, incremental or hybrid—will you use? If you are using Word or Excel (not a best practice), consider adding a date in the footer and in the filename of your requirement document.

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Agile Principles – Business People & Developers Must Work Together Daily

Scrum.org

This post continues my ongoing series revisiting the principles behind the Agile Manifesto. This time we are focussing on the following Agile principle – “Business people and developers must work together daily throughout the project.” A skilled Business Analyst can bring benefits. The process did not work well.

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How to compile business requirements

Rebel’s Guide to PM

On Agile projects, business representatives work alongside developers so scope unfolds as the project progresses. The team is still working to reduce ambiguity on the project and define the requirements, but it’s being done in a different way to an approved scope document. How to create the perfect business requirements.

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Project Requirements: The What, Why, and How

Rebel’s Guide to PM

If so, then you know how frustrating and even maddening it can be to try to work on something without having a good understanding of what is required. It might feel like you’ll never nail down what you’re supposed to be doing (GDPR project, I’m looking at you). First, let’s make sure we know what we are talking about.

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Episode 180 –  Fuel Your Project with the Power of Dynamic Documentation

Velociteach

Will your project’s documentation pass the test of time once the project is done and the people are gone? Documentation is at the intersection of information management, organizational design, and personal productivity. Accurate documentation makes teams more efficient and effective. She’s based in Calgary, Alberta.