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Useless Agile Metrics

Scrum.org

TL; DR: Useless Agile Metrics Ideally, a metric is a leading indicator for a pattern change, allowing your Scrum team to analyze the cause in time and take countermeasures. What if these useless agile metrics lead you in the wrong direction while providing you with the illusion that you know where your team is heading?

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My Journey as a Scrum Master

Scrum.org

If only we would create more accurate estimates…. Rini worked at Prowareness and by attending their monthly meetups I became familiar with this Agile consultancy agency in the Netherlands & India. I had never done a presentation at a seminar before, not even in Dutch and in The Netherlands! Prowareness. A recipe for disaster….

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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Five Immutable Principles of Project Success , PMI Spring Seminar, 2021, Austin TX. Agile Project Management. Agile Software Development for Government Software Intensive System of Systems (SISoS) , Boulder Agile Meetup, 27 July 2016. Integrating Agile with EVM , EVM World, 2013. Risk Management.

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The Growth of Value-Driven Project Management

International Institute for Learning

IIL’s seminars and webinars on project management maturity began more than two decades ago and laid the foundation for many of today’s value-driven project management practices. There was often highly optimistic or unrealistic estimates of benefits and value made to get the project approval accompanied by a high priority.

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The Roles & Responsibilities of a Scrum Master

Agilemania

So, if you are having the same critical questions in mind and want to explore agile development, then you are on the right page. It is an iterative and incremental structure for project management mainly used in agile software development. A coach, motivator and a leader for an Agile team, Scrum Master is the man behind the show.

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The Roles & Responsibilities of a Scrum Master

Agilemania

So, if you are having the same critical questions in mind and want to explore agile development, then you are on the right page. It is an iterative and incremental structure for project management mainly used in agile software development. A coach, motivator and a leader for an Agile team, Scrum Master is the man behind the show.

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PROJECT MANAGEMENT BENCHMARKING, an excellence enabling instrument

International Institute for Learning

Proceedings from seminars and symposiums on general project management concepts. Proceedings from seminars and symposiums specializing in project management best practices. Improvement in estimating accuracy by a certain percentage or dollar value. Relationships with other professional societies. Graduate-level theses.