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

Rebel’s Guide to PM

They may mainly work with agile approaches and often in a client-facing business such as an agency (although large firms may have in-house Digital PMs too). Agile marketing , for example, is a specialist way to apply agile methods to marketing projects. Instead, people with PMO job titles are in a crucial support function.

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5 kinds of Agile bandits: Say/Do Metrics Bandits

Scrum.org

The Illusion of Precision: Debunking Agile Banditry in Say-Do Metrics Starting from the basics, let's understand what say-do metrics really entail. I once worked with an organisation where the PMO presented metrics that were manipulated to align with expected outcomes. Say-do metrics can be a double-edged sword. Enjoy this video?

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5 Tips for Scrum Masters: Collaborating with Project Management for success in a transforming landscape

Scrum.org

As you deliver your speech, you realize that Scrum and Project Management, despite their apparent differences, face a myriad of common challenges. In this article, we will explore some tactics which I found valuable when I was in need to align Scrum with Project Management practices.

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Does your PMO hinder or help your agile transformation?

Kiron Bondale

An agile project management office might sound to some like an oxymoron, right? This might be a reasonable assertion as many PMOs were first formed to provide oversight over a portfolio of projects and enforcing standards sounds like the antithesis to agility. So what can a PMO do to actively support an agile transformation?

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Three Essential Agile Failure Patterns in 7:31 Minutes—Making Your Scrum Work #12

Scrum.org

TL; DR: Essential Agile Failure Patterns — When Noise Interferes with Signal. There are plenty of failure possibilities with Scrum. Given that Scrum is a framework with a reasonable yet short “manual,” this effect should not surprise anyone. Join Stefan in one of his upcoming Professional Scrum training classes !

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Project Management Conferences in Europe 2023/2024

Rebel’s Guide to PM

July to September 2023 Bridge 2023: PM & PMO Conference: Vilnius, Lithuania and Online, 21 September 2023 The annual event has a theme of Projectized-Digitized-Connected and will be dedicated to a sustainable way of working this year.

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Project Management Conferences in Europe 2023/2024

Rebel’s Guide to PM

July to September 2023 Bridge 2023: PM & PMO Conference: Vilnius, Lithuania and Online, 21 September 2023 The annual event has a theme of Projectized-Digitized-Connected and will be dedicated to a sustainable way of working this year. Do you know of an upcoming event to add to the list? Please fill out this form.

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