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How to Build Your Project Backlog In 5 Steps

ProjectManager.com

In agile, this is called a user story, which is the general explanation for a feature from the perspective of the customer. It is a term that comes from working in an agile, iterative environment. You should have a list of conditions or capabilities that must be met by the project’s final delivery.

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Go slow (to go fast later)

Kiron Bondale

The January 2020 issue of PM Network provide a case study for one of the 2019 PMI Project of the Year finalists, the Société de transport de Montréal’s (STM) eight-year project to modernize the underground Montréal rail system. Courage is one of the values of the Scrum framework, but it applies to all delivery approaches.

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Liberating Structures 4 Scrum: Lessons from a One-Day Immersive Workshop

Scrum.org

TL; DR: The Liberating Structures Immersive Workshop for Scrum. Since the beginning of 2019, the Hands-on Agile meetup in Berlin has been exploring how to apply Liberating Structures to Scrum. Beyond the basics, we have addressed the Sprint Retrospective, the Sprint Planning, the Product Backlog as well as the Daily Scrum.

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Escaping the Product Owner's Trap: A Path to Unleashing True Value

Scrum.org

These questions probe beyond the mere mechanics of Scrum; they touch upon the ownership of an entity that realizes value when a customer engages with it. I'm starting to understand Scrum and my role as Product Owner much better - be a value maximizer. In the pursuit of perfecting individual parts, the whole is sometimes overlooked.

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Live Virtual Classroom's and the new normal

Scrum.org

When Scrum and Agile were first conceptualized the idea of colocation meant that we had to have everyone in the same place in order to get that extra 80% of communication that is non-verbal. Live Virtual Co-located Professional Scrum Foundations class. Scrum.org Assessment Result. The New World of Virtual Delivery.

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Achieving Operational Agility in a Rapidly Evolving Marketplace

Wrike

One key aspect that can make a significant difference is achieving operational agility. In this article, we will explore the concept of operational agility, its importance in today’s market, the role of technology in enabling agility, strategies for achieving operational agility, overcoming challenges, and measuring success.

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Streamlining Success: Lean Principles in Project Management

MPUG

The benefits of lean having been proven, lean then rippled its way into project management through Agile approaches such as Scrum that are applied mainly but not exclusively to software product development. We show some examples other than software in our Scrum Project Management book. Waiting: Delays caused by idle time.

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