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Cargo Cult Agile — A Checklist to Open the Discussion

Scrum.org

November 19, 2020 : If you use Scrum then join the free Hands-on Agile meetup—it will be worth your time ! Agile frameworks, like Scrum or Kanban, have been on the rise across organizations for many, many years now. 2020 marks the 25th anniversary of the introduction of Scrum.) Feynman! “, page 340.

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Is JIRA a Counterproductive Project Management Software In Today’s Market?

nTask

Coming back to JIRA there is a fictional case study that I based on my own analysis. From time to time, I also partake in software development and QA campaigns. As a result, when they send in a request to the IT team and the CTO to buy task management tools, a lot of wrong things happen. Let’s call them Jake and Amir!

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How to identify stakeholders? (+Identification Cheatsheet)

PM Basics

You can now think about ways to negate the potential threat they bring, perhaps by contracting the lunch preparation work to them instead. Then, perform stakeholder analysis. You also worry that they may protest against the school principal to cancel your project. What Are The Processes In Identifying Stakeholders?

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Agile Unplugged: EP01 | Mike Cottmeyer and Brian Sondergaard

Leading Agile

– So, I think one of the interesting takeaways during that time is that you’ll, again, I wish we almost had like a whiteboard. I just don’t see as much of their work as I do the guys that are doing Scrum and LeSS and SAFe and things like that. You just went from director to CTO? – [Mike] Yeah.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

The Effectiveness of Risk Management: An Analysis of Project Risk Planning Across Industries and Countries,” Ofer Zwikael and Mark Ahn, Risk Analysis , Vol. Risk as Analysis and Risk as Feelings: Some Thoughts about Affect, Reason, Risk, and Rationality,” Paul Slovic, Melissa L. Risk Analysis and Management,” Lester B.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

The Effectiveness of Risk Management: An Analysis of Project Risk Planning Across Industries and Countries,” Ofer Zwikael and Mark Ahn, Risk Analysis , Vol. Risk as Analysis and Risk as Feelings: Some Thoughts about Affect, Reason, Risk, and Rationality,” Paul Slovic, Melissa L. Risk Analysis and Management,” Lester B.

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Webinar Recap: Project Performance Measurement – Part 1: Overview Of Project Performance Measurements

MPUG

This is part one of the series. I am the director of technology solutions and CTO for Edwards Performance Solutions. As I said, in the government space, if you have a contract over a certain dollar value, you as a program project manager may have no choice. It’s a requirement of the contract you’re on.