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The Definitive Guide to Project Success Criteria

Rebel’s Guide to PM

So I thought it was about time that I pooled all my resources into one definitive guide to project success criteria. Let’s start with a definition of project success criteria. The absence of a formal definition of failure makes it uncomfortably easy for internal and external stakeholders to brand projects a failure.

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Project Management Basics: Definitions, Methods and Tools

ProjectManager.com

Learn more The first project management basic is the definition of a project, which allows us to understand what project management is and why it’s so important for any type of organization. Of course, there’s more to project management than the information in this project management 101 article. Get started for free today.

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Definition Of Done (DOD) Explanation and Example

Scrum.org

This article will review a few different thoughts on the DOD, relate the DOD to acceptance criteria, and show an example of a DOD. I've seen Scrum Teams that don't have DODs and Scrum Teams that have such poor DODs that they are not actionable. During this article, we’ll look at some basics about the DOD.

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The Definitive Guide to Project Success Criteria

Rebel’s Guide to PM

So I thought it was about time that I pooled all my resources into one definitive guide to project success criteria. Let’s start with a definition of project success criteria. The absence of a formal definition of failure makes it uncomfortably easy for internal and external stakeholders to brand projects a failure.

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The Definitive Guide to Project Sponsors

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In this article, we’ll look at why that is and how you can work with a project sponsor as a project manager. There is no single, perfect definition of a project sponsor that all the professional bodies like APM and PMI agree on. Some information in this article first appeared on the PMO Perspectives blog. Your next steps.

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Agile "Definition of Done"

Musings on Project Management

No less an Agile/Scrum eminence than Mike Cohn -- author of some really good books and articles -- has come out with a newsletter on -- are you ready for this? -- what's the meaning of DONE in Agile. Definition of Done. His acronym, a bit a poor choice to my mind, is "DoD". But, there you have it.

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Ready or Not? Demystifying the Definition of Ready in Scrum

Scrum.org

Over time, various myths and beliefs have surrounded the concept of the Definition of Ready. In this article, we aim to dispel any lingering doubts so that you can confidently decide "To use Definition of Ready or not to use." Did you notice that there was no mention of Definition of Ready anywhere above?

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