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Exploring Estimation Approaches: What is the Right Fit for Scrum Teams!

Scrum.org

Estimation is a complementary practice Scrum Teams use in Product D evelopment. The purpose of estimation is to provide a rough idea of how much effort, time, and budget are needed to complete specific features or PBI- Product Backlog Item of the product. or T-shirt sizes (XS, S, M, L, XL, etc.).

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How to Manage Project Scope Without Scope Creep (with examples)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

One of the reasons for that is scope creep – and that’s what this article is all about. Scope creep is the more common term but you might hear both, especially if you are working in software development. Ultimately, it isn’t the project manager coming up with new requirements and asking the team to “just do it”.

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How to create a competitive analysis (examples and free template)

Planio

In this guide, we’ll go deep into what a competitive analysis should include and then provide a step-by-step guide (including examples and templates) to help you create your own. If you’re a founder, product strategist, or team leader looking to beat the competition and deliver for your customers, this article is for you!

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How Poor Facilitation Of The Scrum Events Can Cause Zombie Scrum

Scrum.org

In the past years, Johannes Schartau, Christiaan Verwijs, and I wrote many articles on Zombie Scrum. I definitely see many good things happening within our community, and the teams and organizations we work with. In short, I’ll describe how poor facilitation of the Scrum events can cause Zombie Scrum. In short, Zombie Scrum!

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How To Motivate Your Project Team

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Ruth Pearce knows everything there is to know about motivating your project team. I caught up with Ruth to find out more about how to motivate teams and why it’s something you should be actively doing. Why do you think motivation on project teams is so important? She’s even written the book on it. So how do we do it? Gertman et.

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Agile Metrics — The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Scrum.org

Suitable agile metrics reflect either a team’s progress in becoming agile or your organization’s progress in becoming a learning organization. At the team level, qualitative agile metrics often work better than quantitative metrics. Do you want to get this article in your inbox? Good Agile Metrics.

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7 Awesome Meeting Habits That Will Make You Money

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Too much bad meeting behavior affects your ability to serve you customers at a high level, and ultimately will cost you a lot of money. For example, take a look at this Key Strategic Objective for Apple: To ask less of the planet, we ask more of ourselves. Now, let’s imagine the beginning of a new product development meeting at Apple.