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Kanban vs. Scrum: What’s the Difference?

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Learn more One value of using this method is that it’s easier to identify bottlenecks and other issues that could delay the completion of tasks and address them before they affect your project budget or schedule. Scrum allows you to create flexible project plans that can be adjusted at any point without impacting your project or budget.

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What Is a Stakeholder? Definitions, Types & Examples

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Stakeholders are very important because they can have a positive or negative influence on the project with their decisions. While every project has stakeholders and those stakeholders can be anyone with influence or that can be influenced by the project. Types of Stakeholders. Stakeholder Examples. Stakeholder Analysis.

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The PM Skills You Can Forget About (And the Ones You Really Need to Know)

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Courses, coaches, blogs, and websites try to give us a rounded view of what project managers need, and some skills and tools do still have value in some situations. We’ve moved on from the idea that a few impact and influence grids can actively manage other people’s behavior. Verdict: Essential. Earned Value Analysis.

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7 Ways to Sell Agile to Project Stakeholders

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COO attention = budget. Here are some tips to get the word out that the business influencers are going Agile: Send them links to articles and blog posts that mention your competitors’ move to Agile. Both of these people have the COO’s attention because they have a problem that requires immediate attention.

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Organizational Process Assets: Definitions, Examples & Templates

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Officially defined by the Project Management Institute’s Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMI’s PMBOK) as “the plans, processes, policies, procedures and knowledge bases specific to and used by the performing organization,” operational process assets influence the management of a project.

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Project Governance: Establishing an Effective Steering Committee

Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

Within the project management community, the concept of governance is seen as a fundamental project control, which is easy to grasp in principle. Getting the governance piece right requires insight and at times a few honest conversations about roles and responsibilities. Creating a smooth escalation and governance process.

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Why are people leaving project management?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I gathered some project management statistics from original research (thank you, blog reader community) and learned some scary facts: it’s hard out there for project professionals. The buck stops with me but there are very few ways I can influence the direction of travel. So why are people leaving project management?