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

Rebel’s Guide to PM

By the way, the answer to that question is: “Yes, let me analyze what the impact will be and bring you a recommendation for what that means for our current budget and timeline.”). The ‘formally authorized’ part is important because you can, of course, make changes to what’s in the scope statement at any point. What causes scope creep?

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Contracting for Agile Software Development Efforts

Scrum.org

Contracting for Agile software development projects continues to be a major organizational impediment. I am willing to bet that no manager ever lost their job by embracing a contract provided by their legal department as well. Please do avoid creating change request processes or Change Management boards.

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Project Manager Job Description (with free copy+paste examples!)

ProjectManager.com

So we thought it would be a great idea to take a look at what core qualifications are required of project managers and define their responsibilities and the common job descriptions for several PM roles. What Does a Project Manager Do? Try Our Award-Winning Project Management Software Free! Stakeholder Management.

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Organising Around Value Stream Increases Business Agility

The IIL Blog

By Nagaraja Gundappa First things first – let’s define business agility: Business agility, alternatively called enterprise agility and organizational agility, is the ability of an organization to rapidly adapt to market and environmental changes in productive and cost-effective ways according to PMI’s Disciplined Agile.

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Who Is a Scrum Master (and How Do I Become One)?

Agilemania

Scrum is a collaborative and iterative framework for managing complex projects that can be challenging to execute given its fast-paced nature and frequent changes in requirements Scrum emphasizes teamwork, accountability and iterative progress toward a well-defined goal. Who is a Scrum Master?

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7 Ways to Sell Agile to Project Stakeholders

LiquidPlanner

Raising the level of an Agile discussion from the ground up is a subtle way to get Agile project management under the nose of executive stakeholders without seeming too pushy. Metrics around the success and progress of a software development project are many and varied. COO attention = budget.

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Real Cross-functional Teams for Creating Real and Better Products

Scrum.org

Join Stefan in one of his upcoming Professional Scrum training classes ! Jutta has recently pair-written with John Buck a book entitled Company-wide Agility with Beyond Budgeting, Open Space & Sociocracy (dubbed BOSSA nova). in Business Coaching & Change Management, a Dipl.Eng. She holds an M.A. in Education.

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