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7 Steps for a Successful Project Budget

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That’s why planning out your project budget is so important: it’s the lifeblood of the project. But first, we need to define what a project budget is. What Is a Project Budget? A project budget is the total projected costs needed to complete a project over a defined period of time. Why You Need a Project Budget.

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How to Use Project Management Principles to Improve Online Assessment Outcomes

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Online assessment tests have become inseparable parts of every organization, and their vital role has increased over the past couple of years. However, establishing a successful online assessment test is a challenging undertaking. This blog post will discuss how project management principles can improve online assessment results.

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Scrum Methodology: Roles, Events & Artifacts

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The scrum methodology was developed as a response to rigid project management approaches such as the waterfall method, which didn’t adapt to the needs of agile product and software development teams. For this purpose it defines three roles, a scrum master, a product owner and a development team, made up of several team members.

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Scrum Master Engagement Patterns: The Development Team

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The first article of this series will address the Scrum Master engagement with the Development Team. Scrum Master Engagement with the Development Team. Following this layout, there are three main scenarios for the Scrum Master’s support of the team: The Co-located, Stable Scrum Team Scenario.

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Inspiring Product Development with Sprint Review Canvas

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A Sprint Review is perhaps one of the most difficult elements in the product development with Scrum. When I started out as Scrum Master, I didn’t attach much importance to this meeting. Therefore, during the first three years in this role, all my sprint reviews were limited to showing the results to the Product Owner.

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Remote Agile (Part 7): Sprint Review with Distributed Teams

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TL; DR: A Remote Sprint Review with a Distributed Team. This seventh article now looks into organizing a remote Sprint Review with a distributed team: How to practice the review with virtual Liberating Structures, including and giving a voice to team members, stakeholders, and customers.

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15 Sprint Review Anti-Patterns

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TL; DR: 15 Sprint Review Anti-Patterns. Answering this question in a collaborative effort of the Scrum Team as well as internal (and external) stakeholders is the purpose of the Sprint Review. Given its importance, it is worthwhile to tackle the most common Sprint Review anti-patterns. Are we still on the right track?