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Questions to ask a project management mentor

Rebel’s Guide to PM

At regular meetings You’ll find a regular cadence and probably settle into a regular agenda or routine with the check in sessions. I’m thinking of taking a project management certification. Which certifications do you have and what was your experience of getting them? Can I tell you what’s happened since we last spoke?

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Disciplined Agile & SAFe

International Institute for Learning

Since I hold advanced certifications in both frameworks and regularly teach agile classes, I have a unique perspective and appreciate what they offer. They are “open source,” with all the information publicly available. To coordinate the teams, SAFe applies cadence and synchronization.

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Project Decision-Making

Velociteach

Deferring or waiting for “management” to decide is an example of informal control. Understanding the project’s relative importance informs its decision-making process. The decision-making process will be informed by the following: Who are the stakeholders that need to be included? Stakeholders are engaged through communications.

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Project Management: Principles, Practices & Context

Velociteach

Its Project Management Body of Knowledge® ( PMBOK ®) Guide is an ANSI standard, and over a million people have earned their Project Management Professional (PMP®) certification. SAFe employs cadence, synchronization, and clear lines of content authority to help organizations scale their agile practices to hundreds or thousands of people.

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Managing Project Assumptions and Risks

The IIL Blog

Enterprise frameworks or standards may also inform the practices. Elements in the assumptions log can include: Describe the assumption using the most specific and definable information available. He also holds multiple Agile certifications from Disciplined Agile, Scrum Alliance, and Scaled Agile.

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Adopting Agile Practices Isn’t Agile Transformation

Leading Agile

When people make such statements, they usually mean that they have trained product owners and a proficient Scrum master, and their team consistently follows the cadence of sprint planning, daily stand-ups, interviews, and retrospectives. These products should have well-architected, well-tested, defect-free code.

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Top 7 Benefits of SAFe® Training for a Product Owner / Manager

Agilemania

SAFe® certification helps the product leaders whether it is managers or owners it can easily benefit their career. The SAFe® scrum Certification program helps to channel the skills of product owners and managers to help them leverage their full potential. Cadence is an important aspect of agile mindset training.