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Project Boards and Project Steering Groups: An Introduction

Rebel’s Guide to PM

These are all functions of a project board (or steering group). Strong leadership in projects is important for success, so getting your project board and/or project steering group set up as soon as you can is a good start. In other words, this is the group that takes the tough decisions. What is a project steering group?

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13 Reasons to Choose Agile Project Management Methods

LiquidPlanner

If you are trying to make the move to agile project management in your development group, telling people that work will be organized differently might not go down so well. There is a close working relationship with the end users which results in increased customer satisfaction. The product owner is embedded in the team.

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How Usable Working Products Are Your Ultimate Weapon Against Risks

Scrum.org

From the Chaos Report, Standish Group. Conclusion: Be Agile, Truly So create a usable working product on a regular cadence, close the feedback loops, and leverage as much automation as possible. Constant rework of features because of a perceived bug or inconsistency from what’s needed creates significant waste for companies.

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Your Strategy Planning Meeting Agenda (with Template)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

There’s no fixed cadence for strategy conversations. 5pm: Wrap up and close. Finally, wrap up the meeting, draw it to a close and if you are going to meet again, put the date in the diary. There are several group decision-making techniques you could try. When do strategic meetings happen? 4.30pm: Any Other Business.

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Stakeholder Communication Strategy: Part 3 of 4 Steps of Stakeholder Engagement

Scrum.org

Stakeholder Exploration techniques will help us in identifying the right stakeholders at a given time and Stakeholder Analysis & Mapping will help us in understanding stakeholders better and group them accordingly. However, when they have High Influence and High Interest; you would like to manage with them more closely.

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A Deeper Look: Top Changes in the New 2020 Scrum Guide for Agile Practitioners

MPUG

It’s less prescriptive and seems to be intended for a wider audience group, particularly non-software users. However, as you look closely at the new guide, a big picture emerges: The Product Goal is the long-term objective of the team. Introduction of Cadence. The diamond shapes in the cadence stream denote the Sprint Reviews.

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Comparing Nexus and SAFe - Similarities, Differences, potential synergies

Scrum.org

The Nexus group of teams is very similar to the Agile Release Train (ART) construct. The Nexus Sprint Review and the System Demo are similar events happening on a similar cadence - every several weeks (Sprint/Iteration). Nexus Sprint Goal - Program PI Objectives - just at different cadence/frequency. Nexus - ART.

Cadence 137