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Creating a Risk-Adjusted Backlog

Leading Answers

This article explains what a risk-adjusted backlog is, why they are useful, how to create one and how teams work with them. ' In deciding which feature to develop first, those with the highest economic value are selected. I do not think the teams have been weak at threat avoidance. What is a Risk-Adjusted Backlog?

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Harnessing the Power of the Muses: How Ancient Inspiration Fuels Modern Project Management

MPUG

Their influence was believed to be essential for the creation of great works and the advancement of civilization. Similarly, Thalia, the Muse of Comedy, reminds project managers of the importance of fostering a positive team culture and maintaining morale, even in challenging times. This is genuinely what diversity means.

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Unleashing Agile: Empowering Agile Teams for Managers

Leading Agile

Empowering your teams isn’t about allowing them to make decisions in a vacuum and giving them free rein to do whatever they want. The days of providing a little guidance here, some methodology there, and letting the teams self-organize their way to success are behind us. What does it mean to empower teams?

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Is Your Agile Project Healthy?

Project Management Essentials

Experienced agile coaches and practitioners develop a sixth-sense. They can quickly assess the health of an agile project or team just as doctors do with their patients. In 2013, Mike Cohn coined the term scrum smells to describe the signs that a scrum team is in trouble. What are the team dynamics? Outsourced Agile.

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The Essential Guide to Writing a Project Communication Plan: What It Is and Why You (Actually) Need One

Planio

What’s the number one factor that influences whether your project is a success or a dud? Maybe you think it’s too much work for the size of your team. Or that your team already knows how to communicate. Not only that but finding the right cadence of communication can feel like a Goldilocks situation. Here’s an example.

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Scrum: 20 Sprint Planning Anti-Patterns

Scrum.org

Scrum’s Sprint Planning aims to align the Developers and the Product Owner on what to build next, delivering the highest possible value to customers. First, the Product Owner points to the team’s Product Goal and introduces the business objective of the upcoming Sprint. How this is done is at the sole discretion of the Developers.

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20 Sprint Planning Anti-Patterns

Scrum.org

The purpose of the Sprint Planning is to align the Development Team and the Product Owner on what to build next, delivering the highest possible value to customers. Basically, the Development Team and the Product Owner adjust the previously discussed scope of the upcoming Sprint to the available capacity.

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