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Scrum: 20 Sprint Planning Anti-Patterns

Scrum.org

Too much estimating: The Developers even estimate sub-tasks. Remember: the purpose of estimating is to identify misalignment among the Developers regarding the What and How of items from the Product or Sprint Backlog. Read more : Estimates Are Useful, Just Ditch the Numbers.). So don’t waste your time on that.

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Adopting Agile Practices Isn’t Agile Transformation

Leading Agile

Video Transcript There are many people at the practitioner level who think Agile is about social aspects like engagement, interaction, and joy at work. They may also be writing user stories, using burn-down charts, and practicing agile estimating and planning. If your Agile isn’t helping you do that, then it’s not really Agile at all.

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Is SAFe® (Scaled Agile Framework®) not Agile?

Agilemania

They say there are hundreds of pages, hours of videos, several different training courses, and more. SAFe also adds additional interaction events to ensure collaboration happens across the teams and not just within the agile teams aligned to a common goal and work with a synchronized cadence. The lean economics.

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What does a project manager do?

Planio

In 2021, the Project Management Institute estimated that by 2030 the global economy would need 25 million more project managers to keep up with the demand for change. This will show you how to break down your tasks, plan backward and forwards, estimate your timescales, and identify any dependencies. But there’s a problem.

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Project Reporting for Agencies [Template]

Teamweek

They also helped to show the team exactly how projects were progressing compared to time and cost estimations. For example, let’s say you are running a YouTube marketing campaign and must create 2 videos per month. What do those videos involve? The reporting helped a lot to keep everything ticking over nicely.

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Unleashing Agile: Empowering Agile Teams for Managers

Leading Agile

As the world of business increases in complexity, it will take more than user stories, estimation, and OKRs to build a trustworthy system that management can delegate into. Video Transcript I think if you’re not getting what you want from your teams as a manager, you have failed to lead appropriately. What would you go do?

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

Planio

Not only that but finding the right cadence of communication can feel like a Goldilocks situation. According to one estimate , up to 90 percent of the time in a project is spent on communication by the project manager. Is their preferred method for getting updates via email, call, in-person, video, or something else?

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