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Do We Need Risk Management in Agile Projects?

MPUG

What agile adds to this, therefore, is a distinct cadence of its own iterations or drawdowns of tasks into the Work in Progress part of the Kanban Board. They are stories (or tasks) that the team creates for the sole purpose of exploring an issue to increase their understanding, reduce uncertainty, and improve estimation and decision-making.

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

MPUG

Collaboration between project sponsors and stakeholders to develop the scope and best strategy is required for success, including estimations of time and costs. The project will have a pace, sometimes a swift cadence, and sometimes a variety of paces, sometimes fast and sometimes slower. Project management is a collaborative sport.

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Leveraging Agile to Get Predictable

Leading Agile

In our Business Drivers of Agility webinar series hosted by LeadingAgile CEO, Mike Cottmeyer, Mike dives deep into six key business drivers to uncover how Agile can enable organizations to connect these drivers to better business outcomes. In this first webinar, we start with predictability. It’s about creating business outcomes.

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Webinar Recap: Introduction to the Power BI Suite

MPUG

You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content. You may watch the live recording of this webinar at your convenience. Power BI gets refreshed every month so it has a high cadence. We have the Power BI Gateway.

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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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Webinar Recap: Agile Series Part 2 – Agile Features & Capabilities in MS Project / Project PPM

MPUG

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Tim Runcie’s Agile Series Part 2 webinar being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

5 Immutable Principles of Project Success - A quick summary of the 5 Immutable Principles of Project Success, from an EcoSys Webinar. How to Develop Credible Cost & Schedule Estimate , Building credible cost and schedule estimates require discipline, skill, and experience, All 3 can be acquired over time. What is Risk?