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How to Become a Better Project Communicator

Project Risk Coach

Project managers spend a large part of each day communicating—facilitating meetings, emailing stakeholders, responding to texts, writing reports, and having one-on-one conversations. How can we become a better project communicator? Notice the cadence, pauses, and the repetitions in the speech.

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Everything You Need to Know About Release Managers

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Do you have a release manager on the team? It wasn’t until I worked in IT as a project manager that I had a lot of contact with the release management process. In this article, I’ll explain what a release manager does and what skills you need to make a success of this role. What does a release manager do?

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The Forgotten Scrum Event

Scrum.org

And yet, the Sprint serves a pivotal role in Scrum by setting the cadence for feedback, inspection and adaptation in Scrum. However, it's crucial to recognize that the Sprint sets the cadence for all of the other events. A shorter Sprint is better to reduce risk. There’s no meeting for “The Sprint”, you see. Consistency is Key.

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Myth: Scrum is a Waste of Time

Scrum.org

The entire Scrum framework is designed to help teams self-manage themselves and align around value. Here’s how the events reduce other meetings. The Scrum team gets together once per Sprint to plan how they will deliver the work of the Sprint (Sprint Planning). a release schedule), but generally, a shorter Sprint is better.

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Project Communication Management: What is it all about?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Did you know that 56% of your project budget might be at risk due to poor communications? Perhaps that number (from research by PMI ) surprises you, but I’m sure you aren’t surprised by the fact that good communication management on projects leads to higher success rates. What is project communication management? who support it.

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Questions to ask a project management mentor

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Have you got a project management mentor? Maybe you were asked to identify a project manager as a mentor as part of an apprenticeship scheme – that’s the reason I have a couple of mentees at work. How did you get into project management? I’m thinking of taking a project management certification.

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What Are Feedback Loops and How to Implement Them in Your Business?

nTask

In Kanban methodology , there are seven cadences and each of them is implemented via a meeting. Let us take a look at each cadence and how it works: 1. Delivery planning meetings take up approximately 1 or 2 hours and are carried out every delivery cadence. Clients can also sometimes decide when and how of the delivery.

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