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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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Agile Release Train (ART)

Digite

Program Increments (PIs) provide a development timebox (default 10 weeks) that uses cadence and synchronization to facilitate planning, limiting WIP, provide for aggregation of value and assure consistent retrospectives. The Agile Release Train provides alignment and helps manage risk by providing program level cadence and synchronization.

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Agency client retention guide (with 8 strategies and expert tips)

Resource Guru

In such cases, it suggests that a significant portion of your client base is at risk, affecting your client retention rate significantly. Predictable workloads also decrease the risk of resource underutilization, as you’re not caught off guard by sudden drops in client numbers.

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Deliver Fast or Deliver as Planned (Update)

Herding Cats

The Plan for the delivery of value is shown in the Product Roadmap and implemented in the Cadence Release Plan, or sometimes in the Capabilities Release plan. I have a colleague, who was General Schwarzkopf's logistic person in the first Gulf war. Integrated Master Plan and Department of Energy Program Management.

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Questioning Agile Dogma

Leading Agile

Because the recovery phase was not officially recognized (typically due to time reporting rules that prohibited honesty regarding overtime), management missed the opportunity to learn from experience and repeated the death march pattern again and again. What is needed is a Product Manager responsible for the business value of the product.

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