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Questions to ask a project management mentor

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Also ask some questions about the logistics of the relationship , like these: How often do you think we should meet? At regular meetings You’ll find a regular cadence and probably settle into a regular agenda or routine with the check in sessions. Tell me about your background and experience. How did you get into project management?

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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. Word of mouth can work both ways here.

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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. IT Risk Management. Deliver as planned. Fast is a term replaced by Planned.

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Questioning Agile Dogma

Leading Agile

Staff effectiveness was artificially suppressed by the logistical and psychological stresses of forming and re-forming teams over and over again endlessly. Code quality increased and the risk of changing code was reduced. As a result, the organization never benefited from the full potential of the technical staff. Business Impact.

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