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7 Ways to Sell Agile to Project Stakeholders

LiquidPlanner

In certain cases, it’s possible to cling to legacy or home-rolled project management practices even when development teams have moved into some form of Agile development. I’m ecstatic about how our development teams are delivering to our customers. Stack the team with people who thrive on ambiguity and change.

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How to manage projects from kickoff to launch

Planio

And whether you’re a designer, developer, team lead, or administrator, your job requires many of the same skills that separate the best project managers: organization, effective collaboration, and being goal-oriented. Phase 5: Closing. Step 12: Plan your first sprint as a team. Phase 5: Closing. Phase 2: Planning.

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70 Scrum Master Theses

Scrum.org

On the one side, they address typical Scrum events such as Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and the Sprint Retrospective. When a weak Development Team meets a commanding Product Owner, focusing on shipping new features, the team may end up as a feature factory, churning out new code while neglecting the technical foundation.

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How to hire a product designer for your startup?

Teamweek

Along with working with CEOs (mostly if you’re dealing with a startup), they also work closely with product managers, developers, QA and marketing , for instance. Graphic designer Graphic design is another skill needed on the product design team. Their range of tasks could include things like we’ve listed below.

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Scrum Master Interview Questions (3): Daily Scrum and Sprint Retrospective

Scrum.org

The ebook provides both questions as well as guidance on the range of suitable answers. Daily Scrums are an important part of Scrum, but not all Daily Scrums need to be formal — a Development Team should not have a Daily Scrum for the sake of having it; it serves a different purpose than ticking off a box on a checklist.

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The Complete Project Manager’s Guide to Project Deliverables

Workamajig

A website wireframe made for the development team. An eBook created by the marketing team to promote a new product. An whitepaper created by the development team to help clients understand a new product. What is the purpose, goal, or end result the client wants once the project closes?

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Why Projects Fail – Five more reasons

Online PM Courses

A closely related problem (also remedied by rigorous change control) is scope creep. Project fail when clients continually add requirements and the project team either fails to acknowledge this,or fails to push back or secure additional resources and time. Unwillingness to review baseline plan. Kindle eBook Version.