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Product Planning Fundamentals: Develop a Product Plan in 6 Steps

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You have just developed a product that could potentially be monetized and sold to marketing agencies around the world. Once you have your new product idea, the next step is to develop a high-level vision for the product that can be used to pitch it to potential consumers. Then, assign each task out to the team with due dates.

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How To Motivate Your Project Team

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Ruth Pearce knows everything there is to know about motivating your project team. I caught up with Ruth to find out more about how to motivate teams and why it’s something you should be actively doing. Why do you think motivation on project teams is so important? Engagement is closely related to motivation. Gertman et.

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What happens if a Scrum team becomes too large?

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According to the Scrum guide, Scrum teams typically have 10 or fewer people, including Developers, Scrum Master and Product Owner. But what happens with a Scrum team that includes more than 10 people? What if the Scrum team has 10, 15 even more people? However, the larger the team, the longer all of the events take. .

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How to manage team conflict (& 5 strategies for conflict resolution)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

We challenge leaders, we talk about risk and what might go wrong and we call people out on poor performance through project monitoring and control. Conflict should be a healthy part of any team’s development, and it’ a good way to challenge requirements and ensure that your business case and plans stand up to scrutiny.

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30 Team Building Activities

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Teams don’t just come together and click into well-oiled productivity machines, at least not always. There’s often a period of time when the team members have to get to know one another and develop a rapport. In other words, every team can find value in team-building exercise. Objective: Develop listening skills.

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Jira Kanban Board: Pros, Cons & Alternatives

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Jira is project management software designed for agile software development teams. It has tools that allow you to plan sprints, track the completion of tasks, balance your team member’s workload and create product roadmaps. Does Jira Have a Kanban Board? Here are some of the key features of a Jira kanban board.

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Splitting your team reduces planning time

Scrum.org

All windows shut closed with worldproof blinds. An excruciatingly boring and time-wasting activity, where the whole team sits in one room, looking at one screen trying to plan a two-week Sprint. We were stuck in believing that a team is a team and it has to work TOGHETHER! Dark, small, crowded room in a corporate office.