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How to Manage Project Environment from Initiation to Close

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You need to be aware of the project environment and prepare for its influence on your project throughout the project management life cycle. The project manager must understand the project environment and proactively plan to manage the factors that might influence the project. All of these things make up the project environment.

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What Makes Agile Transformations Successful? Results From A Scientific Study

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Kim Dikert and his colleagues reviewed 52 prior scientific studies in 2016 to identify common challenges and success factors for Agile transformations. Case-based research is hardly objective, and Dikert and his colleagues urge for more objective data in future studies. This is essentially what Russo did in his study.

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On Technical Debt And Code Smells: Surprising insights from scientific studies

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In this post, I summarize the insights from the study by Tufano and draw in more recent research. It also ties well into a recent post where we discussed a scientific study that showed how critical the socio-technical skills of developers are to the success of Agile transformations. An interesting study by Søberg et.

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Sauce & Spoon: Tips for Your Google Capstone course

Rebel’s Guide to PM

It’s hard to know what they are looking for in the Sauce & Spoon case study, so if you’re working through the course, here are some tips as you prepare to submit your capstone assignments. It’s not an agile project management case study but I can tell you that it’s realistic. Should we add a goal around decreasing guest wait time?

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Case Study: the Business Banking transformation journey at de Volksbank.

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This case study analyzes the transformation journey using Org Topologies™ Scans and focuses on the Business Banking Hub. We will clarify the stages with OT maps using the following symbols: More explanation and background information on Org Topologies™ that help to understand this case study can be found here and here.

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Unlocking the power of paraverbal communication at work

Rebel’s Guide to PM

And you can control and influence how you say something by understanding paraverbal communication. Paraverbal communication involves the use of nonverbal cues such as tone and volume to influence how your message is received. You probably already know that how you say something is just as important as what you say.

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What Makes Scrum Teams Effective? A scientific investigation of 1.200 Scrum teams

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We chose to develop our model from observational data from 13 case studies that took place over a period of five years. Although the case studies were not exhaustive of all kinds of Scrum teams, they provided a great starting point for model development by grounding it in real Scrum teams. I will define the core variables below.

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