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2017 Project Management Conferences You Won’t Want To Miss

Rebel’s Guide to PM

If you are looking to attend a project management conference this year, chances are there is something close by that will appeal to you. Global Scrum Gathering: San Diego, CA, 10-12 April 2017. There is a new Scrum for Hardware track this year that will include presentations, hands-on workshops and coaching.

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Becoming Agile: Evidence Based Management

Scrum.org

In fact, if you were to read some of the interviews with managers in business magazines, or the guest articles and puff-pieces on agility in their companies, you'd think that their hearts and minds had been won decades ago. What are the cycle and lead times to production, and how long does it take to close the validated learning loop?

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Product Manager vs Project Manager: The Main Differences

Techno-PM

If your career goals are focused in the software industry, there are several Scrum certifications that would enhance both your knowledge and expertise in that profession. The Scrum credential can also help you advance as a product manager – a somewhat different career path that has much in common with being a project manager.

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In-Depth: What a Social Systems Perspective Teaches us About Change

Scrum.org

like choosing for Scrum?—?they These norms range from very basic ones, like attending a Daily Scrum every day, to abstract ones like “work together towards a shared goal instead of working on your own tasks” and “delivery small, working bits of product frequently instead of huge chunks occasionally”. Closing words. Drucker, P.,

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Review AGILE NXT – New Insights for Agile Performance Management

Henny Portman

Four Steps to Effective Performance Meetings (by Daniel Burm) discusses four fundamental principles to keep in mind for people leading performance meetings: it’s not about you, close the loop, achievable next steps, and ask open questions. Curious to read the magazine? Download or request a printed copy at: AGILE NXT.

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Innovation: Running Experiments and Learning

Leading Answers

Close the retrospective  – Here we reflect on the retrospective process and express our appreciations. The New Yorker  magazine [3] describes numerous studies that show how brainstorming groups think of fewer, lower-quality ideas than the same number of people who work alone and later pool their ideas.

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The Best Project Management Blogs for 2019

Online PM Courses

This is a magazine site that seems to make its money through site adverts and affiliate links. Ideal for PM learners and most closely competes with our content. But Ron is a close friend so I picked up the phone. Stefan Wolpers gets deep into Agile, and Scrum in particular. So close but not quite a ‘must read’.

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