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Contracting for Agile Software Development Efforts

Scrum.org

Contracting for Agile software development projects continues to be a major organizational impediment. Your legal department is trained to protect the firm from all the bad things that can happen when the unexpected occurs. Combine that tendency with management’s desire to protect their jobs when the bad things happen.

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Creating the Conditions for High-Performance Development Teams

Leading Agile

A couple weeks ago we did a recording session with Chris Beale, who is one of our most senior executive consultants, runs a lot of our large enterprise class engagements. And Kevin Smith, who is a kind of chief architect, principal consultant in our studio. How do you get leadership engaged? What other questions that you might have?

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Time to Check-in on Your Mid-Year Goals

LiquidPlanner

Shifting priorities isn’t always a bad thing. Perhaps your personal finances shifted from what you anticipated. Even if the fires are still ongoing, can we develop some strategies to focus on achieving the most important goals? In fact, it may well yield better outcomes. This is the time of year to assess and find out!

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Managing Project Delays in the COVID-19 Age

LiquidPlanner

Projects can get delayed for many reasons from third party suppliers failing to deliver on time, to poor communication between project stakeholders sometimes the deliverables are simply not realistic within the project constraints. He says, “If it’s a short delay, you’ll likely have the same people on the project team when it resumes.

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How to write an executive summary stakeholders will love

Planio

According to some estimates , PMs spend 90% of their time communicating with team members, sponsors, and stakeholders. Easier to share information with teams and stakeholders. There’s no need for fancy software or hours of reading time, instead, an executive summary is a quick update that’s read in a matter of minutes.

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11 Recruitment Assessment Tools You Can Rely on for Candidate Skills Testing

Teamweek

That’s because recruiters spend less time on poor-fit candidates as they shortlist candidates based on data, not opinions. Gamified skills assessments can be more than efficiency drivers – Toggl Track had tremendous success sourcing high-skilled developers via quick skills quizzes. Making a bad hire is a painful experience.

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How To Master Project Management Online

Wrike

The Role of a Project Manager A project manager plays a role in leading and coordinating project teams. Their responsibilities involve defining project goals, creating a project plan, assigning tasks, motivating team members, and monitoring progress. Another critical skill for project managers is leadership.