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How Product Owners Can Maximize Value with Stakeholder Input

Scrum.org

In Scrum, the Product Owner’s purpose is to maximize the value of the Scrum Team’s work (the product). Delivering value to the customer (beneficial customer outcomes) is the ultimate measure of success for the Scrum Team, including the Product Owner. We can consult with Developers on the Scrum Team for ideas.

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Can you be agile if you release only once a year?

Scrum.org

( Japanese version・日本語版 ) When picturing an effective and truly agile product development team, one often imagines a software development team, pushing some software to production every day, maybe multiple times a day, ala Amazon. Here are two strategies and a handful of tactics to help you achieve that.

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Apply the Experience Curve Concept to Strategy and Project Management

The Strategic Project Manager

While businesses, organizations, and markets have evolved, the Experience Curve concept survives and can be very useful for informing decisions, shaping strategy, and guiding implementation. Henderson, the founder of the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), based on analyses of overall cost behavior in the 1960s.

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How to Make a Contingency Plan

ProjectManager.com

Governments, for example, use them to prepare for disaster recovery or economic disruption. The contingency plan is a proactive strategy, different from a crisis management plan, which is more of a reaction to something that happened. Of course, human resources are another risk, as teams get sick, leave projects or are terminated.

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Three Ways to Set Your Team Up for Excellence

International Institute for Learning

Your team has a problem, you tell them the answer. But over time, they build learned helplessness in your team until eventually they stop thinking and doing things for themselves. And let’s be honest; being the hero for your team is exhausting. You’re not doing bad work per se, but it’s not your best.

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125 Project Management Buzzwords

The IIL Blog

Whether you are just starting out, developing your project manager resume, or a seasoned professional, mastering the Project Management Buzzwords is non-negotiable. Agile team A cross-functional group of individuals (e.g., Business case An organization will develop a document to justify the investment in a project (i.e.,

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What is a Stakeholder in Project Management?

Planio

Brainstorm with your project team. Get buy-in by consulting early and often. This means people within your organization like the project team, managers, and executives, as well as external stakeholders like customers, users, and anyone else who will be affected by your project at any point during its development.