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Free Strategic Planning Templates for Excel and Word

ProjectManager.com

When the leadership team defines an organization’s vision, they look toward the future and identify the goals and objectives they want to achieve. Once the vision is defined, then the practical work begins, and strategic planning templates can facilitate that work. Download them now.

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Importance of Scenario Planning and Analysis in Business

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Scenario planning is a strategy used to consider possible future events for an organization or project to develop an effective and relevant long-term plan to respond positively to that change. It does this by defining the possible outcomes with a probability assigned to each that reflects the degree to which it’s likely to happen.

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Development Team Anti-Patterns

Scrum.org

TL; DR: Development Team Anti-Patterns. After covering the Scrum Master and the Product Owner, this article addresses Development Team anti-patterns, covering all Scrum Events as well as the Product Backlog artifact. The Role of the Development Team in Scrum. Do you want to get this article in your inbox?

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What Is Organizational Strategy in Business? (Examples Included)

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We’ll first define the term and then go into the organizational strategy levels, as well as explain its importance in business. It’s not only communicative but helps management develop strategic plans so the company can accomplish its goals. Each department manager is responsible for leading their teams on these initiatives.

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Nine Sprint Goal Principles to Get Your Scrum Team Going

Scrum.org

In Scrum, the Sprint Goal serves as the spotlight that provides transparency to the Sprint Backlog, as the flag that allows the team to rally, and the one thing that provides focus and cohesion. The following nine Sprint Goal principles point at critical issues any Scrum team needs to consider on its path to excellence. ????

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How to Develop a Quality Management Plan

Project Risk Coach

Then, we will explore how to develop a practical quality management plan. The Cost of Poor Quality First, we may not meet customer's needs and expectations. Fifth, your team's morale may suffer. This is often a result of poor quality requirements. Let's first define quality. What is a Quality Management Plan?

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Project Management Checklist for the Modern Agency [download]

Function Point

Without a strong agency project management process, even the most talented creatives suffer from poor time management, lack of project clarity and confusion, leaving agency leaders to risk missed deadlines, scope creep and refusal to pay. Make sure you take notes since your creatives will refer to these notes later.