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Review Blue Striped Frog – The agile community – Magazine (3rd edition)

Henny Portman

The third edition of the Blue Striped Frog magazine offers insights into leadership, programme management, the combination of low-code with agile working and several articles focusing on working remotely under the Northern lights, Pippi’s lesson about the agile mindset and wonders if agility lost its ability to be innovative.

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How to Create SMART Goals

ProjectManager.com

SMART first appeared in a 1981 issue of the magazine Management Review , in a paper by Gorge T. Begin by defining what it is that you’re trying to achieve. Therefore, another criterion for a SMART goal is discerning if the goal you’ve defined is realistic. Now that SMART is clearly defined, how do you create SMART goals?

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Tips & Tools for Project Roadmaps

ProjectManager.com

Due to all of the minutia of a project, it’s easy for a project manager to get lost in the details, and lose track of the big picture. The project roadmap defines who is doing what and then those tasks can be tracked. Not everything can be so sharply defined, of course, which is why the project roadmap has something called “fuzzy time.”

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Key Growth Strategies for New Businesses

ProjectManager.com

In Review – Key Business Growth Strategies for New Businesses. She began by outlining the seven steps for a small business to define a growth strategy: Establish a Value Proposition: What are you good at that serves a need in the market? You also want to define your key indicators. How do you know that this is an area for you?

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Business Forecasting: Why You Need It & How to Do It

ProjectManager.com

Business forecasting is a method to predict the future, where the future is narrowly defined by economic conditions. Reviewing Forecasting Process: By reviewing the deviations between forecasts and actual performance data, improvements are made in the process, allowing you to refine and review the information for accuracy.

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Advertising agency workflows: 11 steps to building better processes

Resource Guru

billboards and magazines) and broadcast (i.e., Not only do advertising agency workflows differ from workflows for other agency types—say recruitment or software development. An example of how individual utilization rates appear in Resource Guru’s software. Traditionally, marketing and media channels have been print (i.e.,

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Why You Need Milestones in Project Management

Scoro

In this post, we define project milestones, and explore why they’re an essential part of the project management process. Acting as signal posts which mark significant events or branching decision points, they’re used for events such as start and end dates, external reviews, budget checks, or submissions of major deliverables.