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How to Manage Project Scope Without Scope Creep (with examples)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Scope creep is the more common term but you might hear both, especially if you are working in software development. Ultimately, it isn’t the project manager coming up with new requirements and asking the team to “just do it”. What’s so bad about scope creep anyway? It takes its toll on team morale.

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10 Best Monday.com Alternatives of 2022 (Free & Paid)

ProjectManager.com

Transparency provides visibility into processes for all involved and collaborative tools help teams work together. It centralizes communication and file storage while helping cross-functional teams understand what other teams are doing. There’s also a weakness in its reporting tools.

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Government Lessons in People Over Process

Leading Answers

My first opportunity to create and run a large agile team did not start well. Having had good successes with small to medium sized agile teams I was keen to unleash the benefits on a bigger scale. A clean-sheet development opportunity with a smart team and engaged business group – what could go wrong?

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A Beginner’s Guide to Scrum Ceremonies

ProjectManager.com

Scrum requires self-organizing teams that can quickly solve problems in unpredictable environments. Scrum ceremonies are meetings that are unique to scrum teams. Scrum ceremonies ensure that everyone (the scrum master, product owner and development team) is in-sync. It’s a way to ensure transparency across the team.

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7 Ethics Tips For Project Managers

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Being able to act as a credible, trusted leader is dependent on you and your team making ethical choices about how you manage and lead the work. The plan can include the principles and guidelines you commit to sticking to as a team that values ethics in communications. We will make sure our communications are clear, concise and timely.

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Project Management Statistics: 45 Stats You Can't Ignore

Workamajig

As we wrote earlier, creating a project management office (PMO) can drastically improve productivity and bring greater clarity to your PM processes. 50% of respondents in a survey said that their biggest challenge is that PMO processes are seen as overhead. Poor communication (29%). Project Management Office (PMO) Statistics.

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Project Kickoff Meeting: How to Write a Kickoff Meeting Agenda

ProjectManager.com

But all that work is pointless if they don’t communicate the purpose of the project to their team and clients. The team and client know the mission statement, the vision statement and the project plan. It’s all part of the meeting agenda and makes sure the project team starts off on the right foot. It sets up project success.