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5 Ways to level up your Jira roadmaps

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I speak to a lot of project managers who work with IT and development teams who use Jira but also have to work with other stakeholders who don’t have access to it. Add additional data fields for context, share it with your team and then sync any changes back to Jira with a click. Visor solves that problem.

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Good Scrum Master; Bad Scrum Master

Scrum.org

They use their influence to help individuals and their development teams to take greater responsibility for how they develop the product and the quality they produce. They help develop high-performing teams that share common goals as well as the rewards and responsibilities for achieving them.

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The Illusion of Velocity

Scrum.org

TL; DR: The Illusion of Velocity In this article, I explore the pitfalls of ‘The Illusion of Velocity’ in agile contexts, peeling back the layers of traditional metrics as leadership tools. Workers were seen as cogs in the machinery of production, with little autonomy or need for understanding the broader context of their work.

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Using Scrum for Improving Operations

Scrum.org

I'm encountering more and more people that are trying to solve different kind of problems with Scrum: People designing Consumer Goods. What problems are we looking to solve with it? One thing to remember is that Scrum was designed to help people solve complex problems, not all sorts of problems. Marketers of many kinds.

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The Surprising Impact of Limiting Work in Progress on the Flow of Work in a Scrum Team

Scrum.org

In a Scrum context, this involves setting a cap on the number of user stories, features, or tasks that the development team is actively working on during a sprint. By constraining the number of ongoing tasks, Scrum teams foster a higher degree of focus, leading to quicker task completion and reduced time spent on context-switching.

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How to Be a Project Management Consultant

ProjectManager.com

In this video, Jennifer draws on personal experience as a PM consultant to help those considering a career switch into this growing field. Frame issues: It’s important to put these problems in context, whether a historical precedent or just how it impacts other aspects of the work.

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To Fix Your OKRs – Go Back to First (Familiar) Principles

Scrum.org

Having a small set of strategic objectives reduces context switching and provides a rallying cry that helps cut through silos and politics. . OKRs should be used just for development/growth work – work we do to change how we do things. . They create environments where people are empowered to work together to solve problems.

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