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7 Ways to Sell Agile to Project Stakeholders

LiquidPlanner

In certain cases, it’s possible to cling to legacy or home-rolled project management practices even when development teams have moved into some form of Agile development. I’m ecstatic about how our development teams are delivering to our customers. Align Agile project management with your organization’s strategy.

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Why collaboration is key in project management—A story by Ordonna Sargeant

Resource Guru

Last week, Brett Harned shared his story about the importance of assessing project scope and involving the right people. Download your free copy here. The misalignment was this: my management team expected me to personally confirm both functional and non-functional requirements of a product build.

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The Ultimate Guide to Project Dependencies and Constraints

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Scroll to the bottom and pop your email in the box to download it today. Dependencies can occur inside and outside the project’s sphere of influence, and inside and outside the company. You have to develop the software within brand guidelines. The brand guidelines are a constraint on the creativity of the development team.

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What is Stakeholder Analysis? (With Free Stakeholder Engagement Plan)

Planio

Unfortunately, too many project managers and development teams are eager to build and skip the stakeholder analysis stage. Stakeholder analysis is the best way to identify, categorize, and plan your engagement strategy with everyone who’s interested and can influence the outcome of your project. Lessons learned review.

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32 Scrum Stakeholder Anti-Patterns

Scrum.org

Any of the examples will impede the team’s productivity and might endanger the Sprint goal. The Scrum Master must prevent them from manifesting themselves: The Scrum Master has a laissez-faire policy as far as access to the Development team is concerned. Forecast imposed: The Sprint forecast is not a team-based decision.

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The Sprint Planning Checklist

Scrum.org

The Scrum Team in question was rather large—eight developers—, mostly co-located with two or three team members joining remotely. Generally, the stakeholders had a significant influence on where the Scrum Team was heading, impeding the team on more than one occasion in the process.

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Strategy vs. tactics: How to use both to build better products

Planio

6 rules to follow How to bring strategy and tactics together: 5 examples for different teams 1. Product development teams 2. Digital marketing teams 3. Sales teams 4. Customer service teams 5. Download our free product strategy template to help communicate your strategy to your team.