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Agile Project Management: Principles, Meetings, Values & Tools

ProjectManager.com

Agile project management came about as development teams worked towards getting products to the market faster. The waterfall methodology, which identifies a problem and then plans a solution, forces teams to stick to the requirements and scope of work that was defined at the beginning of the project. Sprint Review.

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IT project management explained: How to run great IT projects

Planio

In fact, the digital transformation market was estimated at a whopping $731.1 On average, IT projects come with more complexity and risk, and can quickly fall to pieces without proper due diligence, management, and leadership. Works with team members to assess and sign-off quality standards. ?️ How is it unique?

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Managing risk

Scrum.org

Often I hear people say that Scrum does not take care of risk: there is no risk log, risk is not on the agenda of the Sprint Review or Retrospective as a standard agenda-item. The Development Teams need to be accountable for the quality of the product and how it's made. Time to read: 7 minutes (11 if you watch the video's also).

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What Is The Value of a Project Manager Today?

LiquidPlanner

If the product owner is dedicated to defining, prioritizing, and validating requirements, there isn’t much time to represent status to steering committees, PMOs, and IT status portfolio reviews. Scope creep always occurs as requirements evolve, and the team sees working software. 3 Project managers proactively manage scope.

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4 Fallacious Reasons to Estimate and Why Those Are Fallacious

Herding Cats

There's a recent post titled Four Fallacious Reasons to Estimate. It lists the usual suspects for why those spending the money think they don't have to estimate how much they plan to spend when they'll be done producing the value they've been assigned to produce for that expenditure. Let's look at each one in more detail.

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Running a Successful Creative Agency: New Business

Function Point

Meeting targets: Meeting sales targets can be challenging due to unrealistic goals, insufficient effort, or lack of persistence. You should regularly review your objectives and strategies and adapt as needed. To tackle this, you must define priorities and allocate time smartly for each task.

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The Truth About Transformations

Leading Answers

Iterative development of small batches of work, with frequent reviews, provides better insights into progress and issues than sequential, large-batch development. It involves restructuring and forming long-lived product teams with everyone present to develop and maintain the software products over its entire lifespan.