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5 Tips for Better Agile Release Planning

ProjectManager.com

If you’re working in software development, you know that the software development life cycle can often be frenetic. Product features and stakeholder requirements constantly change, and your initial product development plan might look very different as the project evolves. Product Features development.

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Scrum Methodology: Roles, Events & Artifacts

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The scrum methodology was developed as a response to rigid project management approaches such as the waterfall method, which didn’t adapt to the needs of agile product and software development teams. Scrum is part of agile software development and teams practicing agile. What Is the Scrum Methodology?

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7 Ways to Sell Agile to Project Stakeholders

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Here are some tips for selling Agile project management methodology to stakeholders: 1. 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. Stack the team with people who thrive on ambiguity and change.

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How To Create Smaller Product Backlog Items

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Five Ways To Split Product Backlog Items Product Backlog Items (PBI) are supposed to be units of value i.e. they’re supposed to be tangible items that can be used by customers, and they’re designed to help product development teams in getting genuine feedback. To deliver this value lots of activities need to happen. Subscribe here

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IT project management explained: How to run great IT projects

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On average, IT projects come with more complexity and risk, and can quickly fall to pieces without proper due diligence, management, and leadership. However, as IT projects often require a deeper understanding of technology, many IT PMs have a background in software development or IT support. And that’s no simple job.

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Agile Project Management: Principles, Meetings, Values & Tools

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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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Dear Scrum Team, Does Your Product Make Your Users Happy? 6 tips for more customer focus.

Scrum.org

As an employee of a development team, how do I know if this is the case? Let's start with a simple question for the team: The Customer . How many people are between the user and the development team? I have collected 6 tips for this: 1. Do we ever want to invite a user to the sprint review?

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