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How to Create a Work Breakdown Structure

Project Risk Coach

One of the reasons that project managers fail to properly estimate their projects is they miss key activities when developing their schedules. Why does this happen? The failure to engage stakeholders and create a work breakdown structure (WBS). Steven Pressfield said, "A great trick that I learned having worked as a screenwriter for many years, the way screenwriters work, is they break the project down into three-act structure: Act 1, Act 2, Act 3.

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Seven Sins of Reviews

Kiron Bondale

Whether your team follows a specific framework or has taken a mix-and-match approach with its practices, a tenet of agile is the use of short feedback loops to support inspection and adaptation. Whether your team sets a regular cadence for external product reviews or they are conducted on a just-in-time basis, it is important to get actionable feedback.

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El cambio constante que supone Agile

Scrum.org

Una de las bases clave para ayudar a que tu organización se vuelva ágil es el uso del empirismo. Agile es cambio constante y nos tenemos que adaptar. El empirismo es el enfoque científico basado en evidencia, donde cualquier idea debe ser probada contra observaciones, en lugar de intuición. . El empirismo se basa en tres pilares: transparencia, fiscalización y adaptación. .

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Establish Project Scope: How to Master Your Toughest PM Challenge

Online PM Courses

Project Scope is simple in concept, but hard in practice. It's a measure of the breadth and depth of your project: everything you need to do. The post Establish Project Scope: How to Master Your Toughest PM Challenge appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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Understand Digital Debt, Form a Team, Set Goals, and Plan Roadmap for Transformation

Understanding digital debt is crucial before digital transformation. Assemble a team to assess internal operations, market pressures, and digital debt's impact. Define future digital vision with measurable goals. Refine hypotheses and conduct market analysis. Develop a roadmap for transformation with defined projects, cost estimates, and governance.

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RMP Live Lessons – Guaranteed Pass or Your Money Back

Management Yogi

I am delighted to announce the availability of RMP® Live Lessons, a complete video course. RMP Live Lessons – Guaranteed Pass or Your Money BackThe Risk Management Professional (RMP) from Project Management Institute (PMI®) is well-recognized and advanced certification in Risk Management.This is the ONLY such course in the world. No one ever has given a guaranteed pass, with FULL money back on.

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How To Make a Gantt Chart In Excel

Workzone

If you’re only using calendars to gauge your team’s workload, then you’ll be limited in knowing exactly what is happening. Calendar views are great for knowing when events occur, but not necessarily for determining the duration of a project. In contrast, Gantt Charts provide a graphical depiction of what your organization is working on, so you can better match resources with the upcoming workload.