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Project Kickoff Meeting: How to Write a Kickoff Meeting Agenda

ProjectManager.com

Project managers put a lot of time and effort into researching the viability of their project. But all that work is pointless if they don’t communicate the purpose of the project to their team and clients. That’s why a kickoff meeting is so important. A kickoff meeting puts everyone on the same page. The team and client know the mission statement, the vision statement and the project plan.

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Benefits of Scaled Agile Framework ( SAFe®) – Agilemania

Agilemania

The year was 2011 and there was a pressing need for a scaling framework that could help large organizations design efficient systems to build enterprise level products/solutions to cater to customer’s rapidly changing needs. Recognized as one of the world’s foremost authorities on Lean-Agile best practices, Dean Leffingwell took it on himself to do something about it.

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The BCG Advantage Matrix

The Strategic Project Manager

The Advantage Matrix is an old Boston Consulting Group classic strategic framework. Despite changes in industry structure, the competitive environment, and the impact of technology since it was originally conceived, it still has applicability as a framework and as a thought tool. History and Basics of the BCG Advantage Matrix. The BCG Advantage Matrix, also sometimes known as the Competitive Advantage Matrix, is a decades old but still relevant strategic framework developed by Boston Consulting

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Purposeful Open Source at Toggl Track

Teamweek

Toggl Track has long had a number of open source repositories available on GitHub. These range from our public API documentation and various smaller libraries to the full code of our desktop client apps. Unfortunately, due to lack of focus over many years, most of these repositories now range from obscure to unmaintained in their usefulness. As a company that is majority developers, many of whom love open source, this does not sit right with us.

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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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Enabling Change – PMBOK 3.12

Bridge the Gap Consulting

“Prepare those impacted for the adoption and sustainment of new and different behaviors and processes required for the transition from the current state to the intended future state created by the project outcomes.” PMBOK pg. 58. “What’s OCM?” “Organizational Change Management.” “Is that an actual job?

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Forming Agile Teams With Value in Mind

Leading Agile

Encapsulated Agile teams are a fundamental need if we want to be Agile. But there’s more we need to be thinking about. The trouble is that we can have teams doing Scrum but still not really creating any value. So what we really need is teams that are oriented toward value—teams that are aligned with our customers and markets. It’s about focusing on maximizing how our people are oriented toward value and can also produce it.

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How the Product Backlog supports Adaptation - Back to the foundations of the Scrum framework (28)

Scrum.org

Remember that Scrum is founded on empirical process control, and that adaptation is the third pillar, following transparency and inspection. Each of the Scrum Artifacts is adapted in one or more Scrum Events in order to minimise deviations to acceptable limits which they have learned during inspection. . Adaptation is making adjustments in order to minimise any deviations to acceptable limits concerning agreed goals. .

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Goal Question Metric (GQM) Approach

Leading Agile

Listen to the SoundNotes Podcast on the go! Find and subscribe to SoundNotes on: Apple Podcasts. Spotify. Soundcloud. RSS. LeadingAgile Senior Consultant Derek Stanley joins Dave Prior to discuss GQM (Goal Question Metrics). During the interview Derek and Dave explore what GQM is by talking through real-world examples that showcase why people use them, and how they can provide clarity on performance towards desired business outcomes.

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5 Project Management Trends for 2022

Scoro

It would be an understatement to say a lot has changed over the last couple of years. But as well as bringing challenges, these changes have created a great many opportunities for improvement. We’ve had to adapt and evolve our project management processes and how we work together as a team, wherever we are. Now we’ve settled into our new normal, it’s the perfect time to look ahead to 2022, the trends that are likely to emerge, and how they will affect our projects. 1.

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Strategic Project Finance Essentials: A Project Manager’s Guide to Financial Metrics

Speaker: Ketan Jahagirdar - Sopheon’s Director of Product Management

Empower yourself as a project manager with insights that directly influence the financial landscape and strategic direction of your organization! Join us for a deep dive into the world of financial strategy, as we dissect key metrics that drive CFOs and business leaders’ investment decisions. This session will equip you with the necessary tools to craft compelling business cases as well as a comprehensive understanding of the crucial distinction between capital expenditure and operational expend