Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The agile industry has fallen short in providing agile practitioners with all the tools they need to navigate the complex transformations they face. In my opinion, the biggest gap in the toolbox is professional coaching. . The agile ‘industry’ was born in the 1990’s before the agile manifesto was written. Since then, the market potential of agile coaching was projected at $500 million by 2023 and has moved firmly into the territory of organization transformation.

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The Strategic Project Manager

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

A Business Model is an important input to organizational success. So how can you easily develop a good Business Model? This post examines the Business Model Canvas, a simple tool that provides a template for building an effective Business Model. What Is a Business Model Canvas? The Business Model Canvas encompasses the framework of what a Business Model is.

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Agilemania

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

‘Product Owner vs Product Manager’ is a topic that has been debated infinite times in many communities. . Are they the same? Or are they different? If they are different, what is the distinction between the two? These roles are pretty contextual depending on what processes or framework you opt for to build and sustain your product. To contribute to this, here are a few points to the add-in. .

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nTask

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Work culture has changed drastically over the years. More people prefer to work remotely as opposed to working in an office environment. However, working from home does have its pitfalls. But this is only if you have poor planning, and you don’t set proper boundaries. On the other hand, remote working can help you create a work-life balance, especially if you have children.

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Agilemania

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

A career in Product Management has been booming for people in the tech industry. Be it fintech, EdTech, or crypto, and product manager opportunities are abundant. If you are a person who is good with collaborating with people, crunching numbers, and technical knowledge, it will rain job offers. Product Manager is ranked at No. 3 in the Glassdoor survey of 2021’s 50 best jobs as we speak.

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Function Point

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Are you in charge of a small creative agency experiencing growth ? Your team may consist of two, three, five or even ten individuals and clients keep hiring you for projects (perhaps, more projects than you can handle). Everything seems to indicate that your agency will grow. There are a number of things you should do to ensure that your agency will continue growing.

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Musings on Project Management

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Have you noticed this?Have you noticed that on many projects there is a bifurcation of the workforce that is by job class, by cultural affinity, by natural skills and interests, and by work-site and location?

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Function Point

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Most creative agencies I speak with have multiple ways in which projects are billed to their clients. This seems to be the case regardless of whether they are interactive, brand, advertising, design or even architectural firms. These professional service companies tend to have some clients being billed on a retainer basis, some projects are billed based on time and materials, and an offering of fixed fee projects as well.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

You should expect the use of Scrum to become more successful when the Team lives the Values of commitment, courage, focus, openness and respect. Then empiricism starts to work and trust is being built. . ?? The more people become proficient in living the Scrum values, the more successful the use of Scrum will be. . Is there any impact of living (or not) the Scrum Values on the Artifacts.?

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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

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Function Point

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

You’ve purchased new business management software for your agency, you’ve made the move and you’ve gotten the ball rolling. Staff members are entering timesheets and business is flowing smoothly. But there’s still so much to learn! Sometimes you just have a couple of questions, or don’t yet understand why or how something works in the system, and sometimes you’re in a hurry to get an estimate into the hands of your client.

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Proofhub

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

How Businesses Can Smoothly Manage Work Amid The Scare of Omicron Image Source: ProofHub It’s been nearly two years since the global pandemic of Covid-19 unprecedentedly arrived on the scene and threw normal life out of gear. Amid the grave threat to human life, social distancing and remote work have become synonymous in the last couple of years. Yes, scientists have introduced vaccines, and millions of people have been diagnosed with them.

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Function Point

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Our team has been really engaged in writing about our experiences, our culture here at the office and items associated with business management in a creative studio. When I look at the titles of some of our latest posts it gives me some insight into the depth of understanding we have in the space. Managing new sales leads, tracking vacation time, working with multiple operating systems in your firm…deployment of software in a creative agency, all pertinent topics.

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Function Point

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

To complete our serie of blog posts about culture in creative agencies, we want to share with you five important straight-froward tips. This post was written by Deborah Budd, from Second Wind. …The boss took on a hefty catalog job for a factory parts supplier. Then the creative director dropped the news on an overloaded art staff that they had a bullet train bearing down on them.

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Function Point

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

These days everyone has a smart phone, as well as a computer at work, and another at home. One of the biggest difficulties can be moving data and files between all the devices we use on a daily basis. But there are better ways to keep in sync than to manually transfer notes from one to another. There are many apps available to do this and increase your productivity at your creative agency, but the following are the tools that I use on a daily basis to move between my computer at work, my laptop

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Function Point

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

When a prospect approaches your agency about a project, chances are you’re not alone. They’ve approached others. We caught up with Sam Elgar, Growth Engagement Manager at Invoke Media to find out about how you can best communicate your agency’s unique process to ensure you stand out from the crowd. Invoke Media is the team behind market-leading products like Hootsuite, Foodee and more, so Sam and his team have a lot of experience taking an idea from a pitch, to creation, to an in-market product.

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Function Point

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Whenever you have a technical question that needs answering, you want that answer as fast as possible, right? If you need to get a timely response from your ad agency software support technician, there are a few things you can do as a customer to speed up the process: What are you experiencing? How you begin to explain your issue can make or break your support ticket.

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