Tue.Jan 10, 2023

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Agile and the sailor's analogy

Musings on Project Management

The presentation -- in the link below -- that I gave to PMI some years ago that makes an analogy between sailing a boat and Agile methods is still relevant, and probably will remain so.Why?Because a sailing "project" is has much in common with an Agile project:Tactics overlay a strategic goal, though there are broadly stated limitations and rulesSmall teams have to work together, or else someone.

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10 Project Meetings to Guide Your Project Management Team

ProjectManager.com

Project meetings often feel as if they’re in the way of your work. If you’re not working from an agenda or you don’t manage those meetings, that can be true. But meetings are critical for project planning and team collaboration. That’s why there are so many project meetings and each has its own focus and importance. Let’s take a look at 10 different types of project management meetings and define them, and we’ll start with the definition of what a project meeting is.

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Tuesday Tip #1: How Does the Scheduling Engine Work?

LiquidPlanner

LiquidPlanner’s predictive scheduling engine answers some of the toughest Project Management questions teams face: When will my project finish? Can I meet the deadlines in front of me? When can my team take on more work? Can we accept new projects with our existing priorities? The scheduling engine is the core driver of LiquidPlanner’s Planning Intelligence , which answers these questions, and more.

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7 Factors to Help You Choose the Right Cloud Service Provider

Binfire

Introduction to choosing a cloud service provider. Cloud computing has revolutionized our ideas about storing, processing, and managing data and applications. Instead of relying on local servers or personal computers, we can access these resources remotely through a cloud service provider. But with so many options, how do you choose the right one for your organization?

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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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Agile Mastery Institute in Africa

Growing Agile

As a coach and Scrum Master one thing that always bothered me was the ‘need’ to be certified to show that you are capable of doing the job. This especially irked me because the Scrum Master Certification is so simple to get and having a certification didn’t prove you were actually capable of doing the job well at all. The whole certification model needed a shake up, and I’m glad that the Agile Mastery Institute is aiming to do just that!

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What is Agile Testing? Approaches | Lifecycle

Agilemania

Agile testing is a method of testing that aligns with the guidelines and principles of agile software development. Unlike the Waterfall process, Agile Testing may begin right away with continuous integration of development and testing. The agile testing approach is not linear (in the sense that it is only conducted after the coding process) but relatively continuous.

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6 Ways You can Deal with an Unhappy Client at Your Creative Agency

Function Point

Every business will, at one point or another, find itself in some sort of a delicate situation with a client. We all know that it’s unavoidable, but we still need to be prepared for it to happen to ensure that you both mitigate the issue hand and take advantage of the situation. Keep in mind that clients and prospects alike will notice how you deal with a negative situation, and in the world of social media, this cannot be ignored.

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Scrum as a Mental Model

Agilemania

For many years Scrum has been one of the go-to frameworks for teams adopting or trying to adopt agile ways of working. Some teams have been successful, while others struggle to leverage the benefits of Scrum, achieve agility and deliver value to their stakeholders. As we work with more and more teams, scrum masters , and engineers, we tend to see that most of them (if not all) have similar problems and challenges.

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How to take truly useful meeting notes

Trello

Well, that meeting could've been an email.

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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

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Sitetracker’s New Quickstart Implementation Helps Residential Solar Companies Speed-Up Net-Zero Future

Sitetracker

MONTCLAIR, N.J., Jan. 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Sitetracker, the leading deployment operations management software for critical infrastructure providers, today announced its Quickstart implementation for residential solar companies. This process gets residential solar companies implemented with Sitetracker’s set of industry-proven workflows in just a matter of weeks so they can realize operational efficiencies sooner and deploy assets faster.

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10 Methods for Screening Candidates in 2023

Teamweek

Candidate screening is hard… unless you’re in on the latest candidate screening techniques. In this article, we’ll cover 10 of the best methods used to screen applicants in 2023 and cover some of the key application screening challenges: How to innovate your screening process with screening tools. How to sort through a high volume of applications efficiently.

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