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When the Scrum Master Fails by Being Overly Protective — Making Your Scrum Work #13

Scrum.org

TL; DR: When Scrum Masters Fail — Making Your Scrum Work #13. There are plenty of failure possibilities with Scrum. Given that Scrum is a framework with a reasonable yet short “manual,” this effect should not surprise anyone. Scrum thrives when the Scrum teams are self-managing while Scrum Masters embrace their role as servant-leaders. However, this also implies that Scrum Masters fail when they are overly protective. ??

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Project Management Guidelines (Part 2) -Communication and Time as the Most Important Elements of the Project

Inloox

As the field of project management becomes more complex and our tasks more demanding, we may lose sight of basic principles. By following these 8 simple guiding principles, it is possible to improve project performance, provide more value to the organization, and hopefully make the project manager 's job a little easier. Having introduced you to the laws of Lakein, Murphy, Constantines and Augustines in the last blog post in this series, here are four more guiding principles for your everyday pr

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Adaptability is Key in Prioritizing and Addressing Complex Cybersecurity Risks

Scrum.org

Adaptability Is Key. Adaptability is Key in Prioritizing and Addressing Complex Cybersecurity Risks “It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.” ? Leon C. Megginson, author of Small Business Management Though these words are often misattributed to Charles Darwin, Megginson’s concept of “survival of the fittest” is most.

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Your Guide to Meeting Agendas with Top Meeting Agenda Templates

nTask

Meetings are an essential part of any work culture and organization. To that effect, an important part of meetings is the meeting agenda which is often overlooked. However, to ensure that your meeting is as beneficial as it can be it is best to create an effective meeting agenda to be available for all your attendees and participants. That is why we have put together some tips and tricks as well as meeting agenda templates to help you make the most of your meeting.

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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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The Human Side of Project Management: How to Deal with Behavioral Aspects Affecting Your Success

Epicflow Blog

Any project is vulnerable to risks and uncertainties that sometimes can’t be predicted and avoided. But there are things that negatively affect the project success but can be neither controlled nor prevented. We’re talking about the human side of project management. The heart of any project is people: they create an idea, then someone supports it, then someone implements it, and there should be someone who controls the process.

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The Ultimate Guide to IT PMOs

Wrike

Companies with large IT departments and projects have complex needs that require advanced solutions. IT project management offices, also known as IT PMOs, offer oversight, guidance, and tools that will make your organization more productive and make it easier to scale. But what exactly is an IT PMO? What are the core IT PMO objectives and how can your IT department adopt best practices?

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Back to the foundations of the Scrum framework - The Sprint Retrospective and Transparency

Scrum.org

Scrum is founded on empirical process control, and transparency is one of the three pillars. During each of the Scrum Events, and throughout the Sprint itself, the Scrum Team and the stakeholders need transparency so there is a common understanding. Transparency as such is way more than bringing “visibility”. It is about reaching ”a common understanding”.

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How to Make a Responsibility Assignment Matrix for a Project (Template Included)

ProjectManager.com

The most important resource you’ll employ to deliver the project is people. They have to fit into the schedule and maintain the project budget. Defining what their roles and responsibilities are when executing tasks and delivering on the project goals is an important part of controlling the project. How can you coordinate all the people who are involved in a project so they know what they’re doing and don’t block others from doing what they are assigned?

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Cultivating a Growth Mindset

Leading Agile

Being part of a growing organization will always have its challenges, no matter if your organization’s offerings are pretty complex or completely straightforward. Companies with products or offerings that are more straightforward can often grow successfully without necessarily having an open mind or a mindset geared toward change. On the other hand, companies like LeadingAgile that are constantly expanding both their team and offerings as well as constantly innovating how to do better for client

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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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3 Signs It’s time to Invest in a PSA Solution

EasyProjects

Professional services firms operate in a dynamic environment with almost constant change. This ongoing evolution can be attributed to new business models, changing client expectations and rapid developments in technology. Keeping up with these changes can be difficult, especially for businesses that rely on labor-intensive work methodologies and dated technology to deliver their services.

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All New Risk Matrix, Risk Custom Fields, and Much More

nTask

Greetings from nTask! What do months of incredible development, effective collaboration, and heroic development result in? To put it simply; we are excited to bring a revamped Risk register with a bunch of exciting new features dedicated to acing Risk mitigation like a pro. It’s an empowered approach to identifying & resolving project criticality that would otherwise slow down your deliverable at the end!

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