Tue.Mar 31, 2020

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Managing Remote Teams: Challenges, Best Practices & Tools

ProjectManager.com

As technology advanced, so did the workforce and how teams work. No longer were organizations tied to dipping into the local talent pool. With broadband, mobile devices and software solutions, teams could be recruited anywhere and work remotely. While this widened the net in terms of capturing skilled workers, it creates a whole new set of problems for managers.

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Sprint Planning : 5 Dysfunctions

Scrum.org

Every Sprint starts with a Sprint Planning event. It is very crucial to ensure that the Scrum Team comes to a shared understanding of what and how are they going to deliver a “Done” increment that creates maximum business impact. Although, like other events Sprint Planning also is often marred with few dysfunctions. In this post I will bring forth 5 common dysfunctions that I have observed associated with this event.

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A Quick Guide to Strategic Initiatives

ProjectManager.com

Although the term “strategic initiative” might sound like inflated business jargon, it’s far from useless. A strategic initiative is a compass that guides businesses and targets future goals. It speaks to the PMI’s A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) , which says all projects must be strategically aligned with the organization’s business strategy.

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Working Remotely? This Will Hit You Next!

Scrum.org

The Current Situation. Many people around the globe are working from home right now, due to the Covid-19 pandemic. This happened all of a sudden and overnight. Despite the rapidness of the change, moving to remote worked surprisingly well for many teams, because they were used to some degree of remote work before. Especially development teams and technology firms in general have many years of experience with allowing their workforce to do their jobs from wherever and whenever they like.

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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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Love in the time of Corona

Growing Agile

We are living in extraordinary times when the novelty of the COVID-19 virus causing disruptions to economies around the world. Many of us find ourselves in self-isolation, working remotely, buying food in panic and more. We are required to make decisions at work and home, but we often lack relevant or accurate information, and at times, we have to deal with too much data.

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Agile Unplugged: EP 02 | Mike Cottmeyer and Dennis Stevens

Leading Agile

Listen to the Agile Unplugged Podcast on the go! Find and subscribe to Agile Unplugged on: Apple Podcasts. Spotify. Soundcloud. RSS. Welcome to the next installment of an all-new podcast hosted by LeadingAgile’s CEO, Mike Cottmeyer. Agile Unplugged is your chance to explore LeadingAgile’s freshest ideas, mental models, frameworks, and solutions with the people that are actually doing the work of leading large-scale Agile Transformation, out in the field.

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How to Set Project Expectations

Wrike

Setting project expectations is simple if you use the right tools and communication techniques. But every project, client, and team is different, so there is no one size fits all solution. That’s why we’ve outlined the art of how to set project expectations below. . Keep reading to learn more about how adding transparency and visibility into your project management process will help improve goal alignment.

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An Abundance of Initiatives—Now What?

Leading Agile

Strategic product management may be the “quarterback” role on a leadership team, helping the team choose and execute the right plays. As a team, we have more good ideas than our organization has the capacity to execute. Which forces the discussions about making choices – what do we do, what do we do first, what do we choose not to pursue?

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Virtual teams. now is the time

Musings on Project Management

“Virtuality is found in how team members work, not in where team members work.” Thomas P. Wise, "Trust in Virtual Teams" Thomas P. Wise is probably correct that virtual teams are more about "how" than "where", but as the covid-19 virus is about as I write this, everyone is scrambling for the playbook on virtual teams, and turning to the chapter on "how" without question.

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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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¿Cuál es la diferencia entre Scrum y Agile?

Scrum.org

En la reunión del Manifiesto Ágil en 2001, se escribió un conjunto de 4 valores respaldados por una docena de principios. Esto era el inicio de lo que es Agile. Hubo 3 expertos en Scrum presentes y los 4 fundadores de eXtreme Programming. . Estos fueron los únicos dos procesos ampliamente implementados en el mundo real. Están relacionados porque los fundadores de ambos procesos se comunicaban en los grupos de noticias de Internet a medida que se formaban y reutilizaban ideas el uno del otro ya

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Playing Tricks: How To Prank Yourself To Be More Productive

Trello

When it comes to getting things done, each of us is ultimately in charge of our own destiny. We can choose to get things done in a timely fashion or we can drag things out and make certain tasks even more dreadful. For some people it means “ eating their frog for breakfast ” and for others, it’s about knocking out the easy-to-accomplish tasks first.

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