Tue.Feb 16, 2021

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Is Technical Screening the Secret Quality Hiring Weapon?

Teamweek

It is not uncommon to find resumes and cover letters that stretch the truth of one’s capabilities. In a highly competitive market, it only makes sense that everyone will do whatever it takes to stand out – even if that means adding in a technical skill you aren’t actually a master at. For employers, sifting through resumes and finding the perfect candidate can be a grueling process and to top it off, there is nothing to guarantee that what is on an applicant’s CV is the whole story!

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New: The (Free) Scrum Team Survey Now Includes Stakeholders

Scrum.org

With the Scrum Team Survey , you can create transparency with your team around five core questions: Are you building what stakeholders need? Are you shipping fast enough? Are you improve continuously? Do you have the autonomy to organize in the way that works best? And do the outcomes you generate actually add something valuable. To date, over 3.450 teams participated (and over 5.281 team members) Until last week, our tool only allowed an inside-out perspective on these questions.

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Top 5 Resource Management & Planning Tools

Teamweek

Resource planning, along with the right tools, are key aspects of project management. It doesn’t matter how well you define and plan tasks if you don’t have the right resources when needed. This gets even a bit more complicated when teams share resources. Take for example: developers or copywriters for design and marketing teams. It’s crucial that team tasks assignments do not overlap.

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YDS: Can a Manager Be THE Scrum Master?

Scrum.org

On today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: Can a Manager Be THE Scrum Master? Today's question is from a viewer who wants to know if a manager can also be the Scrum Master? While the Scrum Guide does not forbid it, having a manager in the Scrum Master role can cause many anti-patterns. Watch the video to learn more about how Ryan and Todd have tried to fulfill both roles and have both failed in epic ways!

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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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Time Anxiety: What it is and How to Deal With It?

nTask

Do you have the recurring thought that you don’t have enough time or that it is too late to accomplish what you want to? If so, you may be suffering from what is referred to as “ Time Anxiety.”. Pretty common, especially in today’s day and age of social media portraying unrealistic expectations and lives rushing us by, time anxiety is no fun and can be weighing you down in your everyday life.

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What Is A Project Task? And How to Get Things Done In an Agile Environment

nTask

Project tasks, in their entirety, can be daunting, if they are not managed properly. It can be difficult to surmise the outcomes if these tasks are treated as such. Therefore, it’s better to break a project into smaller chunks rather than processing it all together. In other words, if you have kicked off simultaneous project activities , take a step back and divide your project into smaller, achievable, and deliverable chunks.

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How to Make Agile Work in Fast-Growing Startups

Scrum.org

TL; DR: How to Make Agile Work in Fast-Growing Startups. For years, I worked in several Berlin-based, fast-growing startups in my capacity as Scrum Master, agile coach, and Product Owner. These are my lessons learned on making ‘agile’ — including Scrum as a framework — work in a fast-growing startup. Also, let me introduce you to the anti-patterns agile startups shall avoid at all costs. ??

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Manage Decisions with the Power of Emotionally Intelligent Assertiveness

PM Times

Written by: George Pitagorsky Being an effective proponent of ideas is critical to leading and managing projects well. Advocacy is essential to managing conflict and making decisions.

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Epicflow Glossary: Names of Features and Terms Used in the System

Epicflow Blog

Epicflow is a multi-project and resource management software solution that has quite a few features that contribute to the successful project delivery in a multi-project environment. Many of them have unique names. To avoid confusion and misunderstanding, we’ve decided to compile a glossary to make not only our clients but those who are just curious about our product learn more about Epicflow’s functions. .

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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