Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

TL; DR: Retrospective First Principles. What is your take on the Retrospective: A routine exercise at the end of a Sprint, supported by standard operating procedures? Or a critical part of a Scrum team’s journey of continuous improvement? As you may assume, I advocate for the latter. In my experience, Scrum teams start utilizing Retrospectives to their full potential when they embrace a short set of Retrospective first principles, outlining the essence of the Why, the What, and the How.

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The Strategic Project Manager

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Personal mindset is very much at the core of becoming a strategic thinker and project manager. This post explores personal aspects such as our actions, our ambitions, and our aspirations – and how they map to various aspects of project management and strategy. What Our Actions, Ambitions, and Aspirations Tell Us. Someone famously said one day that “We become what we think about most of the time.” If there is any truth to that, then we had better be thinking about the right thin

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

This article is also available as a free PDF on our webshop. It’s a nicely styled paper and allows you to easily share it with others. You can download the PDF here. Christiaan Verwijs and I created the Scrum Team Survey to support Scrum and other Agile teams in their continuous improvement loop. The first step in that loop is to create transparency around where you are right now, and then to work together as a team to identify improvements and make adaptations.

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International Institute for Learning

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

By Rubin Jen. In a recent ProjectManagement.com article, a well-known industry practitioner posed the statement: “PMOs struggle to deliver value and are often not clear about what that value should be. They are frequently started without full and careful consideration of why they are being created, what the real underlying problem is that they are there to solve, and what success would look like in doing so.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Scrum Team Accountabilities and responsibilities can be confusing, misunderstood, and lack shared understanding between its members and the organization. This is especially true for new Scrum Team members, yet I also have experienced this with teams who have been using Scrum for several years. And sometimes these misunderstandings are perpetuated by the organization and its leaders.

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Leading Agile

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Everything you need to know about Agile Governance and how LeadingAgile thinks about the flow of value through large organizations.

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International Institute for Learning

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

By Harold Kerzner, Ph.D. . Abstract. Several years ago, I was teaching a project management course as part of a university’s MBA program. The course met for three hours one evening a week for the entire semester. The classroom assigned to me must have been used during the day to teach anatomy courses because there was a complete human skeleton hanging on the wall.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

. A Developer on a Scrum Team. What does that actually mean? What do they do? Explore some common myths, and discover what’s expected from Developers on a Scrum Team in this video. . In a hurry? Read the video transcript.

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Online PM Courses

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Whether you are leading a team or engaging stakeholders, inspiring the people around you will raise your profile and boost your charisma. The post Top 10 Ways to Inspire Your Stakeholders and Team | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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MPUG

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Background. There was an interesting question recently in the Tech Community Project user forum. A user asked how to change the default working calendar to allow Saturday as a working day. The question was specifically related to Project Online, but both the question and the answer relate to the Microsoft Project desktop application as well. Because the user provided very little details in his question, the responses from a fellow Project MVP and I dealt with two possible situations the user mig

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ActiveCollab

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Companies must be aware of how the marketing environment affects their decision-making processes. Failing to do so could make them face a potential downfall and even go out of business. On the other hand, companies could always explore potential revenue opportunities if they are aware of the marketing environment. The marketing environment is a mix of factors and forces that impact a company's ability to succeed while ensuring customers get high-quality products and services.

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Sitetracker

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The supply chain issues and skilled-labor shortages plaguing the solar industry are very real, and they have indeed slowed the industry's growth. The post Solving Solar’s Biggest Challenges appeared first on Sitetracker.

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International Institute for Learning

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

By Max Langosco. Two Things Are Happening. First , project management is being applied to contexts where the outcome is both ever more important and uncertain. Consider, for example, the adoption of project management to deliver strategic corporate objectives or using project management approaches to do pure research. Both examples are of common occurrences.

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