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3 Ways to Improve Cost Estimates with Your Teams

Project Risk Coach

Do you ever feel like the Lone Ranger when working on cost estimates? Actually, you're not alone; you have a team. Let's explore how to engage your team members and subject matter experts to improve your cost estimates. So, let's look at three techniques to use with your teams: Brainstorming Delphi Technique Nominal Group Technique 3 Team Techniques to Improve Cost Estimates 1.

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Taking the First Step toward Scrum

Scrum.org

Agile frameworks such as Scrum have continued to gain traction because of their ability to vastly improve business outcomes and employee engagement. Scrum is a lightweight framework that helps people, teams, and organizations generate value through adaptive solutions for complex problems. Once firmly in the domain of software development, practitioners find that Scrum is equally applicable to many other kinds of complex work.

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Why Investing in Dojos Won’t Transform Your Organization

Leading Agile

This title probably attracted two types of people – people who are wondering what the role of the ancient practice of martial arts has in organizational change management. No, this is not about conflict resolution. The second group of people are those involved in change management, and already understand a Dojo is an immersive learning environment that focuses on upskilling teams and producing products.

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Taking the first step towards Scrum

Scrum.org

Agile frameworks such as Scrum have continued to gain traction because of their ability to vastly improve business outcomes and employee engagement. Scrum is a lightweight framework that helps people, teams, and organizations generate value through adaptive solutions for complex problems. Once firmly in the domain of software development, practitioners find that Scrum is equally applicable to many other kinds of complex work.

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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 3rd edition of “Scrum – A Pocket Guide” is now available.

Gunther Verheyen

A big rock that was moved in 2021. The updated, third edition of my book “Scrum – A Pocket Guide” is now available worldwide, as a digital and as a paperback edition. Still small enough to fit in your pocket and carry it with you anywhere, anytime. Still a smart travel companion. I accidentally created the first edition of my book “Scrum – A Pocket Guide” in 2013.

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The Single Best Team Effectiveness Tool | Video

Online PM Courses

You want the best from your team. But your time is limited, and you have so much to do. What is the single best Team Effectiveness tool? The post The Single Best Team Effectiveness Tool | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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Three Wide-Spread Product Owner Failures in 6:09 Minutes—Making Your Scrum Work #5

Scrum.org

TL; DR: Three Wide-Spread Product Owner Failures. There are plenty of Product Owner failures. Given that Scrum is a framework with a precise and concise yet short “manual,” this effect should not surprise anyone. Explore with me three widespread examples of how Product Owners fail their team in three short video clips, totaling 6 minutes and 9 seconds. ??

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How To Make an IT Disaster Recovery Plan (With Template)

Wrike

Data management is just as much about security as it is about organization. There are plenty of worst-case scenarios in the world of data today, but an IT disaster recovery plan is the solution for them all. Whether you’re concerned about stolen information, corrupt files, or damaged servers, having action steps in place ahead of time will help your team act fast and recover quickly.

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The Project Management Time Machine

Project Smart

Over the years, we've all made mistakes on our projects. But hopefully, we've learned from our mistakes, big and small, to become better project managers. I can think back to errors in my early career and wince. These days, however, I share my learnings with our apprentices, hoping they will wince slightly less in the future than I do now.

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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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Managing Chaos and Pandemonium in a Complex World

MPUG

We are excited to have partnered with Lynette Reed, writer, researcher, and advisor on human potential, to present a course on managing the chaos that can easily become a regular part of project management work. Businesses and organizations across the globe are now moving forward into a new way of functioning, and it’s essential that they find ways to strengthen relationships within their teams.

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Can the Scrum Master and the Product Owner be the same person?

Scrum.org

Most people ask me a question: Hey Venkatesh, can you tell me that whether a person can simultaneously handle the responsibilities of a Scrum Master and a Product Owner at the same time? We need to turn the pages of the Scrum Guide for a clear definition. The definition of a Scrum Team is: . . “The Scrum Team consists of one Scrum Master, one Product Owner, and Developers.”.

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Tips To Deliver Creative Marketing Projects on Time

Admation

Aah, deadlines. As a marketer you'll face a lot of them. Actually, when you manage creative projects, they’re par for the course. Some of them you make, and it’s inevitable that you’ll miss some. Hey, it happens, and most clients understand if you miss one occasionally.

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