Tue.Aug 06, 2019

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Accepting “Congratulations” for the Road Less Traveled

LiquidPlanner

A year ago, my wife and I decided to uproot our family and move to Ireland, where we have citizenship through her grandfather. She had bicycled around the island in the 1990s, but I had never even visited. As of this writing, we have no place to live or jobs, just a flight landing in Dublin at the end of this month. Yet, when we tell people our plans, the typical response is “Congratulations.”.

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How to Create a Project Budget: A Must-Read Guide for Agencies

Workamajig

Mastering the art of creating a project budget is a crucial skill for any agency. Learn how to create a project budget in our new article. So much of your success as an agency depends on getting the project budget right. Underestimate it and you risk not having enough money to accomplish the project goal. Overestimate it and you risk losing the project altogether.

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Strategy Knotworking: turning ideas and ambitions into reality

Scrum.org

Organizations use Scrum because they hope it can help them become more Agile. Think of delivering value to customers sooner by releasing early & often, decreasing cycle time and lead time, improving team morale, lowering the number of defects, optimizing return on investment and increasing innovation rate. Working effectively with Scrum requires strategy.

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4 Things to Keep in Mind When Building a Product Launch Template

Wrike

It took 400,000 engineers, technicians, and scientists. It cost $24 billion ($100 billion in today’s dollars). They traveled 240,000 miles in 76 hours. . If we were playing “Jeopardy,” the correct answer would be “What is the moon landing ?” . There are few launches that feel bigger than the moon landing, and yet, when you have a big product launch project at your company, it can feel like you’re moving heaven and earth to get it off the ground.

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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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Scrum First Principles

Scrum.org

TL; DR: Scrum First Principles. Popularized by Elon Musk, utilizing first principles thinking to solve problems in an innovative, creative, and less biased way has proven popular in the tech community. Given that its sibling empiricism is an integral part of Scrum as a framework, applying Scrum first principles thinking is also a useful exercise. First Principles Thinking Explained by Elon Musk.

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Scrum with UX

Scrum.org

El aspecto principal del desarrollo de un producto no debe ser el trabajo de UX, es importante como otros tipos de trabajo como arquitectura, pruebas, etc. El foco y objetivos del desarrollo producto es en Impacto en el negocio y en “Outcome”. Un “Outcome" es un cambio medible en el comportamiento de un cliente que al suceder permite lograr el impacto en el negocio.

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Top Startups Tips from Jeff Bezos, Amazon Founder

Proofhub

5 Lessons Millennial Startups Can Learn from Jeff Bezos Who would have thought that we will have an E-commerce venture like Amazon.com? The brain behind Amazon, its CEO, and Founder Jeff Bezos is one of the charismatic entrepreneurs presently. So, in 1994, he quit D.E. Shaws to start his own online book store. A computer science graduate from Princeton University, Jeff started his career as a banker on The Waw and began his own virtual bookstore.

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7 Leadership Styles Examples That You Need to Know

nTask

Leadership has a very broad scope when we talk about leadership styles examples. They are all very different in a sense that there is a wide varirty of these fellows ever since leadersup was incepted. There are over ten different leadership styles, and one style just doesn’t suit a specific organization. Leadership in that sense is complex. Sometimes “leaders” don’t know that they are leading within the capacity of any responsible role.