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Five reasons why Scrum is not helping in getting twice the work done in half the time

Scrum.org

I originally published this blog on Medium and reposting it here again. You can read the original post here. When I saw the book “Art of doing twice the work in the half time,” Dr. Jeff Sutherland wrote, my reaction was like how someone can claim that? What will be an effective measure to have such a comparison? I went through the book and loved it.

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But what will our staff do if we don’t focus on their utilization?

Kiron Bondale

Lean thinking encourages us to focus on maximizing value delivered to stakeholders rather than maximizing the utilization of the people, equipment or material resources contributing to value streams. Two reasons for this recommendation are: Systems which are run with no free capacity will have no tolerance for any impact which causes a greater utilization of resources than was planned, resulting in delays to the value we were expecting to deliver.

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Review Blue Striped Frog – The agile community – Magazine (1st edition)

Henny Portman

Last week I received a few copies of a brand new magazine from Vincent Snijder, the editor in chief. A magazine for the Blue Striped Frog community of professionals who are engaged in transformations towards increasing organizational agility. At this moment there aren’t that many physical magazines focussing on project management, agile, or agility anymore.

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Agile Asanas: Mapping Traditional Project Roles (PMBOK) to Agile Frameworks

Management Yogi

I get this question many times from management practitioners on how various roles in a project will translate to the roles in Agile frameworks. Let’s say your team is following the Scrum framework, where you have three roles: Scrum Master, Product Owner and Team Member. How will these roles map to the traditional project roles? [ To read all posts in Agile Asanas series, use this link. ]For the.

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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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[VLOG] What Happens To The Sprint Backlog Items That Are Not Done?

Scrum.org

What is good awesome people? I hope you are having an awesome weekend so far. After my two previous vlogs , many people asked me: What Happens To The Sprint Backlog Items That Are Not Done? In this vlog, I illustrate what should the Scrum team do when there are Sprint Backlog items that are not done. Hopefully the illustration gives you guidance on what you should do in this situation.

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The Major Projects World: What you Need to Know and How to Get Started

Online PM Courses

Major Projects are special. They achieve great things. Everyone looks up to them with respect and a certain amount of awe. The post The Major Projects World: What you Need to Know and How to Get Started appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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Reports restructuring, API improvements, filtering fixes, and more

Resource Guru

After a number of weeks of silence as far as in-depth product updates go, we are delighted to come back as strong as ever and let you know what we’ve been working on during the month of September. Let’s get straight into the action and see a play-by-play of what’s new: We have fixed a rare issue with unarchiving some resources that was affecting a small number of accounts.

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Task Management Tools: Why Hybrid is a Good Thing

MPUG

I’d like to start this piece with a statement, “Hybrid is good.” Today’s business is one dominated by productivity demand and compounded with tight budgets and a remote workforce. People are needing better and easier-to-use tools to help keep them on track and productive, while centralizing their project information, documentation, and collaboration spaces for the support of multiple projects and programs.

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Reports restructuring, API improvements, filtering fixes, and more

Resource Guru

After a number of weeks of silence as far as in-depth product updates go, we are delighted to come back as strong as ever and let you know what we’ve been working on during the month of September. Let’s get straight into the action and see a play-by-play of what’s new: We have fixed a rare issue with unarchiving some resources that was affecting a small number of accounts.

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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