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Parabol: Improve your retrospectives

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Are you looking for a tool to run retrospective meetings? In this Parabol review, I’ll share the pros and cons of the popular tool – it could be the right product for your agile team. Summary. Product: Parabol. Cost and plans: Free plan for up to 2 teams. Hosting model: Cloud and on-premise. Languages: The interface is English although you can use any input language.

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Scrum’s Nature: It Is a Tool; It Is Not About Love or Hate

Scrum.org

TL; DR: Scrum’s Nature: It Is a Tool; It Is Not About Love or Hate. Regularly, we find articles from developers detailing why ‘Agile’ in general and Scrum’s nature, in particular, deserve our collective disdain. What has always struck me in this discussion is the fact that Scrum is a tool useful to accomplish one primary task: delivering value to customers of emergent products in complex environments while mitigating an organization’s exposure to risk at the same time.

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Double Grouping, now supporting Booking Categories

Hub Planner

Reading Time: 2 minutes Hub Planner Double Grouping Reports now supports Booking Categories. Hub Planner releases a new update to the Resource Management Softwares reporting platform. Now, add a secondary grouping by booking category. The ability to add a secondary grouping was released earlier this year. Allowing teams to breakdown analytics even further.

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Are you having Fun?

Scrum.org

Fitness and health is so many different things to so many people, but what is that one thing it should be for everyone? Any idea? FUN ! Whatever it is that you do to keep yourself active, enhance the movement quality, whether it’s - lifting weights, walking, running, yoga, dancing, playing a sport or learning a new skill - there is one important question you need to ask yourself : Are YOU having FUN for the most part?

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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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Good process; good outcome

Musings on Project Management

Good process improves the chance of good outcomes and reduces unforced errors. Robert Gates, former US Defense Secretary This bit of wisdom seems obviously good on the surface, except that some of our PMO and project leaders are just not process-people. They don't think in terms of finish-to-start order, merging of parallel paths of investigation or action, or even of allocation of.

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How to Focus to Achieve Your 2020 Resolutions

LiquidPlanner

In today’s overflow of media and the latest information, it can be easy to get distracted and even overwhelmed on a daily basis. Productivity is key to achieving the resolutions you set (what feels like oh, so long ago,) but how can you maintain the focus and energy needed every day to achieve them? It may often seem like there’s too much to do in a day, which can leave you so focused on getting everything you need to be done that you forget about your future goals and resolutions. .

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The Top 7 Project Management Interview Questions and Answers

GoSkills

So you have a project management interview? Don't fret. Prep with these seven killer project management interview questions and answers.

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Scrum.org

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PMI Online Proctored Exams - How to Take it Step by Step?

Management Yogi

The Project Management Institute (PMI®) has started offering the online proctored exams over a couple of months before. Hence, you can go for either: Traditional Center Based examination, or Online Proctored examination A proctor is an individual who actively monitors test-takers during exams. The proctor does it via the webcam and microphone. Specifically, the online proctored.

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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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3D1go - ActiveCollab Brought Sanity to the Fray

ActiveCollab

My name is Ryan Li, and I am the co-founder of 3D1GO. We are focused on bringing 3D VR solutions to businesses and communities of every size. Using the open-source platform Vircadia [[link] many groups and organizations hold their meetups and events virtually with full presence and effect despite Covid-19. With 3D1go as its primary sponsor, we design, develop, and create worlds for every use case.

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11 Crucial Tools for Remote Teams During the COVID-19 Epidemic

ProProfs Project Management

What was once a dream for many working people is now a reality, albeit not in the best of circumstances. In my history of working with people, I have personally encountered not an insignificant number of people who preferred to work from home, rather than go to an office building. Think about it: you save money on commuting, and you save time (since time is money, that’s twice the savings… I think).

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Homeworking & Homeschooling in COVID-19 by Brad Egeland

MindGenius

It appears that COVID-19 isn’t going away anytime soon. Most of us have reached that point where we at least know someone who has contracted it or has even become severely affected or died from it. I’ve even read predictions from experts that before we conquer it – if we ever do – at least 60-70% of the population will have contracted the coronavirus. 60-70%.

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