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How to navigate accountability without control as a Scrum Master

Scrum.org

In the Scrum framework, the Scrum Master is accountable for establishing Scrum as it’s set out in the Scrum Guide and for the team’s effectiveness. It’s the second accountability that often trips people up. . As Scrum Masters, we know everyone will look to us if the team isn’t performing well. Yet it’s the team that decides how it will get the work done, and many unknowns and unexpected challenges emerge throughout the Sprint.

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Emotional Intelligence and Leadership

LiquidPlanner

In his groundbreaking book Emotional Intelligence from 1995, Daniel Goleman explains that emotional intelligence is about twice as important as cognitive ability for positions at every level. The higher you go in the organization, the more it matters. For top-level C-suite jobs, up to 90% of the abilities that are essential for a leader’s performance are emotional competencies. .

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[Podcast] Four Reasons Why Scrum is Enticing for People at Senior Leadership Level

Scrum.org

Hello awesome Scrum Masters. I hope you have started your week well and hopefully your Product Owner, your developers and people at your company is getting value from the services you deliver to them. So folks, as a Scrum Master I often get questions from people in the company why should they specifically use Scrum when there are many other Agile frameworks out there.

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How to Quickly Calculate Your Project’s Risks for Success

MPUG

Assessing Risk. Countless studies over the last four decades point to similar findings: Approximately 50% of projects you undertake will be late and/or over budget, and approximately 25% will be cancelled. The success of a project depends on people, not on technology or tools. It crosses all industries, from manufacturing to financial services. The weighted scoring model below is intended to help you perform a quick risk assessment, to determine the probability of success on a current or new pro

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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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Creating an Agile Transformation Roadmap

Leading Agile

When you create an Agile Roadmap, it’s all about getting people to change and making the change sustainable and lasting. But change is hard and people tend to resist it. The thing is what derails Transformation isn’t actually your teams and executives not wanting to change, more often it’s that they don’t actually see how to get from point A to B safely and pragmatically.

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Leveraging Variable Spend in Your Agile Transformation

Leading Agile

Variable spend is an often overlooked, yet extremely key leverage point in Agile Transformations. How you leverage your spend during Agile Transformation can have a big impact on the speed at which the organization is able to actually Transform. If you do it right, it can accelerate the process. If you don’t do it strategically and effectively, your variable spend can keep you anchored right where you are.

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Using Office 365 Microsoft Teams to enhance Project Management – SharePoint, OneDrive and Teams

MPUG

As discussed in our previous article, globalization has meant project managers have had to find different tools and different ways to manage a project successfully. Team members now aren’t only from different countries but may even reside in other continents. By incorporating document storage, collaboration, sharing, and conversations all in one place, Microsoft 365 (which includes Teams, SharePoint, and OneDrive amongst other tools) acts as the Swiss army knife for project managers managi

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Agony Angels: Team Members Not Pulling their Weight – with Stuart Taylor

Online PM Courses

Do you have team members who aren't pulling their weight? Stuart Taylor and I tackle this, as we don the wings of two Agony Angels. The post Agony Angels: Team Members Not Pulling their Weight – with Stuart Taylor appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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FAST Scaling: An Innovative Way to Scale Agile with James Shore

Scrum.org

TL; DR: Hands-on Agile #45: FAST Scaling: An Innovative Way to Scale Agile with James Shore. In this energizing 45th Hands-on Agile session, James Shore shared his experiences with scaling “agile:” first with traditional approaches and, more recently, with FAST scaling. Learn in this deep-dive what works, what doesn’t, and how you can try FAST in your organization. ??

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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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How to Write a Project Plan (with free Template)

Planio

Despite all of your hard work, the honest truth is that 70% of all projects will fail to meet their goals. But while there are countless reasons why projects fail — scope creep , budget overrun, lack of stakeholder support — there’s one roadblock that’s easily avoided. A proper project plan is the most critical element when it comes to delivering success.

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16 Remote Employee Benefits Ideas to Boost Your Perks Package

Teamweek

Great remote employee benefits go far beyond the standard offer of flexible hours and an all-you-need tech stack. That’s a given. The modern remote employee has significantly higher expectations for the benefits package. What’s changed? Data suggests we’re entering a more mature remote work era: 99% of remote workers say they see themselves working remotely, at least some of the time, for the rest of their careers.

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6 Trümpfe: Wie du die Interaktivität von Onlineworkshops so steigerst, dass die Teilnehmer noch lange davon schwärmen

Scrum.org

Es war ein langer Weg bis zu dieser Rezension: „Durch die Interaktivität bin ich nicht nur Teilnehmerin, sondern wirklich Lernende. Kein passiver Konsum – wir haben uns das neue Wissen erarbeitet. Gespickt mit hilfreichen Tipps von Simon für den Arbeitsalltag. Langeweile? Fehlanzeige.“ – Sandra. Nach über zwei Jahren und über 940 Teilnehmern in meinen Trainings und Workshops habe ich endlich den Bogen raus, wie ich Trainings in eine interaktive Lernsession verwandeln kann.

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