Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Do you need a timeline maker for project communications or to create executive briefings? In this review of Office Timeline Pro, I’ll share the pros and cons of the PowerPoint plugin. Summary. Product: Office Timeline. Pricing: A one-year licence for the Pro version costs $99. The Plus version is only $59. Hosting model: The ‘main’ version is a Windows plugin, but there is a cloud version which lets you run Office Timeline for Mac systems in the browser.

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Technical Review Software Review 2020 Executing 521

Kiron Bondale

OCTOBER 11, 2020

I usually advise my students to encourage their team members to not provide padded work estimates, but rather to make schedule contingencies visible and tie these contingencies to milestones rather than to individual activities. This is intended to counter the potential confluence of Parkinson’s Law (work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion), Student Syndrome (let’s wait till the very last possible moment to start an undesired activity) and Murphy’s Law

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Performance Measurement Sustainability Estimate Process 358

Scrum.org

OCTOBER 11, 2020

In meinen Professional Scrum Master Trainings beantwortet ein Großteil der Teilnehmer diese Frage mit: “Hoffentlich so früh wie möglich, denn als Scrum Master ist es unsere Aufgabe uns selbst überflüssig zu machen.” Haben Sie damit Recht? 10 Anzeichen, wann du als Scrum Master überflüssig bist. Wenn du deine Arbeit als Scrum Master ausschließlich darin siehst, die Scrum Meetings zu moderieren , den Sprint Backlog in Jira zu verwalten und darauf zu achten, dass jeder Entwickler genug Arbeit hat,

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SCRUM Planning 137

Henny Portman

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Happy to see my A new bird’s eye view on the agile forest article in the October edition of the Project Management World Journal (PMWJ). It’s less than a year ago when the first edition of this article won an award. At that moment it contained 50 agile ways of working. In this new version I added 30 new ones which brings it to a total of 80 agile ways of working (including links to websites with more detailed information).

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Agile 2020 119

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Planning

Scrum.org

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Product Owner is Accountable for Maximizing Value of The Product. Product Start with an Idea. Image Credit : Nivedita Gulia . As per Scrum Guide, version November 2017: “ The Product Owner is responsible for maximizing the value of the product resulting from work of the Development Team ”. Product owner is mini CEO for Product and own the product; Product Owner preferred stances are The Visionary, The Collaborator, The Customer Representative, The Decision Maker, The Experimenter and The Influe

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Innovation Technical Review 2017 Defining 135

Appfluence

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Agile Planning offers you one of the best ways to collaborate with your team and bring in front the best project results. While the planning project might seem tedious and challenging, it will help bring in comprehensive, powerful solutions to suit your needs. Here are some of the top tips you can use right away. Set the right goals and prioritize the most important ones.

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Online PM Courses

OCTOBER 11, 2020

I don't do forecasts. Things change too quickly. But we can spot project management trends and infer how we need to prepare. The post What’s New? Project Management Trends: Your 2020 Update appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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2020 PMO PMI 139

MPUG

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Meetings are an integral part of running a project, and they’ve become so ubiquitous that most of our work days include one (or several!). Meetings are intended to bring people together around a specific topic, and while the idea behind a meeting is good, many of the meetings we sit through are often just a laundry list of status updates. They’re unfocused, unproductive and sometimes feel pointless.

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Closing Consulting Process 52