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If the Empire had used Scrum.

Scrum.org

Have you ever completed a multi-billion-dollar project only to see it blow up in your face? Twice? If you answered yes, you’re in good company with the Galactic Empire. . The Rebel Alliance destroyed two Death Stars as well as their successor, the Starkiller Base, using similar tactics. If the Empire had used Scrum, the Death Star might never have been destroyed at all. . .

SCRUM 232
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What would you ‘go in’ to an office for

Lynne Cazaly

Beware the big effort for a dull return. It’s happening. There’s the call that ‘everyone needs to be in the office for this’, or ‘we need all hands’ or ‘it’s worthy of face-to-face’ And everyone makes the effort but it ends up having a dull, disengaging, “could have been a zoom or teams meeting, could have been an email, could have been a link, could have been a PDF” feeling about it.

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Your Scrum Career Can Take Off With This One Simple Tip

Scrum.org

I've been fortunate enough to have enjoyed a great Scrum career and, as I look back over the past two decades plus, I note that there is one thing, more than anything else, that took my career in Scrum to a whole new level. Not just a step change. I mean a massive leap forward! . The harder I worked, the luckier I got. Like most people I've met, I ended up finding Scrum by accident!

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Managing Difficult Conversations: Your Guide to How to Get them Right

Online PM Courses

From time to time, every Project Manager finds themselves managing difficult conversations. We'd rather not. So, how can you get them right? The post Managing Difficult Conversations: Your Guide to How to Get them Right appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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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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Inspection and the Increment - Back to the foundations of the Scrum framework (19)

Scrum.org

Scrum is founded on empirical process control, and inspection is one of the three pillars. Each of the Scrum Artifacts is inspected in one or more Scrum Events to detect undesired variances. If you feel something isn’t running as expected, have a good look with your team at your Artifacts what could be going on. Inspection is about detecting undesirable variances in progressing towards agreed goals.

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The extroverts will take care of themselves

Lynne Cazaly

How are you engaging, connecting and facilitating interactions among a diverse team? Winging it doesn’t work. Letting things flow can cause problems later. Denying you need to do something deliberate can also be fraught. Introverts Extroverts. Ambiverts. All belong. All have much to bring, give and contribute. But if you’re waiting for them, you’re missing the point of leadership.

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Exploring VBA Part II: Using VBA Forms to Create a Custom Interface – Transcription

MPUG

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Ira Brown’s session, Exploring VBA: Microsoft Project’s Macro Language Part II, being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content.