Mon.Aug 24, 2020

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12 Sure-Fire Ways to Improve Project Risk Management

Project Risk Coach

Mike was a functional project manager in an organization where I managed a PMO. He was winsome and a hard worker. But his projects were trending in the wrong direction and his manager was not happy with Mike's performance. In a one-on-one meeting, I asked Mike how he was identifying, analyzing, and managing his risks. His response revealed his belief in risk management but a lack of actual application with his teams.

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Agile Metrics — The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Scrum.org

TL; DR: Agile Metrics. Suitable agile metrics reflect either a team’s progress in becoming agile or your organization’s progress in becoming a learning organization. At the team level, qualitative agile metrics often work better than quantitative metrics. At the organizational level, this is reversed: quantitative agile metrics provide better insights than qualitative ones.

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MPUG’s New Website is Live

MPUG

The new MPUG.com is live! We are excited about improved usability and making learning about project management easier than ever for you across all platforms. If you missed it, check out our previous article on the topic for a preview of our website’s new design. Now that we’re live, let’s take a deeper look at a couple new features that are now available.

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5 - Evénements Scrum : Sprint Planning

Scrum.org

Le Sprint Planning est le premier évènement d'un Sprint. Son objectif est de collaborer à la planification du travail à effectuer durant le Sprint. C'est un timebox de 8 heures pour un Sprint d'un mois, proportionnellement moins pour un Sprint plus court. Toute la l'Équipe Scrum y participe. Un Sprint Planning est composé de deux parties principales. 1 - QUOI FAIRE ?

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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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What Is Hybrid Project Management?

Wrike

Have you heard of hybrid project management ? It sounds like it’d be complex and confusing, but we promise it’s not. In fact, it can help you and your team get projects across the finish line even more efficiently and effectively. Do we have your attention? We thought so. Let’s break down everything you need to know about hybrid project management. .

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5 ways admation is helping Agency Traffic and Project Managers work remotely.

Admation

Today, we continue to review ad mation features that assist teams working remotely, with our focus on Agency Traffic and Project Managers. Regardless of the title, Agency Traffic and Project Managers are ultimately responsible for managing the workflows, resources and budgets of campaigns or marketing projects. Some of their challenges include; a lack of transparency across projects, high revision counts, delayed approvals, tracking and allocating resources and budget blowouts.

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What Role Should a Scrum Master take in a Sprint Retrospective?

Scrum.org

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How to Take a Digital Break When Your Job is Online

Teamweek

Illustration: Kezia Gabriella. I’ve been working from home as a freelance journalist for two years and I’m acutely aware of how my work hours have only increased in the past few months. My days have melted into nights and at one point I was waking up at 4 a.m. to answer emails because it was only afternoon somewhere else in the world. These days, when I’m not on my laptop working, I’m probably on my phone scrolling through the news or social media.

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52 Challenging Cases for Scrum Practitioners

Scrum.org

The Scrum Framework is a lightweight framework to solve complex and adaptive problems with others. Although it looks easy on paper, it’s often much harder to do well in the messiness of the real world. Where do you make trade-offs? How can you model the Scrum values? How can you work empirically in an environment that isn’t suited for it? To encourage Scrum practitioners to explore these questions, we created 52 real-life cases.

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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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Scrum Master tactics: Escaping the Resource Utilization Trap

Scrum.org

The Scrum Master tactics series are a series of articles in which I write about and explore contemporary techniques that will aid you in your journey as a Scrum Master. The tactics explained stem from my personal experience as a Scrum Master which I accumulated over the years in working with many different teams and contexts. Though each of these tactics have value in their own way, I let you be the judge on assessing this value given your context and apply these tactics whenever you deem approp

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