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Understand Agile Methodology: Roles, Components, and Phases

Agilemania

The Agile methodology has long been accepted over the waterfall methodology. Despite over decades of its inception, agile transformations have been a failure for many organizations. What’s the reason for this? Is it something that the naked eye is failing to notice? Whatever the reason, today we are going to talk about the phases(steps) in Agile methodology.

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Agile Project Management: Principles, Meetings, Values & Tools

ProjectManager.com

What Is Agile Project Management? Agile project management is an iterative approach to delivering a project through short planning cycles called sprints. By using incremental steps towards completing a project, agile teams can easily adjust their project plan or product development plan to better meet their customer requirements. Agile project management allows teams to gather customer feedback as the project progresses.

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What Should a New Project Manager Focus On?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This is a guest article by Dr Mike Clayton, who is the well-known author and trainer behind Online PM Courses.*. It was about 17 years ago. I sat opposite the new project manager. What to tell her? The First Meeting. I remember sitting down with a new project manager over coffee. Don’t get me wrong: she had lots of good experience, but was off to manage her first project for a client the next day….

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8 Steps to Ensure Speedy Project Closure on a High-End Deadline

nTask

Starting with a project is easy but wrapping it up effectively is tiresome and challenging. When it comes to project closure, we procrastinate or don’t do it all. Truth be told, we mostly don’t find time and energy to properly put the whole project to bed. So, we tend to skip it. However, project closure is pivotal to properly tie up loose ends and finish the project.

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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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Why There’s No Such Thing as an IT Project

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Very early in my career I worked with an IT manager who refused to use the term ‘the business’ in conversation. He’d pull people up when colleagues said things like, “The business is asking for…”. What you really mean, he would argue, is that the Marketing team, or the Finance team, is asking for something. There is no dichotomy of IT and ‘the business’.

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Risk vs Issue: Everything You Need to Know

Wrike

Whether you realize it or not, we make risk vs. issue calculations all day long. Let’s consider one issue: You’re running late for work. Why not drive through that red light? Well, because of the risk: Getting pulled over by police, or worse, putting peoples’ lives in danger. So, you wait out the red light. That’s an easy one.

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Certified Business Analysis Professional - CBAP : What is the Role of business analysts in software development?

Techno-PM

The IIBA is a global association for business analysis professionals. They offer many different courses to help professionals increase their knowledge and skills in business analysis. One such course is the Certified Business Analysis Professional certification or CBAP for short. The Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) exam is designed to validate the skills and knowledge of professionals seeking to demonstrate their competence in business analysis.

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3 Myths About Managing Multiple Projects That Are Blocking Your Promotion

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Watch my free webinar training on the 3 critical skills you need to manage multiple projects. Learn the skills you really need to juggle all your work! Managers promote people who are a safe pair of hands, who know how to get the job done and can work efficiently at all levels of the organization. Being able to manage multiple projects is one way to evidence that you can do all of that.

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How to Perform a Project Handover

Project Smart

All good things eventually end. Or as a colleague of mine is fond of pointing out, nothing lasts forever – and that's especially true for projects. However, it's sometimes necessary to hand over a project to a different project manager mid-stream. No matter the reason, it's natural to focus on the future. You may feel excited about a new role or retirement and less attached to your outgoing project.

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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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Automate Microsoft Planner reporting using Microsoft Power Automate and Power BI – Lesson 2 Transcription

MPUG

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Ben Howard’s webinar, Automate Microsoft Planner reporting using Microsoft Power Automate and Power BI (Lesson 2), 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.