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Remote Agile: Practices and Tools [Video]

Scrum.org

Watch the Replay of the Remote Agile Practices & Tools Live Virtual Class. At the end of March, we ran a Remote Agile Practices & Tools class with about 30 participants from all over Europe, the Eastern Seaboard, and Canada. The participants agreed on recording it and make it available to the agile community. We edited the recording slightly; for example, we removed the waiting time during the exercise timeboxes.

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Quick Take: My Favorite Women-Authored Blogs

LiquidPlanner

When I joined LiquidPlanner as the Director of Marketing toward the end of 2019, I was pleased to find that our blog features many strong, independent, and talented female authors. In the tech industry, it can sometimes (or often) feel that, as a woman, you play second fiddle — that your opinion is valued , but not quite in the same way as the men at the table.

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Analogous and Parametric Estimating

MPUG

Microsoft Project, in its various releases (i.e., Online desktop, 2019, 2016, etc.), can become an accurate estimating tool for top-down (Analogous) and bottom-up (Parametric) estimating. This is accomplished by inserting custom columns and simple formulas. However, some tricks are necessary to get around user impediments. With accurate estimates, a Risk Reserve, an Estimating Uncertainty Buffer, and appropriate updating, a leveled schedule can provide a realistic and feasible current forecast o

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Leadership vs. Management w/ Ross Beurmann

Leading Agile

Listen to the SoundNotes Podcast on the go! Find and subscribe to SoundNotes on: Apple Podcasts. Google Play. Spotify. Soundcloud. RSS. In this episode of SoundNotes, Ross Beurmann joins Dave to talk about the difference between Leadership and Management. Although many confuse the two and believe they are the same, they are actually very different things—and this can become extremely apparent during the transition to an Agile approach.

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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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Top Tips for Reducing Risks as a Construction Project Manager

Wrike

In an ideal world, every project that you oversaw would go according to plan. But, any project manager will quickly tell you that’s not the case. Every project brings a whole lot of risk and uncertainty with it — particularly in the construction industry. That’s why an efficient project delivery system is so important. When construction projects involve owners, designers, and contractors, the project delivery system exists to describe “how these participants are organized to interact, transformi

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In the land of now and next

Lynne Cazaly

In the land of now. and next What was relevant then may not be now. What is relevant now may not be next. And what is relevant next may not even be in our field of vision or realm of possibility right now. This is the pace of change. And we can adapt. We are adapting. It’s quite amazing what we humans can and are doing. We can find connections between what we are able to do and what the world needs next.

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The 4 Soils - Sprint Retrospective

Scrum.org

Scrum is like a house, where the team can be safe and self-organize. They will build trust and continuous improvement. Respect Scrum team as an ecosystem will help the team evolve and build up teamwork, and the values will come day by day, sprint by sprint. In every Sprint, Sprint Retrospective is an excellent chance to inspect and adapt the way of working.

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Remote work tips for connecting with your team | TeamGantt

TeamGantt

Staying in tune with coworkers is hard when everyone works remotely. These work-from-home tips can help you connect with your team across the social distance.

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The gallery in your mind

Lynne Cazaly

It’s open now. an exhibition. featuring imagery, clips, videos, snippets, quotes and dramatic headlines and links from all of the stuff you’ve been absorbing lately. Oops. we didn’t realize it but the gallery is now full. And it has not even been curated yet! Curation is when the exhibits in a gallery are organised and arranged, identified, sourced and carefully chosen.

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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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Knowledge Management (Part 1): Why Knowledge Is the Most Important Resource in Your Organization

Inloox

Every employee in your company carries knowledge and experience within them. But how can the company and all its employees benefit from that? What exactly is knowledge and why is the organized networking within the company so important? This new blog series will clarify important fundamental questions about knowledge management. It also shows how you can successfully integrate knowledge management and which methods are useful.

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Summaries are super

Lynne Cazaly

In our overwhelm of information, meetings, emotions and the impact of change, to summarise.is to care. We can’t possibly be listening as well as we might usually. So don’t just finish your meeting, call or session. Make time to recap and summarise and bring it all together. Spend just a minute, or 3 or 5, summarising what happened, where we are at, what is next.