Scrum.org

MARCH 8, 2019

"My advice would always be to ignore the perceived wisdom and look for the most reliable evidence on the ground" - D.T. Puttnam. Hearing a senior executive announce "We're committed to becoming agile!" is not the bombshell moment it used to be. It no longer indicates a personal revelation or board-room epiphany. In fact, if you were to read some of the interviews with managers in business magazines, or the guest articles and puff-pieces on agility in their companies, you'd think that their heart

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Planview

MARCH 8, 2019

Today’s world of work is fraught with complexity and an ever-increasing need for speed. This is simply a reality organizations must come to realize. However, these conditions cause planning deficiencies to be magnified. In this blog series, we will be discussing five types of planning that are crucial to delivering on strategy with a dynamic and continuous approach.

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Resource Guru

MARCH 8, 2019

More data, faster! Faster! As data accumulates, so do the requirements placed on devices that process them. To make sure we keep the application responsive while user accounts grow, we constantly monitor changes made to the application to keep performance regressions in check. Since the introduction of Schedule Beta, we’ve focused on performance for mobile devices as our primary target.

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Trello

MARCH 8, 2019

This year’s theme for International Women’s Day is #BalanceForBetter. Whether it’s work-life balance or working towards a more gender-balanced future, we can all attest to the power of staying balanced. With this in mind, some of us are surrounded by women who rock our worlds by making the balancing act of life, work, and even side hustles look easy when it most certainly isn’t.

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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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Sitetracker

MARCH 8, 2019

If you’re a project manager in a critical infrastructure industry like telecommunications or utilities you know firsthand that you could be managing hundreds of complex projects at once and your boss wants to know about all of them, right now. Don’t you wish you could just click a button and have all the reports ready immediately? Good news! You can.

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Workzone

MARCH 8, 2019

Before you read one more article on how to be more productive, remember this: Be kind to yourself and your mistakes. You can’t expect to be more productive overnight. You’ve probably spent years cultivating your work habits–both good and bad, consciously or subconsciously–and those won’t immediately change. Small adjustments can lead to more lasting changes, but those may take time and discipline.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 8, 2019

There has been so much written about Velocity and its impact on teams yet it is one metric that eludes everyone and keeps cropping up whenever there is discussion around productivity. Is it really a metric of productivity? Let's explore. What is productivity? As defined (n): the state or quality of being productive. - the effectiveness of productive effort, especially in industry, as measured in terms of the rate of output per unit of input. .

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Workzone

MARCH 8, 2019

In tough times, companies cut corners on software. That’s why many teams turn over their project management duties to Excel. Often, these moves are prudent, allowing business owners to refine and simplify their processes, eliminate waste, and preserve their employees’ livelihood. At the same time however, companies should not skimp on essential engines to drive business.

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