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Speaking Truth to Power 2.0 — Taking A Stand as an Agile Practitioner

Scrum.org

TL; DR: Speaking Truth to Power. Do you need an emergency fund as a change agent—whether you are acting as Scrum Master, Product Owner or agile coach—because conflict is inevitable, but change is not? Speaking truth to power probably comes at a price. In my experience, speaking truth to power, pointing at the emperor’s new clothes and the reality in the trenches, is necessary a trait for every change agent — including Scrum Masters and agile coaches — in organizations that lack strong leadership

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10 Best Project Tracking Software in 2020

The Digital Project Manager

The post 10 Best Project Tracking Software in 2020 appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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The 12 Agile Principles. Part Three.

Growing Agile

This is the third part of the blog series were we discuss the 12 Agile Principles. In this post we will focus on principles 7-9. 7. “Working software is the primary measure of progress. “ Early in my agile career, when I was still a project manager with agile tendencies, I took over a project that was ‘60% done’ When I probed a little I found out that the 60% done meant that 60% of the budget had been spent, the project was far from done.

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How to manage tasks effectively?—?tips that really work

Proofhub

How To Manage Tasks Effectively?—?Surefire Ways To Succeed As A Manager Being someone who has been part of the task management industry for as long as I can remember, I have come across this question quite often. Whenever I meet someone from my professional network, more often than not the greetings are followed by this or a similar question. I might express my answer in different words, but the crux of what I explain to them always remains the same.

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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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The Key Deliverable of Your Project Plan | Video

Online PM Courses

In this video, I'm focusing on Project Planning. And asking what is the key deliverable in your project plan? The answer's not what you expect. The post The Key Deliverable of Your Project Plan | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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5 Ways to be an Excellent Project Manager During COVID-19 by Brad Egeland

MindGenius

There’s no question that the way we did things last year cannot be the status quo way we do things this year. Or maybe even next year. Who knows how long this will go on and what long lasting effects the COVID-19 pandemic will have on our behaviors and business practices for the long term. That doesn’t mean we still can’t practice excellence and lead very successful projects either from the home or office or somewhere else… like the beach… as long as the person on t

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Design for relevance

Lynne Cazaly

When we bring people together to collaborate, co-design and solve problems, we must consider how to help them do their best work. We’re so bad at meetings - and boring ones - that our bad meeting culture gets transferred and stretched into longer sessions like workshops. We don’t just have boring meetings for an hour; we end up having boring workshops for 3-hours!

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Do You Have What It Takes To Be A Technical Program Manager?

The Digital Project Manager

The job of a technical program manager (TPM) is one of the expanding roles in. The post Do You Have What It Takes To Be A Technical Program Manager? appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Wer trifft den Release-Entscheid?

Scrum.org

Ein Produkt für Kunden verfügbar zu machen ist der einzige Weg für ein Unternehmen, mit diesem Produkt Wert zu generieren. Erst wenn ein Produkt am Markt verfügbar ist, sind Kunden bereit, Geld dafür zu bezahlen. Gleichzeitig ist ein Release die effektivste Massnahme, den vermuteten Wert eines Produktes zu validieren. Es stellen sich bspw. folgende Fragen, die es zu beantworten gilt: Hat das Produkt den erhofften Markterfolg?

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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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How to Continue Loving (or at least liking) Your Job as WFH Continues

Bridge the Gap Consulting

Sick of hearing about COVID? Yeah, me too. But unfortunately, it continues to consume our lives daily with increased cases and “doom and gloom” news articles. If you’re working from home now, chances are you will be for awhile. I talk to a number of team members, both those who love working from home (myself included), those who want back in the office, and a few that wouldn’t mind a hybrid.

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[VLOG] Why the Scrum Product Backlog Is Not Only User Stories And Is Not Prioritised

Scrum.org

What is up awesome people. I hope you are starting your week well. First of all I would like to thank all of you for your continuous support to my channel as my channel reached another milestone. In this week's vlog, I would like to talk about the Product Backlog that is often misunderstood in the market. There are still quite many people who think that the Product Backlog is prioritised and only consists of User Stories.

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A Stress-Free Guide to Creating a Professional Development Plan

Teamweek

Overall, you feel pretty happy at work. You have a good handle on your responsibilities and crank through your tasks with a high degree of confidence. You enjoy the people you work with. You understand how your work fits into the bigger picture. But even with all of those important elements in place, there’s one question that keeps you tossing and turning at night: What’s next?

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Round #2 of the Scrummer Quiz has started.

Scrum.org

. "The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time" - Autographed books by Jeff and JJ Sutherland for the Scrummer Quiz 2020 Today, we are starting the 2nd round of the annual Scrummer Quiz and you have 4 more chances to win a book written and autographed by Jeff and JJ Sutherland "The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time". On JUL 20 we will announce the two lucky winners, share the answer key with the participants and give you 3 new questions.

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Acclaim Projects Helps Deliver Innovation Projects on Time and on Budget

This large intercity transportation company for people and freight employs 100+ IT employees and contractors across North America and Europe and spends $10MM annually for approximately 50 inflight projects. The company needed the right financial tools to budget for innovation initiatives and real-time information on spending and forecasting. This transportation company turned to Acclaim Projects by Sopheon to help deliver projects on time and within budget.

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Visualizing Project Flow Using Cumulative Flow Diagrams

MPUG

In my recent article, Sequencing Product Backlog , I used the shortest weighted processing time (SWPT) strategy to sequence a product backlog in order to minimize flow time and work in progress [1]. In that article, I defined four concepts needed to measure flow through the development process: flow units, flow rate, flow time, and work in progress (WIP) inventory.

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The Subtle Difference Between Skills and Traits

Scrum.org

Late in the second day of my PSM classes, I usually do an exercise with my students about skills and traits. To many this is an unfamiliar concept at first. So , I designed my training on the topic to achieve the following outcomes: Being aware of the difference between a skill and a trait. Getting to know the skills and traits that might be useful as a Scrum Master.

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Grow a culture of innovation and learning with frequent Developer Huddles

Scrum.org

Without skilled developers, the Scrum Framework is no more than lipstick on a pig. Having to create?—?and hopefully deploy?—?new versions of your product every Sprint is a tall order. But it's also necessary if you want to reduce the inherent risk of the complex work that is product development. It's a huge disservice to state that developers are only there to code.