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Velocity in Agile

Herding Cats

Velocity is a term used on agile development to assess How Fast are we producing software. Here's one definition from agile glossary. Velocity is a measure of the amount of work a Team can tackle during a single Sprint and is the key metric in Scrum. Velocity is calculated at the end of the Sprint by totaling the Points for all fully completed User Stories.

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3 Free Tools for Making Network Diagrams

ProjectManager.com

What project management is good at is making the complex simple, or at least manageable. There are, of course, lots of different ways to achieve that goal, many of which are employed during the life cycle of a project. A project network diagram is one such tool that helps simplify a complex project plan, enabling a project manager to see the big picture of the project.

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Dear Scrum Master: the Scrum events are theirs, not yours !

Scrum.org

Dear Scrum Master: the Scrum events are theirs, not yours ! But they can still benefited from you ! . The Scrum Master is often expected to facilitate and animate every Scrum events. But, according to the Scrum Guide, the role of the Scrum Master regarding the different events is to ensure that the event takes place and that attendants understand its purpose.

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Video Tutorial: Publish Planning Elements with InLoox 10 for Outlook

Inloox

To use certain planning elements, such as important milestones in other project plans , you do not have to create them again and maintain changes in different projects twice. You can use the feature "Publish planning elements" to make relevant elements available in other projects. This is helpful, for example, if there is a higher-level annual planning for a department.

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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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Agile and Impatience are Inseparable

Scrum.org

When organizations begin their journey toward agility, they think the business outcomes will become instantaneous. They expect the initial decision to lead to immediate success. Moving towards agile from a more traditional way of working changes so many things about how we work. It changes who we interact with, and has us moving from building others solutions to becoming problem solvers.

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Timeline Export

ActiveCollab

To create a masterpiece. To study it. To fight for it. To keep it safe. OK, wait. We’re not The Monuments Men [[link] Thankfully. But we do need the exports. And that’s why we created them. PAINTING A MASTERPIECE As with other feature requests, we dig through all the feedback we got from you. But this feature hit really close to home. Reading the feedback was like taking a trip down the memory lane.

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Hub and spoke project architecture

Musings on Project Management

On the HBR Blog Network, Andrew Shipilov has a eye-catching post on "hub and spoke" project networks, or alliances between project partners, as he describes them. (Say "network" to me and I always jump first to a mind's-eye image of a "mesh", but actually that's one of several general ways to think of networks, and in most situations not a good general model for governance.

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What Are The Best Project Manager Certifications?

The Digital Project Manager

The post What Are The Best Project Manager Certifications? appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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How Serenity, Courage, and Wisdom Can Help You through Workplace Struggles

LiquidPlanner

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, . And wisdom to know the difference. The Serenity Prayer is familiar to anyone who’s been through a 12-step program like Alcoholics Anonymous. I don’t know if it helps with addiction, but I do know it helps me get through a hard day at work. There are times when you feel like the challenges are insurmountable and management wants you to fail.

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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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United They Stand: UPQODE's Digital Success and Passion

ActiveCollab

_WRITTEN BY MARIIA SHVETS, PROJECT MANAGER AT UPQODE_ HOW ARE YOU MAKING AN IMPACT ON THE WORLD? UPQODE [[link] is a place that feels like home to every stakeholder. How are we accomplishing this? There is no secret, only an attitude. Our mission is to help companies become more successful in the digital world. Having assisted more than 20 industries, we dive deep in each sphere trying to understand our client’s needs and preferences.

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How Project Management provides Competitive Advantage

The Squad Report

Investopedia shares, Competitive advantages are conditions that allow a company or country to produce a good or service of equal value at a lower price or in a more desirable fashion. These conditions allow the productive entity to generate more sales or superior margins compared to its market rivals. Competitive advantages are attributed to a variety of factors including cost structure, branding, the quality of product offerings, the distribution network, intellectual property and customer serv

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