Project Bliss

AUGUST 17, 2020

This is a guest post by Adrian Johansen. In a matter of months, COVID-19 has impacted pretty much every aspect of our normal daily lives. It’s changed the way we educate our children to the way we socialize and how we get our entertainment. Even more, it’s changed the way we work. Those of us fortunate enough to be employed in fields that accommodate telecommuting are at least spared from the worst of the economic ravages that this pandemic has incited.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 17, 2020

TL; DR: Scrum Master Interview Questions (1). Scrum has proven time and again to be the most popular framework for software development. Given that software is eating the world , a seasoned Scrum Master is nowadays in high demand. And that demand causes the market-entry of new professionals from other project management branches, probably believing that reading one or two Scrum books will be sufficient.

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MPUG

AUGUST 17, 2020

Work breakdown structure (WBS) is a key element for management planning, monitoring, and control of a project or a program scope. Regardless of the chosen life cycle (predictive, iterative, incremental, adaptive, or hybrid), WBS plays a role in almost every project. A WBS is important to further estimation—cost, duration, or resources, planning for resources, risk identification, schedule development, among others.

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Software Review Agile Underperforming Technical Team PMI 105

Scrum.org

AUGUST 17, 2020

With the launch of the Kanban Guide for Scrum teams in 2018, its 4 flow metrics have gained more popularity amongst the Scrum community. It has helped Scrum teams shed a new perspective on how to manage the flow of product backlog items (PBIs) through their sprint backlog all the way to a production environment. One of those metrics, throughput, is defined as “the number of work items finished per unit of time”.

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MPUG

AUGUST 17, 2020

Work breakdown structure (WBS) is a key element for management planning, monitoring, and control of a project or a program scope. Regardless of the chosen life cycle (predictive, iterative, incremental, adaptive, or hybrid), WBS plays a role in almost every project. A WBS is important to further estimation—cost, duration, or resources, planning for resources, risk identification, schedule development, among others.

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Software Review Agile Underperforming Technical Team PMI 101

Teamweek

AUGUST 17, 2020

Illustration: Rose Wong. Exploring flexible work. With an increasing number of companies transitioning to remote working, flexible work is becoming more and more common. Some employees that were formerly office-based are now working from home. “Non-traditional” working arrangements, such as freelancing or working with globally distributed teams, are also growing in popularity.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 17, 2020

Scrum prescrit cinq événements, le Sprint en est le coeur et le conteneur de tous les autres. Il a une durée d'au maximum un mois, ou moins, au cours de laquelle un Incrément de produit "Fini" fonctionnel et potentiellement délivrable est crée (cf. Scrum Guide ). Le Sprint permet de déterminer une fréquence régulière d'inspection et adaptation du produit et de la manière de travailler de la Scrum Team a des fins d'amélioration continue.

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Resource Guru

AUGUST 17, 2020

One of our fundamental goals with Resource Guru is to help keep workloads under control. Overallocation of work is toxic and expensive. It’s a major cause of project failure, staff burnout and employee churn. That’s why, unlike other software, we have clash management deep in our DNA. We generally make it quite hard to pile work onto people without thinking it through.

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Musings on Project Management

AUGUST 17, 2020

From the press Leading universities and major technology companies agreed on [in late June, 2020] to back a new project intended to give academics and other scientists access to the computing resources now available mainly to a few tech giants.The initiative, the National Research Cloud, has received bipartisan support in both the House and the Senate.

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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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Resource Guru

AUGUST 17, 2020

One of our fundamental goals with Resource Guru is to help keep workloads under control. Overallocation of work is toxic and expensive. It’s a major cause of project failure, staff burnout and employee churn. That’s why, unlike other software, we have clash management deep in our DNA. We generally make it quite hard to pile work onto people without thinking it through.

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Controlling Software Planning 52

Scrum.org

AUGUST 17, 2020

In this series of ‘In-depth’-posts, we take time to consider the bigger picture. This series is not about easy answers or practical tips, but to develop a more complete understanding of what may be going on. If you take the time to fully read and digest this post, you will (hopefully): Understand how easily your thinking and the thinking in groups is biased, tainted or distorted by a eight very common cognitive and social biases.

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Online PM Courses

AUGUST 17, 2020

One of the most important characteristics that a Project Manager needs is Grit. In our context, it means perseverance and passion for long term goals. The post Grit: Why You Need it and How to Get it appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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Leadership 155

Scrum.org

AUGUST 17, 2020

Was denkst Du, handelt es sich hierbei um einen Mythos oder um einen Fakt ? . Beachte, dass die richtige Antwort zweitrangig ist. Primär hilft Dir der Scrum Mythen und Fakten Check dabei, Dein Verständnis der Scrum Prinzipien und Werte durch Reflexion Deiner Arbeit und gemeinsame Diskussion zu vertiefen. . Hier erfährst Du die Antwort. .

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