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Lipstick Agile — 15 Signs You Probably Need a New Job or to Roll-up Your Proverbial Sleeves

Scrum.org

TL; DR: Lipstick Agile — Happiness in the Trenches? Have you noticed how many people in the agile field are unhappy with their work situation? A situation where an organization already struggles doing agile, not to mention ‘becoming agile?’ This is what I call lipstick Agile. Scrum Masters and agile coaches are close to either burnout or indifference.

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Making Agile Work With Metagility (With David Bishop From Agile Worx)

The Digital Project Manager

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A Step-By-Step Guide On How To Delegate Work

Proofhub

A Simple Guide On How To Delegate Work Effectively Delegation is not merely assigning tasks and waiting until the work is finished. It is about choosing the right people for the job and making your expectations clear and concise. “Great Leaders Properly And Easily Delegate, Poor Leaders Make Delegation Harder Than It Is.” Like most founders I’ve known over the years, when I first started my venture ProofHub , managing people was something that was a whole new experience.

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Seven Strategies to Improve Project Productivity

MPUG

As we live and work through a global pandemic with all of its uncertainties and stresses, it’s all too easy to get stressed over our to-do lists. From team members to project managers, the general theme heard from everyone these days seems to be “overwhelm.” We know that stress and anxiety are two of the biggest threats to workplace productivity —and right now, many of us are experiencing both.

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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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Employed But Overworked: Working in a Pandemic

Teamweek

The other day, I received a notification on my Google calendar: Tomorrow’s workday starts at 6:30 a.m. I glumly cleared the notification from my phone, turned off my light and went to bed. The week prior, my supervisor had reached out regarding my contract extension, telling me that the extension had been approved?.This meant that I could now work with the Story Development team.

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The 10 Best Project Planning Tools In 2020

The Digital Project Manager

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Using Resource Planning Views to Better Manage Large Workforces 

Ganttic

You know the phrase “less is more”? Incorrect math aside, you can rest assured that no PM in history has ever uttered those words. It’s always better to have more resources, more time, more money to get those projects off the ground and completed. That doesn’t mean there aren’t some problems that come from managing a large workforce. Far from it! Double booking resources, making sure you scheduled Tom R. for the client’s meeting instead of Tom K., and the need to monitor hundreds, even thousands