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Keep Your Friends Close

Scrum.org

“I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.” - Rudyard Kipling. In Scrum, we also have these serving people but we add in 3 more. . Think of them as very close siblings; they are all interlinked and their names are. Transparency ". means not only visible but also understandable." - Gunther Verheyen .

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WBS Dictionary: A Quick Guide with Examples

ProjectManager.com

A WBS dictionary is a complement to your WBS that conveys detailed info about each component. It’s one of the three pillars that support the scope management in your project: the other two are a work breakdown structure (WBS) and a project scope statement. These three components will give you the scope baseline for your project. Without a project scope baseline you can’t measure performance effectively, which puts your project in danger of going off schedule and beyond budget.

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YDS: Help! Our Product Backlog is Out of Control!!!

Scrum.org

On today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: Help! Our Product Backlog is Out of Control!?! Today's question is all about the product backlog. What do you do when the Product Backlog is out of control and no one can actually understand what you're trying to build anymore? Todd and Ryan discuss ways to cut your Product Backlog down to size and make sense of your product again.

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10 Best Gantt Chart Software For 2021

The Digital Project Manager

The post 10 Best Gantt Chart Software For 2021 appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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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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What are Task Boards and How We can Master them in 2021?

nTask

Imagine for a second that you are trying to start a project and you have all the details regarding the project management processes. They are noted down on a piece of paper lying somewhere in the empty recesses of your most important drawer. Everything that you can need for the whole project is noted down but there is no structure to it; everything is haywire, and also there is no visualization cue to support your client’s vision regarding workflow.

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How to Keep Up Stellar Project Management Work When in Stress

Proofhub

Here’s something we can both agree on: Management is hard, and project managers are extremely busy people. Creating and updating schedules, participating in multiple calls, interacting with project team members, talking to vendors, attending endless online and real-life meetings?—?it’s just the tip of the iceberg we see when speaking about a project manager’s work.

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Part II: A Simplified Approach to Determine IT Project Complexity

PM Times

Written by: Conrad MacCue Abstract. This paper is Part II of the paper entitled “A Simplified Approach to Determine IT Project Complexity”, ( MacCue, C., 2021, March 5). Its purpose is to further explain the rationale behind the Core IT Complexity Model within the framework of the broader topic of IT project complexity. It will discuss why the Core IT Complexity model is a good approach for most IT organizations and why it is important to determine project complexity as an ongoing and integral p

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SQUAN’s partnership with Sitetracker fuels planned expansions in Smart Cities

Sitetracker

Originally posted on Businesswire The Sitetracker Platform will empower SQUAN’s decision making with accurate and reliable data PALO ALTO, Calif., March 23, 2021 — Sitetracker, the global standard for managing high-volume projects for turnkey network infrastructure providers like SAC Wireless, TEP, Hylan, and Advantage Engineers, is proud to announce its partnership with SQUAN, an industry leader in design/build services for telecommunications network infrastructure with offerings in fiber, engi

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How To Use the Fibonacci Scale in Agile Estimation

Wrike

When managing a team, it’s essential to be able to estimate how long it takes to complete a task. Chances are you’ve had an experience where your estimates turned out to be wrong; the project took longer than expected, or your product team couldn’t deliver in time. If estimates are often inaccurate, why bother with them at all? Imagine spending time creating a cost estimation, but going over budget by a huge amount once the project is underway?

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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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Onboarding a New Team – with Elizabeth Harrin | Interview

Online PM Courses

How do you bring a new project team on-board? I wanted to speak with Elizabeth Harrin about onboarding a new project team. The post Onboarding a New Team – with Elizabeth Harrin | Interview appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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What Does PMO Mean? And Its Role in Project Management?

nTask

If you regularly use project management processes, chances are that you will soon be tired of drafting the fundamentals from scratch, making sure that everything falls under the company’s protocol, and verifying all the steps so that none of them forgoes the company’s rules and regulations. This is where the Project management office (PMO) enters the scene.

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ActiveCollab Monthly Updates: March

ActiveCollab

Hi everyone, Here's another monthly recap to update you on our latest developments. In February, we talked about new mention types (go check them out!) and Kanban improvements. This time, we'll go over browser notifications, task dependencies, and our integrated chat feature. BROWSER NOTIFICATIONS Go to My preferences in the menu right next to the notification bell and enable browser notifications.

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