Tue.Jul 07, 2020

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Sleeping Your Way to a Better Backlog

Scrum.org

TL;DR – Your Sprint Planning Meetings don’t have to be a chore. Your Sprint Backlog doesn’t have to be a mess. Do short backlog refinement meetings twice a week and sleep a lot. Our Hero Takes a Nap. I was working on a performance problem in some code last week. An operation that gets run a lot had over time become insanely slow. I spent a day working on it and no matter what I modified, it barely made any difference.

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The 10 Best Online Project Management Software For 2020

The Digital Project Manager

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Agile Laws & Distributed Teams: From Conway to Goodhart to Parkinson

Scrum.org

TL; DR: Agile Laws and Remote Agile. On many occasions in the recent past, working with distributed agile teams has amplified existing organizational, technical, and cultural challenges in many organizations. Starting changing, and I am not referring to the introduction of a new video conferencing tool, always requires the acceptance that there is a problem that needs attention.

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Managing Project Delays in the COVID-19 Age

LiquidPlanner

Projects can get delayed for many reasons from third party suppliers failing to deliver on time, to poor communication between project stakeholders sometimes the deliverables are simply not realistic within the project constraints. Then there are the unpredictable and devastating external factors like COVID-19 that disrupt on an unprecedented scale.

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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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How to Manage Virtual Teams: Best Practices

Ganttic

If you find yourself in the position of managing a virtual team , you’re far from alone. Statistics show that this kind of team structure is on the rise. And why not? With them, the benefits are enormous! The world is your oyster, allowing businesses to utilize the best talent from anywhere. And grow on their terms. But that doesn’t mean that you won’t run into a few challenges along the way.

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Coach the Person - Not the Problem

Scrum.org

Part of the role of being a Scrum Master is to be a coach; to the team, the organsiation and the individual. So How Do You Become an Effective coach? . In a previous post I said that the first skill is to know how to listen , as without being able to listen you can't truly understand. In order to be an effective coach it requires time to practice the required skills.

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Business Project Manager Responsibilities: You Need To Know About

Proofhub

Business Project Manager Responsibilities: A Brief Overview Find out the key business project manager responsibilities that an experienced pro must fulfill to ensure a successful project execution and delivery. “As you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. Other people and other people’s ideas are often better than your own.”?

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Horizon chooses Sitetracker to harness the power of data to revolutionize service delivery

Sitetracker

Originally posted via PR Newswire. Horizon is partnering with Sitetracker to optimize the service delivery process Extensive automated reporting and analytics will enable data-driven decisions Horizon regards Sitetracker as essential for growing and scaling the business PALO ALTO, Calif., July 7, 2020 — Sitetracker, the global standard for managing high-volume projects for critical infrastructure owners and operators like Verizon, Ericsson, British Telecom, and Vodafone, is proud to announce the

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10 Ingredients for Successful Projects by Brad Egeland

MindGenius

While no one can guarantee success on any given project, following tried and true steps plus solid project experience can help you get as close to possible for guaranteed success. There are just too many risks, too many variables to guarantee success…differences from project to project and organization to organization. But we also know that following repeatable actions and processes on a regular basis that have worked in the past – your proven ‘best practices’ if you will – do provide you with

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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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The IT Service Management Template You Need to Own

Wrike

As an IT project manager, you’re always looking for faster, more efficient ways of coordinating, managing, and executing IT projects and services — particularly ones that you perform on a routine basis. That’s where IT service management templates shine. Templates offer a roadmap to success, bringing clarity and focus to projects that may otherwise suffer from bloated and confusing processes. .

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The Joys and Challenges of Vanemapuhkus, the Estonian “Parental Vacation”

Teamweek

They call it a vacation. The Estonian term vanemapuhkus literally translates, word for word, into “parental vacation”. Any parent who’s been on this so-called vacation knows that it’s almost always anything but. I’d describe it as a parental bootcamp. Vanemapuhkus is a test of resilience: it tests your ability to cope with routine while at the same time remaining prepared for any unexpected developments thrown at you.