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7 Best PRINCE2 Books for 2021 (Including PRINCE2 Agile Books)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The PRINCE2® certification exam is tricky to pass because of the style of objective testing and the number of questions you have to answer. But PRINCE2 itself is not a difficult method to learn – and the official manual is actually pretty easy to follow and understand. When I did my Foundation and Practitioner exams, I only used the two official PRINCE2 handbooks: Managing Successful Projects with PRINCE2. and the partner book: Directing Successful Projects with PRINCE2.

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How to Assemble a Project Team

ProjectManager.com

Projects, no matter the size and scope, are complex. If they weren’t, they might as well just be tasks on a to-do list. Luckily, projects are also a group effort—for every project, there is a project team working together to make deliverables a reality. How do these teams come together? Not on their own! There are many ways to form project teams and many factors to take into account.

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Sustainable Agility at the Enterprise Level — Jorgen Hesselberg at the Agile Camp Berlin 2021

Scrum.org

TL; DR: Sustainable Agility at the Enterprise Level w/ Jorgen Hesselberg — ACB21. In this highly engaging speaker session on sustainable agility from the Agile Camp Berlin 2021, Jorgen Hesselberg delves into the root cause of failing agile transformation efforts: Rejection by the organization as the transformation does not address the organization’s needs.

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7 Data Entry Tools for Automating Data Entry Tasking in 2021

nTask

Collecting and organizing data especially when you are a behemoth of a company, is tremendously difficult. No one wants to input data day in and day out, of so many different projects in the company’s roster. But this is the 21 st century and you have a lot of different applications on the market that can help you make sure that all of your data is entered properly into the system so that it can be easily filed and managed later.

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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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With Hindsight: Toggl Plan’s Quarter 2, 2021

Teamweek

Welcome back to another quarterly summary! In the last three months, our focus was on getting to know our customers better, fitting this research to our workflow as an ongoing process and setting the stage for future improvements. Continue reading below to find out what’s new and what’s to be expected in the upcoming months. The Product. It’s time for spring cleaning — dealing with inconsistencies that have accumulated over time.

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Determining the Sprint Length

ActiveCollab

There is no one magic solution to determine sprint length that will work for all teams equally. However, there are few guidelines in Scrum that can help you choose a good sprint length. We should mention that sprints are the heart of Scrum methodology, which is part of AGILE PROJECT MANAGEMENT [[link]. This entire concept ensures that risks are minimized, requirements clarified and filtered, the product roadmap shared while business driving outcomes delivered at the end of each sprint.

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14 Higher Education Marketing Agencies To Help Your University Stand Out

Workzone

Higher education marketing agencies can make a significant difference in the ROI of marketing budgets. Marketers working in higher education navigate unique challenges and balance competing priorities such as admissions, student & faculty satisfaction, alumni relationships, and fundraising. Thankfully, there are a number of higher education marketing agencies that specialize in the higher ed space, bringing years of experience and unique expertise that can help define and achieve your market

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What Is a Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM)?

Wrike

A requirements traceability matrix is an integral part of an embedded systems’ lifecycle. It helps organizations ensure that their products are safe and are meeting their intended standards. This is especially important for the medical, technology, and engineering industries. But any business that has a set of goals and standards to uphold can benefit from this proven requirements analysis tool.

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[VLOG] How To Use Scrum With Objective Key Results (OKR)

Scrum.org

Hey. What's happening awesome people? I hope you are having an awesome week. Ever since the Scrum Guide was updated in November 2020 and the product goal has been introduced, I have worked with several Scrum teams in early 2021 to connect their Objective Key Results with the Product Goal. If you are currently using OKR in your product development, hopefully today's vlog helps you give some ideas how to create an inspiring OKR with the Scrum team and the senior management team.

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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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Best Resource Management Software of 2021

ProjectManager.com

Resources in project management are the people, places and things you need to get the job done. This includes the project team, the tools they need, materials, facilities and so on. That can mean a lot of headaches for project managers trying to balance their resources with the team’s capacity. And, of course, all this is happening on a tight schedule and budget.

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Back to the foundations of the Scrum framework (9) - How the Product Owner helps raising Transparency

Scrum.org

Scrum is founded on empirical process control, and transparency is one of the three pillars. Each of the Scrum Roles exist to also raise transparency to the other Scrum Team members and the stakeholders. If you feel that there is a lack of transparency for any aspect of your initiative, check who is best placed to bring clarity. Note: transparency is way more than bringing “visibility”.

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How To Instill An Ownership Mindset In Your Team

Trello

Remember the good ol’ days of group projects in school? You know, when nobody seemed to care, at least one member of the group ghosted the project entirely, and somehow one person ended up doing all the work?