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How to Make an Agile Workflow for Your Team

ProjectManager.com

Managing a team is a balancing act. They need direction, but if you’re too hands on then you can often stifle their process. What can a team leader do that doesn’t micromanage their team to death, but inspires them to greater heights of productivity? An agile workflow can help. For a long time the agile framework influenced teams outside of the software development sector from which it originated.

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5 Ways to Manage Project Stakeholders Expectations Better

LiquidPlanner

Depending on the scope and ambition of your upcoming project, going public and asking for stakeholders to pitch in support of your development efforts might be the most logical financial decision to make. Whether you’re working with B2B investors or B2C backers, keeping your stakeholders in the loop about the current status of your project is of utmost importance.

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Remote Work Management Challenges and How to Solve Them

Ganttic

If your team has recently made the leap to remote work, then it’s likely that you’ve already experienced some frustrations. Although, it’s a great option for many, it can be difficult for managers with little to no remote working experience to know how to deal with some of the everyday obstacles. This article will go over some of the challenges you may encounter while managing your remote workforce.

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Love in the time of Corona, part II

Growing Agile

We have decided to take this pandemic and time of uncertainty to learn, our work has slowed down and we want to come out of this period better than before. Growing Agile wants to share in the spirit of the #LoveInTheTimeOfCorona so we have dropped the price of our online courses from $100 to $30, the Scrum Basics course remains free. You will be able to learn at your own pace, when ever you want to.

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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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Virtual Certified Scrum Master and Certified Scrum Product Owner Training FAQs

Leading Agile

Hi, I’m Dave Prior and I am a Certified Scrum Trainer. I head up all the Certified Scrum Master (CSM) and Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) classes here at LeadingAgile. We recently made a change in how we are delivering our Scrum Certification classes and I wanted to share a little about what those changes are, and also hopefully answer some of the questions we’ve been getting about the change.

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Live Online Certified Scrum Master and Certified Scrum Product Owner Training FAQs

Leading Agile

Hi, I’m Dave Prior and I am a Certified Scrum Trainer. I head up all the Certified Scrum Master (CSM) and Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) classes here at LeadingAgile. We recently made a change in how we are delivering our Scrum Certification classes and I wanted to share a little about what those changes are, and also hopefully answer some of the questions we’ve been getting about the change.

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How to Pass the Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I) Assessment

Agilemania

PSM, an acronym for Professional Scrum Master, is a certification for those professionals intending to work in the Agile Scrum environment. Being a Professional Scrum Master is worthwhile for smaller and large scale companies to adopt Agile quickly. Professional Scrum Master PSM-I is a 60 minutes timeboxed assessment, where the candidate would have to answer 80 Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ)s,… The post How to Pass the Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I) Assessment appeared first on Agile

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Video: Managing Website Content + How To Get Website Content From Clients

The Digital Project Manager

Today, Alexa and I break down the approach we use to get the right files, on time, in the right format, when we manage website projects. The post Video: Managing Website Content + How To Get Website Content From Clients appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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9 Essential Tips for Managing a Remote Team | TeamGantt

TeamGantt

Leading a remote team isn’t always easy. Learn how to manage your team well when everyone works from home with advice from leaders of top remote companies.

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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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ActiveCollab Monthly Updates: March

ActiveCollab

March has been an incredible month for us and the world. The pandemic has spread rapidly and forced us to CHANGE THE WAY WE WORK. The office was closed up, and we all started working remotely full time. It took us a few days to adjust, but we carried on as usual. A SUMMARY of what we’ve been up to is as follows: * ActiveCollab is now free for 90 days for all new users * We’ll split the cost for every new user added to an existing account * All our Self-Hosted users got an update including the la

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Projects are Life with Cristina Iacona, Project Manager at ZenFi Networks

Sitetracker

I knew Cristina Iacona needed to be featured in the Projects are Life series the day I met her in the Sitetracker Certification course. I could tell immediately that she was smart, super organized, a world-class communicator, and had a great sense of humor – all great qualities of a person, and even better qualities to find in a project manager.

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Remote Agile (Part 4): Anti-Patterns — Pitfalls Successful Distributed Teams Avoid

Scrum.org

TL; DR: Remote Agile Anti-Patterns — Pitfalls Successful Distributed Teams Avoid. We started this series on remote agile with looking into practices and tools, followed by delving into virtual Liberating Structures, and how to master Zoom. This fourth article now addresses basic remote agile anti-patterns — the pitfalls any distributed team wants to avoid to become successful.

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All You Need to Know About RACI Charts

Wrike

Keeping up with all the roles and responsibilities involved in a project can be a tall order, particularly on complex projects with multiple moving parts. But, the bigger the project, the more critical it is to know exactly who’s responsible for executing, who needs to sign off, and who needs to be kept informed along the way. That’s precisely where RACI charts shine.

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Acclaim Projects Helps Deliver Innovation Projects on Time and on Budget

This large intercity transportation company for people and freight employs 100+ IT employees and contractors across North America and Europe and spends $10MM annually for approximately 50 inflight projects. The company needed the right financial tools to budget for innovation initiatives and real-time information on spending and forecasting. This transportation company turned to Acclaim Projects by Sopheon to help deliver projects on time and within budget.