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The Agile Values in Practice

Scrum.org

One of the most important things we can do to help individuals and teams improve is coach them to embrace the agile mindset. The Manifesto for Agile Software Development provides values and principles to help guide teams in navigating the complexities of product delivery. It includes this statement: “While there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more.”.

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Scrum values can help your team become psychologically safe

Kiron Bondale

While teaching a class earlier this week, a learner asked how will team members start to feel psychologically safe, especially if they are working in a company whose culture isn’t fully supportive of this critical ingredient to a high performing team. Updating existing corporate values, and senior and middle management leaders holding themselves and each other accountable to modeling behaviors consistent with these refreshed values helps as does coaching at all levels of the organization.

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Tips for Language Translation of Assessments and Trainings

Scrum.org

Can we do the Scrum assessments in our mother tongue German, French, Polish or Portuguese? This is a question our students ask often. Our trainings around Scrum aim at gaining knowledge in applying Scrum to improve on product development. To achieve this in an ideal way, we deliver our training in the language spoken locally. This might be German, Polish, French or other.

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5 Signs You Need a Freelance Management System, and How to Set One Up

Teamweek

Work with freelancers, they said. It will be fun, they said. Until recently, my idea of fun would have been far different. It would have involved most of the freelancers I’d worked with getting acquainted with my stranger-hating Rottweiler- when she was in a really bad mood. When I started my legal communications business two years ago, I managed to keep clients happy as a solopreneur.

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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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Road Trippin’ Organizational Change: The Beginning

Project Management Essentials

Most organizational change efforts do not succeed. They fail to achieve the desired results. They are disruptive and sometimes leave the company worse-off. An oft-cited statistic is that 70% of organizational change efforts fail. This metric is attributed to Hammer and Champy’s 1993 classic, “Reengineering the Corporation” and is reinforced by a 2008 McKinsey survey of executives.

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Building an Online Business: Project Management Lessons

Online PM Courses

There are many articles on the web about building an online business. But they don't look at the project management aspects. The post Building an Online Business: Project Management Lessons appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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Time Tracking Software for Educational Institutions

TimeCamp

Schools, universities and colleges, training centers are just a few of educational institutions. And.

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Being Imaginative: Ancient Rituals That Would Make Modern Day Jobs Much More Interesting

Celoxis

Ancient times. The good old days when the human race had one goal only: to survive and to out-live our rival civilizations. Most of us fantasize about what it would have been like to live in the times without electricity before the crazy thing called technology took over and when the recession wasn’t a thing yet.

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10 Best Employee GPS Tracking Apps

TimeCamp

What Are The Benefits of Using Employee GPS Tracking Apps? Every employer wants.

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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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Is Projectized The Best Project Organization Structure?

PM by PM

Did you know that there are many types of project organization structures? Projectized structure is one of the many forms of organizations. You would ask what the difference is between Projectized and Project structure. And how is it relevant to project management? Read on. I have explained the finer nuances of projectized organizations in this […].

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10 Time Tracking Software for Mac + BONUS

TimeCamp

Are You Tracking Time on Mac? There is no surprise that Apple is.

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7 Great Ways to Measure Career Success – or Signal it’s Time to Make a Change

Project Bliss

I was talking with my niece one day and commented on all the buzz about Millennials in the workplace. I mentioned that many websites were playing up that Millennials want jobs that are meaningful. Her immediate response to me was, “Doesn’t everyone want that?” I immediately agreed that I’d found it odd that this was played up.

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Time Tracking Software for Healthcare

TimeCamp

Time tracking software for healthcare becomes more and more popular. Especially, that it is.

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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.

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Time Tracking Software for Landscaping

TimeCamp

Time tracking software for landscaping is becoming more necessary. When your team works in.

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TSheets Alternatives for Efficient Timesheet Management + Bonus!

TimeCamp

Who doesn’t know TSheets? It’s one of the most popular software used by many.

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Time Tracking Software for Non-Profit Organizations

TimeCamp

Why Use Time Tracking Software for Non-profit? Like every other sector, non-profit also.

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Free Clockify Alternatives for Every Type of Business

TimeCamp

Are you looking for free Clockify Alternatives? You are in the right place! We’ve.

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.