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How We Chose the Perfect Planning Poker Tool

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Planning poker® is a great technique for scrum teams. It is a team-based estimating approach to work out the efforts involved for achieving business goals. Even serious developers like gamification! Our company is a part of Wisebits Group and develops an online entertainment streaming service. The organization consists of several software dev teams that develop different parts of our product.

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Using Scrum Values for decision-making

Scrum.org

Welcome to Scrum Sutra — a series where I shall share a 3-min overview of each element of Scrum and how it connects with the other elements in the bead to form Scrum Sutra. “Successful use of Scrum depends on people becoming proficient in living five values.” — Scrum Guide 2020. Scrum as a framework has no prescribed rule for every interaction and collaboration within and outside the Scrum Team.

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The first rule of 'data'

Musings on Project Management

The first rule of data: Don't ask for data if you don't know what you are going to do with it Or, said another way (same rule) Don't ask for data which you can not use or act upon. And, your reaction might be: Of course! But, alas, in the PMO there are too many incidents of reports, data accumulation, measurements, etc which are PMO doctrine, but in reality, there actually is no plan for.

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Scrum Zertifizierung — eine sinnvolle Investition für Ihre Karriere? ????

Scrum.org

In Kürze: Ist eine Scrum Zertifizierung ein sinnvolle Investition? Brauchen Sie eine Scrum Zertifizierung, um gut in dem zu werden, was Sie als Scrum-Praktiker tun? Nicht unbedingt. Ich habe neun Jahre in dieser Branche gearbeitet, bevor ich mein erstes Zertifikat erwarb. Welche Vorteile bringt Ihnen eine Scrum-Zertifizierung dann also? Nun, eine Zertifizierung durch eine anerkannte Zertifizierungsorganisation wie Scrum.org ist eine gute Investition in die eigene Karriere, wie der Scrum Master S

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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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Why External Agile Coaches Are Better for Your Agile Transformation

Agilemania

Agile is in the news yet again. In the 15th State of Agile Report, 94% of the respondents reported that their company is using Agile while 65% report that their organization has significant experience with Agile. With the widespread adoption of Agile, there has to be a metric to determine if the agile adoption was worth all the efforts. 59% opined customer satisfaction while 58% stated business value.

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Chronically Organized: An Interview With Author Nettie Owens

Appfluence

Today we speak with author Nettie Owens, who shares how she reached the “aha moment” that fundamentally changed her career, launching her journey to help others find focus and fight chronic disorganization. Thank you so much for joining our interview series! Before we get started, we would love to “get to know you” a bit better. What is your ‘backstory’, and how did you get started?

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How agile is your team (and what you can do about it!)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This is a guest article by David Daly. Did you know, one survey found that the most common reason to adopt agile is to be able to deliver products more quickly? Yet the same survey found that 75% of people did not believe their organisation had a culture that supported agile ways of working. This matches my experience. I regularly see that software teams are expected to deliver new features faster, become more productive, and create amazing, intuitive and easy to use applications that are bug-fr

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What is Kaizen? Continuous Improvement? | Video

Online PM Courses

Kaizen creates change. It translates from the Japanese as change (kai) for the good (zen). And it comes with action. The post What is Kaizen? Continuous Improvement? | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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6 Ways Leaders Can Remain Flexible During Chaotic Times

Trello

Leading a team isn’t easy. But it’s never harder than in times of stress, chaos and massive change. How can you keep people happy, engaged , and productive when you don’t know what to expect next week, next year, or even tomorrow?

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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 Great Resignation [Causes and Solutions]

ActiveCollab

According to a recent survey, nearly 4.1 million US workers resigned from their jobs in October 2021. However, this was the lowest rate last year, compared to July and August, when 4.4 and 4.3 million people left their workplace. What caused this Great Resignation? It appears that the pandemic-driven exodus has caused some tectonic changes in workplace culture.

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The Twins – Communications Management and Stakeholder Management

Management Yogi

The following true story was shared in one of my classes by a senior manager from a global corporation in South Korea. The manager’s team had worked over six months and was gearing up for a firmware release with a specific set of features.The recently new Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the organization participated in a pre-release meeting, and had dropped a bombshell, cancel the project!

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How the Scrum Values direct your behavior during the entire Sprint - Back to the foundations of the Scrum framework (38)

Scrum.org

You should expect the use of Scrum to become more successful when the Team lives the Values of commitment, courage, focus, openness and respect. Then empiricism starts to work and trust is being built. . ?? The more people become proficient in living the Scrum values, the more successful the use of Scrum will be. . So far I have covered the Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Retrospective and Sprint Review.

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A Comprehensive Guide to Agile Epics for Professionals in 2022

nTask

If you have been a part of the project management paradigm for a long time now then you would probably know about the divide and conquer strategy that is deeply embedded in the blueprints of the agile project management methodology. This strategy is amazing when it comes to tackling large projects and is even perfect to complete small projects. So, when we talk about Agile Epics, we are actually talking about the body of work that can be broken down into smaller more specific work tasks called u

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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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How to live the 4 values in the Agile Manifesto

Scrum.org

The Agile Manifesto (penned in 2001) includes four values and 12 principles that describe a new approach to complex work. Agile is an umbrella term comprising a variety of frameworks and approaches to value delivery, including Scrum. Previously, we discussed the 12 principles included in the Agile Manifesto and how they play out in the real world. Here, we turn our attention to each of the manifesto’s four values. .

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