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Essentials & New Ideas for an Effective Sprint Retrospective

ProjectManager.com

Retrospection is key to understanding and self-awareness. At work, and in life, it’s important to take time to reflect and evaluate our progress , so we can better understand our motivations, our goals and our environment. Scrum, an agile framework for small teams, especially harnesses the benefits of retrospection. Scrum works under the assumption that customers regularly change their minds about what they want or need.

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Creative Ways to Keep Your Remote Team Engaged and Motivated

LiquidPlanner

Remote working has become the norm in the modern world of work, with digital technology enabling members of teams in different locations and different time zones to work together on the same project. With that comes the modern-day challenge of keeping remote team members motivated and engaged, especially when in all likelihood they have never met in person.

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The Top Five Skills for Project Leaders

Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

Business leaders and corporate executives need to find the optimal way to achieve growth while at the same time, manage the risks. But when deciding which initiatives to pursue and how to allocate limited resources among them, organisations often don’t choose well. All business initiatives are achieved through projects, so assessing and ranking these projects in order of importance to the business strategy give organisations the confidence to embrace risk.

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Coordinating Work with Agile and Waterfall Teams in a Mixed Environment w/ AJ Sanford

Leading Agile

In this episode of SoundNotes, LeadingAgile Senior Consultant AJ Sanford joins Dave to answer a student question that’s frequently asked in Dave’s CSM and CSPO classes. How do you use Scrum when you have to coordinate work between teams that are using both Waterfall and Agile all within one organization? During the interview, AJ and Dave touch on the following topics: What to expect from an Agile pilot project.

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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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Jack or Jill?

Musings on Project Management

A study I read about started this way: Draw a picture of an effective leader Almost without exception, the picture was of a man. Ooops: what about the lady leaders? There's certainly no lack of role models in both politics and business, from Angela Merkel -- Chancellor of Germany -- to Mary Barra -- CEO of General Motors Another study had people listen in to a business meeting where.

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How to Boost SMB Productivity via Teamwork

Eylean

Written by: Liam Collins When business owners organize a business interview, they usually write down a list of points that need to be covered during the conversation. One of the points that’s often included in that set of questions is teamwork. While this is an important aspect of the business organization, teamwork doesn’t only mean putting … The post How to Boost SMB Productivity via Teamwork appeared first on Eylean Blog.

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23 Top Dropbox Alternatives for File Management in 2019

Workzone

If you’ve managed a team that’s more that “me, myself, and I” you’d have noticed that many of us, even the best of project managers, spend quite a bit of time hunting and pecking for files, trying to figure out the latest version for document, or making sure that we don’t have multiple team members working on multiple versions of the same file. All the file sharing and file management logistics can be quite painful.

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Designing High-Performance Racing Yachts With ActiveCollab

ActiveCollab

_STORY WRITTEN BY PHILIPPE OULHEN, MARKETING AND SALES MANAGER AT JUAN YACHTS DESIGN _ HOW ARE YOU (YOUR ORGANIZATION) MAKING AN IMPACT ON THE WORLD? I’m the Marketing and Sales Manager at Juan Yachts Design [[link] Established in 1997, our office is specialized in the design of high-performance racing yachts. To reach this objective we use a Design Spiral process, which involves several revisions/validations, enables us to converge to a solution where the target performance, weights, and struc