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Review Intention

Henny Portman

Two weeks ago, I received a blurb request. “I saw on your blog that you reviewed Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard, and I’d like to ask whether you’d be willing to consider giving a blurb to a similar book”. The book ‘ Intention: Building Capabilities To Transform Your Story’ is written by Dr. Ian D. Brooks. This book provides direction for leveraging our greatest ability to realize change by expanding our personal awareness and taking specific action.

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Scrum: A Brief History of a Long-Lived Hype

Gunther Verheyen

Scrum has been around for a while, they say. The Scrum Guide holds the definition of Scrum, they say. The first, official version of the Scrum Guide was released in February 2010. So, how was Scrum defined before 2010 then? How did its definition evolve before and after 2010 and become the framework that we know today? What else happened along the road to the way that Scrum is defined and represented?

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Building a System Where Agile Can Thrive

Leading Agile

Webinars Learn the Physics of Agility Sign Up. Transformation is really about forming teams, building backlogs, and producing working, tested product. At scale, it’s about defining structure, and creating governance, metrics, and tooling strategies that support Agility. Anything that gets in the way of doing any of these things is an impediment to Transformation.

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Interdependence stretches the critical path

Musings on Project Management

In project management school, the lesson on Critical Path includes Rule #2: "Apply resources first to the critical path and subordinate demands of other paths to ensure the critical path is never starved. Most of the time, Rule #2 is good advice.(See Rule #1 below) Rule #1, if you haven't guessed is: Create a schedule network so that the critical path is revealed.

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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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Product Update: Introducing Sheet View, Gantt Improvements and Other Exciting Updates

ProjectManager.com

We created ProjectManager.com to give teams maximum flexibility in planning and working on projects, no matter their preferred view. Some teams prefer to work exclusively on the Gantt, where others prefer a combination of other views, as each view provides unique benefits. The Calendar is great for long-term planning but the Board is a great place to move work along.

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The Mindful Project Manager’s Guide To Team Motivation: 11 Strategies For Keeping Your Team On Track

Planio

Talk to enough project managers and you’ll start to realize that there’s really just one thing that differentiates the great from the good: Good project managers are masters of planning, gathering requirements, sticking to schedules, and hitting milestones…. While great project managers do all that while also keeping their team motivated and happy. As we’ve written over and over, project management is as much about people as it is about projects.

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10 Best Marketing Project Management Software Tools For 2021

Teamweek

Without a systematic process, managing a marketing campaign can become chaotic. Marketing project management software helps you plan, collaborate, and track the delivery of marketing projects. In this article, we look at the top 10 project management software tools for marketing teams. Specifically, we look at: What types of teams need marketing project management software?

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Sitetracker Certification: Year one exceeds expectations.

Sitetracker

Originally posted on Businesswire. Sitetracker certified over 500 customers in one year creating an ever growing group of power users. Customers across the globe, including Ericsson (UK), Atlas Towers, Axicom, Lendlease, and Hylan, among many others, became Sitetracker Certified. Book courses early to secure a spot. Due to high demand, Sitetracker will be adding new courses in 2021.

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How To Authenticate with Google SSO in Qt (C++)

Appfluence

Starting January 4, 2021, Google is blocking all single sign-on (SSO) requests using OAuth 2.0, when they come from an app’s embedded web view. This matters to you, if your native app used to show a web view to load the Google login screen, and then it used the Google cookies to operate. That flow is no longer allowed and you need to find an alternative.

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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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Expert’s Opinions: Keeping Teams Productive at Work

nTask

We are almost done with the year 2020. Among many adversities that this year has brought us, being productive at work has been a real challenge. Therefore, we turned to the experts that remained vigilant in times where being productive was a big struggle for many across the globe. We have highlighted the top expert opinions and advice they used to keep their teams productive.

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How to authenticate a Qt app with Google SSO (C++ code samples)

Appfluence

Starting January 4, 2021, Google is blocking all single sign-on (SSO) requests using OAuth 2.0 when they come from an app’s embedded web view. This means, if your native app used to show a web view to load the Google login screen, and then it used the Google cookies to operate, that flow is no longer allowed and you need to find an alternative.