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What Is the Definition of Done for Agile Teams?

ProjectManager.com

These days, it seems like everybody is all about doing things agile. That’s largely due to agile’s ability to adapt to change and incorporate customer feedback, both of which are essential in today’s world where technology is constantly evolving, and swathes of information are just a few clicks away—including public customer reviews.

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4 ways to improve the effectiveness of your team’s communication

Resource Guru

Effective communication is an essential part of a team’s overall performance and success. Many difficult business issues can be weathered by teams that are communicating, while teams that struggle will find that even minor issues quickly increase in magnitude. Thankfully communication is a learned skill so if you’re not happy with your team’s current level there are steps you can take to improve it.

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Gen Z: Project Managing Their Futures

LiquidPlanner

Teenagers are making their presence felt in the tech start-up world, developing apps, creating social networks, and building online businesses at a remarkable pace. Far from treating them as side hustles to their schoolwork, these youngsters take their tech ventures very seriously, demonstrating discipline, drive, and determination while developing the project management skills and strategies they know they need to succeed.

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Professional Agile Leadership Certification Course - An Audio Experience Report

Scrum.org

One of the regular listeners, Daniel Lachmann-Nishibane, appeared on www.agile.fm after he has participated in one of my recent Professional Agile Leadership (PAL-E) certification courses in Munich Germany. He offered to come on the show and share his experiences before, during and after the course when pursuing the certification assessment. In the spirit of transparency, no questions or comments were off-limits and we agreed on doing the episode regardless of a fail or pass in the exam.

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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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24 Best Smartsheet Alternatives For 2019 (Free & Paid)

Workzone

Smartsheet’s interface is familiar to users who spend a lot of time in Excel or spreadsheets. But once you add too many projects, you have an explosion of multi-layered sheets. And no one knows what to do next. Though it’s similar to spreadsheets, there is still quite a learning curve for new Smartsheet users to fully take advantage of the software’s feature.

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So, who's responsible for Customer?

Musings on Project Management

One of my students offered this strategy for establishing, maintaining, and leveraging relationships with the customer. I thought it was pretty good, so here's the idea: 1. Customer Account Responsible (ACR) -- who. is the Account Manager. for the domain, market or dedicated to the customer (big accounts) responsible for: Account relationships, Opportunity identification, Commercial.

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Quote of the Day - Risk Pre-Mortem

Herding Cats

A risk management premortem is an approach where the project manager and project stakeholders envision a future where the project has failed, and then work backward to determine the story and circumstances that could have led to the project failure (Klein, 2007). All risk comes from uncertainty. Uncertainty comes in two forms. Epistemic uncertainty creates reducible risk.

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New Project Management Highlights, Articles & Podcasts – February 2019

The Digital Project Manager

Get the scoop on all the latest from The Digital Project Manager in February 2019—new case studies, podcasts, and articles to help you deliver better projects! The post New Project Management Highlights, Articles & Podcasts – February 2019 appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Video Tutorial: Task Management with Kanban in InLoox 10 Web App

Inloox

Project-related task management made easy: With the help of Kanban you can quickly and easily visualize the work flow. The classic model uses three columns (To Do, In Progress, Done). In the InLoox Kanban board you can add individual columns to adapt it to your needs.

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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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Take a Break

Scrum.org

Photo by Elyse Turton on Unsplash. Strategies. Meetings. Decisions. Move to Agile. Move to digital. Transform HR. Transform this department. Deadlines. Getting our products and services out. As leaders, we are connected 24/7. Being connected with our mobile devices has meant we’re always available all the time. We have the pressure to move faster.

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Improve the Resource Planning Process & Spend Less Time on Email

Ganttic

Many researchers have been pinning workplace stress and overload on email communications. Some have put the blame on the vast number of incoming emails, others say that while the latter might have an influence, it’s heavily mediated by what is perceived to be effective or preferred email communication. Another factor seems to be how much emails interrupt the workflow.

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25 Best Asana Alternatives For Project Management in 2019 (Free & Paid)

Workzone

No, this isn’t a list of alternatives to the physical movements of the yoga practice. The only enlightenment this list will give you is in regards to which project management software you should be using. If you’ve worked as a project manager before, the chances are that you’ve heard of Asana. Founded by former Facebook higher-ups, Dustin Moskovitz and Justin Rosenstein, Asana is a project management software solution with a lot of name recognition behind it.

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