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Project Assumptions: A Complete Guide

Rebel’s Guide to PM

What happens when you are putting together your project plan and you don’t have all the answers? One way to deal with that is to use assumptions: an educated guess. An assumption is a way to simplify or otherwise fill in missing pieces of a project. Those gaps happen for a variety of reasons, and many often exist before a project begins. Perhaps some information or details are either only partially available or just not fully defined yet.

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Forming, storming, norming and performing for Agile teams

Scrum.org

In a recent class, a student asked, “What are the common difficulties teams face when starting with Agile?” To answer this question, I refer to the Tuckman Model of group development, shown below. . Tuckman. 1965. . The Tuckman model describes the phases that groups of individuals go through when they first begin working together as a team. In the first phase, Forming , teams are uncertain about the team goals and how to work together.

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10 Best Document Management Systems to Track & Store Docs [2021]

The Digital Project Manager

This document management systems software review covers 10 tools and all the info you need: pros and cons, pricing, features, integrations, and screenshots to help you choose something that fits your needs. The post 10 Best Document Management Systems to Track & Store Docs [2021] appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Motivational debt — it will fix itself, right?

Scrum.org

What drives you to achieve? Money? Promotion? Skill mastery? Whatever it is that motivates you, that’s okay – be thankful that you are motivated to move forwards. Without motivation in any form, you can personally and professionally stagnate to a point where you become a detractor in a team environment. This blog will explore how to avoid falling into that trap and some of the common dysfunctions it causes.

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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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What if? 10 Things to Build into Your Project Contingency Plan | Video

Online PM Courses

A contingency plan is a valuable part of risk management. It won’t stop a risk happening, but it gives you steps to follow if it does. The post What if? 10 Things to Build into Your Project Contingency Plan | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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Multiple Views into the Same Project File

MPUG

Different views into the same MS Project file enables us to see a schedule from multiple perspectives. Using the split view feature is one way to do this. The Project window is split into two panes, with selections in the top pane controlling what is seen in the bottom pane view. However, there are occasions where the views we wish to combine are not compatible.

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Scrum Guide’s Product Goal

Leading Agile

Listen to the SoundNotes Podcast on the go! Find and subscribe to SoundNotes on: Apple Podcasts. Spotify. Soundcloud. RSS. Dave Prior and Lance Kind discuss a new item from the Scrum Guide: Product Goal. Listen in while Dave teaches Lance what the product goal is, ideates on how to implement, and debates as to the value product goal provides. As a bonus, Dave and Lance: discuss how “real options” relate to product backlogs, that there will be a struggle about where to put backlog ite

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?? Product Owner Interview Guide: PO Anti-Patterns

Scrum.org

TL; DR: Product Owner Interview Questions: PO Anti-Patterns. If you are looking to fill a position for a Product Owner in your organization, you may find the following 76 interview questions useful to identify the right candidate. They are derived from my fifteen years of practical experience with Scrum and XP, serving both as Product Owner and Scrum Master and interviewing dozens of Product Owner candidates on behalf of my clients.

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Everything Product Managers Need to Know about Scalability: 10 Ways to Design and Build for the Future

Planio

Scalability is a big deal in enterprise development. When you’re working with massive companies, get a significant spike in users, or land a great white whale of a customer, you want to know that your infrastructure, tech, and team can handle the increased load. Unfortunately, smaller or younger teams with limited resources rarely think about this magnitude of scale.

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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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PMP Success Story: Takes Sweat, Determination, and Hard Work to Make Your Dream a Reality

Management Yogi

By Ansuman Mishra, PMP, SAFe Agilist, CSMIntroduction“A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination, and hard work.” This quote, by Colin Powell, former Secretary of the United States, is perhaps the most appropriate one to describe my PMP journey!During the early phase of my career, I came to know about PMP from my managers who were already PMP certified.

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