Mon.Apr 17, 2023

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What to do when your project closes early: A guide

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Closing down a project early is very different to carrying out a controlled close when a project has reached its natural conclusion and delivered everything that stakeholders were expecting. It’s more emotional, for one thing. You’ve invested time in this work, and now it’s being moved to the scrap heap. When a project is unexpectedly closed early, it can be difficult to know what steps to take next.

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Jira Anti-Patterns and How to Overcome Them

Scrum.org

TL; DR: Jira Anti-Patterns If you ask people to come up with popular attributes for “Agile” or “agility,” Scrum and Jira will likely be among the top ten featured. Moreover, in any discussion about the topic, someone will mention that using Scrum running on top of Jira does not make an organization agile. However, more importantly, this notion is often only a tiny step from identifying Jira as a potential impediment to outright vilifying it.

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Why and How to Develop Project Management Skills

MPUG

This article will not recommend any specific methodology, software, or educational tools to develop your skills. However, we advise every person in the workforce to pursue a continuous learning journey. The “how” is context and individual based; we must find our way. The “why” comes from that age-old interview question: where do you see yourself in five years?

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Agile Transformation is a Journey

Leading Agile

Agile Transformation isn’t about a big-bang rollout of Agile, and then Presto! You’re done. It’s about meeting the organization where it is today, and iteratively and incrementally rolling out Agile capabilities over time. As your ability to be Agile matures, today’s Transformation will look a lot different than your Transformation a year from now. Another reason why you can never really be done with Agile Transformation is that the market is constantly shifting and your customers needs will cha

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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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Understanding Sprint Planning

MPUG

Please find highlights from Satya Narayan Dash’s webinar – Practical Scrum Using MS Project Agile – being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content. There may be exclusions, such as those steps included in product demonstrations, or there may be additions to expand on concepts.

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Building A Velocity Histogram with MS Project Agile

Management Yogi

Like velocity is one of the widely used metrics in Agile, the velocity histogram is one of the most used reports used by Scrum Masters and Product Owners. It’s simple, effective and acts as an information radiator.I frequently interact with professionals who use my CHAMP certification course or Master Course for MS Project Agile.

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O Scrum Master pode ser rotativo?

Scrum.org

O Scrum como um framework, aplicado em diversos cenários e contextos, permite diferentes aplicações de suas práticas, artefatos e também dos papéis internos da equipe. Uma questão que muitas empresas enfrentam é se devem designar um Scrum Master fixo para todo o ciclo de vida do produto/projeto ou se devem rotacionar o papel do Scrum Master entre os membros da equipe a cada Sprint.

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Top 10 Ways to Get Attention | Video

Online PM Courses

If you want people to listen to you; you have first to get their attention, and then you need to hold it. Here's how. The post Top 10 Ways to Get Attention | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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5 Myths Debunked: What Does a Scrum Master Do?

Scrum.org

The Scrum Master can be the most difficult accountability to define in concrete terms. The Scrum Guide provides three lists of ways the Scrum Master serves the Scrum Team, the Product Owner, and the organization. These activities, however, can often be misunderstood, or hard to visualize. This can result in stubborn myths about the Scrum Master’s job persisting in organizations using Scrum, or worse, perpetuate the lingering question: what does a Scrum Master do?

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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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How to Build a Product Backlog with Microsoft Project

MPUG

Please find highlights from Satya Narayan Dash’s webinar – Practical Scrum Using MS Project Agile – being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content. There may be exclusions, such as those steps included in product demonstrations, or there may be additions to expand on concepts.

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Episode 175 – Managing the Human Side of Transformation

Velociteach

The podcast by project managers for project managers. Transformations fail because we are failing to transform our people. In a successful transformation project, it is crucial to manage human behavior and pay attention to aligning culture and strategy. To lead a successful transformation project cultivate a healthy environment that inspires people to follow.

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