Sat.Aug 11, 2018 - Fri.Aug 17, 2018

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Winter Is Coming: Project Management Lessons from Game of Thrones

ProjectManager.com

“A bruise is a lesson… and each lesson makes us better” – Arya Stark. Project managers can get pretty bruised by the lessons projects throw at us. But we deserve a little time off too. And, if you’re like me, you’ll spend some of it in Westeros.

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3 Easy Ways To Make a Gantt Chart (Giveaway + Free Excel Template)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I probably use it a couple of times a month for presentations and blog graphics, and I feel it pays for itself in the time it saves me. This is a layered timeline: A layered timeline created in Vizzlo. Vizzlo is easy to use and cost-effective if you are doing lots of presentations. Read my full review of Vizzlo here.

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Software Review: Vizzlo [2018]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

It started the same with Vizzlo : “Dear Elizabeth, we love your blog, please review our software.”. But for blog graphics, I might want a sentence or two, to illustrate a point. Me (answering Me): No. I’m happy with the tools I have thanks. Software company: So will you review it? But then I looked at it. And bought it. In summary….

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What Does Y=f(x) Mean? How to Use This Powerful Six Sigma Formula

ProjectManager.com

Some people look at math and shut down. Managers are not usually those people. They know that there are formulas that must be used to solve certain business and process problems. But there are different types of managers, just as there are different types of people. Some are more skilled as leaders than they are as mathematicians.

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Analytics Best Practices: 5 Key Dashboard Design Principles

In this blog, we explore 5 key principles that exist to ensure you create a relevant dashboard that guides and simplifies the user experience, makes it as easy as possible to interpret what is presented no matter its complexity, and increases the adoption of BI.

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Myth : Scrum Master is an Information dispenser

Scrum.org

There are many implications to all this, and this insight ad the next series of blogs will have talked about some of these. Changing a habit, now thats hard, but leaving it where it is and creating a whole new habit- that turns out to be far more achievable.

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Handling Unplanned Work

Leading Agile

From time to time, practitioners publish articles and blog posts that present some sort of complicated model of different kinds of “defects” and how to deal with them. What if the defect is detected within the sprint? What if it’s detected outside the sprint?

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What is Data Storytelling? The Value of Context and Narrative

This blog acts as a beginner’s guide to what data storytelling means for your company’s business intelligence and data analytics, explains the importance of leveraging it today, and illustrates how Yellowfin’s own set of storytelling tools can enrich your insight reporting efforts.