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Winter Is Coming: Project Management Lessons from Game of Thrones

ProjectManager.com

And what the author tells us clearly is that prophecy is fickle. The author mostly uses them to delineate some aspect of leading characters within the house. The author mostly uses them to delineate some aspect of leading characters within the house. And, if you’re like me, you’ll spend some of it in Westeros. Maybe Dorne too.

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What Project Managers Should Know About Monitoring Project Risks

Project Risk Coach

These individuals take the term control literally. Many project managers do a great job of identifying risks. Some even evaluate risks and develop response plans. However, project managers get busy as their projects progress and fail to monitor their risks, resulting in challenged or failed projects. Do Project Managers Really Control Risks?

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Will a Project Management Certification Help Your Career?

LiquidPlanner

Qualifications take time and effort, but as well as learning useful skills, you’re also building confidence—your own and the others’ confidence in your ability to do a great job. Let’s say you’re well-qualified in your technical skills—be it Java, programming languages, infrastructure, networks or system administration.

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

ProjectManager.com

They know that there are formulas that must be used to solve certain business and process problems. Math is required, of course, but some managers still might be perplexed by certain equations, such as the commonly used Six Sigma formula Y=f(x). But there are different types of managers, just as there are different types of people.

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Alternatives to PPM Tools for Today's Anywhere Workforce

This means moving beyond what most basic PPM tools offer to a tool that better fits their needs and sets them up for long-term success. What’s in the eBook: Assessing your use cases. To survive in the future of work and beyond, PMOs need to evolve. But there are some important things to consider when adopting a whole new tool.

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Handling Unplanned Work

Leading Agile

All that unplanned activity used to create stress for technical workers. Technical teams who are building or supporting application software usually work from a prioritized list of improvements, new features, and ideas to try out. Scrum calls the list the Product Backlog.) They have a plan for completing the items on the list.

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Myth : Scrum Master is an Information dispenser

Scrum.org

In this post, I use the term Leaders & Scrum Masters interchangeably to help people understand, Scrum Master is a "Servant-leadership" role. They involve paying attention which Robert termed as "Active Listening". "Scrum Master is an enabler than a doer". . The skills of a Scrum Master are simple to describe.

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Predictive Analytics 101: Your Roadmap to Driving Key Product Decisions

Speaker: Sriram Parthasarathy

You'll learn: The definitions of common industry terms including predictive analytics, advanced analytics, and more. How predictive analytics and business intelligence can be used together to drive smarter business decisions. What does predictive analytics really mean? September 5, 11:00 AM PST, 2:00 PM EST, 6:00 PM GMT

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Agile Metrics for Team and Product Progress

Speaker: Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant, Rothman Consulting Group

So what should you use instead? Velocity is not an accurate measure of a team's progress towards "done." You’ll learn about team measurements: Why velocity is a current capacity measure and not a measure of progress. How to tell if a team is making progress or spinning its wheels. How to get people excited about seeing working product.

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Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough

Five years ago they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your embedded analytics. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.