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What Is Agile Training and Why Agile Scrum Should Be Your Next Career

Agilemania

As we inch closer to completing another year, it’s time to recap 2021. Although the year was full of surprises, the Agile adoption rate increased from 37% in 2020 to 86% in 2021. Talk about growth! With the pandemic looming large, here are a few interesting statistics on Agile Adoption challenges-. 46% reported inconsistent processes and practices. 43% cited cultural clashes. 42% stated general organizational resistance to change. 42% remarked lack of skills and experience.

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The Evolving Definition of “Done”

Bridge the Gap Consulting

“We’re more concerned about meeting customer needs than defining done.” For years, I have defined “Done” as a clearly articulated definition of the output of a project. Simple enough. The project has scope. It’s my job to lead a team to deliver that scope. That scope is delivered, and now it’s time to move on to the next project.

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Engaging Stakeholders with Gamification [video]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In this video Elizabeth Harrin discusses how merging engagement and gamification creates engagification, a methodology to help people take action on projects. Watch the video to listen (about 30 minutes). If you prefer to read, there are closed captions in the video or there’s also a transcript underneath the video. Transcript. Hello, everybody. My name is Elizabeth Harrin.

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How to Identify Different Work Styles for Better Productivity

ProjectManager.com

Not everyone works the same way, which is why there are different work styles. There are those who prefer the morning for the heavy lifting, and others that can’t get started until the afternoon. Some work better in groups and others alone. Some live off long-term plans, while others execute in weekly sprints. As work evolves to include hybrid teams that are located in different places with a wide range of skill sets, successful businesses need to connect everyone to keep them productive.

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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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Product Backlog Refinement: 5 konkrete Strategien für diese essenzielle Product-Management-Aktivität

Scrum.org

Was ist Product Backlog Refinement? Scrum Teams machen es ständig. Es passiert im Sprint Review, nach dem Daily Scrum, im Sprint Planning und als Teil der Entwicklung. Sie diskutieren über die bevorstehende Arbeit, um sie zu präzisieren. Präzisieren umfasst: die Ergebnisse und Inhalte ihrer Arbeit klären. die Arbeit zerkleinern und aufteilen, sodass die Einzelstücke nach Fertigstellung noch Wert für den Nutzer liefern. die Arbeit im Backlog anordnen, sodass die Ziele des Scrum Teams und der Orga

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Review Blue Striped Frog – The agile community – Magazine (3rd edition)

Henny Portman

The third edition of the Blue Striped Frog magazine offers insights into leadership, programme management, the combination of low-code with agile working and several articles focusing on working remotely under the Northern lights, Pippi’s lesson about the agile mindset and wonders if agility lost its ability to be innovative. The first article gives an impression of a walk and talk in the surroundings of Loon op Zand with Theo van Kessel, APG, about the role of leadership in agile transformation

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Best Project Management Software Comparison for 2022

ProjectManager.com

Most everyone is probably happy to see 2020 go and has high hopes for a brighter 2021. But it’s undeniable that the changes that occurred over the last year aren’t going away. One example is the work-from-home trend. Even when conditions make returning to the office feasible, the genie of remote work isn’t back into the bottle. We’ve learned a lot over the past year about social distancing, hand washing, and, if you want to keep productivity chugging along, you need project management soft

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How the Product Owner supports Adaptation - Back to the foundations of the Scrum framework (31)

Scrum.org

Remember that Scrum is founded on empirical process control, and that adaptation is the third pillar, following transparency and inspection. Each of the Scrum accountabilities participates in one or more adaptations. If you feel that something needs to be adapted to any aspect of your initiative, check who could best start taking action. . ?? Adaptation is making adjustments in order to minimise any deviations to acceptable limits related to agreed goals. .

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Implementation Plan: The Key to Successful Project Execution

Epicflow Blog

Strategic planning and its implementation determine the success of any endeavor: whether it’s starting a business or building a house of your dream – you’ll have more chances for success if you have a well-thought strategy and know how to execute it. . It’s no less important in project management – no matter how great the idea behind a project is or how skilled your resources are, you need to understand HOW exactly you’re going to execute your strategy.

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Strategic Finance Essentials: A Project Manager’s Guide to Financial Impact

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 expendi

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The OODA Loop: Take Control of Your Project with this Powerful Idea

Online PM Courses

John Boyd’s OODA Loop deserves to be better known than it is. It is a simple and powerful model of the decision-making cycle. The post The OODA Loop: Take Control of Your Project with this Powerful Idea appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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Best Microsoft Project Alternatives of 2022 for Project Managers

ProjectManager.com

As projects grow in complexity and workforces expand globally, the need for online project management tools is no luxury. There is no lack of products to choose from, with varying degrees of usefulness. Microsoft has thrown its considerable weight into the ring with Microsoft Project. While MS Project has become an industry-standard in project management, it comes with problems, leaving people to search for the best Microsoft Project alternative.

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Automation Is Vital For Scrum Teams

Scrum.org

Automation is a vital practice for Scrum Teams. The best Scrum Teams I have been part of automated early and often. Scrum employs an iterative, incremental approach to product development. We build a product in small pieces. We ensure that whatever we build during a Sprint meets our Definition of Done and is usable by the end of that Sprint. Each Increment is built on top and becomes part of prior Increments.

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A Getting Started Guide to Agile System Development Life Cycle

nTask

An agile methodology is an iterative approach to project development. In agile, the project is broken down into small iterations to deliver high-quality products. Thus, the agile system development lifecycle is a systematic and structured development methodology used for the development of a product. We will see that in detail in a bit. However, you should know that Agile Lifecycle, in general, will vary under the agile project management methodology chosen by the team.

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.

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Project Management: Agile and Waterfall Explained

International Institute for Learning

By Karim Radwin , CAIA, PMP. Since the Agile Manifesto was written in 2001 by a group of software practitioners, Agile approaches have been taking over the project management scene at a steady pace. Some say Agile is a mindset, not a methodology. Others believe Agile is the silver bullet to solve any project management challenge, while doubters do not want to hear about Agile at all.

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Best Team Management Software of 2022 for Managing Projects

ProjectManager.com

Managing teams, no matter their size, is an incredibly complex task. It involves knowing each team member’s skills and workloads and creating a plan to make individuals act as cogs in a larger mechanism. This kind of precision demands the best team management software. There are many options to choose from, but which is right for you? Here are some of the top options in the industry, and the pros and cons of each. 2022 Best Team Management Software Rankings. 1.

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Unwrecking Responsibility - A Leader's Role [Video]

Scrum.org

In this second video in the series about responsibility, Professional Scrum Trainer Mark Wavle explores the leader's role in unwrecking responsibility issues. Topics covered: Removing impediments. The people/team you lead getting in their own way with responsibility issues. Leading by example in responsibility. Using Intentional curiosity to unwreck responsibility.

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Best PMP Software Free Tools To Use In 2022

nTask

As a project management professional, your responsibilities far exceed the usual standards. You have to be on your toes all the time, keeping an eye on task statuses, staying updated with the latest developments, paying attention to your team members’ performance , identifying and mitigating issues, and constantly improving processes for the future.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Using the Assignment Owner Field with Project Online

MPUG

Background Information. A couple of weeks ago, there was an interesting question in the Project user forum on the Internet. My answer to that question revealed why and how to use the Assignment Owner field in the Microsoft Project desktop application, when used with either Project Online or Project Server. Following is a summary of the user’s problem: In the Microsoft Project schedule, the project manager needs to assign resources to tasks, but these resources do not have access to a computer.

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Best Microsoft Project Alternatives of 2022 for Project Managers

ProjectManager.com

As projects grow in complexity and workforces expand globally, the need for online project management tools is no luxury. There is no lack of products to choose from, with varying degrees of usefulness. Microsoft has thrown its considerable weight into the ring with Microsoft Project. While MS Project has become an industry-standard in project management, it comes with problems, leaving people to search for the best Microsoft Project alternative.

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2 aktuelle Trends erfolgreicher Scrum Teams, die du nicht verpassen willst

Scrum.org

DevOps war gestern. Eine lineare, schrittweise Abfolge von Änderungen — in der Regel durchgeführt von funktional getrennten Abteilungen — ist völlig unvereinbar mit der Änderungsgeschwindigkeit und Komplexität moderner Softwareprodukte. Die Annahme, dass der Softwareentwicklungsprozess nur wenig davon lernen kann, wie die Software in einer realen Umgebung betrieben wird, ist grundlegend falsch und wurde bereits vor einigen Jahren begraben.

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What is Sprint Planning? A Comprehensive Guide on Agile Sprints

nTask

The Agile project management methodology is one of the most interesting and effective ways to manage your projects and get the most value out of them. They encompass everything from the software development process to construction management. But how does methodology work? How is it so effective? The answer is Sprints. Sprints are incredibly productive ways of working on achieving different goals and milestones associated with the project , which have been set by the upper management or the proj

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Acclaim Projects Helps Deliver Innovation Projects on Time and on Budget

This large intercity transportation company for people and freight employs 100+ IT employees and contractors across North America and Europe and spends $10MM annually for approximately 50 inflight projects. The company needed the right financial tools to budget for innovation initiatives and real-time information on spending and forecasting. This transportation company turned to Acclaim Projects by Sopheon to help deliver projects on time and within budget.

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Working with Multiple Sprints in an Agile Project

Management Yogi

In projects or programs following the Scrum framework, you have to work with multiple Sprints. While working with multiple Sprints, as a hands-on user, you have to know certain intricacies and important points, without which your tracking and monitoring can be confusing. A number of Agile practitioners are also not aware how to track multiple Sprints with ease.

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Best Planner Apps for Mac in 2022

ProjectManager.com

No matter what kind of project you want to tackle, you must have a plan first. Planning is the cornerstone of project management, but if you’re a Mac user, then you’re going to find that a lot of the big players in the field don’t want you on their team. There is no Microsoft planner for Mac, or Microsoft Project for Mac , for that matter. Why they would ignore such a large potential client base is not for us to ask, but managers using Apple products are still in need of a good planning app.

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Return On Invested Capital Definition for Strategic Project Managers

The Strategic Project Manager

Return On Invested Capital, or ROIC, is a common metric used as an input for developing strategy, selecting projects, and measuring project, program, and business performance. This post explores the definition of ROIC, how to compute it, and its usefulness in strategy and project management. Return On Invested Capital Definition. Return on Invested capital can be defined in some slightly different ways, but they all seem to converge on one general meaning.

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A Comprehensive Guide to Backlog Management and Everything it Contains in 2022

nTask

If you have been a part of the project management world for a while now, then you would know that a product backlog is a prioritized set of desired features and functionalities that consists of all of the important items that are critical to complete a product release. This backlog contains many different elements like enhancements, bug fixes that the development team has to perform, new features that have to be introduced, and the technology upgrades that are needed in the current product.

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From Concepts to Actionable Insights: Powering Digital Transformation Success

Speaker: Ketan Jahagirdar - Sopheon’s Director of Product Management

70% of most digital transformation projects fail. Learn how you can quickly improve that success rate. To be successful, digital transformation involves the strategic application of digitalization to improve a business’ entire system of production, procurement, sales, operations, human resources, and financial management. In short, to basically transform the way a company makes money and delivers value to customers.