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Utilising Behavioural Science for Effective Scrum Adoption

Scrum.org

For heads of delivery, engineering or product aiming to enhance their teams' performance and efficiency through Scrum or other agile frameworks, integrating behavioural insights into the adoption process can be transformative. Incentives Strategies: Highlight intrinsic rewards, like career progression and professional recognition.

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Project Management Apprenticeships: A UK Guide

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This is a good one if you want to work in energy, utilities, construction and engineering as those industries tend to have more need for people with project controls job titles than, say, marketing. At the end, you get a Level 3 Diploma in Project Control Practice and you can apply for membership of the Association of Cost Engineers (ACostE).

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Utilizing Behavioural Science for Effective Scrum Adoption

Scrum.org

For heads of delivery, engineering or product aiming to enhance their teams' performance and efficiency through Scrum or other agile frameworks, integrating behavioural insights into the adoption process can be transformative. Incentives Strategies: Highlight intrinsic rewards, like career progression and professional recognition.

SCRUM 110
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How to Start a Project Management Career

ProjectManager.com

It is a discipline that is used across industries as varied as construction, manufacturing and IT to healthcare, professional services and government. Many colleges offer a course of study in project management, but you can also study business management, engineering and other disciplines.

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Embracing a Systems Engineering Approach to Agile at Scale

Leading Agile

What if, instead of focusing on all the Agile practices, we started applying some of the things we know about systems engineering to help large companies become the kind of organization that can leverage those practices? We have to get the governance and metrics right. My first job out of school was as a systems engineer for EDS.

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Top challenges for project sponsors

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Ron Rosenhead, co-author of Strategies for Project Sponsorship. I spoke to the authors of Strategies for Project Sponsorship , a book about how to sponsor projects, and reading it from a project manager’s perspective is a great way to improve how you interact and engage with your project sponsor. Thanks, Ron!

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Can you be agile if you release only once a year?

Scrum.org

I am not talking about those companies and teams that suffer from self-imposed constraints and obstacles such as counterproductive internal governance, or old-school development and engineering practices. Here are two strategies and a handful of tactics to help you achieve that.

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