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How We Chose the Perfect Planning Poker Tool

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Planning poker® is a great technique for scrum teams. It is a team-based estimating approach to work out the efforts involved for achieving business goals. We use planning poker with these teams and as there are a lot of products to choose from, we spent some time testing different ones to find the perfect match. What we tried.

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Have You Left Anything Out of Your Project Management Plan?

Project Risk Coach

Have you left anything out of your project management plan? Check out this checklist to help you identify the baselines and plans that will be most helpful to each of your projects. As I define a project management plan, I strive for clarity, brevity, and simplicity. schedule baseline) Subsidiary plans (e.g.,

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10 Free Event Planning Templates for Excel and Word

ProjectManager.com

Planning an event can range from a meeting at work to a convention and everything in between. Using planning templates can help you stay organized and keep to your budget and they allow you to schedule and create the kind of event that serves its purpose, whether that’s networking at a trade show or launching a team-building workshop.

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Top-Down Estimating: A Comprehensive Guide

Teamweek

Top-down estimating is a form of estimation where existing knowledge of similar projects is used in the estimation process to produce a ballpark figure for the total cost. Like other methods to estimate a new project’s cost , top-down estimation has advantages and disadvantages. What is top-down estimating?

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Kanban vs. Scrum: What’s the Difference?

ProjectManager.com

ProjectManager’s kanban boards offer advanced planning, scheduling and tracking features to help you manage your team’s workload and track their performance. Assign work to your team members, manage resources, estimate costs, automate workflows and much more. Get started for free today. What Is the Difference Between Scrum and Kanban?

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10 Ways to Engage Project Stakeholders

Project Risk Coach

Do you have a stakeholder engagement plan? Which stakeholders have the most power and influence? What is a Stakeholder Engagement Plan? Stakeholder Engagement Plan. Let’s look at some practical ways that you can better engage and influence your project stakeholders at the right times in your project lifecycle.

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What Is a Cost Breakdown Structure (CBS) In Project Management?

ProjectManager.com

Businesses can’t influence the latter but can have some influence on the former, which includes labor, raw materials and subcontracting. Once you set a baseline, your plan is captured and compared to your actual progress. To get the most accurate estimate possible, you’ll want to use cost estimation techniques.