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Raising Climate Awareness in Scrum Teams - a Scrum Master’s Journey

Scrum.org

During that session, the team estimated that optimizing our landscape and decommissioning legacy components could reduce our footprint by a significant percentage! The sprint review showed the value they achieved for the planet, reducing an estimated 4 tons of CO2 per year. The path toward sustainable IT is not paved.

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What is a technical project manager? (And why you should think about becoming one)

Planio

A technical project manager is a specialized role that combines leadership, organization, and communication skills with specific technical expertise to lead development projects. They’re often expected to help establish software engineering tools, standards, and processes like code reviews and testing strategies.

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Top Solutions to Project Failure – Epicflow Research Part 2

Epicflow Blog

Victorine Ghobeira , a Senior Business Analyst and Project Manager at Dataquest, says that “preventing a lack of resource starts when defining and estimating activities and leads to creating a realistic schedule. Develop Your Leadership Skills. Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering by Robert L.

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The Fallacy of Wild Numbers

Herding Cats

DeMacro made this post, which has been picked up by the agile community to mean estimating is a waste. . Implying there is no need to measure the project performance and by implication no need to estimate. For example in "Software Engineering: An Idea Whose Time Has Come and Gone?" All estimates are evil.

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Top 5 Reasons for Project Failure and How to Avert Disaster

Wrike

Workers have to be paid for more time, so your estimated budget goes over. Now, when I create projects I estimate 3-5 situations that could delay the project and how to deal with those situations and allot time for whichever would take the longest time to recover. ” —Trevor Ewen, Senior Software Engineer, Neosavvy.

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Top Project Management Conferences of 2022

ProjectManager.com

There will be breakout sessions on using project management tools and techniques to help with more accurate estimates, how to keep projects on track and on evaluation of project performance. What to Expect: Sessions focus on agility, software engineering and lean business. AIPM National Conference. ACMP’s Annual Conference.

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How To Base Your Beliefs About Agile On Evidence

Scrum.org

How should leadership interact with autonomous teams? Perhaps you’ve read many blog posts about how horrible SAFe is, or how useless estimation is, or what the optimal size of a team is. What if you recommend teams to stop estimation altogether and cause financial damage compared to when you wouldn’t have recommended this?

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