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How to Write a Business Case

ProjectManager.com

In fact, in some lean or agile organizations, over-reliance on documentation is seen as a clear impediment to innovation and collaboration. Projects fail without having a solid business case to rest on. Create a Schedule: Make a timeline for the project by estimating how long it will take to get each task completed.

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What is project scope? (Plus 7 steps to help you define project scope)

Resource Guru

Project scope is the project manager’s best friend. It’s what we lean on throughout the project life cycle. It keeps us on the straight and narrow all the way to project success. We might think that “oh, I don’t need a project scope, I’ve done thousands of projects like this!”.

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Project Management Artifacts: Essential Tools to Enhance Project Management

Project Pulse Journal

These outputs may consist of documents, documentation standards and templates, plans, reports, and reporting guidelines created to support the management and execution of a project. Artifacts serve as references for current and future projects by documenting the progress, decisions, and outcomes of a project's life cycle.

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What Do Companies like Apple, Amazon and Google Look for in Project Managers?

Epicflow Blog

It’s a great plus for a project manager to have a formal qualification and receive a certificate demonstrating their proficiency. Project Management Institute suggests the following variants of certifications for PMs: . This certification course covers Scrum, Kanban, Lean, extreme programming (XP) and test-driven development (TDD).

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Agency burnout: why it happens and how to prevent it

Resource Guru

You could be speaking to friends, washing the dishes, exercising; it doesn’t matter—you can’t switch off intrusive thoughts. As a small agency, we were laser-focused on ‘lean’ ways of working (another burnout risk, for sure!), You can also reiterate any boundaries related to work-life balance.

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Capacity Planning for Dynamic Teams following Kanban Method

Sudipta Lahiri

Yet, a significant portion of the software development community does want to adopt some of the Agile/Lean principles that they believe they will benefit from. For example, they see value in making smaller and faster releases to their customers to get early feedback and de-risk their project. 2. Stages of Capacity Planning.