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Develop Better High Performing Teams

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As we ease into the new year, many organizations’ executive teams are ramping up hiring for new talent. They’re refocusing their efforts to align portfolios to finish strong for the fiscal year and are launching new initiatives to support strategic plans for the calendar year. What Is a High Performing Team?

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What makes a good manager? 9 essential qualities and skills

Planio

Despite a busy workload and multiple responsibilities, the best managers find a way to blend their hard and soft skills to deliver on their goals while providing support, direction, and guidance to their team. Get to know your team's strengths and weaknesses 2. Make time to support team members and give feedback 5.

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What Is Aggregate Planning? Strategies & Tips

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For any company to profit from a product, there must be a strategic plan in place to produce just enough to meet that need. Aggregate planning is a technique to create an equilibrium between demand and capacity. Let’s take a look at what aggregate production planning is and some aggregate planning strategies.

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Cost of Quality (COQ): A Quick Guide

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But we’ll also discuss the cost of good quality vs. the cost of poor quality and show you how to measure COQ. The cost of quality is a method by which an organization calculates how much it will cost to deliver a product or service that meets the quality expectation standard set in the project plan. What Is Cost of Quality (COQ)?

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Dependency Management – the Good, the Bad, the Ugly

Scrum.org

Does your team struggle to get items to Done? Do they experience a high amount of spill-over into the next cycle because they are waiting on another team or another person? Do items sit in a blocked state and age out while waiting on other teams or people to complete work? Dependencies are an epidemic in software development.

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100+ Project Management Terms: PM Terminology Explained

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Arrow Diagramming Method A network diagramming technique that represents the start and end of activities with arrows to help with scheduling in the project planning phase. Baseline A baseline is an estimate of the project’s scope, schedule and costs that is created during the planning stage. It is also called a Business Case.

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Trello vs. Asana: Side-by-Side Comparison

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Yes, Trello has project management features and Asana has a timeline and other tools to help manage tasks and teams. It also links all four task dependencies to avoid costly delays, filters for the critical path to identify essential tasks and sets a baseline to track your planned effort against your actual effort.