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7 warning signs that you (and your team) are overworked

Planio

When you and your team get overworked, your productivity — along with your mental and physical health — decline. In the worst case scenarios, overwork can cause teams to collapse, projects to fail, and individuals to go looking for better work environments. Teams aren’t replacing employees who leave. You get distracted easily 4.

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Winning Estimation Tactics for Agile Teams: From Calibration to Confidence

Scrum.org

Estimates are notoriously bad. In the world of agile development, inaccurate estimates can lead to missed deadlines, blown budgets, and frustrated teams. Human biases, lack of historical data, and the complex nature of software development add layers of difficulty. But why is estimation so challenging?

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Agile Metrics — The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Scrum.org

Suitable agile metrics reflect either a team’s progress in becoming agile or your organization’s progress in becoming a learning organization. At the team level, qualitative agile metrics often work better than quantitative metrics. A team may have deliberately built some temporary solutions to speed up experimentation.

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What’s the Profile of a Good Project Manager?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Because of this, Systemation became intimately aware of the project managers’ strengths and weaknesses in performance and was able to reflect back on the assessment results and draw specific conclusions. If the score was low, they tended to be seen as emotionally volatile and not safe for their team members to get behind and follow.

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29 Agile Methodology Statistics and Trends for 2022

TrustRadius Project Management

Agile development is a relatively young workflow methodology. At the start of the millennium, software devs pioneered the development of agile, and here we are. We also examined the most important trends, exploring the attributes that make agile poised to succeed in the future. Agile Development Explosion in Popularity.

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SWOT analysis in project management: definition, instruction & example

Inloox

How to perform a SWOT analysis Once the SWOT analysis is completed: 5 key approaches for strategy development Concrete example: SWOT analysis in a software development project Conclusion 1. Understanding these strengths allows the project team to target them in order to maximize the project's chances of success.

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The unbreakable bond: How outstanding service = brand loyalty

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The strong correlation between excellent service and brand loyalty is also a driver for long-term business success, as the 9 trends explored below explain. In addition, 89% of consumers moved to rivals after having a bad customer experience [ii]. User stories can help project teams put customer needs at the heart of what they build.