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YDS: What Do We Need to Get Started with Scrum?

Scrum.org

On today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: What do we need to get started in Scrum? During our Professional Scrum Master class, we were asked what is the minimum needed to get started with Scrum. We can likely get started with far less than you think. Watch as Todd and Ryan break down this question.

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But what will our staff do if we don’t focus on their utilization?

Kiron Bondale

Two reasons for this recommendation are: Systems which are run with no free capacity will have no tolerance for any impact which causes a greater utilization of resources than was planned, resulting in delays to the value we were expecting to deliver. While managers might accept the above in principle, they might raise some concerns.

Lean 207
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Why Do We Glorify The 80 Hour Workweek, and What Can We Do About It?

Teamweek

As a society, we tend to equate working many hours with being important, or being industrious, or being necessary, but none of that’s true. We all want to feel important and needed. In a culture where our first question when meeting someone new is “What do you do?”, An 80 hour workweek is a double failure.

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What can we do when a team member isn’t pulling their weight?

Kiron Bondale

This intervention could start in a subtle manner such as asking the individual at a daily standup if they feel comfortable with their workload for the day compared with their team members, or “seeding” the conversation during a retrospective when the topic turns to what could be improved. pair programming).

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Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your embedded analytics. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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We're doing what we thought we couldn't do

Lynne Cazaly

We’re doing what we thought we couldn’t do” - said a frontline worker in an agency I was speaking with last week. When new - and different - ways of doing things are forced on us, we have to find ways to make it work. We are doing many things we thought we could not do.

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The business case is implicit in what we do

Ron Rosenhead

Below is the substance of the conversation starting with what do you mean by that? Client: Well, because of the nature of the business, it’s already within what we do. RR: So, this project, what is the business case? my hesitation shows we really do not have a business case. Client: Well….yes

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Boost Team Engagement with Agile

Speaker: Anthony Crain, Agile Transformation Consultant at cPrime, and Zach Wolfe, Enterprise Customer Success Manager at Wrike

How do we bridge the gap between technical and non-technical teams to create a holistically agile project? What they do need is a sense of engagement in each aspect of the project, and the ability to collaborate as effectively as possible. But how about managing both? The key is engagement.

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Reimagining How Construction Companies Capture Progress Tracking

Speaker: Felipe Engineer-Manriquez, Christopher Gagliardi, George Hedley, and Jason Nichols

We are builders. We are innovators. We are the reason that skyscrapers touch the sky and foundations are poured into the earth. How do we navigate the digital channels that the construction industry is in? How do we navigate the digital channels that the construction industry is in?

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. He'll also go over metrics we can use to measure the health of our ecosystems as we build more resources for innovators. What do I measure to know I'm making progress?

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How Agile Approaches Change Project, Program, and Product Measures

Speaker: Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant, Rothman Consulting Group

Before agile approaches took the world by storm, we used Gantt charts and defects to measure project and program progress. We had trouble measuring product progress until just before release—often too late to change anything. We can measure the project’s and program’s progress with a variety of product burnup charts.

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Add Value with a Dashboard Refresh: What You Need to Know

Speaker: Miles Robinson, Agile and Management Consultant, Motivational Speaker

Do your users benefit from them anymore? What should be improved, and what do we have the resources to improve? Join Miles Robinson, former UX and Design Manager, as he explains the different ways to refresh your dashboards - and how to determine what's the best path to product dashboard success.

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A New Age of Hybrid Leadership

Speaker: Renee Thomas and Alexis Barone, Wrike Team

It's time for project managers to gain a new understanding of what good leadership looks like in the future of work. We were all baptized by fire this past year, so now it's time to look back, understand the big lessons, and gain the insights needed to pivot forward. What individuals can do to advocate for themselves.

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Changing Times, Changing Roadmaps

Speaker: Stephanie Lewandowski, Senior Product Manager, Teachstone

How often do your product priorities change? During this interactive session, Stephanie invites others to share their experience and approaches, so we can learn from each other. In this webinar, we will cover key challenges related to managing a roadmap such as: Principles to maintain in changing markets so you can stay ahead.

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Leading Under Uncertainty

Speaker: Greg Coticchia, CEO & Founder of ENTRA

How can you plan when you are uncertain of what's next? How do you survive to fight the fight another day? In this session, we will discuss important tips for you as a Product Manager dealing with uncertainty. In this session, we will discuss important tips for you as a Product Manager dealing with uncertainty.