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Project management: Tips, tools, best practices

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What is project management? Project management is a business discipline that involves applying specific processes, knowledge, skills, techniques, and tools to successfully deliver outcomes that meet project goals. Project management steps Project management is broken down into five phases or life cycle.

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Scrum master certification: Top 13 certs for agile pros

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The agile methodology, which facilitates collaboration between stakeholders, teams, and customers during software development, is fast gaining prominence in today’s enterprises. The Scrum master leads this process, providing guidance to the team and product owner and ensuring agile practices are followed by team members.

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Digital pragmatism at Volvo means more control and less agile

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Paring down agile Another change the digital organization has gone through recently is to start backing away from a pure agile approach. Volvo Cars’ digital department started to work agilely according to the SAFe Framework in a product-oriented model in 2018. But even with great advantages came disadvantages.

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To Improve Business Agility, Organizations Need to Focus on Value

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While business agility and efficiency is still a critical goal of most organizations, many are hamstrung by legacy organizational structure and management practices. So how can organizations continue to evolve and deliver better agility and efficiency? How do we ensure that the agile community continues to improve and thrive?

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Scrum Master vs Project Manager: How are they different?

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Scrum Master and Project Manager profiles are quite distinct though most of the people get confused. Scrum master isn’t a sole decision-maker: The Scrum Master apparently has a self-managed team that is capable of taking good decisions collectively to deliver best results. Role of a Project Manager. What is Scrum?

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3 key roles for driving digital success

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They must collaborate with execution teams on an agile process that adopts continuous planning , delivery, and transformation practices and seeks customer feedback to adjust priorities. Product leaders are most responsible for a digital transformation initiative’s scope, priorities, and change management.

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Best business analyst certifications to level up your career

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Top skills for business analysts include project management, data analysis, business analysis, user stories, and user acceptance, according to Zippia. Completion of the program will also earn you 35 IIBA and 25 Project Management Institute (PMI) professional development units. Amazon, Capgemini, and IBM.

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