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How to Create Partnerships Instead of Using Stakeholders

Johanna Rothman

Strategy and Product Feedback Loops About 20 years ago, I taught a project management workshop to IT people. ” For years, I explained that the more often the team or program could demo, the more the project or program could engage its stakeholders. Demo that value on a regular cadence. Now, John Cutler has changed my mind.

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What’s Wrong With Detailed Gantt Charts and How to Make Fewer Details Work for You

Johanna Rothman

” There's more in Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management.) If your product does not need much innovation, you can plan for longer and know you will meet that plan. In addition, I ask teams to show visual progress , such as in a demo. I suspect their teams hide their feedback loops.

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Epicflow Implementation Guide: Essential Steps and Best Practices

Epicflow

After that, they are given access to a simple demo environment with a standard set of configurations, where they can test how our system works. If your company uses other project management tools like Jira, MS Project, or Oracle Primavera, the demo environment will be adjusted accordingly. Data adjustment and integration.

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How WIP Insights Allow Us to Revisit Brooks’ Law About Adding People to a Team

Johanna Rothman

” It depends on how your lifecycle manages feedback loops and learning, how collaborative the team is, and how much WIP the team has. Each Lifecycle Manages Feedback Loops Differently Brooks wrote the original version of The Mythical Man-Month in 1975, based on the 1960s IBM 360 project. What does management choose to do?

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What is Project Accounting?

Progressus

The functionality necessary to complete these project management processes is simply not accessible from a simple General Ledger (GL) only. Achieving Your Project Management Goals with Progressus Project Accounting Progressus Project Accounting allows project-based businesses to take control of project finances.

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Where I Think “Agile” is Headed, Part 5: Summary

Johanna Rothman

Part 2 was why we need managers in an agile transformation. Start with management first. How can the managers use agility in their work? Management Teams and Agility: Flow & Resilience. When I think about management agility, I often think of managers working in flow, especially for decision.

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Eating an Elephant One Bite At a Time: Deliverables in Project Management

Epicflow

For example, standing in the middle of a messy house may seem overwhelming, but if you tidy the rooms one by one, the cleaning up will turn out to be quite manageable. . Read further to get a full picture of project deliverables, and learn how to identify and manage them efficiently. Project management documents (e.g.,