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Plan for success with a project outline

Monday

Have you ever made the mistake of launching head-first into a new project without setting aside time to work out a plan? ” So we should plan, right? But does taking time to plan your project first actually increase your chance of success? Unfortunately, as the saying goes, “hope is not a strategy.” Get started.

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Discovering product development excellence

Think Agile

Join us to learn how to improve your product agility by defining and refining backlog items that are “ready” to pull into planning and development. I worked in Agile(ish) teams for a few years and became a Product Owner for a Large Financial Institution in 2012. My background is in Process Engineering and Business Analysis.

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Visual Thinking Templates – How to Gain Shared Understanding

Cprime

What we are really referring to here is Visual Literacy (reference Anneliese Tillmann What We See and Why It Matters , 2012) which includes the ability to interpret, comprehend, and express ideas using or creating visuals. Product Vision Canvas (to name one of many powerful product oriented templates) from Roman Pichler.

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System Concepts: ConOps vs OpsCon

Argon Digital

Your focus may be on how people will interact and use the system to accomplish the mission with the intent of developing integrated operations plans. System Concepts will help you establish a shared vision for your system and gain the knowledge you need to define a clear, complete, correct, and concise set of requirements.

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Discovering product development excellence

Think Agile

Join us to learn how to improve your product agility by defining and refining backlog items that are “ready” to pull into planning and development. I worked in Agile(ish) teams for a few years and became a Product Owner for a Large Financial Institution in 2012. My background is in Process Engineering and Business Analysis.

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How do you implement SAFe agile in your organization?

Agilemania

Work happens in small planned batches so that problems can be resolved quickly. Apply cadence and synchronize with cross-domain planning. Develop the implementation plan. Spotify: Spotify came into being in 2012. Facilitate team planning: Team planning is a major challenge that organizations grapple with.

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Exploit vs. Explore – When to Choose Agile over Traditional Approaches

Vitality Chicago

For exploit work, more traditional project management approaches with upfront planning and control work well. As such, making predictions and detailed plans is often not possible. Annual budgeting cycles, large upfront planning, and long timelines would be wasteful and inappropriate for explore work.

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