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Title and Example of Stakeholder Engagement Assessment Matrix

Stakeholder Engagement Assessment Matrix: Uses & Example

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Managing the involvement of stakeholders is one of the most challenging yet important tasks of a project manager. However, there tools and techniques such as the stakeholder engagement matrix that facilitate and improve a project’s stakeholder management significantly. The Stakeholder Engagement Assessment Matrix is a simple yet powerful project management technique to document desired and …

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Performance Prism for Performance & Stakeholder Management

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Projects take place in organizations that are normally applying a form of performance management. Do you know the balanced scorecard, for instance? – “Of course!” You will say. It has been on everyone’s lips for many years and is used in many companies. The performance prism is a related concept that emphasizes the needs of …

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Balanced Scorecard in Project Management – Uses, Pros & Cons

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The Balanced Scorecard, or Integral Scorecard, is a strategic management methodology used to define and monitor the strategy of an organization. Robert Kaplan and David Norton created this methodology in 1992 (original article). The Balanced Scorecard was originally developed as a tool to implement the corporate strategy and is a common method in companies of …

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PMI-ACP® Formulas for 19 Agile Metrics (incl. Explanations)

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When you are preparing for your PMI-ACP exam, studying formulas has probably not been your top priority so far. Although the PMI-ACP exam puts less emphasis on calculations than other certifications (such as the PMP, for instance) you should be familiar with a few formulas. As they are not overly complicated, they are ‘quick wins’ …

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What Is the Product Owner Role in Agile Projects?

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In traditional waterfall projects, all requirements need to be identified and fixed upfront while deviations must pass the change management processes. This is not the case in agile projects: teams applying agile approaches claim to embrace changes and often actively seek feedback on products and increments to enhance and improve them during the project. In …

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Product Manager vs Product owner

Product Manager vs Product Owner – What Is the Difference?

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When it comes to job titles and roles, organizations tend to be quite creative in assigning great-looking labels to certain roles (and printing them on business cards). Over the past one to three decades, the title “product manager” has grown in popularity. Meanwhile, the responsibility of the role changed from being responsible for a product …

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What Is Agile Project Management? Definition & Agile Methodologies.

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Agile project management refers to the management of agile projects, being the counterpart to traditional project management in (relatively) predictive projects. What Is Agile Project Management? Agile project management – originally referred to as “Agile Software Development” – is a set of principles and values rather than a methodology. They have their roots in the …

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Scrum as a methodology for agile project management

Agile Project Management with Scrum Methodology

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Being “agile” has become a popular aim in many organizations. However, agile project management is actually a group of different approaches and methodologies rather than a methodology itself. Scrum is one of the most popular agile project approaches (we will discuss later whether it is a methodology) thanks to its widespread and easy-to-understand principles. Agile …

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