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Jira: Benefits, Limitations, and Ways to Overcome Them

Epicflow

One of the distinctive characteristics of Jira is that it supports any agile project management methodology, and this approach is reflected in its functionality. Jira’s features are suitable for various agile methodologies, including Scrum and Kanban. A Lack of Support of Non-Agile Methodologies. Supporting Agile approach.

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The Chief Project Officer: Roles and Responsibilities

Epicflow

Monitoring performance and benefits delivery The CPO is responsible for monitoring project performance, tracking key metrics, and ensuring adherence to project timelines, budgets, and quality standards. Also, a CPO makes sure that a company is capable of applying diverse PM methodologies and executing a variety of projects.

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It’s Time to Make Business School Research More Relevant

Harvard Business

The second problem, which we refer to as “Lost Before Translation,” is the tendency for academic researchers to design studies without input from managers or employees — the populations that their studies’ results are meant to help.

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6 Current Trends in Project Management [2024]: What to Prepare for?

Epicflow

Forecasting and decision-making Thanks to predictive analytics, PM tools analyze historical data along with current project metrics to predict how the project environment will change. Projects are becoming more and more complex, so it becomes difficult and ineffective to address their complex needs with the only PM methodology.

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How Avaya Turned Around Its Customer Ratings

Harvard Business

For reference, an NPS of +50 is considered very good. The key to this transformation was an innovation approach common in the software industry: agile invention methodology. With an agile methodology, Avaya didn’t just speed up its workflow — it communicated better with its customers.

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How Self-Care Became So Much Work

Harvard Business

It seems likely that the values driving us to be workaholics in the first place are also encouraging us to “optimize” ourselves by using metric-driven “hacks.” .” This raises the question: Are we genuinely interested in feeling healthier and happier? Or reminding ourselves that laughter is healing ?

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The goal trap for small businesses

Asamby Consulting

Goal setting refers to how these goals are defined, tracked and managed. These goals can be tracked through metrics that gives continuous feedback such as OKR, MBO, etc. These metrics are like receiving a score in a video game, which allows everybody to know if they are going in the right direction.