Author name: Dharmalingam N

Dharmalingam.N holds a master degree in Business Administration and writes on a wide range of topics ranging from technology to business analysis. He has a background in Relationship Management. Some of the topics he has written about and that have been published include; project management, business analysis and customer engagement.

What resources to use for PMI-ACP® certification exam ?

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PMI-ACP® certification is one of the well proven certifications for aspirants in agile field. Among many other certifications available currently in the market, PMI-ACP® has its edge due to wider coverage of content and PMI assurance. This makes it difficult for aspirant to decide on the resources one should use for preparation of this certification. An important thing is, there is no one guide for ACP® as PMI® has for PMP®. As the demand for agile certified professionals is increasing, PMI-ACP® certification is preferred and in more demand to supply professionals with agile experience and knowledge. Basic resources Before starting […]

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Acceptance Criteria

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What is it ? Acceptance Criteria or Acceptance tests as a set of conditions that must be met before a user story is deemed done. They are a set of conditions that must be fulfilled by the solution for it to be deemed accepted by the user or a customer. These a set of statements which have a clear pass/fail result that specify both functional and non functional requirements that are applicable a user story or an EPIC . Why is it useful ? Acceptance criteria are useful for a user story as it: Helps in enhance the details of

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Basics of Procurement Management?

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Procurement management is one term which is used very often and one feel familiar with it. However this is not easy to understand for everyone. There are many industries where we don’t get exposure to procurement because there is a separate legal department to take care of the same. To start with, what is Procurement? Procurement refers to the aspects of project management related to obtaining goods and services from outside companies. It does not refer to other internal organizations within your own company. Understanding of this management area depends on your exposure as a buyer or seller in your

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Scrum Roles and its importance

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Scrum is a framework for developing and sustaining complex products. Scrum guide defines scrum as combination of its roles, ceremonies, artifacts and the roles which revolves around these three to bind it together. Scrum is also defined as lightweight, simple to understand but extremely difficult to master framework. When someone looks at Scrum theory, it appears as easiest thing to do/implement however when someone tries to implements it becomes difficult to sustain Scrum if not implemented holistically As discussed above, Scrum roles is one of the pillar of scrum framework and very important to understand. There are three scrum roles

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Do we have different types of Float?

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Float is nothing but the bandwidth or buffer one has in the project schedule. There are lot of questions around float which troubles a project manager. Questions like, why do we need float? What are types of floats a project manager can have? Whenever any project manager starts its project, the first thing he works on is amount of total work he has to complete. Definitely when we know the total work, to manage and track it efficiently, one breaks it down in the form of activities. These activities are what a project manager uses to understand the dependencies and

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What is Scrum? Why we need it?

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Before understanding Scrum, one need to be aware of What is Agile? Though Agility is well known term or jargon these days the basic fundamental of any Agile framework is based on iterative development and requirement evolution. Any framework can be agile as far as its in line with Agile manifesto, values and Agile principles. Scrum is one of them. Scrum in a very simple term is a framework to implement agility in a easy manner. Scrum word is taken from rugby where team is moving to the target together. Scrum is very famous these days for development due to

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How To Identify And Create Good Followers?

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There is a link between leadership and team management. A good leader possess many qualities to set an example for his team, so good leaders generally have many followers. If a leader grooms himself, it results in better management and better performance. And how is followership related to it? If leadership is important to performance, followership is important to leadership. Leaders are concerned with strategic vision, so they use both, power and politics. Power is the ability to get the work done by a group of people. It is also the ability to influence their behavior. Politics imparts pressure on

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How To Manage The Marketing Projects Effectively

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Every business maintains a healthy professional relationship and to ensure the smooth process, marketing of the business is essential, whether the business is established or recently set up. Whenever there is the launch of a new product or a brand extension, the project manager has the greatest opportunity to increase the overall business growth and the organization’s innovation by managing the marketing projects effectively. Usually the projects are aimed at maintaining the market position, increasing the market share or to create a new market conditions by distinguishing the organization from the other market competitors. The below mentioned activities are usually

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