Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 8, 2024

This domain facilitates strategic alignment, optimized delivery cadence, methodology customization, increased flexibility, and improved risk management. The desire for a project management framework that sustains deliverability, supports the required cadence, and remains faithful to an adaptable methodology is now within reach.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 30, 2023

TL; DR: Agile Transformation with ChatGPT or McBoston? This article is another excursion into this nascent yet fascinating new technology of generative AI and LLMs and the future of knowledge work. Or shall we embark on an agile transformation with ChatGPT providing some guidance? I am no longer sure about that.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 11, 2024

You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 42,000-plus subscribers. ? Every activity required to achieve the Product Goal, such as Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective, occurs within Sprints. Technically, it is the prerogative of the Product Owner to cancel Sprints.

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Kiron Bondale

AUGUST 6, 2017

For example, technology deliverables might be completed in an agile manner whereas change management deliverables such as training collateral get produced in a traditional manner. Are they all being produced internally, or is a vendor responsible for either the agile or the traditional deliverables?

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Inloox

JULY 1, 2021

Agility should no longer be a new term for most project managers. High flexibility, adaptability and increased communication are just a few of the benefits that have led to significant improvements through the introduction of agile work processes in organizations. So agility in itself is nothing new for many companies.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe™) is one of the most popular approaches to applying agile at scale out there. SAFe's perspective is that "Nothing beats an Agile Team" and it doesn't try to reinvent the wheel or even innovate too much when it comes to the Team level. SAFe's Scrum Master is more of an Agile Team Lead.

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SCRUM Development Team Review Technical Review Cadence 136

MPUG

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Then, we will dive into the topic of Agile PMO, its relevance, and a number of roles that can be played by such a PMO. With this background, let’s proceed towards the concept of Agile PMO. The first question that comes to mind in having a PMO coupled with an Agile approach is this: Is a PMO really needed at all in an Agile setting?

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Agile PMO Technical Review Cadence 94

Planio

JULY 4, 2022

Agile ceremonies are the fuel that keeps your development team moving forward. But what if you’re not entirely comfortable managing and running Agile ceremonies? Agile ceremonies get abandoned when teams stop seeing the value in them. What are Agile ceremonies? A ‘quick-start’ guide to the 5 Agile ceremonies.

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Agile Technical Review Development Team Review Software Review 88

Planio

AUGUST 1, 2022

For most development teams and startups, ‘becoming Agile’ starts and ends with how you build software. But a full Agile transformation isn’t just about the development process you use — it’s a way to bring creativity, innovation, and lean operations to every aspect of your business. Jump to a section: What is an Agile transformation?

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Agile Technical Review Leadership Infrastructure 78

Scrum.org

JANUARY 4, 2022

The Sprint is one of the five events defined in the Scrum Guide. It is a container event, which means that it contains all other events, including Sprint Planning, the Daily Scrum, the Sprint Retrospective, and the Sprint Review. Wouldn’t you want to meet with stakeholders more often at the Sprint Review to get feedback?

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Redbooth

APRIL 26, 2018

If you work in tech or any industry where things change fast, you probably are familiar with agile project management. Agile methods are baked into productivity tech, from Trello to Airtable to Redbooth, and can improve any large body of work, from ad campaigns to app design. Agile vs. Waterfall.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The Product Owner theses also address the Product Owner’s part in Scrum events from Sprint Planning to Sprint Review to Sprint Retrospective, and the Daily Scrum. A Product Owner is an innovator at heart and thus a value creator for customers and organizations if given a chance to work in an agile manner. The Product Owner Theses.

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Technical Review SCRUM 2020 Estimate 204

Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe™) is one of the most popular approaches to applying agile at scale out there. SAFe's perspective is that "Nothing beats an Agile Team" and it doesn't try to reinvent the wheel or even innovate too much when it comes to the Team level. SAFe's Scrum Master is more of an Agile Team Lead.

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SCRUM Development Team Review Technical Review Cadence 111

Scrum.org

OCTOBER 6, 2019

In the world of tech, many industry giants such as Google choose to use a management framework known as Objectives and Key Results (OKR). This goal-setting platform requires a company, to define goals and come up with activities that should help them to meet these goals. This role is very similar to that of a Scrum Master.

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Technical Review Cadence Information Technology Defining 139

Leading Agile

MAY 3, 2023

If you could magically create a new world where large organizations had overcome the barriers to Business Agility and Agile came naturally, what would have to be true about that world, the organizations, and the people working there? And how would we know that this new Agile world was any good? What other conceptual gaps?

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Velociteach

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Projects using well-understood solutions and technologies require less rigor. There is a range of options, from predictive to agile. Problem complexity, technical complexity, compliance requirements, and the cost of change factor into this decision. Complex efforts where the cost of change is low may prefer agile.

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Planning Technical Review Governance Government 52

Scrum.org

JANUARY 22, 2020

No sustainable agility is achieved. Define and identify your product first. Sprint is a stable container event that provides overall rhythm and cadence to the opportunities for inspections and adaptations foreseen within a Sprint; Sprint Review, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective.

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Cadence SCRUM Software Review Technical Review 199

Digite

JUNE 13, 2018

We’re honored to republish this blog post ‘Beginner’s Guide to Kanban for Agile Marketing’ by Andrea Fryrear which was originally published in the Agile Sherpas blog! WIP limits may be Kanban’s core defining feature, but it’s not all you need. Five Core Properties of Kanban. Limit Work-in-Progress.

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Agile Technical Review Cadence Software Review 110

Leading Agile

MARCH 31, 2021

Agile transformations are hard. People are starting to draw the conclusion that “Agile doesn’t work.” One common pitfall is assuming that the technological encapsulation of products by breaking dependencies (through a loosely coupled architecture and a mature CI/CD pipeline) is a prerequisite for the encapsulation of value streams.

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Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Technical Review Governance 118

Digite

AUGUST 21, 2017

In 2015, in a blog post called Kanban Cadences , David Anderson laid out a set of 7 Kanban cadences or meetings that provide comprehensive opportunities for feedback, planning, and review in an enterprise. or a simple Priority or Rank, usually defined jointly by the stakeholders, etc.

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Development Team Review Cadence Technical Review 2015 151

Scrum.org

MARCH 28, 2022

You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 34,000-plus subscribers. ?? All the work necessary to achieve the Product Goal, including Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective, happen within Sprints. Hence you may notice tickets queueing in the code-review-column, for example.

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SCRUM Technical Review Software Review Consulting 152

Scrum.org

MAY 20, 2020

My fellow PST, Glaudia Califano, and I were sitting in a café (at a time prior to the current lockdown due to Covid-19), having agreed to meet up with a Business Analyst who had reached out to us to have a chat about Scrum and Agile. It could be that the team has too much to do at once, or the PBIs are too big or vaguely defined.

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Planning Cadence Technical Review SCRUM 160

Leading Answers

MARCH 7, 2019

When our projects undertake defined, repeatable work using technologies and approaches our organizations have experience in, then uncertainty and change rates are typically low and manageable. Approaches like lean, kanban and agile work well in these uncertain, high-change environments.

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Software Review Technical Review Risk Management Software Developers 101

Scrum.org

APRIL 11, 2019

Intended audience: Scrum masters, Product owners, Managers and Agile coaches. It takes a couple of iterations for Business and IT to collaborate on defining properly sliced features and to optimise the sizing of a releasable feature. I was successful with optimising for feature size that could be delivered in a two-sprint cadence.

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Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM Development Team Review Software Review 140

Wrike

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is an Agile project management framework focused on flexibility, continuous iteration and improvement, and cross-functional collaboration between teams and stakeholders. What is the Scaled Agile Framework? However, it is flexible and can be tailored to fit each organization’s needs.

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Agile Development Team Review Lean Underperforming Technical Team 36

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 30,000-plus other subscribers. In the attempt to fill Scrum’s product discovery void, product delivery organizations regularly turn to other agile frameworks like lean UX, jobs-to-be-done, lean startup, design thinking, design sprint—just to name a few.

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Software Review Technical Review Cadence SCRUM 139

Planio

APRIL 24, 2023

Planning sprints and running agile ceremonies 8. According to the Association for Project Management : “Project management is the application of processes, methods, skills, knowledge, and experience to achieve specific objectives, according to defined acceptance criteria, within agreed parameters.” Getting approval for new projects 4.

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Development Team Review 2030 Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management 78

Planio

AUGUST 9, 2021

Define your project goals. How do Agile teams create a project schedule? Planio: Best for teams of all sizes (Agile and traditional). Monday.com: Best for non-technical teams. Ask each person to help estimate their workload, uncover dependencies, and set deadlines for due dates. Define your project goals.

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Software Review Technical Review Estimate Agile 78

Leading Agile

AUGUST 19, 2020

Agile isn’t ever really about Agile. In our Business Drivers of Agility webinar series hosted by LeadingAgile CEO, Mike Cottmeyer, Mike dives deep into six key business drivers to uncover how Agile can enable organizations to connect these drivers to better business outcomes. It’s about creating business outcomes.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 31, 2020

Listen to the Agile Unplugged Podcast on the go! Find and subscribe to Agile Unplugged on: Apple Podcasts. Remember to subscribe and listen to Agile Unplugged on Soundcloud, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Podbean—and watch each and every episode on YouTube , IGTV , and Facebook. Soundcloud. And so you and I go way back.

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MPUG

MAY 18, 2022

s webinar, Use Agile Project Management with MS Project, being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content. He’s our Agile certified expert today.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management Briefings and Presentations. Agile Project Management (#APM). Technical Performance Measures (#TPM). Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM). Agile Software Development (#ASD). Integrating Agile and Earned Value Management (#AEVM).

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Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Governance 42

MPUG

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Tim Runcie’s Agile Series Part 2 webinar being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 13, 2018

Technical teams who are building or supporting application software usually work from a prioritized list of improvements, new features, and ideas to try out. All that unplanned activity used to create stress for technical workers. When do we define a new task on an existing story, or define a new story? Cognitive Bias.

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Software Review Technical Review Cadence SCRUM 82

Gunther Verheyen

DECEMBER 20, 2019

No sustainable agility is achieved. Define and identify your product first. Sprint is a stable container event that provides overall rhythm and cadence to the opportunities for inspections and adaptations foreseen within a Sprint; Sprint Review, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective.

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SCRUM Cadence Software Review Technical Review 55

Resource Guru

OCTOBER 18, 2023

On the other hand, simpler projects may increase your rate due to easier management. A dropping rate on a complex project might prompt a scope review, while a rising rate on simpler tasks could indicate a profitable area of focus. An uptick in confirmed projects should trigger a review of available resources.

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Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Technical Review Monitoring 52

Leading Agile

APRIL 7, 2023

As a community, we have developed a handful of team-based Agile approaches over the years; some of which we would consider scaled. Implementing Agile, especially in larger, more complex organizations, still seems to be a black art. All the things we consider hallmarks of a small team, Agile methodology. But here we are.

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