Project Pulse Journal

MARCH 18, 2024

Is it challenging to navigate the complex landscape of project governance frameworks? In this article, we will dive deep into organizational and project governance and systems in project management. At the heart of this lies the robust framework of Organizational Governance Systems.

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

To figure out how to deal with this and find the answers, we need some sort of governance model. Governance speaks to how we coordinate and manage the flow of work, decompose requirements, and make prioritization decisions and economic tradeoffs—all in the face of uncertainty. .

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Establish an Agile System of Governance to guide this (and other) efforts. Adaptive Governance This is an adaptive and dynamic process best served by agile governance. Quantify the economic benefit of improving each capability (performance, market fit, availability, quality, etc.)

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Leading Agile

JULY 18, 2023

Agile needs to be tied to business-driven results. If not, then we start measuring things like people trained, teams doing Scrum, or the organization’s sentiment toward Agile to tell us if we’re succeeding. If your Agile isn’t helping you do that, then it’s not really Agile at all. First, how are we forming teams?

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Leading Agile

APRIL 11, 2023

Agile begins to break down because these impediments are outside the teams’ span of control. You’re going to need a plan to deal with the things that are getting in the way of Business Agility. One of the biggest things that we see and that we believe, and we think is a huge barrier to adopting Agile.

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NimbleWork

MARCH 27, 2024

The Agile project management methodology encourages organizations to empower teams with clear responsibility and authority, so they can work together to autonomously develop ingenious and innovative solutions. Much of the Agile mindset requires change from traditional ways of project management.

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Henny Portman

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Christopher Wright wrote the book Agile Governance and Audit – An overview for auditors and agile teams. Auditing of an agile way of working looks like an unexplored corner. Agile Governance and Audit gives a short introduction to agile, compares agile with waterfall and looks at audit and agile cultures.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 4, 2024

Potential dangers for project managers, just picking out two from my experiences Tailoring Scrum: Project Managers might attempt to tailor Scrum, adding layers of processes and governance that could stifle its inherent flexibility and simplicity. Let's embark on this journey together.

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Velociteach

MARCH 4, 2020

Many organizations struggle with project governance, oversight, and control. Traditional waterfall projects have phase gates that theoretically establish defined control and governance points. The truth is that most projects are not successful.

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Leading Agile

JUNE 17, 2022

Many large-scale Agile Transformations are struggling. However, the underlying problem is that most large organizations weren’t built to be Agile. Organizational Barriers to Agile. Organizational Barriers to Agile. Many organizations that adopt Agile operate with hindrances present. Beginning Your Agile Journey.

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Leading Agile

MAY 5, 2023

In our experience, the number one barrier to doing Agile at scale, to running a successful Enterprise Transformation, to achieving true Business Agility is creating complete cross-functional teams at the lowest levels of the organization. Agile is about fixing time and cost and varying scope to maximize value. What do I mean?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

PRINCE2 Agile Foundation. PRINCE2 Agile Practitioner. PRINCE2 has its roots in the UK public sector and government but is now used and loved around the world. Someone in an Agile environment will benefit most from the Agile version as it is the best fit for their working practices.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 29, 2024

( Japanese version・日本語版 ) When picturing an effective and truly agile product development team, one often imagines a software development team, pushing some software to production every day, maybe multiple times a day, ala Amazon. Conclusion In short, YES you can be agile even if you release, say, only once a year.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 14, 2024

They may mainly work with agile approaches and often in a client-facing business such as an agency (although large firms may have in-house Digital PMs too). Agile marketing , for example, is a specialist way to apply agile methods to marketing projects.

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Leading Agile

JULY 22, 2022

When working toward becoming an Agile Organization, many companies begin by applying Agile methodologies at the team-level and then call the Transformation done. The problem is that even when you do it perfectly, establishing a team-level Agile Delivery Model is almost always insufficient. Do you see the problem?

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Kiron Bondale

JUNE 7, 2020

The Disciplined Agile (DA) principles were recently refactored and as part of this refactoring, a principle was added: “Organize Around Products/Services” While it is just one of the eight principles, this new one aligns very well with lean thinking.

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Leading Answers

DECEMBER 21, 2017

My first opportunity to create and run a large agile team did not start well. Having had good successes with small to medium sized agile teams I was keen to unleash the benefits on a bigger scale. I was working for IBM at the time and was able to persuade my account manager to pitch the approach on one of our government projects.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

It’s a predictive methodology, although PRINCE2 Agile ® allows for agile frameworks. The History of PRINCE2® PRINCE2® is part of the best practice guidance that came out of the UK Office of Government Commerce. PRINCE2 Agile ® came along in 2018 to enable PRINCE2® to work with agile concepts like timeboxing and Kanban.

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Planview

AUGUST 16, 2021

Fresh from achieving great strides in digital transformation and other endeavors in record time over the past year, executives and boards of directors want to inject even more speed and agility into their organization’s DNA. Portfolio Management Offices are in a prime position to deliver this business agility – with the right PMO roadmap.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 3, 2022

Let’s be Agile” isn’t as simple as snapping our fingers. Often, we’ve already invested Agile training, thinking that if we just do the practices, it’ll resolve our issues as an organization. . Will Installing Agile Practices or Culture Make us Agile? It’s true that Agile practices are part of becoming Agile.

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Scrum.org

JULY 30, 2023

Agility enables you to refine and cycle through this process repeatedly, eliminating flawed assumptions and optimizing those with a greater chance of producing favorable outcomes. Leadership and Scrum True agility for companies goes beyond fancy methodologies and rituals.

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

In our industry, we notice there are typically two ways people want to approach Agile Transformation. Inserting Agile Culture First. Once they adopt the practices, then that will get us to break the impediments necessary to get us working in an Agile way. Implementing Agile Practices First. Culture first is a great idea.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

But, even if they don’t make up a significant part of your workforce, they will stall your progress if they are unwilling to adopt your Agile way of working. A company adopting Agile might be moving from IT being an expense to a strategic differentiator they invest more in during Transformation.

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Leading Agile

JUNE 26, 2022

An Agile Delivery Model will only take you so far. Why then do all the ceremonies and cadences still fail to deliver on the promise of Agility? Why then do all the ceremonies and cadences still fail to deliver on the promise of Agility? The truth is that most organizations were not built to be Agile.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 2, 2023

When people say they have a culture problem that’s preventing them from sustaining change in an Agile Transformation, what they’re really saying is that they have a cognitive dissonance problem. You have an inability to help people see how Agile is going to improve the organization.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 14, 2019

To do so requires business agility. What Is Business Agility? Business agility is just as it says, a way for businesses to remain agile when markets fluctuate, as they have a tendency to do. Business agility then is an organizational method to help businesses adapt quickly to market changes.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Why does Agile focus on values and principles rather than a prescribed set of steps? Agile exists to address the idea that no predetermined set of steps will lead to a predefined outcome. The problem has never been solved, nor has the solution ever been created, so you don’t know what you don’t know.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 12, 2023

True Business Agility requires a lot more than team-level Agile. It requires an integrated operating model across the entire organization, where all the different parts of the business are plugged into an Agile System of Delivery, and it operates as an integrated whole. What does it take to achieve Enterprise Agility?

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Scrum.org

MAY 14, 2020

Agile has been around for a while now, but many firms still see agility as a software development solution. It’s no secret that agile software teams see all sorts of performance gains. . But the truth is that Agile frameworks work wherever we need to optimise learning and adaptability. Agile frameworks help us do that.

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Leading Agile

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

New Paper Improving Quality Through Intentionally Built Agile Systems Get it Now. Many a company has hypothesized that Agile methodologies would help them solve their quality issues. Paving the Way for Quality with Agile. The Impact of Agile on the System of Delivery. Scaling Agile to Improve Quality.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Agile Methodology. What It Is: In a nutshell, Agile project management is an evolving and collaborative way to self-organize across teams. The agile methodology offers project teams a very dynamic way to work and collaborate and that’s why it is a very popular project management methodology for product and software development.

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Kiron Bondale

APRIL 3, 2022

For every person who adamantly insists that estimates are needed to support proper governance, someone else will argue that the inherent wrongness of an estimate and how estimates are abused will wipe out any benefits of defining them. Throughput and Monte Carlo received 11% of the votes and #NoEstimates only received 5%.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 12, 2022

Project governance is an important part of project management processes – even if it’s not the most exciting part of getting work done. Governance is a key part of that, and gate reviews are part of navigating through the project. Governance is a key part of that, and gate reviews are part of navigating through the project.

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Leading Agile

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

New Paper Improving Enterprise-Level Predictability With Agile Get it Now. We typically think of Agility as being nearly synonymous with adaptability, and that a change in mindset or culture to become more adaptable is the right place to begin Agile Transformation. Dependencies are the number one killer of Agility. .

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Leading Agile

APRIL 17, 2023

Agile Transformation isn’t about a big-bang rollout of Agile, and then Presto! It’s about meeting the organization where it is today, and iteratively and incrementally rolling out Agile capabilities over time. We are continuing our conversation around common misconceptions around Agile Transformation. You’re done.

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Kiron Bondale

MAY 6, 2018

An agile project management office might sound to some like an oxymoron, right? This might be a reasonable assertion as many PMOs were first formed to provide oversight over a portfolio of projects and enforcing standards sounds like the antithesis to agility. So what can a PMO do to actively support an agile transformation?

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Henny Portman

APRIL 26, 2022

There are not that many books on agile portfolio management, so I am curious what the book Agile Portfolio Management – A guide to the methodology and its successful implementation “knowledge that sets you apart” written by Klaus Nielsen, offers. What I am missing are the real agile portfolio risks. I miss structure.

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