Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Who is an Agile Coach? Though, there is no universal definition of what is an Agile Coach. I want to define, Someone who developed deep expertise to help people, teams, and organisations enable better customer outcomes by focusing on an organisation’s internal and external orientation. My definition of Agile Coaching.

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Scrum.org

JULY 24, 2023

You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 48,000-plus subscribers. ? ? ?? This omission aligns with the Agile Manifesto’s principles that value “individuals and interactions over processes and tools” and “customer collaboration over contract negotiation.”

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 15, 2024

By: Hajime Estanislao, PMP, CSM The quest for methodologies that offer efficiency and agility has never been rockier. Agile methodologies stand at the forefront of this quest, providing the blueprint for rapid, responsive, and customer-centric project execution. Agile methodologies offer a path to mastering these challenges.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Fast forward to our modern era, as we traverse the intricate landscape of software development, particularly through the lens of the agile approach, we find these age-old Greek sins echoing in the challenges and pitfalls agile teams often encounter.

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Scrum.org

JULY 3, 2023

TL; DR: The Uncomfortable Truth of Scaling Agile Agile transformations, scaling Agile from a team level to the whole organization, are more than implementing frameworks like SAFe®. You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 47,000-plus subscribers. ? ??

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Scrum.org

JULY 25, 2023

As Scrum.org trainers, we often come across common misconceptions from course attendees about Agile and Scrum. We tend to hear red flags of misalignment when we explore folk's current definitions and understanding of Agile and Scrum at the start of our courses. Agile eliminates the need for planning or documentation.

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Wrike

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In the realm of project management methodologies, Lean and Agile have emerged as powerful approaches that support organizations in achieving efficiency and delivering high-quality products and services. Understanding the nuances of Lean and Agile is crucial for project managers and teams seeking to optimize their processes.

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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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The Strategic Project Manager

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Agile and lean are not the same thing but are closely related. This post looks at the idea of ‘lean agile’ and its application to project management and strategy. What Is Lean Agile Project Management? Apply Lean to Agile Projects. How can you make agile projects more efficient?

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 28, 2018

There has been some backlash against Six Sigma over the recent years, some of which is warranted and will be discussed, but overall the process proves a valuable tool in reducing defects in product manufacturing, especially when paired with Agile thinking, lean manufacturing and capable project management tools.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 12, 2022

It’s a great way to further your education and learn about new project management software tools that are on the market. Develop your skills, learn about new project management research and become more employable. One way to keep up with the latest project management trends is to attend a project management conference in 2022.

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Henny Portman

JANUARY 13, 2021

I just came across a new framework that could be positioned on the portfolio level of my Bird’s eye view on the agile forest. The Continuous Innovation Framework (COIN) is designed to help large organizations to successfully and continuously develop, scale, and embed innovations and thus create a continuous Return on Innovation.

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The IIL Blog

MAY 17, 2023

Insights from Bosch By Johannes Köber Agility, dynamic, and flexibility are trendsetting words, with good reason. Requirements and boundary conditions are constantly changing, long planning phases are often impossible, and products and solutions are developed in close contact with customers. They have a sales revenue of 5.9

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Planview

JULY 9, 2019

This blog is part of a series on Lean portfolio management for the enterprise. If you haven’t already, we recommend reading: Part 1: What is Lean Portfolio Management? Part 2: Lean Portfolio Management: Lean Budgets and Investment Funding. Lean-Agile Center of Excellence (LACE). Support program execution.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Is an Agile Transformation Coach any different than being an Agile Coach? When most people think about Agile Coaches, they tend to think about a person who comes in and assists the teams with things like: Learning Scrum, SAFe, LeSS. If that’s your definition of an Agile Transformation Coach, you’d be right—but only partially.

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NimbleWork

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

When the Agile methodology was first introduced, it was embraced as a welcome replacement to the rigid Waterfall approach. The community largely accepted Agile and Waterfall as mutually exclusive project management paradigms. Critics of Agile believed that Agile simply translates into fast failure.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 42,000-plus subscribers. ? The Idea of a Scrum GPT Exploring Scrum in the real world often uncovers a tangle of anti-patterns—those practices that, despite best intentions, stray from agile principles and hinder progress.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In this blog, we'll unravel how embedding a learning perspective within your transformation strategy can lead to more meaningful, lasting change, particularly in the context of Agile methodologies and digital transformation. Historically, transformation strategies often leaned heavily on 'command and control' tactics.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Thought leaders in project management have strong social media followings, are published authors, and are working as leaders for innovative companies and enterprises in the project management industry. We took each of these elements into consideration when developing our list of the 18 most influential people in project management.

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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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Scrum.org

APRIL 17, 2022

First, in a blog series about the upcoming book: Creating Agile Organizations - A Systemic Approach by Cesario Ramos & Ilia Pavlichenko. ?. But speed is by far insufficient to be Agile at the organizational level. Figure copied from Creating Agile Organizations - A Systemic Approach by Cesario Ramos & Ilia Pavlichenko).

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International Institute for Learning

OCTOBER 27, 2023

And yet for many years, the various Agile approaches appear to have been at war with one another. All too often, Agile is offered as a binary choice (“you are either agile or not agile”), together with the recommendation that one Agile approach (usually the one being “sold in”) is all you need.

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Project Bliss

MAY 10, 2017

Everybody’s talking about agile software development these days: project managers, software developers, IT directors, small startups and big corporations. What is Agile Software Development? Agile software development is an approach that promotes delivering value quickly to the customer.

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Techno-PM

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The lean portfolio management is a new way to look at the old problem of balancing cost vs. value in product development projects. The use of Lean portfolio management agile has exploded in the last decade as more and more companies have found that it is a powerful tool for structuring their product development processes.

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Leading Answers

JUNE 19, 2019

If success goes to those who can innovate the fastest, how do we nurture innovation? To innovate faster than our competitors, we need to maximize our learning potential. Developing new products or services is a maze-solving exercise. Developing a new product does not happen overnight. Nowadays, it is also a race.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Software Development is not just a systematic process but a dynamic interplay of critical work that shapes the progress of your product. It could be discovery, development, validation, or delivery tasks that significantly change the state of the Product Increment. Agile #TeamWork #Productivity NKDAgility can help!

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Agilemania

JANUARY 21, 2022

A career in Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is financially rewarding. Being a globally recognized certification, SAFe is a niche agile framework that has tons of job opportunities. Here’s a guide containing the Top Scaled Agile Interview Questions and Answers in 2022 that’ll be of great help. . Leading SAFe® 5.1

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

TL; DR: The Illusion of Velocity In this article, I explore the pitfalls of ‘The Illusion of Velocity’ in agile contexts, peeling back the layers of traditional metrics as leadership tools. Moreover, get an idea of how to start flipping outdated hierarchies and embrace the natural rhythm of productivity and innovation. ?

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 21, 2024

Imagine leading projects where changes and uncertainties are not setbacks but stepping stones to innovation and success. Adaptive project management equips you with the agility to meet evolving demands and enhances stakeholder satisfaction through timely and relevant deliverables.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 16, 2019

One of the biggest misconceptions of agile is that it focuses on speed. This short-sighted view of agile is causing a bigger problem?—?misalignment. Focusing on individual team velocity is causing misalignment both vertically and horizontally within organizations reducing their overall agility. How fast can we deliver?

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 7, 2019

It’s not solely about the decisions of executives though, it’s also about great project leaders learning to run fast and lean while developing high performing teams that can deliver value to their organization. Many of these tools in the chart below can benefit teams that are local, distributed, remote and virtual.

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The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Whether you are just starting out, developing your project manager resume, or a seasoned professional, mastering the Project Management Buzzwords is non-negotiable. Agile A flexible and dynamic approach to project management that allows for iterative updates during defined time blocks, which allows for incremental value.

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International Institute for Learning

APRIL 19, 2023

By Alan Zucker Disciplined Agile® (DA) and the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®) are two popular, second-generation agile methodologies. They build on lean-agile thinking, and standard Scrum, Kanban, and DevOps practices. They emerged about a decade after the Agile Manifesto.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 18, 2023

Even if a team is driven by value, agility is compromised when validation and value realization take excessively long. While Agile embodies a mindset defined by specific values and principles, it isn't tied to any particular framework or practice. This project-centric approach contrasted sharply with Agile's value-driven ethos.

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Agilemania

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

One of the biggest challenges in agile project management is determining what tasks are needed to complete a project, how long each should take, and who needs to carry them out. The agile release plan helps in aligning the teams by addressing multiple aspects that can contribute to creative and innovative problem-solving.

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Project Pulse Journal

MAY 1, 2024

A problem-solving strategy is your most powerful tool, and it will help define how a project manager supports and leads the way in removing roadblocks. Problem-solving is about identifying a challenge or obstacle and developing methods to address or overcome it. What is Problem Solving? Resolving problems results in value.

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Teamweek

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

There is one skill that’s helpful in rapidly changing environments, though — learning agility. To prepare for the future of work, employees need to be agile learners. So, here are some tips for assessing learning agility when hiring top talent in 2024 and beyond. What is learning agility? Instead, they embrace it.

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