Scrum.org

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Despite decades-long efforts of the whole agile community—books, blogs, conferences, webinars, videos, meetups; you name it—we are still confronted in many supposedly agile organizations with output-metric driven reporting systems. You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 33,000-plus subscribers. ??

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The Strategic Project Manager

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Feature Driven Development (FDD) is an agile methodology specifically applied to software development. This post explores what FDD is, FDD best practices, implications of FDD for strategy, and how FDD is implemented with other agile methods while managing a project. The concept is consistent with overall agile concepts.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 1, 2016

Regular readers will know that I’m not at all experienced in formal Agile project management, but I know it is something that I need to know more about. Today I’m partnering with Eylean to give you an overview of three agile methodologies: Scrum, Kanban and Scrumban. Agile Methods: The Basics. Let’s dive in.

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Kiron Bondale

AUGUST 13, 2017

How about being agile with your transformation! As with all preliminary estimates in agile don’t aim for precision but rather for consistency. As with all preliminary estimates in agile don’t aim for precision but rather for consistency. Tagged: agile project management , communications.

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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. The Clash of Paradigms In the traditional management paradigm, born from Frederick W.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 3, 2019

However, as important as the scrum master is, the position is not project leader. How Do You Define Agile? It’s a controversial question in that the definition of agile is not commonly agreed upon. What Differences Do You See Between Agile and Traditional PM? How Does Agile and Scrum Differ, If They Do?

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Wrike

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Looking for a more accurate way to forecast projects, predict effort, and manage resources? Making a velocity chart in Agile is one of the easiest ways to do all of that and more. What is velocity in Agile? In project management , velocity means the same thing. What is a velocity chart in Agile?

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Wrike

OCTOBER 14, 2020

A burn up chart is a visual diagram commonly used on Agile projects to help measure progress. Agile burn up charts allow project managers and teams to quickly see how their workload is progressing and whether project completion is on schedule. . Source: Wikipedia ).

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MPUG

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Your heartbeat goes up and you rub your eyes in disbelief. Now imagine that a senior executive starts off his day and decides first to have a quick look at the project dashboard expecting to see metrics such as the current status of projects, earned value indices in terms of money and performances, and top risks.

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Kiron Bondale

APRIL 9, 2017

Organizing the delivery of project scope into sprints provides stakeholders with an opportunity to objectively assess progress at regular intervals. Comparing what was delivered against what remains in the overall release or project backlog helps us understand when we might be done.

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Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

DECEMBER 5, 2019

As the Agile Project Management approach becomes more mainstream, organisations considering its implementation are deluged with questions. Is agile project management right for us? But simply designating an Agile Project Manager (PM) is not enough. Re-thinking Project Metrics.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Misconception # 1: Managers should stay away from the Daily Scrum event. They fear that if managers attend the Daily Scrum it will inhibit team members from speaking their thoughts. In my experience, the highest performing Scrum Teams are open to managers occasionally listening in at this meeting.

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The IIL Blog

AUGUST 8, 2023

Stress and burnout have been recognized as serious project management problems for years, but until recently companies have been reluctant to face the problems head on. Stress and burnout are now being addressed to identify techniques that can turn around many of these critical projects that are struggling.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 9, 2018

The Agile Manifesto statement of “Customer Collaboration over Contract Negotiation” is less than helpful when it comes to writing contracts for projects to be worked in an Agile fashion. Contracting for Agile software development projects continues to be a major organizational impediment.

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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 do you believe?

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Safe Scrum is a framework that has gained significant popularity in recent years for enhancing team performance in an agile development methodology. By providing clear guidelines and principles, Safe Scrum enables teams to collaborate more effectively, communicate transparently, and ultimately deliver higher-quality projects.

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Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

APRIL 4, 2019

A few months ago, I was having a coffee with a fellow Agile Coach talking about DevOps when he suddenly says “what is DevOps anyway?”. In IT projects DevOps is nothing more than pure Agile implemented properly. While Agile popularity is at its height, DevOps is still very fresh for many. Sounds like a joke?

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Techno-PM

AUGUST 20, 2021

What is Agile? Agile is a well-known process that many businesses are implementing to increase their productivity. Agile produces more flexibility, efficiency, and higher quality results than traditional methods. Download Project Management Templates What Is an Agile Team and How to Form Them?

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LiquidPlanner

MAY 15, 2018

Business teams struggled with understanding their role in a software project while trying to sort through all the technical jargon used to build a website. Related: Adopting Agile is an Exercise in Change Management. Related: Adopting Agile is an Exercise in Change Management. Example #1 : Failing to Deliver.

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MPUG

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

In this article, we are going to explore Earned Value Management (EVM), a widely used traditional management technique, but we are going to look at it within the context of an Agile domain. At the start of each iteration, he may be unsure about the applicability of earned value analysis, measurement, and management within Agile.

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nTask

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Monday.com, formerly known as DaPulse, has been around the project management block for quite some time. Bagging some major clients including Fiverr, Discovery, McDonald’s and more, Monday has surely made its mark as a great productivity and project management tool , with over 10 years of history. Key Features.

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Leading Answers

MAY 1, 2020

Neither black nor white, predictive nor agile, project managers are increasingly finding themselves in the gray area of hybrid project management. In project environments, the use of both predictive approaches and agile approaches results in a hybrid approach. Both combinations are considered hybrids.

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Scrum.org

JULY 29, 2019

In my role as an Agile coach and Scrum trainer, I get the chance to talk to a lot of Scrum Masters and teams. When I ask them about what their team is measuring, the most common answers I hear are velocity, story points, and burn-down charts. It also doesn't say it is to be used by managers or tracked by Scrum Masters!

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 24, 2019

In my career, I have had the great privilege to witness different companies undergo many different phases of agile transformations. If the entire team is checked-out on social media or reading up on the news during meetings, it’s a good sign they’re not using this Scrum event for its intended purpose. Trap #3: Team Mom.

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Leading Agile

JANUARY 21, 2021

Mike Cottmeyer explores the key attributes in each of the three systems necessary for making a success out of the otherwise complex tax of large scale Agile Transformation. And what we are is we’re a consultancy that’s focused on doing Agile Transformation specifically. Transcript. Like what are the networks of teams?

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

This second post in the ‘Agile ADHD’ series from me, Sally Waters, and my husband Francis, is all about the details of how we implement Scrum at home. If you’ve ended up here as someone who perhaps has ADHD but knows nothing about what ‘Scrum’ is, you can get a quick idea from this summary. But we only ended up doing this twice.

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Teamweek

AUGUST 10, 2021

Getting work done on time is the number one challenge for agency managers. Timelines or Gantt charts are simple visual charts that plot a team’s work on a timeline. The X-axis of a Gantt chart represents the timeline, and the Y-axis represents tasks or task segments. How to manage team workloads?

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Wrike

MARCH 5, 2020

What is a burndown chart? In a nutshell, it’s a project management tool that PMs use to help their teams forecast, view, and track project process. What is a burndown chart? Benefits of burndown charts in project management. Burndown charts help teams visualize their progress in real-time.

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MPUG

JANUARY 16, 2023

Project Planning. Project management is more than a set of processes. A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge ( PMBOK® Guide ) – Seventh Edition sets out to codify different areas of what project management involves in eight performance domains. In other words, something you must focus on.

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Planio

JANUARY 30, 2023

Unfortunately, too many teams are missing at least one of these critical elements and end up lost at sea. For many people, that means that 85% of their workweeks are spent simply trying to keep up for many people. That doesn’t leave much time for real, productive work that gets projects over the finish line. The good news?

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Teamweek

MARCH 8, 2024

On the other hand, Toggl Track is a time management software that values its automated time tracking toolset as much as its manual options. The Starter plan is $11/user/mo for a maximum of 5 users and 20 projects. Project and Team Management Supports multiple views showcasing team members’ tracked time, logged hours, and work patterns.

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Wrike

JULY 13, 2020

As a project manager , you’ve likely found yourself managing multiple projects simultaneously. This is an all too common example of project overload. Learning how to manage multiple projects simultaneously and avoid work overload are crucial skills for project managers and teams who juggle many initiatives at once.

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Henny Portman

APRIL 9, 2019

If you look at the AgilePM (The DSDM Agile Project Framework) documentation set-up you could ask yourself if it’s not too much for an agile way of working? Management Approach Definition. Project Review Report. Comparable arguments apply to the position of the project manager. Business Case.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 13, 2019

Nine years ago I changed my title from Project Manager into Scrum Master. Nowadays I frequently receive the question: “Hi Barry, I’m currently a Project Manager (or any other role) and I would like to become a Scrum Master as well, where do I start? My dream of becoming a Project Manager. It seemed awesome!

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Teamweek

MARCH 5, 2024

On the other hand, Toggl Track is a time management software that values its automated time tracking toolset as much as its manual options. The Starter plan is $11/user/mo for a maximum of 5 users and 20 projects. Project and Team Management Supports multiple views showcasing team members’ tracked time, logged hours, and work patterns.

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Proofhub

AUGUST 28, 2018

Gantt charts aren’t something new. Anyone who is even remotely related to the project management process knows or have at least heard about Gantt charts. In simple words, Gantt charts are a staple tool for project management, particularly in planning and scheduling projects.

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nTask

MARCH 9, 2022

In fact, the part pushes a lot of weight on the individual, especially since he is responsible for many things and has to manage everything on his own. A scrum master is well-versed in all the rules and guidelines to be followed during the project. The three main questions addressed in the meeting are: What did you do yesterday?

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