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Project Boards and Project Steering Groups: An Introduction

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Strong leadership in projects is important for success, so getting your project board and/or project steering group set up as soon as you can is a good start. Here’s an introduction to these important groups as part of the governance framework so you can get yours set up and working on your project. What is a project board?

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4 Common Misconceptions About Agile Transformation

Leading Agile

That having weekly planning cadences; daily standups, reviews, and retrospectives would give people a reason to get in the same room and collaborate. It is possible to do Scrum by the book and not create the results. The governance model? Governance and control. Dependencies and governance. Same for XP.

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Review People Over Process

Henny Portman

Levine wrote with People Over Process – Leadership for Agility a very pragmatic and down to earth book about leadership and agile projects. The classic formulation of agile in the Agile Manifesto has no role for leadership. The book is divided into four sections. See the Quick Reference Card leadership for agilty.

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Adopting Agile Practices Isn’t Agile Transformation

Leading Agile

Additionally, we need to consider how we organize teams in the presence of dependencies, how we orchestrate and govern those dependencies, and what we measure and control around the team. Over the past 20 to 25 years, I’ve come across various books and resources that I believe people should read. How are we forming teams?

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Unlock the Power of the Project Management Plan

Velociteach

Plan Elements The Plan is like a book with three main sections: Execution Parameters establish how the project will be managed along with the approach, required lifecycle phases, and governance procedures. Governance All projects require oversight and governance. The degree is a balance between control and efficiency.

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Transformation, Business Architecture, and Scaling

Leading Agile

What do you do with planning cadences? And so, I built a relationship with this dev director that I was working with and he and I would collaborate and I was reading books and you know, reading all the Kent Beck stuff, [unsure 03:48]. How do you go up into Portfolio Management? What do you do with audit and compliance?

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The Relationship Between Culture and Performance

Leading Agile

So we start with culture, maybe we go to practices and then all those teaming strategies and dependencies and governance and metrics and all that stuff that we struggle with all the time will just kind of work itself out. Is it the leadership’s responsibility for being agile, right? Is it the teams?