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Project Boards and Project Steering Groups: An Introduction

Rebel’s Guide to PM

These are all functions of a project board (or steering group). 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. A project board provides oversight and governance for the project. What is a project steering group?

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Agile Governance Demystified

Leading Agile

What is Agile governance? Simply put, Agile governance is a way to maximize the flow of value within an organization in the fastest way possible. In small, lean startups, there aren’t a lot of legacy processes and systems in place to overcome, and your teams are small and conducive to an Agile governance model.

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Is SAFe Agile?

Leading Agile

You have ceremonies and cadences, ways you track progress, techniques for safely writing, testing, and deploying software; and various roles and responsibilities that make up a typical Agile team. It isn’t ignoring the corporate governance that hasn’t been dismantled yet either. You either break dependencies or you manage them.

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Connecting Business with IT to Achieve Agility in the Financial Sector

Planview

The first question alludes to how many people and groups were and are involved in making this work. Joaquim’s response: The starting point was providing a governance framework that aligns the work of different roles to company objectives, KPIs, and cadence, with a good balance of rigor and flexibility.

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What Does It Mean to Be An Agile Organization?

Leading Agile

Teams become structure, backlogs become governance, and working tested product becomes metrics. . Governance is the expression of the backlog at scale. It’s about how we govern and manage the flow of work, decompose requirements, and make prioritization decisions and economic tradeoffs in the face of uncertainty. .

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Is Kniberg’s Aligned Autonomy matrix still relevant?

Scrum.org

The management discussion on team mandate has shifted toward determining the degree to which teams are self-organizing, self-directing, or self-governing. Instead, by sharing the same Sprint cadence and Goal, they will see opportunities for collaboration. We no longer question whether teams should be more autonomous or not.

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Project Management: Principles, Practices & Context

Velociteach

More recently, the profession has grappled with two intertwined questions: Should principles or processes govern project management? By the 6 th Edition (2017), it expanded to 49 processes organized into 10 knowledge areas and 5 process groups. How could there be only one solution? Which methodology(ies) or framework(s) should be used?

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