Project Pulse Journal

MARCH 25, 2024

If so, aligning your project outputs with strategic business goals and customer expectations is a necessity. The collaboration between product and project management can seem complex, but finding this balance unlocks your potential to manage essential aspects of the organization.

Sustainability 52

Sustainability Innovation Development Team Review 2024 52

Agilemania

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Agile and Scrum are the two most popular names in the industry. Most organizations think all Agile frameworks come with a one-size-fits-all approach. As a result, they set unrealistic expectations when using Agile practices in their organizations. More than 44% of Agile projects fail due to a lack of experience.

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Agile Certification Software Review Lean 59

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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Technical Review Software Review Agile Lean 118

Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 17, 2024

The "Definition of Done" (DoD) is a cornerstone in project management that ensures every task, feature, or phase meets established criteria before being considered complete. This concept is vital across methodologies like Agile and Waterfall , where its application significantly influences project outcomes.

Software Review 52

Software Review Development Team Review Technical Review 2024 52

Scrum.org

JUNE 21, 2023

I spoke to some Product Owners: executives, business analysts, project managers, and product managers. Does work come from the customer, a program, an enterprise backlog, or a project/portfolio organization? Managers will have different agendas and abilities to resolve issues and impediments.

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SCRUM Technical Review Engineering Software Review 189

Agilemania

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Be it monitoring and control, collaboration, stakeholders onboarding, change management, and governance methods, the problems only keep increasing. It was circa 2011 when Dean Leffingwell decided to conceptualize the Scaled Agile Framework. Software and IT teams delivering in an agile way alone isn’t enough.

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Lean 2011 Cadence Innovation 98

Agilemania

JANUARY 24, 2022

What is Scaling in Agile? Agile is a set of values and principles. Agile is an umbrella term for a group of iterative product development frameworks. Most organizations started their Agile journey with one of the frameworks mentioned above, and Scrum is the most popular one. Scaling Agile Frameworks. What is SAFe?

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Agile Lean 2011 SCRUM 98

The IIL Blog

MAY 17, 2023

and Cynthia Snyder Dionisio, MBA, PMP We have all attended project management workshops, conferences, and symposiums. We have read books and journal articles on various project management topics. What we ended up learning was about the present state-of-the-art of project management and what the future might look like.

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Aerospace Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Governance 147

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Deshalb habe ich bereits 2017 eine erste Umfrage zum Net Promoter Score® des Scaled Agile Framework SAFe ® durchgeführt. Viereinhalb Jahre später habe ich diese Umfrage nun wiederholt: SAFe® hat zwischenzeitlich mehrere Iterationen durchlaufen und mehr agile Praktiker haben Erfahrungen mit diesem Framework gesammelt. Zwischen dem 13.

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Lean Software Review 2022 Technical Review 194

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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Agile Cadence Certification Lean 59

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

SAFe® has always been a controversial topic within the agile community. Therefore, back in 2017, I ran a first survey on the Net Promoter Score® of the Scaled Agile Framework SAFe®. You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 34,000-plus subscribers. ?? The result back then was -52. Survey Data.

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Lean Software Review 2022 Technical Review 164

The IIL Blog

MAY 9, 2018

The Nuts and Bolts of Agile and Scrum. Agile and Scrum: What’s the difference? It seems like almost every company, regardless of their industry, is practicing Agile and Scrum in some way and at some level of proficiency. If you’re new to Agile and Scrum, you may be scratching your head wondering first, what are they?

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SCRUM Agile 2001 Development Team Review 104

Agilemania

OCTOBER 18, 2022

About 97% of organizations believe that good project management skills are essential to their success. Project management certification for project managers is important to IT operations of all kinds. IT professionals who hold a project manager certification report median base annual salaries in the U.S.

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Certification Technical Review Software Review PMI 73

Binfire

OCTOBER 12, 2020

As the title of this post suggests, this article is all about project management questions and answers to those questions. If you ever were afraid to ask project management questions, now is your turn. This post is especially useful for new project managers. Project Management Questions & Answers. Why is that?

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Software Review Certification PMI Software 125

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. I’m not talking about SAFe.

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Sustainability Agile SCRUM Technical Review 111

International Institute for Learning

MARCH 29, 2023

By Cyndi Snyder Dionisio You can have an awesome schedule and a great risk management plan, but those won’t get the project done. You may also need to figure out how to balance project management needs and scrum master needs. Support the project manager. Resolve conflicts outside the project manager’s authority.

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SCRUM Leadership Governance Government 52

MPUG

APRIL 2, 2024

Project Management is a systematic and organized approach to planning, coordinating, and overseeing the work of a team to achieve a specific goal. Key to understanding Project Management, is to understand what a project is. Likewise, the project manager can set milestones, dates by which important aspects of the project need to be met.

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Certification PMI Logistics Construction 52

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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Lean Agile Consulting Software Developers 52

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 7, 2019

I asked people two questions: What should people managing projects be aware of as we go into 2019 to make 2019 their most successful year ever? I’m sure you take away tips and ideas for making this your best year yet managing projects at work. These past few years have seen an incredible evolution in the way software is built.

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2019 Technical Review PMO Consulting 291

Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

The project and portfolio management (PPM) software market is changing. In this article we look at emerging software in the PPM space and discuss how its selection and implementation needs to be done in line with an overarching digital strategy. Digitalization and Collaboration. Researching What PPM Tools Can Do.

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Software Review Software Technical Review PMI 150

PM Basics

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Scrum Master vs. Project Manager vs. Product Owner? However, in real life, project managers lead scrum teams. Scrum Masters do need project management tools and techniques. Who is a Project Manager? A project manager operates within ten major knowledge areas: Integration Management.

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SCRUM Certification Agile Risk Management 111

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 3, 2018

This article, How To Make 2018 A Successful Year for Your Projects , first appeared on Girl's Guide to Project Management. I asked people two questions: What should people managing projects be aware of as we go into 2018 to make 2018 their most successful year ever? Would you like to make 2018 a successful year for your projects?

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2018 Artificial Inteligence Consulting Underperforming Technical Team 300

MPUG

DECEMBER 28, 2020

It’s less prescriptive and seems to be intended for a wider audience group, particularly non-software users. My perspective is based on my analysis, my own interpretations, and the interactions I’ve had with Agile practitioners who follow my publications, books, and/or courses. It contains commitments for each of the Scrum artifacts.

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Cadence SCRUM 2020 Agile 116

Project-Management.pm

JULY 8, 2017

An online master of project management is one of the best investments one has in order to advance his or her certification levels or acquire one. Organizations need project managers who can juggle different operations and processes, all the while achieving the end result of the projects. Northeastern University.

Technical Review 111

Technical Review Certification PMI Leadership 111

Epicflow Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Willing to attend a project management conference in 2020? The list of international events presented in this paper involves the ones covering not only project and portfolio management challenges but also relevant topics of construction, engineering, product development, and more. 2020 Project Management Conferences in Austria.

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2020 Manufacturing PMO Construction 81

EasyProjects

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

As a result, business managers must select an effective enterprise project management software package that facilitates planning, communication, and collaboration. However, not all enterprise software platforms are created equal and contain a variety of different functions. Microsoft Project Server.

2020 52

2020 Software Review Software Artificial Inteligence 52

MPUG

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

This session is eligible for one PMI PDU in the strategic category, and MPUG activity code for claiming this session is on the screen now. Satya is a management professional, speaker, coach, and author of six books, including, I Want To Be a PMP. That is Project Management Institute. Now, project management is a vast topic.

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PMI 2020 Risk Management Risk 98

Epicflow Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Willing to attend a project management conference in 2020? The list of international events presented in this paper involves the ones covering not only project and portfolio management challenges but also relevant topics of construction, engineering, product development, and more. 2020 Project Management Conferences in Austria

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2020 Manufacturing PMO Construction 64

PM Basics

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The Project Manager career path has more options. The Scrum Master career path is easier to enter. Let’s review the pros and cons of Project Manager vs Scrum Master. Project Manager Career Path. There’s one big benefit in the career of a project manager. Assistant project manager.

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SCRUM Certification Leadership PMI 45

Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

Project management terminology can be complicated. It doesn’t matter whether you’re working towards your PMP certification or simply managing projects casually in your organization, knowing core project management terms always helps. All Project Management Terms. All work is divided into short bursts called "sprints".

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Underperforming Technical Team Project Life Cycle Estimate Risk Management 78

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 other conceptual gaps?

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Agile Technical Review Governance Government 62

Herding Cats

MARCH 17, 2019

Here are my collected works, presentations, briefings, journal papers, articles, white papers, and essays, used to increase the Probability of Project Success (PoPS) I've developed and applied over my career in the software-intensive system of systems domain. Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management.

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2003 2011 2008 Performance Measurement 54

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

And this is precisely the point: The Product Owner miraculously identifies what is the best way to proceed as a Scrum Team by managing the Product Backlog. You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 30,000-plus other subscribers. What product discovery part, you may think now. Think of “MVP.”).

Software Review 151

Software Review Technical Review Cadence SCRUM 151

Epicflow Blog

MAY 13, 2019

Shailendra Medhi , a Scrum Master at Mastek, talks about the impact of bad planning : “Insufficient analysis before starting a project and agreement on the scope of the project also many times ends up in failure. Having a viable risk management strategy is an integral part of project planning.

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Underperforming Technical Team PMI PMO Risk Management 75

Leading Agile

APRIL 20, 2023

As the world of business increases in complexity, it will take more than user stories, estimation, and OKRs to build a trustworthy system that management can delegate into. But if managers want a trustworthy system, it’ll be up to them to create it. You haven’t created the conditions to be able to delegate to that team.

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Agile Underperforming Technical Team Cadence SCRUM 62

Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Here's a collection of presentations, briefings, papers, essays, book content used to increase the Probability of Project Success (PoPS) I've written and applied over my career in the software-intensive system of systems and other domains. Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management Briefings and Presentations.

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Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Governance 42

Leading Agile

MARCH 31, 2020

Listen to the Agile Unplugged Podcast on the go! Find and subscribe to Agile Unplugged on: Apple Podcasts. In this week’s episode, LeadingAgile Chief Methodologist, Dennis Stevens, sits down with Mike Cottmeyer to discuss Capability-based organizations, Systems of Delivery vs Systems of Transformation, managing dependencies, and more.

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Agile Technical Review SCRUM Engineering 71