Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Project management has so many challenges to solve every day, so having a toolbox of techniques (and the right attitude) will help you deliver projects successfully. The WPS course is a self-paced video training class is a partnership between PMI and Tom Wujeck. Welcome to my PMI Wicked Problem Solving review! It turns out you do.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 27, 2023

Many in the Agile community consider the Scaled Agile Framework designed by Dean Leffingwell and Drew Jemilo as unagile, violating the Agile Manifesto and the Scrum Guide. True agilists” would never employ SAFe® to help transition corporations to agility. TL; DR: SAFe® — Despised, Yet Successful? They despise it.

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The IIL Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

It reviews each of the key offerings, from the globally acclaimed Project Management Professional (PMP®) and PRINCE2®, to the more agile -minded certifications like ScrumMaster and Product Owner. Michael Shick, MSPM, PMP, CSM Are you looking to change careers or grab hold of the ever-evolving world of project management?

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Inloox

MARCH 27, 2024

Do: In this phase, the team implements the plan on a small scale, executes the tasks and collects data on the results. If the plan was effective, it can be implemented on a larger scale. What is the PDCA cycle? This includes setting goals, defining success metrics and expected outcomes.

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Agilemania

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Although the year was full of surprises, the Agile adoption rate increased from 37% in 2020 to 86% in 2021. With the pandemic looming large, here are a few interesting statistics on Agile Adoption challenges-. 46% reported inconsistent processes and practices. 46% reported inconsistent processes and practices.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

TL; DR: Resistance to Agile Transformations Stakeholders often revert to resistance to agile transformations due to fears about job security, perceived loss of control, comfort with established practices, and misconceptions about Agile. For them, embracing Agile might feel like admitting those sacrifices were in vain.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 30, 2023

TL; DR: Agile Transformation with ChatGPT or McBoston? I was interested in learning more about a typical daily challenge many agile practitioners face: How shall we successfully pursue an agile transformation? Or shall we embark on an agile transformation with ChatGPT providing some guidance?

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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.

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Lean Software Review 2022 Technical Review 188

Scrum.org

OCTOBER 24, 2022

TL; DR: Hands-on Agile #45: FAST Scaling: An Innovative Way to Scale Agile with James Shore. In this energizing 45th Hands-on Agile session, James Shore shared his experiences with scaling “agile:” first with traditional approaches and, more recently, with FAST scaling. Scaling Agile.

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Agilemania

JANUARY 22, 2021

Professional Scrum Master training is highly interactive training for 14 hours, and students learn by doing it in class. We use multiple tools and techniques to facilitate online training to make it practical for you. We use Scrum to teach Scrum in our class to gain practical knowledge. Preparing for the PSM Exam.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Could your organization only change on the surface without addressing deeper, more impactful challenges? Larman's Laws of Organizational Behavior are profound insights derived from years of studying how large organizations react and adapt to change, particularly when transitioning to Agile practices. You've introduced new tech.

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Technical Review Innovation 2008 Finance 153

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 29, 2020

They don’t specialise like their colleagues but do have an understanding of the concepts and best practices. This is a guest post from Charlie Davidson. Charlie Davidson. Have you ever heard of a T-shaped developer? The horizontal bar of the “T” represents their broader skill set. The basics of a T-Shaped Individual.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

TL; DR: The SAFe ® NPS ® Score as a Scaling Framework Is -56. 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®. Join Stefan in one of his upcoming Professional Scrum training classes !

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Lean Software Review 2022 Technical Review 157

Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

One of the great values of Scrum.org Professional Scrum training is global consistency. However, we were asking ourselves, how does that scale to help global companies? Since the inception of the PTN program, we have seen companies better able to participate in global training initiatives and an increase in satisfied students.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 19, 2021

Each post discusses scientific research that is relevant to our work with Scrum and Agile teams. What makes Agile transformations successful? The paper presents and tests a model that identifies success factors for Agile transformations. So what does scientific research already tell us about Agile transformations?

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Leading Agile

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

If you want to be successful at Agile Transformation —especially at scale—you’ll need more than Agile Coaches teaching your teams the ceremonies of Scrum or how to do SAFe and LeSS. To be successful, your company will need an array of people to take on various Agile roles and responsibilities. Program/Portfolio Coach.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 26, 2021

In their book Agile Retrospectives , Esther Derby and Diana Larsen popularized the idea that a Sprint Retrospect comprises five stages. As I have observed in practice, many Scrum Teams either limit the data gathering part of the Retrospective, thus lacking vital information. TL; DR: Data-Informed Retrospectives.

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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.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 22, 2020

Completing an Agile Coaching certification doesn’t make you an Agile Coach. Just to be clear, this bare-bones guide isn’t the only way of becoming an effective Agile coach but does contain enough to give you a solid foundation so you can be useful, effective and deliver a ton of value to your clients and the organisations you serve.

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Agile SCRUM Certification Sustainability 204

Scrum.org

MAY 8, 2023

This is at the core of scaling frameworks such as Nexus and LeSS. Product Owners own Product at the Agile Team level. Product Managers own Product at the teams of agile teams level (Agile Release Trains). Product Managers own Product at the teams of agile teams level (Agile Release Trains).

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SCRUM Lean Influencer Agile 165

Scrum.org

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Measuring value to enable improvement and agility sounds like a good plan, but as usual it is easier said than done. Measurement challenges. Here are some of the challenges one can face when doing such a survey: You can drown in lots of data and miss relevant information that could help you improve. Brilliant explanation!

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Agilemania

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Scaling the Mt. Today, we at Agilemania are proud to share that we have become a Scaled Agile Gold Partner. Why Scaled Agile Framework? It is the Framework of Choice for Leading Organizations to scale agile. Fast forward, a decade later, SAFe® had become a celebrity among the agile frameworks.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 24, 2022

Project management trends shape our profession. We see technology evolving, new tools, consolidation, innovation and more. Trends come and go, or they stay with us and evolve into new ways of working that stick around and become “the way we do things around here.”. Change is inevitable – we all know that. Until it’s too late. Managing a hybrid team.

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2022 PMO Risk Management Artificial Inteligence 484

Scrum.org

JUNE 6, 2022

Scrum is the most popular agile framework today, but agile isn’t the right fit for every business problem – it’s simply one of many tools in the toolkit. . Agile frameworks (including Scrum) perform best in complex environments where more is unknown than known, and creativity rules the day to determine the best path forward.

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Leading Agile

JULY 18, 2023

Agile needs to be tied to business-driven results. If not, then we start measuring things like people trained, teams doing Scrum, or the organization’s sentiment toward Agile to tell us if we’re succeeding. If your Agile isn’t helping you do that, then it’s not really Agile at all. First, how are we forming teams?

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Agile Software Review Certification Technical Review 118

Agilemania

APRIL 12, 2022

1,00,000 practitioners and 20,000 enterprises worldwide have kept faith in one thing to drive Business Agility in the enterprise. . And that’s Scaled Agile Framework(SAFe)! . As per the 15th State of Agile Survey, 38% of the respondents considered SAFe as the most popular framework for scaling agile. .

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2022 Agile Lean Software Developers 91

Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 23, 2024

Continuous improvement, or Kaizen, has revolutionized business practices since its inception in post-war Japan. Begin integrating continuous improvement into your project management today, and transform your approach into a proactive, innovative powerhouse ready for the future's challenges. What is Continuous Improvement?

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Technical Review 2024 Innovation Sustainability 52

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Instead, you are only allowed to use practices that are culturally acceptable within your organization. Instead, you are only allowed to use practices that are culturally acceptable within your organization. You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 34,000-plus subscribers. ??

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SCRUM Budget Agile 2022 208

Agilemania

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Scaled Agile Framework has taken the corporate world by storm. 37% of the respondents reported that their organizations used SAFe to scale agile. 37% of the respondents reported that their organizations used SAFe to scale agile. Source: 15th State of Agile Survey. Scaled Agile Framework: What is it?

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 25, 2024

Many enterprises struggle with these challenges, but there's a strategic way to turn things around. The PMO ensures that projects across the organization run consistently, adhere to best practices, and align them with the company’s strategic goals. You're not alone. Don't let your projects be another measurement of failure.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 6, 2022

Scrum, agile thinking, modern software development working practices are synonymous with Digital Technology and have evolved out of the fundamentally different characteristics of the opportunity presented by technology. Of course, this list changes with the markets, but if you compare that to 2011, the list is 60% different.

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation 2001 2011 238

NimbleWork

APRIL 21, 2024

In this article, we’ll talk about the problems with project portfolio management and the common challenges leaders face. The good news is that all the challenges can be overcome with some planning and a good software solution to underpin management of the portfolio. Hybrid agile organizations manage this really well.

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Leadership PMO Risk Management Governance 52

Scrum.org

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Now Scrum is not just a smart way of delivering software, it is a fundamental part of any enterprise agility transformation. . A pattern I would like to label ‘The Agile Hangover’. . First there comes the Agile party. Over the last 25 years, many software development departments have tried to adopt Scrum.

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Technical Review Agile Software Review SCRUM 204

Agilemania

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Large organizations face challenges to respond to change with speed and relative ease. From not being able to manage inter-team dependencies to handle multiple sources of requirements to ensuring alignment between teams in both business & technical to delivering an increment or increasing value delivery, the challenges are a zillion.

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Scrum.org

MAY 27, 2020

Shu-Ha-Ri has been a frequent topic within Agile communities for years to capture the essence, the progress of the journey we embark on as we grow and learn better ways of working. Many Agile leaders have written about Shu-Ha-Ri, from Martin Fowler to Alistair Cockburn—both creators of the Agile Manifesto. Aikido master End?

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Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM Certification Agile 208

Agilemania

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

46% of the organizations reported inconsistencies in practices and processes as their main challenge with agile transformation. Source: 15th State of Agile Report. There sure is an Agile framework called SAFe. SAFe is a scaling agile framework, so referring to it as just an agile framework may not be appropriate.

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Certification Agile Software Review Lean 98

Agilemania

JULY 19, 2022

The study also found that the number of companies that have implemented SAFe® scrum master practices has also increased by 73 %. The Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®) is a set of organizational and workflow patterns for implementing agile practices at an enterprise scale.

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