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Project Management: Principles, Practices & Context

Velociteach

Lean manufacturing influenced the quality movement, Agile , and DevOps. Pioneering software development thought leaders collaborated to create the Manifesto (2001). SAFe employs cadence, synchronization, and clear lines of content authority to help organizations scale their agile practices to hundreds or thousands of people.

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 Executive’s Guide To Large-Scale Agile Transformation & Sustaining An Adaptive Enterprise w/ Mike Cottmeyer

Leading Agile

And so what we find is that when you’re talking to executives and you’re trying to influence leaders if you can align with their strategic value you can give them a way of measuring progress along the way. And then on the backside we need lagging indicators that actually say are we achieving the business results that we want?

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Influences on IT Strategy: How IT Strategy Impacts the Development of Systems Based on COTS Products , Strategy is creating fit among a company’s activities. The current buzz over lightweight development processes and what it means to the software practitioner, XP Denver , April 23rd, 2001. When is Light Right? ,