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Can you be Agile with fixed-bid Projects?

Scrum.org

But, the reality is that over the last 20+ years of the Agile Manifesto, the context, use, and experience with agile provides some evidence that there is a fundamental attribution error concerning the approach to Agile Software development and its execution. It can be a challenging leadership problem and problematic to resolve.

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The 18 Most Influential People in Project Management

ProjectManager.com

Susanne Madsen is the author of several books on project management and leadership, including The Project Management Coaching Workbook and The Power of Project Leadership. She’s also the director of the London-based Project Leadership Institute, which works to build well-rounded and dynamic project management leaders.

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We are entering the Deployment Phase of the Digital Age

Scrum.org

Of course, this list changes with the markets, but if you compare that to 2011, the list is 60% different. 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.

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SAFe Simply Explained (Part 1): Core Competencies and Principles

Inloox

What usually started in software development can now be extended to the entire company and thus, change the way people collaborate. Lean Agile Leadership: Managers are the very core of lean agile development and business agility. So agility in itself is nothing new for many companies. But it’s not that easy.

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The Project Manager’s Agile Transformation Journey

The IIL Blog

My Keynote Presentation is about the development of project management and project managers in the Bosch Group. I will focus on two selectively chosen business units that have already gone through the agile transformation: ETAS (Bosch’s Software Development Subsidiary) and Bosch Power Tools.

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How To Base Your Beliefs About Agile On Evidence

Scrum.org

How should leadership interact with autonomous teams? There are dozens of high-quality academic works to draw from, there are dozens of academic journals dedicated to (agile) software development (ASD) and change management. What is the optimal size of a team? Is scaling always a bad idea? So where do you find it? That is great!

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Projecting Project Success

MPUG

Although technology and software development tools are essential for most projects, it’s the leadership of a project that makes the difference between a project’s success or failure. These numbers were about the same in 2011. Success or Failure of a Project is a People Thing.