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PMI-ACP Exam Lessons Learned - Do NOT Underestimate it!

Deep Fried Brain

PMI-ACP Lessons Learned: I'm pleased to inform you that I PASSED the PMI-ACP exam yesterday (Oct 28, 2013), couple weeks earlier than my original estimate. Agile Lessons Learned PMI-ACPPassing any exam is a matter of.

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How to Get the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner Certification

Guerrilla Project Management

He recently developed The Agile PrepCast – a study tool that helps those who plan to take the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner Certification exam. He recently developed The Agile PrepCast – a study tool that helps those who plan to take the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner Certification exam. Agile in Integration Projects Career Development Podcasts

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PMI-ACP (Agile Certified Practitioner) Exam Study Material [Updated for 2015]

Deep Fried Brain

Updated for PMI-ACP Exam 2015: I wrote this blog post in Oct 2013 when I was preparing for the PMI-ACP exam. Agile Contact Hours PMI-ACP Sample QuestionsAs I was going through process, I was collecting and documenting the list of study.

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Learning Agile Requirements with User Story Mapping

Sudipta Lahiri

A group of about 25 Lean/Agile enthusiasts met on this Saturday morning. As in the last Meetup in Bangalore, the focus of this Meetup was also Agile Requirements and for the same reason – it is hard to establish flow and reduce cycle time when requirements are not independent, small or testable. I started the Meetup with a detailed presentation on Agile Requirements. The Limited WIP Society Bangalore Chapter held its 2 nd Meetup at Pune on Oct 26.

2013 20
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Why Agile Transformation Fails?

Stepping Into Project Management

Originally published at Xebia Blog Organizations move into Agile because it sounds cool, team’s wants to transform and deliver more, have collaborative culture and make work fun. Very few actually look into the changes that will be required to bring in to make the transformation successful. The first resistance initiates with the need to change. Change means new learnings and probably more of un-learmings.

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EVM and Agile – Project Reporting

Green Project Management

Context This post was modified from one I developed several years ago for the Mercure AACE 2013 program I took, called W17_PM_EVM-KPI-Reporting. It is a follow on to a recent post “EVM and Agile – Can they work together?“ The post EVM and Agile – Project Reporting appeared first on Delivering a better world, one project at a time.

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Agile Requirements with User Story Mapping

Sudipta Lahiri

A group of 20+ Lean/Agile enthusiasts met on Saturday morning at 10am. The focus of this Meetup was Agile Requirements. I started the Meetup with a small introduction to the need for Agile Requirements. Post this session, Manik Choudhary, Agile Project Manager at SAP Labs, started the main session. Kanban Lean Limited WIP Society Agile Agile ALM Agile Project Management Agile Requirements AgileEVM ALM Project Management User Story User Story Mapping

2013 20
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Book Review - PMI-ACP Exam Prep by Chris Scordo (1000+ Practice Questions)

Deep Fried Brain

Agile Books PMI Membership PMI-ACP Review Sample QuestionsRecently I passed my PMI-ACP exam. I had signed up for PMI Membership, which gave me access to PMI's eReads and Reference library, before the exam. This book (PMI-ACP Exam Prep: 1000+ PMI-ACP.

2013 28
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Project Schedules, Hamster Wheels, and Your Team’s Hidden Superpower

Wrike

The more agile your project management approach is, paired with a volatile outside environment, the more challenging this job is. “Failing to plan is planning to fail,” – some sources attribute this saying to Winston Churchill, while others refer to Benjamin Franklin, or Alan Lakein, author on time management. Whoever the author really was, his succinct wisdom could help many project managers avoid costly mistakes.

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How should teams be build?

Stepping Into Project Management

agile Management team buildingWhen an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, “It’s in the script.” If he says, “But what’s my motivation?” I say, “Your salary.” Alfred Hitchcock, filmmaker (1899–1980) Jim Collins talks about getting the right people in the bus in his book “Good to Great”. And we all agree- but how do you decide who are the right people?

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What does project management mean to me?

Stepping Into Project Management

Agile project management which has gained much popularity talks so much about the transparency, efficiency, collaboration, cultivating team environments and adapting to the need- this is how I have always run my team and projects. Project management for me as with everyone else is all about managing projects. Obviously how projects are managed and how you want to reach your goal depends on how you look at it.

2013 31
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Agile. Creativity. Innovation.

International Institute for Learning

This family of methods are now commonly known as Agile , and it has been through the formation of the Agile Alliance and the publication of the Agile Manifesto (Fowler and Highsmith 2001). Figure: Parallel paths of ideas development in Agile Environment . July 2013).

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EVM and Agile – Can they work together?

Green Project Management

Context This post was modified from one I developed several years ago for the Mercure AACE 2013 program I took, called W15_PM_EVM-Agile-Considerations. The post EVM and Agile – Can they work together? My primary focus is split between sustainable organizational project, programme, portfolio and risk management improvement and organizational sustainable change delivery assessments. My project experience has been 30+ years in combining a series of […].

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Applying WCM to the Software Industry

Sudipta Lahiri

Kanban Lean Agile ALM Project Management ATDD BDD Continuous Integration Jidoka JIT Kaizen Muda Muri Project Management Retrospectives Scrum Simulation Six Sigma TDD Test Automation TQM WCMI recently spoke at Symbiosis University on how WCM (World Class Manufacturing) thinking is being applied to the software industry.

2013 20
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Improving predicatability with Kanban

Sudipta Lahiri

Kanban Lean Agile ALM Project Management Forecasting Prediction SimulationI did a webinar on how simulation models applied with Kanban systems could be used to improve the level of forecasting capability that Project Managers have today. You can see this webinar here… .

2013 20
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Capture More Agility by Tailoring Practices

International Institute for Learning

[This post is a sneak preview of Jesse Fewell’s talk at IIL’s Agile & Scrum 2020 Online Conference , and is based on his upcoming book Untapped Agility ]. We’ve been told that to achieve more innovation, more collaboration, or more agility, we need to adopt modern practices.

2020 119
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Fish Philosophy

Stepping Into Project Management

Last week I spoke in Agile Tour Hyderabad, traveled for work and came back home with fever and cold. 2 days later I was happily back at office though still sick. Loving what you do is the best way to keep yourself inspired. If you are into project management, read 6 things you should know about being one I think so much has been said about the fish philosophy already, there’s not really much to say about it.

2013 28
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20 Years of the Agile Manifesto

Scrum.org

Agile Manifesto Poster Scrum just turned 25 with a big celebration last November. This week marks another big milestone in the agile community, the 20th Anniversary of the Agile Manifesto. Ward Cunningham (2013).

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In-Depth: The Evidence-Based Business Case For Agile

Scrum.org

What is the business case for Agile teams? We think we do well to base our beliefs about Agile more on evidence. This post is our attempt to bring an evidence-based perspective to the business case of Agile teams. A working definition of Agile and Stakeholders. 2013 ).

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What is Agile Project Management?

MPUG

According to the 15 th State of Agile Report, 94% of companies are practicing Agile. This statistic is somewhat misleading as it does not mean that all of these companies are receiving benefits or even successful with their Agile approach. Additional Agile Resources.

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20 Years of the Agile Manifesto Part II

Scrum.org

Agile Manifesto Poster Today is THE big day, the Agile Manifesto is turning officially 20 years. Arie also talks about business agility and agile transformations which is something deeply anchored in the agile leadership course of scrum.org and the evidence based management workshop. .

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Regarding the matter of speaking out publicly (on some things ‘Agile’)

Gunther Verheyen

People regularly approach me (often privately) with the request to speak out (potentially publicly) on various things ‘Agile’. Agile nor Scrum. Regarding the question whether a process or framework (whatever name they chose for themselves) is “Agile”.

2022 78
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Beginner’s Guide to Kanban for Agile Marketing

Digite

We’re honored to republish this blog post ‘Beginner’s Guide to Kanban for Agile Marketing’ by Andrea Fryrear which was originally published in the Agile Sherpas blog! Anderson best articulated its application to software development, in 2013, in the foundational book Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business, and its adoption hasn’t been as universal as Scrum’s during the early days of Agile software development.

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Agile| 6 Ways to Keep Agile Teams on Track

Stepping Into Project Management

This was first published on projectmanagement.com Agile teams are being tested. While the demand for deliverables and work continues, the roles, responsibilities and efficiency of agile teams come into question. To keep your agile teams moving forward, implement these six strategies: 1.

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Agile Movers & Shakers (7): Ryan Ripley — Host of the Agile for Humans Podcast

Scrum.org

TL; DR: The Agile Movers & Shakers Interview w/ Ryan Ripley. He hosts the Agile for Humans podcast and most recently co-wrote Fixing Your Scrum: Practical Solutions for Common Scrum Problems with Todd Miller for PragProg. If so, you can subscribe here and join 26k agile peers.

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Do we really need SAFe, LeSS, Spotify, or Nexus to be agile?

Agilemania

Agility at scale topics appears in most of the conversation nowadays, either to solve multiple teams coordination issues working on the same initiative, in the name of business agility, or enterprise agility. In 2013, the experiments were solidified into the LeSS framework rules.

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Is Your Agile Project Healthy?

Project Management Essentials

Experienced agile coaches and practitioners develop a sixth-sense. They can quickly assess the health of an agile project or team just as doctors do with their patients. In 2013, Mike Cohn coined the term scrum smells to describe the signs that a scrum team is in trouble. In my agile training and consulting practice, I have witnessed similar symptoms when an organization is struggling with its agile adoption. Agile is based on Systems Thinking.

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Scrum Methodology: Roles, Events & Artifacts

ProjectManager.com

The scrum methodology was developed as a response to rigid project management approaches such as the waterfall method, which didn’t adapt to the needs of agile product and software development teams. Scrum is part of agile software development and teams practicing agile.

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Agile| Why Agile is a Humane Way to Work

Stepping Into Project Management

This article was published in Project Management.com Years ago, when I first heard of agile making waves, I was curious enough to pay for a class out of my own pocket to learn more. By the end of the two-day session, I knew I wanted to be associated with agile. Hello there.

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Should we hire full-time or contract agile coaches?

Kiron Bondale

In 2013 I wrote an article about the advantages and disadvantages of contract project managers. Competent agile coaches have been in high demand for many years due to the large number of companies across multiple industries who are going through agile transformations.

2020 41
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Agile Estimating Methods and Impact on Project Development Performance Index

Herding Cats

The presentation " Quantifying the Impact of Agile Practices ," Larry MacCherone at the RallyOn 2013 Conference, presents some results on estimating impacts. Mike Cohn's Agile Quotes. The chart below shows 4 estimating types, including No Estimates, the sample sizes for each type and the components that make up the estimating types. The Software Development Performance Index (SDPI) scale on the left ranges - by eyeball measurement - from 46 to 55.

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Do we really need SAFe, LeSS, Spotify, or Nexus to be agile?

Agilemania

Agility at scale topics appears in most of the conversation nowadays, either to solve multiple teams coordination issues working on the same initiative, in the name of business agility, or enterprise agility. In 2013, the experiments were solidified into the LeSS framework rules.

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Webinar Recap: Agile Series Part 1 – Understanding & Incorporating Agile Project Management

MPUG

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Tim Runcie’s Agile Series Part 1 webinar being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. Kyle: Hello everyone and welcome to today’s MPUG training series, part one, Understanding and Incorporating Agile Project Management. And what we’re going to do is talk about the disciplines today, talking about how and where Microsoft’s going, what are some of the advantages of using agile.

2019 40
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Why Use PRINCE2 Project Management for Managing Multiple Scrum Teams?

International Institute for Learning

Scrum has its origins in software development, but about ten years ago, other departments in organizations started looking at becoming more agile and analyzing whether the Scrum approach could also be used in their departments— and in projects. The latest version is more agile compatible.

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Adopting Business Agility at Moonpig: A Case Study

Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

Moonpig was founded in 1999, before Lean and Agile approaches had become mainstream in the UK. It was not until about 2013 that Moonpig first began to adopt Agile practices. More unusually, having recognised the benefits of agile working, Moonpig’s leadership team were keen to see if the wider organisation could also benefit from this approach. The Journey Begins – “Let’s Try This Agile Thing”. These will be very familiar to anyone in the agile space.

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Newbies’ Guide to Scrum Project Management 101

nTask

As an Agile project manager, I have seen my fair share of so-called “Scrum Masters” and “Agile Experts” claiming to be masters of their craft. The truth, however, is that they don’t know a lot of things about Scrum and Agile. Take it as a start on all things related to Scrum and modern day application of Agile Framework at different companies in the industry right now. Scrum Project Management is a framework from the Agile project management methodology.

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Daily Scrum Pocketcasts – Episode 4

Gunther Verheyen

Ever since the accidental creation of my book “ Scrum – A Pocket Guide ” in 2013, and its deliberate evolution in 2019, I’ve been receiving inquiries about an audiobook version. Agile Scrum Audio excerpt Pocket Guide Pocketcasts Scrum Pocket Guide Scrum Pocketcasts

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Daily Scrum Pocketcasts – Episode 3

Gunther Verheyen

Ever since the accidental creation of my book “ Scrum – A Pocket Guide ” in 2013, and its deliberate evolution in 2019, I’ve been receiving inquiries about an audiobook version. Agile Scrum Audio excerpt Pocket Guide Pocketcasts Scrum Pocket Guide Scrum Pocketcasts

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Daily Scrum Pocketcasts

Gunther Verheyen

Ever since the accidental creation of my book Scrum – A Pocket Guide (A Smart Travel Companion) in 2013, and its deliberate evolution in 2019, I frequently receive inquiries about the availability of an audiobook version.

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Here’s the Business Strategy Silicon Valley Giants Use to Disrupt Industries. You Can Use It for Your Business.

Leading Agile

But it didn’t make them any more agile than a public company would have been. That was in 2013. Series: How to Beat the Silicon Valley Giants at Their Own Game. In this series, we will show you how you can compete against the Silicon Valley giants and win.

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