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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. An agile team can, in most cases, work around the uncertainty and still get things done. Focus on the planning.

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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. Agile teaches us to be open, trustworthy and make mistakes.

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A Project Team’s Guide to Data Conversion: Book Review & Interview with Dave Gordon

Project Bliss

In 2013 he wrote a series of blog posts on data conversion that were created “in response to various requests from colleagues, customers, and project teams for more detailed information.” Agile is more increasingly about dealing with ambiguity and uncertainty in a positive way. “We These are valuable aspects of the agile approach. “I

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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. Agile is based on Systems Thinking.

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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Agile Project Management. Agile Software Development for Government Software Intensive System of Systems (SISoS) , Boulder Agile Meetup, 27 July 2016. Integrating Agile Software Development with Earned Value Management , College of Performance Management, IPM Workshop, 2015. Integrating Agile with EVM , EVM World, 2013.

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

What happens if you shift focus from "accurate estimation" to "reliably shipping by a date"? . If your project has no uncertainty, there is no need to estimate. This is the motivation for short work intervals found in agile development. . All estimates have precision and accuracy. First, let's establish a principle.

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Regaining Trust: The Winners and Losers of a More Cautious Tomorrow

Leading Answers

In 2013, my home town of Canmore, Canada experienced a freak weather event when three storm systems became stuck in place for days, creating unprecedented rain and flooding. Scientists estimated that the likelihood of it ever happening again is tiny. What about open-plan offices, high-fives and shaking hands?

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