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Is Your Agile Project Healthy?

Project Management Essentials

In 2013, Mike Cohn coined the term scrum smells to describe the signs that a scrum team is in trouble. I recommend that agile teams have a product owner who has an understanding of the business needs, along with strong influencing skills. Experienced agile coaches and practitioners develop a sixth-sense.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Integrating Agile with EVM , EVM World , 2013. Forecasting ACAT1 Program Performance in the Presence of Statistical Uncertainty , IPMC 2013. College of Performance Management , November 2013. Here's how to connect the dots. College of Performance Management, IPM Workshop , 2015.