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The 2021 Project Management Report

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Typically, a project is set up with predictive planning to mark key deadlines and provide a structure for the whole piece of work, with sprints or iterations taking place within that structure. The top career goal is certification. The top career goal for project managers is gaining a certification. Agile ) methods together.

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5 Whys to Explore Scrum with an independent Scrum Caretaker

Gunther Verheyen

From 2013-2016 I maintained the official “Professional Scrum” series of Scrum.org meanwhile training candidate-PSTs and shepherding the global community of Professional Scrum Trainers and coaches. After ending the exclusivity of Scrum.org over my work in 2016, I had to think about a new title. It’s fine to not just take my word for it.

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Managing Project Assumptions and Risks

The IIL Blog

Management Plans The project management plan is created at the beginning of the project and describes how the project will be executed. For example, IF the project costs more than planned, THEN there are multiple potential impacts. Response Plan: A response strategy or strategies should be documented for each risk.

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Money is important, but it is not what drives me

Gunther Verheyen

It wasn’t when I decided to go completely independent with my one-person company Ullizee-Inc (2016) and not be part of any fixed structure for the time being (which is to this date). And although it may look as if there was a plan , there wasn’t. If it was money that drives me, I wouldn’t spend time on writing.

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Everyday Agile Practices

The IIL Blog

Your family is planning the upcoming weekend. It recognizes that we cannot possibly plan everything up front, so we keep the future in mind and plan our upcoming work at the appropriate level of detail. Not over-planning saves effort and lets us adjust more quickly. The family calendar is its planning roadmap.

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Milestone-Kanban: A Hybrid Project Scheduling Technique

The IIL Blog

It embraces iterative planning, uses milestones to establish a project roadmap, a Kanban board to manage the work, and stand-up meetings to track progress. Milestone-Kanban bridges these practices to create a robust, lightweight, and flexible framework for planning many types of projects and managing their performance.

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Disciplined Agile & SAFe

International Institute for Learning

Since I hold advanced certifications in both frameworks and regularly teach agile classes, I have a unique perspective and appreciate what they offer. Synchronization is achieved through a quarterly 2-day, “big-room planning” event. The PI includes four 2-week development iterations and 2-weeks for Innovation & Planning (IP).

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