Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 15, 2024

By: Hajime Estanislao, PMP, CSM The quest for methodologies that offer efficiency and agility has never been rockier. Agile methodologies stand at the forefront of this quest, providing the blueprint for rapid, responsive, and customer-centric project execution. Agile methodologies offer a path to mastering these challenges.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

TL; DR: The Agile Metrics Survey 2021. If you value agile practices, it is crucial to know if a job offering or a prospective business partner that claims to be “agile” really keeps its promises. You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 33,000-plus subscribers. ?? Refined the instrument.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 16, 2020

This is a guest contribution from Monica Georgieff, Agile Coach and Trainer at AgileSherpas. Brought on by the struggle to respond and adapt to these times of VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity), marketers have increasingly begun to embrace an Agile approach to their project management. Does Agile work for marketing?

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nTask

MAY 3, 2019

From the 1960s to early 2000s, Agile Framework adoption was still in its infancy. Teams and organizations who were looking to expand, unknowingly adapted to a specific set of daily rituals that were later termed as Agile Project Management, PMP and other such condiments. The 5 Best Project Management Certifications of 2019.

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International Institute for Learning

JULY 7, 2022

2009), include eXtreme Programming (XP) (Beck and Fowler, 2001) and Scrum (Schwaber and Beedle, 2002). 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).

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 19, 2019

In 2017 I was talking to the head of the Agile Coach Group of a large bank. The birth of spreadsheet Agile adoption. The result is what I call spreadsheet Agile Adoption and the approach usually goes like this: Step 1. Taylor inspired spreadsheet Agile adoption. The book is 528 pages long and contains 94 Scrum patterns.

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Scrum.org

JULY 15, 2019

TL; DR: The Liberating Structures Immersive Workshop for Scrum. Since the beginning of 2019, the Hands-on Agile meetup in Berlin has been exploring how to apply Liberating Structures to Scrum. While the initial meetups went smoothly, the last two meetups felt rushed given that we usually have about two hours.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 20, 2020

Investing in agile would underpin this approach by introducing ways of working that reduce complexity, improve collaboration and bring the customer to the forefront of each decision. Reaching Agile Maturity Ahead of Plan. Company-wide agile awareness and engagement activities established a strong foundation for change.

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MPUG

OCTOBER 10, 2022

A Sprint is considered to be a mini-project within a Scrum project. However, many Agile practitioners do not follow this practice. In this article, we will take a scenario for Sprint in a Scrum project and follow the steps needed to close a Sprint Project. The Daily Scrum events are not all complete. Our Project Scenario.

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Gunther Verheyen

DECEMBER 11, 2019

During the fall of 2019, I got totally consumed (and sometimes drained and overwhelmed) by an exciting new Scrum book project. O’Reilly Media envisioned adding a book about Scrum to their “97 Things” series and got in touch with me (through Dave West of Scrum.org). I had the honor of curating the initiative.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Considering that Scrum teams make a ton of decisions every day and also have resolutions (not only once per year though), this could make huge difference when formulating for example working agreements, capturing retrospective results and of course initiate agile transformations. .

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

In January 2019 I was at Prowareness in Delft, Holland, and attended the 2 day Professional Product Owner course delivered by Ralph Jocham , co-author of The Professional Product Owner book. The course is suitable for anyone who is involved in product management through the use of Scrum. Agile Product Management.

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Gunther Verheyen

APRIL 24, 2020

Apparently, it is easy to get stuck at interpreting the rules of Scrum. In the publication “ Moving Your Scrum Downfield ” I have described the six essential traits of the game to help you get unstuck and up your game. These six essential traits are indicative of Scrum coming to life. Every case of Scrum is unique.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 6, 2020

For instance, in Scrum, a Sprint is a short cycle that should not exceed one calendar month. Finally, Bas Vodde and Craig Larman have already discussed the impact of using traditional project contracting for Agile software development initiatives here: Agile Contracts.

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International Institute for Learning

MAY 16, 2022

Another article written more from an Agile Practitioner’s perspective is RGP’s How Business Agility Helps You Thrive in the Age of Disruption. Brown, Director and Agile Coach at the Hartford Insurance. Business agility mindset begins with a mental shift. I recommend both pieces as must-reads.

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MPUG

JULY 15, 2019

Hence, frozen requirements during the initial stages create a number of issues later on. Stories in Agile Development replace requirements. This leads to the concept of epics in Agile development. This happens in the Iteration Planning meeting (or Sprint Planning meeting, if you are using Scrum). Stories in Backlog.

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Henny Portman

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Friday September 13, I was one of the 40 participants of the second Agile NXT Future Friday conference organized by Xebia in Hilversum, the Netherlands. It was, similar as the first AGILE NXT Future Friday, perfectly organized, interesting topics, great food, and enough time to network. We started by defining (per table) autonomy.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 29, 2020

Last week, 30-plus attendees of the 24th Hands-on Agile meetup ran a virtual Barcamp experiment w/ MIT’s Unhangout, an open-source platform for organizing attendee-driven virtual open space events. Join the 25th Hands-on Agile meetup on August 20, 2020, to explore the virtual Ecocycle Planning. Unhangout’s Promise.

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Project Pulse Journal

MARCH 20, 2024

Tailoring prevents teams from being overwhelmed by irrelevant procedures or documentation, fostering a more agile and responsive environment. Following this structured guide can help make your project management methodology as agile, responsive, and effective as possible.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 31, 2018

This year Scotiabank and Scrum.org have given me a platform for teaching over 500+ people in Product Ownership, Leadership, and Scrum (a catalyst for change). After the initial selection, I was super excited, followed by the anxiety of now, what do I talk about? . I wanted to talk about agile, leadership, and courage.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 18, 2020

On November 22nd, 2019, I gave the closing keynote at Scrum Deutschland, a talk called ‘The Four Things You Do To Prevent Value Delivery.’ In Scrum, product accountabilities are clear: The Product Owner is accountable for the business of the product (strategy, releasing, profit & loss, etc.) Background. What is bureaucracy?

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Settle in, make yourself a brew and enjoy learning from people who actually live scrum day in day out. . This second post in the ‘Agile ADHD’ series from me, Sally Waters, and my husband Francis, is all about the details of how we implement Scrum at home. Nothing helped with this until we tried Scrum. Steve Trapps.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

They rarely (or never) miss a Daily Scrum, they’re involved during the Daily Scrum and it might just be that they’re asking individual team members what they’ve done, what they’re going to do and if there’s anything blocking them. Wikipedia , Oktober 2019 —.

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nTask

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

As an Agile project manager, I have seen, heard and experienced my fair share of horror stories. Newbies’ Guide to Scrum Project Management 101. On that note, I can say that we apply this method in Agile project management through Scrum meetings. . What’s the Worst That Could Happen to a Prince2 Certified Project Manager?

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

TL; DR: Scrum Master Interview Questions on Scrum Anti-Patterns. Scrum has proven time and again to be the most popular framework for software development. Given that software is eating the world , a seasoned Scrum Master is nowadays in high demand. Which makes any Scrum Master interview a challenging task.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 2, 2020

TL; DR: Scrum Stakeholder Anti-Patterns. Learn how individual incentives and outdated organizational structures — fostering personal agendas and local optimization efforts — manifest themselves in Scrum stakeholder anti-patterns which easily can impede any agile transition. Copyright notice : InfoQ, 2019.

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Leankor

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Calgary, Toronto, Austin, November 20, 2019 — Today, Leankor, the visual work management platform that enables enterprises to optimize and accelerate complex order-to-cash processes, announced it raised $4.1 High-Impact Solutions for the Manufacturing, Utilities, Energy and Heavy Industrial Sectors. About Leankor.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 23, 2019

I was challenged to define organizational agility that would leave all people involved in no doubt about expectations. Here is my definition of organizational agility, and it keeps evolving: The ability to drive disruption in society , the industry & the marketplace, an adaptive way of being/learning/sensemaking, through ? learning,

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Workzone

MARCH 12, 2019

Wrike is an end-to-end solution that takes your projects from initial request to tracking work progress to reporting results. It’s designed to support the Agile process during which teams plan, build, track and release software early and often. VersionOne is an enterprise software platform for unified Agile & DevOps.

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Project Management Essentials

MAY 1, 2019

In last month’s article, ”Road Trippin’ Organizational Change: The Beginning” , I recommending using adaptive-agile planning practices and treating the effort like a road trip: Set the direction, not the destination. Our adaptive-agile framework allows us to exploit the opportunities and minimize the threats. They are experienced.

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Gunther Verheyen

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In the summer of 2019 I got in touch with O’Reilly Media about their ambition to add a book about Scrum to their “97 Things” series. O’Reilly and I compiled and merged our lists of potential authors and in August 2019 I started contacting them as potential contributors.

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nTask

AUGUST 22, 2019

“Scrum” is a phenomenal subject – i.e. if you are familiar with it. 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.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Last week, someone on Reddit asked whether there would be any other profession that requires attending a 2-day training class and would then pay as well as a Scrum Master job. This attitude is precisely why the 47 Scrum Master Interview Guide exists: Prevent imposters from slipping through the hiring process and causing damage.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 4, 2019

The 2019 Scrum Master Trends Report by scrum.org and the State of Agile 2018 shows numbers that provide insight in the maturity of agile adoptions. More than 80% of the Scrum Masters (respondents) claim their organization is in or below a “still maturing” level. Pre-Scrum waterfall .

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nTask

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

It guides the execution of a project from initiation to project closure. Agile Project Management. Agile project management is an iterative and incremental approach to delivering projects. There are multiple frameworks associated with agile implementation, Scrum being one of the most popular ones. Waterfall Model.

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ProProfs Project Management

JULY 5, 2019

76% of high-performing organizations use strategic initiatives to meet business intent and original project goals. 80% of federal IT projects were self-described as ‘iterative’ or ‘Agile’ in 2017. 93% of communication service providers are using agile project management methodologies. Source: PMI, 2019 ) Tweet this.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

The 2019 Scrum Master Trends Report by scrum.org and the State of Agile 2018 shows numbers that provide insight in the maturity of agile adoptions. More than 80% of the Scrum Masters (respondents) claim their organization is in or below a “still maturing” level. Pre-Scrum waterfall .

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