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Project Management Trends [2020]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Project management is no different: we see trends come and go, or stay with us and develop over time. Recently I’ve been reflecting on what the shifts are and where that is taking us as project managers. There are some things that are coming that will have a fundamental impact on project management, if I am right.

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Commitments and their meaning in SG 2020

Scrum.org

In 2020, the Scrum Guide 2020 introduced the concept of commitments, one for each artifact (physical things). Some managers push developers to commit to the actual plan devised from the tasks within the sprint backlog. The sprint backlog should contain a good selection and meaningful plan but allow flexibility and agility. .

2020 208
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Agile is not a Luxury

Scrum.org

In times of organizational challenges, the temptation to cut costs often leads some to view Agile frameworks as a luxury rather than a necessity. However, dismissing Agile as a luxury is a mistake that comes from underestimating the transformative power of Agile frameworks for solving complex problems.

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The Scrum Guide 2020 Reordered

Scrum.org

The Scrum Guide Reordered 2020 is based on about 95 percent of the text of the Scrum Guide 2020, extending its original structure by adding additional categories, for example, on self-management, commitments, or accountability. Management. Self-Management. Further Reading: ©2020 Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland.

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What’s The Future of Project Management? (2020)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

What is the future of project management? Let’s look ahead and see what the next 10 years will bring for project management software, jobs, and the role itself. Does Project Management Have a Future? So will we need ‘professional’ project managers in the future? People who just do managing projects?

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New Presentations for 2020

The Lazy Project Manager

It has been 10 years since The Lazy Project Manager was published and I have had the pleasure of presenting on this topic in 25 countries so far, but now, at the start of a new year, 2020 no less, I have decided that this will be the last year that I deliver ‘The Lazy Project Manager’ keynote. This is nonsense.

2020 162
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Agility for a Sustainable World: Why We Need to Redefine The Meaning of Agility

Scrum.org

This year was the 20th anniversary of the Agile Manifesto for Software Development, and in many sectors, agile ways of working have long since become the standard. There are also many explanations of what agility really means, but there is agreement on the core meaning: focus on customers and their needs.