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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.

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Top Project Management Conferences of 2020

ProjectManager.com

So, save the date and mark your calendars, whether analog or digital: here are the top project management conferences of 2020. Change Management 2020 Conference. 2020 Project Management Symposium. For the agile enthusiast, this scrum gathering takes place twice a year since 2013. Agile & Beyond . June 1-3, St.

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The Future of Agile Roles != The Future of Agility

Scrum.org

The story of Capital One laying off hundreds of people in Agile roles is making the rounds. One example is the VP of Engineering in a growing startup, who decided to take on the SAFe RTE role (Chief Scrum Master for the Agile Release Train) since they felt it was up to them to provide this sort of leadership. Probably not.

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New training: Change Management Workshop

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Module 3: Tools for change management In this lesson you’ll learn about tools and techniques for delivering change, across the plan, deliver and sustain phases of change. What about if I work in an Agile team? Change management is still necessary, even if you are delivering your product using an agile approach. I don't know!

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How to Fail as an Agile Coach in Scrum

Scrum.org

Scrum Guide 2020. For this blog, I’ll be focussing on the latter, which is coaching people, teams and organisation as a dedicated Agile Coach — a rather popular phenomenon but at the same time a confusing, perhaps even a contradicting one. Scrum Guide 2020. I’ll leave this discussion in the middle. This all sounds pretty good.

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Sustaining Agility Beyond Crises

International Institute for Learning

During the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic, many executives were drawn to Agile management. All are hallmarks of Agile ways of working. Unfortunately, such spur-of-the-moment agility is fragile. But turning away from Agile now is a mistake. Companies can sustain their agility by taking three key steps.

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How to earn PDUs fast in 2020

Rebel’s Guide to PM

My recommended training course for PMP ® certificate holders wanting to quickly earn more PDUs is The Agile PrepCast for PDUs. PDUs with the Agile PrepCast. PDUs by listening to The Agile PrepCast and learning more about agile tools and methods. Binge as you please to fill up your PDU hours! Learn more. Learn More.

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