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How To Make 2023 A Successful Year for Your Projects

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Would you like to make 2023 a successful year for your projects? It’s a lot to read, so here are some spoilers drawn from common themes I heard time and time again in the interviews: Agile : if you don’t know enough about it, you need to start learning.

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Unlocking Agile Success: Aligning Your Organizational Design with Strategic Focus

Scrum.org

Agile organizational characteristics are crucial, but they alone won’t determine all of your design decisions. Agility lies in discovering and addressing changing customer needs faster and more effectively than competitors can.

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What Is Agile Product Management?

Agilemania

The term “ agile product management ” means precisely what it sounds like. At its foundation, agile product management is a reaction to the widespread usage of agile software development approaches such as scrum or kanban. The post What Is Agile Product Management?

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Are you familiar with Agile Organization Design?

Scrum.org

What is Agile Organization Design ? An Agile organization design can help you achieve this goal by creating a flexible structure that supports your employees' ability to learn to adapt to customer demands.

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Mastering The Art of Solution Based Management in 2023

nTask

Solution based management is about problem-solving, innovation, and collaboration. It requires organizations to be agile, responsive, and able […] Agile Project Management Agile Project Management Project Management Techniques solution based management

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Why is Satya Nadella a better example of agile leadership than Steve Jobs?

Scrum.org

Steve is great, but in terms of Agile leadership , he doesn’t touch sides – in my opinion – to Satya Nadella. Innovation and Agile capabilities. So, there was and is no systemic, in-built innovation and agile capabilities across the organization.

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Digital Transformation Strategy Framework for Strategic PM’s

The Strategic Project Manager

Innovation and Experimentation – What do we and don’t we know? What flavor or level of innovation might be possible? Business Model Innovation – Can the organization benefit from major changes, even transformation, of its core business model?

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Lean Startup and Scrum

Scrum.org

I was an analyst for Forrester research on a panel at the Agile conference in Orlando. After the conference, I bought Eric Ries’s book - Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses.

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Leadership Tips for Project Managers – Part 2

International Institute for Learning

Before joining PMI, Mike consulted and managed innovation and technology projects throughout Europe, North and South America for 30+ years. He was co-lead for the PMBOK Guide—Seventh Edition, lead for the Agile Practice Guide, and contributor to the PMI-ACP and PMP exam content outlines.

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How To Lead Scrum Masters With Liberating Structures?

Scrum.org

Some time ago, I had an interesting conversation with an Agile Coach from a large car manufacturer in Germany. As an Agile Coach, he’s responsible for about 50 Scrum Masters. or “How can we give Scrum teams time to innovate while also keeping a focus on getting work done?”

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12 Reasons Organizations Adopt Agile

Leading Agile

Companies that adopt Agile never do it just for the sake of adopting Agile. They do know that Waterfall wasn’t working, so Agile will fix those problems, right? They think if they do the “Agile stuff,” they will make quicker progress to achieve their goals.

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Using the Prime Directive to avoid Retrospective Witch Hunts!

Scrum.org

Psychological safety is important for organizational performance and innovation. They are also more likely to take risks, try new approaches, and experiment with innovative ideas. Key Takeaway: Psychological safety is important for organizational performance and innovation.

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Improve how your team uses metrics!

Scrum.org

The most useful metrics in Agile environments are those that measure outcomes. Examples of such metrics are stakeholder satisfaction, return on investment, quality, innovation rate, and cycle time. Why don't you give the Agile/Scrum Team Survey a try?

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ChatGPT Product Owner Job Interview

Scrum.org

You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 36,000-plus other subscribers. ? You are well familiar with Scrum and other agile product development practices. Q 01: Why Become Agile? Question : What is the purpose of being agile in the first place?

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ChatGPT 4: A Bargain for Scrum Practitioners?

Scrum.org

I wanted to determine whether ChatGPT 4 is superior to its predecessor, which left a good impression in recent months; see my previous articles on Scrum, Agile, and ChatGPT. You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 45,000-plus other subscribers. ? ? ? ??

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Unlock the Power of ChatGPT for your Scrum Team

Scrum.org

You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 36,000-plus other subscribers. ? ? ?? Guaranteed : Professional Scrum Master Training w/ PSM I Certificate — Live Virtual Class: February 7-10, 2023. TL; DR: ChatGPT Prompts for Scrum Practitioners.

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Risks in the project: an overview

Inloox

In addition, the negative effect of operational problems can be reduced by a high degree of agility within the whole company. Agile methods can help minimize operational risk. The shorter the innovation cycles can be kept, the faster adjustments can be made and changes that pose risks can be responded to. Know the risks in your project! Risk management plays an enormously important role in project management.

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ChatGPT 4: Ein Schnäppchen für Scrum-Praktiker? ??

Scrum.org

Ich wollte herausfinden, ob ChatGPT 4 seinem Vorgänger überlegen ist, der in den letzten Monaten einen guten Eindruck hinterlassen hat; siehe meine früheren Artikel zu Scrum, Agile und ChatGPT. April 2023. ? März 2023 von OpenAI oder im OpenAI GPT-4 Technical Report.

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Breaking Barriers: How Shifting Mindsets Unlocks AI’s Potential in Project Management

International Institute for Learning

With almost 30 years of experience in technology and data-driven projects across numerous organizations, from large corporations to small businesses around the globe, he is well-versed in project best practices, including strategies for innovating and advancing project delivery practices.

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An introduction to Organizational Topologies

Scrum.org

Agile transformation is a highly contextual journey. Org Topologies enables change agents to choose an org design that allows them to grow their organization along these two axes and embrace holistic product development with high adaptivity, innovation, and resilience.

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46 Best Trello Alternatives For Your Project Management in 2023

Workzone

It includes an advanced user experience with innovative time tracking to plan, log and get an overview of hours. Pricing: Free-$8/user/month 19.Yodiz Agile practitioners, listen up. Pricing: Free-$9.99/user/month 5.Assembla Take a glance at Assembla for an out-of-the-box Agile tool.

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How to get Scrum Teams comfortable asking for help

Scrum.org

Why interdependence is essential to teamwork and Scrum Organizational researchers, such as Adam Grant and others, report findings that indicate a willingness to help others achieve their goals lies at the heart of effective collaboration, innovation, quality improvement, and service excellence.

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Accountability and Delivery

Scrum.org

Introduction Organisations that have implemented agile approaches have reported several benefits, including increased value, flow, and performance. Accountability at the individual, team and organisational level is key for the successful adoption of agile.

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The Seven Archetypes of Organizational Topologies

Scrum.org

So, we call these two archetypes non agile-friendly. As their principles of operation contradict just about any value and principles from the Agile Manifesto. Archetypes Org Topologies is a mapping of recognizable organizational archetypes in product development.

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What’s New in SAFe® 6.0?

Agilemania

Copyrights: © Scaled Agile, Inc. offers the newest and most effective Lean-Agile practices, enabling forward-thinking enterprises to navigate today’s rapidly changing challenges and opportunities. The power of the Agile Team has never been more critical in achieving this.

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Strengthening the Foundation for Business Agility

Agilemania

Copyrights: © Scaled Agile, Inc. is- Strengthening the foundation for Business Agility. Business Agility Value Stream (BAVS) – The newly introduced BAVS has been added to the top of the Big Picture, leading the way for competing and thriving in the digital age.

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Tribes and Squads. How adaptive is that?

Scrum.org

Your organization will become agile by defining value areas and creating autonomous fast to deliver teams working in them. And there are cases like the one of ING that seem to prove that it works great to create a culture of delivery and innovation. Low adaptivity, low innovation.

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Successful DevOps Starts With Organizational Alignment

Leading Agile

What causes it to not succeed, and you know at LeadingAgile we’ve had a similar Journey over the last 20 years with how Agile fails and why it’s hard to roll it out across an Enterprise. Why is this thing called Agile something you want to adopt?

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How Project Management Will Benefit from Using Artificial Intelligence

International Institute for Learning

For many companies, expanding the number of projects into strategic programs and portfolios, then adopting modern delivery methodologies such as agile or hybrid delivery lifecycles, brought with it new challenges such as those shown in Exhibit 1.

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Steps To Create Mindblowing Mind Map Ideas

nTask

If you’re looking to come up with innovative ideas, you need the right tools. Agile Project Management Agile Collaboration mindmapping Project Management TechniquesFortunately, mind mapping is one of the most effective tools you can use.

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Leadership Tips for Project Managers

International Institute for Learning

Before joining PMI, Mike consulted and managed innovation and technology projects throughout Europe, North and South America for 30+ years. He was co-lead for the PMBOK Guide—Seventh Edition, lead for the Agile Practice Guide, and contributor to the PMI-ACP and PMP exam content outlines.

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The EVIL is WATERFALL

International Institute for Learning

By Gabor Stramb Nowadays, in Project Management you can only hear the following: Be more AgileAgility is key – Running projects based on Waterfall is “dead”, “you are not open minded”. We cannot “blindly” run and be agile. Being agile.

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What’s The Future of Project Management in 2023 and beyond?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Hybrid Project Management: The Next Step for Agile. But there does seem to be a trend in accepting that agile approaches like Scrum can fit within a hybrid framework. The future of project management needs to be more agile. What is the future of project management?

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Leadership Tips for Project Managers – Part 1

International Institute for Learning

The image below shows how team member productivity contributions can vary from net-negative Undermining or Resistance on the left-hand side all the way to Passionate Innovation on the right.

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Cross-team Collaboration – Why it’s more Important than Ever in the Modern Workplace

nTask

Cross-team collaboration allows employees to bridge the gap between departments, build relationships, and create innovative ways of working together.

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Risk Identification Techniques and How to Brainstorm Well

MPUG

It crosses the boundaries of all project types, from the tightest of predictive projects, to the most agile and flexible of adaptive projects. While others, because of their need to innovate and step into the unknown, will have a far greater tolerance for risk.

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Top 8 Importance Of Leadership In Management

Agilemania

A Leader Must Be an Innovator Leaders who accept and offer new ideas, initiatives, tactics, and practices that enhance the workplace are exceptional innovators. Leaders may also use innovation to rethink and actively listen to their team’s opinions and suggestions.

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Accelerating Value Flow

Agilemania

Copyrights: © Scaled Agile, Inc. SAFe Team Kanban is a Lean-Agile method (Figure 17) that helps Agile Teams facilitate the flow of value by visualizing workflow, establishing Work in Process (WIP) limits, delivering value continuously, measuring throughput, and improving their process.

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Intro to Jobs To Be Done (JTBD) and Why It’s Valuable

Leading Agile

Body copy: Jobs to be Done is a Framework designed to enable more innovation and disruption. It’s used as a tool to see products through the eyes of customers and the goals they’re trying to accomplish.

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Building An Inclusive Ecosystem

International Institute for Learning

James and Krista White are Keynote Presenters in this year’s Leadership & Innovation 2023 Online Conference! Browse IIL’s Agile and Scrum courses here! By James D.

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