Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 19, 2023

Agile methods need Agile teams — teams that think differently and work in ways that support responsive delivery. An agile mindset, and a set of shared values, principles, and often Agile tools, help Agile teams succeed. So why are agile teams different to other types of ‘classic’ project team?

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The IIL Blog

APRIL 24, 2024

By Alan Zucker Agile is a mindset described by a set of values and principles. Lean is industry-agnostic and offers insight into agility. Transparency Transparency is a core Lean-Agile principle. Agile teams use information radiators to produce radical visibility into backlogs, risks, and status through Kanban boards.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 31, 2023

Sitting at lunch during Agile 2023, I felt deja vu. I have attended many Agile conferences. At Agile 2023, I did not feel that. The challenges they discussed could be traced to classic business change management issues rather than anything unique to agility. My first was in Chicago in 2009.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 22, 2024

Nobody sets out to adopt agile just to adopt agile. Companies invest in agile because they think it will help them solve a business problem. They hope Agile will help the delivery teams work more efficiently, decrease defects, or provide a more collaborative working environment. So, what do they care about?

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 30, 2024

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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Scrum.org

JANUARY 24, 2024

Agile is dead! ☠️ The new year is only a few weeks old, but I’ve already read various LinkedIn articles claiming the death of Agile. ‍♀️ Given the yearly claims of Agile’s death, we can draw various conclusions. Agile never really died, or it reincarnated and came back alive and kicking. My recommendations would be: 1.

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Scrum.org

JULY 3, 2023

TL; DR: The Uncomfortable Truth of Scaling Agile Agile transformations, scaling Agile from a team level to the whole organization, are more than implementing frameworks like SAFe®. You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 47,000-plus subscribers. ? ??

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Leading Agile

MARCH 29, 2023

I don’t spend a bunch of time on LinkedIn, but the other day, I was scrolling around and happened to catch a thread where some folks in the Agile community were debating if SAFe was actually Agile. In short, it really comes down to what you mean by Agile and Agility. One of the original signatories of the Agile Manifesto.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

A Scrum board, also known as a Kanban board, is a visual tool often used by Agile teams to track and manage work items, often represented as sticky notes or digital cards, as they progress through various stages of a project or sprint. Jira Jira is arguably one of the most popular project management tools for Agile teams.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 11, 2023

Agile begins to break down because these impediments are outside the teams’ span of control. You’re going to need a plan to deal with the things that are getting in the way of Business Agility. One of the biggest things that we see and that we believe, and we think is a huge barrier to adopting Agile.

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

How do we deal with the complications it presents when we apply it at scale? In this week’s podcast, LeadingAgile Chief Transformation Officer Matt Van Vleet joins Dave to answer all of these questions along with a general primer on DevOps in Agile Transformation. Contacting Dave Prior. LinkedIn: [link]. LinkedIn: [link].

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Before we talk about the comparison and contrast between Scrum Master and Agile Leader, people often compare and contrast Scrum Master and Agile Coach, and they often ask me, what’s the difference? They should be well versed on product management, design, other agile and lean agile approaches.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 25, 2024

In 1973, Ohno published the Toyota Production System—Beyond Large-Scale Production. Kanban & Project Management Kanban project management works in an agile framework. Kanban works for agile software development and DevOps alike as it drives efficiency through seamless task progression on visualized workflows.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 8, 2024

TL; DR: Humble Planning w/ Maarten Dalmijn In this fascinating talk, Maarten introduced the concept of humble planning and why it’s crucial for succeeding with an Agile way of working and building products of exceptional value. It is a must-see for all agile practitioners! ? Hands-on Agile Meetup. ? By the way, it’s free.

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Scrum.org

JULY 17, 2023

Health Checks for Agile Teams Agile teams thrive on continuous improvement and adaptability. The true essence of self-assessment in Agile is fostering transparency, collaboration, and relentless improvement. The true essence of self-assessment in Agile is fostering transparency, collaboration, and relentless improvement.

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Inloox

OCTOBER 10, 2023

How do agile and classic project management methods differ? In principle, project management methods can be roughly divided into two groups: There are both agile and classic approaches. In principle, project management methods can be roughly divided into two groups: There are both agile and classic approaches.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 30, 2023

TL; DR: Agile Transformation with ChatGPT or McBoston? I was interested in learning more about a typical daily challenge many agile practitioners face: How shall we successfully pursue an agile transformation? Or shall we embark on an agile transformation with ChatGPT providing some guidance?

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Scrum.org

JUNE 20, 2023

TL; DR: Employing Agile Coaches next to Scrum Masters? Often, when organizations employ agile coaches and Scrum Masters, we can observe that agile coaches work at an organizational level. You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 47,000-plus subscribers. ? ??

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 19, 2024

Kanban and scrum are agile project management methodologies that can be used for similar purposes, but each has its unique pros and cons. While scrum has been scaled to apply to bigger projects and organizations, its roots are in agile software development and has come to work seamlessly in that smaller, nimble environment.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 9, 2023

I have been working on agile projects for the past 10 years. A couple of years ago, I asked by an executive how he would know if the money they invested on setting up these agile release trains was working? He was essentially asking me to prove the “ROI” for agile and to measure delivery of value.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Agility and self-organisation were beaten to a stalemate by hierarchy and command & control. TLDR; Waterfall won the war with agile. Agile did not win the war with waterfall. The markets were new, largely stable, and based on textile, steel, and large-scale goods production. I want to help people change.

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Scrum.org

MAY 30, 2023

In this Hands-on Agile meetup, Joe shared DX, or Digital Transformation, the agile operating system for TeslaSpeed—a term coined by the EU Commission to talk about how fast Tesla moves and how fast they need to move now. ? Watch the video now : How Elon Musk Would Run YOUR Business mit Joe Justice — Hands-on Agile EXTRA. ?

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Leading Agile

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

If you want to be successful at Agile Transformation —especially at scale—you’ll need more than Agile Coaches teaching your teams the ceremonies of Scrum or how to do SAFe and LeSS. To be successful, your company will need an array of people to take on various Agile roles and responsibilities. Program/Portfolio Coach.

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NimbleWork

MARCH 7, 2024

As the Agile project management framework reaches adoption maturity at lean, progressive and disruptive startup firms, many teams at established organizations are struggling to fully embrace the Agile project management framework at scale. How to migrate from Traditional PM to Agile?

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Scrum.org

APRIL 19, 2023

Scrum is the most popular Agile framework. According to Digita.ai’s 16th annual report, 87% of organizations using an Agile framework use Scrum. That’s up from 58% of Agile teams using Scrum, as documented in the 14th annual State of Agile report. Why is Scrum so popular? Scrum is simple; that is its power.

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Leading Agile

JULY 18, 2023

Agile needs to be tied to business-driven results. If not, then we start measuring things like people trained, teams doing Scrum, or the organization’s sentiment toward Agile to tell us if we’re succeeding. If your Agile isn’t helping you do that, then it’s not really Agile at all. First, how are we forming teams?

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Leading Agile

APRIL 7, 2023

As a community, we have developed a handful of team-based Agile approaches over the years; some of which we would consider scaled. Implementing Agile, especially in larger, more complex organizations, still seems to be a black art. All the things we consider hallmarks of a small team, Agile methodology. But here we are.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

One of the major challenges of introducing Agile into an organizational ecosystem is that Agile principles, practices, mindsets, organizational structure, governance, and metrics aren’t usually in line with how most corporations do business. . Agile gets installed in the small and is instantly at odds with the current operating model.

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LiquidPlanner

JANUARY 18, 2023

Sometimes a team is new to agile and just wants to know if they are on the right track. A blog article describing “fake Agile” may be resonating a bit too much for comfort. First however, I suggest examining the question itself, “Am I doing Agile right?” It turns out that “agile” isn’t really a process.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Now Scrum is not just a smart way of delivering software, it is a fundamental part of any enterprise agility transformation. . A pattern I would like to label ‘The Agile Hangover’. . First there comes the Agile party. What happens when the business needs to start becoming more agile? They are already agile.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Many organizations nowadays have an urgency to adopt Agility. So, it's not a surprise that Agility has become mainstream, 20 years after the Agile Manifesto was released. So, it's not a surprise that Agility has become mainstream, 20 years after the Agile Manifesto was released. Agile immaturity.

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Leading Agile

JUNE 17, 2022

Many large-scale Agile Transformations are struggling. However, the underlying problem is that most large organizations weren’t built to be Agile. Organizational Barriers to Agile. Organizational Barriers to Agile. Many organizations that adopt Agile operate with hindrances present. Some have failed.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

But in a scaled Scrum, complexity vastly increases, and Refinement becomes mandatory. In this article, I will explain how you can use Refinement to your advantage and enhance organizational agility. Sufficient refinement is indispensable in a scaled Scrum. Sufficient refinement is indispensable in a scaled Scrum.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 27, 2023

It's intriguing how many organisations today are discussing agile transformation, digital transformation, and various other forms of transformation. They've witnessed the success of agile and are desperate to embrace it. Instead of committing to understanding and implementing agile, they're looking for a quick fix.

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The IIL Blog

APRIL 17, 2024

Morgan As I gear up for IIL’s #AgileCon2024 presentation , the theme “Scaling for the Future” ignites a sense of enthusiasm. Strategic agility enables organizations to pivot swiftly in response to market dynamics and emerging opportunities. By Alicia M. Alicia is presenting at this year’s #AgileCon2024! Register today.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 16, 2023

TL; DR: Hands-on Agile #53: An Agile Coaches Guide to Storytelling with Bob Galen On September 5, 2023, we had the opportunity to listen to Bob Galen on “An Agile Coaches Guide to Storytelling.” In this session, Bob shared his experience coaching an agile coach struggling to connect with a development manager.

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Scrum.org

MAY 28, 2023

Are you looking to embark on an Agile transformation journey for your organisation? Look no further than tryScrum's white paper on the Stages of Agile Transformation. In this paper, we discuss the stages of Agile transformation based on extensive research and collaboration with experienced Agile coaches.

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