Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 31, 2023

And this article is a summary of what they replied. 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. It’s how we can help people and organisations adapt in fast-changing times.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 14, 2024

How to Create a Project Strategy An organization must conceive a project strategy before identifying projects that will help achieve its long-term goals. There are also agile practices, which are more iterative and collaborative with cross-functional teams. Get started with ProjectManager today for free.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 1, 2023

How do you list the project management skills required without it turning into a giant list of buzzwords? Here’s how. How to include project management skills on your CV Let’s just go with the fact that CV and resume are interchangeable terms for the purposes of this article. On my CV, I have a section that covers skills.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 10, 2023

TL; DR: How To Spot Successful Scrum Masters In this article, I unravel the secrets of what makes a Scrum Master not just good but amazingly outstanding. Exclusively on my Substack Newsletter : The Importance of Quality for Agility — An Excerpt from the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide (7). ?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 2, 2022

How to create a rolling wave plan. It can work well for software development, even if you aren’t in a formal agile environment, and product development as well as other changes like compliance and regulation projects, which is where I have used it. A rolling wave plan starts with knowing the major milestones or governance points.

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LiquidPlanner

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Whether you’re making the move to Agile project management in your development group or creating an Agile process for your in-house project management methodology, chances are you’re going to have to sell this change to executives in your organization. Align Agile project management with your organization’s strategy.

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Project Risk Coach

MARCH 21, 2022

How will you elicit, analyze, document, and validate requirements? What project lifecycle—predictive/plan-driven, adaptive/agile, iterative, incremental or hybrid—will you use? How will you manage requirement changes? Read my article: Why Project Managers Need Business Analysts. Poor requirements change process.

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Scrum.org

JULY 8, 2021

TL; DR: How to Win with Agile Resistant Teams w/ Scott Weiner — ACB21. In this highly engaging speaker session from the Agile Camp Berlin 2021, Scott Weiner shares a case study on how to master an agile transition by creating agile resistant teams based on common sense, team autonomy, and the psychology of metrics. ??

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

This article is a follow-up post to “ Agile is Dead.” Despite frequent claims of Agile's death, I don't consider this to be true. It's interesting to think about Agile in the context of Ecocycle Planning. The accumulation of all the individual Ecocycles (one for each organization) defines the state of Agile in general.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

On Agile projects, business representatives work alongside developers so scope unfolds as the project progresses. How to create the perfect business requirements. This is where Agile project teams have a huge advantage over traditional, waterfall ways of working. We partner with Bridging the Gap #ad.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

TL; DR: Resistance to Agile Transformations Stakeholders often revert to resistance to agile transformations due to fears about job security, perceived loss of control, comfort with established practices, and misconceptions about Agile. Shall I notify you about articles like this one?

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Scrum.org

JUNE 26, 2023

TL; DR: Useless Agile Metrics Ideally, a metric is a leading indicator for a pattern change, allowing your Scrum team to analyze the cause in time and take countermeasures. What if these useless agile metrics lead you in the wrong direction while providing you with the illusion that you know where your team is heading?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Note: This article assumes you are working in a predictive environment. If you are using agile methodologies, you have other tools available to you to manage changes in requirements because flexing the scope of the project is very much built into the agile way of working. What should I do?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

In this article, we’ll look at the causes of team conflict on projects, how to identify conflict and resolution strategies so you can all get back to work. If you prefer to watch videos instead of read, skip on to the videos in each section that summarize the article. What is team conflict?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 15, 2021

PRINCE2 Agile. Are you taking the Agile version of PRINCE2? The book covers agile basics, PRINCE2 basics and has a useful section on what to fix and what to flex. It looks at how to apply the principles, themes and processes in an agile way and explains how to manage product delivery.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 5, 2024

Agility is supposed to be about enabling people to do their best and most creative work. And yet, we often see so-called agile practices and frameworks being used in ways that are more about trying to control outcomes and people. And then we say that we are agile and open to change, so it’s all good.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 8, 2022

TL; DR: Agile Micromanagement. Nevertheless, the prevailing cause of many messed-up attempts to use Scrum result from what I call agile micromanagement, a pseudo-commitment to agile principles only to be overridden whenever it seems beneficial from a stakeholder’s or manager’s perspective. Reasons for Agile Micromanagement .

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Project Bliss

MAY 16, 2019

The original use was to support attendees in adopting agile work approaches. I’ve shared other valuable Agile practices your team can use even if you’re not switching to full Agile. I’m most familiar with seeing Lean Coffees used in Agile environments, or to discuss Agile topics.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 5, 2022

This article first appeared at Rebel's Guide to Project Management. PRINCE2 Agile. Are you taking the Agile version of PRINCE2? The book covers agile basics, PRINCE2 basics and has a useful section on what to fix and what to flex. Buy PRINCE2 Agile on Amazon. PRINCE2 Agile : An Implementation Pocket Guide.

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The IIL Blog

MAY 1, 2024

By Nagaraja Gundappa First things first – let’s define business agility: Business agility, alternatively called enterprise agility and organizational agility, is the ability of an organization to rapidly adapt to market and environmental changes in productive and cost-effective ways according to PMI’s Disciplined Agile.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 20, 2023

In this article we’ll look at the types of artifacts in project management, typical documents for each type. Artifacts in the PMBOK Guide – Seventh Edition Artifacts are categorized in the PMBOK® Guide – Seventh edition into 9 different types and that’s what this article is going to look at. What is an artifact?

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Scrum.org

APRIL 17, 2023

TL; DR: Jira Anti-Patterns If you ask people to come up with popular attributes for “Agile” or “agility,” Scrum and Jira will likely be among the top ten featured. Moreover, in any discussion about the topic, someone will mention that using Scrum running on top of Jira does not make an organization agile.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

One of the reasons for that is scope creep – and that’s what this article is all about. How to avoid scope creep. How do you do that? What is scope creep in agile? Scope is flexible in agile, so scope creep doesn’t really exist at a project level. What is scope creep?

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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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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Embraced across industries, Agile frameworks offer a flexible approach for delivering complex products. At the heart of successful Agile implementation lies a delicate equilibrium between autonomy and guidance - a balance that Agile leaders must master. Strategies for Striking the Balance 1.

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nTask

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

No project is complete until it's been thoroughly planned and executed in Agile style. If you're new to agile software development, or simply want to improve your team's agility skills, this guide is for you.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

In this article, I’ll look at 5 activities you can try in your daily team standup meeting. If you work with Agile methods , you will likely be attending standup meetings every day. Some teams that don’t use Agile still do standups because they are a good way to catch up with everyone, especially on fast-moving projects.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 19, 2021

How do you list the project management skills required without it turning into a giant list of buzzwords? Here’s how. How to include project management skills on your CV. Let’s just go with the fact that CV and resume are interchangeable terms for the purposes of this article. Describe your project management skills.

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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. Shall I notify you about articles like this one? However, if you take Scrum seriously, this approach has no upside.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 30, 2023

TL; DR: Agile Transformation with ChatGPT or McBoston? This article is another excursion into this nascent yet fascinating new technology of generative AI and LLMs and the future of knowledge work. Or shall we embark on an agile transformation with ChatGPT providing some guidance? I am no longer sure about that.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 16, 2024

These innovative agile practices are a departure from the Taylorist traditions of the defense industry, which is grappling with continuous inflation and delays, impacting national security and human lives. Agile contracts are effective but still constitute an additional layer of complexity that is generally best avoided.

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Teamweek

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Just a year ago, if you were to ask someone about their proficiency in ChatGPT, they’d stare at you much like I stared at a blank Google Doc when starting this article. That’s how quickly the world is changing these days, and it doesn’t show signs of slowing down any time soon. What is learning agility?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Read on for tips for how to earn PDUs fast. 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. You’re in the right place!

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

While people have talked about how to give effective feedback , little has been said on how to receive feedback. We have now reached a happy balance, and through that journey learned a lot I would like to share our guide on how to receive feedback. Note this article is the sister article for How to Give Effective Feedback.

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Scrum.org

MAY 8, 2023

As you may recall, no one on a Scrum team can tell anyone else what to do, how to do it, or when to do it. So let’s have a look at some typical agile negotiation scenarios. ?? Zur deutschsprachigen Version des Artikels: Agile Verhandlungen – Das Leben ist Verhandlungssache; warum sollte Scrum anders sein?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

How to Prepare for a Project Management Interview. This 85-page ebook on how to ace your project management interview gives you everything you need to approach your interview with confidence. What type of teams have you worked in before (agile, hybrid, predictive, operational etc). Then this is for you. Your next steps.

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Project Risk Coach

JANUARY 18, 2021

In this article, we go a step further. How to manage: Typically, a senior leader in your organization must make the decision to implement a PMO. How to manage: If you are new to the organization, solicit feedback from key stakeholders using the Delphi method or interviews. How to manage: Interview the stakeholders.

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