Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 18, 2019

As project managers, it’s important that we know how to best support our development teams (and vice versa), especially in Agile environments. At White October we continuously reflect on our process to refine the way we work. At White October, we encourage direct communication between the development team and clients.

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Project Bliss

MAY 10, 2017

Everybody’s talking about agile software development these days: project managers, software developers, IT directors, small startups and big corporations. What is Agile Software Development? Agile software development is an approach that promotes delivering value quickly to the customer.

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LiquidPlanner

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Agile means a lot of different things to different project teams. Many teams I meet describe themselves as “Agilish” or use “Scrumerfall”. These teams struggle with Agile practices as business analysts author reams of business requirements only to have a development team write the user stories.

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Leading Answers

DECEMBER 21, 2017

My first opportunity to create and run a large agile team did not start well. Having had good successes with small to medium sized agile teams I was keen to unleash the benefits on a bigger scale. A clean-sheet development opportunity with a smart team and engaged business group – what could go wrong?

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International Institute for Learning

APRIL 19, 2023

By Alan Zucker Disciplined Agile® (DA) and the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®) are two popular, second-generation agile methodologies. They build on lean-agile thinking, and standard Scrum, Kanban, and DevOps practices. They emerged about a decade after the Agile Manifesto.

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Agilemania

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

To get such negative reviews after putting so much effort into writing an entire article. This is where the Agile feedback loop becomes a crucial factor. Let’s learn more about why fast feedback is a crucial aspect of Agile and how you can improve its usefulness. Scrum feedback loop such as sprint review, is an in-house process.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 22, 2021

This attitude is precisely why the 47 Scrum Master Interview Guide exists: Prevent imposters from slipping through the hiring process and causing damage. If you are looking to fill a position for a Scrum Master (or agile coach) in your organization, you may find the following 47 interview questions useful to identify the right candidate.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 12, 2020

Regular readers will know that I’m not an expert in Agile, by any means. I facilitate daily standup meetings for our support team. If you work with Agile methods , you will likely be attending standup meetings every day. There are plenty of benefits to agile meetings , including that this one is over and done with quickly!

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Agilemania

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Recognized as one of the world’s foremost authorities on Lean-Agile best practices, Dean Leffingwell took it on himself to do something about it. He introduced the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). SAFe is based on following 10 Lean-Agile principles-. Most Common Reasons to Use Scaled Agile Framework. What is SAFe?

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 21, 2019

He literally wrote the book about it, It’s All in How You Slice It , which came out in 2005. He achieves this with a mixture of agile, lean and lead, UX design and design thinking startup frameworks. Putting the feature in plain, informal language lets the development team better understand the software feature and its importance.

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 2, 2022

Projects are designed to deliver a product or a service within a specific timeframe and budget, a process that the project manager oversees. In the illustration below, you can see that the product breakdown structure is used for building a book website. The final deliverable is the book website which sits at the top of the chart.

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Project Bliss

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

These 4 stages in the framework are still widely used for understanding group development. Team leaders can use this framework to help teams mature for better performance. And because Agile teams are self-guiding teams, this model can be helpful for them, too. How to Use this Model for your Teams.

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Digite

MAY 15, 2018

Inspired by Steve Porter’s efforts to bring process practitioners closer together and educate Scrum practitioners, I’m writing a shadow series of posts that will follow the Kanban and Scrum – Stronger Together series and continue my own efforts to clear up misconceptions between practitioners of these methods.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 15, 2023

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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Binfire

AUGUST 27, 2017

The Agile project management methodology has been used by software engineers and IT professionals for the past sixteen years. The reason for this surge in popularity is quite understandable, the majority of projects benefit when managed using lean concepts promoted by Agile project management methodology.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 30, 2022

When I started my journey as a Scrum Master about 12 years ago, I read many books about Scrum. Interestingly, one of the first books I also studied was “ Extreme Programming Explained ” by Kent Beck. In order to make the start as smooth as possible, you spend lots of time with the team to practice the Scrum kickstart.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 17, 2020

And that demand causes the market-entry of new professionals from other project management branches, probably believing that reading one or two Scrum books will be sufficient. Then sign up for the Food for Agile Thought newsletter and join 26k other subscribers. Maybe ‘Agile’ in general is a fad as opposed to a trend.

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Leading Answers

DECEMBER 21, 2017

My first opportunity to create and run a large agile team did not start well. Having had good successes with small to medium sized agile teams I was keen to unleash the benefits on a bigger scale. A clean-sheet development opportunity with a smart team and engaged business group – what could go wrong?

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 19, 2019

In 2017 I was talking to the head of the Agile Coach Group of a large bank. The birth of spreadsheet Agile adoption. Assuming that the best way of working is known, the only thing left to do is to ensure that all branches and teams work according to it. They create a model for measuring compliance with this process/method.

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nTask

JULY 7, 2021

PERT stands for the Project Evaluation and Review Technique. Well, that’s how the famous American engineer and management consultant, Harold Kerzner puts it in his book. It also helps you to set a realistic timeframe to complete your project development process in its entirety. Let’s begin. PERT chart. Let us explain.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Isn’t a Scrum Master some kind of an Agile Project Manager? Before we dive into an overview of the differences between a Scrum Master and a Project Project Manager, let’s start with the conclusion, which is: The Scrum Master is not an Agile Project Manager. This doesn't mean booking (conference) rooms. Source: [link].

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 12, 2020

As per Scrum Guide – The Sprint Goal is an objective that will be met within the sprint by implementing the Product Backlog , and it guides the Development Team on why it is building the Increment. The scrum team discusses what can be done based on the definition of done and crafts the Sprint Goal and forecast their work.

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Digite

JUNE 13, 2018

We’re honored to republish this blog post ‘Beginner’s Guide to Kanban for Agile Marketing’ by Andrea Fryrear which was originally published in the Agile Sherpas blog! But, for teams that chafe under the strictures of the Scrum process, Kanban can be a freeing alternative. Make Process Policies Explicit.

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LiquidPlanner

JANUARY 16, 2018

If you’re fresh out of Certified Scrum Master training, you are likely invigorated to start applying the Agile and SCRUM based techniques to your next project. Then you get back to work and the real world hits you—implementing Agile isn’t going to be as easy as you thought. Adopting Agile is an Exercise in Change Management.

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Scrum.org

JULY 21, 2020

Regularly, we find articles from developers detailing why ‘Agile’ in general and Scrum’s nature, in particular, deserve our collective disdain. Join the 25th Hands-on Agile meetup on August 20, 2020, to explore the virtual Ecocycle Planning. That’s simple; let me help you: Write something about how awful “Agile” and Scrum are.

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MPUG

JULY 15, 2019

Now, imagine a software development project. The process is a complex one with many stakeholders involved over months, sometimes years. In this process, written requirements with written words are many times inadequate, sometimes even inaccurate, and most of the time said requirements don’t convey the real intent.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Each post discusses scientific research that is relevant to our work with Scrum and Agile teams. How much time should they spend with their team or with stakeholders? Communicator : The transfer of knowledge between different sites, as well as from and to the team. Data from our Scrum Team Survey may shed a light on this.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 4, 2022

The scrum methodology was developed as a response to rigid project management approaches such as the waterfall method, which didn’t adapt to the needs of agile product and software development teams. Scrum is part of agile software development and teams practicing agile. Scrum Values.

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Herding Cats

MAY 15, 2019

This paradigm is at the core of any business process of developing software. Story points were invented to bridge the need to answer these questions between the business and development team using a method for writing software that would later be called agile. SPs are useful, but use them correctly. Bibliography.

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Scrum.org

JULY 1, 2019

There are lots of reasons, but at the core I see a forgotten requirement for Scrum (or agility in general) standing out: The agreement to work with Scrum. In many cases I see agile transitions are inflicted on the people using command and control by management. Individuals and interactions over processes and tools.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Dive into how leveraging custom GPTs might offer a novel path through Scrum’s common hurdles, focusing on creating actual customer value in the face of organizational and team-level challenges. ? Your single best investment to improve your professional standing ; order the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book now! ?

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 13, 2019

The ultimate corporate Application & Process Management path, or so I thought. Negotiating with suppliers, managing expectations of stakeholders, checking the progress with the developers, dealing with management. While managing applications, I simultaneously started to read multiple books about project management. Prowareness.

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Leading Answers

JUNE 14, 2018

Instead, we launch agile transformations, digital transformations and productization transformations. Can the average organization actually become a disruptive leader just by adopting the structures, tools and processes from the real disruptive leaders?   Agile Transformations. Transformations are flavor of the month.

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The IIL Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

By APMG International September 6, 2023 Agile project management is a flexible approach to managing projects which involves taking incremental steps referred to as sprints or iterations. The History of Agile Project Management Agile project management emerged in the software development industry in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

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Meisterplan

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Key resources are being booked on multiple projects at the same time. Different project management tools can record all processes in real time, documentation systems can collect completely new data and make it comparable to each other, and some apps can allow your employees to easily document all work steps through any smart device.

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MPUG

DECEMBER 23, 2020

You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content. And welcome to today’s MPUG webinar, the Project Recovery Process. This was a project recovery process. Kyle: Hello everyone. Do how to recover a project?

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Proofhub

JUNE 20, 2021

After this, algorithms will assess pages in the index, taking into account many different ranking signals and factors. Achieving that is a non-trivial process that involves creating long-form and comprehensive content, image optimization , and nailing down the technical aspects like site speed. Try now for FREE.

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