International Institute for Learning

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

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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Sustainability Agile Innovation Technical Review 52

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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Scrum.org

MARCH 21, 2024

This subtle change signals a seismic shift in mindset: from temporary initiatives to sustainable, evolving solutions. Or take Amazon, which went from selling books to becoming a behemoth in e-commerce and cloud services, driven by a relentless focus on customer-centric products, not finite projects. Why Promote a Product Culture?

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Velociteach

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Projects are instrumental in defining an organization’s vision for a more sustainable future. Dr. Joel Carboni talks about Sustainable Project Management, and the goal to achieve a stated objective while considering the project outcome’s entire lifecycle to ensure a net positive environmental, social, and economic impact.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 13, 2023

TL; DR: Adherence to Legacy Systems, Processes, and Practices Administrative overreach and micromanagement in Scrum mainly arise from clinging to legacy systems and traditional (management) practices, leading to rigidity and misapplication of Agile principles. Get notified when the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book is available !

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Process Sustainability Technical Review SCRUM 154

Scrum.org

AUGUST 21, 2023

Explore a series of carefully curated collections of essential books, newsletters, podcasts, and tools to elevate your agile expertise. You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 48,000-plus subscribers. ? Get notified when the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book is available ! ?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 19, 2023

People sometimes struggle to earn the required Power Skills PDUs (formerly Leadership PDUs), and The PDU Podcast can help with that too. PDUs with the Agile PrepCast $129 Earn 30.5 PDUs by listening to The Agile PrepCast and learning more about agile tools and methods. Earn PDUs PDUs with the Agile PrepCast $129 Earn 30.5

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Scrum.org

MARCH 22, 2020

Completing an Agile Coaching certification doesn’t make you an Agile Coach. Just to be clear, this bare-bones guide isn’t the only way of becoming an effective Agile coach but does contain enough to give you a solid foundation so you can be useful, effective and deliver a ton of value to your clients and the organisations you serve.

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Kiron Bondale

MAY 30, 2021

They might place greater faith in senior leadership’s ability to overcome significant issues with the project. It is relatively easier for leaders to make staff who are co-located with them feel comfortable about speaking up, but it takes greater effort for them to establish and sustain such safety with dispersed team members.

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Sustainability Governance Government Leadership 358

Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Learn how these Scrum anti-patterns categories manifest themselves and how they affect value creation for customers and the organization’s long-term sustainability. This is the second of three articles analyzing the 183 anti-patterns from the upcoming Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book. Lack of leadership support hinders collaboration.

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Scrum.org

MAY 8, 2023

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? ? You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 46,000-plus subscribers.

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SCRUM Agile Technical Review Software Review 170

Henny Portman

DECEMBER 23, 2021

The third edition of the Blue Striped Frog magazine offers insights into leadership, programme management, the combination of low-code with agile working and several articles focusing on working remotely under the Northern lights, Pippi’s lesson about the agile mindset and wonders if agility lost its ability to be innovative.

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Software Review Agile Innovation Sustainability 111

Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 21, 2020

People sometimes struggle to earn the required Leadership PDUs, and The PDU Podcast can help with that too. There is a Leadership PDU package which just gives you the requirements for that part of the PMI Talent Triangle. PDUs with the Agile PrepCast. Online resources really are a fast way to earn free PDUs. Learn more.

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2020 PMI Certification Software Review 452

Scrum.org

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Preorder the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book now for delivery in January 2024! ?️ Exclusively on my Substack Newsletter : The Importance of Quality for Agility — An Excerpt from the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide (7). ? You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 49,000-plus subscribers. ?

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SCRUM Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Leadership 188

Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

It’s too bad that this shift undermines Agile principles and hampers long-term success and innovation. Preorder the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book now for delivery in January 2024! ?️ In many large organizations, Scrum teams fall into the ‘feature factory’ trap, focusing more on churning out features than creating real value.

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Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Sustainability 183

Leading Answers

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Now that my Beyond Agile book has been published, I would like to thank people who helped shape its content and ideas. The Kanban Method can teach agile practitioners many useful ideas about incremental improvement, successful organizational change, and improved team performance. Encourage acts of leadership at every level.

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Lean Agile 2007 Sustainability 78

Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

The core responsibilitie of the agile leader is creating the right context for the agile teams so they can thrive and self-manage. In my book ‘Agile Leadership Toolkit’ I dedicate a whole part to this important topic. It must of course also be rewarded and sustained. Frances Hesselbein. Why Ownership?

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

TL; DR: The Illusion of Velocity In this article, I explore the pitfalls of ‘The Illusion of Velocity’ in agile contexts, peeling back the layers of traditional metrics as leadership tools. Moreover, I point to the advantages gained from leadership engaging directly with teams.

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Leadership Underperforming Technical Team 2007 Agile 168

Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

It’s a predictive methodology, although PRINCE2 Agile ® allows for agile frameworks. PRINCE2 Agile ® came along in 2018 to enable PRINCE2® to work with agile concepts like timeboxing and Kanban. It’s the practice that enables the project leadership, effective communication, and team empowerment. Because it works.

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Prince2 Technical Review Governance Government 363

Scrum.org

JANUARY 15, 2024

TL; DR: Sunsetting Scrum Masters In this article, I uncover indicators that a Scrum Master’s or Agile Coach’s journey is coming to a close; they are sunsetting Scrum Masters. Preorder the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book now for delivery in January 2024! ? Finally, please do not fool yourself; sometimes, it is also time to move on. ?

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 2, 2023

When people say they have a culture problem that’s preventing them from sustaining change in an Agile Transformation, what they’re really saying is that they have a cognitive dissonance problem. You have an inability to help people see how Agile is going to improve the organization. And we want people to think in small batches.

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Agile Technical Review Controlling Sustainability 112

The Strategic Project Manager

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The Four Actions Framework, also known as the ERRC framework, is a ‘blue ocean’ strategic management tool introduced in the book “Blue Ocean Strategy” by W. Agility and Adaptability – The framework encourages companies to be agile and adaptable in responding to market dynamics and changing customer preferences.

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Sustainability Transportation Innovation Aerospace 97

Kiron Bondale

MAY 10, 2020

Covey’s wrote his book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People®, it was used by individuals for self-improvement but the same habits could also help teams in their journeys to greater agility. “ Just as individuals should blame everything on others, agile teams need to own the mistakes which arise from their behavior.

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Agile Sustainability Leadership 218

Scrum.org

JANUARY 18, 2022

Difficulty in sustaining the Time-Box. The Scrum Master is always the one to keep a keen watch on sustaining the timeboxed activities. Recommended Antidote : Always sustain clarity on each event’s agenda, explain the importance of timeboxing to everyone on the team. Lack of Understanding between Agile Teams and Stakeholders.

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SCRUM Sustainability Agile Energy 225

ProjectManager.com

JUNE 28, 2018

There has been some backlash against Six Sigma over the recent years, some of which is warranted and will be discussed, but overall the process proves a valuable tool in reducing defects in product manufacturing, especially when paired with Agile thinking, lean manufacturing and capable project management tools. Leadership is critical.

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Lean Manufacturing Transportation Sustainability 417

Scrum.org

APRIL 23, 2023

TL; DR: Self-Management Is self-management an essential building block on an organization’s path to business agility or a nice-to-have cultural twist to, for example, keep teams happy and attract new talent? You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 46,000-plus subscribers. ? ? ? ??

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ChatGPT 2023 Innovation SCRUM 178

Scrum.org

MARCH 10, 2023

Mike Cohn describes a high-performing team as one that “sustainably exceeds expectations in achieving clear goals. You feel your Product Owner understands and honors the concepts of sustainable pace, the importance of setting the vision and Product Goal, and the radical collaboration that Scrum encourages.

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SCRUM Technical Review Sustainability Software Review 150

Scrum.org

JUNE 1, 2023

Accessing Scrum training and education (books, blogs, podcasts) that focuses on Scrum Team members and others integral to the process of producing usable increments of value can be a helpful step towards teams embracing self-management. That includes leadership. Developing the team’s sense of purpose is also essential.

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Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM 2023 Sustainability 163

Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Requirements also help you cover off other success criteria like quality expectations, sustainability requirements, and more. If you work in an agile team , this happens through backlog grooming and sprint planning. New leadership likes to make a mark on things. The project process has flexibility baked in, which is great.

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Leading Answers

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Now that my Beyond Agile book has been published, I would like to thank some people who helped shape its content and ideas. Agile approaches combine a mixture and equal balance of people and process approaches to delivery. The people and process elements are present in all views of agile, no matter how you slice it.

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Process Agile Sustainability Software 78

Scrum.org

JULY 26, 2021

You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 32,000-plus other subscribers. ?? However, before taking that step, they need to have identified a better way of creating value for the customers and a sustainable business for the organization. Shall I notify you about articles like this one?

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SCRUM 2020 Agile Sustainability 222

International Institute for Learning

MAY 18, 2023

and Cynthia Snyder Dionisio, MBA, PMP Abstract In recent years, the adoption of agile practices has seen significant growth, with empowerment, stakeholder engagement, and transparency becoming essential in both predictive and agile projects. What is emphasized is the current focus on agility, stakeholder engagement, and sustainability.

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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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ChatGPT Technical Review 2023 SCRUM 183

Kiron Bondale

JANUARY 19, 2020

Edmondson, who has literally written the book on psychological safety ( The Fearless Organization ), wrote about the culture at Boeing which enabled the 737 Max issues to fester for a long time before they tragically became mainstream news. ” This aligns well with two of the leadership actions which Amy recommends in her article.

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Sustainability Leadership Controlling Software 250

Kiron Bondale

MAY 2, 2021

Encourage your team members to work a sustainable pace and to come to you if they are not confident in pushing back when someone asks them to take on more work than they feel comfortable juggling. If you liked this article, why not pick up my book Easy in Theory, Difficult in Practice which contains 100 other lessons on project leadership?

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The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2023

This means that project managers will also stay relevant in the age of AI if they focus on the core skills of project management, namely: Leadership, Communication (verbal & non-verbal), Empathy, Emotional intelligence, and Negotiation. [6]. However, it is important to remember that there is something AI cannot do – be human. Creativity.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 7, 2022

The conference is focused on ‘The role of project-based governance in sustainable development: the need for institutional development’ 2022 AIPM National Conference: Gold Coast, Australia, Sun, 27 Feb 2022 – Tue, 1 Mar 2022. Agile and Beyond: Detroit, Michigan, USA, 24-25 May 2022.

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