ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Agile Methodology. What It Is: In a nutshell, Agile project management is an evolving and collaborative way to self-organize across teams. The agile methodology offers project teams a very dynamic way to work and collaborate and that’s why it is a very popular project management methodology for product and software development.

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Henny Portman

AUGUST 17, 2023

In Beyond agile auditing – Three Core Components to Revolutionize Your Internal Audit Practices , Clarissa Lucas explains what it means to audit with agility. The book is divided into three parts. Today, most Agile Audits are performed by breaking the audit timeline into a number of sprints.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 7, 2019

TL; DR: Faking Agile Metrics — An Eye-Opening Exercise. Imagine you’re a Scrum Master and the line manager of your team believes that the best sign for a successful agile transformation is a steady increase in the Scrum Team’s velocity. Cooking the Agile Books — A Simple Exercise. Faking Agile Metrics for Scrum Masters.

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Leading Answers

JUNE 9, 2019

These websites and software services will only be “done” development when the company stops being competitive, offering new services or keeping up with technology evolution. It means the product is no longer competing or actively being maintained as technology continues to evolve. This is where product development books can help.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Your single best investment to improve your professional standing ; order the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book now! ? You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 42,000-plus subscribers. ? Shall I notify you about articles like this one? But what if there’s a tool that could help navigate this complexity?

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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. It is easier to prove one page than a chapter, let alone an entire book. Transparency Transparency is a core Lean-Agile principle. Toyota was a Lean pioneer.

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Henny Portman

MARCH 3, 2022

The book Better Agile – How every software firm can spend less time firefighting and have more fun building great software by David Daly highlights his experiences to make agile work. It offers Scrum and Kanban mistakes to avoid and three agile secrets to continuously improve your agility. Scrum mistakes to avoid.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 15, 2024

By: Hajime Estanislao, PMP, CSM The quest for methodologies that offer efficiency and agility has never been rockier. Agile methodologies stand at the forefront of this quest, providing the blueprint for rapid, responsive, and customer-centric project execution. Agile methodologies offer a path to mastering these challenges.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 20, 2022

TL; DR: Scrum Master Interview Questions on the Sprint Review. 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. It is the Sprint Review. The Sprint Review According to the Scrum Guide.

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Scrum.org

MAY 10, 2022

Fourth blog, in a blog series about the upcoming book: Creating Agile Organizations - A Systemic Approach, by Cesario Ramos & Ilia Pavlichenko. For example, in one company the employees collaboratively defined the optimizing goals, learning goals, and metrics for an Agile adoption. Guideline: Voluntary Participation.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 17, 2022

As project managers, it’s important that we know how to best support our development teams (and vice versa), especially in Agile environments. Here is what we learned from an invaluable brainstorming session with our Tech Lead. Approaches you might consider in an Agile environment are Scrum, Kanban or Scrumban , but there are others.

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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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Henny Portman

DECEMBER 28, 2020

2020 was again an extremely fruitful book review year. I wrote around 50 book reviews including 16 corresponding quick reference cards and several personal insights, and views on specific topics in the field of project, program and portfolio management. My own books, whitepapers and articles. Agile related books.

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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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NimbleWork

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Are you wondering how often to hold a sprint review? Sprint reviews are an agile ceremony that can be formal (in a meeting room) or informal (gathered around someone’s desk). They are designed to showcase the work done during the sprint – as the name suggests, they are a review of the sprint. you might ask.

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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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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

It’s a huge help with exam techniques such as managing your time and using the ‘mark for review’ option. Review the questions you got wrong, using the helpful references to understand what the right answer should have been. Review the references to go deeper into that topic. Tab your book. But it’s a big book.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 1, 2020

Regular readers will know that I’m not at all experienced in formal Agile project management, but I know it is something that I need to know more about. Today I’m partnering with Eylean to give you an overview of three agile methodologies: Scrum, Kanban and Scrumban. Agile Methods: The Basics. Agile is agile is agile?

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 9, 2023

However, in our rapidly evolving business landscape, sticking rigidly to traditional Scrum by the book could be a straightjacket stifling innovation, user focus, and adaptability. Get notified when the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book is available ! ? Shall I notify you about articles like this one?

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Teamweek

MARCH 3, 2023

With over 10,000 published titles, finding the right books about recruitment can be a challenge. What used to be simple: placing an ad and hiring the best candidate, is now a whole new world of complexity—shaped by new and emerging technologies , strategies , and candidate needs. A must have book for any recruiters and sourcers!

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 31, 2023

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. He is the author of Reinventing Communication by Routledge, a book on how to design, lead and manage high performing projects.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Preorder the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book now for delivery in January 2024! ?️ Upfront, long-term planning : This approach conflicts with the Agile principle of welcoming changing requirements, even late in development. And then there are others — the Scrum trap.

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Scrum.org

MAY 15, 2023

TL; DR: 60 ChatGPT Prompts for Agile Practitioners ChatGPT can be an excellent tool for those who know how to create prompts. You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 46,000-plus subscribers. Get notified when the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book is available ! Please [insert your task here.]”

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Leading Agile

JULY 3, 2023

But as companies scale, as the market shifts and more parts of the business become software-focused, there’s been an increase in demand for an end-to-end solution to help large organizations build infrastructure around sound technical practices. Career incentives may discourage people from being agile, and then we ask them to be agile.

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Henny Portman

MARCH 15, 2019

ambler and Mark Lines are the creators of the Disciplined Agile Delivery framework and the authors of the book Introduction to Disciplined Agile Delivery – a small Agile Team’s journey from Scrum to Disciplined DevOps ( 2 nd edition). The core of the book is a case study. Full delivery cycle.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Join the Mastering Agility community! said Peter, the CEO of a high-tech organization. Progress toward the Sprint Goal was hampered due to the items for John, as well as the new ones. This came out during the Sprint Review. Technical debt was all-around. Photo by Icons8 Team on Unsplash.

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Henny Portman

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

In the book Agile transformation – Structures, processes and mindsets for the digital age , the author Neil Perkin shows how to transform an organization to a new type of business for a new age and to become fit for purpose for both the present and the future. QRC agile transformation Download. Conclusion.

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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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Planio

JULY 22, 2020

A good project management book. the truth is that project management books are a more in-depth way to get inside the minds of the best managers out there. We combed through best-seller lists, spoke with veteran PMs, and read a ton to put together this list of the best project management books for upgrading your career in 2020.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Be a diligent, respectful and caring steward. We can lead by example by acting as a diligent steward for our projects, but I think other managers in the organization need to live by this principle as well. We are using more and more tech tools to get work done. Oh look, another subject I wrote a book on! Stewardship.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

But what if this managerial focus on velocity is a fata morgana obscuring the path to true agility and value? ? Get notified when the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book is available ! ? You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 48,000-plus subscribers. ? By the way, it’s free.

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Planio

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

That’s why every massively successful tech company, from Netflix to Airbnb, has invested in finding the best project management tool for them. Part 1: The big list of 11 best project management tools used by top tech teams (and why they use them): 1. Figma uses Asana. But it’s not enough to just know what tools are being used.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Thought-leaders often have a stake in promoting certain beliefs, so as to bring people to their classes, books, or products. There are dozens of high-quality academic works to draw from, there are dozens of academic journals dedicated to (agile) software development (ASD) and change management. All these sources offer evidence.

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Project Risk Coach

OCTOBER 12, 2020

I've also had the joy and the pain of implementing three Project Management Offices (PMOs), two in Information Technology Departments and one Enterprise PMO. Take the time to review this list; use it as a checklist in your planning and implementation. I've been managing projects and programs for more than 20 years.

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Leading Answers

DECEMBER 9, 2019

This is the third sample from my new Kindle book “ Agile Illustrated: A Visual Learner’s Guide to Agility ”. The book is a graphical introduction to the agile mindset and servant leadership behaviors for working with agile teams. Today we will review Team Performance.   Team Formation.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

It’s a predictive methodology, although PRINCE2 Agile ® allows for agile frameworks. Because PRINCE2® is a broad-brush approach, it doesn’t cover technical processes or specific techniques, but it will fit alongside them. You review progress, monitor that against the baseline you set and correct any deviations.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 31, 2024

It doesn’t matter if you are agile or waterfall, iterative, predictive, incremental or hybrid: what’s important is that when a new requirement comes along, it is clear and thought through, and you know what it is! Book quality checks Now you know what project quality measures you are trying to hit, book some quality checks in.

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