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

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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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. ? If so, how did it go ??

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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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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Newton’s third law is also true in the case of agile vs waterfall, where one sprang to life as a reaction to the other. Created a few decades before the agile methodology, each phase is reliant upon the deliverables of the previous phase. What is Agile? Even though agile is popular, the history of agile is in its infancy.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 1, 2022

My most successful projects have one thing in common; I used an agile approach to deliver them. Tips for agile delivery: If you plan to use a predictive (waterfall) project approach, the charter will contain detailed scope and high-level requirements. In my experience, agile project teams typically combine these two phases.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 28, 2023

In Kürze: Nutzlose Agile Metriken In der Regel ist eine Metrik ein Frühindikator für eine Musteränderung, der es Ihrem Scrum-Team ermöglicht, die Ursache rechtzeitig zu analysieren und Gegenmaßnahmen zu ergreifen. Sie können sich hier für den Newsletter „Food for Agile Thought“ anmelden und sich über 47.000 Abonnenten anschließen. ?

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

But time pressures, expediency, and tightening budgets make you opt for band-aids. Establish an Agile System of Governance to guide this (and other) efforts. Adaptive Governance This is an adaptive and dynamic process best served by agile governance. Ignoring this problem, however, can have serious consequences.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 6, 2022

?????? This post continues my ongoing series revisiting the principles behind the Agile Manifesto. This time we are focussing on the following Agile principle – “Build projects around motivated individuals. A motivated team that uses Scrum will naturally be agile.

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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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Scrum.org

MARCH 17, 2021

One continuing problem we see with many of today’s business leaders is that they rarely adopt Agile at the leadership level. It’s not that they are resistant to the idea of creating an Agile organisation. We use agile frameworks (Scrum) to answer these questions, structure collaboration and generate momentum.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 18, 2020

Based on my experience working in agile environments since 2010, I did some research and had general observations on the topic. Regardless of the business domains or product area, there are some common rules that may devastate your efforts toward agility. . First of all, we need to underline that the Agile Transformation never ends.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 14, 2023

In the Oxford Diary, the word agility is defined as the ability to move quickly and easily. It is therefore understandable that many people relate agility to speed. The term “agility” is often used to describe “a change of direction of speed”. Agility involves the ability to react in unpredictable environments.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Es oficial: El mundo es Agile. Tras observar la evolución, hay que aceptar que lo Agile ha sustituido al Project Management , si no en su totalidad, en un gran número de corporaciones y gobiernos. Los Project Managers han dejado paso a los Scrum Masters , los Product Owners y hasta a los mismísimos Agile Coaches.

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Kiron Bondale

JANUARY 9, 2023

This week, I participated in an interesting discussion on Mastodon in which the initiator asked for input on ways to frame agility based on the core problems which a team might be trying to solve. This is useful as it can help to answer the “why” behind an approach change.

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Techno-PM

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Budget management works like a checking mechanism and companies that provide project management services have a working knowledge of trial-and-error methodologies for a long time. Budgeting in Project Management: Methods, and How to Estimate a Project Budget? Each sprint is handled by a small team for not more than two weeks.

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LiquidPlanner

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Are you thinking about introducing agile processes to your project management methodology? You’ve a few case studies, you’ve perhaps even seen agile working effectively at other companies. Additionally, it may not be enough for you to know that agile methods are a logical addition to your toolset at work. So why choose agile?

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Scrum.org

JUNE 1, 2021

And the training I ask for improvement keeps being returned due to budget issues…. Especially if we are talking about an organization that has started its transformation process to Agile…. Come and let‘s talk about the opportunities of your leaders turning into an Agile Leader…. Who was supposed to be improving?”.

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nTask

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

We know how troubling it can be to keep track of your budget. Managing your personal expenses is already a stretch, but the budget of an entire business can be a bit too overwhelming. Thankfully, many project budget management apps can make your work much easier and more fun. How Can Project Budget Management Software Help You?

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The IIL Blog

MAY 17, 2023

Lee Henson Within the Agile framework, work in progress (WIP) is the amount of work that is currently being worked on but not yet completed by the team or organization. Limiting WIP is one of the core principles of Agile, and it is a critical aspect of ensuring that Agile teams can deliver high-quality products on time and within budget.

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Leading Agile

JULY 22, 2022

When working toward becoming an Agile Organization, many companies begin by applying Agile methodologies at the team-level and then call the Transformation done. The problem is that even when you do it perfectly, establishing a team-level Agile Delivery Model is almost always insufficient. Do you see the problem?

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Kiron Bondale

APRIL 5, 2020

I’ve often said that one of the bigger challenges with agile transformations is the costs of doing nothing (different) today is cheaper than those of changing things so that they will be much better a year or two down the line. But all that has changed.

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Planview

JUNE 28, 2019

Funding practices—that is, the way budgets are allocated throughout the organization—dictate nearly every business outcome. When implementing Lean-Agile practices at scale, organizations quickly realize that their push for agility conflicts with traditional budgeting and cost accounting practices. Then, teams get to work.

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Leading Agile

MAY 5, 2023

In our experience, the number one barrier to doing Agile at scale, to running a successful Enterprise Transformation, to achieving true Business Agility is creating complete cross-functional teams at the lowest levels of the organization. Agile is about fixing time and cost and varying scope to maximize value. What do I mean?

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

The unit of delivery is the Agile team.”. The skillset we need up front is someone with the ability to rapidly translate ambiguous requirements into some sort of a forecast or a budget, expressed in terms of consumption of team capacity, in that whole-team unit of measure. BUDGET instead of ESTIMATE at the roadmap level.

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Scrum.org

JULY 17, 2023

Agile has become more than just a buzzword in our complex world. Agility is a mindset, a skillset, a culture, and a driving force behind successful, flexible, and responsive organisations. The Agile Leader's commitment goes beyond mere lip service to the Agile Manifesto. In the Agile world, this couldn't be truer.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Agile for Customer-Centric Development: Sara’s Plan for Success Sara strongly believes that her organization requires three critical capabilities to succeed. So, she calls in her agile coach Kim to help her on this matter. Read the full episode at Creating Agile Organizations.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 14, 2024

The importance of a project strategy is simple: it helps deliver projects on time, within budget and aligned with larger strategic goals. Project Manager: This is a professional responsible for leading the project, making its schedule and budget as well as leading and managing the project team. That’s the project scope.

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Planview

JULY 29, 2021

Effective project budget tracking is essential to ensure that project costs do not spiral out of control — and potentially threaten project success. This informative and easy-to-read article explores the basics of project budget tracking , including best practices and a 7-phase methodology. Estimate Budgets.

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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.org

JULY 30, 2023

Agility enables you to refine and cycle through this process repeatedly, eliminating flawed assumptions and optimizing those with a greater chance of producing favorable outcomes. Leadership and Scrum True agility for companies goes beyond fancy methodologies and rituals.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 7, 2021

TL; DR: Essential Agile Failure Patterns — When Noise Interferes with Signal. When Scrum becomes an element of an agile transformation, the following three common essential agile failure patterns prove to be an exceptionally tough nut to crack for any Scrum Master. Is Agile a Fad or a Trend?

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Scrum.org

MARCH 17, 2020

TL; DR: Remote Agile, Part 1: Practices & Tools for Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, and Product Owners. Agile has always been about colocation, about direct communication, physical boards, and all the other haptic and analog moments to create value in the digital realm. Moreover, admittedly, I love index cards. General Tips.

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Henny Portman

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Everything wrong with agile – Half the work in twice the time is the first agilecartoons book by Michael Küsters. The 70 ridiculous agile situations are clustered in 8 groups: Let’s transform. Diplomatic solution Toxic behaviours Custom Kanban No plan Dogmatic Scrum Cost centre budgeting Agile road construction.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 19, 2022

What is the business case for Agile teams? We think we do well to base our beliefs about Agile more on evidence. This post is our attempt to bring an evidence-based perspective to the business case of Agile teams. Each post discusses scientific research that is relevant to our work with Scrum and Agile teams.

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NimbleWork

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

When the Agile methodology was first introduced, it was embraced as a welcome replacement to the rigid Waterfall approach. The community largely accepted Agile and Waterfall as mutually exclusive project management paradigms. Critics of Agile believed that Agile simply translates into fast failure.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

TL; DR: Agile Management Anti-Patterns. Learn more about agile management anti-patterns the aspiring servant leader should avoid during the organization’s transition: From applying the Stage-Gate® approach through the back door to the ‘where is my report’ attitude to other beloved signs of applied Taylorism.

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