Leading Agile

JULY 13, 2021

So if we agree that Agile Transformation is worth talking about, we need a better way of talking about it. You see, over the past 20 years, the general hypothesis has been to train people on Agile methodologies and trust everything else will emerge. Teams will magically form.

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The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Agile A flexible and dynamic approach to project management that allows for iterative updates during defined time blocks, which allows for incremental value. Agile Manifesto The fundamental document that outlines the values and principles of Agile project management. Agile team A cross-functional group of individuals (e.g.,

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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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Planview

JANUARY 2, 2020

We facilitated a roundtable discussion of our customers at the 2019 Planview Horizons Customer Conference where enterprise agility in financial services organizations was discussed. In this case, the budget is adjusted at any time during the cycle to accommodate changes in customer requests. Agile teams are largely self-governing.

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Planview

JULY 9, 2019

Part 2: Lean Portfolio Management: Lean Budgets and Investment Funding. Now, let’s delve further into developing an agile approach for Lean portfolio management operations. Now, let’s delve further into developing an agile approach for Lean portfolio management operations.

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Agilemania

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Budgets are allocated to execute an enterprise’s strategy by portfolio management teams. Agile development and product development are aligned with business strategy through LPM, driving value to customers with products and solutions. Business agility can be improved by combining LPM and agile development practices.

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MPUG

APRIL 2, 2024

The project manager is responsible for coordinating the work of the team, monitoring progress, and making any necessary adjustments to ensure that the project is completed on time and within budget. Constraints typically relate to schedule, resources, budget, and scope. government began using it to manage complex defense projects.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Paul Boos has a post about estimating and makes a case for the Principles of when NOT to estimate. This struck a cord around a bigger topic - the inversion of estimating. When should we NOT estimate? Then on to the original conjecture for No Estimates from Paul's post. That is, to make decision with “No estimates”.

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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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Project Pulse Journal

MARCH 7, 2024

Discover the importance of organizational governance systems, delve into essential project-associated functions, learn how to navigate the project environment, and ensure you are communicating and building relationships with internal and external stakeholders. Customer value or the desired outcomes are established at the start of projects.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

An Estimate is a value inferred for a population of values based on data collected from a sample of data from that population. The estimate can also be produced parametrically or through a simulation (Monte Carlo is common, but Method of Moments is another we use). . Estimates can be about the past, present, or future.

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Planio

MAY 8, 2023

In fact, the digital transformation market was estimated at a whopping $731.1 Manages a defined project budget. ?️ Here, you’ll define your high-level project scope , objectives, budget, risks, and timeline, pulling everything together to create an outline business case or project initiation document.

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Planio

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Identify tasks, estimate timings, and map a timeline Step 4. Having a good understanding of your implementation plan helps manage other project areas, such as resource management, budgeting, and risk management. Identify tasks, estimate timings, and map a timeline Deliverables don’t just create themselves. Project control.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 29, 2017

What is an estimate? An estimate as a noun is an approximate calculation or judgment of the value, number, quantity, or extent of something. An estimate as a verb is to roughly calculate or judge the value, number, quantity, or extent of. But those estimates, nouns, and verbs themselves's have other attributes.

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Herding Cats

JULY 16, 2017

The GAO Cost Estimating and Assessment Guide has 12 steps. There are not specific to Agile Software Development. Agile teams, for the most part, are a fixed set of resources, so the spending plan is essentially Flat. You're late and over budget before you start, and have lowered the probability of technical success.

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MPUG

JUNE 19, 2023

What is a Change Order In project management, a change order refers to a documented request that modifies a project’s original scope, schedule, or budget. Budget Adjustment When there are project costs or funding changes, a change order may be needed to reflect the revised budget.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 27, 2017

There's a recent post titled Four Fallacious Reasons to Estimate. It lists the usual suspects for why those spending the money think they don't have to estimate how much they plan to spend when they'll be done producing the value they've been assigned to produce for that expenditure. Let's look at each one in more detail.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 20, 2018

Estimating Software-Intensive Systems: Project, Products, and Processes , Richard D. Stutzke is a starting point for estimating software projects. From tradition projects to agile projects, this text provides practical examples based on principles. First, let's look at some established definitions.

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Project Pulse Journal

MARCH 15, 2024

Malinawan, PMP Choosing the appropriate tools and techniques to your advantage is essential for professionals working in the dynamic field of project management who must contend with issues like project budget constraints, tight deadlines, and constantly changing requirements.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 16, 2016

The introduction of the apprenticeship levy in the UK next year may well have a significant impact on training budgets even in mid-sized firms. Our software tools are full of data from the risks we log to the estimates we fail to achieve. Are you waterfall or Agile? Blended Methodology. Or something else?

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 29, 2023

Agile A methodology for project and product management, typically used to deliver software projects in an iterative way with short bursts of work called “sprints” Though initially designed as a process for IT and engineering projects, it has since been successfully applied to other industries like marketing.

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Techno-PM

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The use of Lean portfolio management agile has exploded in the last decade as more and more companies have found that it is a powerful tool for structuring their product development processes. Target deliverables- Build road maps based on the market requirements and the expected size of effort collected during agile estimation and planning.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 6, 2017

There is a lot of unsubstantiated claims going around about how agile should or should not be applied. How estimates are or are not needed. From the point of view of Software Intensive System of Systems, here's how we've learned to manage development using Agile. How the team should or should not be managed. They have deadlines.

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International Institute for Learning

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Perhaps the most significant reason for the slow growth of many needed project management changes was due to senior management’s desire for standardization of governance and execution for the multitude of traditional projects managed for external clients. Being on time and on budget is not necessarily success.

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Wrike

APRIL 25, 2023

A project charter is a brief, formal document outlining the scope, objectives, budget, and stakeholders of a project. Define project timelines: Project charters include an estimated project schedule for the project to be completed. Try Wrike’s work plan template What is a project charter and why do you need one?

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

However, the goal is to maximize the value, not to increase the Velocity; The Project Manager is often used to reporting, mostly on (traditional) measures of progress, such as scope, time and budget. But also about deliverables, progress percentages, risks, milestones and deviations from the original plan.

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Techno-PM

AUGUST 9, 2021

It is unique, non-repetitive, and is defined by project constraints- a budget, a crystal-clear scope and a set of requirements to be met. Project Management is defined as the management of a project’s budget, scope, and schedule in order to make it successful and eventually satisfy the needs of the stakeholders.

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Planio

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Agile and Scrum. While your project managers will have no clue how much progress has been made and whether you’re on budget or even on track to complete it! Cost estimation: How much is it going to cost? Software Development. Deployment. Maintenance and Updates. Waterfall. Incremental and Iterative. Design and Prototyping.

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Online PM Courses

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

Tailoring traditional (predictive) and agile tools and methods. Here, they list their examples of technical project management expertise: Agile practices. Governance (project, program, portfolio). Time, budget, and cost estimation. Agile Project Management training corses. Issue Logs. Financial Reports.

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Online PM Courses

JULY 2, 2018

The theme of disruption is is more about the need for agility in the face of rapid commercial and technical changes. Organizations that completed 80% or more of their projects on time, on budget, and to meet business intent, and that have high benefits realization maturity. Government regulation and reform. Underperformers.

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MPUG

APRIL 15, 2022

Like for examples, infrastructure, organizational culture structure, governance, resource availability, marketplace conditions, et cetera. For the most part, maturity, when I say that level of maturity, it means how strict and standardized configuration management, data governance, documentation process is practiced within the organization.

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MPUG

MAY 6, 2021

We are a consulting company in the DC Baltimore area that specializes in project and portfolio management for about 80% of our customers in the government space, the other 20 in the commercial space. It is taking both traditional waterfall and agile and pushing them together into a project or a program. By education and training.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

This is a good starting point for answering the mail on the notion that decisions can be made in the presence of uncertainty without estimating the impact of those decisions. Estimates are for the business, why would the business no longer want an estimate of cost, schedule, or technical performance of the provided capabilities?

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Online PM Courses

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Relies on governance, hierarchies and controls. This will be enough to deliver their project to schedule and on budget. Other leadership roles include: Setting up a governance structure. Articles you might like include: What is Project Governance? What has Project Governance Ever Done for Us? Agile Practices.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 29, 2018

There's a popular notion in Agile that says Focus on Value. The principles of microeconomics of decision making in the presence of uncertainty mandates you make estimates of how to achieve that Value in terms of cost and schedule, those three (and all) variables are random variables, usually driven by a stochastic process.

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Velociteach

JULY 3, 2023

She’s also an expert on productivity, documentation, governance, risk, and compliance; and has delivered 15 years’ experience as an auditor, accountant, analyst, problem solver, and independent consultant. It’s, I mean, the reality is you need budget if you want to do a thorough closeout. She’s based in Calgary, Alberta.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

I've seen estimates abused by bad managers, so let's NOT estimate and that will fix the behavior of Bad Managers." While the human behaviors are real and observable, conjecturing that decisions can be made in the presence of uncertainty without estimating the outcome of those decisions, there is no principle to support that conjecture.

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