The Strategic Project Manager

OCTOBER 12, 2022

This post reviews the basics of agile scrum roles, ceremonies, and their impact on developing strategy and managing projects. Agile Scrum Roles. The scrum master is part project manager, part leader, part teacher. Building on the roles that people play in the scrums, what do they do? Agile Scrum Ceremonies.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 4, 2022

The Sprint is one of the five events defined in the Scrum Guide. The duration of the Sprint is timeboxed to a maximum of one month, establishing a cadence within which the Scrum team works together to deliver value. Additionally, Scrum is based on the empirical process, which relies upon transparency, inspection, and adaptation.

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Agilemania

JANUARY 24, 2022

What is Scaling in Agile? Agile is a set of values and principles. Agile is an umbrella term for a group of iterative product development frameworks. Most organizations started their Agile journey with one of the frameworks mentioned above, and Scrum is the most popular one. Scaling Agile Frameworks.

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Velociteach

MAY 10, 2023

The project management profession has had a similar quest—defining a methodology, set of practices, or principles that could successfully guide any project. Like physics and nature, project management is ubiquitous. Processes describe the inputs, tools, techniques, and outputs used to execute project activities.

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Agilemania

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

46% of the organizations reported inconsistencies in practices and processes as their main challenge with agile transformation. Source: 15th State of Agile Report. There sure is an Agile framework called SAFe. SAFe is a scaling agile framework, so referring to it as just an agile framework may not be appropriate.

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MPUG

DECEMBER 28, 2020

A new version of Scrum guide was released last month. My perspective is based on my analysis, my own interpretations, and the interactions I’ve had with Agile practitioners who follow my publications, books, and/or courses. The Product Goal has been defined clearly. Product Goal. This is depicted in the figure below.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 8, 2024

Malinawan, PMP Navigating the complexities of modern project management demands a sophisticated comprehension of the Development Approach and Life Cycle Performance Domain. Your pursuit of streamlining and enhancing project management processes led you to a pivotal crossroads.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 7, 2020

A Product Owner is an innovator at heart and thus a value creator for customers and organizations if given a chance to work in an agile manner. Lastly, there is an overlap with the product manager role. The Product Owner owns the “why” and influences the “what” and “who,” but never the “how.” The Product Owner Theses.

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Agilemania

MAY 17, 2021

What is SAFe agile. Scaled Agile is an agile framework for developing or delivering large products or solutions produced by multiple teams working in parallel at an enterprise level. SAFe is designed to give teams flexibility and help manage some of the challenges larger organizations have when practicing agile.

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Inloox

JULY 1, 2021

Agility should no longer be a new term for most project managers. High flexibility, adaptability and increased communication are just a few of the benefits that have led to significant improvements through the introduction of agile work processes in organizations. So agility in itself is nothing new for many companies.

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Agilemania

MAY 17, 2021

What is SAFe agile. Scaled Agile is an agile framework for developing or delivering large products or solutions produced by multiple teams working in parallel at an enterprise level. SAFe is designed to give teams flexibility and help manage some of the challenges larger organizations have when practicing agile.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 24, 2019

Very often, a transaction traverses all the architectural layers and is partially processed by components that live in both the front-end and back-end worlds. If those worlds are not connected, then there’s a limit to the level of business agility the IT department can support. Half-Agile Transformations.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 11, 2024

This article covers the three Scrum accountabilities (formerly roles) and addresses interferences of stakeholders and IT/line management with this crucial Scrum event. And if so, what are the consequences? ? You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 42,000-plus subscribers. ?

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Redbooth

APRIL 26, 2018

If you work in tech or any industry where things change fast, you probably are familiar with agile project management. Agile methods are baked into productivity tech, from Trello to Airtable to Redbooth, and can improve any large body of work, from ad campaigns to app design. Agile project management basics: project as product.

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Proofhub

JULY 23, 2020

According to a Collab Net report , 97% of respondents are using Agile development methods. For engineering teams, Agile is second nature and often the chosen framework for teams. However, Agile can also be incredibly useful for other functions within a company, including marketing teams. What is Agile?

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MPUG

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

In fact, I thought my personal computer had been hacked, and I rebooted a couple of times without knowing what exactly to do because my service providers’ status dashboards were all green–a good 10 minutes into the internet outage. Instead, he sees story boards, iteration and release burndown charts, and velocity graphs. Not really.

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Agilemania

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Be it monitoring and control, collaboration, stakeholders onboarding, change management, and governance methods, the problems only keep increasing. It was circa 2011 when Dean Leffingwell decided to conceptualize the Scaled Agile Framework. Software and IT teams delivering in an agile way alone isn’t enough.

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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! Compared to Scrum, Kanban is a young work-management method. She also shows you how to design your first Kanban Board, with examples.

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Safe Scrum is a framework that has gained significant popularity in recent years for enhancing team performance in an agile development methodology. It is built upon the foundation of Agile principles and values, providing a set of guidelines, roles, and ceremonies that enable teams to work together seamlessly.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe™) is one of the most popular approaches to applying agile at scale out there. SAFe's perspective is that "Nothing beats an Agile Team" and it doesn't try to reinvent the wheel or even innovate too much when it comes to the Team level. SAFe's Scrum Master is more of an Agile Team Lead.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 19, 2020

Agile isn’t ever really about Agile. In our Business Drivers of Agility webinar series hosted by LeadingAgile CEO, Mike Cottmeyer, Mike dives deep into six key business drivers to uncover how Agile can enable organizations to connect these drivers to better business outcomes. It’s about creating business outcomes.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe™) is one of the most popular approaches to applying agile at scale out there. SAFe's perspective is that "Nothing beats an Agile Team" and it doesn't try to reinvent the wheel or even innovate too much when it comes to the Team level. SAFe's Scrum Master is more of an Agile Team Lead.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

What product discovery part, you may think now. And this is precisely the point: The Product Owner miraculously identifies what is the best way to proceed as a Scrum Team by managing the Product Backlog. You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 30,000-plus other subscribers.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 11, 2019

Intended audience: Scrum masters, Product owners, Managers and Agile coaches. The PO’s are then unsure what needs to be developed. I avoid having the “we are all dev-team members” discussion and let them keep their business title such as “Product Manager”. No Release management. Lack of product focus.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 23, 2022

Mike Cottmeyer was recently a guest on the Agile to Agility podcast with Miljan Bajic where he discussed Transformation, Business Architecture, and Scaling. Agile to Agility Website. Who is Mike Cottmeyer and what’s been your journey? How do you go up into Portfolio Management? Listen now.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 28, 2022

Welcome to the Sprint anti-patterns article from my series on Scrum anti-patterns, covering the three Scrum roles—pardon me: accountabilities—and addressing the contributions of stakeholders and the IT/line management. And if so, what are the consequences? ???? In complex environments, what will happen is unknown.

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Wrike

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

When it comes to managing teams and projects effectively, managers can choose from many project management frameworks and methodologies. In this article, we discuss all you need to know about SAFe : what it is, its core principles, and its four main levels. What is the Scaled Agile Framework?

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Leading Agile

MAY 10, 2021

I walked into the conference room to meet with the VP of enterprise Agile Transformation. It’s been three weeks since I joined a team of highly experienced Agile coaches. The VP stated the Agile teams were in ‘chaos’ since being taught the concept of Lean Agile portfolios. What could have caused such confusion?

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Herding Cats

MARCH 7, 2016

In our Software Intensive System of Systems world, we are not 5 people sitting around the table with the customer building a warehouse management application for our privately help gadget making company. But Agile at Scale has a different paradigm than Agile at the Table. Release Plans come in two flavors.

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Velociteach

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The podcast by project managers for project managers. Leonard demonstrates that music and project management share common principles as he offers a unique perspective on fostering a high-performing project team through the integration of music, productivity, workplace culture, and neuroscience. Welcome to Manage This.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Such a study is holistic; it involves looking at the organizational design, technical capabilities, culture and knowledge, and type of control and metrics used to define success. Something went wrong, and the organization wishes to know what happened where and when. . Some time ago, I was teaching a Professional Agile Leadership class.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 31, 2020

Listen to the Agile Unplugged Podcast on the go! Find and subscribe to Agile Unplugged on: Apple Podcasts. In this week’s episode, LeadingAgile Chief Methodologist, Dennis Stevens, sits down with Mike Cottmeyer to discuss Capability-based organizations, Systems of Delivery vs Systems of Transformation, managing dependencies, and more.

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Leading Agile

OCTOBER 3, 2023

And that’s typically how I think about a lot of the talks that I give because everything in the agile communities about doing it and learning from it and sharing with people and getting feedback and figuring out how to do it better and that kind of stuff. Systems are a Predictor of a Balanced Culture Okay, fair enough.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 23, 2016

A popular mantra in Agile is deliver fast, deliver often. Where we work and where agile is becoming the norm, we have another view. The Plan for the delivery of value is shown in the Product Roadmap and implemented in the Cadence Release Plan, or sometimes in the Capabilities Release plan. Deliver as planned.

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

So what I’m going to talk about today, I’m going to talk about our system of delivery and the intentionality that’s built into it to solve the types of problems that organizations run into that make it difficult for them to respond to markets, difficult for them to deliver value to their customers. Video Transcript.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management Briefings and Presentations. Management Processes (#MP). Project Performance Management (#PPM). Agile Project Management (#APM). Risk Management (#RM). Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM). Management Processes.

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Digite

MARCH 1, 2017

I was learning several new concepts including Lean, Agile, Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), Project Program Management, etc. However, I had not seen Kanban being applied to software development, project management, etc. Each set is managed within a swim-lane on the same board. Our Cadences.

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