Leading Agile

MAY 3, 2023

If you could magically create a new world where large organizations had overcome the barriers to Business Agility and Agile came naturally, what would have to be true about that world, the organizations, and the people working there? And how would we know that this new Agile world was any good? What other conceptual gaps?

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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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Planio

AUGUST 9, 2021

But instead of a calendar, your ‘must-have’ tool is a project schedule. Your schedule is a guide, but it’s also a tool to push back against scope creep or fight for more help. Estimate task time and effort. How do Agile teams create a project schedule? Planio: Best for teams of all sizes (Agile and traditional).

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Velociteach

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The project management plan (Plan) is a powerful tool. Existing organizational assets, such as tools, templates, and standard practices, influence the Plan. Mature organizations often have required or recommended tools and procedures. There is a range of options, from predictive to agile.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 30,000-plus other subscribers. In the attempt to fill Scrum’s product discovery void, product delivery organizations regularly turn to other agile frameworks like lean UX, jobs-to-be-done, lean startup, design thinking, design sprint—just to name a few.

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Leading Answers

MARCH 7, 2019

Traditional approaches have plenty of tools for handling risks, uncertainty, and change; but modern, adaptive approaches were purpose-built for these types of projects and have proven to be effective in these circumstances. Here, formal planning and estimation are difficult because we don’t know what we will encounter.

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Project Management Essentials

AUGUST 3, 2019

Experienced agile coaches and practitioners develop a sixth-sense. They can quickly assess the health of an agile project or team just as doctors do with their patients. In my agile training and consulting practice, I have witnessed similar symptoms when an organization is struggling with its agile adoption.

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Wrike

JUNE 15, 2023

By focusing on how you manage projects that land on your desk, you can develop a system that helps you build momentum and get everyone in your team on the same page. Without resource management tools that let you allocate your budget accordingly, you could easily exceed your initial estimate.

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Leading Agile

JUNE 5, 2018

In Part 1, we summarized the goals of the exercise: To develop a microservice and set up a CI/CD pipeline in the cloud without using any locally-installed development tools. This will be the development environment. Welcome back! We’re going to walk through it step by step in a gentle and friendly way.

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Leading Agile

JUNE 29, 2023

What do we have to do to make Agile tangible for our executives? Are Executives Getting in the Way of Agile? One of the challenges we face is the perception that executives don’t care about Agile. There’s a belief that executives are the number one obstacle to successful Agile transformation in organizations.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 25, 2022

You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 35,000-plus subscribers. ?? Scrum’s Sprint Planning aims to align the Developers and the Product Owner on what to build next, delivering the highest possible value to customers. Also, the Developers need to create a plan on how to accomplish their forecast. .

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Planio

APRIL 24, 2023

In 2021, the Project Management Institute estimated that by 2030 the global economy would need 25 million more project managers to keep up with the demand for change. Planning sprints and running agile ceremonies 8. Development team: to understand the high-level costs and resources for developing the new app.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 27, 2020

The purpose of the Sprint Planning is to align the Development Team and the Product Owner on what to build next, delivering the highest possible value to customers. Basically, the Development Team and the Product Owner adjust the previously discussed scope of the upcoming Sprint to the available capacity. Sprint Planning Anti-Patterns.

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Digite

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Continuing our theme of helping Agile teams understand the Kanban Method, so they can effectively adopt it for their improvement efforts, I am again honored to publish a guest article by another great friend of ours – Dave White. Scrum is primarily influenced by the Agile Manifesto which describes the “Agile” value system.

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MPUG

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Tim Runcie’s Agile Series Part 2 webinar being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. Kyle: Hello everyone and welcome to part two of MPUG’s Agile training series. There may be exclusions, such as those steps included in product demonstrations.

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

When I first learned about Agile methods in 2002, the principles seemed to offer an ideal solution to many organizational issues common at the time. It’s time now to move forward to the next level of proficiency in software delivery; what we might call “post-Agile.” Stable Team. Dedicated Team. Team Spaces.

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Scrum.org

MAY 20, 2020

My fellow PST, Glaudia Califano, and I were sitting in a café (at a time prior to the current lockdown due to Covid-19), having agreed to meet up with a Business Analyst who had reached out to us to have a chat about Scrum and Agile. Velocity can be a useful tool as a guide of the Development Team’s past performance.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Agile Project Management (#APM). Product Development (#ProdDev). Agile Software Development (#ASD). Integrating Agile and Earned Value Management (#AEVM). Agile and Earned Value Management Bibliography of papers, books, and thesis (#Biblio). Project Performance Management (#PPM). Risk Management (#RM).

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Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

Actual dates are different from planned or estimated dates. Actual Effort: The actual effort spent to complete the activity, as opposed to the planned or estimated effort. Actual Expenditure: The actual expenditure spent to complete the activity, as opposed to the planned or estimated expenditure.

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

We talk about the goals of going agile. We talk about the structure — how we form teams and how teams interact together — is clear and we talk about having the right metrics and tools. You can imagine this being developers, or requirements, or testing in an organization. So let me walk through that a little bit.

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MPUG

JUNE 1, 2022

Melanie: Jeff is currently the Training and Development Manager for Edwards Performance Solutions. As such, he oversees the production and maintenance of courses on project management, systems engineering, software development, business process improvement, and cyber security. Jeff: PMI took a stand back and said, you know what?

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 20, 2018

They asked a software developer what it would take, and he estimated something like 20,000 pounds over several months. First, there’s a tool-centric mentality about software-related work. People take a tool that can support Specification by Example and the first thing they do is try to write executable scripts.

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