Leading Answers

JANUARY 16, 2021

This article explains what a risk-adjusted backlog is, why they are useful, how to create one and how teams work with them. Agile projects typically prioritize the backlog based on business value or perceived needs. ' In deciding which feature to develop first, those with the highest economic value are selected.

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MPUG

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

This is true whether our organization uses a stage-gate approach, an agile approach, or some hybrid of the two. Similarly, Thalia, the Muse of Comedy, reminds project managers of the importance of fostering a positive team culture and maintaining morale, even in challenging times. Deadlines loom large. Challenges abound.

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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 2013, Mike Cohn coined the term scrum smells to describe the signs that a scrum team is in trouble. What are the team dynamics?

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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?

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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. Updating project management software to keep their team on track 9. But there’s a problem.

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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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Herding Cats

MARCH 7, 2016

This is not to say those 5 developers sitting around the table with the Product Owner and the Scrum Master are not working on vitally important code. But Agile at Scale has a different paradigm than Agile at the Table. Cadence Release - when a fixed period ends, go with what is ready to go.

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Digite

MARCH 2, 2018

My team is using Kanban board but they seem to prefer to collate a couple of tickets then ‘do a release’ as appose to releasing each ticket. This is absolutely true – and reflects the realities of business of different organizations or teams – and their customers, both internal and external. What is the business context?

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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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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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Leading Agile

APRIL 7, 2023

As a community, we have developed a handful of team-based Agile approaches over the years; some of which we would consider scaled. Implementing Agile, especially in larger, more complex organizations, still seems to be a black art. We have these small teams working on troubled projects. But here we are.

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Digite

MARCH 2, 2018

My team is using Kanban board but they seem to prefer to collate a couple of tickets then ‘do a release’ as appose to releasing each ticket. This is absolutely true – and reflects the realities of the business of different organizations or teams – and their customers, both internal and external.

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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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Leading Agile

AUGUST 22, 2018

Do you, or the teams you work with, feel pressure from stakeholders to say “yes” to everything they ask for? I often see advice from coaches that teams should learn to say “no” to stakeholders. I often see advice from coaches that teams should learn to say “no” to stakeholders.

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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. Today, some of the same principles seem to present impediments or unnecessary challenges for many teams and organizations. Let’s begin with some parts of the Agile canon itself.

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Our governance model and team design may look a little complicated at first glance. In this presentation, our Chief Methodologist, Dennis Stevens will remove the noise and walk you through our governance model and team design to help you better understand the LeadingAgile system of delivery. We talk about the goals of going agile.

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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. It often happens that teams become disillusioned with the tools and (by association) the practices because they find themselves having to discard and re-write scripts over and over again.

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