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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Digite

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

The questioner asked – “I have recently joined a company and to one of the projects that I’m engaged we have this Scrum team that has a mixed backlog (USs and Bugs). This team’s goal is to be fixing urgent bugs and when they aren’t (doesn’t happen that often :)) they should work on the product increment.

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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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Velociteach

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

An agile backlash is underway. Some organizations have declared victory, fired their agile staff, and moved on. Others are agile in name only or are “doing” agile but have not fundamentally changed the way they work. We should not blame Agile for bad Agile. Agile teams are empowered and collaborative.

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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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Resource Guru

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The result tells you the percentage of time that your team spends on projects that actually bring in money. Your agency utilization rate is typically tracked in your resource management software , where you also get a breakdown of billable hours. A high utilization rate means your team is focused and efficient.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 11, 2024

TL; DR: Sprint Anti-Patterns Holding Your Teams Back Welcome to Sprint anti-patterns! You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 42,000-plus subscribers. ? However, once it moves from one backlog to the other, the Developers become responsible. Moreover, I added some food for thought.

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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

MARCH 31, 2020

Listen to the Agile Unplugged Podcast on the go! Find and subscribe to Agile Unplugged on: Apple Podcasts. Remember to subscribe and listen to Agile Unplugged on Soundcloud, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Podbean—and watch each and every episode on YouTube , IGTV , and Facebook. . Soundcloud. – Yeah. When did we first meet?

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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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Planio

JANUARY 11, 2021

It’s quickly becoming the ‘new normal’ for companies and teams to be split across cities, countries, and even time zones. And while there’s no denying the many benefits of working remotely , mismatched schedules, repetitive communication, and out-of-sync teams don’t make the list. Poor people management: Embrace your team’s nuances.

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Velociteach

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Learn from the intriguing parallels between a jazz ensemble and an effective project team. 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.

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MPUG

MAY 18, 2022

s webinar, Use Agile Project Management with MS Project, being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content. Melanie here with team MPUG. Melanie: Hello.

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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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Planio

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Managing remote teams can feel a lot like playing chess. You can use all your experience and instincts to make the right moves and still have no idea if it made any impact (or even what your team is up to!). But they’re also the first things to get murky when your team goes remote. Now, that’s the bad news.

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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. For instance, a lead developer or architect prepares the work for sprints ahead, acting as a proxy between the teams and the PO’s, splitting the requirements in tasks per team.

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Planio

MARCH 13, 2023

The top 3 format Free project status report template 11 steps to write a project status report your team will actually read 1. Build your report where your team works 2. Don’t be afraid of bad news 10. Primarily, your project loses visibility and coordination with team members and key stakeholders unsure of what’s happening.

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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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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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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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Wrike

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

When it comes to managing teams and projects effectively, managers can choose from many project management frameworks and methodologies. The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is an Agile project management framework focused on flexibility, continuous iteration and improvement, and cross-functional collaboration between teams and stakeholders.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 17, 2021

This is Mike Cottmeyer's talk from AgileIndy 2021 on The Executive's Guide to Why Agile Transformation Fails. Announcer] This is Mike Cottmeyer’s talk from AgileIndy, 2021 on “Why Agile Transformation Fails.” So I got involved with agile back in like 2003 and I was working in this company called CheckFree.

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Planio

APRIL 24, 2023

Planning sprints and running agile ceremonies 8. Updating project management software to keep their team on track 9. In everyday terms, a project manager’s job is to oversee, coordinate, and lead their team from project kickoff to handoff. Creating actionable project plans 5. Planning and scheduling project resources 6.

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Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

Activity ID: An alphanumeric code used to identify an activity. Agile: A project management methodology that focuses on delivering work in an iterative fashion. The agile approach is usually used in software projects where the scope is not always known and adaptability is prioritized.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Here's a collection of presentations, briefings, papers, essays, book content used to increase the Probability of Project Success (PoPS) I've written and applied over my career in the software-intensive system of systems and other domains. Agile Project Management (#APM). Product Development (#ProdDev). Risk Management (#RM).

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 20, 2018

An unattended software delivery pipeline frees technical staff to spend more time on value-add activities rather than tediously performing repetitive tasks by hand, such as. Reviewing code by eyeballing it to ensure compliance with coding standards. Handling merges of code changes made by more than one person.

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