Henny Portman

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Everything wrong with agile – Half the work in twice the time is the first agilecartoons book by Michael Küsters. The 70 ridiculous agile situations are clustered in 8 groups: Let’s transform. Diplomatic solution Toxic behaviours Custom Kanban No plan Dogmatic Scrum Cost centre budgeting Agile road construction.

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Agilemania

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The term “ agile product management ” means precisely what it sounds like. At its foundation, agile product management is a reaction to the widespread usage of agile software development approaches such as scrum or kanban. How Agile Can Product Management Benefit Your Business?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

It’s extremely easy to use with a low learning curve, so even if you aren’t (and don’t want to be) agile experts, you can quickly improve productivity and collaboration. Summary review of Teamhood: Teamhood is perfect for companies looking to work in more agile ways but without adding the overhead of ‘learning agile ’.

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Leading Agile

JUNE 29, 2022

Many teams that operate within Agile are struggling. We find that the backlogs that Agile teams frequently operate from appear as a thematic list of items that the product owner wants built. Alternatively, backlogs may appear as a ream of minor engineering activities that are too small in scope to convey tangible value.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 28, 2024

Notion is work management software that helps teams from across industries such as product development, engineering or marketing to facilitate team communication, manage tasks and create simple project timelines. While Notion has project management features, is there a Notion Gantt chart? We’ll get to that in a moment.

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Wrike

APRIL 7, 2021

When managing a team, it’s essential to be able to estimate how long it takes to complete a task. Chances are you’ve had an experience where your estimates turned out to be wrong; the project took longer than expected, or your product team couldn’t deliver in time. Why is the Fibonacci sequence used in Agile?

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Despite decades-long efforts of the whole agile community—books, blogs, conferences, webinars, videos, meetups; you name it—we are still confronted in many supposedly agile organizations with output-metric driven reporting systems. You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 33,000-plus subscribers. ??

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Planio

JULY 4, 2022

Agile ceremonies are the fuel that keeps your development team moving forward. But what if you’re not entirely comfortable managing and running Agile ceremonies? Agile ceremonies get abandoned when teams stop seeing the value in them. What are Agile ceremonies? A ‘quick-start’ guide to the 5 Agile ceremonies.

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The IIL Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2018

By Susan Parente | Risk Management Guru – Agile Generalist – Instructor and Consultant, IIL. Can Agile practices be incorporated with traditional project management?” The daily stand-up is used in Scrum, one of the most popular frameworks for implementing Agile. Looking for Agile training? The Kanban board.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 31, 2020

Then sign up for the Food for Agile Thought newsletter and join 26k other subscribers. ?? Join us for a free live-virtual meetup on Thursday, September 10, 2020: Hands-on Agile #26: Liberating Structures in Microsoft Teams? Read more: Agile Metrics — The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.).

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Scrum.org

MAY 15, 2023

TL; DR: 60 ChatGPT Prompts for Agile Practitioners ChatGPT can be an excellent tool for those who know how to create prompts. Instead, invest more time in prompt engineering, and provide ChatGPT with a better context of the situation, desired outcomes, data, constraints, etc. Yub, that works, too.) ?? Please [insert your task here.]”

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Scrum.org

MARCH 22, 2021

If you are looking to fill a position for a Scrum Master (or agile coach) in your organization, you may find the following 47 interview questions useful to identify the right candidate. You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 30,000-plus other subscribers. Agile Metrics.

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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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MPUG

MARCH 8, 2021

Many project managers utilize a Lean-Agile approach when there is high change or churn in project requirements, significant lack of clarity in scope, high complexity to their projects, and/or a larger number of risks associated with such. Two Lean-Agile Types. Iteration-based Lean-Agile. Flow-based Lean-Agile.

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Wrike

JANUARY 17, 2024

Likewise, getting work done against the backdrop of Agile project management requires that you finish all of the tasks listed in your company’s sprint backlog to complete your overall project. Estimate the time and effort required to complete each task. Make sure your staff members are following the Agile processes and ceremonies.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 16, 2021

Scrum is an agile project management framework that enables teams to deliver value in 30 days or less. Working with Managers and Leaders to plan Scrum/Agile adoption. Scrum Master are lot like skilled engineers solving complex problems. Working on estimates and costs. Facilitating Events, Workshops and meetings.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 5, 2018

I work in a domain where engineered systems are developed for complex software-intensive system of systems. These systems are engineered with a variety of development methods. Ranging from traditional to agile and combinations in between. Mine is in hard science and systems engineering. illities are a waste.

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Binfire

AUGUST 27, 2017

The Agile project management methodology has been used by software engineers and IT professionals for the past sixteen years. The reason for this surge in popularity is quite understandable, the majority of projects benefit when managed using lean concepts promoted by Agile project management methodology.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Mike Cohn is a well-recognized author and expert on agile and Scrum project management topics, and the owner of a large and engaged Twitter account with over 42,000 followers. He writes consistently on his blog about software development and lean, Kanban and agile development principles. Bernardo Tirado. He also has over 4.8K

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MPUG

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Agile PPM & Project. One of the key investment areas was Agile. Even Team Foundation Server (TFS) has grown into the new Azure DevOps (Visual Studio) for developers, proving better alignment for Epics, User Stories, Sprints, Requirements, and connecting source code directly to Agile constructs. Understanding Agile.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 2, 2017

For non-trivial problems in any domain, Systems Engineering provides a starting framework for identifying problems, assessing possible solutions, implementing those solutions, measuring the performance of the efforts to deliver the solutions and the effectiveness of those solutions. Related articles. Related articles.

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MPUG

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

As Tim Runcie’s recent excellent article on the topic pointing out, Agile methodology helps to create processes, procedures, and ultimately results. Watch the live recording of Session #1: Understanding & Incorporating Agile Project Management. Read “Agile & Project PPM: The Better Together Story.”.

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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? What other conceptual gaps?

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Herding Cats

MARCH 8, 2017

It's popular to speak about the Agile Manifesto and the 12 Principles of Agile. When we hear that the next big thing in agile is Not Estimating, let's look to see how those 12 Principles can be applied without those estimates? . 12 Principles of Agile. How estimates help implement these principles.

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Enter Agile project planning, a flexible and collaborative methodology that empowers teams to adapt, innovate, and deliver value efficiently. Understanding Agile Project Planning Agile has gained tremendous popularity as it enables project teams to be more responsive, collaborative, and productive.

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Binfire

APRIL 7, 2017

The Agile project management methodology has been used in the software development and IT industry for the past sixteen years, but recently it has gained wide acceptance by many number of industries and organizations. But the tide is turning and Agile is gaining wide acceptance as a valid process for many projects.

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 16, 2017

The estimating of software development is both straightforward and complex. When it is suggested that estimating is hard, of no value, and unnecessary, always ask what principle is used to support that claim? While some have publication dates that may seem old, the principles in these books are immutable, even for agile projects.

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Herding Cats

MAY 11, 2017

I started my career as a Software Engineer , writing Fortran 77 signal processing algorithms to find and track missile launchers in the middle eastern desert. Signal processing is a domain of software development well suited to the paradigm of engineered systems. This early work took me into other fields of engineered systems.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Then sign up for the Food for Agile Thought newsletter and join 27k other subscribers. This is actually one of a few metrics, that can provide some insight on how “agile” product discovery actually is. Is it a joint team effort or is the Product Owner writing the user stories and the team estimates them? Related Posts.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 8, 2021

In such an agile world, recruiting will become a team decision, and the “human resources” department’s role will change into a supportive one. You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 30,000-plus other subscribers. Does the organization want to become (or stay) agile?

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Planview

JULY 9, 2019

Traditional approaches, which are typically more lengthy and linear in fashion, may inhibit the flow of innovation and value through your organization, and as such, making it challenging to undergo a Lean-Agile transformation without transforming your organization’s approach to portfolio management. Lean-Agile Center of Excellence (LACE).

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Wrike

MAY 23, 2023

Agile methodology has emerged as a dominant approach to software development as it offers several advantages compared to traditional methods. In particular, Agile ceremonies represent a fundamental part of the Agile methodology and play a vital role in improving the value of sprints.

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Agilemania

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

SAFe defines the role of the Scrum Master as a servant-leader for the agile team who helps educate the team on various frameworks and methods, including Scrum, Kanban, Extreme Programming, and SAFe, ensuring that the agreed-upon agile process is duly followed. SAFe embraces Lean and Agile principles making them very explicit.

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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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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

It’s a project management technique to help with time estimates. But estimating time for a project isn’t easy. PERT has been used by project managers to make time estimates that are more accurate. Pessimistic time estimate (P) is the maximum time required to complete an activity. The longer you work, the more you pay.

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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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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

I work in a domain where engineered systems are developed for complex software-intensive system of systems. These systems are engineered with a variety of development methods. Ranging from traditional to agile and combinations in between. Paradigm of agile project management from Glen Alleman. . illities are a waste.

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