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. A methodology refers to an approach, whereas a framework provides a broader structure or model for managing a project.

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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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Agilemania

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Do you use the Scaled Agile Framework in your firm or organization? Have you heard everyone else is going agile or embracing lean, and you’re not sure what it means? Keep reading if you’re uncertain if your firm would benefit from employing a product manager. Who is a Product manager? Portfolios.

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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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The IIL Blog

JANUARY 24, 2024

Information Technology is a young industry with several even younger career paths, one of which is Information Technology Service Management (ITSM). A quick search via a popular search engine informs us of the following: Toolmaking is considered one of the world’s oldest professions at approximately 2.8 million years.

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Agilemania

MARCH 10, 2022

Scaled Agile Framework is rising in popularity. And to further testify the benefits of SAFe, 37% of the organizations use SAFe as per the 15th State of Agile Report. The path to these SAFe jobs are the SAFe certifications offered by Scaled Agile. . What is SAFe certification?” . What is SAFe in its entirety?

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 17, 2020

And that demand causes the market-entry of new professionals from other project management branches, probably believing that reading one or two Scrum books will be sufficient. Then sign up for the Food for Agile Thought newsletter and join 26k other subscribers. Maybe ‘Agile’ in general is a fad as opposed to a trend.

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Leading Agile

DECEMBER 13, 2023

But what happens when those values aren’t aligned with what the business is trying to achieve? Those are cultural attributes that the people that I was talking to in the agile community were prioritizing for. We were doing a lot with traditional project management. Or does it start with the people?

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Henny Portman

APRIL 11, 2019

The book An executive’s guide to disciplined agile – Winning the race to business agility written by Scott W. Ambler and Mark Lines give a good overview of Disciplined Agile. DA provides the process foundation for business agility. DA provides the process foundation for business agility. Disciplined DevOps.

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Online PM Courses

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

You want to embrace Agile as part (or maybe all) of your Project Management practice. Which Agile Certification program should you follow? What I hope to do is give you the information to start researching which is best for you. What I hope to do is give you the information to start researching which is best for you.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 17, 2024

By: Hajime Estanislao, PMP, CSM Have you ever found your project team celebrating the end of a sprint, only to realize the outputs aren't quite ready for release? The "Definition of Done" (DoD) is a cornerstone in project management that ensures every task, feature, or phase meets established criteria before being considered complete.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 9, 2023

Join Mike as he debates the general consensus on Agile and encourages you to start thinking about Agile through the lens of systems so that you can finally achieve the change you’ve been searching for. It is always the systems first structure, governance and metrics, then practices, then culture. So so bear with me here.

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Leading Agile

DECEMBER 13, 2023

But what happens when those values aren’t aligned with what the business is trying to achieve? Those are cultural attributes that the people that I was talking to in the agile community were prioritizing for. We were doing a lot with traditional project management. Or does it start with the people?

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Digite

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

was launched by Scaled Agile Inc. in 2016 as a method to help organizations scale up their existing agile practices. But isn’t that also the reason behind organizations adopting Scaled Agile framework in its glorious entirety? What was the need for Scaled Agile Inc. What was the need for Scaled Agile Inc.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 3, 2018

This article, How To Make 2018 A Successful Year for Your Projects , first appeared on Girl's Guide to Project Management. But what does it take to get there? I asked people two questions: What should people managing projects be aware of as we go into 2018 to make 2018 their most successful year ever? Let’s jump in.

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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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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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Agilemania

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

What is DevOps. DevOps teams consist of engineers who work across the application management lifecycle, from development and Testing to deployment and operations. The term DevOps is a combination of two words- Development and Operations. Under a DevOps model, development and operations teams are no longer isolated. Affordable .

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Leading Agile

MARCH 11, 2019

One of the principles of the Agile Manifesto reads: “Simplicity – the art of maximizing the amount of work not done – is essential.” What does that mean? Consistency Between Lean and Agile Principles. General principles in Lean Thinking are: Define value. What’s Value?

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nTask

AUGUST 22, 2019

As an Agile project manager, I have seen my fair share of so-called “Scrum Masters” and “Agile Experts” claiming to be masters of their craft. The truth, however, is that they don’t know a lot of things about Scrum and Agile. Anyhow, this case study illustrates different real life examples of Scrum Project Management.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 11, 2020

Agile Unplugged is your chance to explore LeadingAgile’s freshest ideas, mental models, frameworks, and solutions with the people that are actually doing the work of leading large-scale Agile Transformation, out in the field. What was that, probably 2004, or ’05 or something in that kind of range, I think?

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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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MPUG

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Satya is a management professional, speaker, coach and author of six books, including the book I Want To Be An ACP. Under his leadership, over 100 professionals have earned the Agile Certified Practitioner, ACP certification, and many have written their detailed success stories. My name is Kyle and I’ll be the moderator today.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Estimating is a learned skill, used for any purpose from every-day life to management of projects. Believing is Seeing: Confirmation Bias Studies in Software Engineering, “Magne Jørgensen and Efi Papatheocharous, 41st Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA).

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MPUG

MAY 6, 2021

He is responsible for the implementation of enterprise project management solutions for Edwards’ clients as well as overseeing the custom application development performed at Edwards around enterprise solutions and Microsoft Project for both desktop and server as well as SharePoint. Fletcher Hearns: Great, thank you Kyle.

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Herding Cats

MAY 7, 2019

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to estimate software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Cost Modeling Agile Software Development,” Maarit Laanti and Petri Kettunen, International Transactions on Systems and Applications, Volume 1 Number 2, pp. 61, September 2004. 61, September 2004.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

There's been a rash of conjectures about all kinds of bad business, project, and software development (agile and traditional) management ideas of late. With what appears to be NO understanding of how to estimate, this author ignores the processes used in developing products or services in the presence of uncertainty.

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MPUG

MARCH 18, 2021

Jeff is currently the lead course developer for Edward’s Performance Solution and oversees the production and maintenance of courses on project management, systems engineering, software development, business process improvement, and cybersecurity. SIPOC, what does it mean? My name is Kyle, and I’ll be the moderator.

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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, a big MPUG welcome back. Jeff: Fantastic.

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Paymo App

JANUARY 19, 2018

Are you preparing to become a project manager but you don’t know where to start? We’ve put together an extensive guide for you to serve as a beginning point and reference for your future career as a project manager. – the basic personality traits of a good manager. What does a project manager actually do?

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Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

Project management terminology can be complicated. It doesn’t matter whether you’re working towards your PMP certification or simply managing projects casually in your organization, knowing core project management terms always helps. All Project Management Terms. Action Item Status: The current status of an Action Item.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 20, 2018

What are “all the things,” by the way? They asked a software developer what it would take, and he estimated something like 20,000 pounds over several months. Automate what? People choose products before they’ve worked out exactly what they want to do. But what are they scripting? Sounds good.

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MPUG

JANUARY 9, 2020

Microsoft Releases a Brand-New Version of Microsoft Project webinar being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. Microsoft Releases a Brand New Version of Microsoft Project. Tim is an accomplished speaker, consultant and educator, supporting the project management community for over 25 years. Thanks, Kyle.

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MPUG

OCTOBER 22, 2020

This is always kind of the fun part of getting into what we do and why we do it. Tim Runcie: It may also fit your pocketbook better, depending on what you’re trying to implement. Kyle: Hello and welcome to today’s MPUG webinar leveraging the latest Office 365 Project tools and capabilities. Tim Runcie: Excellent.

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