Henny Portman

DECEMBER 10, 2022

Agile by Rini van Solingen and Maarten Kossen was originally published in Dutch. The book starts with a warning that agile is more than a mindset, it is a philosophy, followed by 22 chapters, in which the authors show that it is easy to understand, but very difficult to apply at first. Scrum or agile?

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Software Review Agile Governance Government 52

ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 23, 2023

It is a discipline that is used across industries as varied as construction, manufacturing and IT to healthcare, professional services and government. They develop strategies, develop IT risk management plans and maintain schedules and budgets. Here’s what you can do to get a foothold in this exciting industry.

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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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Leading Agile

JULY 13, 2021

So if we agree that Agile Transformation is worth talking about, we need a better way of talking about it. You see, over the past 20 years, the general hypothesis has been to train people on Agile methodologies and trust everything else will emerge. Teams will magically form.

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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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Leading Agile

JULY 26, 2023

The Agile industry seems insistent that practices, agile methodologies, and frameworks will be how large organizations achieve Business Agility. Many of them are saying, “yeah, we tried Agile. Is the Agile industry in a rut? Is the Agile industry in a rut? Everyone knows Agile works. It didn’t work.”

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Planview

JANUARY 2, 2020

We facilitated a roundtable discussion of our customers at the 2019 Planview Horizons Customer Conference where enterprise agility in financial services organizations was discussed. Challenges arise when senior leadership has yet to adopt an Agile mindset, even if their teams have. Agile teams are largely self-governing.

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Leading Agile

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Four Common Misconceptions About Agile Transformation In this article, our CEO, Mike Cottmeyer, explores why focusing on practices and culture isn’t the right place to start an Agile Transformation. Next, he talks about how Agile Transformation is an ongoing process and the importance of teaming strategies.

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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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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Carsten is an Agile Coach at the LEGO Group and the founder of Agile Ideas. You might also know Carsten from his YouTube channel , in which he shared hands-on tips & tricks about Agile, coaching, and facilitation. What does Agile at the LEGO Group look like? Scrum might be part of the strategy.

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Project Pulse Journal

MARCH 7, 2024

Discover the importance of organizational governance systems, delve into essential project-associated functions, learn how to navigate the project environment, and ensure you are communicating and building relationships with internal and external stakeholders. Further, many organizations tend to have projects without a higher purpose.

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Governance Government Technical Review Sustainability 52

Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The Australian government has granted two initiatives close to Brisbane major project status. Over A$10bn has been committed by the Australian government to fund the upgrades. The majority of the work is government based and there is an exciting start up scene,” she adds. Source: PMI; figures relate to country).

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Agilemania

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) involves connecting strategy to execution by using lean principles. Budgets are allocated to execute an enterprise’s strategy by portfolio management teams. Business agility can be improved by combining LPM and agile development practices. Review of strategy alignment.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 31, 2021

Agile transformations are hard. People are starting to draw the conclusion that “Agile doesn’t work.” While this kind of “Agile laboratory” environment stems from good intentions (we certainly don’t want to set a team up for failure), it is not very useful from a hypothesis testing standpoint. What happened?

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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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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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The IIL Blog

JULY 12, 2023

The principles reflect the full value delivery range of approaches from predictive (waterfall) to adaptive (such as Agile). Working together, these components comprise a system for delivering value that is aligned with the organization’s strategy. Principle statements reflect good practices for effective management of any project.

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Planio

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Draw down from your product strategy, vision, and goals Step 2. Identify tasks, estimate timings, and map a timeline Step 4. For this, you’ll master task management to properly define, estimate, and plan your work and, ultimately, build out your timeline. Select the scope, create the deliverables, and define “good” Step 3.

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Velociteach

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Plan Elements The Plan is like a book with three main sections: Execution Parameters establish how the project will be managed along with the approach, required lifecycle phases, and governance procedures. There is a range of options, from predictive to agile. Complex efforts where the cost of change is low may prefer agile.

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Herding Cats

JULY 16, 2017

The GAO Cost Estimating and Assessment Guide has 12 steps. There are not specific to Agile Software Development. These capabilities are connected to the business strategy. They implement that strategy. The order of the needed Capabilties in defined in the business strategy. . But here's how they are connected.

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Planview

JANUARY 19, 2023

However, many digital transformation initiatives struggle to deliver the expected financial value, with more than half lagging behind original estimates, according to a Gartner survey of CIOs. It’s critical to be asking the right questions: How does strategy become a plan? Are the right objectives being focused on?

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Herding Cats

JUNE 18, 2017

There is a posted question at an agile conference. Can you make a decision without an estimate? Like many discussions in the domain of agile, the statement is made without any evidence that it is true, nor can even be true in principle. Don't assume, Estimate. Strategic Items First - strategies are hypotheses.

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Project Pulse Journal

MARCH 15, 2024

Incorporating models, methods, and artifacts can transform your approach, thus promoting agility, informed decision-making , and effectiveness. These strategies enhance team dynamics and facilitate time and budget management as the project progresses, whether for leading small teams or managing large-scale projects.

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Leading Agile

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Four Common Misconceptions About Agile Transformation In this article, our CEO, Mike Cottmeyer, explores why focusing on practices and culture isn’t the right place to start an Agile Transformation. Next, he talks about how Agile Transformation is an ongoing process and the importance of teaming strategies.

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2023 Underperforming Technical Team Agile 2024 62

Herding Cats

MARCH 17, 2019

Project Governance. Agile Project Management. Agile Software Development for Government Software Intensive System of Systems (SISoS) , Boulder Agile Meetup, 27 July 2016. Integrating Agile Software Development with Earned Value Management , College of Performance Management, IPM Workshop, 2015.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 29, 2017

What is an estimate? An estimate as a noun is an approximate calculation or judgment of the value, number, quantity, or extent of something. An estimate as a verb is to roughly calculate or judge the value, number, quantity, or extent of. But those estimates, nouns, and verbs themselves's have other attributes.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 11, 2018

There are lots of quotes flying around the agile community. They're a guide - a strategy - to reach a destination. So in the agile development world, there is no right or wrong? No right software to comply with external regulations, interfaces, security requirements, governance requirements? The Original Quote.

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International Institute for Learning

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Perhaps the most significant reason for the slow growth of many needed project management changes was due to senior management’s desire for standardization of governance and execution for the multitude of traditional projects managed for external clients. The Growth of Agile and Scrum Practices.

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MPUG

JUNE 19, 2023

Analyze Risks and Mitigation Strategies : Identify potential risks for implementing the requested changes. Evaluate the impact of these risks on project outcomes and develop mitigation strategies to address them effectively. Seek their approval or rejection based on the predefined criteria and governance processes. 

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Techno-PM

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The use of Lean portfolio management agile has exploded in the last decade as more and more companies have found that it is a powerful tool for structuring their product development processes. Target deliverables- Build road maps based on the market requirements and the expected size of effort collected during agile estimation and planning.

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Wrike

APRIL 25, 2023

Establish project governance: Project charter templates help to identify key stakeholders and team members involved in the project, e.g., project sponsors, project manager, and team lead, indicating who is responsible for specific tasks and who has the authority to make decisions. This includes personnel, equipment, and funding.

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Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

JULY 18, 2019

And whilst the use of the word ‘project’ has only substantially been with us since the start of the last century, its occurrence in media now far exceeds that of the words ‘strategy’, ‘operations’ and ‘marketing’, terms more familiar to us in the course of ‘business-as-usual’ operations. The Project Canvas. I like this approach.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 29, 2023

Agile A methodology for project and product management, typically used to deliver software projects in an iterative way with short bursts of work called “sprints” Though initially designed as a process for IT and engineering projects, it has since been successfully applied to other industries like marketing.

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Wrike

DECEMBER 9, 2021

A bimodal IT strategy helps to address this without chaos. You’ll also learn how to use Wrike to set up and implement bimodal IT strategies easily. Every industry can benefit from implementing a bimodal IT strategy. Mode 2 is often conducted using the Agile project management framework. What does bimodal mean?

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Proofhub

JANUARY 4, 2021

As you start your project, you need to take the initiative on the preparatory work, from preparing the scope, estimating the costs, assigning resources, and creating a project timeline, to getting sign-off on the key performance indicators. Getting your project off on the right foot is a critical factor that helps determine its success.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

There's a popular notion going around the agile community that says. Since each of these elements operates in the presences of reducible (Epistemic) and irreducible (Aleatory) uncertainties, estimates are needed to make any credible decisions. . Software Project Cost Estimation . Overlooking key project risks.

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Software Developers Software Development Software Finance 60

International Institute for Learning

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Improvement in estimating accuracy by a certain percentage or dollar value. It looks for ways to compress the gaps related to the long-term strategies of highly successful companies in developing new products and services and your company. Validation of your organization’s strategy and corporate objectives.

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