Leading Agile

JULY 18, 2023

Agile needs to be tied to business-driven results. If not, then we start measuring things like people trained, teams doing Scrum, or the organization’s sentiment toward Agile to tell us if we’re succeeding. If your Agile isn’t helping you do that, then it’s not really Agile at all. First, how are we forming teams?

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

But what if this managerial focus on velocity is a fata morgana obscuring the path to true agility and value? ? You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 48,000-plus subscribers. ? Get notified when the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book is available ! ? Shall I notify you about articles like this one?

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 14, 2019

To do so requires business agility. What Is Business Agility? Business agility is just as it says, a way for businesses to remain agile when markets fluctuate, as they have a tendency to do. Business agility then is an organizational method to help businesses adapt quickly to market changes.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

TL; DR: Adapt How You Lead for Agile Success w/ Johanna Rothman — ACB21. Too many people say, “With agile, we don’t need no stinkin’ managers.” However, because managers create and refine the culture, modern managers create and refine the agile culture. Without modern management, any agile initiative will die.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 8, 2019

Hearing a senior executive announce "We're committed to becoming agile!" In fact, if you were to read some of the interviews with managers in business magazines, or the guest articles and puff-pieces on agility in their companies, you'd think that their hearts and minds had been won decades ago. Yet it's also the sticking point.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 24, 2023

What is a ROM estimate? A rough order of magnitude estimate is used to give you a very high level view of potential project costs. Ideally, you’d be able to provide a definitive estimate, carefully created from loads of input from subject matter experts and plenty of research on past projects and their budgets.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 21, 2021

The innovation that your work as a project manager can bring to life. It’s making agile most part of projects, but also making sure the project management itself can be more adaptable to the nowadays changing world. Never stop innovating. Innovative projects are constantly happening. Google everything.

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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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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

At the core of all manufacturing innovations are research and development (R&D) teams. manufacturing market is worth an estimated $176 billion. As 42% of fast innovators are also strong innovators, R&D teams are always racing to push new products to market. As of 2020, the U.S.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Are you aiming to achieve your PMI Agile Certified Professional ( PMI-ACP )®? Below, I list the best agile books for your certification studies. These are guides that support your learning but also help you go deeper into the world of agile. If you’re looking for those, check out my list of the best agile study guides.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 12, 2022

There will be breakout sessions on using project management tools and techniques to help with more accurate estimates, how to keep projects on track and on evaluation of project performance. Agile & Beyond. Agile is not new. What to Expect: Sessions focus on agility, software engineering and lean business.

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nTask

APRIL 5, 2021

One such way of improving performance in Agile planning. Agile panning is used by a whopping 71% of organizations to manage their projects. It has been proven that agile projects have a faster delivery rate when compared with other methodologies of project planning and management. What Is Agile Planning? Release plan.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

TL; DR: The Illusion of Velocity In this article, I explore the pitfalls of ‘The Illusion of Velocity’ in agile contexts, peeling back the layers of traditional metrics as leadership tools. Moreover, get an idea of how to start flipping outdated hierarchies and embrace the natural rhythm of productivity and innovation. ?

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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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Agilemania

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Scrum , Kanban , XP, Lean, RAD, SAFe®, and so on… We spend a lot of time concentrating on the distinctions across agile frameworks since the list is extensive and diverse. Agile frameworks are designed to lead your team toward continuous delivery while developing software. Agile is all about iterative and incremental development.

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

In today’s rapidly evolving world, industries across the globe are embracing digital transformation to stay ahead of the competition and deliver innovative solutions to their clients. Moreover, digital transformation has introduced innovative project management techniques such as Agile and Lean methodologies.

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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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Scrum.org

AUGUST 3, 2023

Encouraging self-management and promoting a culture of collective problem-solving can lead to a more independent, motivated, and innovative team. By encouraging self-organization, the Scrum Master empowers the team members to take ownership of their work and find innovative solutions to obstacles that arise.

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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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nTask

MARCH 30, 2022

With the changing marketing trends and rapid digitalization, agile and user-friendly agency project management tools are predominant. Therefore, we’ve reviewed the 14 best agency project management software for agile teams in this blog. 14 Best agency project management software for Agile teams. Scopes and estimates.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Thought leaders in project management have strong social media followings, are published authors, and are working as leaders for innovative companies and enterprises in the project management industry. He writes consistently on his blog about software development and lean, Kanban and agile development principles. Bernardo Tirado.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 19, 2021

You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 30,000-plus other subscribers. Join more than 145 peers from May 27-29, 2021 , for the Virtual Agile Camp Berlin 2021, a live virtual Barcamp using open space technology principles and practices. Remember, “Agile” is a mindset, not a methodology.

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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. Performance Evaluation of non?

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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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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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The IIL Blog

JULY 19, 2023

Agile Team Engagement is Not Always Easy Here are a few tips for engaging stakeholders and team members in product development: Involve stakeholders in the planning process. Use facilitation techniques such as design thinking exercises, affinity mapping, or innovation games to encourage active participation and creativity.

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International Institute for Learning

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Facilitating Innovation in a Post COVID-19 World . Has COVID-19 made you see the need to adopt a more agile way of thinking? Find out how to be a catalyst for change (facilitating innovation) and NOT an antagonist (frustrating innovation). Estimating and Applying Points with Agile – How to apply, and when is it done?

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Scrum.org

APRIL 17, 2020

They want the innovation, speed and agility of a start-up combined with the size and scale of a larger firm. A business that has embraced Organisational Agility can achieve this, however it requires a profoundly different structure and operating model. Structure enables agility. The delay directly prevents agility.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Join the Mastering Agility Discord community. That’s the core of Agility; responding to change. The act of backlog refinement is to add details, estimates, and order to a selection of PBIs. We have already performed that has proven to be less work than we initially estimated. Degree of complexity/levels of innovation.

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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

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Estimating is a learned skill, used for any purpose from every-day life to management of projects. When I left for the airport this morning to catch my flight to a customer site I estimated, given the conditions, how much time I need to get to my favorite parking spot at DIA. So when you hear we can't estimate you'll know better.

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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. You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 46,000-plus subscribers. Explain the benefits and drawbacks of different estimation techniques. Please [insert your task here.]”

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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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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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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 24, 2022

We see technology evolving, new tools, consolidation, innovation and more. In 2021, Cisco estimated that 82% of consumer internet traffic was video. Are you waterfall or Agile ? It requires being able to differentiate between the benefits of Agile , waterfall and blended approaches, understanding the pros and cons of each.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 2, 2022

We will want to plan everything out in more detail, so we can “be sure” our estimates are “right” (note: all estimates are wrong ). Even when a Scrum Team is “doing Scrum,” they may not maximize the benefits of business agility when they or those around them start to fall into this trap.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 31, 2024

It doesn’t matter if you are agile or waterfall, iterative, predictive, incremental or hybrid: what’s important is that when a new requirement comes along, it is clear and thought through, and you know what it is! Make sure that you are thinking realistically about estimates and the likelihood of risk affecting your ability to deliver.

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