Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 31, 2023

It’s a lot to read, so here are some spoilers drawn from common themes I heard time and time again in the interviews: Agile : if you don’t know enough about it, you need to start learning. It can serve as a baseline, but most project managers ought to layer some sort of agile certification on top of it. Find her on Twitter.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 15, 2024

By: Hajime Estanislao, PMP, CSM The quest for methodologies that offer efficiency and agility has never been rockier. Agile methodologies stand at the forefront of this quest, providing the blueprint for rapid, responsive, and customer-centric project execution. Agile methodologies offer a path to mastering these challenges.

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Wrike

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In the realm of project management methodologies, Lean and Agile have emerged as powerful approaches that support organizations in achieving efficiency and delivering high-quality products and services. Understanding the nuances of Lean and Agile is crucial for project managers and teams seeking to optimize their processes.

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Project Accelerator News

APRIL 18, 2024

When new to a role (in many business environments, not just IT Project Management), new managers tend to lean into making sweeping changes, it’s human nature. Stoneseed’s innovative P3MO Platform can help: Optimise cutting-edge technologies for unprecedented efficiency and innovation. Enable seamless collaboration within Teams.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 13, 2022

In this article, I’ll explore the need for and the attributes of an agile business operating system related to Private Equity (PE) portfolio companies. Dealing with common business challenges through agility. This affects product innovation as well as GTM innovation and other key business processes. .

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Planview

JULY 9, 2019

This blog is part of a series on Lean portfolio management for the enterprise. If you haven’t already, we recommend reading: Part 1: What is Lean Portfolio Management? Part 2: Lean Portfolio Management: Lean Budgets and Investment Funding. Support program execution. Lean-Agile Center of Excellence (LACE).

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Scrum.org

JULY 3, 2023

TL; DR: The Uncomfortable Truth of Scaling Agile Agile transformations, scaling Agile from a team level to the whole organization, are more than implementing frameworks like SAFe®. You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 47,000-plus subscribers. ? ??

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The Strategic Project Manager

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Lean innovation management originated from startups, but is applicable in helping bring a startup mentality to a variety of types of organizations. Let’s start be defining lean innovation. What is lean innovation, and why is it important? That’s’s one type of innovation.

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Planview

AUGUST 16, 2021

Fresh from achieving great strides in digital transformation and other endeavors in record time over the past year, executives and boards of directors want to inject even more speed and agility into their organization’s DNA. What follows are a few of the compelling questions we received from attendees. Key Points.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Before we talk about the comparison and contrast between Scrum Master and Agile Leader, people often compare and contrast Scrum Master and Agile Coach, and they often ask me, what’s the difference? They should be well versed on product management, design, other agile and lean agile approaches.

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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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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Is an Agile Transformation Coach any different than being an Agile Coach? When most people think about Agile Coaches, they tend to think about a person who comes in and assists the teams with things like: Learning Scrum, SAFe, LeSS. If that’s your definition of an Agile Transformation Coach, you’d be right—but only partially.

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Leading Answers

JUNE 19, 2019

If success goes to those who can innovate the fastest, how do we nurture innovation? It may sound easy, but executives and shareholders demand results, not “learning opportunities.” It may sound easy, but executives and shareholders demand results, not “learning opportunities.”

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NimbleWork

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

When the Agile methodology was first introduced, it was embraced as a welcome replacement to the rigid Waterfall approach. The community largely accepted Agile and Waterfall as mutually exclusive project management paradigms. Critics of Agile believed that Agile simply translates into fast failure.

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Techno-PM

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The lean portfolio management is a new way to look at the old problem of balancing cost vs. value in product development projects. 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.

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Henny Portman

APRIL 26, 2022

There are not that many books on agile portfolio management, so I am curious what the book Agile Portfolio Management – A guide to the methodology and its successful implementation “knowledge that sets you apart” written by Klaus Nielsen, offers. Every chapter starts with the same overview figure. I miss structure.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

It’s too bad that this shift undermines Agile principles and hampers long-term success and innovation. This approach stifles agility and innovation, leading to a feature factory mindset that focuses on executing predefined plans rather than adapting to change.

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Agilemania

JANUARY 24, 2022

What is Scaling in Agile? Agile is a set of values and principles. Agile is an umbrella term for a group of iterative product development frameworks. Most organizations started their Agile journey with one of the frameworks mentioned above, and Scrum is the most popular one. Scaling Agile Frameworks. What is SAFe?

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Agilemania

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Scaled Agile Framework, SAFe® is the world’s leading framework for Business Agility. The seven core competencies each have three dimensions making it a total of twenty-one dimensions to enable Business Agility. These dimensions contain some of the practices, patterns, and guidelines to Scale Agility across the enterprise.

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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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Project Bliss

MAY 10, 2017

Everybody’s talking about agile software development these days: project managers, software developers, IT directors, small startups and big corporations. What is Agile Software Development? Agile software development is an approach that promotes delivering value quickly to the customer. Agile Principles.

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Inloox

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The SAFe method is based on the Lean philosophy and offers a fixed framework in which Scrum and other agile management methods can be scaled to the entire company. The basic concept SAFe divides enterprise agility into three level of abstractions: Team level (Scrum teams). Agile Release Train (ART). Agile Teams.

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Agilemania

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Core Values of Scaled Agile Framework ®. Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®) is the world’s leading framework for business agility. Building quality into the product or service is a prerequisite of Lean and flow to avoid an obscure amount of rework resulting from large batches of unverified and invalidated work.

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 28, 2018

There has been some backlash against Six Sigma over the recent years, some of which is warranted and will be discussed, but overall the process proves a valuable tool in reducing defects in product manufacturing, especially when paired with Agile thinking, lean manufacturing and capable project management tools. Lean Six Sigma.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 12, 2022

What to Expect: Industry innovators help professionals be more productive, and learn best practices, skills and strategies to succeed with over 25 educational sessions and four hands-on workshops. Agile & Beyond. Agile is not new. What to Expect: Sessions focus on agility, software engineering and lean business.

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Wrike

AUGUST 28, 2023

Lean Manufacturing is a methodology that aims to streamline business operations and eliminate waste in order to achieve maximum efficiency and productivity. In this article, we will dive deep into the principles, benefits, and challenges of implementing Lean Manufacturing.

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Inloox

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The SAFe method is based on the Lean philosophy and offers a fixed framework in which Scrum and other agile management methods can be scaled to the entire company. The basic concept SAFe divides enterprise agility into three level of abstractions: Team level (Scrum teams). Agile Release Train (ART). Agile Teams.

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Agilemania

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Scaled Agile Framework has taken the corporate world by storm. 37% of the respondents reported that their organizations used SAFe to scale agile. 37% of the respondents reported that their organizations used SAFe to scale agile. Source: 15th State of Agile Survey. Scaled Agile Framework: What is it?

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International Institute for Learning

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Then, gather the resources you will need and execute a structured study plan. Before joining PMI, Mike consulted and managed innovation and technology projects throughout Europe, North and South America for 30+ years. There are many ways to test your understanding and gain feedback as you go, so the final exam should be no surprise.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

In the previous article, Agile Transformation – Success Factors part 1 , there was a strong focus on key levels that should be taken first into consideration. Agile Transformation efforts might be difficult. For instance: They create the agile transformation vision and act accordingly. They foster a positive, agile culture.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 16, 2019

One of the biggest misconceptions of agile is that it focuses on speed. This short-sighted view of agile is causing a bigger problem?—?misalignment. Focusing on individual team velocity is causing misalignment both vertically and horizontally within organizations reducing their overall agility. How fast can we deliver?

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

This article dives deep into the heart of Scrum team operations, offering clear-cut strategies and innovative visualisation techniques to help you understand and manage your Sprint work and Refinement processes effectively. Agile #TeamWork #Productivity NKDAgility can help! Which you can do right now.

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The Strategic Project Manager

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

If stability is measured by frequency of strategic planning cycles and the use of agile vs waterfall project management methods , then today there is less stability. Strategic Agility – conceptualize an approach to being adaptive. Lean Innovation – discover and build a business around the hotpots for customers and markets.

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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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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 currently serves as the executive director and head of global business solutions for J.P. Bernardo Tirado. Morgan Chase.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 13, 2023

Dealing with common business challenges through agility I’ve been helping companies improve their operations for over a decade. Some examples of the challenges I’m called in to help with: Losing the Ability to Innovate You often see companies that grow successfully to the point where it seems their ability to innovate stalls.

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

One powerful tool that organizations can leverage to drive this transformation is process innovation. In this article, we will explore the concept of process innovation and its importance in business, the role it plays in driving transformation, the steps to implement it, overcoming challenges, and measuring its impact.

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