Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 31, 2023

Project managers know that cooperation boosts productivity on projects and is beneficial in a team environment. Teamwork ensures that resources are well-managed and less time is needed to complete a project. And if that wasn’t enough, here are 10 reasons why teamwork is vital to effective project management.

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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 [Agile or Scrum concept] and best practices for implementation. Please [insert your task here.]”

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Project management has so many challenges to solve every day, so having a toolbox of techniques (and the right attitude) will help you deliver projects successfully. Given that it deals with the big problems facing organizations, I think the course is best for senior project managers, program managers, and portfolio leaders.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 7, 2023

Since I became a Professional Scrum Trainer in November, I have been asked a lot about the current state, and the future perspectives, for Scrum and agile development in Japan, where I’ve worked for the last six years. Yet, Scrum and the principles of agile development are not as common in Japan as they are in other parts of the world.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

You’re here because you’re interested in finding out whether the IBM Project Manager Professional Certificate is right for you? Summary review The IBM Project Manager Professional Certificate is a good CAPM® alternative or course to use towards your CAPM prep. Who is the IBM Project Management Certificate for? Let me guess.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 3, 2023

TL; DR: Workshop Design with ChatGPT The following article explores whether we can use ChatGPT-4 to create workshops for agile practitioners; for example, Scrum Masters. As you will learn, and despite being prone to lapse into project management speak, ChatGPT is remarkably capable of doing so, provided we feed it suitable prompts.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 15, 2020

TL; DR: Remote Agile Transitions. Since the pandemic has forced many of us to work remotely, this unique capability has been kicked into overdrive regarding remote agile transitions. Here are my top-10 challenges of organizational change that remote Agile has made more urgent to address than ever before. ??

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 25, 2023

Imagine that you’re part of an Agile or Scrum team and you frequently experience how your team struggles to navigate conflict effectively, or the Sprint Retrospective only results in meaningless improvements, or Sprints never have a predefined Sprint Goal. In the end, Agile & Scrum teams exist to deliver value to stakeholders.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 22, 2023

Are you ready to dive into my Google Project Management: Professional Certificate review? I’ve done a lot of project management training in my 20+ years as a project manager, and those courses helped me understand the skills, tools and techniques required to succeed leading projects.

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The Strategic Project Manager

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Finally, the post applies these same steps to strategy and project management, identifying similarities and differences, all to stimulate thinking as a strategic project manager. The post will then look at how this applies to strategy and project management. ” until satisfied.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 17, 2023

TL; DR: Jira Anti-Patterns If you ask people to come up with popular attributes for “Agile” or “agility,” Scrum and Jira will likely be among the top ten featured. Moreover, in any discussion about the topic, someone will mention that using Scrum running on top of Jira does not make an organization agile.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 27, 2020

We started this series on remote agile with looking into practices and tools; we explored virtual Liberating Structures, and how to master Zoom. We had a look at common remote agile anti-patterns, and we analyzed remote Retrospectives and Sprint Plannings based on Liberating Structures. Supporting Liberating Structures.

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Kiron Bondale

APRIL 7, 2019

When we are managing projects using a predictive delivery approach, dependency identification and tracking is done as part of the BPUF (Big Planning Up Front) exercise using the activities from a work breakdown structure and the collective wisdom of our team members and key stakeholders.

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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

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

If you are using agile methodologies, you have other tools available to you to manage changes in requirements because flexing the scope of the project is very much built into the agile way of working. Work on what you can manage, and put a process in place for adapting to future changes. Project risks. The budget.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 19, 2023

To truly foster a culture of continuous improvement, Scrum Masters must recognize that Retrospectives should not be treated as routine exercises but rather as opportunities to ignite the team's creativity. This exercise pushes teams to envision extreme scenarios and consider the potential negative outcomes.

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The IIL Blog

JANUARY 17, 2024

Frohnhoefer In the ever-evolving landscape of project management, staying ahead of the curve is not just beneficial—it’s imperative. As we step into 2024, the dynamics of project management continue to shift, demanding professionals to be agile, skilled, and strategically focused. Not sure where to begin?

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Inloox

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Know the risks in your project! Risk management plays an enormously important role in project management. The task here is to identify, analyze, control and ultimately minimize risks. The better risk management is handled in your project, the greater the probability of success, all other things being equal.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 7, 2023

I’ve been managing projects for over 20 years and I found the Google Project Management Certificate capstone course quite tricky. For more general tips on how to earn the Google project management certificate quickly, read the story of how I passed the certificate in a week. Recommended Google Project Management Certificate 5.0

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Kiron Bondale

AUGUST 1, 2016

As companies begin the journey of transforming their delivery practices from traditional to agile approaches, role transitions can be challenging. But let’s not ignore the role of the project manager. Some might argue that project managers are no longer required once an organization has fully institutionalized agile.

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nTask

DECEMBER 2, 2020

With agile teams, this is usually done through retrospectives. In other words, with agile retrospectives, you can focus on how your work is going and take things that are learned from success & failure for further implementation. Such agile retrospectives help to improve processes, methods, and teamwork.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 35,000-plus subscribers. ?? September 27, 2022 : Join 200-plus peers at the 45th Hands-on Agile Meetup: FAST: An Innovative Way to Scale with James Shore. Artifacts that have low transparency can lead to decisions that diminish value and increase risk.”.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 17, 2023

You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 36,000-plus other subscribers. ? ? ?? Your suggestions include surveys, talks, interviews, team meetings, games, exercises, or including other parties like stakeholders or line managers, and other useful practices. Comment : Spot on, again.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 6, 2020

Everyone in your Scrum team and the managers/leaders who interacting with your team should be able to answer. No mindset, culture, or increased agility change? Are you NOT delivering a “Done” Releasable Increment at least once per sprint, therefore enabling transparency, trust, and greater business agility? What is complexity?

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Project Risk Coach

OCTOBER 8, 2018

So, what's a project manager to do? How can we manage fixed date projects? Will you use a traditional waterfall approach or an agile method? Include a problem statement, goals, deliverables, assumptions, constraints, exclusions, high-level risks, stakeholders, and team members. Risks are eliminated or decreased.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 6, 2020

Everyone in your Scrum team and the managers/leaders who interacting with your team should be able to answer. No mindset, culture, or increased agility change? Are you NOT delivering a “Done” Releasable Increment at least once per sprint, therefore enabling transparency, trust, and greater business agility? What is complexity?

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Scrum.org

JUNE 20, 2021

I was blessed with a partner who, on top of his skills as Agile coach, is a gifted graphic facilitator. This simple exercise revealed so much of the participants' mindset. The participants were managers and scrum masters who reported to these managers and there was some tension between them. Capturing Atmosphere .

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MPUG

JULY 15, 2019

Stories in Agile Development replace requirements. Specifically, while writing user stories, Agile practitioners use a form which provides units of value to the end user: “As a <role>, I want <need>, so that <business value> ”. This leads to the concept of epics in Agile development. Stories in Backlog.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 20, 2022

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. Suppose you want to fill a Scrum Master (or agile coach) position in your organization. Which makes any Scrum Master interview a challenging task.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

The result of this buzz session was, of course, the Agile ‘Software Development’ Manifesto. Yet as we have subsequently discovered, agility meant -- or came to mean -- something different to each of them. Yet as we have subsequently discovered, agility meant -- or came to mean -- something different to each of them.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 5, 2023

Are you looking for tips on how to pass the Google Project Management Certificate ? My experience with the Google Project Management Professional Certificate I completed the course requirements in a week. Recommended Google Project Management Certificate 5.0 I completed the 6 courses in a week (what a week that was!).

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LiquidPlanner

JULY 18, 2022

In my previous blog post, Creating Personal Time Management Techniques , 2 we contemplated ancient wisdom rooted in knowing yourself and others. Intelligent collaboration and risk management strategies require us, among other things, to perceive relationships, learn quickly and act upon relevant information. About the Author.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Then sign up for the Food for Agile Thought newsletter and join 27k other subscribers. The primary way of achieving this goal as a PO is the management of the Product Backlog. I don’t believe, that a learning organization can manage without running user tests continuously. That should be a continuous exercise.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 12, 2021

Covey’s book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, with regard to effective Agile Transformation. When you open yourself up to being influenced, you are vulnerable and there is some inherent risk in that. Therein lies the nugget of gold that leads us back to effective Agile Transformation.

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MPUG

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Let’s apply this by thinking of a team of Agile practitioners working on a software product. Retrospectives and intraspectives in Agile development do exactly that. The importance of taking the time for retrospection comes from one of the 12 core principles of the Agile Manifesto. Retrospectives. Types of Retrospectives.

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Planview

JULY 26, 2022

Meanwhile, managers are bracing themselves for the inevitability of budget cuts: If we had to keep going with 10% less budget, or 20% less, what would that look like? But failing to plan for that reality could come at the risk of jeopardizing the activities, people, and processes that are holding your business together.

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Leading Answers

JUNE 29, 2018

I am excited to be presenting on the Enterprise Agile track at the Agile 2018 conference in San Diego, August 7. We then explore resolution patterns and work structures that maximize small team communications but limit negative aspects of managing multiple, inter-dependent project teams. Learning Objectives.

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