Leading Agile

JANUARY 30, 2022

Once we get started on the journey toward becoming Agile—whether we’re at the start or further along in the process—we often notice there’s conflict between different parts of the organization. This is usually because we start with team-level Agility thinking that’s all we need. Ultimately, our goal isn’t just to be Agile.

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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. Since financial services institutions typically work within well-established practices to mitigate risks, new ways of working aren’t always immediately accepted.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 25, 2024

A Project Management Office (PMO) isn't just about oversight; it's about empowering your projects to deliver real value. With the PMO structure, you can achieve higher success rates, better resource management, and improved stakeholder satisfaction. What is a Project Management Office?

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 1, 2022

Project management is methodical, but change is not. If changes are requested, the change control board shows how those changes are managed with the least amount of disruption to the project’s plan. A change control board includes representatives of the relevant functional areas of the project in addition to the project manager.

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Wrike

OCTOBER 6, 2023

In the world of project management, uncertainty is an ever-present element that can greatly impact the success or failure of a project. It is essential for project managers to understand the nature of uncertainty and how it manifests in various forms. This uncertainty can impact project timelines and deliverables.

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The Strategic Project Manager

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Then it focuses on strategy and project management as careers that can lead to CIO – but with a careful strategic approach. This post queries whether a Chief Information Officer (CIO) position might be a good and realistic goal for a project manager. Finally, the post discusses whether and how a CIO role might even lead to CEO.

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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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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 2, 2024

By: Hajime Estanislao, PMP, CSM Project managers, have you ever felt overwhelmed by the unpredictable waves of the project environment? The terrain of project management is fraught with hidden challenges and opportunities lying in wait for the unwary. Be alert to risks so you will have ample room to take action. Because it is.

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The Strategic Project Manager

JANUARY 9, 2024

This post digs into this ambitious career objective, the required skills and attributes, strategy and project management as steppingstones to the CEO role, and attractive alternative career objectives. The role of a CEO is multifaceted, requiring a diverse skill set to effectively lead and manage an organization.

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Planio

MAY 8, 2023

If you’re used to shipping features and new products, IT project management (ITPM) probably isn’t on your radar. IT project managers play a critical role in ensuring their company’s IT capability is dependable, up-to-date, and secure. Jump to a section: What is IT project management? The 5 phases of IT project management 1.

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Herding Cats

MAY 10, 2019

Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. Risk issues that can be identified early in the program, which will potentially impact the program later, termed Known Unknowns and can be alleviated with good risk management. Effective Risk Management 2 nd Edition , Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Digital transformation can be something as narrow as deciding to go paperless, or as wide as impacting entire segments of society, such as governance, mass communications, art, medicine and science. Time Management. The impact of a digital transformation on your business is holistic, in that it impacts every aspect of your operation.

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Planio

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

No matter how agile and lean you try to run your projects there are inevitably going to be a lot of people involved in getting you from project proposal to launch day. A 3-part stakeholder management process for keeping everyone happy. Step 3: Best practices for stakeholder management and communication. And what do they do?

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The Strategic Project Manager

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The post explores the origins of the Experience Curve, important nuances to consider, and how it can be useful for a strategic project manager. Check out the new Project Management Handbook (paid link): —————————————-. The Basic Experience Curve Concept.

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Herding Cats

MAY 11, 2019

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to manage the risk encountered on software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. reducible and irreducible ? De Meyer, C.

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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. So, I’m the CEO of a company called Leading Agile, started about 11 years ago, I’m based in Atlanta, Georgia. Listen now.

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The Strategic Project Manager

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Finally, the post discusses several impacts to consider in the practices of strategy and project management. It is influencing manufacturing, distribution, financing, marketing and sales. And organizations refer to nations, which are comprised of companies, governments, and other entities. The four key forces are 1.

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Wrike

MAY 20, 2023

Agile methodology: Adopting a flexible and iterative approach to project management, allowing businesses to quickly adapt to changing market conditions. Initially, it involved automating manual processes such as record-keeping and inventory management.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

There's a popular notion going around the agile community that says. This, of course, is a violation of the principles of Managerial Finance and Microeconomics of software development in the presence of uncertainty and scarce resources. Overlooking key project risks. It bad management ?

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 30, 2017

One of the 4 summary root causes of project performance failures is Unrealistic Cost and Schedule Estimates based on inadequate risk-adjusted growth models. One notion in a governance paradigm is It's Not Your Money . Managing in the presence of uncertainty is standard business practice.

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Herding Cats

JULY 16, 2017

There are not specific to Agile Software Development. Agile teams, for the most part, are a fixed set of resources, so the spending plan is essentially Flat. Again, this is the basis of Managerial Finance. Uncertainty creates risk. Risk Management is how Adults Manage Projects - Tim Lister.

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LiquidPlanner

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Project Portfolio Management (PPM) software is a critical tool for teams who need help managing complex projects and priorities across their organization. This software isn’t just critical for enterprise organizations, but any company that manages shared resources and has complex projects with succession planning components.

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Binfire

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

What is the best project management software for your team and your project? Is there a project management app that fits everybody’s requirements? The short answer is no, depending on industry, team size, project complexity, team’s experience and team size the requirements for project management software change.

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Online PM Courses

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

I have project management nailed.’ All of the professional bodies and providers of general project management qualifications recognize that this is far from the truth. A fully capable project manager needs a wide range of personal and professional skills outside of the realms of their technical project management competence.

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Velociteach

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The podcast by project managers for project managers. Dr. Joel Carboni talks about Sustainable Project Management, and the goal to achieve a stated objective while considering the project outcome’s entire lifecycle to ensure a net positive environmental, social, and economic impact. We’re talking about Green Project Management.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Estimates are needed to manage the risks created by these uncertainties. Those risks – reducible and irreducible – must be addressed during the decision making process as part of any management principle. As Tim Lister tells us “Risk management is how Adults manage projects.”. Question what?

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MPUG

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Jigs Gaton’s session, Project Management, Critical Event Management, and COVID-19: Reflections, being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. Project management, critical event management, and COVID-19 reflections. I get calls when they need me.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

What is a method in project management? We have a ton of project management methods – some you probably don’t spend much time thinking about at all. Types of project management methods. Project management uses lots of methods. But there are some specific project management methods. Read my full disclosure.).

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2018

Also, read Strategic Performance Management: Leveraging and Measuring Your Intangible Value Drivers. Do the highest technical risk first. ALL risk comes from uncertainty. Here are a short list of papers on Aleatory and Epistemic uncertainty , the risk it creates. And the technical risk is only one of three classes.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 18, 2017

There is a posted question at an agile conference. 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. Let's look at each of these from the point of view of Managerial Finance and Economics of Decision Making the presence of Uncertainty.

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Herding Cats

MAY 8, 2016

is not founded on any principle of business management, microeconomics of decision making, or principles of probability and statistics. Managing a business profitably is always hard work. Willfully bad management rarely benefits from learning how to estimate. The conjecture of #NoEstimates starts with the first Tweet.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

I attended our Agile Meetup last night, where the speaker walked through the three current Agile at Scale development methods, all based on Scrum - SAFe, LeSS, and Nexus. Anyone in the finance department, paying his salary, paying the developers has a fiduciary need to know what something will cost when it is done.

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Velociteach

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The podcast by project managers for project managers. Which is interesting because project management is so rigid. WENDY GROUNDS: Welcome to Manage This , the podcast by project managers for project managers. WENDY GROUNDS: Welcome to Manage This , the podcast by project managers for project managers.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 27, 2019

But greater flexibility generally requires a more skillful approach to governance and project management. An important business agility principle is that context counts. Next, decide how the team will go about accessing the funds being provided to them (this is usually chosen by your organization’s finance group).

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MPUG

JULY 30, 2020

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Rich Murphy’s showcase session, Triskell Software for Enterprise Governance, being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. Kyle: Hello everyone, and welcome to today’s MPUG vendor showcase session, Triskell Software for Enterprise Governance.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 27, 2017

Corrective Action/Preventative Action: Productivity in software development is simple to define and measure: One start is to use Earned Value Management, but we won't get there. This is standard Product Management. Done by every Product Manager for every Product Company.

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MPUG

JULY 30, 2020

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Rich Murphy’s showcase session, Triskell Software for Enterprise Governance, being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. Kyle: Hello everyone, and welcome to today’s MPUG vendor showcase session, Triskell Software for Enterprise Governance.

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