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. Portfolio Management Offices are in a prime position to deliver this business agility – with the right PMO roadmap.

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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. Didn’t we just say that a centralized PMO undermined LPM?

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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. Often though, hindsight shows that making small tweaks could have been more productive. Rather than shake things up, it can be quicker, and less stressful to shape things up!

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The IIL Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

By APMG International September 6, 2023 Agile project management is a flexible approach to managing projects which involves taking incremental steps referred to as sprints or iterations. The History of Agile Project Management Agile project management emerged in the software development industry in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

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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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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

It’s an agile activity which looks like it ought to be a no-brainer for teams…something they’d want to buy into, and of clear value to all. Everyone else seems to have more important matters to attend to than another piece of agile “fluff”. The canvas as an agile artefact. Lessons from a start-up. Why, though?

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Kiron Bondale

MAY 6, 2018

An agile project management office might sound to some like an oxymoron, right? This might be a reasonable assertion as many PMOs were first formed to provide oversight over a portfolio of projects and enforcing standards sounds like the antithesis to agility. So what can a PMO do to actively support an agile transformation?

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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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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 28, 2022

Kanban is a visual workflow tool that, while originally used as a Toyota scheduling system, is now associated with in an agile methodology, especially in DevOps software development. The kanban method is governed by a set of principles. This allows for better management of the process, which improves the flow of work.

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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. What I am missing are the real agile portfolio risks. I miss structure.

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Henny Portman

JULY 26, 2020

Levine wrote with People Over Process – Leadership for Agility a very pragmatic and down to earth book about leadership and agile projects. The classic formulation of agile in the Agile Manifesto has no role for leadership. To download: QRC (Leadership for agility, 200725) v1.0. Project Planning meeting.

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The Strategic Project Manager

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Products and services, projects, and processes all need to add value to be strategically viable. This applies regardless of the type of organization – small, medium, or large company; startup; government entity; or non-profit. Let’s start be defining lean innovation. What is lean innovation, and why is it important?

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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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Agilemania

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Scaled Agile Framework or SAFe is a set of organization and workflow patterns intended to guide organizations in scaling lean and agile practices. SAFe endorses alignment, collaboration, and delivery across large numbers of agile teams. Agile software development. Lean Product Development. Systems Thinking.

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Agilemania

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

First, however, you might wonder how Disney implements its agile framework at such a large scale. This article will discuss how Disney can use the Scaled Agile Framework® to address the challenges a large organization will face when implementing it in its software development process. The movie business calls it Storyboarding.

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Velociteach

JULY 6, 2023

Large enterprises and government agencies increasingly turn to Agile for their software projects. This is a difficult shift, with many struggling to fit their new round agile pegs into their existing square waterfall holes. Cultural, structural, and procedural impediments make “being agile” a challenge.

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Proofhub

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Combine your agile methodology with an effective PM tool. The list goes something like this: Agile? —?Continuous Increasing visibility of work in progress to improve speed and quality of work Lean ?—?Streamlining Agile Agile is one of the hottest buzzwords today. Try ProofHub now.” Extreme programming?

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Agilemania

APRIL 12, 2022

1,00,000 practitioners and 20,000 enterprises worldwide have kept faith in one thing to drive Business Agility in the enterprise. . And that’s Scaled Agile Framework(SAFe)! . As per the 15th State of Agile Survey, 38% of the respondents considered SAFe as the most popular framework for scaling agile. . Target Process.

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Agilemania

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

To meet these demands, many companies have adopted new ways to integrate development, operations, and other departments as well as use Agile and DevOps principles. But there are many misconceptions about Agile and DevOps not only in the general public but also within businesses that have adopted them.

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Agilemania

OCTOBER 12, 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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Velociteach

MAY 10, 2023

More recently, the profession has grappled with two intertwined questions: Should principles or processes govern project management? Processes describe the inputs, tools, techniques, and outputs used to execute project activities. A toolkit is a collection of techniques and practices used within the project processes.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 42,000-plus subscribers. ? The Idea of a Scrum GPT Exploring Scrum in the real world often uncovers a tangle of anti-patterns—those practices that, despite best intentions, stray from agile principles and hinder progress.

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Agilemania

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Agile and Scrum are the two most popular names in the industry. Most organizations think all Agile frameworks come with a one-size-fits-all approach. As a result, they set unrealistic expectations when using Agile practices in their organizations. More than 44% of Agile projects fail due to a lack of experience.

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Planview

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Santander UK, one of the world’s largest retail and commercial banks, has been on an Agile and digital transformation journey for some time. This included incorporating Agile processes and other work methodologies into its traditional project portfolio management (PPM) processes, to help speed delivery of new products and services.

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Planview

AUGUST 26, 2019

As we finalize our six-part blog series on how to become agile, let’s take a look back at the previous five blogs and provide you with a brief summary of their key points. Part 1: Driving Agile at Scale: The Agile PMO. The path toward agility necessitates a thoughtful strategy and patience. This must change.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 20, 2024

Agile leaders should encourage autonomy, trust, and accountability among team members. Below are a few guardrails from the Scrum framework described in the Scrum Guide. The Role of the Leader Leaders are essential to the success of any Scrum team.

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Kiron Bondale

JUNE 16, 2018

In one of my previous articles I’d written about the need for change across multiple areas of an organization when undertaking an agile transformation. A key enterprise partner is the Finance department and the organization’s model for project funding will have significant influence over successful agile delivery.

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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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International Institute for Learning

JUNE 22, 2022

Is there a dark side to agility? The approach many Agile “purists” will expound on is that you must do things a certain way, or if that way of working does not work, you have failed, and it’s your fault. The opposite of agile, thus agilists impose anti-agility practices termed, “agile fragility.”

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Agile Coach

APRIL 19, 2018

A friend of mine asked me on twitter what my 3 main things I’ve learned teaching my Lean Change Agent workshops and what the main takeaways from attendees were. Context : it’s important to understand what triggered me to move away from agile, and into org change. First, How Lean Change Agent Came to Be. on Amazon.ca

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Leading Agile

MAY 16, 2023

What if, instead of focusing on all the Agile practices, we started applying some of the things we know about systems engineering to help large companies become the kind of organization that can leverage those practices? Video Transcript Agile is a way of enabling work cells in that factory. How does workflow across the Agile world?

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Digite

JANUARY 7, 2018

Several good books have been written on Kanban and its application to various business processes, especially to Scrum, since David Anderson published his original Kanban “blue book”. This book describes why students, parents, business leaders, major corporations, and world governments all see immediate results with Personal Kanban.

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Binfire

MARCH 6, 2018

I am sure by now you have heard about agile, companies big and small like Amazon and Google are using agile to manage work. You may be forgiven if you wonder why agile is used more and more for managing work and projects. If you still think Agile is good for managing software projects only, you are making a big mistake.

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International Institute for Learning

MAY 24, 2023

and Cynthia Snyder Dionisio, MBA, PMP Abstract “From Predictive to Agile: How to Choose the Right Project Management Methodology” highlights the shift from traditional predictive project management methodologies to agile and hybrid approaches. The authors, Harold Kerzner, Ph.D.,

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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

MARCH 16, 2020

Becoming Agile isn’t simple. Although many think all that’s needed is a System of Delivery, like Scrum or SAFe, in large organizations, it’ll take much more than a new process, or culture shift to Transform. But without the right foundational ecosystem and systems in place to enable Agility, achieving it is nearly impossible.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 9, 2023

Join Mike as he debates the general consensus on Agile and encourages you to start thinking about Agile through the lens of systems so that you can finally achieve the change you’ve been searching for. It is always the systems first structure, governance and metrics, then practices, then culture. So so bear with me here.

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