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What are the Risk Management Roles in Projects and Programs?

Project Risk Coach

Information Technology) or in a Project Management Office (PMO). Others may be placed within a department such as Information Technology (IT), focusing on managing IT projects. What about agile projects? Yes, agile projects have risks too. Where do project managers reside organizationally? Control is high.

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Agile Wars – And How to Avoid Them By Barbara Roberts

International Institute for Learning

And yet for many years, the various Agile approaches appear to have been at war with one another. All too often, Agile is offered as a binary choice (“you are either agile or not agile”), together with the recommendation that one Agile approach (usually the one being “sold in”) is all you need.

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What Is Agile Product Management?

Agilemania

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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IT Service Management (ITSM): Frameworks, Processes & Phases

ProjectManager.com

Information technology (IT) involves the use of computers, digital storage, networking and other physical devices, infrastructure and processes to create, process, store, secure and exchange electronic data. IT service management (ITSM) is the process of how those services meet the needs of the end users who employ them.

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Current State and Future Prospects of Scrum and Agile Development in Japan

Scrum.org

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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What does it take to make an Agile transformation sustain?

Scrum.org

The Agile transformation business to be more precise. My core activity is coaching focused on Agility, i.e. influencing people to move towards (a (higher) state of) Agile. I want to share my opinion on what makes an Agile transformation successful. Bringing Agile into an organisation will change the social boundaries.

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Value Definition in Agile Transformation

Leading Agile

I have largely been exposed to Agile transformations in which the completion, more often than not, results in building more stuff faster. What many Agile Transformations fail to address, however, is the question of why are we building what we are building in the first place. Agile Transformation tends to have a starting point: IT.

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