Scrum.org

APRIL 2, 2024

In the realm of software development, the Agile philosophy has become synonymous with flexibility, rapid delivery, and, most importantly, value to the customer. Yet, in my journey as a professional Scrum and Kanban trainer, I've observed a pervasive obstacle that many teams struggle to overcome: the hierarchical management of backlogs.

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Software Developers Software Development Agile SCRUM 146

Scrum.org

OCTOBER 7, 2019

TL; DR: Faking Agile Metrics — An Eye-Opening Exercise. Imagine you’re a Scrum Master and the line manager of your team believes that the best sign for a successful agile transformation is a steady increase in the Scrum Team’s velocity. Cooking the Agile Books — A Simple Exercise.

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Agile Underperforming Technical Team Estimate SCRUM 168

Agilemania

MAY 5, 2021

Epic and Release Burndown. Epic and Release burndown focus on developing over a larger body of work than the sprint. There are many epics and versions of work in a sprint. The entire team has to be aware of workflow in the epic and version. The entire team has to be aware of workflow in the epic and version.

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SCRUM Agile Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 98

Agilemania

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Recognized as one of the world’s foremost authorities on Lean-Agile best practices, Dean Leffingwell took it on himself to do something about it. He introduced the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). SAFe is based on following 10 Lean-Agile principles-. Visualize and limit WIP, reduce batch sizes, and manage queue lengths.

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Technical Review Agile Software Review Lean 98

Online PM Courses

JULY 21, 2021

Epics, User Stories, and Story Points are three terms that are widely used in Agile Project Management and some of its methodologies. The post What are Epics, User Stories, and Story Points? Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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Agilemania

MARCH 23, 2021

Some Agile experts are not hard-core fans of SAFe. And this makes SAFe more complicated, bureaucratic than the Agile manifesto recommends. They also have this opinion that SAFe is so heavy, maybe it is not Agile at all. Most of us started our Agile journey with one framework, and that is Scrum. Let us dig deeper.

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Agile Cadence Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM 98

Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 9, 2023

I speak to a lot of project managers who work with IT and development teams who use Jira but also have to work with other stakeholders who don’t have access to it. If you’re anything like me, you will have extra data in spreadsheets (because who manages to work without spreadsheets? Visor solves that problem.

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Risk Management Controlling Planning Agile 391

Scrum.org

APRIL 7, 2019

Part 1 intends to focus on the Scrum Team, Part 2 will be released shortly after our Webinar on April 29th and will focus on the “Epic” challenges agile leaders are facing. In the world of user story writing, those are then called Epics. Let’s explore in this blog post why these Epics often cause a headache for Scrum Teams.

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Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM Energy Estimate 170

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

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. . What is SAFe?

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2022 Agile Lean Software Developers 91

The Strategic Project Manager

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Feature Driven Development (FDD) is an agile methodology specifically applied to software development. This post explores what FDD is, FDD best practices, implications of FDD for strategy, and how FDD is implemented with other agile methods while managing a project. The concept is consistent with overall agile concepts.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 21, 2019

He achieves this with a mixture of agile, lean and lead, UX design and design thinking startup frameworks. The idea of a user story as it applies here comes from software development and product management. These user stories are collected on index cards, Post-It notes or in project management software.

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Technical Review 2005 Software Review Development Team Review 287

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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Agile SCRUM Governance Government 89

Agilemania

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

“What are the metrics by which you measure your agile development process?” . For this reason, we have written a comprehensive guide on the meaning of agile metrics, types, selecting the right metrics, and much more. . We shall get to the central theme of the blog post but not before learning the fundamentals of Agile metrics. .

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Agile Lean SCRUM Innovation 52

Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 18, 2019

As project managers, it’s important that we know how to best support our development teams (and vice versa), especially in Agile environments. A lot of the points below relate to teams in Agile environments , but can apply to any type of project team. Tasks are continually added during the project.

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Technical Review Development Team Review Risk Management Agile 394

MPUG

JULY 15, 2019

Now, imagine a software development project. 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> ”. Representation of Stories.

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Agile Software Review Infrastructure Estimate 99

nTask

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Agile project management is an iterative approach to delivering requirements throughout the project life cycle. Given below is a comprehensive guide for managers on how to lead their remote teams with Agile Project Management strategies for maximum productivity. . Make your team more Agile.

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Underperforming Technical Team Agile Technical Review 2005 92

Kiron Bondale

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

Project managers need to be comfortable with different estimation techniques. Foundational project management courses will teach you about analogous, bottom-up, parametric and three-point estimating. epics & stories or control accounts & work packages). But have you heard of RBS?

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Estimate Controlling Agile Risk Management 136

Planio

MAY 18, 2021

Agile product development has a chicken and egg problem. Agile planning is a process for reconciling your long-term product vision with the inevitable near-term iterations that will influence its development. What is long-term Agile Planning (and why is it so hard to get right?). That’s where Agile excels. Plan long-term!

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Agilemania

MAY 5, 2021

Epic and Release Burndown. Epic and Release burndown focus on developing over a larger body of work than the sprint. There are many epics and versions of work in a sprint. The entire team has to be aware of workflow in the epic and version. The entire team has to be aware of workflow in the epic and version.

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SCRUM Agile Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 52

Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 17, 2024

By: Hajime Estanislao, PMP, CSM Have you ever found your project team celebrating the end of a sprint, only to realize the outputs aren't quite ready for release? Uncertainty about when a task is complete can lead to inconsistent deliverables and project delays. Ready to transform your project delivery process?

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Software Review Development Team Review Technical Review 2024 52

Leading Agile

APRIL 20, 2023

As the world of business increases in complexity, it will take more than user stories, estimation, and OKRs to build a trustworthy system that management can delegate into. But if managers want a trustworthy system, it’ll be up to them to create it. You haven’t created the conditions to be able to delegate to that team.

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Agile Underperforming Technical Team Cadence SCRUM 62

Agilemania

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

LPM also known as Lean Portfolio management, refers to how senior leadership uses lean principles and systems thinking approaches to align strategy with execution. Portfolio management teams apply these principles and approaches to strategy and investment funding, Agile portfolio operations, and governance.

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MPUG

AUGUST 17, 2020

Work breakdown structure (WBS) is a key element for management planning, monitoring, and control of a project or a program scope. Regardless of the chosen life cycle (predictive, iterative, incremental, adaptive, or hybrid), WBS plays a role in almost every project. It’s also used in earned value management (EVM).

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Software Review Agile Underperforming Technical Team PMI 105

MPUG

AUGUST 17, 2020

Work breakdown structure (WBS) is a key element for management planning, monitoring, and control of a project or a program scope. Regardless of the chosen life cycle (predictive, iterative, incremental, adaptive, or hybrid), WBS plays a role in almost every project. It’s also used in earned value management (EVM).

Software Review 101

Software Review Agile Underperforming Technical Team PMI 101

MPUG

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Agile PPM & Project. Several years ago, Microsoft outlined their commitment to providing better experiences and richer capabilities to users of MS Project. One of the key investment areas was Agile. This is the continuing and evolving story of Agile and Microsoft’s technologies. Understanding Agile.

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Agile Technical Review Software Review 2006 89

MPUG

OCTOBER 10, 2022

A Sprint is considered to be a mini-project within a Scrum project. Like every project has to be closed, a Sprint, also has to be closed. However, many Agile practitioners do not follow this practice. Keep in mind that closing a Sprint differs significantly compared to the closing of a traditional project with MS Project.

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Closing Agile 2019 SCRUM 59

Online PM Courses

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

You want to embrace Agile as part (or maybe all) of your Project Management practice. Which Agile Certification program should you follow? Classifying the Agile Certification Providers. I have also included the Axelos PRINCE2 Agile qualifications here. Tier 1: Principle Promotors of Agile Project Management.

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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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Agile Technical Review Governance Government 62

Scrum.org

AUGUST 24, 2023

The Product Backlog is a critical asset in Agile product development; it represents a dynamic lean inventory of everything the product needs. The familiar hierarchy of Initiative->Epic->Feature->User Story->Task/Bug is a common schema. Individuals and interactions are central to Agile principles.

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Meisterplan

MAY 30, 2018

Do you find that agile approaches are helpful? And are you trying to tackle all projects in the company using agile and Jira? ” and “When will project XY be finished”? also used for daily work or task management? Then, we started using Jira for agile product development.

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Agile Development Team Review SCRUM Software Developers 60

nTask

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Get ready to witness the epic clash between Product Manager and Project Manager – the titans of business and tech! In one corner, we have visionary product managers, armed with boundless creativity and market expertise. Their mission is to captivate customers with innovative products and shape the future.

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Scoro

AUGUST 27, 2020

Leading a project management team is not for the faint of heart. Luckily, there are many different project management styles and approaches, so everyone can find their ideal workflow. With multiple approaches such as Scrum, Kanban, and XP, Agile has transformed the way many companies handle project management.

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Software Review Agile SCRUM Software Developers 52

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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Agile Development Team Review Software Risk Management 62

Leading Agile

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In Agile, we fix time, we fix cost and vary scope. Watch this video to learn more about the triple constraints in Agile and what you need to do to make sure that your teams can successfully vary scope in a fixed-time, fixed-cost environment. The counter-reaction is, “We’re Agile; we won’t make any commitments.”

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Software Review Construction Agile Technical Review 62

Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Another is the inability to identify and manage dependencies. And we dedicate a product manager to this team or small set of teams. The unit of delivery is the Agile team.”. We want to form capable teams so that we can give the team, or a small number of teams, a whole epic. What is the performance of my system?

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Estimate Budget Agile Closing 90

Binfire

MARCH 2, 2020

When you are managing multiple Agile projects , it is time-consuming to move from one board to another to get a complete view of all your projects. If you are not familiar with the portfolio Kanban board, it is a Kanban board that lists tasks from all your projects on one board.

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