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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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 11, 2024

By: Hajime Estanislao, PMP, CSM Are you ready to transform the way you manage projects and lead your team? Dive into the world of Scrum, the Agile framework that is revolutionizing project management across industries. What is Scrum and the Five Scrum Values? Below are the descriptions of the Scrum Values.

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MPUG

MARCH 8, 2021

Many project managers utilize a Lean-Agile approach when there is high change or churn in project requirements, significant lack of clarity in scope, high complexity to their projects, and/or a larger number of risks associated with such. Two Lean-Agile Types. Iteration-based Lean-Agile.

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MPUG

OCTOBER 14, 2019

On that first day, the first woodcutter heard his counterpart stop cutting before the day was really finished. I never stopped or took a rest, whereas you stopped many times!” The second woodcutter replied, “Yes, but I didn’t actually stop. The second woodcutter replied, “Yes, but I didn’t actually stop.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 29, 2019

Some people contributed independently, some built on work I had been doing since 2015, some of us leveraged the work of Ron Eringa and Ryan Ripley with their Professional Agile Leadership - Essentials class. As a passionate optimist, I want to help organizations towards their direction of travel using agility as a strategy.

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Digite

AUGUST 14, 2017

Competitiveness in the age of digital disruption requires businesses to achieve agility at scale – not in select projects and portfolios alone, but across functions, across the business. The approaches to achieving enterprise-wide agility are keenly debated. The method wars. So what works best?

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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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Leading Agile

MARCH 31, 2020

Listen to the Agile Unplugged Podcast on the go! Find and subscribe to Agile Unplugged on: Apple Podcasts. In this week’s episode, LeadingAgile Chief Methodologist, Dennis Stevens, sits down with Mike Cottmeyer to discuss Capability-based organizations, Systems of Delivery vs Systems of Transformation, managing dependencies, and more.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

The Project Manager is typically concerned with day-to-day progress of the Development Team. They rarely (or never) miss a Daily Scrum, they’re involved during the Daily Scrum and it might just be that they’re asking individual team members what they’ve done, what they’re going to do and if there’s anything blocking them.

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Project Pulse Journal

MARCH 11, 2024

Many project managers face the challenge of delivering projects that make a difference. Because there's a sustainable way to deliver more value: value creation in project management. Value creation lies at the heart of project management, driving outcomes and business success. Ready to elevate your project management game?

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International Institute for Learning

DECEMBER 17, 2019

The landscape for project management changes almost every year. Major changes to project management will occur in 2020 due to much of the new material that the Project Management Institute (PMI) has published and will be testing on in the new version of the Project Management Professional (PMP) ® exam beginning in June 2020.

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Techno-PM

AUGUST 25, 2020

Product Manager vs Project Manager The essence of being an effective project manager or product manager can be summed up in four words: “The buck stops here!” This can be a confidence builder, whether you’re pursuing a career as a project manager or a product manager. That quote, popularized by U.S.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Settle in, make yourself a brew and enjoy learning from people who actually live scrum day in day out. . I would just like to add a thank you to Francis and Sally for being very open in allowing us to peak into your lives and to share it with everyone. Nothing helped with this until we tried Scrum. Very inspirational. .

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Planio

JULY 9, 2020

Pretty much everything is made better when you bring together a group of the right people. Redmine is the most popular open source project management tool and issue tracker out there, thanks in large part to it’s dedicated community of users and contributors. Why use an open source project management tool like Redmine?

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Agilemania

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Understand how to use SEO tools like SEMrush, Moz, Google Trends, Yoast. This Art can be used by bloggers, content marketers, or individual businesses to bring in more engagement. This digital space is fast-paced and frequently changes as the google search engine algorithm. This commonly adopted skill is known as Content Marketing.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

On November 22nd, 2019, I gave the closing keynote at Scrum Deutschland, a talk called ‘The Four Things You Do To Prevent Value Delivery.’ Such a study is holistic; it involves looking at the organizational design, technical capabilities, culture and knowledge, and type of control and metrics used to define success.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 11, 2024

This article covers the three Scrum accountabilities (formerly roles) and addresses interferences of stakeholders and IT/line management with this crucial Scrum event. Your single best investment to improve your professional standing ; order the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book now! ? Source : Scrum Guide 2020.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

TL; DR: ChatGPT Product Owner Job Interview A few weeks ago, I ran a simulated job interview with ChatGPT for a fictitious Scrum Master position. Consequently, I tried the same with a Product Owner position, aware of the challenges this would pose, as the Product Owner role is significantly fuzzier than the one of a Scrum Master.

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Velociteach

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The podcast by project managers for project managers. Mastering effective meetings is essential for project managers, as successful meetings contribute significantly to project success. WENDY GROUNDS: You’re listening to Manage This , the podcast by project managers for project managers.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

If you are looking to fill a position for a Product Owner in your organization, you may find the following 71 interview questions useful to identify the right candidate. So far, this Product Owner interview guide has been downloaded more than 6,000 times. Scrum is not a methodology but a framework.

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Kiron Bondale

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

In 2015 I wrote an article intending to debunk some common myths about project management. Like many of you, I spent a reasonable amount of time during my first few years participating in online forums correcting agile misconceptions. Agile projects and agile methodologies. We need to do agile.

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MPUG

JULY 1, 2020

You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content. If you have any questions during today’s presentation, please send those over to me at any time using the chat question box on the GoToWebinar control panel.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 27, 2017

It lists the usual suspects for why those spending the money think they don't have to estimate how much they plan to spend when they'll be done producing the value they've been assigned to produce for that expenditure. For non-repeatable activities - meaning it’s never been done before - no one really knows how much time a task should take.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 28, 2022

Welcome to the Sprint anti-patterns article from my series on Scrum anti-patterns, covering the three Scrum roles—pardon me: accountabilities—and addressing the contributions of stakeholders and the IT/line management. You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 34,000-plus subscribers. ??

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 8, 2022

Also referred to sometimes as a scaling framework. . Kanban comes from a similar place in that you try to stop starting and start finishing. . . The more work that we have running at the same time, the higher the cycle time goes up, the longer work takes and the less throughput that we have. . What is LeSS?

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

TL; DR: How to Make Agile Work in Fast-Growing Startups. For years, I worked in several Berlin-based, fast-growing startups in my capacity as Scrum Master, agile coach, and Product Owner. These are my lessons learned on making ‘agile’ — including Scrum as a framework — work in a fast-growing startup.

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Scrum.org

JULY 30, 2021

If you change nothing, the inspection did not have an impact at all and is a waste of time and energy. With each change also comes a risk, that we are worsening the situation. With each change also comes a risk, that we are worsening the situation. One of my favorite saying is “Inspection without adaptation is waste”.

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MPUG

JUNE 28, 2021

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), US, notes in its web-archives that Odissi is two to three thousand years old. Now, you might be thinking what exactly a dance has to do with cadence in Agile? One can define cadence in Agile as follows: Cadence is a regular, predictable pattern of development work in Agile.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 27, 2021

For many people, the traditional project management methodologies (see PMI / PRINCE2) are the root of the problems that birthed Waterfall. Audience: Scrum Masters , Leaders. Mastery in ones chosen profession was paramount, and rewards for the master craftsman were earned through increased money or more time to pursue other interests.

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

When I first learned about Agile methods in 2002, the principles seemed to offer an ideal solution to many organizational issues common at the time. When I applied those principles in real-world situations, they worked remarkably well. Let’s begin with some parts of the Agile canon itself. What has changed?

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MPUG

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Tim Runcie’s Agile Series Part 1 webinar being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content.

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Paymo App

JANUARY 19, 2018

Are you preparing to become a project manager but you don’t know where to start? We’ve put together an extensive guide for you to serve as a beginning point and reference for your future career as a project manager. – the basic personality traits of a good manager. What does a project manager actually do?

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Online PM Courses

JANUARY 8, 2018

The Stage Gate Process gets too little love from Project Managers. Yet it has the potential to transform your project management, deliver more successful projects, and make you a better project manager. Using the information you make available, they decide whether to: Continue the project to its next stage.

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MPUG

JULY 30, 2020

You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content. If you have any questions during the session today, please send those over at any time using the chat question box on the GoToWebinar control panel.

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MPUG

JULY 30, 2020

You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content. If you have any questions during the session today, please send those over at any time using the chat question box on the GoToWebinar control panel.

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PM Basics

DECEMBER 10, 2019

So, don’t overcomplicate scope management. In general, it refers to existing tickets and documentation. In-Depth Guide on Project Scope Management. For example, defining 100% of the required work is problematic. Also, it’s a problem to control the changes consistently. Real-Life Project Scope Example.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 23, 2019

There's been a rash of conjectures about all kinds of bad business, project, and software development (agile and traditional) management ideas of late. Time to update the Don't Do Stupid Things on Purpose (DDSTOP) post. There’s nothing more dangerous than an idea – or a person – that’s almost right.”.

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