Scrum.org

OCTOBER 9, 2018

The Agile Manifesto statement of “Customer Collaboration over Contract Negotiation” is less than helpful when it comes to writing contracts for projects to be worked in an Agile fashion. Contracting for Agile software development projects continues to be a major organizational impediment.

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Project Risk Coach

MARCH 28, 2023

Domain 1: Risk Strategy & Planning When project managers plan their projects, they think about their approaches to things such as developing schedules, creating a communication plan, and creating a risk management plan. Rather, this plan describes the project team's approach to risk management. mitigate, transfer).

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

The term refers to how the project’s requirements or feature list grows over time without proper control. Scope creep is the more common term but you might hear both, especially if you are working in software development. Ultimately, it isn’t the project manager coming up with new requirements and asking the team to “just do it”.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 29, 2022

I have been a bit lax with project management reading recently but one book that I have made time to review again is The Conscious Project Leader: How to Create a Culture of Success for Your Projects, Your Team and Yourself. I get the references to Python, The Voice, football, Morecambe and Wise. Colin Ellis. Keeping You Accountable.

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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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Scrum.org

MARCH 8, 2019

Hearing a senior executive announce "We're committed to becoming agile!" In fact, if you were to read some of the interviews with managers in business magazines, or the guest articles and puff-pieces on agility in their companies, you'd think that their hearts and minds had been won decades ago. Yet it's also the sticking point.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The Project Management Institute approach has been to bring more agile into the main guide, and to publish it alongside the Agile Practice Guide. The PRINCE2 guidance is not specifically agile , but it could be adapted to be so. There is also PRINCE2 Agile as a specific, different qualification you can get.

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Inloox

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

This type of risk is easier to control, since the project team can exert a direct influence on the project environment. External risks, on the other hand, originate outside the sphere of influence of the project team. This internal risk can be controlled to a certain extent by concrete measures taken by the project team.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 16, 2020

They advise us on our driving habits when the road conditions are bad on our commute to work. I believe Agile software development is more than ready to use new forecasting techniques to express uncertainy to narrow their decision-making process. I believe we can use this definition in Agile software development.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 22, 2021

If you are looking to fill a position for a Scrum Master (or agile coach) in your organization, you may find the following 47 interview questions useful to identify the right candidate. You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 30,000-plus other subscribers. Agile Metrics. Agile Metrics.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Given the poor reputation that meetings have, maybe it's not a surprise. Meetings Have Always Had a Bad Reputation. With the poor reputation that meetings had earned, was it any wonder that the authors of Scrum wanted to use a different word? It has a time-box of 8 hours and mandatory attendees consist of the Scrum Team.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 31, 2023

It’s a lot to read, so here are some spoilers drawn from common themes I heard time and time again in the interviews: Agile : if you don’t know enough about it, you need to start learning. And in no particular order we start with: Mark Phillips Mark Phillips High performing teams are motivated by an exceptional vision.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

"There's no predictability/commitment in Agile/Scrum". Over the years I've heard my share of these kinds of statements from various levels of executives: "When my guys run a product development release I really want to know what I will get at the end so I can make business plans accordingly". "In Back to the roots.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 7, 2019

There are four key words in the first value of the Agile Manifesto: “ Individuals and their interactions over processes and tools ”. Interestingly, in our debates we seem to be oblivious to the reference to interactions and what it truly means to social and tribal animals as we, humans, are. Why does language matter? Neus and P.

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MPUG

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

In this article, we are going to explore Earned Value Management (EVM), a widely used traditional management technique, but we are going to look at it within the context of an Agile domain. At the start of each iteration, he may be unsure about the applicability of earned value analysis, measurement, and management within Agile.

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Underperforming Technical Team Agile Performance Measurement PMI 59

Scrum.org

APRIL 14, 2020

TL; DR: A Remote Retrospective with a Distributed Team. We started this series on remote agile with looking into practices and tools, followed by exploring virtual Liberating Structures, how to master Zoom as well as common remote agile anti-patterns. Allow the team to scan the answers and then move on to the second prompt.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In many large organizations, Scrum teams fall into the ‘feature factory’ trap, focusing more on churning out features than creating real value. It’s too bad that this shift undermines Agile principles and hampers long-term success and innovation.

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Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Sustainability 177

ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Like any project manager, they plan, schedule and manage projects, however, the technical part refers to the projects, which tend to be in IT or related to IT. They need to have leadership qualities, manage teams, allocate resources and make project plans and schedules. They have to be organized and great communicators. Learn more.

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Teamweek

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

There is one skill that’s helpful in rapidly changing environments, though — learning agility. To prepare for the future of work, employees need to be agile learners. So, here are some tips for assessing learning agility when hiring top talent in 2024 and beyond. What is learning agility? Instead, they embrace it.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 16, 2022

Business processes refer to any activity or set of activities used to help accomplish an organization’s enterprise goals, across systems, employees, customers and partners. To optimize the effort, different methodologies have been used to be more effective, from Six Sigma to lean management and agile project management.

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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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Scrum.org

JUNE 5, 2023

Back in January 2023, I would not have taken the next step in the Scrum Master interview process, inviting ChatGPT to a full-size interview with several Scrum team members. You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 47,000-plus subscribers. ? So, if the GPT 3.5

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Leading Agile

MAY 18, 2020

During the pilot Expedition, the progress made by the sets of teams towards their desired Basecamp (across the delivery, product/program, and portfolio tiers), often exposes the challenges in the Investment Tier. This translation of strategy into execution falls under the purview of what LeadingAgile refers to as the Investment Tier.

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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?

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Leading Answers

JUNE 21, 2019

Within agile frameworks, the team retrospective is the primary workshop for planning and evaluating experiments. Yet most team retrospectives I see are broken. Teams spend too much time recording viewpoints and information—but not enough time reviewing or planning experiments. This is a more useful format.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 22, 2024

The job market is currently challenging for many agile practitioners, particularly Scrum Masters. Many are looking for new opportunities, while an increasing number of organizations consider the benefits they contribute to a team’s overall success. Exciting news for Agile enthusiasts! a game-changer in the world of Agile.

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Productivity Land

JUNE 7, 2023

As new technologies enable companies to become more agile and adaptable, team working models have had to evolve in order to keep up. But which team working models are best for driving productivity? In this blog post, we’ll explore five research-backed team working models for driving productivity in the workplace.

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Underperforming Technical Team Lean Manufacturing Software Developers 52

ProjectManager.com

MAY 16, 2019

Without one or the other, a business will struggle with weak performance. While seemingly impossible, there are principles that guide operational discipline so that a team can achieve these objectives. The methodology moved to the private sector in 1998 and has roots in the agile manifesto created by software developers.

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MPUG

JANUARY 15, 2024

The adoption of Agile approaches has encouraged the elimination of documentation. This leads us to Agile. I have heard team members say we do not need to do a particular thing because we are using Agile. Team members can refer to a centralized source, reducing ambiguity and ensuring everyone is on the same page.

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Agile Manufacturing 52

Agilemania

MAY 5, 2021

These are standards that help the scrum team monitor how effective they are as a team. Hence, focusing on the wrong metrics can distract the team from the scrum or make the team less effective. You could choose the specific metrics that bring value to you and your team. The X-axis refers to the time.

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Leading Agile

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Four Common Misconceptions About Agile Transformation In this article, our CEO, Mike Cottmeyer, explores why focusing on practices and culture isn’t the right place to start an Agile Transformation. Next, he talks about how Agile Transformation is an ongoing process and the importance of teaming strategies.

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2023 Underperforming Technical Team Agile 2024 131

Scrum.org

JANUARY 15, 2021

We are going towards the "Agile" Transformation. One of our goals is to increase velocities across all our teams by X%. A company known for developing “Agile” products surveyed more 18,000 customers and Software development professionals, which is what they discovered. . 77% practice Agile Development.

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Kiron Bondale

JULY 17, 2017

Long-lived teams are often presented as being superior to their temporary counterparts. The benefits of longevity include the avoidance of wasteful forming-storming-norming cycles, higher levels of trust and psychological safety within the team and a more accurate understanding of what someone means when they communicate with us.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 19, 2019

SWOT: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats. In fact, in some lean or agile organizations, over-reliance on documentation is seen as a clear impediment to innovation and collaboration. The following is a basic outline to follow when starting to develop your business case. Here’s a screenshot for your reference.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 26, 2021

In their book Agile Retrospectives , Esther Derby and Diana Larsen popularized the idea that a Sprint Retrospect comprises five stages. The second stage refers to gathering data so that the Scrum Team can have data-informed Retrospectives. The Scrum Team identifies the most helpful changes to improve its effectiveness.

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Kiron Bondale

AUGUST 26, 2018

The Manifesto for Agile Software Development was signed in 2001 and before its arrival launched agile into the mainstream, adaptive lifecycles had been used for many years. Resources (when referring to people). Best practices.

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MPUG

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Perhaps we would choose an Agile approach such as Scrum in those cases, not an entire abandonment of any project management principles. Team members can do whatever they want, whenever they want, with no consequences. Team members are left in the dark, wondering what’s happening and who’s in charge.

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