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Agility for a Sustainable World: Why We Need to Redefine The Meaning of Agility

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This year was the 20th anniversary of the Agile Manifesto for Software Development, and in many sectors, agile ways of working have long since become the standard. There are also many explanations of what agility really means, but there is agreement on the core meaning: focus on customers and their needs.

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5 kinds of Agile bandits: Special Sprints Bandits

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Are Special Sprints in Agile Truly Beneficial? In my journey with Agile, I've often encountered teams embroiled in what I term 'special sprints' – Sprint zeros, refactoring sprints, and bugfix sprints. At first glance, these sprints appear as a savvy adaptation of Agile.

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PRINCE2: The Project Management Method Explained

Rebel’s Guide to PM

PRINCE2® is a project management method. It’s structured, and experience-based, created from the lived experience of thousands of project managers and successful projects. It’s a customizable way of managing and controlling the work. It’s a predictive methodology, although PRINCE2 Agile ® allows for agile frameworks.

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Agile vs Waterfall: What’s the Difference?

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The same can be said for the field of project management, where every constraint usually impacts another constraint, and every missed deadline puts the project off the delivery date by just a little bit longer. Newton’s third law is also true in the case of agile vs waterfall, where one sprang to life as a reaction to the other.

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15 Non-Academic Project Management Books to Earn PDUs

Rebel’s Guide to PM

You can earn PDUs (professional development units) for ongoing certification renewal, such as for the Project Management Professional (PMP)®, from reading. I’ve read, I’m guessing, over 150 management books in my career, and you can read my book reviews if you want to trawl through the archives. What books qualify for PDUs?

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Balancing Self-Management and Guidance: The Art of Agile Leadership

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Embraced across industries, Agile frameworks offer a flexible approach for delivering complex products. At the heart of successful Agile implementation lies a delicate equilibrium between autonomy and guidance - a balance that Agile leaders must master. Strategies for Striking the Balance 1.

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Your Path To Agility

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The Creating Agile Organizations approach is about designing your own organizational framework and coaching its adoption. Instead, Creating Agile Organizations provides none of that, but provides two sets of guidelines that draw upon decades of academic research and practical experience in organizations similar to yours.

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