Scrum.org

JULY 20, 2023

As the software development landscape evolves, evaluating the time-tested traditional project management strategies alongside the burgeoning agile methodologies is essential. TL;DR: Agile's emphasis on incremental development with working software mitigates risks efficiently by validating real-world use early and continuously.

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Scrum.org

JULY 30, 2023

That means taking calculated risks that can lead to either success or failure. Agility enables you to refine and cycle through this process repeatedly, eliminating flawed assumptions and optimizing those with a greater chance of producing favorable outcomes. Does this sound familiar?

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 30, 2024

In times of organizational challenges, the temptation to cut costs often leads some to view Agile frameworks as a luxury rather than a necessity. However, dismissing Agile as a luxury is a mistake that comes from underestimating the transformative power of Agile frameworks for solving complex problems.

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Inloox

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Know the risks in your project! Risk management plays an enormously important role in project management. The task here is to identify, analyze, control and ultimately minimize risks. Although some risks can be eliminated with a suitable solution strategy, certain risks can never be completely avoided in the project context.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The Customer Representative Stance Being the voice of the customer is essential in Agile. Risk Assessment and Mitigation: Identify potential risks and plan strategies to mitigate them effectively. The Influencer Stance Influence shapes product strategy and direction.

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The IIL Blog

JANUARY 17, 2024

As we step into 2024, the dynamics of project management continue to shift, demanding professionals to be agile, skilled, and strategically focused. This is a guide to exploring key strategies for growing your project management career throughout the year. Agile or waterfall should no longer be considered “defaults”.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 29, 2024

( Japanese version・日本語版 ) When picturing an effective and truly agile product development team, one often imagines a software development team, pushing some software to production every day, maybe multiple times a day, ala Amazon. Here are two strategies and a handful of tactics to help you achieve that.

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

You are at risk of a data breach. Once you start losing customers, are threatened with lawsuits, there’s a breach, or you are about to lose a vital compliance certification, the risk to your company becomes existential. Assess each capability’s Business Value, Performance in Role, and Risk.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 16, 2024

These innovative agile practices are a departure from the Taylorist traditions of the defense industry, which is grappling with continuous inflation and delays, impacting national security and human lives. Any change forces teams to wait for each other, while generating risks on the overall product quality. Ukrainian drone "Sea Baby".

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The IIL Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

By Alan Zucker We make hundreds of assumptions and take small risks daily. Recovering from these risks may be inconvenient but not horribly impactful. Project assumptions and risks are not as casual. Project assumptions and risks are not as casual. Our risks were identified, but a response strategy was never created.

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The Strategic Project Manager

MARCH 11, 2024

This post explains what the Strategy Canvas tool is, and how to create a basic Strategy Canvas. Finally, it details the use and benefits of the tool for practicing strategy and project management. What is the Strategy Canvas Tool? The Strategy Canvas tool is a management tool introduced by W. Value: Moderate.

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Scrum.org

MAY 19, 2023

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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Scrum.org

APRIL 9, 2023

I have been working on agile projects for the past 10 years. A couple of years ago, I asked by an executive how he would know if the money they invested on setting up these agile release trains was working? He was essentially asking me to prove the “ROI” for agile and to measure delivery of value.

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The IIL Blog

MARCH 26, 2024

In this article, we will explore the rise of the AI-powered PMO and provide actionable strategies for project managers to thrive in an AI-augmented environment. It can alert project managers, recommend mitigation strategies, and even generate alternative scenarios. Suggest mitigation strategies for the top five high-impact risks.”

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Scrum.org

MARCH 5, 2024

Agility is supposed to be about enabling people to do their best and most creative work. And yet, we often see so-called agile practices and frameworks being used in ways that are more about trying to control outcomes and people. And then we say that we are agile and open to change, so it’s all good.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

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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Scrum.org

JULY 27, 2023

It baffles me how some agile teams, who claim to be the pioneers of modernity, are living in archaic times where usable working products are as rare as unicorns! Just a heads-up, my dear agile practitioners: the linchpin of Agile is a Usable Working Product. Automation is king in Agile. Yes, you read it right!

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Scrum.org

MAY 8, 2023

So let’s have a look at some typical agile negotiation scenarios. ?? Zur deutschsprachigen Version des Artikels: Agile Verhandlungen – Das Leben ist Verhandlungssache; warum sollte Scrum anders sein? ? You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 46,000-plus subscribers.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

That’s why people are looking for ways to better deal with this complexity, to make better use of opportunities, to control risks more effectively and keep or improve their competitiveness. This is where agility comes into play and is on everyone’s lips these days. Tips #1–5 for More Agility. Tip #1: Know why.

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Proofhub

JUNE 20, 2023

Small Business Risk Management If you’re thinking of starting a new business, learning how to start a t-shirt business or a marketing business is not going to be enough. You can perfect your business plan and have an up-to-date marketing strategy, yet there could be an event or situation that may loom on your business as an uncalled risk.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 25, 2021

On today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: How is risk management handled in Scrum? Today's question asks Todd and Ryan to discuss how the Scrum Framework addresses risk management. They explored a number of ideas including the fact that by using Scrum you get quite a few risk management tools for free!

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Leading Answers

JANUARY 16, 2021

This article explains what a risk-adjusted backlog is, why they are useful, how to create one and how teams work with them. What is a Risk-Adjusted Backlog? A risk-adjusted backlog is a backlog that contains activities relating to managing risk in addition to the usual features associated with delivering value.

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The Strategic Project Manager

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The Strategy Framework Canvas is useful in helping a strategist match the right strategic framework to the situation. It can also be useful to implementers, including project managers, to sharpen efforts in project scoping, risk management, managing the schedule, identifying and handling stakeholders, and using project metrics.

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Project Pulse Journal

MARCH 13, 2024

However, navigating the intricacies of virtual collaboration requires a unique set of strategies and approaches to ensure seamless communication, productivity, and alignment among all the team members. By implementing these strategies, you can empower your team members to thrive and deliver value to your organization.

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The Strategic Project Manager

APRIL 26, 2023

It then looks at the intersection of RTE responsibilities with the strategy and project management functions – and shows how broad of a role RTE can be. A Release Train Engineer (RTE) is a key role in the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) methodology for managing and coordinating large-scale software development projects.

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Leading Agile

JULY 22, 2022

When working toward becoming an Agile Organization, many companies begin by applying Agile methodologies at the team-level and then call the Transformation done. The problem is that even when you do it perfectly, establishing a team-level Agile Delivery Model is almost always insufficient. Overcoming our Barriers.

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NimbleWork

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

When the Agile methodology was first introduced, it was embraced as a welcome replacement to the rigid Waterfall approach. The community largely accepted Agile and Waterfall as mutually exclusive project management paradigms. Critics of Agile believed that Agile simply translates into fast failure.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 30, 2023

TL; DR: Agile Transformation with ChatGPT or McBoston? I was interested in learning more about a typical daily challenge many agile practitioners face: How shall we successfully pursue an agile transformation? Or shall we embark on an agile transformation with ChatGPT providing some guidance?

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Inloox

APRIL 16, 2024

How to perform a SWOT analysis Once the SWOT analysis is completed: 5 key approaches for strategy development Concrete example: SWOT analysis in a software development project Conclusion 1. Assessment of threats It draws attention to potential external risks and threats that could negatively impact the project. What is a SWOT analysis?

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Scrum.org

JULY 17, 2023

Agile has become more than just a buzzword in our complex world. Agility is a mindset, a skillset, a culture, and a driving force behind successful, flexible, and responsive organisations. The Agile Leader's commitment goes beyond mere lip service to the Agile Manifesto. In the Agile world, this couldn't be truer.

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Traxidy

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The Art of Mastering Project Surprises: Easy Strategies for Managing Unplanned Work By: Steve McBroom, Founder, Traxidy (Click to follow me on LinkedIn) In this post, we will review the importance of working through project issues and the associated unplanned project tasks, as they arise, and provide effective strategies to manage them.

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Scrum.org

JULY 12, 2021

If someone can give you the answer easily for: What is Agile Transformation? My experience while I do the consult and support many organizations transform to Agile, I find out that many corners need to be cared for: Business, people, culture, operations, and so on. Invest in understanding the values of Agile. And how do we do?

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

It’s no surprise that companies don’t want to pay to Transform external vendors, in the risk that the people will leave after the contract is up, or the vendor won’t support the changes. But, even if they don’t make up a significant part of your workforce, they will stall your progress if they are unwilling to adopt your Agile way of working.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 15, 2024

By: Hajime Estanislao, PMP, CSM The quest for methodologies that offer efficiency and agility has never been rockier. Agile methodologies stand at the forefront of this quest, providing the blueprint for rapid, responsive, and customer-centric project execution. Agile methodologies offer a path to mastering these challenges.

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Project Risk Coach

MARCH 21, 2022

What project lifecycle—predictive/plan-driven, adaptive/agile, iterative, incremental or hybrid—will you use? One way to mitigate this risk in agile projects is to use a requirements backlog. Identify a couple of strategies that can help you and your team deliver the real needs of your users.

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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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The Strategic Project Manager

JANUARY 3, 2024

This post looks in depth at the piece parts of agile portfolio management. After defining agile portfolio management, it delves into some of the specific agile principles at work. Then it looks at the role of strategy in agile portfolio management. What is Agile Portfolio Management?

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