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Questions to ask a project management mentor

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Also ask some questions about the logistics of the relationship , like these: How often do you think we should meet? At regular meetings You’ll find a regular cadence and probably settle into a regular agenda or routine with the check in sessions. Tell me about your background and experience. How did you get into project management?

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Deliver Fast or Deliver as Planned (Update)

Herding Cats

The Plan for the delivery of value is shown in the Product Roadmap and implemented in the Cadence Release Plan, or sometimes in the Capabilities Release plan. I have a colleague, who was General Schwarzkopf's logistic person in the first Gulf war. Related articles. Deliver as planned. Fast is a term replaced by Planned.

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Questioning Agile Dogma

Leading Agile

Ron Jeffries’ classic article, “We Tried Baseball and it Didn’t Work” , is an amusing and yet chillingly accurate description of this situation. Staff effectiveness was artificially suppressed by the logistical and psychological stresses of forming and re-forming teams over and over again endlessly.

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