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5 Tips To Re-Energize Your Daily Standup Meetings

Rebel’s Guide to PM

When I started working for White October we followed the conventional “scrum” format, where the team get together, share what’s new, what’s challenging and what’s happening, and everyone gives feedback and makes suggestions to unblock each other. In Scrum, the development team attend the daily standup meeting.

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125 Project Management Buzzwords

The IIL Blog

Agile team A cross-functional group of individuals (e.g., Product Owner, Scrum Master, Development team members) who work collaboratively to deliver value in an Agile project. Backlog A list of tasks, features, or requirements to be addressed by an agile project manager or team and is often associated with Agile methodologies.

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Making the Difference: Problem Solving vs Decision Making

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Wicked problems need a slightly different approach (PMI has a problem solving training course that is brilliant and will help with that). You could also interview experts, review lessons learned or innovative solutions from previous projects, research what the rest of your industry is doing or consult customers on what they’d like to see.

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Top 10 Project Management Methodologies – An Overview

ProjectManager.com

The term scrum was introduced in a “Harvard Business Reviewarticle from 1986 by Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka. It became a part of agile when Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle wrote the book “Agile Software Development with Scrum” in 2001. It does require strict scrum roles however.

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Project Management: Principles, Practices & Context

Velociteach

In this article, I will share some approaches that have shaped my approach. PMI’s PMBOK® Guide The Project Management Institute (PMI) is a leading industry voice. PMI initially approached project management from a process-centric perspective. Customers and development teams should work together daily.

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Do We Need Risk Management in Agile Projects?

MPUG

In this article, we’re addressing a common question in modern project management: Do we need risk management in agile projects? The style of project management The organization may have a preferred methodology or paradigm, and the project manager (along with their team) will also assess what is right for this project.

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Creating a Risk-Adjusted Backlog

Leading Answers

This article explains what a risk-adjusted backlog is, why they are useful, how to create one and how teams work with them. Assessing the chances of loss or gain occur throughout all forms of business and relies on taking an economic view of decision making. I do not think the teams have been weak at threat avoidance.

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