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How agile is your team (and what you can do about it!)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Discovering the recipe for team agility. About three years ago, together with several colleagues at Worldline and Atos, I worked on an open-source DevOps maturity assessment tool (you can find it on GitHub here or see it in action here ). The 5-minute agility self-assessment questionnaire.

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Assembling a Stellar Product Development Team for Business Success

Wrike

In today’s competitive business landscape, having a stellar product development team can make all the difference between failure and success. Building a team of talented individuals who possess the right skills, expertise, and mindset can foster innovation, drive growth, and ultimately propel your business forward.

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What Is Kanban? Meaning, Definitions & Best Practices

ProjectManager.com

Make process policies explicit and share them with your team, preferably during meetings when you can address their questions, comments or concerns. Have feedback loops, such as review stages, to deliver project deliverables that meet the standards. The kanban board is one way to keep track of a team’s workflow.

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Modern Challenges of Hybrid R&D Teams in Manufacturing

ProjectManager.com

At the core of all manufacturing innovations are research and development (R&D) teams. These teams drive economic growth by producing strategies, designs, process improvements and products that bring value to both consumers and companies—as well as create competitive advantages for manufacturers. As of 2020, the U.S.

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Phase-Gate Process in Project Management: A Quick Guide

ProjectManager.com

Similar to the waterfall methodology , the phase-gate process is a linear project management concept punctuated by stages of development followed by benchmarks for assessment. It is typically used for new product developments, software/app/website launches and business-wide changes. Phase 3: Development.

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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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Improving SAFe Through Professional Scrum

Scrum.org

SAFe's perspective is that "Nothing beats an Agile Team" and it doesn't try to reinvent the wheel or even innovate too much when it comes to the Team level. In SAFe's Program Level, a key piece is the Agile Release Train which is considered a team of Agile teams. See a recent blog post I wrote about this).

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