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Harnessing the Power of the Muses: How Ancient Inspiration Fuels Modern Project Management

MPUG

Embrace Creativity and Innovation (Polyhymnia): Polyhymnia, the Muse of Sacred Poetry and Dance reminds us of the importance of creativity in problem-solving. Encourage team members to think creatively, explore new ideas, and embrace innovation as a driving force behind project success. That is not how it works.

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Choosing a Development Approach

International Institute for Learning

Product variables include innovation, scope stability, requirements certainty, ease of change, and delivery cadence. Innovation is the degree to which the technology and methods used are new and untested versus known and standardized. Innovation. Delivery cadence. The hardware is less forgiving of change.

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Disciplined Agile & SAFe

International Institute for Learning

To coordinate the teams, SAFe applies cadence and synchronization. Cadence means all teams are aligned to a standard, two-week delivery cycle. The entire ART operates on a common 2-week cadence and begins its 10-week Program Increment (PI) with a 2-day planning event. They are closed books, online, and self-proctored.

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 Executive’s Guide To Large-Scale Agile Transformation & Sustaining An Adaptive Enterprise w/ Mike Cottmeyer

Leading Agile

But a lot of that value conversation is some around predictability and return on investment and product fit and innovation and such. And I guess, Dean Leffingwell came out with the first book on scaled agile. Now, PMI, right? And so there’s a lot of things that go into that. And so where it kinda went, right?

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The Relationship Between Culture and Performance

Leading Agile

When I first started thinking through this idea, I was actually really thinking about the idea of practices because back in 2010, a little bit earlier than that, Jim Kundiff, the Scrum Alliance, and those guys were really popularizing the CSM certification, PMI was doing the PMI ACP or a lot of us were part of that.

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Agile Unplugged: EP 02 | Mike Cottmeyer and Dennis Stevens

Leading Agile

You get super clear backlogs, you find out what the real cadences you’ve finished work that you start. So, also about the time that you and I met you were doing some work with PMI and the OPM three initiative? – So like a, PMI driven Pim Bock based organization that’s a system of delivery. – Yeah.

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How Charles Byrd Gets It Done: Project Management & Networking Tips

Project Management Hacks

Out of college with a BBA in information technology I started on a help desk providing 2nd and 3rd level support for Cadence, a Silicon Valley software company. This not only brought a spotlight to the projects creating a buzz, it garnered executive management support along with the company’s prestigious IT Innovation Award.