Scrum.org

AUGUST 24, 2020

Suitable agile metrics reflect either a team’s progress in becoming agile or your organization’s progress in becoming a learning organization. At the team level, qualitative agile metrics often work better than quantitative metrics. A team may have deliberately built some temporary solutions to speed up experimentation.

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Underperforming Technical Team Agile SCRUM 2020 212

Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 2, 2023

There’s only one thing worse than being told bad news, and that is being told about bad news late. This conflicts with the advice Scott Berkun gives in his book, Making Things Happen. Using an outside assessment team creates objectivity. In this step you would also initiate contact with the program and project teams.

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Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Sustainability Estimate 400

Scrum.org

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Imagine you’re a Scrum Master and the line manager of your team believes that the best sign for a successful agile transformation is a steady increase in the Scrum Team’s velocity. Moreover, if the team fails to deliver on that metric something is wrong with the Scrum Team. Cooking the Agile Books — A Simple Exercise.

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Agile Underperforming Technical Team Estimate SCRUM 164

Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Ruth Pearce knows everything there is to know about motivating your project team. She’s even written the book on it. I caught up with Ruth to find out more about how to motivate teams and why it’s something you should be actively doing. Why do you think motivation on project teams is so important? So how do we do it?

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Underperforming Technical Team 2020 2001 PMI 284

Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

I have been a bit lax with project management reading recently but one book that I have made time for is The Conscious Project Leader: How to Create a Culture of Success for Your Projects, Your Team and Yourself. It didn’t take much browsing on his website to realise that it was going to be my kind of book. Colin Ellis.

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Underperforming Technical Team Leadership PMO Estimate 150

Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

TL; DR: Overcoming Common Product Backlog Management Traps w/ David Pereira How teams manage their Product Backlog often makes or breaks their value creation chances. Poor backlog management leads to a feature factory trap, while a mindful strategy enables the team to drive value steadily. Hands-on Agile. ? How to handle this?

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Underperforming Technical Team 2024 Lean Estimate 153

Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 12, 2022

“New work is being assigned without being reviewed for priority or as part of the long term strategy/plan,” wrote one project manager, and many others added similar comments about the lack of organizational portfolio management, like these: Poor strategy planning hence poor implementation in order to realize benefits sought.

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Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Risk Management Engineering 366

Leading Answers

AUGUST 9, 2023

The Telephone Game and Tree Swing cartoon are classic examples of how even well-meaning interpretations can be distorted, leading to bad outcomes. Team members move their own tasks, select new items to work on, and we can see the impacts on queue length, WIP and maybe cycle time or throughput.

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Underperforming Technical Team 2007 Agile PMI 78

Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

It’s probably fairer and less controversial to say that it was ‘estimated’ rather than created totally randomly from scratch. But she was worried that other people were interpreting the estimate as definite fact. Yep, that’s correct: the PMBOK ® Guide isn’t the only reference book you need to look at.

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Underperforming Technical Team PMI Risk Management Estimate 417

Kiron Bondale

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

It is also applicable to most types of projects, not just software development ones. Procuring and onboarding new team members will distract existing ones who should be focused on completing critical activities. as well as a number of other online book stores). When Fred Brooks Jr. It’s available on Amazon.com and on Amazon.ca

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Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management Budget Risk 207

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 23, 2022

The most obvious are impacts on project success, team performance, budgets and timelines. Not surprisingly for companies in the much larger United States, workplace bullying-related costs are estimated to be over $200 billion. It is possible that the best strategy is to think about how to develop your organizational exit plan.

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Underperforming Technical Team Influencer PMI PMO 195

Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

“New work is being assigned without being reviewed for priority or as part of the long term strategy/plan,” wrote one project manager, and many others added similar comments about the lack of organizational portfolio management, like these: Poor strategy planning hence poor implementation in order to realize benefits sought.

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Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Risk Management Engineering 341

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 30, 2020

I could write my book without his case study. Career-limiting because: No one wants to work with the project manager who emails the operational team a closure document and is never seen again. As I talk about in my course on how to write awesome project status reports , surprises are bad. And I told him so.

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Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Technical Review Leadership 337

LiquidPlanner

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The best-known modern methods of managing projects efficiently are: The Gantt chart developed by Henry Gantt in the 1910s . We often still over estimate the project timeline. Tasks in other tools can only be estimated in a static value considered an average. Critical Path invented in the 1950s. PERT method invented in 1958 .

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Critical Chain Underperforming Technical Team Estimate Engineering 158

Scrum.org

OCTOBER 4, 2020

When I saw the book “Art of doing twice the work in the half time,” Dr. Jeff Sutherland wrote, my reaction was like how someone can claim that? I went through the book and loved it. It is not only because the book is good, but I felt connected with one of the case studies. You can read the original post here.

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Software Review Technical Review SCRUM Underperforming Technical Team 250

Scrum.org

MARCH 14, 2023

This time we are focussing on the following Agile principle – “At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjust its behavior accordingly.” As a developer, if you wanted to do it you had to work covertly and build time into your estimates to improve things.

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Agile Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM Influencer 171

Scrum.org

MARCH 22, 2021

Your Scrum team is consistently failing to meet commitments, and its velocity is volatile. How would you address this issue with the team? If a Scrum Team is exhibiting a volatile velocity, consistently failing to meet their forecasts, it suggests that velocity is being used as the prevalent metric for measuring that team’s progress.

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SCRUM Underperforming Technical Team Development Team Review Technical Review 220

LiquidPlanner

AUGUST 15, 2017

cited that $122 million was wasted for every $1 billion invested due to poor project performance. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, however, if it isn’t bolstered with legitimate study of project management fundamentals, then it can become a bad thing in the right situation. Benefits of Developing Project Management Skills.

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Engineering Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Leadership 150

Scrum.org

APRIL 7, 2019

Part 1 intends to focus on the Scrum Team, Part 2 will be released shortly after our Webinar on April 29th and will focus on the “Epic” challenges agile leaders are facing. For example, it is recommended that members of the development teams do not spend more than 10% of their capacity on Product Backlog refinement.

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Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM Energy Estimate 167

Susanne Madsen

JANUARY 5, 2020

What better time to consider how you can continue to develop as a project leader and sharpen your saw. The feedback you received shouldn't be seen as negative but as an opportunity to grow and continue to develop. To continue to develop your project leadership skills, have a look through the eight topics below.

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Underperforming Technical Team Leadership Technical Review Energy 122

Project Risk Coach

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

As you struggle with project estimates, budgets, and risks, you engage with team members that bring their personal and professional issues into your world. Each project has its own unique culture, a world composed of team members’ beliefs, attitudes, values, behavior, and actions. Think of the project manager as a shepherd.

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Underperforming Technical Team 2017 Influencer Risk Management 199

ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Still, there are concrete steps you can take to develop a solid project schedule and ensure all aspects of your project are properly planned and accounted for. The best way around this is to involve the team in constructing the list of tasks. Then get the team together to add to it. Step 1: Write Down Your Tasks.

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Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 2019 345

Teamweek

APRIL 19, 2024

Actual ROI This is the project’s true financial performance compared to initial estimations. Actual ROI has multiple uses as it: Shows how profitable the project is Helps evaluate how accurate initial ROI estimates are Can compare actual ROI with anticipated ROI. Negative ROI Negative ROI is as bad as it sounds.

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Underperforming Technical Team Estimate Risk Management Project Cost 59

Herding Cats

APRIL 15, 2017

I posted some comments on the #NoEstimates book awhile back. Why estimates don't work - Carmen is assigned a project that will make or break the company. This is a classic example used in the book of making seriously bad management decisions. . This quote is misused to suggest that estimating can't be done.

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MPUG

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

A product manager, who works for a large aircraft manufacturing organization in the United States, follows a hybrid model of development and, with his team, releases a new version of aircraft handling software every couple of weeks. We will look at the usage of these foundational metrics for Agile development shortly.

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Underperforming Technical Team Agile Performance Measurement PMI 59

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Here are three books underway that are related for the programs we work. This book contains processes for improving the performance of Scrum teams when they are distributed. Here's a nice book on how this happens and how to address the issues when it comes up. With the Logically Fallacious book in hand, Agile!

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Scrum.org

MARCH 16, 2020

They advise us on our driving habits when the road conditions are bad on our commute to work. I believe Agile software development is more than ready to use new forecasting techniques to express uncertainy to narrow their decision-making process. I believe we can use this definition in Agile software development.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 8, 2021

Instead, they will reorganize themselves around autonomous teams to deal with the complexity and pace of innovation of the 21st century. In such an agile world, recruiting will become a team decision, and the “human resources” department’s role will change into a supportive one. Why Bother with the Inclusion of the Scrum Team at all?

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 22, 2024

Master Scrum with ease; order the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book now! ? For example, I just completed the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book, and I could use its complete text to train a GPT running on top of GPT-4. Standish Group data reveals a startling 58% of Agile teams struggle with delays, budget issues, and dissatisfied customers.

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ChatGPT SCRUM Artificial Inteligence Agile 143

MPUG

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Similarly, Thalia, the Muse of Comedy, reminds project managers of the importance of fostering a positive team culture and maintaining morale, even in challenging times. A compelling vision is a guiding light, motivating team members and aligning efforts towards a common goal. This is genuinely what diversity means.

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation PMI Cadence 52

Scrum.org

APRIL 3, 2023

Get notified when the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book is available ! First, however, you shall design an exercise for a Scrum team. This is how Sprint Planning works for a Scrum team: (1) First, the Product Owner points to the team’s Product Goal and introduces the business objective of the upcoming Sprint. (2)

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ChatGPT Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM Artificial Inteligence 134

Scrum.org

JANUARY 18, 2021

Hopefully, and depending on their process and level of collaboration (and agile mindset) in the organization, the team for which the new position was advertised may have participated in creating the job ad. Scrum-wise it is a good idea that the Scrum Master spreads Scrum values and, for example, coaches the Scrum Team to become self-managing.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 8, 2019

If a technical team estimates each piece of work before doing it, and gives it a notional size in points, then team members will roughly know how much they're taking on when planning to meet a goal. If the measurement of value is poor, then the outlook is grim. Some companies misalign their success criteria.

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MPUG

AUGUST 17, 2020

A WBS is important to further estimation—cost, duration, or resources, planning for resources, risk identification, schedule development, among others. Decomposition: The total scope of project work is considered and the team breaks down the work into manageable chunks. Let’s take, for example, the writing of a book.

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Software Review Agile Underperforming Technical Team PMI 105

MPUG

AUGUST 17, 2020

A WBS is important to further estimation—cost, duration, or resources, planning for resources, risk identification, schedule development, among others. Decomposition: The total scope of project work is considered and the team breaks down the work into manageable chunks. Let’s take, for example, the writing of a book.

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Software Review Agile Underperforming Technical Team PMI 101

Herding Cats

MAY 8, 2016

ways to make decisions with No Estimates. Uncertainty of course is present in all software development work both reducible and irreducible uncertainty. can we make a decision in the presence of Uncertainty without making an estimate of the impact or outcome of that decision? An estimate is. It's a fallacy.

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Teamweek

MARCH 12, 2023

It can be frustrating for the stakeholders and projects team to see a project stuck because of the lack of resources. This results in failure to complete the project within the estimated time and budget. Taking on more work than your capacity results in delayed projects, poor quality, and unhappy stakeholders.

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