Leading Agile

JULY 18, 2023

If not, then we start measuring things like people trained, teams doing Scrum, or the organization’s sentiment toward Agile to tell us if we’re succeeding. Additionally, we need to consider how we organize teams in the presence of dependencies, how we orchestrate and govern those dependencies, and what we measure and control around the team.

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Henny Portman

JULY 26, 2020

Levine wrote with People Over Process – Leadership for Agility a very pragmatic and down to earth book about leadership and agile projects. Furthermore, neither agile or scrum contemplates how the agile team should be connected to a larger organization and to external partners who will likely have differing development processes and cadences.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 15, 2017

I posted some comments on the #NoEstimates book awhile back. This is a classic example used in the book of making seriously bad management decisions. . Hofstadter is speaking about the development of a Chess playing program - and doing so from the perspective of 1978 style software development.

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Binfire

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

The other day I was reading an article in which the author argues , in order for the government agencies to become more efficient, they need to transition to the Agile method! For the government agencies to get efficient, they need to embrace Agile methodology. . 1- Scrum (by far the most widely used. 7- Lean development.

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Leading Agile

MAY 16, 2023

Instead of blindly performing the ceremonies of Scrum, what it we got super disciplined about how we decompose work and flow decisions through the organization? In my world, it’s really the difference between, let’s say, doing Scrum, right? We have to get the governance and metrics right. They took Agile mainstream.

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ActiveCollab

JUNE 20, 2017

Scrum is a project management framework that helps small, close-knit teams develop complex products incrementally. Scrum focuses on how people work instead of what they do. Scrum relies agile principles and is the most popular agile methodology out there. What is Scrum. Scrum got its name from rugby.

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nTask

MAY 3, 2019

These individuals are qualified to handle the requirements of ongoing projects; whether they are related to software development or physical boundaries. These project managers handle Scrum Masters and Product Owners who, in turn, are tasked to monitor “sprint” marathons within the organization. Accreditation: The Scrum Alliance.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 9, 2023

TL; DR: Can We Or Should We Change Scrum? Can we or should we change Scrum, or is it a sacrilege to tweak the ‘immutable’ framework to accommodate our teams’ and organizations’ needs? Not so fast; don’t just dismiss augmenting Scrum as leaving the path, contributing to the numerous Scrumbut mutations, giving Scrum a bad name.

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ActiveCollab

JUNE 20, 2017

Scrum is a project management framework that helps small, close-knit teams develop complex products incrementally. Scrum focuses on how people work instead of what they do. Scrum relies on agile principles and is the most popular agile methodology out there. What is Scrum. Scrum got its name from rugby.

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Digite

JUNE 13, 2018

Compared to Scrum, Kanban is a young work-management method. Anderson best articulated its application to software development, in 2013, in the foundational book Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business, and its adoption hasn’t been as universal as Scrum’s during the early days of Agile software development.

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MPUG

MAY 6, 2021

We are a consulting company in the DC Baltimore area that specializes in project and portfolio management for about 80% of our customers in the government space, the other 20 in the commercial space. I actually got my degree in software engineering and moved up into project management like a lot of us did back in the day.

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nTask

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

In fact, software development and project management are like two peas in a pod known as software development project management. Every implementation of the project management processes is different and the same can be said for software development project management.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Scrum is) more defined rather than empirical process. scrum, not agile. not as it was prior to scrum. Scrum is prescriptive and defined rather than empirical. This took me back since Scrum is derived from an empirical closed loop control system developed in the USAF by Col. Agile in name only. Boyds papers.

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Herding Cats

MAY 8, 2016

Uncertainty of course is present in all software development work both reducible and irreducible uncertainty. Here are some books and papers that can provide you with all the tools needed to learn to estimate in the presence of uncertainty. Ask the person making those conjectures if they have read the books.

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Leading Agile

JANUARY 21, 2021

And what that means to us is not just teaching people how to do agile or how to do kind of methodologies in this space like say for Scrum or what have you but really like how to create the kinds of organizations that really can do agile really well and really effectively at scale. They’re not thinking often about like team level Scrum.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2017

Hybrid–Agile Software Development Anti–Patterns, Risks, and Recommendations,” Paul E. McMahon, Cross Talk: The Journal of Defense Software Engineering , July/August 2015, pp. Architecting Large Scale Agile Software Development: A Risk–Driven Approach,” Ipek Ozkaya, Michael Gagliardi, Robert L.

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Herding Cats

MAY 7, 2017

This step is one of the steps needed for project success in SISoS when developing with the software with Scrum. Governance principles provide guidance to institutionalize a process, including its continued assessment and evolution over time in support of the tangible system benefits. Who's Budget is it Anyway?

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

I attended our Agile Meetup last night, where the speaker walked through the three current Agile at Scale development methods, all based on Scrum - SAFe, LeSS, and Nexus. Each of the authors have a different, sometimes slight, sometimes maor, approach to producing software using their methods. He had an interesting statement.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 27, 2017

Although I understand measuring productivity could work well for repeatable activities, it's hard to believe it works well for abstract and, ultimately, non-repeatable tasks like software development. We engineers should always keep in mind that software development is usually one part of many others inside the company.

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The IIL Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The History of Agile Project Management Agile project management emerged in the software development industry in the late 1990s and early 2000s. In 1991 the book Rapid Application Development was published and an approach of the same name, RAD, was born. It divides work into short, time-boxed iterations called sprints.

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Herding Cats

MAY 10, 2019

Project risk management: lessons learned from software development environment,” Young Hoon Kwak and Jim Stoddard,” Technovation , 24(11), pp. Project Risk Management: Lessons Learned from Software Development Environment,” Y. Recent trends of Risk Management in Software Development: An Analysis,” Raghavi Bhujang and V.

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Herding Cats

MAY 11, 2019

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to manage the risk encountered on software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. 255, April 2010. 920, November 2004. Kwak and J.

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MPUG

MARCH 18, 2021

Jeff is currently the lead course developer for Edward’s Performance Solution and oversees the production and maintenance of courses on project management, systems engineering, software development, business process improvement, and cybersecurity. Or whoever’s governing this. You ask the question.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 2, 2017

In Scrum, this is the Product Owner, who is a member of the team. So for projects that spend other people's money in the presence of uncertainty - Governance is a means to establish those shared principles. Governance is about Decision Rights. This is paradigm is usually found at the Enterprise level of software development.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Here's a collection of presentations, briefings, papers, essays, book content used to increase the Probability of Project Success (PoPS) I've written and applied over my career in the software-intensive system of systems and other domains. Governance (#Governance). Agile Software Development (#ASD).

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Planio

JANUARY 16, 2023

Lay your cards out by creating a solid governance structure. Unlike a software developer, graphic designer, or accountant, your job isn't to do the doing , your job is to ensure the doing gets done. Lay your cards out by creating a solid governance structure. Scrum meeting template. Plan in an Agile way.

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

While they are genuine skill sets that require learning and practice, they aren’t so complicated or arcane that they require completely separate sub-professions within the discipline of software development. Testing is central to software development. People often misunderstand me when I say that.

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ActiveCollab

APRIL 18, 2017

Degrees are awarded by universities and governments, take much longer to complete, and require students to take general education courses in addition to profession-specific ones. PRINCE2 (Projects IN Controlled Environments) is a project management methodology for which you can get a certificate, which issued by the government of UK.

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Paymo App

JANUARY 19, 2018

At the same time, you should know that many project managers have had previous other jobs such as software developers, marketing managers, accountants, designers, and so on. The UK government developed PRINCE2, so if you’re planning on working in the UK, you might want to give this certificate a go. Scrum certifications.

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

John Boddie’s book, Crunch Mode: Building Effective Systems on a Tight Schedule , provides a recipe for doing this on purpose. Zombie Scrum describes the impact on delivery teams. One of the roles or functions of the Product Manager is that of Product Owner, in the Scrum sense. Survival is the best the teams can hope for.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 23, 2019

There's been a rash of conjectures about all kinds of bad business, project, and software development (agile and traditional) management ideas of late. This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. For software development starts with. If we had done it before, we’d just give it to you.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 22, 2018

There's been a rash of conjectures about all kinds of bad business, project, and software development (agile and traditional) management ideas of late. This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. Does that make sense to anyone who has worked in software development? Probably not. .

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

There's been a rash of conjectures about all kinds of bad business, project, and software development (agile and traditional) management ideas of late. This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. And money in the bank is what software development is about.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

This Does Not Scale - If there are software development projects that can be executed without knowing how much it will cost in the end (an open ended spend plan), or projects where the budget is capped (a Not To Exceed Number) and we don't really need to know the upper bound of the features to be delivered, how large can this notion scale?

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Teamweek

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Agile PM software comes with features for: Backlog management Agile estimation tools Sprint planning Work-in-progress limits Burn-down charts. And other features that help implement Agile practices for Scrum and Kanban methods. Nonprofit project management software. Desktop vs. online PM software. Example: OrangeScrum.

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