Agilemania

MARCH 23, 2021

Most of us started our Agile journey with one framework, and that is Scrum. Scrum is simple to understand with some immutable principles & guidelines. For a long period, our idea of Agile was only Scrum. The foundational unit in SAFe is the Agile team, with the option to use Scrum, XP, or Kanban. Let us dig deeper.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 23, 2022

We like to consider ourselves kind of a full stack consultancy in the sense that you know, obviously, you have to deal with the work surface levels and what the teams are doing but you know, how do you orchestrate teams across dependency boundaries? What do you do with planning cadences? How do you go up into Portfolio Management?

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Project Management Essentials

AUGUST 3, 2019

In 2013, Mike Cohn coined the term scrum smells to describe the signs that a scrum team is in trouble. In my agile training and consulting practice, I have witnessed similar symptoms when an organization is struggling with its agile adoption. If the answer is convincingly Scrum or Kanban, they are probably following a process.

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Velociteach

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Gerald is an IT project management consultant; but he also has two degrees in music and is an accomplished bass guitarist. Combining Jazz and Project Management WENDY GROUNDS: Can you tell us, just as an introduction, how you’ve combined your dual careers as a professional jazz musician and as a project management consultant?

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 19, 2020

They did a great job of getting the message out Scrum and the Scrum certification did a great job of getting the message out. Does it mean that we start Doing Scrum, right? Those are the things that get in the way of making Scrum not work in a lot of organizations. That was kind of the hypothesis. What is a team?

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Velociteach

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This article highlights some common issues I have encountered in my consulting and coaching practice. Even well-meaning scrum masters and managers of agile organizations ask me, “My agile team is struggling. Inadequate Agile Training The Scrum Guide states, “Scrum is easy to learn but hard to master.” What should I do?”

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Leading Agile

MARCH 29, 2023

The most common small team Agile methodologies are Scrum and XP, maybe Kanban, or a combination of the three. Scrum focuses more on management activities. SAFe gets that you have to have Scrum teams at the base of the organizations doing the work. On some levels, SAFe is like Scrum. Certifications get minted.

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Leading Agile

OCTOBER 3, 2023

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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PM That Works

MAY 9, 2020

He's an independent management consultant. And so those things I was really passionate about that did a lot of work within the company I worked for with our clients, kind of an internal consulting company learned a lot traveled the world. What's the business model and the business model is a certification business model.

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Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

It doesn’t matter whether you’re working towards your PMP certification or simply managing projects casually in your organization, knowing core project management terms always helps. Projects might additional calendars as well to show resource availability, communication cadence, etc. Project management terminology can be complicated.

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Velociteach

MAY 10, 2023

Its Project Management Body of Knowledge® ( PMBOK ®) Guide is an ANSI standard, and over a million people have earned their Project Management Professional (PMP®) certification. The Manifesto distills concepts from eXtremee Programming , Scrum, and other leading development practices. Scrum is easy to learn but hard to master.

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Agilemania

MAY 17, 2021

The organizations start with few teams initially, and it is easier to follow simple & lightweight frameworks like Scrum or Kanban at this stage. The most important skills for an agile coach include: Strong understanding of Scrum and Kanban. Experience as a Scrum master or with the agile methodology. Scrum@Scale.

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Agilemania

MAY 17, 2021

The organizations start with few teams initially, and it is easier to follow simple & lightweight frameworks like Scrum or Kanban at this stage. The most important skills for an agile coach include: Strong understanding of Scrum and Kanban. Experience as a Scrum master or with the agile methodology. Scrum@Scale.

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