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Is SAFe Agile?

Leading Agile

It’s just means that, by definition, they aren’t Agile.” Scrum focuses more on management activities. Agile teams, by definition, operate independently, in close proximity to an actual customer or product owner. Requirements are written in such a way that it’s easy to change and reprioritize. It doesn’t mean they are bad.

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The Value of an Agile Project Management Office

MPUG

PMO Definition. The Project Management Institute (PMI) provides a broad definition of PMO as: A project management office (PMO) is an organizational structure that standardizes the project-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources, methodologies, tools, and techniques. . Multi-Disciplinary.

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Overcoming the Barriers to Business Agility

Leading Agile

So as you guys know, Leading Agile, we are exclusively in the change management business. Typically, we’re doing Agile transformation and all the change management is associated with that. The roles, the ceremonies, the artifacts, the cadences, all those different things that we model as implementation details.

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A modern (and easy) guide to the 5 agile ceremonies

Planio

Make sure any work you demo has met your definition of done. Try switching up your cadence, bringing in different people, or use a different format such as ‘Start, Stop, Continue’ or the ‘Sailboat Method.’. A sprint review doesn’t have to be a formal meeting. All software should be usable, and at the quality you expect.

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

Leading Agile

This is how you get to a definition of done? A validated definition of done. There’s a lot of problems with dependencies and getting to a definition of done at the end of every sprint. That to me is the very definition of like organizational agility. Here’s how you do a daily standup here.

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Webinar Recap: Winning Presentation Skills

MPUG

Somebody stopped him, gave him that little shard of advice, and the reason I know this is because if you listen to the way he presents, if you listen to his cadence and the cadence of his speech, what you discover is, oh, my gosh, he’s pausing a lot. Definitely some great takeaways for everyone today.

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The Complete Glossary of 614 Project Management Terms

Workamajig

Projects might additional calendars as well to show resource availability, communication cadence, etc. Capability: In project management terms, capability refers to the ability to realize a specific outcome. Integration Management Plan: This plan documents the project's approach to integration planning and change management.