Scrum.org

MAY 4, 2023

As not all stakeholders are the same, the product owner or manager needs to communicate with them differently as well. My role was to coach product owners and managers. The majority of those conversations were about progress updates, key risks, timelines and immediate next priorities. Do our roadmap and goals align with yours?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 11, 2022

There’s no fixed cadence for strategy conversations. Think about the values, skills, culture and risks that might block your progress. 5pm: Wrap up and close. Finally, wrap up the meeting, draw it to a close and if you are going to meet again, put the date in the diary. When do strategic meetings happen?

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International Institute for Learning

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

PMI has become and continues to be the leading professional association in project management. The goal of the Metrolina chapter is to advance the mission and objectives of the Project Management Institute. Risk and PMI’s Risk Management Professional (RMP) Certification. Steven McGee. Ebony Burroughs.

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International Institute for Learning

APRIL 19, 2023

The Project Management Institute acquired DA in 2019 to extend its agile capabilities. Full SAFe extends the framework to Large Solutions that require coordinating many ARTs and implementing Lean Portfolio Management. Essential SAFe is the core configuration and is designed for managing a program of 5-12 agile teams.

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The Strategic Project Manager

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

From a strategic project management perspective, this post examines some key agile methods and there impact of strategy and project management. There are specific values – simplicity, communications, feedback, courage, and respect – that map pretty closely to the Agile Manifesto. What are the risks?

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

And this is precisely the point: The Product Owner miraculously identifies what is the best way to proceed as a Scrum Team by managing the Product Backlog. I do believe that a separation between product discovery on the one side (product management), and product delivery (Scrum teams) on the other side is no longer a viable approach.

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MPUG

MARCH 8, 2021

Many project managers utilize a Lean-Agile approach when there is high change or churn in project requirements, significant lack of clarity in scope, high complexity to their projects, and/or a larger number of risks associated with such. It’s usually based on a cadence. When the feature is complete, it can be delivered.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 20, 2023

As the world of business increases in complexity, it will take more than user stories, estimation, and OKRs to build a trustworthy system that management can delegate into. But if managers want a trustworthy system, it’ll be up to them to create it. Why is it hard for managers to empower teams they want control? Fear, fear.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

On November 22nd, 2019, I gave the closing keynote at Scrum Deutschland, a talk called ‘The Four Things You Do To Prevent Value Delivery.’ Work (or sometimes even a transformation) is ongoing, and the organization wants a second opinion on risk or improvement factors. . And why on earth were they not managing this themselves? .

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Teamweek

OCTOBER 4, 2022

But there was a noticeable difference in how projects were managed when we started creating reports for the more complex projects. A project progress report can be created solely for your manager, your entire team, or your client. The issue with spreadsheets is that they aren’t designed for project management.

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Planio

AUGUST 9, 2021

Move onto task management and list out milestones and steps. But like everything in project management, a project schedule needs to find the sweet spot between simple and complicated to be helpful. The schedule will also help you see if you’re overloading your team or putting people at risk of burnout. Stakeholder management.

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Wrike

JUNE 15, 2023

A well-laid plan can go a long way in project management , as you have a clear roadmap that you and your team can follow. In the case that you can’t create a plan from scratch, having pre-made project management templates on hand can be a useful safety net. Project management can also be useful on the ground level.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 23, 2022

How do you go up into Portfolio Management? How do you go up into investment management, that kind of a thing? What do you do with planning cadences? And you know, the manifesto had just been written and I was working as a project manager in a company called CheckFree here in Atlanta and squarely like in the PMO.

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Wrike

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Project management will undergo significant changes this coming year. Worldwide physical and cultural events are shaping every new project management trend happening in the industry. They may even be transforming the entire project management discipline. What are the current trends in project management?

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Scrum.org

MARCH 11, 2024

This article covers the three Scrum accountabilities (formerly roles) and addresses interferences of stakeholders and IT/line management with this crucial Scrum event. If a Sprint is too long, the market may invalidate a Sprint Goal, increasing complexity and risk. This habit also puts reaching the Sprint Goal at risk.

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Planio

APRIL 24, 2023

Creative features, successful product ideas, wild marketing stunts, full rebrands, or massive IT projects — none of them work without the project managers that tirelessly make sure everyone’s on the same page and making progress towards a shared goal. Assessing and mitigating project risks 7. But there’s a problem.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 31, 2020

In this week’s episode, LeadingAgile Chief Methodologist, Dennis Stevens, sits down with Mike Cottmeyer to discuss Capability-based organizations, Systems of Delivery vs Systems of Transformation, managing dependencies, and more. You leave like pretty close and you’re thinking about this in very similar ways. – Yeah.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Lastly, there is an overlap with the product manager role. Process-wise, the Product Owner is accountable for effectively managing the Product Backlog, thus “owning” the product on behalf of the organization. The Product Owner needs to work closely with the Scrum Team members, particularly with the Scrum Master.

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Planio

JANUARY 11, 2021

And while tools like Planio do a good job of helping you stay connected, successfully managing teams across countries and timezones takes a completely new set of skills. Poor people management: Embrace your team’s nuances. Timing and team cadence: Decouple team cadences whenever possible.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 28, 2022

Welcome to the Sprint anti-patterns article from my series on Scrum anti-patterns, covering the three Scrum roles—pardon me: accountabilities—and addressing the contributions of stakeholders and the IT/line management. When a Sprint’s horizon is too long the Sprint Goal may become invalid, complexity may rise, and risk may increase.

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Planio

MAY 9, 2022

After running Planio for more than a decade, I’ve come to learn that managers and leaders often wear blinders. But when you started bringing them up, your manager and new teammates gave you that look. The best teams don’t shut down ideas or make people feel like they’re at risk if they speak up. What do you know?” ).

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Leading Answers

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Many traditional project management deliverables have agile alternatives. Yet we rarely see agile communications management plans. Why We Have Communication Management Plans Projects can be time-consuming and costly, and tie-up valuable employees for long periods with no guarantee of the outcome initially hoped for.

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Leading Agile

JUNE 29, 2023

Managers are evil. But is it possible that there may be reasonable and rational behaviors behind the actions of those executives, managers, and people who obstruct what we’re trying to do? In fact, at conferences, we often talk about how managers are bad and executives are foolish people who want to derail the company.

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Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

Project management terminology can be complicated. 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. All Project Management Terms. All work is divided into short bursts called "sprints".

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Planio

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Any full team meeting runs the risk of going off the rails. To get the most out of them, make sure that you switch things up, such as: Cadence: Do you need a retrospective after every one-week sprint? Project management tool like Planio to organize insights and turn them into actionable tasks.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management Briefings and Presentations. Management Processes (#MP). Project Performance Management (#PPM). Agile Project Management (#APM). Risk Management (#RM). Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM). Management Processes.

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MPUG

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Ben Howard’s session, Power BI for Business Users and Project Managers – Part 1: Introduction to the Power BI Suite, being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. You may watch the live recording of this webinar at your convenience. Ben Howard: Brilliant.

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Software Review 2020 Risk Management Governance 52

MPUG

MAY 18, 2022

s webinar, Use Agile Project Management with MS Project, being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. Welcome to Use Agile Project Management with MS Project. I’ll also invite you to stay on after the event and the recording closes. Cindy enjoys sharing her knowledge with the project management community.

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MPUG

JANUARY 30, 2020

Carl is the author of seven project management books and co-produced The Audio PMP Prep: Conversations on Passing the PMP Exam. He is the US correspondent for the British project management magazine, Project Manager Today, and serves on the board of directors for projectconnections.com. Anybody come close to that?

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Because the recovery phase was not officially recognized (typically due to time reporting rules that prohibited honesty regarding overtime), management missed the opportunity to learn from experience and repeated the death march pattern again and again. What is needed is a Product Manager responsible for the business value of the product.

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Leading Agile

OCTOBER 3, 2023

I came out of project management, like I said, PMI ACP, all that kind of stuff. Well then, the project managers come in and they start controlling us and telling us what to do and making us attend to their Gantt charts and their estimates and all that kind of stuff. There’s managers and there’s hierarchy in that regard.

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MPUG

OCTOBER 16, 2019

He’s an accomplished speaker, consultant and educator supporting the project management community for over 25 years. You’re going to see this coming out at a very fast cadence. We want to keep them as close to the team that’s building. You’re going to see it in the next couple of months.

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Agilemania

MAY 17, 2021

SAFe is designed to give teams flexibility and help manage some of the challenges larger organizations have when practicing agile. These challenges make it difficult in: Managing inter-team dependencies to deliver an Increment. The framework is built for four pillars: Team, Program, Solution, and Portfolio.

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Agilemania

MAY 17, 2021

SAFe is designed to give teams flexibility and help manage some of the challenges larger organizations have when practicing agile. These challenges make it difficult in: Managing inter-team dependencies to deliver an Increment. The framework is built for four pillars: Team, Program, Solution, and Portfolio.

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MPUG

JUNE 1, 2022

Melanie: Jeff is currently the Training and Development Manager for Edwards Performance Solutions. As such, he oversees the production and maintenance of courses on project management, systems engineering, software development, business process improvement, and cyber security.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 20, 2018

But there’s a risk that people will get excited about automation and get ahead of themselves. Two closely related conceptual errors appear to be quite common. It’s common for applications to be built using a tool that manages dependencies and produces deployable artifacts. Creating or modifying database schemas.

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