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Project Boards and Project Steering Groups: An Introduction

Rebel’s Guide to PM

It is made up of people who have an interest in the project: representatives from each of the key stakeholder communities, who meet on a regular basis to provide direction, authority to proceed and to decide on the strategy for the project. It’s fine to have a different cadence at different points in the project lifecycle.

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Kanban to manage Complex/ Quick Moving Situations

Digite

In my over 25+ years in the software industry, this has been an all too familiar situation! I have often wondered – doesn’t speak too well of us as software professionals! However, the fact is that software development is a complex activity – perhaps more so than any other type of projects?

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Adopting Agile Practices Isn’t Agile Transformation

Leading Agile

Third, how are we reproducing working tests in software? When people make such statements, they usually mean that they have trained product owners and a proficient Scrum master, and their team consistently follows the cadence of sprint planning, daily stand-ups, interviews, and retrospectives. First, how are we forming teams?

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Creating a Risk-Adjusted Backlog

Leading Answers

That could take two weeks and cost $100,000 when factoring in the new software license, the team's burn rate, and the cost of delay to the organization. Then, in 2012 I presented a collection of Collaborative Games for Risk Management  at the Agile 2012 Conference in Dallas and PMI Global Congress in Vancouver. After

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The 10 steps to an Agile transformation (with free checklist)

Planio

For most development teams and startups, ‘becoming Agile’ starts and ends with how you build software. According to research published in Harvard Business Review , nearly 90% of companies struggle to complete Agile transformations — even after successful pilot projects. But unfortunately, few companies can pull it off.

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Selling Agile to the C-Suite to Get Buy-In

Leading Agile

In fact, at conferences, we often talk about how managers are bad and executives are foolish people who want to derail the company. Instead, we need to consider how our actions, conferences, and the literature we read can either bring them closer or push them further away. Do you think we should consider that perspective?

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

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. Strategy (#Strategy). Agile Software Development (#ASD). Balanced Scorecard (#BSC).