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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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Adopting Agile Practices Isn’t Agile Transformation

Leading Agile

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. We want the team to like the way that they work. Agile is not going to do a whole lot for you.

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Agile Unplugged: EP 02 | Mike Cottmeyer and Dennis Stevens

Leading Agile

– I was working in my office down in technology Parkway. You get super clear backlogs, you find out what the real cadences you’ve finished work that you start. And it’s not always get better the technology get better the processes, it’s get better producing the outcome. And BPR was about the technology.

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Leveraging Agile to Get Predictable

Leading Agile

They deliver it, they review it with the product owner, product owner says yes, and then they get to claim the points, right? If you’re an organization that needs three to six months out, this is valid strategy. They pull a chunk off the backlog. They go through sprint planning, maybe they decompose the work.

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

Leading Agile

My dad is a rocket scientist, and we went to Georgia Tech, where they had installed a nuclear reactor. In fact, at conferences, we often talk about how managers are bad and executives are foolish people who want to derail the company. Our technologies often impede our ability to achieve our goals in infrastructure and operations.

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

Planio

According to research published in Harvard Business Review , nearly 90% of companies struggle to complete Agile transformations — even after successful pilot projects. Technology: Agile organizations need to trust their data and have the infrastructure ready to build and test new ideas rapidly. Higher ROI on all your efforts.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

These materials have been presented at conferences, published in a journal or newsletter, a book or a chapter in a book, or applied during a client engagement across a wide range of firms and domains. Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management Briefings and Presentations. Technical Performance Measures (#TPM).