Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 6, 2022

It’s fine to have a different cadence at different points in the project lifecycle. If you are expecting the project oversight committee to make a decision at the meeting, make sure that they have information in advance of your meeting so that they can review the different options. Action review and next steps. Key decisions.

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International Institute for Learning

APRIL 19, 2023

DA was developed in 2011 by Scott Ambler and Mark Lines and is based on Scott’s work at Rational Software and IBM. To coordinate the teams, SAFe applies cadence and synchronization. Cadence means all teams are aligned to a standard, two-week delivery cycle. They emerged about a decade after the Agile Manifesto.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 24, 2019

Very often, a transaction traverses all the architectural layers and is partially processed by components that live in both the front-end and back-end worlds. Business agility is what organizations are looking for; agile software development may be one enabling factor in achieving it, but it isn’t the point of a transformation.

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Leading Answers

MARCH 7, 2019

Consultants will say,  “Oh, it depends…”  and start a lengthy (aka expensive) conversation. Consider the process of designing a new car or home. The process is likely to be iterative and adaptive. Then, once the design is agreed upon, the process of production is typically more defined and repeatable.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

To use the leadership styles model we discuss in the Leading SAFe class - the starting point is more of an orchestrating and technical expert kind of leadership stance and the goal should be to evolve towards a more serving the team and the process style over time. SAFe has a cadence at the Team and Program levels. I’m excited!

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Planio

AUGUST 9, 2021

What is the best project scheduling software to use? For example, maybe you need to finish cleaning out old code or squash some lingering bugs before building out new features. The ‘scheduling’ part of a project schedule should be a collaborative process. Come up with a plan for updating and adapting your schedule.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

To use the leadership styles model we discuss in the Leading SAFe class - the starting point is more of an orchestrating and technical expert kind of leadership stance and the goal should be to evolve towards a more serving the team and the process style over time. SAFe has a cadence at the Team and Program levels. I’m excited!

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Velociteach

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Lifecycle phases describe the required process steps from inception to delivery. All the tailoring dimensions and stakeholder needs inform the level of governance, oversight, and management reviews. For all project types, establishing the process and rules for prioritizing requirements and accepting deliverables is needed.

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Project Management Essentials

AUGUST 3, 2019

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. Poorly coded features may be technically complete, but not acceptable. What are the team dynamics?

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Leading Agile

APRIL 20, 2023

How many people are consultants or team members that feel like managers don’t know how to empower their teams? And teams have a cadence where they’re operating with intent but within constraints. Like the process of managing the interaction between those teams becomes really important, too.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 11, 2024

Every activity required to achieve the Product Goal, such as Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective, occurs within Sprints. Sprint cancellations without consultation : The Product Owner cancels Sprints without consulting the Scrum Team. Human beings are motivated by short-term gratifications.

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Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM Software Review 162

Herding Cats

APRIL 8, 2017

Much of the conversation in social media around agile techniques seems to be based on the differences between the variety of choices of a method, a process, or a practice and definitions of terms for those choices. These systems fall into the Software Intensive System of Systems (SISoS) category.

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Leading Agile

MAY 3, 2023

And you know, we get into clients like that and our consultants get faced with these things all the time where you live in this kind of this weird dichotomy of I know these things must be true to be successful, but the organization doesn’t seem to want to change them. Are we doing reviews? What’s Getting in the Way of Agile?

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Agile Technical Review Governance Government 62

Scrum.org

MARCH 28, 2022

All the work necessary to achieve the Product Goal, including Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective, happen within Sprints. Sprint cancellations without consultation : The Product Owner cancels Sprints without consulting the Scrum Team. (It Achieving the Sprint Goal is sufficient.).

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 19, 2020

And they’re counting on the fact that all of the planning processes, all the project management, or all the Agile or all whatever, is going to help them make promises, okay? They deliver it, they review it with the product owner, product owner says yes, and then they get to claim the points, right? But you get the idea, right?

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Agile SCRUM Governance Government 102

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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Velociteach

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This article highlights some common issues I have encountered in my consulting and coaching practice. We embodied the first value of “individuals and interactions over processes and tools.” Since only a third of the features in enterprise software are commonly used, delivering incrementally reduces waste.

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Leading Agile

JANUARY 21, 2021

And what we are is we’re a consultancy that’s focused on doing Agile Transformation specifically. So it’s like the ability to form teams, the ability to create clear backlogs the ability to get to a working tested increment of software at the end of every sprint. So we started LeadingAgile about 10 years ago.

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Sustainability Agile SCRUM Technical Review 111

Digite

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Dave is a Principal Consultant at Depth Consulting Ltd, and Program Director of the KCP Program at the Lean Kanban University. In this article, he outlines the similarities of the two as WIP Limiting, Pull-based systems – with cadences and a focus on learning – while also explaining their differences. Increments.

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Planio

MARCH 13, 2023

For many project managers, the process of communicating progress has become an annoying weekly task. This leaves you at risk of becoming one of the 54% of projects fail that fail due to poor KPI tracking. Review who receives your updates every so often and add new people as you go. Target it to those who need it.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 31, 2020

You get super clear backlogs, you find out what the real cadences you’ve finished work that you start. And that was based on some work I’d done, as a consultant several years ago the company was acquiring a bunch of other like power companies, and we were doing capability modeling. How do you like fix it? – Yeah.

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Planio

AUGUST 1, 2022

For most development teams and startups, ‘becoming Agile’ starts and ends with how you build software. But a full Agile transformation isn’t just about the development process you use — it’s a way to bring creativity, innovation, and lean operations to every aspect of your business. Scale and improve your Agile processes.

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Wrike

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

It is especially useful in software development and enterprise product management as these teams tackle projects and programs on extended timelines with continuous improvements, upgrades, and iterations released and delivered to customers over time. What is the Scaled Agile Framework?

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MPUG

MAY 18, 2022

You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content. For those of you who are PMPs, your activity code today is on the screen. Lewis’ and James Mills JR.’s You may watch the recording of this webinar at your convenience.

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Leading Agile

OCTOBER 3, 2023

And so we ended up with a lot of folks doing standups and sprint planning and story cards and sticky notes and burndown charts and reviews and retrospectives. And so I was thinking about Scrum and so I just lifted this off of Mike Cone’s website and it’s attributed, so I hope he doesn’t mind too much mountain good software.

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Governance Government SCRUM Agile 62

Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

It’s time now to move forward to the next level of proficiency in software delivery; what we might call “post-Agile.” Today, some of the same principles seem to present impediments or unnecessary challenges for many teams and organizations. How can the same principle be a good idea in 2002 and a bad idea in 2019?

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Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

Acceptance Test: A process through which a project's end users run through the project to identify any potential issues before it can be formally accepted. Activity ID: An alphanumeric code used to identify an activity. Acquisition Process: The process for acquiring the resources and people needed to complete a project.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 17, 2021

And then the process developed a point of view around kind of why companies were jacking it up. So anyway, kind of a different company, but worked there probably about 10, 12 years ago and was going into a bunch of different organizations that were trying to adopt agile. It was just why agile fails. I’ve got like 50 open jobs right now.

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MPUG

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content. This session is eligible for 1 PMI PDU in the strategic category, and the MPUG activity code for claiming the session is on the screen now. a lot of my work.

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MPUG

OCTOBER 16, 2019

You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content. And today’s session is eligible for one PMI PDU in the technical category, and the code for claim that is on the screen now, that’s mpugwebnlearn091819.

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Project Management Hacks

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Out of college with a BBA in information technology I started on a help desk providing 2nd and 3rd level support for Cadence, a Silicon Valley software company. We had a great team and a streamlined project management process using Asana. What role does Evernote play in your project management process?

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