Velociteach

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The project management plan (Plan) is a powerful tool. Existing organizational assets, such as tools, templates, and standard practices, influence the Plan. Mature organizations often have required or recommended tools and procedures. There is a range of options, from predictive to agile.

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Henny Portman

JULY 26, 2020

Levine wrote with People Over Process – Leadership for Agility a very pragmatic and down to earth book about leadership and agile projects. The classic formulation of agile in the Agile Manifesto has no role for leadership. Conducting a meeting: make the path visible and start down it and control the dialogue.

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MPUG

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Then, we will dive into the topic of Agile PMO, its relevance, and a number of roles that can be played by such a PMO. A controlling PMO plays a role in project compliance to standards and/or regulations, and it ensures conformance with various governances and associated frameworks. PMO Definition. Traditional Roles of PMO.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 30,000-plus other subscribers. In the attempt to fill Scrum’s product discovery void, product delivery organizations regularly turn to other agile frameworks like lean UX, jobs-to-be-done, lean startup, design thinking, design sprint—just to name a few.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 23, 2022

Mike Cottmeyer was recently a guest on the Agile to Agility podcast with Miljan Bajic where he discussed Transformation, Business Architecture, and Scaling. Agile to Agility Website. So, I’m the CEO of a company called Leading Agile, started about 11 years ago, I’m based in Atlanta, Georgia. Listen now.

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Leading Answers

MARCH 7, 2019

Traditional approaches have plenty of tools for handling risks, uncertainty, and change; but modern, adaptive approaches were purpose-built for these types of projects and have proven to be effective in these circumstances. Approaches like lean, kanban and agile work well in these uncertain, high-change environments.

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Leading Answers

JANUARY 16, 2021

Agile projects typically prioritize the backlog based on business value or perceived needs. ' In deciding which feature to develop first, those with the highest economic value are selected. Instead, I believe many projects leave a lot of development team sourced opportunities unactioned.   Team Activities and Tools.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 18, 2019

The topic of Agile Metrics inevitably comes up in many situations and conversations. It changed last year when Scrum.org partnered with Daniel Vacanti and others and developed the Professional Scrum with Kanban (PSK) course. Those numbers that matter, the Agile Metrics. Starting Our Agile Metrics Engines. Because it is.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 18, 2019

The topic of Agile Metrics inevitably comes up in many situations and conversations. It changed last year when Scrum.org partnered with Daniel Vacanti and others and developed the Professional Scrum with Kanban (PSK) course. Those numbers that matter, the Agile Metrics. Starting Our Agile Metrics Engines. Because it is.

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Planio

AUGUST 9, 2021

But instead of a calendar, your ‘must-have’ tool is a project schedule. Your schedule is a guide, but it’s also a tool to push back against scope creep or fight for more help. How do Agile teams create a project schedule? Planio: Best for teams of all sizes (Agile and traditional). Quality control. Project scope.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 20, 2023

Muscial Interlude) The Challenges of Empowring Agile Teams I’m Dennis Stevens, Chief Methodologist at a company called LeadingAgile. I think there’s an interesting challenge in our industry, too, that the Agile community has been fighting for a long time to be allowed to be empowered. Why do they want control?

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Wrike

JUNE 15, 2023

By focusing on how you manage projects that land on your desk, you can develop a system that helps you build momentum and get everyone in your team on the same page. Without resource management tools that let you allocate your budget accordingly, you could easily exceed your initial estimate.

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Leading Agile

JUNE 5, 2018

In Part 1, we summarized the goals of the exercise: To develop a microservice and set up a CI/CD pipeline in the cloud without using any locally-installed development tools. We’ll cover version control, dependency management, and run management. This will be the version control system.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Such a study is holistic; it involves looking at the organizational design, technical capabilities, culture and knowledge, and type of control and metrics used to define success. Some time ago, I was teaching a Professional Agile Leadership class. I get these kinds of request, usually because of three main reasons: . And it hit me.

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Leading Agile

MAY 3, 2023

If you could magically create a new world where large organizations had overcome the barriers to Business Agility and Agile came naturally, what would have to be true about that world, the organizations, and the people working there? And how would we know that this new Agile world was any good? What other conceptual gaps?

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Velociteach

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

An agile backlash is underway. Some organizations have declared victory, fired their agile staff, and moved on. Others are agile in name only or are “doing” agile but have not fundamentally changed the way they work. We should not blame Agile for bad Agile. Agile teams are empowered and collaborative.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 31, 2020

Listen to the Agile Unplugged Podcast on the go! Find and subscribe to Agile Unplugged on: Apple Podcasts. Remember to subscribe and listen to Agile Unplugged on Soundcloud, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Podbean—and watch each and every episode on YouTube , IGTV , and Facebook. . Soundcloud. – Yeah. When did we first meet?

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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. Timing and team cadence: Decouple team cadences whenever possible. Information silos: Leverage your knowledge management tools and processes.

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Planio

MAY 9, 2022

This is also closely related to the Agile idea of being a servant leader. It’s not the same as implementing a new software development process or following a checklist when you finish a project. Flat hierarchy: Agile promotes self-organizing teams. Start with what you can control (i.e., Who needs to be there?

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Planio

MARCH 13, 2023

Standard controls format - just the essentials 2. Rate and summarize each key project control 9. Lastly, project status reports help you prove good control around your project. Here you use a red, amber, and green traffic light system for each key control area (e.g., Jump to a section: What is a project status report?

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

When asked what an Agile organization is, most people tend to think it’s one that’s built around a certain mindset, or around Agile practices like Scrum or SAFe—or both. But if it were as simple as a mindset or process change, so many Agile Transformations wouldn’t fail. Base Patterns and Tools.

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Planview

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Santander UK, one of the world’s largest retail and commercial banks, has been on an Agile and digital transformation journey for some time. This included incorporating Agile processes and other work methodologies into its traditional project portfolio management (PPM) processes, to help speed delivery of new products and services.

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Planio

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Awareness and human connection are the manager’s best tools. Remote teams can easily drown in communication tools. The essential remote tools to manage (and support) a remote team. Here are the strategies, techniques, and tools these teams use on a daily basis to manage their remote teams.

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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. Comment, by using the chat feature in the GoToWebinar control panel. You can click on that in your control panel and expand it out for easier use.

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Leading Agile

JUNE 29, 2023

What do we have to do to make Agile tangible for our executives? Are Executives Getting in the Way of Agile? I questioned why there were so many controls and regulations. One of the challenges we face is the perception that executives don’t care about Agile. That’s what the Agile Manifesto says, right?

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Agile Project Management (#APM). Product Development (#ProdDev). Agile Software Development (#ASD). Integrating Agile and Earned Value Management (#AEVM). Agile and Earned Value Management Bibliography of papers, books, and thesis (#Biblio). Project Performance Management (#PPM). Risk Management (#RM).

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MPUG

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Tim Runcie’s Agile Series Part 2 webinar being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. Kyle: Hello everyone and welcome to part two of MPUG’s Agile training series. There may be exclusions, such as those steps included in product demonstrations.

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

We talk about the goals of going agile. We talk about the structure — how we form teams and how teams interact together — is clear and we talk about having the right metrics and tools. You can imagine this being developers, or requirements, or testing in an organization. So let me walk through that a little bit.

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Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

Agile: A project management methodology that focuses on delivering work in an iterative fashion. The agile approach is usually used in software projects where the scope is not always known and adaptability is prioritized. Projects might additional calendars as well to show resource availability, communication cadence, etc.

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Planio

MAY 24, 2018

First developed by legendary Intel CEO Andy Grove, Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) is a collaborative goal-setting system that was adopted by Google in 1999. But to run a sustainable business, we need to keep costs under control. Is the OKR adaptable and agile? OKRs are a powerful tool.

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

When I first learned about Agile methods in 2002, the principles seemed to offer an ideal solution to many organizational issues common at the time. It’s time now to move forward to the next level of proficiency in software delivery; what we might call “post-Agile.” Stable Team. Dedicated Team. Team Spaces.

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Agilemania

MAY 17, 2021

What is SAFe agile. Scaled Agile is an agile framework for developing or delivering large products or solutions produced by multiple teams working in parallel at an enterprise level. SAFe is designed to give teams flexibility and help manage some of the challenges larger organizations have when practicing agile.

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Agilemania

MAY 17, 2021

What is SAFe agile. Scaled Agile is an agile framework for developing or delivering large products or solutions produced by multiple teams working in parallel at an enterprise level. SAFe is designed to give teams flexibility and help manage some of the challenges larger organizations have when practicing agile.

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MPUG

JUNE 1, 2022

We invite you to join in today with questions and comments by using the chat feature in the GoToWebinar control panel. Melanie: Jeff is currently the Training and Development Manager for Edwards Performance Solutions. Especially when they released the Sixth Edition, giving this agile guide. You can see that up here on the slide.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 20, 2018

They asked a software developer what it would take, and he estimated something like 20,000 pounds over several months. First, there’s a tool-centric mentality about software-related work. People take a tool that can support Specification by Example and the first thing they do is try to write executable scripts.

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