Project Management Essentials

AUGUST 3, 2019

Experienced agile coaches and practitioners develop a sixth-sense. They can quickly assess the health of an agile project or team just as doctors do with their patients. In 2013, Mike Cohn coined the term scrum smells to describe the signs that a scrum team is in trouble. What are the team dynamics?

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Leading Agile

MARCH 23, 2022

More often than not in kind of either the IT product development space or IT services space. We like to consider ourselves kind of a full stack consultancy in the sense that you know, obviously, you have to deal with the work surface levels and what the teams are doing but you know, how do you orchestrate teams across dependency boundaries?

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MPUG

MAY 18, 2022

Melanie here with team MPUG. He has 30 years as a new product development project management professional. His current specialty is creating and improving project management offices and developing project management talent by coaching, mentoring and training. You can get on Excel with teams and some other collaboration package.

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Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

Analogous Estimating : Analogous estimating, describes a technique for estimating the cost or duration of an activity or project based on historical data from similar activities or projects. A project team might also go through an audit to ensure that there are no lapses in project management. A project sponsor can request an audit.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Product Development (#ProdDev). Agile Software Development (#ASD). The following material comes from conferences, workshop, materials developed for clients. Chartering the Team , Chartering empowers team members, both individuals and collectively. Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM).

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Leading Agile

APRIL 7, 2023

As a community, we have developed a handful of team-based Agile approaches over the years; some of which we would consider scaled. I wasn’t around when things like XP and Scrum were invented, but I have been lucky enough to spend time with many of the original signers of the Manifesto. But here we are. Why is it so difficult?

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PM That Works

MAY 9, 2020

I had a chance to join a mastermind with several of the john Maxwell team members. In short, his mission is to help teams and organizations become better, better in the sense of increased teamwork, increased flow, increased learning and increased passion about their mission. Now, there's a dozen or more for most of these.

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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 I was working at version one at the time and so like I’m like all in like, not like team level scrum. And that was about the time that I was starting to develop the teams backlogs, working testing software.

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Leading Answers

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Demos  – Having the team demonstrate increments of functionality at the end of every iteration shows what the project has achieved to date. Instead, the team regularly surfaces from work to show where they are with progress and discuss what should come next. Information radiators can show any data the team wants to display.

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Leading Agile

JUNE 29, 2023

I was writing programs and could load data. In fact, at conferences, we often talk about how managers are bad and executives are foolish people who want to derail the company. Just trust the teams. How about we let the teams decide how to work? I thought I could do it. Do you think we should consider that perspective?

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