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. Here, formal planning and estimation are difficult because we don’t know what we will encounter.

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Wrike

JUNE 15, 2023

Yet you won’t always have the time or resources to build out a robust plan for every process, action, or workflow. With templates for project management, you can dive into new projects or build out processes from an established blueprint. Once established, you can leverage automation to accelerate progress.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 20, 2023

As the world of business increases in complexity, it will take more than user stories, estimation, and OKRs to build a trustworthy system that management can delegate into. Muscial Interlude) The Challenges of Empowring Agile Teams I’m Dennis Stevens, Chief Methodologist at a company called LeadingAgile.

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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 my agile training and consulting practice, I have witnessed similar symptoms when an organization is struggling with its agile adoption.

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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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Leading Agile

AUGUST 19, 2020

Agile isn’t ever really about Agile. In our Business Drivers of Agility webinar series hosted by LeadingAgile CEO, Mike Cottmeyer, Mike dives deep into six key business drivers to uncover how Agile can enable organizations to connect these drivers to better business outcomes. It’s about creating business outcomes.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 25, 2022

You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 35,000-plus subscribers. ?? Scrum’s Sprint Planning aims to align the Developers and the Product Owner on what to build next, delivering the highest possible value to customers. Also, the Developers need to create a plan on how to accomplish their forecast. .

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Planio

APRIL 24, 2023

In 2021, the Project Management Institute estimated that by 2030 the global economy would need 25 million more project managers to keep up with the demand for change. Planning sprints and running agile ceremonies 8. Using the chosen project management process to track progress and budget. But there’s a problem.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 27, 2020

The purpose of the Sprint Planning is to align the Development Team and the Product Owner on what to build next, delivering the highest possible value to customers. Basically, the Development Team and the Product Owner adjust the previously discussed scope of the upcoming Sprint to the available capacity. Sprint Planning Anti-Patterns.

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Digite

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Continuing our theme of helping Agile teams understand the Kanban Method, so they can effectively adopt it for their improvement efforts, I am again honored to publish a guest article by another great friend of ours – Dave White. Scrum is primarily influenced by the Agile Manifesto which describes the “Agile” value system.

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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? One of the challenges we face is the perception that executives don’t care about Agile. There’s a belief that executives are the number one obstacle to successful Agile transformation in organizations.

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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. Actual dates are different from planned or estimated dates. Actual Effort: The actual effort spent to complete the activity, as opposed to the planned or estimated effort.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Management Processes (#MP). 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). Management Processes.

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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. One is, we’re trying to move work intact through this process. So let me walk through that a little bit.

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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 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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MPUG

JUNE 1, 2022

Melanie: Jeff is currently the Training and Development Manager for Edwards Performance Solutions. As such, he oversees the production and maintenance of courses on project management, systems engineering, software development, business process improvement, and cyber security. Jeff: Here are our process groups.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 20, 2018

The company wanted to automate their dispatching process. They asked a software developer what it would take, and he estimated something like 20,000 pounds over several months. When they had their process worked out using notebooks and slips of paper, they were ready to automate. Even better: It was the right process.

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