Leading Answers

MARCH 7, 2019

These days, new project managers are exposed to conflicting guidance. When our projects undertake defined, repeatable work using technologies and approaches our organizations have experience in, then uncertainty and change rates are typically low and manageable. Here, traditional project management approaches work great.

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Cadence and synchronization: Teams should work in fixed iterations, known as sprints, and synchronize their work to deliver a consistent flow of value. This cadence allows for regular feedback and course correction, so that teams stay on track and deliver high-quality results.

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The Strategic Project Manager

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

From a strategic project management perspective, this post examines some key agile methods and there impact of strategy and project management. Extreme Programming (XP) – XP is focused on software development – but that does not mean it cannot be applied elsewhere! What are the risks?

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

In project management, tracking the progress and performance of projects is essential for ensuring successful outcomes. One of the key tools that project managers rely on for this purpose is a status report. They enable project managers to track individual and team progress, ensuring that tasks are completed in a timely manner.

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Digite

JUNE 13, 2018

She also shows you how to design your first Kanban Board, with examples. Compared to Scrum, Kanban is a young work-management method. When applied to software development and marketing, a Kanban implementation doesn’t typically include physical signal cards that cause another worker to begin work. Measure and Manage Flow.

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Planio

AUGUST 9, 2021

Move onto task management and list out milestones and steps. But like everything in project management, a project schedule needs to find the sweet spot between simple and complicated to be helpful. For example, maybe you need to finish cleaning out old code or squash some lingering bugs before building out new features.

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Planio

JULY 4, 2022

But what if you’re not entirely comfortable managing and running Agile ceremonies? Agile ceremonies — also known as Scrum ceremonies or just ‘events’ — are specific events that provide a structured framework for iterative software development processes. Working this way reduces the risk that you’re building the wrong software.

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Digite

MARCH 2, 2018

Most corporate IT organizations, for example, cannot and do not accept product update releases from vendors more than once in 3 months or often even less frequently. I’d like to share the example of our own Dev team, which has a somewhat similar situation.

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Digite

MARCH 2, 2018

Most corporate IT organizations, for example, cannot and do not accept product update releases from vendors more than once in 3 months or often even less frequently. I’d like to share the example of our own Dev team, which has a somewhat similar situation.

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Planio

APRIL 24, 2023

Creative features, successful product ideas, wild marketing stunts, full rebrands, or massive IT projects — none of them work without the project managers that tirelessly make sure everyone’s on the same page and making progress towards a shared goal. Assessing and mitigating project risks 7. But there’s a problem.

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Digite

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

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. They are attempting to advance the state of the art in work management predominately (but not only) in the area of knowledge work. Similarities.

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Planio

MAY 9, 2022

After running Planio for more than a decade, I’ve come to learn that managers and leaders often wear blinders. Lead by example. The best way to understand what psychological safety looks like in practice is with an example we’ve all experienced. And that’s a problem — especially on remote teams. Switch your Point-of-View.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 5, 2016

There a popular notions in the agile development world that authors like Hayek and Taleb speak to how software development works. Let's look at one example. He was not a program manager of engineered to order software intensive system of systems. IT Risk Management. 4, September 1945, pp.

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Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

Project management terminology can be complicated. It doesn’t matter whether you’re working towards your PMP certification or simply managing projects casually in your organization, knowing core project management terms always helps. All Project Management Terms. All work is divided into short bursts called "sprints".

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Planio

AUGUST 1, 2022

This means embracing an iterative and customer-centric focus on all levels of the business, from how you build software to how you organize and run your customer support team, performance reviews, and growth strategies. Most people’s only interaction with the Agile methodology is through software development.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management Briefings and Presentations. Management Processes (#MP). Project Performance Management (#PPM). Agile Project Management (#APM). Risk Management (#RM). Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM). Management Processes.

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Because the recovery phase was not officially recognized (typically due to time reporting rules that prohibited honesty regarding overtime), management missed the opportunity to learn from experience and repeated the death march pattern again and again. What is needed is a Product Manager responsible for the business value of the product.

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MPUG

OCTOBER 16, 2019

He’s an accomplished speaker, consultant and educator supporting the project management community for over 25 years. You’re going to see this coming out at a very fast cadence. Or we’re doing another project management methodology that we have to stick to. This isn’t just one size fits all.

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Agilemania

MAY 17, 2021

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. Knowledge of agile software development.

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Agilemania

MAY 17, 2021

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. Knowledge of agile software development.

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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.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 20, 2018

But there’s a risk that people will get excited about automation and get ahead of themselves. They asked a software developer what it would take, and he estimated something like 20,000 pounds over several months. Are stakeholders involved in defining the examples? Building software. Automate what?

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