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Project Boards and Project Steering Groups: An Introduction

Rebel’s Guide to PM

These are all functions of a project board (or steering group). Strong leadership in projects is important for success, so getting your project board and/or project steering group set up as soon as you can is a good start. A project board provides oversight and governance for the project. What is a project steering group?

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Agile Governance Demystified

Leading Agile

What is Agile governance? Simply put, Agile governance is a way to maximize the flow of value within an organization in the fastest way possible. In small, lean startups, there aren’t a lot of legacy processes and systems in place to overcome, and your teams are small and conducive to an Agile governance model.

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Connecting Business with IT to Achieve Agility in the Financial Sector

Planview

The first question alludes to how many people and groups were and are involved in making this work. Joaquim’s response: The starting point was providing a governance framework that aligns the work of different roles to company objectives, KPIs, and cadence, with a good balance of rigor and flexibility.

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Is Kniberg’s Aligned Autonomy matrix still relevant?

Scrum.org

The management discussion on team mandate has shifted toward determining the degree to which teams are self-organizing, self-directing, or self-governing. Instead, by sharing the same Sprint cadence and Goal, they will see opportunities for collaboration. We no longer question whether teams should be more autonomous or not.

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Project Management: Principles, Practices & Context

Velociteach

More recently, the profession has grappled with two intertwined questions: Should principles or processes govern project management? By the 6 th Edition (2017), it expanded to 49 processes organized into 10 knowledge areas and 5 process groups. How could there be only one solution? Which methodology(ies) or framework(s) should be used?

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Why Your Annual Operating Plan Is A Lie and What To Do About It

Leading Agile

At the scale of an enterprise, these same concepts become Structure, Governance, and Metrics. We define the Governance rules that control how value flows through that Structure. A high-performing team with a clear backlog can frequently deliver Working, Tested Product.

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Agile Still Works

Scrum.org

How can we find the right cadence for collaboration and when should we collaborate? I was impressed to learn that this group self-isolated well prior to government-enforced lockdown. . How should we collaborate to review the outcome of our work? How do we consistently optimise and improve how we work?

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