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Project Boards and Project Steering Groups: An Introduction

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Here’s an introduction to these important groups as part of the governance framework so you can get yours set up and working on your project. A project board provides oversight and governance for the project. What you need is adequate governance for the project. What is a project board? Call your meetings anything you like.

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How To Implement Lean Portfolio Management?

Agilemania

To synchronize and coordinate the planning and feedback loops, the leadership team makes choices at a fixed cadence that is followed by both the operations (the tasks they carry out) and the governance (the reviews they conduct). How To Put Lean Portfolio Management Into Action? LPM operations. appeared first on Agilemania.

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Unpacking Agile Transformation: The System of Delivery

Leading Agile

A fourth system addresses how to structurally engage the organization, align the players, and enlist the support of the people in the organization. It’s the process and governance mechanisms we use to manage the flow of work through the system. Once we understand where we are going, we can start to talk about how to get there.

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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. To create an adaptive organization where alignment is effortless and coordination seamless, we must look at how to make teams collaborate instead of how to make them align.

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Use This Free Project Status Report Template for Fast and Easy Project Reporting

Project Bliss

Use this project status report template if your Project Management Office or governing body doesn’t have a standard template in place. Keep in mind that the frequency of reporting will depend on your organization and how your stakeholders want to receive it. Some teams require this weekly, while others may want it monthly.

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Adopting Agile Practices Isn’t Agile Transformation

Leading Agile

Second, how are we building backlogs? Third, how are we reproducing working tests in software? Additionally, we need to consider how we organize teams in the presence of dependencies, how we orchestrate and govern those dependencies, and what we measure and control around the team. How are we forming teams?

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11 Proven Stakeholder Communication Tactics

Scrum.org

Deciding early on how to communicate with internal stakeholders and win their proverbial hearts & minds often makes the difference between “doing agile” and “becoming agile” in the end. In a regular cadence—probably once a quarter—offer a joined meta-level Retrospective that includes the stakeholders. Stakeholder Retrospectives.