Leading Agile

MAY 12, 2020

Professions such as Medicine, Law, Beauty, Teaching, Transportation, Security, Accounting, Engineering, and Project Management all have one thing in common; certifications and internal governance. Teams delivering on a predictable cadence earn the trust of the business. It involves more than just IT.

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MPUG

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Now imagine that a senior executive starts off his day and decides first to have a quick look at the project dashboard expecting to see metrics such as the current status of projects, earned value indices in terms of money and performances, and top risks. Welcome to the concept of the Project Management Office or PMO.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 23, 2022

How do you go up into Portfolio Management? How do you go up into investment management, that kind of a thing? What do you do with planning cadences? And you know, the manifesto had just been written and I was working as a project manager in a company called CheckFree here in Atlanta and squarely like in the PMO.

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Digite

JUNE 13, 2018

Compared to Scrum, Kanban is a young work-management method. But, for teams that chafe under the strictures of the Scrum process, Kanban can be a freeing alternative. Throughout the assembly line, “workers at each step in the process are not allowed to do work unless they are signaled with a kanban from a downstream step.”.

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Herding Cats

JULY 27, 2017

We were speaking a Homeland Security yesterday on Agile development in the Federal Government and there was a senior director who brought up a paradigm that resonated with me. We live in a golf course community , where our waste water is processed locally inside our area. IT Risk Management. Related articles.

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Herding Cats

JULY 16, 2017

Either a Cadence Release Plan or a Capabilities Release Plan. Uncertainty creates risk. Risk Management is how Adults Manage Projects - Tim Lister. Conduct Schedule Risk Analysis. Uncertanty creates Risk. Agile is a participant in Risk Management, but Agile is NOT Risk Management. .

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Our governance model and team design may look a little complicated at first glance. In this presentation, our Chief Methodologist, Dennis Stevens will remove the noise and walk you through our governance model and team design to help you better understand the LeadingAgile system of delivery. View Dennis’ System of Delivery Deck.

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Herding Cats

JULY 29, 2017

IT Risk Management. Estimating Processes in Support of Economic Analysis. Herding Cats: Capabilities Release or Cadence Release. Architecture -Center ERP Systems in the Manufacturing Domain. Why Guessing is not Estimating and Estimating is not Guessing. Making Conjectures Without Testable Outcomes.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 19, 2020

And so, from how we do governance and how we do project planning and how we do organizational structure, all those kinds of things, right, so there’s this big hop. Because those are the things that fundamentally get in the way how we govern, right, how we deal with cross cutting concerns. Backlogs becomes governance.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 31, 2020

In this week’s episode, LeadingAgile Chief Methodologist, Dennis Stevens, sits down with Mike Cottmeyer to discuss Capability-based organizations, Systems of Delivery vs Systems of Transformation, managing dependencies, and more. – Talk about project management and things like that. – That’s right. – Yeah.

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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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Kiron Bondale

DECEMBER 17, 2017

Benefits management, like project risk management, is practiced poorly by most organizations. While project intake processes usually require some articulation of expected benefits, few companies effectively monitor and control the realization of those benefits over the life of a project and beyond. Benefits definition.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 5, 2017

Managing Cost, Schedule, & Technical Performance Risk Is The Basis Of Good Project Management. Risk management is essential to the success of any significant project. The emerging risks that can be identified early in the project that impact the project later are often termed “known unknowns.”

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Leading Agile

OCTOBER 3, 2023

So we start with culture, maybe we go to practices and then all those teaming strategies and dependencies and governance and metrics and all that stuff that we struggle with all the time will just kind of work itself out. I came out of project management, like I said, PMI ACP, all that kind of stuff.

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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).

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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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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

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Ben Howard’s session, Power BI for Business Users and Project Managers – Part 1: Introduction to the Power BI Suite, being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. You may watch the live recording of this webinar at your convenience. Ben Howard: Brilliant.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 5, 2016

He was not a program manager of engineered to order software intensive system of systems. This is the basis of the Agile Product Roadmap and Product Release Plan (either cadence or capability based). IT Risk Management. Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects. Hayek was a social scientist.

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Agilemania

MAY 17, 2021

SAFe is designed to give teams flexibility and help manage some of the challenges larger organizations have when practicing agile. These challenges make it difficult in: Managing inter-team dependencies to deliver an Increment. Develop standards and requirements for the agile process. Why big companies choose to go with SAFe.

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Agilemania

MAY 17, 2021

SAFe is designed to give teams flexibility and help manage some of the challenges larger organizations have when practicing agile. These challenges make it difficult in: Managing inter-team dependencies to deliver an Increment. Develop standards and requirements for the agile process. Why big companies choose to go with SAFe.

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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

But there’s a risk that people will get excited about automation and get ahead of themselves. The company wanted to automate their dispatching process. Instead of automating their current process, they advised the company to set up a paper-based procedure that would be easy to change or discard, and work out any kinks that way.

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