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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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Is SAFe Agile?

Leading Agile

Agile is an incremental and iterative approach for developing software products. XP focuses more on technical practices and software craftsmanship. Software is written so that it’s safe to go fast and so you know instantly if you’ve broken something along the way. What is Agile? It’s typically best for small teams.

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4 Common Misconceptions About Agile Transformation

Leading Agile

That having weekly planning cadences; daily standups, reviews, and retrospectives would give people a reason to get in the same room and collaborate. Things really take off with the advent of the CSM certification and PMI finally recognizing Agile as a legitimate way to do software project management. The governance model?

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Project Management: Principles, Practices & Context

Velociteach

Everything from putting people back on the moon, developing new therapeutics and software, or planning a wedding. More recently, the profession has grappled with two intertwined questions: Should principles or processes govern project management? Projects address simple, complicated, and complex problems.

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Adopting Agile Practices Isn’t Agile Transformation

Leading Agile

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 orchestrating and governing those dependencies? How are we forming teams?

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Agile Still Works

Scrum.org

In an effort to curb productivity leakage, some managers are turning to software to monitor their people. People and Interactions over tools and software. Agile has been around for a while now, but many firms still see agility as a software development solution. Agile isn’t just for software. . Management Innovation.

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Enable Lasting Technical Change by Building Empathy & Trust

Leading Agile

This was a conversation with my friend Matt about his new role as a software leader in a billion-dollar organization. For this email, it is assumed that the organization’s technical strategy has been defined and a governance model has been implemented. When you no longer work with an employee, you often become friends.

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