International Institute for Learning

MAY 16, 2022

For the Agile community practitioners, managing change and uncertainty to deliver on strategic goals is nothing new. The former grows by adding scale and complexity, which must be managed. Today’s, and tomorrow’s, market-makers are more like living organisms.

Artificial Inteligence 59

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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.

Software Review 101

Software Review Technical Review Risk Management Software Developers 101

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

And this is precisely the point: The Product Owner miraculously identifies what is the best way to proceed as a Scrum Team by managing the Product Backlog. I do believe that a separation between product discovery on the one side (product management), and product delivery (Scrum teams) on the other side is no longer a viable approach.

Software Review 146

Software Review Technical Review Cadence SCRUM 146

Scrum.org

APRIL 25, 2022

(Skipping planning is unfortunate, as it is also an excellent opportunity to talk about how to spread knowledge among the Developers, where the architecture is heading, or whether the tools are adequate. Join 200-plus peers on May 30, 2022: HoA #42: The Skinny on Lean Roadmapping and OKRs w/ Janna Bastow. What are we fighting for?

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Wrike

JUNE 15, 2023

A well-laid plan can go a long way in project management , as you have a clear roadmap that you and your team can follow. In the case that you can’t create a plan from scratch, having pre-made project management templates on hand can be a useful safety net. Project management can also be useful on the ground level.

Energy 36

Energy Budget Cadence Lean 36

Resource Guru

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

But it does mean a balanced strategy that leans on strong retention practices matters. In such cases, it suggests that a significant portion of your client base is at risk, affecting your client retention rate significantly. Agency account managers must keep lines of communication open and clear.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Transportation 52

Planio

AUGUST 1, 2022

But a full Agile transformation isn’t just about the development process you use — it’s a way to bring creativity, innovation, and lean operations to every aspect of your business. Instead, you’re likely to find an army of managers and VPs whose job is to connect the dots and make sure you’re all working towards the same goals.

Agile 78

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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.

PMI 59

PMI Software Review Estimate Risk Management 59

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".

Underperforming Technical Team 78

Underperforming Technical Team Project Life Cycle Estimate Risk Management 78

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.

Agile 140

Agile Consulting Influencer Underperforming Technical Team 140

Digite

MARCH 2, 2018

Clearly, this person was looking at Kanban as a continuous delivery tool or method and felt that not doing so was being sub-optimal. We do product releases every 4-6 weeks, and these get deloyed to our SaaS servers – that cadence is well established. To Release or Not to Release…. When, is the Question!

Underperforming Technical Team 71

Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Cadence Software 71

Digite

MARCH 2, 2018

Clearly, this person was looking at Kanban as a continuous delivery tool or method and felt that not doing so was being sub-optimal. We do product releases every 4-6 weeks, and these get deployed to our SaaS servers – that cadence is well established. To Release or Not to Release…. When, is the Question!

Software Review 66

Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Cadence Software 66

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.

Agile 71

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Leading Answers

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Many traditional project management deliverables have agile alternatives. Yet we rarely see agile communications management plans. Why We Have Communication Management Plans Projects can be time-consuming and costly, and tie-up valuable employees for long periods with no guarantee of the outcome initially hoped for.

Agile 135

Agile Planning Underperforming Technical Team Development Team Review 135

Leading Agile

AUGUST 19, 2020

And they’re counting on the fact that all of the planning processes, all the project management, or all the Agile or all whatever, is going to help them make promises, okay? We are building an internal tool. It’s not a dependency management problem. It’s totally a proof of concept.

Agile 100

Agile SCRUM Governance Government 100

Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

And you’ll hear us talk about the way that you deliver that is by designing your organization so that the governance — the way that we manage the flow of value through the organization and make economic trade-off decisions — is defined effectively. The first one is the one around risk, around scope rather.

Governance 75

Governance Government Cadence Underperforming Technical Team 75

Leading Agile

OCTOBER 3, 2023

I came out of project management, like I said, PMI ACP, all that kind of stuff. Well then, the project managers come in and they start controlling us and telling us what to do and making us attend to their Gantt charts and their estimates and all that kind of stuff. There’s managers and there’s hierarchy in that regard.

Governance 62

Governance Government SCRUM Agile 62

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.

Agile 115

Agile Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Technical Review 115

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. Help teams navigate agile tools and software. Why big companies choose to go with SAFe.

Agile 98

Agile Lean SCRUM Development Team Review 98

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. Help teams navigate agile tools and software. Why big companies choose to go with SAFe.

Agile 84

Agile Lean SCRUM Development Team Review 84

Leading Agile

AUGUST 20, 2018

But there’s a risk that people will get excited about automation and get ahead of themselves. First, there’s a tool-centric mentality about software-related work. People take a tool that can support Specification by Example and the first thing they do is try to write executable scripts.

Software Review 78

Software Review Software Technical Review Development Team Review 78