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The Value of an Agile Project Management Office

MPUG

Welcome to the concept of the Project Management Office or PMO. In this article, we will learn about PMOs as organizational structures, about various types of PMOs, and about traditional roles within a PMO. PMO Definition. As noted in the definition, a PMO is an organizational structure. Types of PMOs.

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Do We Need Risk Management in Agile Projects?

MPUG

Agile project management is a stripped-down version of ‘traditional’ project management that takes different approaches to planning and managing change. Often, this is through its Project, Program, or Portfolio Management Office (PMO). The team needs to identify, analyze, and plan for the risks as part of its Sprint planning.

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Transformation, Business Architecture, and Scaling

Leading Agile

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. How do you go up into Portfolio Management? How do you go up into investment management, that kind of a thing?

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Troubleshooting in Lean-Agile Development

MPUG

pull system, just-in-time planning, flow, visualization, waste elimination, error-proofing, and small batch-size, among others). An example of this type can be the Scrum framework. It’s usually based on a cadence. While working with an iteration-based Lean-Agile approach, an increment can be achieved on a cadence or on-demand.

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Why Agile Transformation Fails | AgileIndy 2021

Leading Agile

And so I’m looking at like all these people that were trying to adopt Scrum and what they were missing was this idea that if we can’t form complete cross-functional teams, giving them really super clear backlogs and give them the ability to produce a working passive increment of software at the end of every sprint, then it would fail.

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The Complete Glossary of 614 Project Management Terms

Workamajig

Actual dates are different from planned or estimated dates. Actual Effort: The actual effort spent to complete the activity, as opposed to the planned or estimated effort. Actual Expenditure: The actual expenditure spent to complete the activity, as opposed to the planned or estimated expenditure.

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Webinar Recap: Agile Series Part 2 – Agile Features & Capabilities in MS Project / Project PPM

MPUG

We do plan to answer those for you as time permits at the end of the session today. So the idea of Microsoft Project or the new product that’s come out, they’re calling it plan one right now, you’ll hear a little bit more about that today. You’re going to see this coming out at a very fast cadence.

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