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Agile Scrum Roles, Ceremonies, Strategy and Projects

The Strategic Project Manager

This post reviews the basics of agile scrum roles, ceremonies, and their impact on developing strategy and managing projects. Here are the key roles that make up the scrum team: Product Owner – This key role is the team’s interface with the stakeholders. Agile Scrum and Strategy. Agile Scrum Roles.

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Conducting a PMO Assessment

Bridge the Gap Consulting

Understand how strategy is determined and also how project decisions are made to achieve organizational strategy. Do people feel strategy and supporting governance is effective? How many “Pet Projects” get spun up? Existing Processes and Tools. Document the processes used today.

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The Value of an Agile Project Management Office

MPUG

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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How To Make Agile Work For Your Marketing Team

Proofhub

Atlassian defines Agile as “an iterative approach to project management and software development that helps teams deliver value to their customers faster and with fewer headaches.” They already had the processes and mindset in place to break work out into smaller deliverables and deliver them often. What is Agile?

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Encapsulation vs Orchestration: Dependencies in Agile

Leading Agile

Another way to say this is that you either must break the dependencies, or you must manage them. There’s a dependency between one project and another based upon either project’s ability to stay on track. Any time we inject a dependency into the system, we create something that has to be managed outside of the team.

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Beginner’s Guide to Kanban for Agile Marketing

Digite

At the core of Kanban lies a paradox: by limiting the amount of work we do, we become more productive. 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. Kanban vs. kanban. Origins of Kanban.

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Agile Unplugged: EP 02 | Mike Cottmeyer and Dennis Stevens

Leading Agile

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. – Yeah. – Mm hmm.

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